Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-05
BY W. J. McBeth.

hGAlCCi4 PlCSAoCAN VI Nh'S
Boston Americans. Here is
one of the most remarkable men OF
baseball history. He is remark
able because he appreciates the
honorable dignity of his position
as few magnates DO. He keeps his
hands entirely free from the play
ing end of the Red Sox and there
by sets an example that would
profit about nine-tenths Of the
club presidents of the major
leagues
There is naturally great tempta-
ton for club owners to trif1e. They
say quite rightly. It's my money,
and I'm going to have my say"
More than three quarters Of the
major league baseball leaders are
hand -cuffed and manacled before
they assume a leadership. Club
presidents and big stockholders are
the real managers. Those credited
with the title are simply decoys.
The one man in the big show per
fectly qualified to offer advice to
his manager is Jimmy McAleer,
president of the pace making Bos-
ton Speed Boys.
Mailer Was Great Manager.
Yet he has never so much as
batted an eyelash in the direction
of Jake Stahl. McAleer went to
Boston as head Of the American
league club an experienced mana
ger. Previous to his long mana
gerial connections with the Browns
and the Senators he had shone for
many years as one of the most re-
markable outfelders of any time.
McAleer knows baseball from every
angle backward
But in knowing that a presi-
dents position is a truly executive
one he holds the whip hand over
his distanced rivals. No one in
the American league is better quail
flied to interfere in the manage
ment of a club, yet McAleer always
keeps in the background and let's
Stahl really manage and reap
" AASNA Nv u lpL llCS Az SuNNC0S.
The Boston Red Sox are the
great baseball surprise of 1912. No
body dreamed that when the cam
paign opened that the Hub had the
ghost of a show with the worlds
champion Athletics, nor did they
under old conditions. John l. Tay-
lor, the retired president, always
4 had "butted in on his managers
He figured to do so again this sea-
son, for he still owns half of the
stock, McAleer wished Jake Stahl
a a first baseman. He had to Of
fer the management to wean J.
Garland from the banking bust
ness in Chicago. Then on the side
Jake demanded chance to buy in
nice block of stock for himself
Looked Like Too Many Cooks.
The complications that that sort
of a combination held in store were
foreseen universally. Every sharp
predicted a civil war in Boston cir
cles that would rip a pennant pos
sobility right up the back No one
could see how the broth could pos
sibly come out wholesome with half
a dozen brawling cooks.
Why didn't the expected storms
break?
James r. McAIeer 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 a rush. Jake is a great
player and a wise head. But it is a
80 to 1 bet that he wouldn't have
delivered the goods under former
Boston conditions. lucky as the
Hub was in drawing a real pitch
ing staff for the first time since
1903.
With McAleer's case so strfk-
ingly before them, doesn't it seem
a wonder that the rest of the
American league magnates do not
get onto themselves? They simply
must NEEDLE or let Ban Johnson
NEEDLE for them. Perhaps McAIeer
would have felt differently himself
had not presidential interference