The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-26
NEW PLAYERS
 CAPTURED BY HARTFORD STARS

Hartford, Jan. 26.-With the an- nouncement of Manager Dan Howley of the signing of Inf1elder Maddox of Brooklyn, and Outfelder Reeves from the Rochester club of the Interna- tional League, Hartford baseball fans know four of the players who will likely be seen in action on the old Wethersfield avenue grounds during the coming season. Martin Murphy, sensational youngster of the Brantford club in the Michigan and Ontario League was the first signed and Earl Potteiger, the brilliant center fielder of the Worcester club, followed Indications point to a 50-50 team next year, half of it being made up of
 tried and proven veterans and the
 other half of fast and clever young-
 sters.
 Both Reeves an Maddox are young
 sters whose speed and ability with
 the willow caused Howley to bring
 them to this city. The former is not
 more than 21 years old and was a flash in the International League in 1 1918, his first year in professional ball. In that season, he walloped the pill for an average of .291, and, when Howley heard that he did not intend to go back to Rochester this year, following an argument with Arthur
 Irwin last year, the local manager imm ediately set out upon his trail. Howley had seen Reeves perform in the International two years ago, as he was in the same league at the 1 time, managing the Toronto club and | he had plenty of opportunity to look over the various players Reeves l was promised more money by Irwin i if he played with the club last year | but, after performing in around ten l games, with a batting average of .346 i for those contests, he quit when the 1 extra cash was not forthcoming. 1 Maddox is a shortstop and comes 1 highly recommended to HowIey. The 1 local manager received word about ] the youngster from veteren of the 1 diamond, who predicted that Maddoy i would be a star with little training ! The lad hits the ball hard and often. ] as evidenced by his average of .946 that he ran up while with the Far , mers. a semf-pro team from Brook ! lyn, N. r., and in the field is as fast i as the proVerbial chain Tightening l It is Howley's intention to get a vet | eran third sacker for the club who l will be valuable in giving the young l ster some points of the game and keeping him steadied down out there in the infield during a tough battle The other two players, Potteigel and Murphy, have shown from past ] diamond performances that they are of the right caIiber for the local club
 Potteiger has played with Worceste,
 since 1914 and during that time has
 always ranked well up with the run
 getters of the league. His batting is timely, but it never was as bril-
 liant as last year, when he led the
 Eastern League willow-weilders fol
 the season Potteiger did not play in 1918, discarding his baseball uni form for the khaki but, in 1917 bat ted for an average of .269 and ffeIded for .965. He stood second in the TUT getting department that season
 crossing the platter sixty eight times In 1916, he had his poorest year while with the Busters, hitting fol ! only .216 and fielEing for .952. IT 1915 he finished the season with .
 batting average of .272 and a fielding average of .9l0, standing fourteenth In the batting list.