El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-30
.SOUTHPAW SHEARS
A LIKELY RECRUIT
Newest Yankee Works f. rly
and Often-Osborn Also
Signs a Contract.

New York, Jan. 3O.-W. P. Osborn !
and G. P. Shears. a couple of Yankee I
recruits. have come across with their
signed contracts. The two colts hail
from Rochester. the three-time cham +
pions of the International league. Like I
Long" George Mcconnell, who signed {
day earlier. the pair helped John
Camel in last seasons STORMY strug-
shears IS an unknown quantity. He
has never stepped in any company
faster than the slowest bush cir
cult He was drafted from the Paris 1
club of the Blue Grass league class
d organization, but in this obscure
company he made an enviable record
Of winning 20 and losing 10 games
for the season. He worked in 81 pas
times altogether, being five times Ia
ken out, and figuring in two drawn
battles The fact that Shears worked
$50 often marks him as a rather bright
possibility. Shears is southpaw- he
should be a big fellow when he HIS
out. He stands feet 8 Z inches now,
though he weighs only 10 pounds. He
is only p years Of age.
Osborn has been up in fast com
pany before. He went to Rochester
from the Philadelphia Nationals last
spring. He is an Outfielder who
throws right handed, but he is a left
handed hitter, and during the past
campaign clouted 29O for the Bron-
fielder. He made but eight errors
during the season in which he had
$50 chances. He does not appear to
be So speedy, however, as he nego-
tiated but is pliers in 1O2 games.
Charlie HemphiH is batting about
500 in the Winter league as manager
of the Atlanta Crackers. He needs only
a few good twirlers to put his team
in the hunt from start to finish and
by WOlvertOn. If WOlvertons veteran
tOssers satisfy him il is likely that
the new manager Of the Hilltoppers
will leave most of the colt beavers in
been promised to Hemphill unless the
Virginia boy proves real phenOm on
his second trial
The Harvard battery candidates
have inaugurated the training season
Of 1912 in the cage at Cambridge
DIT. Frank Sexton has his charges
working with the chest weights and
medicine ball in order to tone them
down for the real grind, which will
begin early in February.
Joe. O'Brien. secretary of the Giants.
believes that the Cubs will be just
about as formidable as of yore in
the prospective campaign Joe watched
Chicago very closely last season. He
says that Johnny Evers was never bet
ter Gin his life than during the last
month of the 1911 race. O'Brien fig
ures Evers about half an infield. es-
pecialIy if Frank Chance is able to
get into half the games.
A couple more Phinies have signed
Fred Beck. substitute Outfielder, and
Ben Hunt. a pitcher from Sacramento
Cal, forwarded signed contracts to
Horace FOgel.
The baseball season Of 1912 has
opened on the Pacific coast at Berke-
ley. The University of California
stacks up against a semi-pro- team
from san Francisco
Earl Pickering. former captain of
the University of Minnesota baseball
nine, has signed to pitch for Terre
Haute, of the Central league. Pick
ering is the football star who was
protested by Wisconsin last fail on
charges Of professionalism. He is al
legged to have played baseball under an
alias in the Central league in 1911