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Show PRICES ON SPORTING GOODS DUE FOR ; COMEDOWN NKW YftRK. ct. Athletic gup pllea and equipment will faca sweeping reductlona as a reault of the latent rhllnga of tha war In -diietrlea board and It La not unreasonable to enpert price advance If the demand out nt ripe the supply. Restrictions have been placed Uon the production of certain cer-tain nf the more common a port supplies and In other casas further manufacture la prohibited after the preaent stock of mateital In hand la exhaueied. The follower of the varioua branches of stort will nM with Interest that more leeway I allowed In the matter of baae-hall baae-hall and football output than Is th caes t In tennla and golf. Thla Is du not ta .discrimination, hut rather to tha fact that greater quantities of rubber are used In 1 the manufacture of tha halla used In , these games than In baseball and football, foot-ball, According to th la teat ruling not ! more than tn per cent of th tennla and golf equipment produced during tha last j four months of 1917 shall b manufac-; manufac-; tured during the final montha of th ! preaent er, in th field of baseball land frtb:tll the maximum Is put at 0 per cent, which gives a wider latitude to the producer. In the uniforms department th regulations regula-tions specify that no material will b available after th manufacturer haa usad the supplies now 'In stork. This will effect ef-fect football and baseball to a far greater A extent than will ba the caa smong tha golf and tennis plsyr for. whil a pacta I clothing la conaldered desirable among -many of the devoteea of tha gamea. It la not absolutely neceaaary. Becaua of tha greater peraonal contact In basebslt and football, uniforms with special padding pad-ding and armor ara not a matter of peraonal choice, but rather eaaenttal aa a protection agalnat bodily tnjurlea. During the past year th price of new athletic equipment and repairs ' to old paraphernalia has mounted In keeping; with all other commodities. Tha coat of all material and labor InvolVed haa Increased In-creased as the player of any gams realises when he takes a tennis racquet to be reat rung; a golf club to be repaired or sport ehca to h resoled. I'ndar th cir- " rumstarcea the outfitting of teams next , aeaaon. should organised sport play be poaslhle, will be an additional tax upon th management of such teams. |