Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
CIUI
COLLINS PLEASED WITH
 DANNY MURPHY'S WORK
As Manager of New Haven Ball CluE Murphy Had Pocr Start But Hat Fine Prospects for 1917.

Although Manager Danny Murphy did great work this season building a ball club for New Haven with nothing to commence with and although he groomed a club of young and mostly inexperienced players into 3 winning club near the tail end of the season, it is safe to say theHe will be many changes in the club for the coming season. Even though the club during the past few weeks has shown good form and won a majority of games, Manager Murphy is not satisfied that the present club is strong enough to start the 1917 season with.
 It is expected that the club as a whole will be much stronger next sea- Son and naturally that would mean several changes in the makeup of the Murlins. For 1t is doubtful if Mana ger Murphy could open the 1917 season with the present team and stand much show of being up among the first di- vision boys from the startoff
 New Haven wants a club for next season 50 per cent. stronger in batting and fielding. The pitching strength of the present club may do for a starter next season, but there are several po- sitions on the club where changes for the better may be made and Manager Murphy is aware of the fact as well as anyone else. There is no doubt but what Danny will spend considerable time this fall and winter looking up
  land many youngsters who will greatly strengthen the Murlins for next sea sons battle.
 If Woodward Donovan and Weaver are not taken away, New Haven will have three steady twirlers for a foun- dation. One or two more good pitch CTS will be needed and perhaps several will be tried out for the places. Rube | Bressler will go back to the Philadel- 1 phia Athletics, which leaves a vacan- 1 cy on the local pitching staff right l off the reel. As Catcher Mickey De- vine goes to Boston and Catcher Smith | isn't considered quite up to snuff as | an Eastern league backstop Manager i Murphy will have to pay some atten- 1 tion to his catching staff for next sea- l son. Sammy Lawrence, the New LOn- | don boy who tried out with the Mur- 1 lins few weeks ago, will be given a good chance, in the spring. it is under stood and it Is expected he will land as one of the regular catchers.
 | Of the rest of the players, we would not be surprised if Moose Miller, Bill | Nutter and Reed were the only ones retained after the practice season in the spring. There is a feeling that | the Murlin inf1eld can be greatly stren ngthened and that there is a pos- | sibility that Phil Chouinard may be sent to the outfield and a, new second | baseman signed. Chouinard is a reg ular outfeIder and when in shape | there is no more valuable player in 1 Class B baseball.
 Nutter is the sensation of the New
 Haven .club. Center field couldn't be improved upon in the minds of the 1 fans and unless some one gobbles ur Nutter, he will be right back on the job much to the delight of the local fans. Reed, who came here from Hartford toward the latter part of
 the season, is considered valuable
 man in the outer garden and it looks
 as if he may be kept in right field.
 Moose Miller has played consistent ball ali the season and has hit well l In the pinches- He is popular with
 the fans and it would be hard to se- l cure a more valuable man for first than the veteran Moose.
 President James T. Collins is pleased
 with the work of Manager Danny Mur- phy this season and gives him much | credit for rounding out as good a clut | as he did with nothing to work with at the start Murphy was greatly ham, | dicapped as the New Haven franchise
 wasn't definitely settled until after all | the other clubs got started and then Murphy started in without a player
 on the roll book. He depended mostly | at the start on youngsters who drift 1 ed around for a tryout, but after he got to going few of the early arriva Is held their jobs on the club. It was l while he was trying out men that New
 Haven lost so many games and be-
 came hopelessly out of the race early