The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-12-15
LITTLE ANDY NJ CORNELL
POwnaI Boy Who Made Good
In Big League.
Carried OF Silver Cup 10 Be Present
ed to Boston's Most Popular
Baseball Player.

Pownal boy who last season became
enc of the stars of the American
league diamond:
How did you come to be named
Ambrose"
I'm blessed If | know, unless it was
that they ran out of the standard ar
tiele with eight boys and three girls
in the family, and just hit on Ambrose
as a sort Of poetic appellation. The
McConnells were prolific My fathers
two brothers had eight and ten chill
dren respectively. There was big
Michael, black Jack, little Johnnie,
and so on until it was no mean accom-
Blishment to keep track Of the names.
was making a friendly call on Am
brose Mcconnell, the second baseman
Of the Boston Red Sox, at his winter
home in Utica, ~ Y, about the middle
Of November The phenomenal young
player had won the hearts of the base
ball fans all over the American league
circuit, and had carried off a massive
loving cup that was put up by Bos-
ton newspaper last season for the
most popular ball player That cup
winning was considered a remarkable
compliment, as the grand old player
CT Young was a competitor for the
prize and had the pleasure of making
The presentation speech at the Ameri-
can league park during one of the
dosing games.
Modest as forest flower, little Nc
Cornell won his way into fast com
pany by his clear.cut talents and grew
stronger daily with every one that he
came in contact witch. There was no
playing to the gallery but a determin-
alton to make good and get the big
money to take home to his interesting
family
With the season over and back with
those he loved in Utica, he displayed
Me keenest pleasure at meeting one
who had sized him up from the start
as the real thing i'm baseball
Although several years in the bust
ress, connected with independent
clubs in Vermont and the minor leag-
YES this was the first time that Nc
Cornell had decided to take a rest
during the winter months. He mad
hoped to spend considerable time fish
ing and hunting in the Adirondacks in
he fall months, but the fear Of being
shot for deer changed his mind and
he remained at home.
Mcconnell came to the depot TO
meet me and escorted me around the
very enterprising city of Utica, show
ing me the store where only a short
time ago Hardie Richardson was do
ing a thriving business but was unfor-
tunate and lost his money, going back
to his old place in a factory at lllton,
N. Y. that town where so many great
players of the past got their first start
such as John Clapp, Joe Hornung,
Pete Hotaling and others and now the
home of number of clever minor
league players.
Though admitting that ! was not
good Judge of real estate, Mcconnell
insisted that we take the trolley cars
to the outskirts Of the city and look
over a piece Of property that he was
in hopes Of securing for the purpose
of building a home and having a place
to enjoy his love for chickens, dogs
etc.
MY wife comes from Troy sale
Mack "and is anxious that We settle
near her friends, but like Utica an'
can see II growing more prosperou
each year. and think 1t would be the
best Mace to invest little money
Then. ,oo / like the schools here ant
tsat means much to a fellow with mo,
Crote means.
81 am sorry that our house is tune'
upside down with the painters but yol
must come to my mothers for dinner
as we are stopping there for a fe'
days"
refused at first.
He added My father and mothe
would like to see you, as they hay
preserved the complimentary notice
YOU have given me int he Globe"
you have given me in the Globe
AS we rode along Mack drifted
his work with the Boston club
81 could always hit said he, AN
knew II got a show that / could max
good. but there was time when
thought II was all on with me.
started out at Little Rock playing m
natural game. Though / had tn
place. as others looking for the pos
ton we're slow In rounding, too, alon
in the middle Of the season felt thu
I was intruding. Words Of encoura
ment | never heard, until one day
the team was leaving for the west
received a letter from President Ia