The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19
OLD-TIMER WILL
 LEAVE BASEBALL AT
 END OF THE SEASON

I When the present baseball season is over one rugged old veteran of the pitching mound will step down and retire from the scene of baseball strife to private life, according to a New ork scribe, The player is Jack Quinn, for several years one of the leading right-handers of the Yankees, and man of almost a score of years pitching experience in the minor and major leagues. Quinn has always been a good pitcher, with strains of greatness in his work at times. AL ways he has been credit to baseball both on and off the field.
 Quinn went to the 1ankccs origin ally from the old Eastern league, which is now known as the Interna- time that the Yankees were playing on the old hilltop grounds at Broad way and One Hundred and Sixty eighth street. For several seasons Quinn dallied around with the Yankees and then wandered into the minors. He landed in the Pacific Coast league, and under the smiling California skies pitched winning ball He was one of the leaders of the league when war almost wrecked baseball. Then he went to the Chi cago White Sox, but after contro- versy was awarded to the Tanks.
 For two years Quinn went along at fair clip for New York, but this sea son he has come upon evil times. It isn't so much that he has lost his stuff, but he is running in hard luck. There are many hits charged against Old Jack this season where the hit ter just managed to scratch them past an inhelder or lay them at the feet of an out1elder. And by the same token there is many a crashing wallop of a clean cut nature charged against him.
 Upon analyzing his games and ex- amining the hits made off him it is easy to support his claim that some of the breaks were against him.
 When Quinn was small boy he worked in a coal mine in Pennsyl- vania. He drove mules and perform ed the hundred and one duties of the mine kids, sitting coal and all the rest. Finally he decided that 1t was about tune he went out into the world to make his fortune He boarded a freight train and rode all night until he came to a town. There he alight- ed and threw his feet along the main drag, hunting a hand out or a sit
 
 contented with life he wandered out to field and watched a ball game In the course of the game Jack pick ed up a ball and threw it so much further than any other lad on the field could throw that they put him right into the game Up to that time he had never played ball.
 The story of his development is pretty much on the order of one of Horatio A. Alger's novels. From an untrained novice he speedily de- veloped pitching skill and it was not long before he forgot all about the pick and the hat fanny of the coaI mines. He soon secured an engage ment with semi-professional club, and his work attracted the atten- ton of scouts. He then went into the minors and worked up to the top of his class.
 Quinn won the distinction of pitch against Walter Johnson and winning 1t. In those dear old days when Wal ter was at his best and life was one fast ball after another the Senators visited the Hilltop one Saturday afternoon: George Stallings, man ager of the club then, selected Wal ter Manning and another pitcher of experience 10 work against fate But Manning had cramps, it seemed, and all the others had everything from spinal meningitis down the line. Only Quinn was healthy. He went in and pitched
 Finally it became Jacks turn to hit against Walter. He heard three whacks as the ball hit the glove of the catcher and the umpire called, He's out" Jack scarcely saw the ball. So when he went back to the bench he said: "Who is this guy Johnson?" and everybody on the bench laughed at him. But just the same not even Johnson can win un- less the boys make some runs for him, and this the Senators failed to do. Quinn saw to that part of 1t.