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Show PRICE OF ATHLETIC GOODS DUE TO SOAR Poor Man Is Barred From Privilege Privi-lege of Exercising. Walking Is Only Thing That Won't Cost More If It Is Done in Bare Feet Increase Hits Every Sporting Article in Sight. ti.ercise Is no longer a poor man's privilege. Inquiry among leading sporting goods dealers showed that prices of all sporting goods are coming up this year. The only thing that won't cost more is walking if you do It In your bare . feet. Hiking shoes will cost from $10 ; to $15, an increase of 20 per cent. The increase hits every sporting , article in sight and even that which Isn't. Athletic underweor is on the upward grade. "There'll be twice as many baseball teams this year as last year," predicted predict-ed an official of a big sporting goods house. The only new frills In sports this year will be in golf. Bloomers for women and a new set of iron clubs which allow the golfer to hit the ball from any angle are being displayed. There are ten clubs to the set. Swimming suits will be one-piece affairs af-fairs this year both for men and women. wom-en. Men's suits will be the baggy affairs af-fairs of old, but women will have a creation in colors. Under the new list of prices, just out, baseballs will cost 50 cents more. League balls will cost $2.50 apiece. Balls for sand-lot games will cost 50 cents. Baseball gloves will cost as high as $25. The cheapest will be $1 a boy's fielding glove. Baseball shoes which sold last year for $12 now cost $21 ; chest protectors and masks have increased. Golf clubs will cost $6 and upward, while the minimum charge for golf balls will be GO cents. Footballs, boxing gloves, weight exercisers, ex-ercisers, punching bags, basketballs and other sporting paraphernalia experience ex-perience similar boosts In prices. The Increase is due to higher costs of labor and material, It was said. |