The Detroit times., 1912-10-04
LADY REPORTER
INTERVIEWS MIR.
GARLAND STAHL
Together They Discuss the Ad-
vantages of a College
Education
THEY TALK ABOUT MASH
NOTES PLAYERS RECEIVE
And, of Course. Jake Adds That
He's Going to Win the
Big Series
BY loAH MeeLoNE GIBSON.

BY loAH MeGloNE GIBSON.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. It'd like
to see Mr. Garland Stahl?" | said TO
the hotel clerk.
Whom" he asked, in turn. Yes,
he said whom
The manager of the Boston Red
Sox," l explained.
oh! You mean Jake Stahl,' he
said. Boy. Page Jake stahl"
In a moment yonpg man, who
might have been anything from a
banker 10 a professional man, came
forward His splendid physique i'm
pressed me His straight brows and
firmly set lips give his tanned face a
looK OF determination, but his splen-
did forehead relieved IT OF stubborn.
ness. His clothes were well fitting,
but cut with greater breadth than
the latest, Formulating" style.
And this was Manager Garland
Stahl, the man who had taken the
American league championship away
from the foxy Connie Mack and who
was preparing to seize the worlds
Championship. / had come all the
way TO Philadelphia to see him and
write him up.
"A man whom all men and some
women like" | said TO myself.
Have you dual personality as
we'll as two names" I asked, when
he came within conversational range.
Not that I know Of he answered.
somewhat pnzzled. You see, my
mother named me Garland. after her
family, but the boys seemed to think
II, was too dandified, 80 they hit upon
Jake as the other extreme, and have
been Jake, ever since. AS to the
dial personality, you'll have TO ex.
''You hsys no trouble dropping
from a hhpkeris lie into baseball
II don DROP he replied, quickly
II copsiaerk baseball just. as good
bpstn ess. ns banlrng and much more
heaithful. II Is hard TO make the
average person understand that to be
a professional bali player one must
live the most abstemious of lives
while bankers may, perhaps, be allow
ed little high living occasionally.
~ can take the members Of the
Boston club and compare them TO any
q men in, commercial or professional
life without the slightest fear that
baseball, az a.vocatlon, will suffer by
comparison. Seven out Of every II
men In the business now are coIlese
mes and college. training makes the
best baseball men, as a rule.
Baseball demands brai1y as vel
as brawny men. Every year after the
season. closes return to Chicago and
90 into the bank, and when go south
In the spring for practice. don't dror
one whit of my self-respect."
! You took the Jaw course at Illinois
uhlyersity?" was, my next query.
How did you know" he confessed
'1Oh, you sum mp things like a col
iege man-that's one reason / know.
ANY nan in the business will say
ago grew tired of having our profes
sion viewed as rough neck propost
tion. just as we are disgusted with
mash notes
Then you do get mash notesY"
interrupted.
Stahl hesitated a moment and the
color mounted his face under its tan
Evidently the mash note" confidence
was one he had not intended to make I:
IL just slipped out Then he answer.
cd, mot since I was married. You
see, I'm married now and have fine
little boy
Tell me why you expect to win the
worlds series"
II would rather walt and tell you
how we won It." he said. with a smile
that crinkled up little wrinkles all
about his eyes and made him look
SO good-natured that thought, II bet
that kiddy Just thinks his daddy the
greatest man In the world" But
said, instead
"You know down In your heart you
expect to win that series"
"Of course, We Will win IL. We've
got the team and perhaps you've
noticed we have been playing some
ball since We hit Our stride.'
This big. good-looking, firm mouth
ed leader OF the American league
champions expects TO remain in base
ball for a long time. He Is % and he
told me that the way players take
care OF themselves today insures a
longer lease OF life In big league com
many than waa fha case n fpw wears