Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-10-13 | Page 8 | Weighted down with Irons on a Hospital Cot Jack Coombs Cried because He Couldn't Get into the Game

WEIGHTED DOWN WITH IRONS ON A HOSPITAL COT JACK COOMBS CRIED BECAUSE HE COULDN'T GET INTO THE GAME j L TA UI L I Ip f fACH ON mON IRON MAN JACK COOMBS As Aa he looked while receiving reports report on the worlds world's series games ganes on his cot in tIle the hospital While the Athletics were battling desperately for the worlds world's champion ship which h ho had won for them in t two wo past seasons Iron Man Jack Coombs their backbone pitcher lay on a weighted down with irons helpless help help- less as child in the tho of the a hospital U University of Pennsylvania And just like a little child the tho ir ir on man wept as he told of his yc yearning to be on the field fighting with his team mates in tile the great struggle Convalescent from irom typhoid on tho the o e vo ye of the world series this year he be b bad had beon been on ca getting goUin Into trim to play HIS part in in tho the battle lt It lt would be SO SOME SOM ME nj P ART he knewl Already h In in m 1911 1911 Coombs bad had fai face faced ft rJ d d the tic Jin CHon Giants in in n a o world series eries campaign and and had humbled them them toem in two in glorious gamest games In 1910 he had taken three out of four from the Cubs In 1913 h ho 0 W was 9 to have bave faced tho Giants again Then came the relapse Harmful poisons secreted in his system as a a. result re re- sult salt of his typhoid fever threatened to affect his spine ine He went wont back to the hospital Heavy weight attached to his head hoad and feet served to pull puB apart the tho vertebrae of the spinal column and allow tho blood to carry earty off ff the poison pOlson of the games were phoned to h his wife at the end of each Mch inning