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Show JAKE BECKLEY WAS Wflll BATTER: (Veteran First Baseman Had Starred in Majors for Nineteen Years. KANSAS i.TTT. Mo.. An". 3. Nineteen v';irs a ht.ir :n the n;aj'r if ajkes and ; a ii'ore of ears of service )n ti:e minors is the rcm.irkahle rt.ror,i 0f Jacob P. l k ley "uid l-'-i-le l.ye" ho died in Kansas f'itv, hi? home, after an ilne8 of f:o mor.ihs. Vow hi.yiiatl !Mr po.vr-sed a h'ttinc re.-ord th.it f-'iale-i yi. !!.. y's. He was a Vrror to pit- h-r th ro ; ,io-it hn care-T. Kor thi-t'-n y-ars " .id Ilnf llye" had an 3v.'r,-i,- of heti-T than ' a reonpl "p:.i') only by a few. He was one of ' h.- I"; rt lf harl-M ha ! n-en. a r.'-''71 1 ir-ra.'ler. nofii in has. -'..ill for his original orig-inal Missouri imn'or, and a ar-1 ," ho ii on and oil the fit-Id. B-?l Iviey was ro ps rlor pla ycr, but n bel-vt-r In the old school K.m;e. Hp was .pih k to tae a I'.ant.iuv when the um-p um-p r- wasn't looMn-:. and n-. r Ftopp'd it - ;n f rom the first Inn in if until the !a?t. "Kaitlr Kyr-' was ri"ardod as a natural hit irr. runtin-- wis a t r i -1 , le ber.mie th"rouKhlv jirofi'l-nt in. ani, nn'iko hatters. IN- kh'v turned his hat li.ilidl out. Thf i -t that r w.is a leit-handed leit-handed hatter ahle.i him In bt'iinc out man--' a !i:t of tins k'nd. A1 a roa. her. i..o. -Tf A:( vitii orimuatinK pome of tho fii-htinir phraset . 1 1 i t u.'ed on th. M.b Un.'s. ""lie Vive' j.nd "rcadK HP w-o two of h; fanii'l.'ir expresionf Merklov was horn In ll.innal. Mo., In IS-.;, and piayi on various amafur leaniy hrfore his ahilitv won hlui his fust pro-f."lonal pro-f."lonal 1 1 -c ball .loo with I .ea ven wor t ii, Kan.. In l-'i. A the Mart of the season of 17 Mii' oln. N'h,. ho i-ht ins jsvrvires nirl at t lie Mid of t h;t M'.i'on he went (. Sto. hton. f'al.. In the (Vast lea -no. Th.- Sf i.ouis National aue t-am oh. t alned him In I but in .In no of that yiir lie was Umsrht bv the ritMhurKT 1M-ra 1M-ra t es, whose nn i form be wore until 1 v, wlifii he was hold to t ho New York I 'lant. Hy I mi 7 he was betmc pom;ht by most of the b'aditi t'.'in'. of the h-aque, and was traded that yt-ar 1 o t hnri n na 1 1. Then, as one of the few ball pi avers who still wore a miislad:"', he lohled to his reputnilon. and In 11' ill aain was sold to 'he St. bonis Natinnils. Kansas t'itv puivhae 1 him In 1MT. an-1 although lb" Ub-e had pl.i.rd his last cn nio tn ma lor b'ai-'ue ronipa nv, he was the hero of many a i-ame In the Amerhan asso.'lation. In lii'lS li- led the league In i'a'tlniT. The in vt t-a-am lie was tnde inanut'-r of the Kansas City club, but this was not Ids forti and near the eloso of the 10Of itrason he was repl.i. ed by I'JMiny Slniv. Tile n'N' year ho beratne manager of the Mannihal t "mitral v so. -i;, t ion c!u! In bi old boni" town, his l,.t b.(s:all job. wh'Tr h" first b-urnrd the )::um, itn t " Kanle K.ve" in rot hem en t d Id no; losp iiii.-f-it In b as, .lad and was al- wa vs some i lil n i; of a persona ne wlioro-1 wlioro-1 e'T M UltH.- h'dn),- plaveil. lie tlll,il : with nmrttt'urs nud s- ml-pn, umptrlm; ! Mud oca "Jionallv (aklmr n hand In n r.;inn Mini at t tie close of the ua son last fall w'i'tit to fhi'-ao to ri t)i. wtM'ld'n merles nod visit with old frbuids In the ina jor o;lkmrs. |