Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1918 — AS BASEBALL ROMANCE MORDECAI BROWN’S HISTORY STANDS ALONE-IS NOW MANAGER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AS BASEBALL ROMANCE MORDECAI BROWN’S HISTORY STANDS ALONE-IS NOW MANAGER

Three-fingered Mordecai Brown, fOt* mer star of the old Cubs, and recognized at one time as one of the greatest pitchers who ever worked fßr a big league baseball club, is now a manager. He was recently appointed as leader of the Columbus American Association team. As a baseball romance Brown’s history stands alone. His rise to fame as a big leaguer was meteoric, once he shook the shackles of the minors from his feet, but if ft hadn’t been for a twist of fate Brown probably would have gone through the minors a third baseman. It was with Terre Haute, when that city had a club in the Three-I league, that Brown awakened to the fact that he was a pitcher. When an accident happened to a flock of pitchers* he was requisitioned from third base and sent Into the box, with such effect that he

Surprised the natives bywinning the game. From that time Brown was a hurler of class. He never had sighed a contract with Terre Haute, so he signed with Omaha the following season. Pat Donovan, then managing the St. Louis Cardinals, purchased him, getting himself into a scrap with Terre Haute, which still claimed him. - _ . With Chicago Brown remained iffftll he was traded to Cincinnati. Brown managed the St. Louis Feds before he finished with big-league baseball and finally drifted to the American association. His sojourn as a star was troublesome, brilliant and measurably brief, but he leaves a record behind him that will be hard to touch for years to come. His battles with Christy Mathewson when Matty was star of the Giant staff will live in baseball history for years to

THREE-FINGERED LEADER OF COLUMBUS TEAM.