The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-21
JAKE STALL. AND HIS RED SOX, PROVE TO BE
 THE SENSATION OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE

New York. July 9.--Among the many sensations commanding special attention in this young season of remarkable sur prises might be mentioned the Boston Red Sox. In fact, 1t would rot be amiss to shout and rave about the Speed Boys and their Born Manager" Jake Stahl.
 For whether he deserves it or not !. Garland Stahl is today about the biggest man in the worship of Hub fandom since Jimmy Collins of 1903 and 1904 Jake has made good: that's all that Boston or any other city demands. Stahl has made good where more experienced managers failed
 Maybe Jake was lucky TAere are in- stances on record, you know. where clubs have made feputations for managers. Huglie Jennings stumbled into big league fame in 190l When he took charge of the Tigers that great machine had already been moulded. Hugh simply had to keep it in llarinonious working order to land three consecutive pennants,. Frank Sellee mobilized tfle wonderfuls Cub machine from which Frank Chance reaped the golden shelSels and fame. Yet no one in sinuates that either Jennings or Chance is not good manager. What these men would ever have amounted to had they been foreed to huild up d tail-ender, how ever, is probematic.
 Stahls club is just as 1t was when Jake took hold of it with the exception of Jake. There is no denying the fact that this big fellow has proved a wonderful asset to the Speed Boys. Neither Jimmy Callahan nor Mike Donlin has anything on the Born Manager" as comet back" Jake hasn't set the league afire as a hitter, but he sure has peppered up the whole works and got nOSsihla af out of the array.
 All of which Is most remarkable in the light of existing conditions. It is quite true that the Red Sox form one of the fastest collections in the major leagues. But 1t is also true that Stahl as mana ger has to maintain harmony not only in the ranks, but in the bosoms of the stock holders as well
 Never was man in more trying position than Jake. He Is one of the minority stockholders The club president is Jimmy McAleer, an autocratic sort of fellow when his interests are at stake. Me Aleer was one of the most dismal man agerial failures imaginable with the St. Louis Browns and Washington Nationals but you couldn't convince hlm of that fact. Naturally, he believes he was the abused child of cireumstapcc. The fact that McAleer is content ? to sit back quietly as an American league magnate is certainly a tribute to the diplomacy of Stahl.
 ,Stahl Established Harmony In Jake, Boston has found the long missing factor to establish harmony be- tween club and cratic management. John l. Taylor, who during the last eight years had given away worlds championship | aggregation, still owns 50 per cent of the stock He always has been and always will q a n as 1,a fY, tains such a heavy interest. Outside in- reference with Stahl-either on the part of Taylor or McAleer-is the greatest danger which the new manager may ex- peot to confront
 Boston has not cinched the pennant by any means. Stahls Red Sox may enjoy a fine enough lead for this time, but the great fight is before them. IL looks very much as if we will see one of those hair