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A U S T R A L IA PARIS, FRANCE GLASGOW. SCOTLAND SO I h C a4*l «« Rurkantn Street ctMl M .A. will G. rSTAUMNG & BROS.. TMf IMIOING TOAOC MAMA IS MO IN TWt VNtTCO *T*TT* MTCMT WFKl. AND Wl H«« ALSO POOTCCTCO OUR HmWITI AT M TRADE - MARK QUALITY ANC THE SPALDING SELLING POLIC' Constitute t h e Solid Foundation o f t h e Spalding Busines' ■»»»—• - ' t~* r n t i M M x Size, 5Hx8 inches; 600 Page* Binding it in Blue Cloth with 115 Full Page Plates Including a Series of Corer Design Stamped in Gold Cartoons by Homer C. Davenport PRICE $2.00 net America’s National Game By A. G. SPALDING P ric e, $ 2 .0 0 Net A book of 600 pages, profusely illustrated with over 100 full page engravings, and hav­ ing sixteen forceful cartoons by Homer C. Davenport, the famous American artist. No man in America is better equipped to write on all the varied phases of the Na­ tional Game than is A G. Spalding. His observation and experience began when the game was young. He gained fame as a pitcher forty years ago, winning a record as player that has never yet been equalled. He was associated with the management of the pastime through trying years of struggle against prevailing evils. He opposed gamblers; he fought to eradicate drunkenness; he urged and intro­ duced new and higher ideals for the sport; he was quick to see tha( ball playing and the business man. agement of clubs, at the same time and by the same men, were imprac- - _ ticable; he knew that ball players might be quite competent as magnates, but not while playing the game ; he was in the forefront of the fight against syndi­ cating Base Ball and making of a Nation's pastime a sordk' Trust; he was the pioneer to lead competing America Base Ball teams to a foreign land; he took two champit teams to Great Britain in 1874, and two others on a tour the world in 1888-9; he was present at the birth of t National League, and has done as much as any liv American to uphold and prolong the life of this great pion< Base Ball organization. When A G. Spalding talks about America's Nab* Game he speak* by authority of that he does know, beo be has been in the councils of the management whenever there have been times of strenuous endeavor to purge it from abuses and keep it clean for the people of America — young and old «\ In this work Mr. Spalding, after explaining the causes that led him into the undertaking, begins with the inception of the sport; shows how it developed, by natural stages from a boy with a ball to eighteen men, ball, bats and bases; gives credit for the first scientific application of system to the playing of the game to Abner Doubleday, of Coopert- town, N. Y.: treats of the first Base Ball dub; shows how rowdyism terrorized the sport in its early days ; how gam­ bling and drunkenness brought the pastime into disfavor with the masses, and how early organizations were unable to control the evils that insidiously crept in. He then draws a series of very forceful pictures of the struggle to eradicate gambling, drunkenness and kindred evils, and shows how the efforts of string men accomplished the salvation of the great American game and placed it in the position it occu­ pies to-day—the most popular outdoor pastime in the world. Interspersed throughout this interesting book are remin­ iscences of Mr. Spalding's own personal observations and experiences in the game as player, manager and magnate, covering a period of many years. Some of these stories deal with events of great import to Base Ball, and others have to do with personal acts and characteristics of players prominent in the game in earlier days—old time favorites like Harry and George Wright, A. C. Anson, Mike Kelly, Billy Sunday and others. This book should be in the library of every father in the land, for it shows how his boy may be built up physically and morally through a high-class pastime. It should be in the hands of every lad in America, for it demonstrates the possibilities to American youth of rising to heights of eminent material success through a determined adherence to things hat make for the upbuilding of character in organizations as veil as of men. Mailed postpaid on receipt of price by any Spalding store see list on inside front cover), or by the publishers, A m erican S po r t s P ublishing C o m pany ( 21 Warren Street, New York SPALDING ATHLETIC LIBRARY Giving the Titles of all Spalding Athletic Library Books now <3 = ■3 in print, grouped lor ready reference c —* > n „ SPALDING OFFICIAL ANNUALS 1 Spaldin s Official Base Ball Guide IA Spalding s Official B ase Ball Record 1C Spalding s Official College Base Ball Annual 2 Spalding s Official Foot Ball Guide 3A Spalding's Official Soccer Foot Ball Guide 4 Spalding s Official Lawn Tennis Annual 6 Spalding's Official Ice Hockey Guide 7 Spalding's Official Basket Ball Guide 7A Spalding’s Official Women's Basket Ball Guide 8 Spalding’s Official L acrosse Cuide 9 Spalding’s Official Indoor Base Ball Guide I2A Spalding's Official Athletic Rules ______ Groap I. Base Kail Group IV. Lawi Tctils No. X Spalding s Official Bam Ball No. 4 Spalding’* Official Lau n Ten­ Guide. nis Annual. No. 1* Official Base Ball Record No. 1B7 How to Play Lawn Tennis. No. 10 College Base Ball Annual. No. 354 Official Handbook National No. 202 How to Play Base Ball Squash Tennis Association. N o 223 How to Bat N o 232 How to Run Bases. Croip VI. lockei No. 230 How to Pitch. No. 6 Spalding’* Official Ice Hockey No 229 How to Catch. Guide. No 225 How to Play First Base No. 304 How to Play lee Hockey. No 226 How to Play Second Base No. 154 Field Hockey. No. 227 How to Play Third Base. No. 180 Ring Hockey. No. 228 How to Play Shortstop. No. 224 How to Play the Outileld. Groap VII. Basket Ball r How to Onranire a Base Ball No. 7 Spalding's Official Basket League. [Club. Ball Guide. How to Organiz.e a Base Ball No. 7a Spalding's Official Women' 9 How to Manage a Base Ball Basket Ball Guide. No. Club. No. 193 How to Play Basket BalL 231 How to Train a Base Ball Tram BASKET BALL AUXILIARY How to Captain a Base Ball No 353 Official Collegiate Basket Ball How to Umpire a Game.