PRESTO
May 15. 1920.
Q R S BASEBALL NINE
LOSE GAME WITH RYERSON
15
IMPERIAL ROLLS IN NEW ORLEANS
8 to 5 Was the Score, But the Team Expects to
Improve.
Forty-six teams opened the season in the Indus-
trial Baseball League Saturday, playing in the Chi-
cago city parks. Thousands of fans from plants
represented attended. The games of the league are
divided into zones and at the close of the regular
season the zone champions will play a post-season
series to decide the industrial championship of the
city.
T. J. Ryerson & Sons defeated the Q R S Com-
pany, 8 to 5, at Kedzie avenue ,,>and Fifty-thira
street, before an enthusiastic crowd of 1,000.- The
first ball was pitched by T. H. Spence of The Q R S
Company with T. A. Doran of Jos. Ryerson Com-
pany on the receiving end.
On Saturday, May 15, the Q R S Company will
play the Morris & Co. team at Sherman Park, 52nd
street and Loomis, oil Diamond No. 2.
0UT=0F=T0WN DEALERS
ENCOUNTERED IN CHICAGO
Retail Piano Men, Eager for Uprights, Grands and
Players, Enliven Things in Offices.
L. E. Wiswell of the West Music Company, Jol-
iet, 111., was in Chicago on Wednesday of this week
and talked to a Presto representative. He said con-
ditions were keeping up well at Joliet, although,
due to the strike situation affecting transportation
of freight, the Rock Island road had laid off some
men and the American Refractories Company had
laid off some at its brickyards.
Edmund Gram, the Milwaukee piano manufac-
turer and dealer, was in Chicago on Tuesday of this
week. Mr. Gram says that business is slacking up
a little in Milwaukee.
F. Anderson, of Garrett, Kans., was in Chicago on
Monday of this week seeking pianos and player-
pianos with which to replenish his stock.
Barney Fallette, piano dealer of Coal City, 111.,
was in Chicago on Monday of this week and ordered
more instruments.
A. D. McLean, piano dealer of Painesville, Ohio,
was in Chicago last week and ordered instruments
for his trade.
F. G. Meade, piano merchant of Carlyle, 111., was
in Chicago last week ordering new supplies of in-
struments.
Imperial player rolls appear to be an inspiring
subject to the window trimming genius of Ernest
L. Staples, manager of the player roll department
of Philip W T erlein, Ltd., at New Orleans. The ac-
companying reproduction shows a display that
attracted much attention from the passing crowds
along Canal street, and resulted in a large volume
of Imperial player roll sales. This display is one
of an unusually clever series of trims which Mr.
Staples has used in featuring the Imperial product
In this connection we might point out for the
benefit of other stores that this display "went over"
because it is built around one dominant idea—the
big Imperial trade-mark suspended in the center,
which forcefully conveyed to the public the main
thought "for the supreme enjoyment of your player
piano."
This arrested attention and the spectator's eye
then naturally took in the subsidiary ideas, and the
featuring of specific Imperial rolls, "Peggy, 1
"Cookie," and "Taxi" also registered strongly with
the dear public.
25 YEARS IN ONE FIELD.
In his field, Mr. Lister is said to know everybody by
his or her first name, and their relations and their
complete history. He is also said to know more
secrets than any man in Iowa. Better still, Mr. Lis-
ter declares that business is good in his part of the
state.
Len J. Lister, of Ida Grove, Iowa, has just re-
turned from a four months' trip to Miami, Florida.
He is starting on his twenty-fifth year as an expert
tuner and salesman in one field—in northwest Iowa.
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