Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1914 — MORDECAI BROWN A MANAGER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MORDECAI BROWN A MANAGER

Three-Fingered Artist Gets Peculiar Twist pn Ball Not Possessed by Any Other Pitcher.

Mordecai Brown, who did more than his share in helping Frank Chance win pennants when they were both with the Cubs, is now manager of the St Louis Federal team, and able to pitch about as well as he ever did. He is better known as Miner Brown or Three-Fingered Brown. When-he was a young man he worked in a mine and a premature explosion took off one of his fingers, and on his pitching hand at that. With the stump of the missing finger he is able to get a peculiar twist on the ball, and a result-

ant curve not possessed by any other pitcher in the business. When Brown was let go by the Cub management it was not because he had lost any of his speed or cunning as regards actual pitching, but he had twisted his knee and has had more or less trouble with it ever since The trouble was remedied a good deal by giving the injured leg much massage treatment and a rest. When Joe Tinker took charge of the Cincinnati Reds he made haste to make overtures to the great pitcher, and that he was not mistaken in signing him up, at a good big salary, is shown'by the splendid work of the three-fingered one.

Mordecai Brown.