Note on Mordecai Brown's arm as we approach opening Day

From I.E. Sanborn's dispatch in the April 12, 1908 Chicago Tribune:

The indications are the Cubs must start their battle at Cincinnati the day after tomorrow with a patched lineup and without the services of Steinfeldt and Sheckard, although the injury of neither player is expected to keep him out of the game long enough to prove a serious handicap. More serious is the worry caused by Mordecai Brown’s arm, which has refused to allow a kink to be worked out during the training trip. The sickness of Pfiester’s wife, which has kept the sou’paw from getting much practice this spring, will cut the pitching staff down to Overall, Reulbach, Lundgren, Fraser, and Durbin for the opening weeks of the season, but this quintet out to be able to bear the brunt of the work successfully until Brown and Pfiester are ready to share it.