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Show PERDUE WANTED TO COPY BROWiM "prtJB PERDUE, the Gallatin (Tcnn.) rustic, who Is the pitching wonder of the Boston National leaguo team now, is a "Rube" all right. Born In a small town, rather glorying In his rusticity, rus-ticity, he has ever been a "card." Ono day when the Chicago Cubs wero in Na3hvlllo, where Hub then played. Perdue walked up to Pitcher "Three Fingered" Brown In a hotel lobby and demanded to see Brown's maimed mitt. Mordecai pushed out the mutilated hand, and Hub examined it carefully. "Well, I swanl" he finally ojaculated. "How'd you do It?" "Ran It In a feed cutter, chopped off two fingers and broke three," said Brown laconically, for It's an old story to him. Perdue didn't say anything tor awhile; but, reaching In his pocket, he fished out an Indelible pencil and drew a line across his pitching hand that corresponded to .the cuts In Brown's fin. As he walked out of tho hotel briskly brisk-ly he said. "I'm going right homo now and put my hand In the old man's feed cutter. I swan If I don't" |