The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-01
Soccer News

| A challenge for a series of inter
national soccer games between the
Belgian and any American teams has
been received from Lieutenant Hub
! in, captain of the foreign combina-
| ton and there is a possibility that
the contests may be arranged The
communication, which was addressed
to the Commission on Training Camp
| Activities, asks if it is feasible to
schedule one, or more such matches
in the larger cities of the training
camps, the gate receipts to be award
ed to some war relief fund. ID
Lieutenant Hubin, who holds a
commission in the Belgian army,
states that the players of his team
which have been selected from the
various sections of the army, have
acquitted themselves will in num-
Der of matches in both England and
France. Aside from the actual trav-
cling and living expenses of the team
thep layers ask nothing in. the way
of receipts and Lieutenant Hubin
states that he believes that the nee
essary permission for the trip can
ben assured from the Belgian Gov
Eernment.
] While there has been no definite
statement regarding the restoration
of varsity football at Harvard, Prince
ton and Yale next fall, the impress
sion is growing that all three uni
versities will support the game pro-
viding that there is a reasonable num-
Der of students from which to draw
material. Time for training is also
a necessary factor in a recent ed
itorial the princetonian, the college
daily at Princeton University, COM
mented as follows upon the subject:
Football requires a certain amount
of time and practice to harden the
players for the annual contests on
the gridiron, otherwise It'll danger
Gus. Will the university authorities
permit the men enrolled in the mill
tary course to participate, and if they
do, will theya low the necessary
amount of time for practice which,
the coaches say, is required for the
bodily and physical safety of the
players? The development of a war
time varsity will naturally not de-
4 mand as much time as our ante-bel-
lum varsities, but, on the other hand,
itw i'll need more than was devoted
to practice by the informals last
fall. Possibly over-training has been
one of our troubles in recent years.
Certainly the informal team was
mosts uccessful,a nd the men who
played on it tell US that but a very
little more practice would have put
them in the pink of condition.
Taking everything into considera-
ton, the authorities should be able
to find room on next years program
for football, and what is more for
all forms of intercollegiate sport The
power to determine Princeton's war
time athletic policy is in their hands.
We trust, however, that their decis-
ion in this and in all matters which
have to do with purely undergradu-
ate interests will not be made with
| out due regard for undergraduate
, opinion"
| The presence of large numbers of
: American and Canadian soldiers
abroadh asc aused such an unpre-
dedented demand throughout Eng
land for all kinds ofb aseball supplies
that it is almost impossible to sat
isfy the constantly increasing re-
quests from training camps and
stations for balls, bats, masks, shoes,
gloves, and protectors.
1t is estimated by sporting author
tiles that there will be a demand for
baseball equipment during the pres
ent season to outfit 1000 teams and
all of it must be exported from New
, York.
' A special report to the Department
frnT S111 foTxy
art S Hayes at London states that
the demand for athletic equipment
in England has been decreased since
the war began about 60 per cent on
allg GODS except footballs, boxing
gloves and baseball parphernalia. The
, supply of baseball equipment has at
all times has been less than the de-
+ mand, which foreign dealers sought
to meet by importations, but, being
tinued to order in insufficient quaint
r tiued to order in insufficient quanti-
Y ties until the restriction of imports
l made the obtaining of such goods
r extremely difficult
r At present, with the American
l army and navy forces in England, the
r demand has reached proportions that
I cannot be satisfied without large
:, supplies being shipped from the Uni
I ted States. The books of large
London sports store indicate the in
crease for baseball equipment since
. 1914. In 1915 the approximate val
ue of baseball imports was $4,000,
/ in 1915, $4,000, in 1917, $4,000 and
t in 1918, to date, $57,500.
On the other hand, the demand