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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 tV*/, most complète and most attract tec installation of Gymnastic Apparatus and Ath’ettc Supplies shown at the World’s Fair, and also a
Grt>VlSJ :D PRIZE
for their rjh’tut of alt L-uis of Athletic Implements, Gwmnasl’c Apparatus and Wearing Appa* et In the OLYMPIC GAMES, which extended ove a period from May to November, 1904. every article used in the Stadium in connection •villi the garnet bore the Official Stamp of A. G. Spalding & Bros. GYMNASIUM
was conceded by the most
THE SPALDING
at the Worold* Fair, SI. Louis.
e-ninent physical directors *.( the country to be a marvtlous exhibit of gymnastic apparatus and progress ! m in Ihe manu facture of same many of tbe p if ces being entiiely new and of novel construction, made especially with a view to econo my of space, now e> necessary, owing to the advanced value ot* proper i i s 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 (hat Ihey had ever worked on. and the team of German Turners that came to America especially to compete in the Internatio nal Championships at St. I^ouis on July 1 and 2, 4904, requested that they be permitted to use the apparatus of the Spalding gymnasium exhibit in the gymnastic tournament, and at the’ conclusion of tho two-day meeting voluntarily forwarded to A. G. Spalding & tiros, a testimonial hghly complimenting the linn on the manu fact uie of their gymnastic anpataius. The same request was made by the Young Men’s Christian Association of Ameiica, and the appaiatus was used by them lor the championships with best results. In the International A. A. U. Championships A. G. Spalding & liros. apparatus was likewise used, and the chairman of i he corn mi Ice 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 al the World’s Fair was installed by A. G. Spalding & Bros., and during the season the apparatus was in constant use by hundreds nf children each day. All the apparatus stood Ihe test for during the entire season not one piece of it, after the severest kind brousage, was broken or displaced. A. G.
This latest recognition ol SUPERIORITY and QUALITYfollowing so closely on the Paris Exposition, where A.G. Spal, ding & Bros, ware awarded the Grand Prize, establishes without doubt the position of tliia linn in the manufacturing and retailing of athletic goods as world’s leaders, and places the implements for sport that bear the Spalding Trade Mark beyond competition with all others. At the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1904, every article used in connection Willi Ihe wor’d's championship games bore the Trade Mark of A. G. Spalding & Bros.
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