The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-01-06
Sporting Neus
O'CONNOR'S GREAT
RECORD AS PITCHER
Famed % Harvard Men in Two
Games Only Dartmouth Man
With No Hit No Run Game
to His Credit.

Many are the stories going the
rounds Of tht press regarding the
! prowess OF the late DR.. Frank H.
. 'Connor OF BrattlebOro. when a pitch
er at Dartmouth. Skid. in the In
| dependent Statesman Of Concord. ".
| H., has the following which gives a
more complete record of some of the
pitc hing feats OF the doctor than any
thing else published in recent years.
II would not be right to say that the
! hate Dr. Frank II. O'Connor was the
greatest pitcher who ever wore a Dart
mouth uniform Too many other men
in Hanover history have pitched per-
haps equally wonderful ball in college
and have had greater success subse
qucntly in professional and semi-pro-
! fessional leagues. But it will he hard
to make any man believe who was at
| Dartmouth in 1892 that a greater pitch
or than . Conner ever played college
| baseball anywhere.
| Complete records of that season are
not at hand, but in the course of it
! O 'Connor won from PENNSYLVANIA so.
Harvard 4-3. Georgetown 81, Amherst
| four times in succession and Williams
en- successive days 90 and 40 In the
| first of the Williams s games O'Connor
struck out 10 of the first / men to
come to the bat and Williams did not
| make a safe hit or receive a base on
| balls during the game 1t is said that
no other Dartmouth pitcher has a no
hit and no run game to his credit.
| Dartmouth then was in a triangular
| league with Amherst and Williams and
| in the eight games played with these
| teams o Conner struck out 13 men and
| batted himself for 800. his only SUI
Eeriors in this regard in the league be-
ing his catcher Ranney, whose average
was .32.4, and Captain Al. Stearns of
Amherst, now principal of Phillips
Andover academy. who batted for 1913.
In two games against Harvard o Con
nor struck out Is and 10 men respec-
lively, and in the Pennsylvania game
he famed =.
Harry J. Brown. Esq, of Concord,
\. H.. and j. l.. Ferguson. afterwards
athletic director Of the Concord y NJ
*. A.. divided shortstop between them
that season and Ferguson had fielding
average in the league games of | 900
as did Ernest Griffin of Franklin. who
played second base in most of the
games. anu Ut. !. /. r joyce. now OF
Kingston, who was in left field in al
] the games General Ernest L. Bell. now
OF plymouth, and Vice President f. X
Hall of the New England Telephone
company were other members of that
team well known in Concord and it;
captain was Merrill Shurtleff OF Lam
caster, now nationally prominent a
Harry Thaw ; counsel.
During the spring training trip o
1893 o Common held the Phladelphi;
National League team, then famous
aggregation of sluggers, to a 5-2 game
and made a reputation which secure,
him big aleague trial when his col
lege days were over. But he neve
was the same O'Connor again afte
hat game. After graduation he play
ed one game with Philadelphia and dis
tinguished himself by making a hom
run. but he was not in form as a ptche
: and was not given a second trial.
After the Philadelphia fasc
O'Connor came back to Hanover t
complete his medical studies and pitch
ed considerable ball for semi -profes
sional teams. One of his last game
was at the Tilton fair, with Franklin
against n Concord team which Stick
: Aldrich had gathered for the occasion
On paper the Concord nine did no
: have "a look in and as u matter Of fac