The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
MANUF FACTURE OF
 ATHLETIC GOODS
 NOW RESTRICTED
Golf and Tennis Hard Hit
 By New Regulations.

New York, Oct. 5.-Athletic SUD- plies and equipment will face sweep ing reductions as a result of the lat est rulings of the War Industries Board and it is not unreasonable to expect price advances If the demand outstrips the supply. Restrictions nave been placed upon the production or certain of the more common sport supplies and in other cases further manufacture is prohibited after inc present stock of material in hand is exhausted.
 The followers of the various branches of sport will note with in 1 terest that more leeway is allowed in the matter of the baseball and foot 1 ball output than is the case in ten his and golf. This is due not to dis crimination but rather to the fact that greater quantities of rubber are used in the manufacture of the balls used Tn these games than in baseball and football. According to the latest rul- ing not more than forty per cent. of the tennis and golf equipment pro- duced during the last four months of 1917 shall be manufactured during the final months Of the present year In the field of baseball and football the maximum is put at sixty per cent which gives a wider latitude to the 1 producer.
 In the uniforms department the regulations specify that no material will be available after the manufactu- Ter has used the supplies now in stock. 1 This VHySn aff to a far greater extent than will be the case among the golf and tennis fplayers for while special clothing is considered desirable among many of the devotees of these games, it is not absolutely necessary: Because of the greater personal contact in baseball and football, uniforms with special l padding and armor are not a matter i of personal choice but rather of ne-
 cessity.
 During the past year the price of new athletic equipment and repairs to old paraphernalia has mounted in in keeping with all other commodtie The cost of all material and labor in volved has increased as the player of any game realizes when he takes a I tennis racquet to be restrung; a golf club to be repaired or sport shoes to be resOled. Under the circumstan- ces the outfitting of teams next sea son, should organized sport play be possible, will be an additional tax up- on the management of such teams. The national championship of soc- Ger football may be anybody's prize this season. As in nearly every oth- CT sport, the dope is completely up set in the major league of the kicking game. In all probability some com- bination entirely new to the Nation al Challenge Cub Competition will wear the soccer crown when the 191S- 19 season is brought to a conclusion next April1.
 The long arm of the military draft has reached into the Bethlehem Steel F. c. which has won the national tro- phy three times Two stars of the Bethlehem machine-Tommy Murray one of the best halfbacks in the land
 and Jimmy Murray, a leading for ward-have been called for army ser vice. The championship aggrega
 ton of last season has been material ly weakened, fact which nJectS
 new interest into the N. c. c. Compe- ton.
 A dozen new elevens of the very
 first rank are entering the lists fol
 the national title. They will repre-
 sent leading shipbuilding plants or
 the Atlantic Coast and along the Great
 Lakes. Many of these give grea
 promise and several prophets of the
 kicking game hold to the opinion tha'
 there will be a herd of dark horses ir 7 the soccer classic soon to get under D way.
 Quite a number of entries have
 been received by Thomas W. Cahill
 honorary secretary of the United
 States Football Association, 126 Mas
 sau St, New York City, and others
 will continue to drift in until nooT
 of Oct. 5. when the entry list vii
 close. Drawings for the preliminary round and first round proper vii take place at the Broadway Centra Hotel, New York City, at 10:45 a. m on Sunday, Oct. 6.