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Show I RED SOX PLAYERS LOOK GOOD TO HIM "A team which won the world's championship looks good enough to start another season with," said James R McAleer. president of the world's champion baseball club referred re-ferred to. and who got bacK to Boston Bos-ton yesterday to begin making everything every-thing ready for another campaign after af-ter championship gold and clory Mr McAleer was bHng Interviewed at the Copley Souare hotel, where Mrs. McAleer and he will live this v. Inter. The proposition laid down by the boss of the Red Sox puts the triple kibosh upon a large number of rumors ru-mors that have been floating up and down the wind during his absence McAleer did verify the report, however, how-ever, that Larry Pape will not pitch for Boston In 19)3. When I.ajole's name was brought up. McAleer's attitude at-titude simply became that of a club owner who could not, In fairness, to another club owner, say or do, anything which mlcht make the lat-i ter's task more difficult in bringing, a star player to a contract. "Any club would be Rlad to havei Lajole," said McAleer briefly. Denle6 Row The many stories of a free fight ' among the Red Sox players during the big series, which have done duty) as gossip among the faithful at the! time alleged and during the winter, win-ter, were bandied by McAleer with as much freedom a? the bnll players were said to have used wnen they v. ere endeavoring to massacre one another. "Not one word of trntn in it, and if there was I would know it I am not so far away from the players as to be in Ignorance of such an occur rence II it took place. Guess there would be some members or the team, anyway, who would know me tor what I am, a ball player still at heart, and who would know that my ono and only thought would be to fix things up if there had been a fight pulled off. Guess somebody would have tipped me No, slree! I Investigated Inves-tigated Just as soon as I heard this yum, and I could not find that there had been even a cross word " From this emphatic statement, McAleer Mc-Aleer found It easy to pass on to another, 'bat Buck fTBrlen will ho down there at Hot Springs in March with the others. Plenty of P.aycrs. The Fenway park chieftain does not believe, and said that he did not be- lieve. In economy in baseball. He j does not think, for example, that four sood catchers are too many for a club to marry, assuming that club to consider Itself as having a chance to win a championship. He said that he would like to huve extra men for every position on the field, so as to he absolutely rortlfied in case of any injury. The Red Sox now have 15 pitchers, pitch-ers, and McAleer said recklessly that if the league rules permitted him to 3o so he would gladly carry 15 good pitchera all through the 'seasin. "Not, though, that I can hope to find enough real good ones In this bunch of recruits to give me 15 or 10 or even s of such If I should find two I would think a miracle had happened, and I shall be perfectly perfect-ly satisfied to find one. "It is this way. Say we have put out $7000 or $8000 for seven or eight young pitchers. Well, we have to take B chance, giving our scouts credit cred-it for beinp worth while as scouts 1 And If we do land a real good pitch-1 er In this wny we have certainly , doubled our money. If wo find one once In two seasons we arc not fall-ling fall-ling behind the game. No; economy Ms pretty poor gOBBlp when you have a club that has a chance to linisli 1 first." |