OCR Text |
Show MORDECAI BROWN IN ACTION. J head and shoulders above all their rivals. ri-vals. Brown Is one of these. Matthew Mat-thew son is another. The race for honors hon-ors In the National between these two was close. Both will be watched much more carefully this season than In previous years, provided their teams, are up In the race, which looks to be the probability right now. I Starting off In the style that made J him one of the greatest pitchers In the ! , game for 1907 and 1908, Mordecai , Brown, three fingered hurler of tho Chicago National pitching staff, again j looms up as the star of tho Cubs' hurl-ers. hurl-ers. Twice this season -has Brown j gono down In defeat, but both times at the hands of Pittsburg. Both were ! 1 to 0 scores, the first going twelve I Innings and the second eleven. Three times has Brown been sent in ' and returned a winner. He beat St. . Louis and Cincinnati, and last week , got against his old rivals, the New York Giants, to win the first and ouly game that Chicago took In the series, by a score of 4 to .3. In two other games Brown has been sent In to help out a badly going pitcher. Hoth limes j tho game has gone as a Cub vlctory. i In 1908 it was Brown who was the mainstay of the Cubs staff. When it came to a showdown Brown was the man t'aat Chicago relied upon. It was he who was sent In to beat the GI-J GI-J ants In that decisive replay at the end of tho season, and by his work there landed the game for'Chicapo. J There are some pitchers who loom |