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Sell was a Sorting goods
manufacturing company, located at 115 Schroyer Ave.
SW, in Canton Ohio. Thomas Wilson
bought out several companies when he
took over the operations at
Ashland Mfg in 1914. Chicago
Sporting Goods was one, for the
manufacture of uniforms, and Sell
Sporting Goods was another for the
manufacture of gloves and balls. Sell
Sporting Goods was an outgrowth of Sell Horse
Goods Co., owned by William Sell.
Thomas Wilson did not immediately move
the Canton plant to Chicago but used it
in Canton as a subsidiary until 1919.
The Sell Horse Goods Company manufactured leather goods such as horse
boots, and harnesses. The Sell Sporting
goods owned by W.E. Sell also worked
with leather, producing baseball goods,
such as baseball shoes, masks,
protectors and gloves. William Sell was
also an inventor who held
a
patent of
an innovative wrist strap found
on some early Wilson baseball mitts.
Their
line of baseball goods were sold at stores
like the Altoona Leather Store in
Pennsylvania, or A.L. Foster Co.
clothiers, hatters, & men's furnishers in
Connecticut.
The A.L. Foster Co. ad reads: BASEBALL GLOVES, MASKS and
PROTECTORS Made by THE SELL SPORTING
GOODS COMPANY OF CANTON, OHIO.
The Strongest Hardest-Wearing Line of Baseball Goods Manufactured Today.
The one real test of baseball goods is
actual use on the diamond. A glove or
mitt may look fine and feel fine but
give it several months of contact with
hot liners driven with rifle-bullet
speed by a Cobb, a Jackson, a Daubert,
a Speaker, a Merkle, a Campbell, or a
Kauff and then if that glove or mitt
looks fine and feels fine the quality
is there. The every-day grind of big
league service brings out in only a few
short weeks, flaws in baseball goods
which under ordinary conditions would
not show for many months.
And in view of this fact we offer the opinions of such major league stars
as Hans Wagner, George Gibson, Hank
Gowdy, Hal Chase, Bennie Kauff, .
Charlie Deal, Vincent Campbell, Forrest
Cady, Bill Rariden, C. W. Walker, Tom
Clarke and many others just as well
known as indisputable evidence of the
sterling quality of Sell Baseball
Goods. Your money will go farther in
Sell Sporting Goods than in any other
line.
Wholesale prices for Boys Gloves were .39¢ to $1.98 Reg. prices to $2,50
Wholesale Prices for Men Gloves were $1.48 to $7.50 Reg. prices to $10.00
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