Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Evening World, October 3, 1916, p. 1. KEEP ATHLETES IN STATE SAYS STIEHM A plea for the alumni of various Indiana institutions to use their influence to keep good athletic material in the state rather than allowing it to go to other states, was made by Ewald O. Stiehm, director of athletics at Indiana university at a recent luncheon of the alumni of that school at Indianapolis. Speaking of his reason for going to Indiana he said: "I came to Indiana university largely because it has been in an athletic rut, and because I hope to disprove the argument that poor location climatically and a dearth of good material through lack of football in the high schools of the state has been responsible for the medicore [sci] showing. "We should see to it that a high school athlete goes to Indiana or Purdue and not to Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin or the east. Except in a few particular cases eastern football is superior to that in the west, a condition due mostly to material gleaned from the eastern preparatory schools."