South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-08
CENTRAL LEAGUE
BERTH IS ASSURED.
FOR SOUTH BEND
Thousand Booster Day Tick
cts Are Pledged at Meet
ing at Chamber of
Commerce.


That South Bend Will be MEM
Der of the Central league next sum-
mer is settled beyond doubt, fol-
lowing a meeting of interested bust
ness men at the Chamber of Com
merce Friday night. at which 1000
Of the 5000 booster day tickets
necessary were pledged within a
very few minutes. A committee was
named to take charge Of the sale
of the additional 1000, which will
mean Ed Smiths purchase of rights
Z necessary for the team and berth
( in the league Activities will be
I commenced at once.
Enthusiasm in baseball was ram
/ pant at the gathering, which was
held on the arrival here Of f. w.
( Dickerson of Grand Rapids. presi-
: dent of the Central league; w. +.
I Essick, president Of the Grand Rap
/ ids club, and Harry Stahlhefer, sec
rotary Of the league and president
! of the Evansville club. Men promi-
nent i'm affairs of the city spoke dur
! ing the evening. and the tone Of all
+ remarks was that baseball in an
organized league is good for any
( city.
Dickerson Tells Plans.
Pres't Dickerson in his address,
which followed an introduction by
| Elmer Z. Daicey, chairman of the
meeting. explained the plans of the
/ Central league for the next season.
/ He said the league wanted South
Bend. and that members of the or
ganization felt the addition of this
city TO the roster would be a good
thing, both for the league and for
I the city. DickersOn, former sport
ing editor of the Grand Rapids
J Press and a man who has been
prominent in Michigan sporting
/ fields for years, praised smith as
an owner and manager and eX-
pressed the opinion he was the man
for the South Bend club.
Ask and it shall be given unto
YOU" quoted Smith, when questioned
as 10 his attitude following the meet
ing viii we go through with it?
Sure we will. and after flying start.
I'm confident now and will COM
mence operations toward an organ
ization Immediately"
StahIhefer Praises Spirit.
Sec'y Stahlhefer voiced mis- senti-
ments on the taking in of South
/ Bend on the league roster. He
praised the booster day spirit and
said he felt it a good thing for a
club. Mr.. Stahlhefer also told of the
new $4,000 municipal baseball plant
at Evansville, and declared it had
been forthcoming when the people
there realized baseball had made
the town"
south Bend has shown more civic
spirit in the past seven months than
in the preceding 10 years" said
Frank F. Herring. who was called
upon for a talk. He spoke Of the
interstate fair, the Countrv club and
other things which the city as a
whole had made possible through
activities as a city and as a whole.
Mr.. Herring advocated baseball, and
urged cooperation in securing Ed
Smith and the franchise.
Attorney John peVine was a
speaker. He dwelt on the need of
baseball here and voiced an opinion
that the city would stand behind
the owner and manager as never be-
fore All who spoke at the gather
ing were highly optimistic. And it
wasn't all words for the deeds. as
has been the case i'm years before;
there were the deeds. and totalled.
the deeds amounted TO a thousand
tickets sold to attendants at the
meeting
An active committee. to have
. charge of the SAFE of tickets and
appointed 10y Mr.. Daicey. follows:
John DeIlaven. George Hull George
Hahn. W. j. McGraw. Frank VIII
Hams. I'd DoTan. g. r.. Haslanger.
~ J.. Dennis. a. : Burkhart Or
HolloweU. Joe Werwinski, +. +.
Baicey and William Renfranz.
To Remodel Diamond.
So rosy is the baseball horizon at
this time THAT plans are already be-
ing made for the renovation of
Sprinsbrook park diamond and
stands for the coming spring. Smith
has lines ON "a host OF players for
his embryo squad. and few weeks.
providing the proper enthusiasm is
demonstrated i'm the purchase of
tickets. will see greater activities to-
ward tha signing up of efficient past
timers.
That south Bend will get behind
the movement for baseball seems
more than probable. After the i'm
terstate fair of last summer. "a re-
neWed interest was shown in sports
OF AN kinds and with the Country
club and the race track. King Base
bali, il is thought has a fruitful
domain here.
In 81 statement made Friday af-
teruoun Priest Dickersou declared
that conditions in South Bend for
baseball appeared very healthy He
believes that this city viii prove
one Of the strong links i'm the eight
club chain which will compose the
I Central league. and is confident that
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