Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-18

awaited with interest as Ban is 60
ing to be placed in a very ticklish
position.
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Mr. johnson will be called upon to
decide a momentous question, which
has Good Friend Frank Farrell, of
New York, and Good Friend Charley
Comiskey of Chicago. as contestants.
This is some state of chaos to put
man like Johnson in, yet it is dollars
to doughnuts that Ban pats both men
on the back after it is all over and
tells them to go home and be good
boys. The case in point has to do
with the trade of Hal Chase for
Zeider and Borton, and brings into
baseball the rather personal propo-
sition that Zeider has an enormous
bunion that interferes with his work
on the diamond. Those who have
bunions will sympathize with Zeider,
but Frank Chance, of the Yankees,
who is making the complaint, doesn't
feel that way about 1t. A bunion,
heaven knows, is sufficient misery
for any man, but when it so enters
professional light it is hard lines in
deed The plain facts are that
Messrs. Farrell and Chance refuse
to believe they have been given a
Inn n
seek justice in an appeal to Johnson.
The Chicago magnates say that
trade is a trade, and Comiskey de-
clares he will not bulge an inch.
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Another matter that Johnson is in
terested in is the stir-up in the Bos-
ton Red Sox club. The deposing of
Jake Stahl is looked upon in baseball
circles as a sort of mean trick and
there is sure to be an effort made to
appease the rawlings of the Boston
fans. Stahl, no one can deny gave
Boston an American League cham
pionship team and worlds cham
pionship team, and still the very
next year he finds himself out of
job-out in the cold. There are rea-
sons good and plenty, it is said, for
the team, but the men higher up
will have to produce the goods in
plain sight in order to have their
stories accepted. Stahl managed
all for ha Eo11 AsYf mi
Jimmy McAleer, a brainy and wise
baseball man, as president of the club,
there has always been more or less
interference from the business office.
When the blow came, it was an
nounced that Stahl had quit the job.
but it developed later that Jake was
really forced out. So there will have
to be considerable explaining to ap-
pease the fans and to put the club
in a favorable light in Bostontown.
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Once upon a time the Boston
Americans were the whole show in
would draw hardly corporal's guard,
win or lose, and the Red Sox always
fourished, no matter how they
stood. That condition has existed for
years and it was more in evidence
last year than ever. But the blow
finally came in the worlds series,
when the American League club
failed to provide for the Royal Root
ers' at the extra inning play-off
game Then, too, Boston didn't like
the idea of the series lasting eight
games, when it looked-to them-as
If the Red Sox should have romped
off with the championship. Boston
eventually won, but Boston fans had
gone on record as declaring the series
q fake and they wouldn't come out
for the final game nohow.
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All this fuss was surely not due
to any part that Stahl had played
in the series, and if changes were in
order in the Boston club, in the bust
ness end. it would seem, would be
the proper place to make them.
Stahls lin bad" charges, it appears,
date from the day he took Bill Carri-
gan out of the game and put Cady
behind the bat. Also, it Is said,
Stahl might have prevented the fight
at the Polo Grounds between Joe