Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — SUNDAY GREATER PLAYER THAN COBB, SAYS VETERAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SUNDAY GREATER PLAYER THAN COBB, SAYS VETERAN

Evangelist Could Run Bases and Field Better Than Ty, Declares Eagle- --- Eye Jake Beckley. There’s at least one ball-playing person who refuses to make It unanimous about Ty Cobb being the greatest ball player of all time. And that’s old Eagle-Eye Jqke Beckley, who played the guine nearly as long as Nap Lajole and Is now an umpire, living In Kansas City. A quarter century ago old Eagle-Eye was in his prime, one of the hardest hitting first sackers the game ever knew. “You can have your Ty Cobbs and your Benny Knuffs,” Jake Beckley says; “I’ll take Billy Sunday for my ball club right. no\T,_ and I said the same thing back In ninety. “He’s fifty-two years old today, but he’s running bases and sliding every day in that pulpit Just as he did back

•In the old days. If he’d stayed in the game Cobb never would have been famous. “He was greater than Ty Cobb ever dared to be in three departments of the game. “Everybody thinks Cobb can run bases. I’d spot him a second against Billy Sunday and then watch Bill score first. "They think Cobb covers outfield territory. They should have seen Sunday in his prime. “And throw- —say, he could throw strikes from center field just as easily as Tris Speaker. “Butting was where Sunday was weak. But in another year or so he would have overcome that weakness. He was just that kind. “He had more fight in his heart than any man I ever saw.”

Billy Sunday.