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Show MOBBED FOR WINNING GAME Mordecal Brown, Famous Cub Pitcher, Tells of Contest Which Stands Out Above All Others. In a fanning bee Mordecal Brown was asked to tell the best game that he ever pitched. "There is one game which stands out in my mind above all others. That was in 1908, when we beat the New York Giants in the play-off for the National Na-tional league pennant. You will remember re-member that Pfeister started that game and filled the bases in the first inning. Chance motioned to me to go in, and I got out of the hole with but one run scored against us. "In the third inning we made four runs off Mathewson. In the seventh Mordecal Brown. inning the Giants started a rally and made one run. The game ended with the score, 4 to 2. "The strain of that game was never equaled by me. Upon it hinged a league championship and the right and honor of play in the world's series. In addition to this, the feeling in New York was at such an extreme pitch that we had received 'Black Hand' letters, let-ters, which threatened us with our several lives if we took the pennant from New York. "I don't believe I ever was so alarmed on a diamond as at the conclusion con-clusion of that game, when the crowd at the Polo grounds practically mobbed mob-bed us. Chance was hit in the neck and could not speak for several days. Other players were similarly treated. Luckily I escaped." |
