Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1919 — TOM QUINLAN’S DAYS ENDED [ARTICLE]

TOM QUINLAN’S DAYS ENDED

Columbus Outfielder Loses Throwing Arm and Left Eye by Explosion of German Shell. Tom Quinlan’s baseball days are over. The Columbus outfielder and former White Sox will never be seen on the American association circuit again. His left arm is gone, torn off by a German high-explosive shell. And Tom was a left-hander. The shell that got Quinlan not only took off his throwing arm but it put out his left eye and inflicted minor wounds of the head and face. Tom’s break in the luck was particularly bad, for it all happened only forty hours before the armistice was signed. Tom is taking his misfortunes gamely. ‘Til be all right before long,” he said. “An artificial arm will have to take the place of the old south paw, and I’ll have a glass eye. I’ll never play baseball again, of course, but I can eat right-handed, anyway. “Our regiment, the Twenty-eighth infantry, was on the Argonne front, and we had some pretty tough work cut out for us. There isn’t much to tell about how I was wounded. A German shell just dropped near me, and you can see the result. The doctors and nurses took good care of me, and the Red Cross is keeping me supplied with everything I want. So you can tell the folks at home they needn’t worry about me.” Those who know Quinlan tn the hospital admirp his spirit. A wounded Mississippi private in the same ward summed it up this way: “That guy is game.”