Vintage Bacharach-Rasin Lacrosse Gloves 1940s

Bacharach-Rasin was originally started by David Nathan Bacharach and Max Rasin. Bacharach would soon buy out Max, but kept the name Bacharach-Rasin, as it was already a established name at that point.

Bacharach-Rasin moved into a store front on 14 N. Howard Street in Baltimore about 1914. Selling a variety of products. Hunting, fishing, camping, football, baseball etc.

In the early 1920s David Bacharach went on a hunting trip to Canada. It was on this trip when he came in contact with the Iroquois people on Cornwall Island, known as “The Five Nations” playing Lacrosse. Bacharach signed a contract with the Five Nations Tribe to be the sole distributor of their hand-made lacrosse sticks in the United States. David saw a business opportunity to grow a sport no one had begun to grow.

Bacharach started pitching the game to USA high schools telling them that they could use their football fields being unused in the spring and football equipment to outfit the players to start. Then all they needed was sticks and he had the sticks.

This went on and the game grew. Bacharach then started producing lacrosse gloves, just as they did everything else. Bacharach Rasin Sporting Goods had grown to where they produced all of their own gear. Lacrosse, football, baseball, hunting, fishing, camping, you name it, they made it.

Gaylord Rudolf (Peck) Auer, who started at the store as a stock-boy in 1919, was now the most senior salesman for the store, and when Bacharach died in 1946, his will left part of the store to Auer, and also his son Albert and a gent name Robert Lee. Auer would eventually buy out the other 2 and run the store himself. In 1949 an equipment pool was organized, and it was administered by Auer and in 1955 he cooperated with the USILA and the USLCA in promoting a loan kit of equipment. Both of these projects did much to help start lacrosse in schools and colleges.

Auer is an honorary Iroquois Indian Chief, known as Chief Tioneka. Granted to him in 1935, as he was important contributor to Cornwall Island’s economy and a fair businessman to them

Peck Auer spent his life dedicated to the game of lacrosse, and he worked to improve lacrosse equipment to keep the game safe.

In 1968, Gaylord "Peck" Auer was elected to the Lacrosse Hall of Fame for promoting the game and improving its equipment.