Horace Partridge Kren Bat

[KrenBats]

In doing some unrelated research, I came across a 1934 Horace Partridge catalog that offered a line of Kren bats. I recently picked up a Haverford 2 Kren bat thinking that is was a college bat (Haverford College is a liberal arts college founded in 1833) but was surprised to see that is was a store model offered by Horace Partridge. I have not found this specific bat offered by any other retailers at that time. To date, I've found that Kren supplied their bats to the following sporting goods stores:

Horace Partridge (Boston, MA)
Winchester Repeating Arms Co. (only 1923)
Johnny Evers Sporting Goods, (Albany, NY)
Alexander Grant & Son's (Syracuse)
Jos. C Zacko Sporting Goods (PA)
Syracuse Collegiate Supplies Company (Syracuse, NY)
Babcock, Hinds and Underwood
Harold's, (Syracuse, NY)
The WM N. Gregorie Co (Buffalo, NY)
Wallace & Cook, Inc. (?)



If anyone is aware of any other Sporting Goods companies that offered Kren bats, I'd love to hear it.

[Leon]

Nice post. I can't help with the Kren bats but have a few Partridge items...