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Show uu Tommy Quinlan, ' Baseball Star, i Injured in Battle ' SCRANTON. Dec. 5. As a result of. "wounds received in action while fight-1 5ng with the Seventy-ninth division) in' the Argonne forest battle, during i . the earl j part of November, the base- j ball career of Tommy Quinlan, at oncj :time a member of the Chicago White, . So.-, and later with Salt Lake City ofi the Pacific ("oast league, and Columbus Colum-bus of the American Association, has Iprobably been ended. Advices just re- '. "ceived here from France are to the ieffect that Quinlan has suffered tho Floss on one eye and is otherwise disabled dis-abled following the severe fighting in which "his regiment figured. Quinlan entered the army about five months ago, after he refused to file claim for exemption, on the ground that he was employed in an essential government Industry. At that time he was working auone of the shipyards near Philadelphia. The foreman asked him to claim exemption, but "Fin-ners" "Fin-ners" refused, saying that when his call came for the army he intended to join the colors and that he also intended in-tended to ask for an early assignment assign-ment overseas. He was at Camp Lee for several weeks and then wits sent to France. ,Froni that time until word of his having been wounded came here, his friends had heard nothing of him. Quinlan Is considered one of the best ball players in the minor1 leagues. He gained his professional start with Scranton when the local team was under tho management of Buck Freeman. He went to the big league from Scranton, playing for a time with the Chicago Americans. Later he figured in a deal which transferred him to the Coast league. He was one of the stars of that circuit cir-cuit for several seasons and two years ago. while i playing with Salt Lake City, finished among the batting leaders, lead-ers, besides ranking as one of the best base runners In the league. Last spring he was traded to Columbus, by Salt Lake City in return for Larry Chappell. Quinlan spent but a short time with Columbus, coming east when he learned that the draft board intended to call him soon. After that j he worked in a shipyard and played on the plant's baseball team. oo |
