The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
Success Comes To McAleer After Years Of Failure In
 The Great National Game
Fly WALTER MARCHAND

Copyright, 1912, by Publishers Press) New York, September With only q month of play left in the big leagues it seems now fairly certain that the post-season games will be played be- tween the New York Nationals and Boston Americans. For the second time in succession the east has shown its superiority over the west In the na- tional game.
 The worlds championship series this year should be every whit as close and exciting as 1t was last year. Take the two teams, man for man, and 1t would be hard for an unprejudiced student to say with conviction, This Is the best team"
 As was last years championship, the ono just ahead of us is likely to be decided with the stick That team which has its eye on the ball, which can land it safely when hits are need l ed, Is likely to come out victor in the race. Until the winning game is played it is a matter of locality to pick the team. Boston and Chicago may be depended upon to insist that the l Red Sox are to be the winners Boston from local pride. Chicago from hatred to New York. In this city nothing but the Giants are In right now.
 | If Iris Speaker or some other Hub ite should develop the Baker habit, the games arc likely to follow the attack {; if on the other hand Larry Doyle or Chief Meyers should be in good form. the worlds pennant is likely to fly from the Polo grounds in 1913. As for my opinion. l want to say that l gave up the attempt to proph- esy as to the results of baseball games long while ago. There is nothing so uncertain unless 1t be politics. | It was q good thing that Walter Johnson lost his next start after that l Westinghouse Louis game which broke his winning streak, or we should i have had an intending argument as to | whether or not he lost the first game. Now it makes no difference and the Controversy amounts to nothing. l Under the rules, and in fairness, the 1 St. Louis game should go against John son. Frank Farrell, l think, sizes up
 the merits of the case when he says: Ban Johnson has made an honest and perfectly just rnllng. If Washing l ton had beaten st. Louis in the second 1 game last Monday the friends of Wal
 ter Johnson would have claimed vic-
 tory for him, his seventeenth straight. But according to those who say that | Ban Johnson was In error. that would
 have been unfair to Pitcher Hughes who left the box with two men on | bases and one out
 | Johnson was called upon to keep ] the Browns from scoring any more
 runs. He failed in the attempt. The | game was tie when Hughes went out. so that it was neither won nor lost, and
 Johnson started in as if 1t had been
 the first inning. Hughes couldn't win
 the game and he was prevented from | losing 1t when Griffith took him out.
 Ban Johnson's ruling Is simply com 1 mon sense and proves that the Amer ican league doesn't want records that are undeseryed."
 | The success of the Boston Red Sox this year means much to James McAleer and Robert McRoy, who purchased half in- terest in the club last year McAleer once a star centerfielder when a member of the Clevelands, under Pat Tebeau, has been q loyal American league man from 1 the time that Ban Johnson and Charley | Comiskey started to organize the cir cult. As manager of the St. Louis Browns | McAleer made d strong bid for the pen | nant one year, but soon accidents to play CTS and other bits of hard luck made his road rocky one.
 | So he gladly consented to q deal that placed him in charge of the Washing