Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-10-08 | Page 7 | Poor Jack Coombs Hears News in Bed

POOR JACK COOMBS I HEARS NEWS IN BED PHILADELPHIA Oct S Business S. was practically suspended in n t the tc le center of this city yesterday while tho the game gamo between beleen the Athletics and Giants was in progress s sIn In n New York Crowds surrounded cure cure- boards In front of or the newspaper offices and at Rt oth other r places where the results of the camo amo were niven play ulav b by play Moro loro or I toan l spectators watched an an elec clec- trIo Scoreboard from the tho city hall hail while whilo others viewed the game In theaters theaters the the- the the- aters nearly all of or which had arran arranged to show chow the gamo game on screens as quickly as a a. play was made Pitcher John Coombs Coombe hero of ot two previous pre pro worlds world's series eries and the only player eligible to participate In the series not not at tho the Polo grounds received tho the report of or the came s-amo b by telephone at his bedside In n the university hospital Ills His wife and Mrs Ira Thomas were at park and told old him each play as fiS It was flashed on tho the Scoreboard there Coombs who is la suffering from twisted muscles is stretched out In bed with a pound 38 weight attached to his hili feet teet