OCR Text |
Show REFUSE $5,000 FOR PITCHER Reading of International Won't Accept Ac-cept Big Bid of Philadelphia for Twirler Brown. Reading International league club has received an offer of $5,000 from the Philadelphia Nationals for Pitch-T Pitch-T Brown, the youngster who has been doing such remarkable hurling this season. Manager Dooin and Ihe Hearing Heari-ng association have turned down the offer, as Brown was to he delivered to tho. Phillies immediately. Never in the history of organized baseball has Reading received such an offer for a player. It is more than was paid for Frank Baker, the home-tun home-tun king, when he was a member of tie Reading Tri-State club in 1008, ?nd more than paid for Maurice Rath, Jack Lelivelt, Mike Lynch, Pitcher Jake Northrop and other star players who were sold from there to the majors. ma-jors. , |