Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1918 — PITCHER CLIFF MARKLE REPORTED AS MISSING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PITCHER CLIFF MARKLE REPORTED AS MISSING

Cliff Markle, former Yankee pitcher, is the first of the baseball players In Uncle Sam’s service to have his name on the casualty list He has been reported as missing by General Pershing. Markle started his baseball career in the Texas league, the Yanks buying him in the fall of 1915, when he pitched the team to half a dozen victories. Early in 1916 he showed good form on* ly to fall off in midseason and he was sent to Toronto. He pitched for Toledo in the American association l«ft year.