The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04
Magnates Who Butt In
Ball Teams Worst Foes
Success of Speed Boys and Senators Due to Fact
That inexperienced Stockholders Keep A1oof.
By w. j. Macbeth

ly manage and reap whatever glory
lies In success.
The Boston Red Sox are the great
baseball surprise OF 1872. Nobody
dreamed. when the campaign opened,
that the Hub had the ghost Of show
with the worlds champion Athletics.
nor did they under old conditions.
John l. Taylor. the retired president
always had "butted in on his lnanag-
ers. He figured TO do SO again this
season, for he still owns half OF the
stock. NfcAleer wished Jake stahl as
a first baseman. He had to offer tha
management to wean Stahl from the
the banking business in Chicago
Then on the side Jake demanded a
chance to buy In a nice block Of stock
for himself.
The complications that sort Of
combination held In store were fore
seen universally. Every sharp pre-
dfcted a civil war in Boston circles
that would rip pennant possibility
right UP the back. No one could see
how the broth could possibly come out
wholesome with half a dozen brawl-
ing cooks.
why didn't the expected storm
break7
James R. McAleer is the answer.
He's the buffer that stands between
Jake Stahl and interference, and
Jake. a. practically inexperienced man
at the business, has made good with
rush. Jake is a great player and
wise head. But II is a so to bet
that he wouldn't have delivered the
goods under former Boston conditions.
lucky as the Hub was In drawing a
real pitching staff for the first time
since 1905.
With aicAleer's case so strikingly
before them. doesn't il seam Won
der that the rest Of the American
league naguates do not get onto
themselves? They simply must med
die or let Ban Johnson naeddle for
them. Perhaps McAleer would have
felt differently himself had not presi-
Dental Interference made his long
experience In ST. Louis one Of gall
and wornwood. Experience Is the
great teacher and all club presidents
have not the brains or ability to set
Into the kindergarten OF that old
school from which McAleer was grad
uated-
Probably few examples might set
the fussy magnates thinking II they
could only spare time from the man
agements of their clubs to listen. Just
once in his life did John McGraw let
John T. Brush manage the Giants.
Mr. Brush got such burn therefrom
that lie has scarcely recovered Brush
insisted upon McGraw pitching
-"Rube" Marauard IN big game In
1905. shortly after the champion s1f,-
600 beauty reported New York not
only lost the game and the pennsnt.
bnt two years service OF the best
southpaw in the country, not TO men
ton the thousands upon thousands or
dollars gate money that hung upon
that blunder.
Connie Mack owns quarter OF the
Athletics and nc is the one big noise
In the inanu cement. Connie has been
successful because ho has no general
staff OF advisers Tho same holds
good Tor FRANK OUdbCc Suo Ficu
Charlie. sPresident Frank Savin did
not like the way Hugh Jennings was
RUNNING n three-timc champion team
He insisted upon passing out advics.
now the wonderful Tiger machine had
disintegrated into joke combination.
They had crepe out for Clark Grif-
nth till he really got chance In
Washington. You SEQ what he haa
already done with team that didn't
figure better than seventh position
In New York and Cincinnati the
Old Foxs hands wero tied. He is the
largest individual stockholder in
Washington
McAiser figures less prominently In
the baseball Ornament this year than
at any time since hs broke into the
profession. But his light liz not hid
den under q bushe. II is doubtful II
he ever heard money tumbiing into
his Golfers one-fourth rs fast. Past
failures are redeemed by present suc-
cess and McAleer win live in history
as one OF the wisest guys In tho ma
tioual pastime. He knows when 70
keep hIs mouth shut