Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-19
To JAKE STAHL
GOES CREDIT Of
WINNER
By Bill Bailey.


handing figure in baseball, for
- the reason that he is-Jake
Stahl.
You may say that the Red Sox
VIII represent the American Ieaeue
IN the worlds championship series
because they were lucky. Of course
they were lucky. No team ever
WINS a pennant that doesn't get the
breaks in luck. But it was Jake
otahl and the personality of Jake
Stahi that put the Boston Red Sox
where luck would return them pen-
nant winners.
Let's make the case one of Jake
Stahl VS.. luck.
Wen start in by pointing out
what luck did. The biggest piece
OF luck was the fact that they went
through the American league sched-
ule with scarcely an injury and
with but mighty few men out of
the lineup. Heine Wagner was
injured for a short time and was
out of the game That's luck It's
admitted
Stahl Back of Whole Works.
But where else did the Red Sox
have luck?
In the pitching OF Joe Wood. say
you? Remember that Joe Wood
az not come to the Red Sox this
year. He has been with that Bos-
ron buppb ayaY since fqQS
In the great playing of Iris
Speaker? iris Speaker has been
with the Red Sox for 10 these many
years. l refuse to believe that the
showing of Iris Speaker and of Joe
Wood can be traced to luck.
would trace their great play to
Jake Stahl.
Here is what Stahl did:
Jake Stahl took charge of the
Red SoX at the right moment.
There had been too much John l.
Taylor Now, the fellow who was
formerly the sole owner Of the Bos-
ton team may be one of the grand
est fellows that ever lived, but he
didn't know how to manage a ball
club.
He had a ball club that possessed
wonderful capabilities. But John l.
Taylor didn't know how to realize
on those possibilities.
Taylor Not the Right Sort of Boss.
Jake Stahl did
Here is a concrete example. If
John /. Taylor had continued to
boss the Red Sox they would have
had a new shortstop. Heine Wag-
ner didn't make a hit with TAYLOR.
There was a time when he could
have been traded for and the Bos-
ton club would not have demanded
star of the first realm either.
That was before Jahl Stahl took
charge. The moment he did Wag-
ner was taken from the market
He couldn't be secured by trade
And Wagner has shown that
Stahl had the right bunch. Now,
baseball men will tell YOU that a
team minus a star in the neigh
borhood of second and short has
no chance for the pennant. You
can accept or reject the theory.
But the fact remains that Wagner
has played wonderful baseball I'M
der Stahl. and If the latter became
confidential he probably would in
form you that he couldn't have
landed that pennant with a new
man at the shortstop position
Credit that TO Stahl
Stahl Fills Vacancy.
Then Stahl personally filed one
of the largest vacancies on the Red
SoX lineup. If there was one thing
that the Boston lads of last year
needed IL was first baseman.
Stahl right at the outset con-
WINGED the players that he was the
manager. John l. Taylor might own
considerable stock In the team. but
Jake Stahl was the manager James
McAleer veteran manager and now
president of the team. might SIT
back and tell what me- mad done.
bur Stahl was the man who was
giving ihe orders these days So
Tine players came 60 realize thar
Sinhl Waf not only the manager.
hui N" ALSO wac the iosr. ana that
Woe yellow who pleased Stahi was
ih' i'.n' .Hho "as going t1 get
tho credit
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