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Show aald that none but aheolutefy new material would be ehipped, and the proposition waa turned down. The overseaa purchasing and shipping department, de-partment, national council of the Y. M A., at New York, was then appealed ap-pealed to for help, and after a long delay came the anawar: "We very much rag-ret that at the preeent time wa are unable to assist you much as wa would like to do so." So the excellent equipment Is being safely etored In hopes of another outlet, regarding; re-garding; which Inquiries ara In progress. prog-ress. - As far aa sending ouch equipment to aoma of the cantonmeuta on this side of the biff water there would probably prob-ably be leas difficulty, but still tt looks doubtfuL The Y. M. C. A. le furmahlng Ita own equipment to the soldier oys abroad, and Uncle Sam la doinff a big businaee In ths sporting sport-ing goods line In equipping baaeball and football teams over here. Can't Send Used Sport Goods to Boys in Service Pershing's Men Not So Par ticular; Others Say They Must Be New. IF ION IE BVBH wanted to aend one of his old glovaa to the soldiers sol-diers In France, or if Jahe Dauber, Dau-ber, should imagine there might be a few hrta in one or his much used bats and decide to let the doughboys 1 try It out well, that glove or that I bat couldn't be aent, thai e all, according' accord-ing' to informative, received from a baseball man in the East who thought he would do a good turn for the boya In khaki by collecting an assignment of used baseball "furniture" aird sending send-ing it over, says the Sporting; New a -I'ershitig'a men might not ba ae per , aicular about tha newneas of their j baaeball goods, but somebody In authority au-thority somewhers seems to ba. W riting of hla experience;, the baseball base-ball men relates that by an appeal through the preee to ball players, he secured enough paraphernalia to equip two full teams. Hs thought he had dotis well and had visions of the soldier sol-dier boys enjoying the reeulta of hia work, when something happened Ha lelts tha etory further aa follows: This equipment waa finally ready to ehfp two months ago. But It has not ' i gone yet. and there la no Immediate i prospect of Its departure. Kf forts ware made through Washington to have it shipped along- wits in Clark 1 Griffith fnad coaaignanant. but U la I |