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Show M'ALEER IS IDEAL CLUB PRESIDENT New York, Aug. 24. James R. Mc-Aleer, Mc-Aleer, president of the Boston Americans, Amer-icans, Is ono of the most remarkable men of baseball history He is remarkable re-markable because he appreciates, the honorable dignity of his position as few magnates do. Ho keeps his hands entirely free from the playing field -end of the Red Sox and thereby sets J an examplo that would profit about nine-tenths of tho club presidents of tho major leagues. There la naturally natural-ly great temptation for club owners to trifle. They say quite rightly, "It's my money, and I'm going to have my way." More than three-quarters of the major leaguo baseball leaders are handcuffed and manacled before they assume a leadership. Club presidents and big stockholders are tho real managers. Those credited with tho title aro simply decoys. The one man In tho big show perfectly qualified to offer advice to his manager is Jimmy McAleer prosldent of tho pace-making Boston Speed Boys. Yet he has never so much as batted an eyelash in the direction of Jake Stahl. McAleer went to Boston as head of the American Ameri-can leaguo club an oxporlenced mana-ger. mana-ger. Previous to his long managerial connections with the Browns and the Senators, he had shone for many years as one of tho most remarkable outfielders of any time. McAleer knows baseball from every anglo backward. But In knowing that a president's position ie truly an executive exec-utive one, he holds the whip hand over his distanced rivals No one In the American league Is better qualified quali-fied to interfere in tho management ' of the club, yet McAleer always keeps in the background and lets Stahl really real-ly manage and reap whatever glory lies in succors, Baseball Surprises. Tho Boston Red Sox are the great baseball surprises of 1912. Nobodv dreamed when the campaign opened that tho Hub had the ghost of a show Uth tho world's championship Ath- letics, nor did they under old condl- m tions. John I .Taylor, t' o retired Jj president, always had "butted in" on JJ his malingers. He figured to do so fj again this Benson, for ho still owns If half of the stock. McAleer wished Jake Stahl as a first baseman. He n had to offer the management to J. U Garland from tho banking business in Chicago. Then on the side Jake de- 1J manded a chance to buy in a nico m block of stock for himself. -a The complications that that sort of j a combination held In store were fore- J seen universally. Every sbarp pre- 1 dieted a civil war In Boston circles 1 that would rip a pennant possibility 1 up the back. No one could see how 11 the broth could possibly come out M wholesome with half a dozen brawling m cooks. M Why didn't tho expected storm M break? W James R. McAleer is the answer. lj He's tile buffor that stands between lake Stahl and Interference, and Jak a practically Inexperienced man at the business, has made good with a rush. Jake Ib a great player and wise head. But It Is a 50 to 1 shot that he would j not have delivered tho goods under tho former Boston conditions, ludky as the Hub was In drawing a real j pitching staff for tho firGt time since i 1905. ' . With McAleer's case so strikingly ' before them, doesn't It seem a won- i dor that the rest of tho American j league magnates do not get onto themselves? They simply must meil- die or let Ban Johnson meddle for j them. j |