The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-04
HOW HE AND STALL OPERATE THE BOSTON CLUB WHICH WILL PROBABLY WIN A PEN NANT-THE LESSON
nx N. !. MACBETH

New York, August 3e-(Speciai.)-Let me Introduce James R. McAleer. president of the Boston Americans. Here is one of the most remarkable men of baseball his- tory He is remarkable because he ap- freciates the honorable dignity of his position as few magnates do. He keeps his hands entirely free from the playing end of the Red Sox and thereby sets an example that would profit about nine tenths of the club presidents of the major leagues
 There Is naturally great temptation for club owners to trife. They say quite rightly, Its my money. and I'm going to have my say" More than three-q uarteri of the major league baseball leaders are manacled before they assume n leader- ship. Club presidents and big stoclhod- CTS are the real managers. Those credited with the title are decoys The one man in the big show perfectly qualified to offer advice to hls manager is Jimmy McAleer, president of the pace-makIng Boston Speed Boys. Yet he has never so much as batted an eyeiash in the diree ton Of Jake Stahl. McAleer went to Bos- ton as head of the American league club an experienced manager. Previous 10 his long managerial connections with the bTOWnS ana Ine SenaIOFb ne naQ SnOne for many years as one of the most re- markable outfielders of all time. McAleer knows baseball from every angle back wards But in knowing that presidents position is a truly executive one he holds the whip hand over his 1lstanced rlvals No one in the American league is better qualified to interfere in the management of a club, yet McAleer al4ays keeps Tn the background and lets Stahl really man. Ef, cess.
 Sox Great Surprise
 The Boston Red Sox are the great base ball surprise of 1912 Nobody dreamed that when the campaign opsned that the Hub had the ghost of show with the worlds champion Athletics, nor did they under old conditions. Johu I, Taylor, the retired president always bad "butted ina on his managers. He figured to do so again this season, for he still owns halt of the stock McAleer wished Jake Stahl Gs a first baseman. He had to offer the management to wean J. Garland from the banking business In Chicago. Then on the side Jake demanded chance 10 buy in nice block of stock for himself.
 The complications that that sort of a combination held in store were foreseen universally Ecvery sharp predicted 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 dozen brawling cooks.
 Why didn't the expected storms break?
 James R. McAleer is the answer He's the buffer that stands between Jake Stadl 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 50 to bet that he wouldn't nave deiivered the goods under former Boston condi- tions. lucky as the Hub was in drawing a real pitching staff for the first tmo since 1905
 With McAleer's case So strikingly be- fore them, doesn't it seem q wonder that the rest of the American leaguo magnates do not get onto themselves? {? They simply must medle or let Ban Johnson meddle for them. Perhaps Me Aleer would have felt differently himself had not presidential interfe1 ence made his long experience ip St Louis cue of gall end wormwood. Exscrience is the great teacher and all club presidents have not the brains or ability to get into -he Kindergarten of that oid school from which McAleer was gratr