Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1911 — Jake Beckley's Breakfast [ARTICLE]

Jake Beckley's Breakfast

While Roger Bresnahan, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, was devouring a couple of soft-boiled eggs the other noon, he told a funny story on Jake Beckley. “Jake was ordering his breakfast on a diner one morning and-as he did not feel very hungry, he ordered one soft-boiled egg. He glanced through the bill of fare, but nothing else appealed to him, and he decided to order another egg. Instead of changing the one to a two, he put another one beside the one he had originally made and handed the order to the waiter. You can Imagine his surprise and consternation when the waiter brought in 11 soft-boiled eggs and proved Jake had ordered them all by showing him the figures on the order slip.”