Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-13
EASTERN CHAMPIONS HAD
 WONDERFUL HuRLING STAFF
Never U<ed Relief Pitcher Until Last
 Week of PIaya

| How wonderfully the har.:ng talent
 of the New Haven team, Eastern lea que
 champions. maintained itscit through
 out the season. may be, judged from | the fact that up to within week and I a half of the close of the season New Haven never used a relief pitcher nor 1 had a battery warn up during a game. The New Haven Register gives the following review of the team and i it's work. durirg the past seasoni | Recently when Bridgeport player played on Frank >WOodwards nerves and got him excited ito the extent that Woodward weakened Manager Danny Murphy regretfully took Frank out and sent in Freddy Walker. thereby saving the game but shattering most unique record.
 Another funny thing in connection with the New Haven team was the fact that many infields played at the Rock and far outshone the locals but
 the Murlins always won. The new champions were extremely weak on
 the inside diamond stations and added
 to this was a great aptitude on the
 rart of New Haveners for injuries.
 Practically every member of the win
 ring infield was out at one time and
 another with hulfs, some serious. Luck
 many a time and oft saved New Ha-
 ven inf1elders sure drives labelled
 bits.- f
 ticularly strong and it will probably
 be a long time before any ruch well
 balanced trio of gardeners is located
 nere again. Baseball dopesters have
 been placed much at sea all through
 the season trying to figure out just
 bow New Haven did it but most of them gave vr the problem long, long
 ago. r=
 |. James T. Collins who used to han dle the cash for George Cameron when
 the latter was alive and: landed his
 flag winner has made a lot of friends
 by his business-li,se way of going about landing the championship. Last
 year he had a tough time trying to get
 a club together and with the poor
 showing and other unfortunate breaks dropped s, 500. This year it is figured that he hasn't lost. anything but
 whether he has really made very much is not known for a certainty.
 The crowds have. been uniformly good at the west shore grounds and Owner Collins cannot very well kick on the uniform support accorded his club but down east Collins has not fared so we'll, All this in spite of the fact that New Haven was a pennant- winning aggregation and the. real cla ss of a league not particularly famed for exceptional class. When Lawrence was making its big bid for first honors and was within few games of the leaders a crowdHof 400 was considered a large one down east. ;-7@S -.s--
 Collins has had a most able lieuten- ant in Danny Murphy. former star on Connie Mack's combination Of Ath- letics some years back. Murphy started early in corraIling his play CTS in his, selection and training of 1 players there has not been one to cri- 1 ticise. With Frank Woodward. a New | Haven boy from the sand lots, Harry | Weaver and Harry Donovan, left over l from the preceding year Murphy went directly to work building a staff par | and succeeded admirably. Robert Miller; the only member Of | the present winning club who played | on the, championship team of five | years ago, Micky Devine. Everett Nut ter and Joe Shannon left over from | last summers string. Murphy started l to work and soon had a likely looking 1 lot of pastimers. Danny Is popular chap with players and fans alike and at every turn he met with just the sort of help that goes in the making If a good baseball club
 There were no anarchists among the every member being out to boost and the support all around was consistent and satisfying. Fifteen years of baseball in the old Connecti- gut league days and up with the ma ors fitted Murphy ideally for the spo- ,ition. of pilot and 1t was indeed al ucky strike. that landed him -heke. !