The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-02
SPORTING GOODS ON JUMP.
Baseball, Tennis, Golf and Football Hit
by II. c. Of l..

When ball IS knocked over the |
fence by some demon Slugger like Joe |
Jac kson or iris Speaker il will set the |
home club back $3.50 next season in
stead of the customary $1.25. This
sad news will be impaired to the own
ers when the contracts are let for the
annual supply of horsehides. Several
reasons for the advance will be of
fered, but it won t make the bills any
less. 1t would be all right If the sky
roeketing would stop with basebails
but il won't Everything which goes
with the national pastime has started
climbing and with it has gone every
| thing which enters into al sports.
| Baseball uniforms will be advanced
from $3.50 to $3.50, and imagine the
roar from the athletes when they are
told that shoes have advanced from 50
to $ll. Bats will be retailed at $50
instead of at $lo5.
| College and amateur sports will be
hit as hard, if not more SO. Footballs
have gone W from So to 81, with the
end not III sight. If our soldiers at
the camps want to play soccer they
will have 10 fork over in the near fu-
ture $40 for 4 ball The same poes
for basketballS. Football shoes will be
50 higher. Golf and tennis PLAYERS
will have to climb pretty high, too. If
they want to keep with the sports.
Regulation tennis rackets Will retail at
SO, which will be an advance of 81
over the prices which have prevailed
tor some time, or ever since the high
cost. OF sports got q toe hold. Golf
clubs. of the familiar brands, will be
Increased IN price 10 to % per cent. a
good driver will cost about 81 and
the rest in proportion.
; II vou feel the need of some ont
; door exercise during the winter il
WI! be discovered that Ice ssares have
gone up about onethird. Roller skate!
nave reached the same altitude. i
sweater should be deemed necessary
for comfort that will cost 80 per cen
, more than formerly. That is not ali
: however The prices will keep on soar
ing and 1t was predicted recently tina
:, basebails. the regular league kind, yil
: sell Tor F. before next season is over
Inc same goes for all leather an,
! WOODEN goods, and steel products vii
:. not he far behind
{ Into baseball, il is claimed. enter
r the most costly material Of all. leatt
! ef' Wooiyam and rubber Each artiel
o IS scarce. according to the m1nufa.
tufeFS. II Is impossible to get the RICH
" KIND OF hides or the wool. not to me,
t ton rubber. Before the war the hid;
rs 81 SIBERIAN ponies were used for n
covering Of th" pill. Importation {
r thi' kind of leather stopped with II
II beginning of the world conflict. Hart
Z " any one Of the balls passed must,
last season, aud il is not likely I'll.
at they viii next. Any implement wit
J, wood in ii has also been affected. II
rs strings Ill tennis racket come fro
s lambs, and these are getting scare
every day. Leather has been soarn
~ for some time, SO canvas shoes NAV
Id III order III all kinds OF sports ne
Ie- year. Major league clubs, the big g,
= l"gra and players with bank accoun
on are expected to be able to stand /
ga1l but the threatened increase "
a. hit the minors in all kinds of spo,
hard.