The Alaska daily empire., 1915-03-20
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l3 AA N5Ae 4.D George stalllnso Miracle Man.n
 George stallings leader of the ia
 nous Boston Braves affords one O
 the most interesting studies amoni the men who handle baseball clubs He is 3 strange mixture Of man; ellh er intensely hated or deyotedly nd mired- In baseball one man will tel you that he is an bad The nex will assure you he is everything tha Is good
 stallings is 3 southerner owner O. a big cotton plantation near Macon Ga- He is fiery ln temper yet able to exercise his win power to conlro the hot head which, perhaps has beer responsible for the making of enc mics.
 He studied at a Virginia military academy, and there acquired his mlll tary bearing
 Prom the very first of his baseball career Stallings was a success. ir spite of the fact that his hotheaded ness and his aggressive tactics earn ed him dislike of many persons. His enemies were chiefly those he op. posed on the field and, without him know It. stallinga was laying the foundation of his biggest succes in winning the loyalty and devotion of his players.
 It was the love of his men that en. abled him to win the worlds cham. pionship last year for practically the entire Boston team was recruited from men who had played for Stall. lngs on minor league clubs, men he understood and who understood him.
 This love of the players for Stall. ings is odd. for he is 9 driving, hard losing fellow, "raver." No mana. ger raves more than he does and he abuses scolds and drives his men an through the game Then he pats them or the back afterward
 Stauings finally became manager of Detroit where he showed ma. jor league calibre, but long before he got into a feud that came near to wrecklng his baseball career and one which will never end.
 He Quarreled with Ban Johnson. president Of tho league At first it was over umplres, but later Johnson made serious charges against Stall ings, attacked his honesty read him out of the American league and de- clared that he never could come back in the biz leagues.
 stallings bobbed up at Buffalo and became a master at developing and training teams. While Johnson was declaring that he was out of the American league forever, Stanings signed a contract to manage the New York Yankees. and Johnson was en- trely beaten
 Stallings had one sensational year. Then, undermined by his forces in his own club. attacked in every way, he was forced to fight for his base. ball existence. It Is now the famous 5ignalhppIng scandal that, more than anything else. hurt him. His team was caught red-handed using signal levice. Stanings went into the meet. Ing Of Che American league and stat ad that the signalling device was in use for more than a week before he mew it
 The whole thing was whitewashed, put it is evident the Johnson influence vas at work, for in mid-season Chase vas signed to manage the team the year Stallings discovered his, and clash with Chase resulted. 1 lt Che end of the contract Stallings vent back to Buffalo which he owns n part and proceeded to develop a winner out of mass of commonplace material
 Clark Griffith, wl.o had urged Jim iaffney to buy the Boston Club, also rged Gahncy to get stallings as man ger aud he did Two days after i;allings had signed to manage the Braves C. w Murphy tried to get jim to handle the Chicao Cubs of- ering nearly double the salary the Boston team could afford
 What Sailing lid last year is well ! nown. He took a bud assortment f ball players, drove and pushed hem through the season to pen ant and salyed his old wounds by four straights from the pet cam or Ban Johnson
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