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Were Awarded Highest Honois at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in competition with the world’s makers receiving a
Special Award
(Superior lo a Grand Prize)
[•>r the fast, most comptai’ ami most aitrartirr installation of ■ Gymmituc Apparatus ami Ath’eltc Supplies shown aw lite Wo-U’i fuir, ant also a
fur their rjfidnt of alt fouls of Athletic Implements, Gymna*hc Aptmratwt and Weiring Apjwel In the OLYMPIC GAMES, which extended over a period from May to November, 1904, every article used in the Stadium in connection with the games bore the Official Stamp of A. G. Spalding & Bros. I !
THE SPALDING GYMNASIUM
at ihe Wot old* Fair, St. Louis, was concede* ! by the most eminent physical directors nf the country to he a marvtlous exhibit of gymnasUc apparatus and progression in the manu facture of same many of Ihe pieces hein* entirely new and of novel construction, made especially with a view to econo my of space, now 83 necessary, owing to the advanced value of properltts where many of them must necessarily be located. The hundreds or gymnasts who competed in the différents events in the Stadium during the year proclaimed the apparatus made by A. G. Spalding & Hros. the best that Ihey had ever worked on, and the team of German Turners that came lo America especially to compete in the Internatio nal Championships at St. Louis on July I and 2, 1904, requested that they bo permitted to use the apparatus of the Spalding gymnasium exhibit in the gymnastic tournament, ami at the conclusion of the two-day meeting voluntarily forwarded to A. G. Spalding & Bros, a testimonial h’ghly complimenting the Arm on the manufacture of their gymnastic a’-painlus. The same request was made by the Young Men’s Christian Association of America, and the appaiatns was used by them for the championships will) best results. In the International A. A. U. Championships A. G. Spalding & Bros. apparatus wav likewise used, and the chairman of the commitee declared the apparatus lu be the best ever used in connection with a championship meeting.
THE MODEL PLAYGROUND GYMNASIUM
in the Model Playground on the Model Street at the World’s Fair was installed by A. G. Spdding & Bros., and duting the season the" apparams was in constant use by hundreds of children each day. All the apparatus stood the test for during Ihe entire season not one piece of it. alter the severest kind hrousage, was broken or displaced. .^*MM
This latest recognition of SUPKIUOMI Y and QUALITY, following so closely on the Paris Exposition, where A.G. Spal ding A Bros, were awarded the Grand Priie, establishes without doubt the position of this firm in the manufacturing and retailing of athletic goods as world’s leaders, and places the implements for sport that hear the Spalding Trade Mark beyond competition with all others. At the Pan-American Exposition, Muffato, 11X11,every article used in connection with the world’s championship games bore the Trade Mark of A. G. Spalding & Bros.
A. G. SPALDING & BROS
New- York, Chicago, Denver, San-Francisco, Montréal, 53 54 55 Fetter Lane, London.
