A,G. SPALDING & BROS
GRAND PRIZE
. G.Spalding & Bros.
NEW YOIIK- CHICAGO
SAN Francisco
LONDON
»ymnasium mi Playground]
Apparatus
Athletic Implements
Equipments
Cames ms Sports
Were Awarded Highest Honors at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in competition with the world’s makers’ receiving a
Special Award
(Superior to a Grand Prize)
fur the brst, most complete and mott attractive mttlullitlwn Gymnastic Apparatus and Alh’elic Supplies shown at the World’s Fair, and also a
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GRAISiD •rize :
for their rxhthil of all kiii’ls of Athletic Implements, Gymnastic Apparatus and Wearing, Apparel In the OLYMPIC GAMES, which extended over a period from May to November, 1904, every article used In the Stadium In connection «Ith the games bore the Official Stamp of A. B. Spalding £ Bros. THE SPALDING GYMNASIUM
at the Worold’ Fair, St. Louis, was conceded by the most eminent physical directors of the country to be a marvelous exhibit of gymnastic apparatus and progression in the manu facture of same many of the pieces being eutiiely new and of novel construction, made especially with a view to econo my of space, now so necessary, owing to the advanced value ot properties where many of them must necessarily be located. The hundreds of gymnasts who competed in the différents events in the Stadium during the year proclaimed the apparatus made by A. G. Spalding & Bros, the best that they had ever worked on, and the team of German Turners that came to America especially to compete in the Internatio nal Championships at St. Louis on July 1 and 2, 1904, requested that they be permitted to use the apparatus of the Spalding gymnasiom exhibit in the gymnastic tournament, and at the conclusion of the two-day meeting voluntarily forwarded to A. G. Spalding & Bros, a testimonial highly complimenting the linn on the manufacture of their gymnastic anpaialus. The same request was made by the Young Men’s Christian Association of America, and the apparatus was used by them tor the championships with best results. In the International A. A. U. Championships A. G. Spalding & Bros, apparatus was likewise used, and the chairman of the commitee declared the apparatus to 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 1 air was installed by A. G. Spalding & Bros., and during the season the apparaius was in constant use by hundreds of children each day. All the apparatus stood the test for during the entire season not one piece of it. after the severest kind brousage, was broken or displaced. This latest recognition ot SUPERIORITY and QUALITY, following so closely on the Paris Exposition, where A. G. Spal ding & Itros. were awarded the Grand Prixe, establishes without doubt the position of this firm in the manufacturing and retailing of athletic goods as world’s leaders, aud places the implements tor sport that bear the Spalding Trade Mark beyond competition with all others. At the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, every article used in connection with the world’s championship games bore the Trade Hark of A. G. Spalding & Bros.
A. G. SPALDING & BROS
New-York, Chicago, Denver, San-Francisco, Montréal, 53-54-55 Fetter Lane, London.
