Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-16


suffer. Just such methods have won
for baseball the place it now holds
with the American public The play
ers are much to be admired, but the
games the thing.
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To those who have been at all
close to the Boston situation, the
deposition of Jake Stahl as manager
! of the Red Sox came as a matter of
natural course. Stahl, it seems, has
been lin bad" ever since the last
worlds series in which his team beat
the New York Giants. During the
first few games of the series Bos-
ton looked like certain winner and
there was no complaint, but just as
soon as the Giants came along, fight
ing like mad for victory, every
mothers son on the Boston team
and every man, woman and child in
Boston town seemed to throw up the
sponge and call quits. Stahl him
self, who had led the team to vic
tory in the American League race.
didn't appear equal to stem the
slump and the Giants were burying
the Red Sox alive. Then came the
famous Boston yell of "fake:" and
the refusal of the natives to attend
the deciding game of the series. Hap
PLY for the Boston team, and more
so for Boston, the Red Sox won.
Even then Boston wouldn't cheer
up, although some of its noblest
citizens bowed their heads in shame
at their own misgivings and their
own lack of loyalty. Jake Stahl was
blamed for everything then and he
has never been forgiven.
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successor to Stahl has not been
appointed, but the joke of it seems to
be the placing of Bill Carrigan as the
leader of the team. Perhaps Carri-
gan, the way things look, was in on
the downfall of Stahl. Bill was
surely peeved at Jake during the
worlds series, when Stahl took Car
rigan out of the game and put Hick
Cady behind the bat. Immediately
1t is said, a "click" was formed, and
it has been Carrigan against Stahl
ever since. The winner has just been
declared, and it is doubtful if Boston
will be the gamer. Stahl managed
well when he had absolute command,
but just as soon as President McAleer
was allowed to encroach on the man.
agerial premises disorganization be-
gan to creep into the team and a
break somewhere had to come.
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Great leaders come high. John Nc
Graw and Frank Chance are believed
to be drawing down something more
than $4,000 each for their services.
McGraw gets his money for leading
his league and Chance draws his Just
the same, although he is lost in the
American League race. StahPs sal
airy was said to have been $4,000, but
along comes a report that President
McAleer has offered Fielder Jones,
once the hero of the Chicago White
Sox, $4,000 to manage the Boston
club. Jones is hesitating even in the
face of this tremendous price, and it
shows me that professional persons,
as a general rule, would much rather
be a hero than be millionaire.
Chance, with all his money, must be
sick at heart. trailing in the league
race, but McGraw, leading the league
as he is, would no doubt be tickled
with a laborer's wage.
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without much ado, the Giants un-
furled their well-won National
League pennant at the Polo Grounds
yesterday afternoon. That was all
there was to 1.-THE raising of the
flag. Afterward, of course, there was
baseball game, with the rather
usual result of a Giant victory and a
Cincinnati defeat. On exhibition
also was one Christy Mathewson
known much as winner of ball
games and particularly as destroyer
of Cincinnati hopes. President Lynch
was there, too and so was a regi-
ment of Boy Scouts who gave a
clever entertainment. But the crowd
was not large. The pennant-raising
was nothing to the fans. They want
action. For instance. If the Chicago
Cubs or the Pittsburgh Pirates had
been at the Polo Grounds yesterday
there would have been tremendous
gathering. even without the flag
celebration.
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Over at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn
yesterday another celebration was in
order-the official dedication of Eb-
bets Field. The crowd there was
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