South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-01-18
\. D. To PLAY '
WESTERN NORMAL
Sold and Blue CagerS Prepare
for Hard Contests
During Week.
BY ARCHIE WARD.

Having gained "A flying start to-
ward a successful season by their
'ne-sided victory over Kalamazoo
roIlegs last Wednesday. Coach
Dorais' Gold and Blue basketmen
are preparing for one OF the biggest
weeks OF the brumal campaign.
Three games nave been arranged for
he NOtre Dame Ave next week
Western Normal viii exhibit here
Monday afternoon, a return game
will be played at Kalamazoo Fri
Hay and the Michigan Aggies viii
be encountered at East Lansing
saturday
The contest billed for the home
7Oor Monday afternoon is one Of the
'astest attractions 20 be offered To-
al fans this season. The game will
be called az 4 o'clock and the ad-
mission fee for visitors viii be so
rents
Western Normal has long been
loted for whirlwind court teams.
put the 1920 FIVE is reported 70 be
he most dynamic band Of perform
FRS that ever represented the Mich
gan tutors The strong Michigan
university and Michigan AgEie teams
nave fallen before the slashing at
-sck OF the pedagogs this winter.
Need Financial support
Basketball at Notre Dame is on
he threshold Of a new era and with
proper support the game will flour
.sh here henceforth. II South Bend
court fans who enjoy clean. fast en-
.ertainments get behind the Gold
nd Blue basket squad and encour-
ge the sport by their presence. they
will be represented BY a university
team whose position will soon APP
proach the heights OF their grid
ron am bassadOrs. Although Notre
Dame ranks far above the average
aggregation in point OF value afeId
ard az the box office in football.
/. abundant water has gone over the
dam in basketball and baseball.
Names count in athletics just as
in other lines OF amusement Just
as the Chaplins. the Fairbankses
and the other pampereo pets OF film
dom lure the multitudes. so the
5ipps. the Coughlins. the Bergmans
and the others attract hundreds 70
the football field. TIL. critics NAV
cavil about the evils of the star svs-
tenn. but it's the star that gets the
kale for his club
Local fandom may. therefore
-ealize that in appealing 70 the fans
for support in basketball. Notre
Dame has a few eminent FASTENERS
on it's roster. Football men are not
me only athletes who browse in
sold and Blue pastures.
Star Forward Combination.
Headlining the coterie of basket
cagers are Mehre and Klley. brace
" forwards whose superior has moi
been seen at Notre Dame since Ions
before the guns began to belch in
war-riddled Europe. Mehre gather
cd his knowledge OF the game at hi
home IN Huntington, Ind, and Kiley
was a star performer with st
Philips high school in Chicago be
fore matriculating here. Both play
rrs were members CT the freshman
team last winter. Their work in tn,
Kalamazoo game bordered on tn,
phenomenal and II they continu,
20 display such form throughout tn,
season, Notre Dame will be a team
hard TO stop. Sanford and Ward ar,
substitute forwards who will keel
he regulars travelling al a fast cliI
II they are 70 hold their berths.
Notre Dame IS well fortified Will
guards Eddie Anderson is a verita
Die whiriwind in breaking up play
or the opponents and Granfeld IS
big cog in floor work. Coughlin is
-elief man or firstwater caliber. Ken
Jedy unquestionably ranks as TIA
hest pivot man or the squad and n
merits the position he holds