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Show oo SOCCER GAME BETWEEN OB Ai BELGIANS NEW YORK. June 6. A challenge! for a series of international soccer games between the Belgian and any American teams has been received from Lieutenant Hubln. captain of the toreign combination, and there is a possibility that the contests may be arranged. The communication, which i, . was addressed to the commission on training camp activities, asks if it la feasible to schedule one or more such . matches in the larger cities or the i tiainlng camp?, the gate receipts to be . awarded to some war relief fund. . Lieutenant Hubin. who holds a com-. com-. mission in the Belgian army, states j j that the players of his team which have been selected from the various . sections of the armj. hae acquitted I themselves well in a number of match-, match-, es in both England and France. Aside , from the actual travelling and living expenses of the team the players ask l nothing in the way of receipts, and ! Lieutenant Hubin states that he be-j lieves that the necessary permission , for the trip can be secured from the I Belgian government. Football 3t Universities While mere has been no definite statement regarding (he restoration of "varsity football at Harvard. Princeton and Yale next fall, the impression Is! growing that all three universities will support the sam providing that there la a reasonable number of students from which to draw material. Time for training is also a necesRary factor and in a recent editorial tho Prince-tonian, Prince-tonian, the college daily at Princeton university, commented as follows upon the subject "Football requiries a certain amount of time and practice to harden the players for the annual contests on the gridiron, otherwise it is dangerous. Will the university authorities permit the men enrolled in the military course to participate; and. if the do, will they allow the neceaaarj amount of time for practice which, the coaches say, is required for tho bodil and physical safety of th players? The development of a wartime varsity will naturally not demand as much time as our ante-bellum varsities, but, on the other hand, it will need more than was devoted to practice b thf Informal last fall. Possibly over-training has been one of our troubles in recent jreara. certainly the informal team wale most successful, and the men who played on it tell us that but a very lit- ' tie more practice would hae put them1 in the pink of condition. "Taking everything into consideration, considera-tion, the authorities should be able to find room on next year s program for football, and. what is more, for all forms of intercollegiate sport. The povier to determine Princetons wartime war-time athletic policy is in their hands We trust, however, that their decision in this and in all matters which have i to do with purely undergraduate inter- j ests will not be made without due re- j gard for undergraduate opinion." Soldiers Need Equipment. The presence of larce numbers of American and Canadian soldiers' abroad has caused such an unprece- I dented demand throughout England, for all kind6 of baseball supplies that it is almost impossible to satisfy thri constantly increasing requests from I training camps and stations for balls, bats, masks, shoes, gloves, and protectors. pro-tectors. It la estimated by sporting authorl- tics that there will be a demand fori baseball equipment during the present season to outfit 2000 teams, and all of It must be exported from New York. A special report to the department lot commerce irom Vice Consul Stewart S Hayes at London states that the d-1 d-1 mand for athletic equipment in England Eng-land has been decreased since the war .began about 60 per cent on all goods ' "xcept footballs, boxing gloves and baseball paraphernalia. The supply of baseball equipment has at all times been less than th.- demand, which foreign for-eign dealers soucht to meet by importations impor-tations but. being unable to gaupe the market, they continued to order In insufficient in-sufficient quantities until the restriction restric-tion of imports made the obtaining of such goods extremely difficult. At present, with the American army and navy forces in England, the demand de-mand has reached proportions .that cannot be satisfied without large sup plies beinp shipped from the United States. The books of a large London sports store indicate the increase for baseball equipment since 1914 In 1915 the approximate value of baseball Imports Im-ports was $10,000; in 1916. $30,000; in 1917, $40, and in 191$. to date. $57,- 500. ; On the other hand, the demand for cricket, tennis and golf equipment has decreased as much as 60 per cent and j more. It is not believed that this in d'eates any permanent loss of favor by these sports, but it is due to the fact that they require special playins fields difficult to obtain while an impromptu im-promptu game of baseball may be or-ganized or-ganized at a moment's notice. The age limit of the British army was set at 41 years in April. 1916, with the prospect of beinc raised to 50, so t ha" every able-bodied man is engaged in J some work of such national importance that he has no time for the widely-popular widely-popular amateur sports of peace times |