Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1918 — FINK STILL FULL OF FIGHT [ARTICLE]

FINK STILL FULL OF FIGHT

Wounded Baseball Writer Has Fingers Enough to Pull a Trigger and Work Typewriter. Harry Pink, the first baseball writer to be wounded in the war, Is In New York, having Just returned from Prance, minus half -of one finger and with three others crushed. The ship on which he was going to Europe was stopped and torpedoed Jby a submarine. The “sub” captain ordered someone who spoke German to come to the “sub,” and Fink was unfortunate enough to be the one. He was compelled to Jump from a boat to the sub, and in Jumping his hand was caught between the two boats and crushed. He tried to talk the German captain out of his submarine, but finally Was ordered back into his boat, and for a long time the craft drifted, with Harry weakening from loss of blood, a tourniquet applied by the Gormans alone preventing him from bleeding to death. Then the boat wdfs picked up by a destroyer and Pink was given proper attention. He returned recently and now is in a naval hospital, but declares he has enough fingers left to hammefc; a typewriter and plenty to fight the Germans.