Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1912 — HUB PERDUE ADMIRES BROWN [ARTICLE]

HUB PERDUE ADMIRES BROWN

Pitching Wonder of Boston Braves Would Have His Hand Mutilated Like Cub Pitcher. Hub Perdue, the Gallatin (Tenn.) rustic who is' the pitching wonder of the National league now, is a “rube” right. Bom In a small town, unlettered,, uncouth, rather glorying in his rusticity, he has ever been a “card.” One day when the Cubs were In Nashville on their Spring training trip where Hub then played, Perdue walked up to Three-Fingered Brown in a hotel lobby and demanded to see Brown’s maimed mitt. Mordecai pushed out the mutilated hand and Hub examined it carefully. “Well, I swan,” he finally ejaculated. "How’d you do it?” “Ran it in a feed cutter, chopped off two fingers and broke three,” said Brown laconically—for it’s an old story to him. Perdue didn’t say anything for awhile, but, reaching to his pocket, he fished out an indelible pencil and drew a line across his pitching hand that corresponded to the cuts in Brown’s fin. As he walked out of the hotel briskly, he said, “I’m going right home now and put my hand in the old man’s feed cutter, I swan if I don’t” —Atlanta Georgian.