October 1, 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



The Obituary Record. 



A. 6. SPALDING. 

 While Albert G. Spalding, who died September 9 at his home 

 in Point Loma, Southern California, after a brief illness of ten 

 days, had been a rubber manufacturer for many years, he had 

 been prominent in many other relations and probably was most 

 widely known through his association with athletics in this coun- 

 try, and especially through his connection with the "national 

 game" of baseball, lie was a man of marked versatility and 

 was eminently suc- 

 cessful, in his younger 

 days in sports, and in 

 his maturer years in 

 mercantile and man- 

 ufacturing pursuits, 

 while he barely 

 missed conspicuous 

 success in politics. 



Mr. Spalding was 

 liorn in Byron. lUi- 

 nois, September 2, 

 1850. He came of 

 excellent American 

 ineage, his first an- 

 cestor in this country 

 lieing Edward Spald- 

 uig, who settled 

 ill Massachusetts in 

 1630. 



Young Spalding 

 left school at the age 

 of 15 to become a 

 grocer's clerk at a 

 salary of $5 per week. 

 His remarkable skill 

 in the game of baseball, then beginning to gain wide popularity 

 through the country, soon weaned him away, however, from 

 weighing sugar and delivering sacks of flour. He held the posi- 

 tion of pitcher on several local nines, though still giving the 

 major part of his time to more serious mercantile afifairs. But in 

 1871 he was offered the position of pitcher on the Boston "Red 

 Stockings"— the most famous ball team of its day— and he pitched 

 that team to a championship four years in succession ; in 76 go- 

 ing to the Chicago National team, which in turn became the 

 champion nine because of his extraordinary work in the box. 

 He remained with the Chicago club only two years, when he 

 retired as an active player, though he remained as manager and 

 secretary. 



In the meantime, in 76. with his brother, James W. Spalding, 

 he founded the house of A. G. Spalding & Bro., a firm that grew 

 with great rapidity, establishing branches in all the chief cit'es 

 of the United States and in Europe and becoming famous all 

 over the world. In connection with the distributing business car- 

 ried on by this firm a factory was started a number of years 

 ago at Chicopee, Massachusetts, for the manufacture of base- 

 balls, tennis balls and, later, of golf balls. 



Mr. Spalding, notwithstanding his large mercantile interests, 

 could not entirely divorce himself from the national game. In 

 1881 he became president of the Chicago National Club and 

 seven years later, carrying out a plan which he had long enter- 

 tained in his mind, he took the Chicago team and another, called 

 the "All-Americans," on a tour around the world. As baseball 

 was an unknown game to many of the people in Europe and 

 farther cast, this tour of the two famous .\merican nines created 



A. G. Sp.\lding. 



a decided sensation. He retired from active baseball manage- 

 ment in 1891. 



In 1899 Mr. Spalding brought aliout the merger of 150 bicycle 

 manufacturing companies into the American Bicycle Co., of 

 which he was the first president. In 1900 he became a resident 

 of Point Loma. California, and a member of the Theosophical 

 colony of that place. In 1910, when the first election was held 

 in California under the primary law which had just been passed, 

 he was persuaded by his friends to enter the contest for United 

 States senator. He carried 75 out of 130 legislative districts, 

 but, notwithstandmg that fact, the legislature declared for an- 

 other candidate. 



Mr. Spalding was married twice, his first wife being Miss 

 Sarah J. Keith, of Campello, Massachusetts, who died in 1899. 

 His second wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Churchill Mayer, of Point 

 Loma, who with two sons, Albert G. Spalding, Jr., and Keith 

 Spalding, and an adopted son, Durand Churchill, survives him. 



MILTON T. BAILEY. 



Milton T. Bailey, for the last 28 years connected with the 

 Apsley Rubber Co. and for a number of years past its secre- 

 tary, died September 11 at the Massachusetts General Hos- 

 pital, Boston, after an illness of several weeks. 



Mr. Bailey left his home in Hudson August 3 to go to his 

 summer home in West Southport, Maine. He was taken ill 

 immediately on reaching that place. For two weeks his con- 

 dition was consid- 

 ered very serious, 

 but during the third 

 week he seemed to 

 improve and on Sep- 

 tember 9 started for 

 home. The trip 

 from the Maine 

 coast to Boston 

 proved to be excep- 

 tionally rough and 

 Mr. Bailey suffered 

 several heart attacks. 

 On reaching Boston 

 he was taken to the 

 hospital, where he 



ing. 



Mr. Bailey was 

 born in Milan, Ohio, 

 May 8, 1843. He 

 went to school in 

 Pennsylvania and 

 though still under 

 age at the time of 

 the Civil War en- 

 listed as a sergeant with tlie 143rd Pennsylvania Infantry, 

 lie saw the hardest imaginable service, going through the 

 horrors of both Libby and Andersonville prisons. At the 

 conclusion of the war he became a bookkeeper for William 

 Apsley in Pennsylvania and in '87 transferred his services to 

 the Apsley Rubber Co.. Hudson, Massachusetts, first being a 

 bookkeeper, later financial manager, and during the last ten 

 or twelve years of his life, the secretary of that corporation. 



He was a man of the greatest conscientiousness and was 

 highly regarded by all his associates. In addition to his busi- 

 ness duties, which were engrossing, he found time for many 

 local interests. He was a member of the G. .S. R., of the Odd 



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