How to play base ball . cents. No. 217-Ofncial Athletic Al-manac Compiled by J. E. Sullivan, Chief Depart-ment Physical Culture, Louisiana PurchaseExposition, and Director Olympic Games,1904. The only annual publication nowissued that contains a complete list ofamateur best-on-records; complete inter-collegiate records; complete English re-cords from 1866; swimming records; inter-scholastic records: Irish, Scotch and Australasian records; reports ofleading athletic meets; skating records; important athletic events andnumerous photos of individual athletes and leading athletic teams Thisyears i


How to play base ball . cents. No. 217-Ofncial Athletic Al-manac Compiled by J. E. Sullivan, Chief Depart-ment Physical Culture, Louisiana PurchaseExposition, and Director Olympic Games,1904. The only annual publication nowissued that contains a complete list ofamateur best-on-records; complete inter-collegiate records; complete English re-cords from 1866; swimming records; inter-scholastic records: Irish, Scotch and Australasian records; reports ofleading athletic meets; skating records; important athletic events andnumerous photos of individual athletes and leading athletic teams Thisyears issue is a special Olympic Games number and contains the only fullaccount of the Olympic Games of 1904, and a review of AnthropologicalDays at the Worlds Fair stadium, being the first time on record whereathletic events were contested in which savages were the exclusive par-ticipants, thus forming the first authoritative basis for a comparisonbetween the abilities of the civilized athlete and the savage. Price 10 A^ f> \905 Hockey and Ice Polo Written by the most famous player in Canada, A. Farrell, of theShamrock hockey team of Montreal. It contains a complete descriptionof the game, its origin, points of a good player, and an instructive ar-ticle on how (?ame is played, with diagrams and official rules. Illus-trated with pictures of leading teams. Price 10 cents. No. 219-Basetage Book Ball Percen- To supply a demand for a book whichwould show the percentage of clubs with-out recourse to the arduous work of figur-ing, the publishers of Spaldings AthleticLibrary have had Mr. John B. Foster,Sporting Editor of the New York EveningTelegram, compile a book which answersevery requirement, and which has met with the greatest praise for its accuracy and simplicity. No follower of the game can afford to be without it. Price 10 cents.


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