Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-24
THE DIAM o ND
THE PRODIGALS
 MAKE A RECORD
Not One Solitary Hit Did They Get Off Bridgeport's New Pitcher
 Results of All Games.

The Bridgeport Telegram writer discourses sweetly about those games of yesterday as follows:
 There were few records turned of at Newtleld park yesterday after noon. In double-header between Bridgeport and Waterbury the Ora tors took the first game by shutting out the Prodigals to O. In this game not member of the Waterbury team got hit, and none of them got fur ther than second base. Manager O 'Rourke's new boxman, Frank M. Walker, was pitching. He surprised Hat-Pin .lagan, he surprised Man. ager O'Rourke, he surprised the visi- tors and he surprised the fans. Per haps he surprised himself. In shut ting out the hard-hitting Waterbury crowd without a hit or a run MT Walker created a record for the Con- necticut league. There has been plenty of one-hit games in the league but yesterday was the first time that the no-hit record was turned off.
 Benind MT Walkers pitching was the playing of the men back of him. It was clean, errorless and brilliant. Both Ladd and Castle got under twelve chances. and some of them looked good, too, but the outfielders were under the ball with their fists working. Nothing went by either in the infield or out in the garden. Ten such games in season would set the town baseball mad.
 The doings of Pitcher Walker was the talk of the town last night. His meteoric entrance into the Connecti- cut league will attract some attention outside. The other clubs will be cer- tainly looked for at him in the fu- ture. Frank M. Walker comes from Manchester, N. H., and has played with the team in that city and has faced some of the batsmen in the New England league. For three years he pitched college ball. He is husky lad, as cool as a cucumber, and he had perfect control of curve and spit ball that was delightful to look at. His spit ball Is beauty. Walker did not look so promising in the pre- liminary warming up. In fact he looked as if he was easy to hit and was wee bit wild. It was when he was in the box and working in earn est that he made everybody sit up and notice.
 Walker was not used to his sur roundings, or the men he was facing. He was coached we'll by Jim O'Rourke, however. There is per haps no team in the league that is harder to shut out than Waterbury. It is the hardest hitting aggregation in the league, so when he refused to give them single bingle his perfor- nance Is all the more creditable.
 When he was working there was beautiful monotony in the manner that the Waterbury players were re- tired. In the third inning he gave Walsh a pass to open the inning, but Walsh was caught trying to steal on In the sixth inning Mc- Enroe was given a pass, and stole second, and that was as far as any of the visitors advanced, although Walsh got as far as second in tho eighth.
 It was when the game was draw ing to close that the fans began to wonder If Walker could go the whole nine innings without allowing a hit. When the game was over and he had retired the last three men without a hit there was cheer went up from the grand stand that might have in. terfered with the smooth working of the wireless station some distance back of the grand stand. There was quite bunch of Waterbury fans on deck. and while they were pretty noisy at the start and did consider able shouting at the new man, they joined in the cheering. The score;
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