The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-10
-FOUR HOMERS FOR SIAHl
WHEN SPiED BY BOSTON
AFTER DETROIT RS TIP
Rhh-Rahi Jake damned the Pei
let Hard When Killilea
Watched Him
q. GREEN FURNISHED TIP
Detroit Man Can Be Thanked
BY Hubbites For Their
Getting j. Garland
q. GREEN FURNISHED TIP
BY RALPH L. YONKER.

BY RALPH l.. IONhER.
Mr.. Jake Garland Stabilize man
Who has darned the Red SoX win
such effective yarn that they have re-
fused to let anybody except the White
sox have place ahead OF them on the
American league percentage line
basted his way' into the effete HuD
when he poied four homers while beng
watt he'd by Boston on tip furnlshed
biz a Detroiter. Carl NJ. Green.
IN was back in the middle ages OF
American LEAGUE baseball history that
4 Ali this cane to happen "A. w. Kill
lea. then president of the Boston
cfab. was the man who watched j.
C;arllnd do the oillng aud the man
vho signed hin That was in 1903.
THE Sex nresi lent was in Chicago
oae day talking cry casually 20 carr
AZ. Green, a Chicago sport writer
when the subiec1 of conversation DRIFT
ca inexpiicably TO baseball. young
x ca.cher on the varsity team OF the
uniyersity CT Illinois had attracted
esme attention in tn, vest.
Sci hear that George Hun thinks
good deal CT this youngster Stahl,
vxnt;tred X lli'ea. of hand. like that.
sd like to zee him
Rood cried Green. Hes in
town today. lie plays against North
western. Wen 20 out there Having
nothing else to do, being sport
writer, Carl lugs the Boston president
Z OF to the Northwestern campus.
l Rah-Rah Stahl doesn't do a thing but
stig In four home runs and catch
great game Outside OF that he
\ didn't look like much OF ball player.
fAfter "al was over but the shout
inS'' (this will be returned TO the can
merry after the elec.ion). Mr.. Killilea
sasled up 10 Mr.. Stahl and suggested
that Boston was a lovely place TO
ssenl the summer.
fSh!-Sh,
Jake was 8 bonafide amateur playing
college baseball
Well, Boston was a nice place 10
spent the summer, anyway, and would
Jake esover?
Jake didn't sign any contract but he
pIanned 10 spend his vacation with
the Red Sex Just the came.
$50 IT happened that Stahl became
q Bostonian At first he didn't get
chance TO play regularly, He was
kept on the bench, not because he was
poor player. but because there were
older and wiser heads in front or
him.
Stahl soon got a chance at first
however, and made good In 1904 he
Wen. to Washington when that club
was in a turmoil with the league
PRESIDENT Ban Johnson practically
making him manager the year later
He remained two years in Wash
ington and then married the daughter
Of bark Official and took a response.
bic position in Chicago bank where
he remained until this spring.
hStahl. II Is understood. went back
i4.o the game not as q sport but as
bisiness. Controlling some Of the
stock In the Boston club he took up
the managerial reins with the idea OF
driving the club into dividends.
He and the present chief officials OF
the Red Sox, James McAlecr and Rob
eTt Mercy. were close friends in times
past, and they seem to be working 10.
gether II harmony, everybody DuI.
Ing for the interests of the club.
something that the Bosom Americans
have not enjoyed in times past.
Carl Green. now Of the Carl W.
Green Advertising Co, OF this city.
was the secretary of the Boston club
10 1906. He had engineered the sale
OF the club from <illilca TO JOAN I
Taylor and was then given an Office
with the corporation.
At that time Boston had Just come
from a season that resulted I'm a pen.
nant. Cy- Young and Bill Dineen, now
american league umpire. were Bos-
tons big lights in the pitchers box.
Lon Criger. who joined ST. Louis
here during their recent series as bat.
terry coach and scout. was their, "a.
nous .catcher.
A Charles Stahl played with them
then in the outfield, but ne was not a
relative of Jake. Jimmy Collins, Par
ent, Freeman. LachanCe, Ferris. Far
rell Tannehill and other stars were
with them at the time.
Some day somebody in Detroit is
going to hang up the receiver on that
"Jackson-is-a-better Cobb
conversation that Sits over from
cleveland with great regularity.
While Jackson has learned great
deal about the pitchers this year al.
ready that is going TO help him out.
CRIB, at Boston, bangs out a homer
the longest hit of the kind ever made
al Fenway Park in Boston, a double,