Jack Veiock

Who was Jack Veiock?

Eugene Ruppert "Jack" Veiock, sometimes known as "J.R.", was an American sportswriter and editor. He was the sporting editor of the International News Service from 1916 to 1921.

Veiock was born at Rochester, Pennsylvania in 1883. His father, Albert Veiock, was a Pennsylvania native. In 1900, Veiock was living with his parents and two younger sisters in Canton, Ohio. His father was employed as a foreman at a pottery works. He began his career as a journalist in St. Joseph, Missouri. From there, he moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, serving as the sporting editor of the Indiana Daily Times from 1914 to 1915. In January 1916, he was hired as the sporting editor of the International News Service, the wire service for the Hearst Newspapers. He remained as the sporting editor of the INS for six years until he was forced into retirement by illness. He developed pleurisy while covering the 1919 World Series. In July 1920, he traveled to Antwerp, Belgium to cover the 1920 Summer Olympics for the INS. In the fall of 1921, he developed tuberculosis after covering the Army-Navy football game in the rain. He was sent to a sanitarium in Ripton, Vermont, where he died of pneumonia in June 1922.