El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-04

He rumor that Ray Fisher, star
pitcher of the New York Yankees,
l. would jump to the Feds has been
effectively knocked in the head. Dur
ing the past week Fisher stated that he
had signed a contract with the Yankees
for the next three years. Although
there is nothing authentic to go on
it is believed that the contract calls Tor
s19.5O0. making a little more than $4,000
a year. The signing OF TINS contract
will relieve manager wild Bill Dono-
van of considerable worry. Donovan
will have a hard enough task as u IS
to develop a winning team in New
York. but with Fisher gone his job OF
building up a team would be great
deal harder. The signing Of FISHER
reduces the number of hOldouts on the
New York Americans to four The only
men upon whom the Yankees have
claim who have not signed are Marty
McHale, pitcher; Leonard Ck1ng) Cole,
pitcher: Peter Daley, outfielder, and
Angelo AragOn, outfielder.
Donovan is going to have a mighty
hard Job building up respectable team
this year unless he greatly improves
upon the material now III hand But
If wild Bill" fails to produce win
ming team. it will certainly be no Iault
of his scout, Joe Kelly Kelly is going
over all leagues with a fine tooth comb,
and in the spring he intends to visit
many of the training camps and look
over the material which the different
| teams have. Then II any man who
, looks promising to him is turned loose,
the Yankees will grab him up. owing
to the player limit all of the teams Will
be compelled to drop large number
Of recruits early in the year, and Dono-
| van figures that at this time ne can
/ pick up some promising material
! through his scout.
Donovan, however, viii not wait until
! other teams have turned players loose
| before he tries to strengthen the
{ Yanks. Even now negotiations are un-
I der way between the Yankees and the
! los Angeles Pacific Coast league club
! whereby the Yanks will give another
/ tryout to Harry Wolter the former
/ Yankee outfielder. The Yankees re
| leased Wolter q season or two ago, but
/ such thrilling accounts of Wolter's
work i'm fielding and batting during
/ the 1914 season in the Pacific Coast
( league were sent out from there that
Donovan decided to try VOTERS out
/ again
The Salt Lake club. which viii be in
| the Pacific Coast league. will have at
least one star pitcher this year. Man
/ ager Blanl1enshlp, who will handle the
( salt Lake club during the season OF
/ 1915 has wired from Cincinnati that
he has finally secured Earl Yingling
the Cincinnati pitcher who, while with
BROOKLYN in 1918, led the National
league in batting. If Yingling needed
any further recommendation, the tact
that he has been turned loose by Gin
I cinnati should brand him as a star
Blankenship has also completed ar
! rangements whereby he will secure
pitcher Louis Leroy, the Indian who
hurled for the Indianapolis American
| association team during the past sea
D NH five wears
prior to that twirled for the st. Pau
club in the same league.
X
Negotiations are now under way fol
the sale of the Chicago Cubs, accord
ing to Captain Tillinghast Huston, who
is one of the new owners OF the New
York Yankees. While attending the
suit OF the Feds against organized
| baseball in Chicago recently, Cap Hus-
! ton told friends there he had positive
information to that effect Severa
weeks ago it was asserted that chi
| cago syndicate desired to obtain the
! holdings OF the club. One of the men
! whose name was connected with the
/ deal absolutely denied having anything
to do with any attempt to obtain the
! holdings of the Cubs or of any other
| club Charles P. Taft, the principal
/ stakeholder in the club, refused to
| either confirm or deny the story.
From a baseball source it has been
/ learned that a group of Chicago men
/ offered Taft 100000 for the club. Taft
however stated he would not sell out
| for less than $3.50, 600. The difference
between what they offered and what
Taft asked was so great that the Chi
( cago men Immediately dropped the
matter temporarily, at least.
Three new major leagues, at least
technical major leagues. may greet the
fans at the opening of the 1915 season.
This is the outlook since the draft rule
has been removed from the American
association. Letting down the bars for
! the American Association win MOO" tH'