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Show BROWN EARNS HIS SALARY EACH YEAR Hot Springs, Ark., March 20. It there is a better pitcher in the world than this unassuming young man, who acknowledges himself at home In Icrro Haute. Ind., he can command t.ny salary his nerve will permit him to ask for, and baseball magnates will fall over themselves bidding for his services. Tho salary paid Mordecal Brown, the Cubs' great right-hander, has never nev-er been shouted in the public ear. but as tho Indiana wonder always signs his contract without fuss, repen ts whn ordered to, and does not seek notoriety notor-iety by asking for more money, it 19 to bo assumed that Murphy. Chance At Co, pay him a salary that keeps hlru supplied with powder and shot to kl'a rabbits, a pastime the ox-mlncr Is fond of during tho season. Until the Cubs and Giants clashel Inst season and "Three-Fingered-' Brown oulpltched the mighty Mathow-sem, Mathow-sem, not once but upon several occasions, occas-ions, it was generally conceded that the . ex-collegian was a little bit tho best pitching proposition that ever broke a curve over a plate. But in their duels the Cub wonder shono more brilliantly than his rival, and earned tho houors. "Let us get one run ahead, with Brown in the box, and we are sure to win," Is a compliment paid Brown by Frank Chance, manager of the three-time three-time champions of tho National league. "As a defensive pitcher he outranks the best man that ever pitched, and I wouldn't exchange him for any player in tho league." I Like all truly great pitchers. Brown does not wind up like an eight-day clock before pitching. He gets the ball away with the least possible exertion, ex-ertion, throwing with an easy overhand over-hand motion and putting his whole tody into the swing, thus conservlu the strength of his arm and developing tremendous speed at the same time. |