Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-13
CAYLOR'S BALL GOSSIP
How Cornelius Magillicuddy Be-
 came Plain Connie Mack.
THE PITTSBURG BOY AS A LION.

Smoky City People Praise Him Now. but
 What Will They Say Iatcr?-sanday
 Playing by Eastern Clubs Is Doomed.
 and an Eight Club Circuit Will Follow.
 Cornelius a aRgluicuddy is the man of the hour. Tn don't know him? SSer heard of him? Oh, yes, you tlid-by GS SSre- viaiion. Cornelius Magillicuddy i9 the elongated legal title by which he is known to his family It is the name which k recorded on his line in the family Bible. But life at its longest is short, and mo man should be blamed for trying to sslvS few years by chupping down such & name. Mir Magillicuddy did He trim med it after the manner in which thN KcntuCEiAn cut of the tail of his dog close up tO the CarS-and when he finished tho joh the uunlr was Connie Mack.
 Now you rrVrgnize him. He is the man agCr of the PitiSbur2S lS isrball club which took he l,;d in the N,<Haunal league race
 Tlat is whcru MIr. Mack acquired his me- teOric fame. In n few weeks limo he went | up to the head and stood, as 1 said, the hero of the hour The mikado, Ii Hung Chang. Grover Cleveland, Anson-au went ont before Mir. Mack's effulgent- light Such iS baseball fame. Six months, | hence the PittSburg manager may not have hook on which to hang his now | splendid mantle. Nothing succeeds like, success, especially in baseball, and in | PittSburg they stop and gaze at Connie l as he walks along the street and murmur, to one another, How can one slim, skin, ny man know SD much about baseball | playingE" What they will say about him next fall if they sec him no one knows. am reminded of an experience of my own in that line which induces me not to Mopl ent fame. In 1887 the late Robert Fergu~ son had the management of that most co l centric collection of baseball players ever called tcanl-thc Mctropolitars. Bras tus Wiman. the Staten Island millionaire. TThe wide awake ball player who was born Cornelius Magillicuddy.l
 owned them, and no white elephant ever cost its owner moro worry and money, to say nothing of hay. Ferguson was an old | ball player who knew tho game and play l CTS habits and characteristics as a Yale man knows his Latin verbs. But with all his baseball Crudition Bob could make | nothing out of the Nets " and they lost tho first If games played,
 In June Ferguson gave up and resigned ! the management. I happened to be at leisure at the time, and Wiman concluded was just the man for the vacant position. | It was q queer selection. knew as little l about the business as Ferguson knew a great deal. But I have always been will ing to try It's good motto. So when this Augcan task was placed before me | promised to sec what could be done. All
 did was to make personal appeal tC
 tho players. who, by the way, wcrc the
 greatest collection of good players with
 bad dispositions that ever got into a team
 The appeal went home. They decided tC
 play ball." and they did. We had 23 sue
 ccssivc games tn play on the home grounds
 and they won l9 of them.
 Then we started west for series of l(
 games. Many man has lost his rcputa
 tion while away from home. On the nigh
 of tho exodus I stood in the fcrryhOuSo al
 Cortlanlt street, New York, waiting for
 boat to take us over to the train in Jerse. | City. The ''Mcts" were scattered aroun' with their bat bags and baggage. As stood alonc gentleman addressed me am
 asked if knew what team it was. toll
 him, with some pride, that it was tn "Mcts." "Indccd!" said he. What great game they have played since tha new manager took charge. He must be