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A.-G. SPALDING & BR0S | | St. Louis 19 04 sitea ioars nibosn | LoUIsIANA PuRcHAse | EXP051T10N % • tre•er CRAND PRizE -’A-. A. C.SPALDINc 8 BRos. N-V-Or- - | 5AN F.-ANC15Co |- -- scymnasium playgrouna ! | Apparatus | Athletic implements . Equipments | cames . 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) for the best, most complete and most attractive installation of Gymnastic Apparatus and Athletic Supplies shown at lhe World’s Fair, and also a G+1 ER A - INT1 DTD ,E-1ER.1 I2.1E sor their exhibit of all kinds of Athletic lmplements, Gymnastic Apparatus and Wearing Apparel In the 0LYMPIC GAME8, which extended ove. a perlod from May to November, 1904, every article used in the Stadlum in connectlon «ith the games bore the 0fficlal Stamp of A. G. Spalding & Bros THIE 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 entir ely new and of novel construction, made especially with a view to econo ’ my of space, now so necessary, owing to the advanced value of properties where many of them must necessarily be located. The hundreds of gymnasts who competed in the differents events in the Stadium during the year proclaiDned 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 gymnasium exhibit in the gymnastic tournament, and at the conclusion of the two-day meeting voluntarily forwarded to A. G. Spalding & Bros. a testimonial hoghly complimentlng the firm on the manufacture oftheir gymnastic apparatus. The same request was made by the Young Men’s Christian Association of America, and the apparatus was used by them for 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 NAODEL PLAYGROUND GYMNASIUMA in the Model Playground on the Model Street at the World’s Fair was installed by A. G. Spalding & Bros., and during the season the apparatus 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 i t , after the severest kind brousage, was broken o r displaced. This latest recognition o f SUPERIORITY and QUALITY, following s o closely on the Paris Exposition, where A. G . Spal ding & Bros. were awarded the Grand Prize, establishes without doubt the position o f this firm i n the manufacturing and retailing o f athletic goods a s world’s leaders, aud places the implements for sport that bear the Spalding Trade Mark beyond competition with all others. At the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, every article used i n connection with the world’s championship games bore the Trade Mark o f A. G . Spalding & Bros. A. Go. SPALDING & BROS Nevv-York, Chicago, Denver, San-Francisco, Montréal 53-54-55 Fetter Lane, London.