Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1919 — MINER BROWN DOING HIS BIT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MINER BROWN DOING HIS BIT

Three-Fingered Pitching Marvel Is Helping Win War by Building Liberty Motors. Mordecai Brown, the three-fingered pitching marvel of major league fame, is engaged in the nation-wide task of

helping win the war, Brown is working for a firm at Indianapolis, building Liberty motor parts. He is fortyone years old and exempt from active military service because his thumb and first finger of his right hand are missing. The veteran was first-aid to Joe Tinker in the management of the Columbus club of the American association last season.

Mordecai Brown.