[2][3] At the time, cricket in Argentina and its neighbouring countries was played mostly by British expatriate workers and their native-born children.
[6] He opened the batting with Neville Jackson on debut, scoring 31 runs in the first innings and 15 in the second.
He led the competition's batting averages and aggregates during the 1919–20 season, with 523 runs from nine innings, including two centuries (142 against Belgrano and 101 against Quilmes).
[11] Brown remained active for the Argentine national side throughout the 1920s, playing series against Chile during the 1924–25 and 1928–29 seasons.
His final recorded match came in March 1930, when he played for a "Southern Suburbs" team against a touring English side organised by Julien Cahn.