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Waterville. Maine. I Jbwi 1 •= Ra3ji ^ I ¦ ¦ j . „ :: : .:. .:... - .. ; ::n : .^ ' I I Volume XIV Waterville , Maine , Novembe r 2, 1910 Number 5 I ^^^^ j L^ ^ ^ ^ GOOMBS NUMBER EaHHHiBM aBMiHaaaaHMaHHaMMin ^^ IV^HMBBnMlMH ^HVMMHBI ^HMBIM ^BaBMtHMBBHaMnM ^a^B^BB^MHHHBM ^^ MBMHMH ^MMMBB ^rfKM IF IN NEED OF \ ITountain pens, Boofts KXME,MBEIL Stationery, or Htbletic (Soobs Call on H. L. KELLEY & COMPANY i/fiat our desire to be f av- Cor. Main and Temple Streets ored, with i/our patron- WATERVILLE, ME. age is not stronger than . oar determination to de- serve it. sSlorace A urlnton Uo. Contractors AND <*/(. J/l. kOunltam C ompany Builders «77/e Studen ts Qtothiers Manufacturers of Brick ZHatters and Outfitters Estimates furnished on application. Heart office at Waterville, Maine . ¦¦¦ . ¦ ^ ¦¦¦¦¦ HMnHaHIMMI ^^ H ^ MB nHII ^MMHHH WATERVILLE AND FAIRFIELD RAILWAY E,. H. EMERY AND LIGHT COMPANY LEADING MERCHANT TAILOR Particular Attention Given to College Trade 116 Main St., Waterville, Me. 12 MAIN ST.. WATERVILLE Electric Supplies, Fixtures, Household Electric Devices, Electric Wiring. Cut Flowers MITCHELL & @0. EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL. FLORISTS. 144 Main St. Waterville, Me. Waterville Otypewriter (bzcliange 89 *Main St„ Wa ter oitte, ~Me. All kinds of TYPEWRITERS to sell and to tent. High Grade Supplies. Ticonic National Bank Next door below W. & P. Ry. Waiting1 Room. GEO. K. BOUTELLE, President. S, HALL, Cashier. < L. T. BOOTHBY & SON CO. HASCALL INCORPORATED Transacts a general banking business. GENERAL INS URANCE 176 Main Street, - Waterville, Me. loston University Metropolitan Advantages of every kind Une Sp ecialty Store W. E. HUNTINGTON. President. College of Liberal Arts. Opens Sept. 22. New Building, Enlarged Facilities. Science (Boats, Suits, > *M,i Uineru, Laboratories and Gymnasium. PS £^L Address, The Dean, 688 Boylston St. Qorsets, Gloves, Waists, VSM ((/) School of Theology. Opens Sept. 21. Address, The Dean, 72 Mt. Vernon St. and Ccnderivear. *yl dJ(V v( rv School of Law. Opens Oct. 1. (livvM College graduates of high rank may take the ll\\'/)) three years' course in two years. Address, The Dean, Ashburton Place. Ss fj l of J^j crtV School Medicine. Opens Oct. 2. U/out/er ^Jj rothers yj\ttv ' Address, The Dean, E. Concord St. KfJ) \N) Graduate Department. Opens Sept 22. "' v3 Address, The Dean, 688 Boylston St. Globe 3team Laun dry R. M. HUSSEY, Agent A. T. SI. House lYatclit/ils £>pace f or y WentwortA's >^\d. WRI ^4 GHT * & DITSON !™ : ™SS.. Catalogue of ..Athletic Goods.. TIME FLIES is out, and should be in the hands of everyone interested in sports WINTER COMES The Foot Ball , Basket Ball and Hockey Goods are made up in the best models, the best stock and . are official : : : : : : : . • Everyone admits that the Wright cfe Ditson Sweaters, Jerseys, Shirts, Tights and Shoes are superior in every way. Our goods are gotten til) by experts who know how to use them. CATALOGUE FREE WRIGHT & DITSON Mike Tailors 344 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 18 West 30th Street • 84 Wabash Avenue New York City, I Chicago, 111. Harvard Square I 76 Weybostet Street ¦ ¦ Cambridge, Mass. • Providence, R I. , ; ¦ ¦; ¦ • ¦ ROOM 6 ^/i. Cu. Sprague NORTH COLLEGE COarSer staple. Street J/eat * S)rug Store JOHN WESLEY COOMBS i J ^ CONTENTS. has not forgotten Colby. The name of the The Premier Baseball Pitcher of the World . .35 college is frecently on his lips when he Coombs Fulfills a Prophecy . .... 36 Coombs as. a Comedian . , . - . ; . 36 tells of his early experiences on the dia- Cupid Trims Athletics . 37 mond, and Colby men cannot but be grate- Jack a Good Loser . ." . ..... 37 A Favorite in Philadelphia . ... 37 ful to one who remembers the college in Fred Owen Tells About John Coombs ...... 37 the glad hour of his triumph. Cracked Rib Didn't Matter . .38 Coombs' Hammer . 39 John Wesley Coombs was born in Le- Bowdoin, 6; Colby, 5 .............. 39 grand, Iowa, Sept. 12, 1882.' He received Editorial ....................40 Mass Meeting ...... ............ 40 his educational training at Coburn Classical Colby Man Makes Good ...!....... , 40 Institute,, where he was a leader in the Visit of E. C. Mercer . , ........ .41 Coburn Classical Institute News ... , . .41 class room as well as in athletics. Coombs Directory . .".. 42 came to Colby in the fall of 1902. He Intercollegiate Notes . ... ... 42 high ' college Campus Chat , . ..... '... .-. .. ... 43 stood in his work and was DeFeminis . .................; 44 prominent in ", all 'branches of athletics', showing remarkable versatility. He made THE PREMIER BASEBALL PITCHER every team in college, and is entitled to OF THE WORLD. wear baseball, football, track and basket- ball C's." For four years he was a reg- That is what the sportin g writers pi the daily press are calling John W. Coombs, ular Varsity pitcher, and during his last Colby, '06, who is rememb.erd among his two years in college was captain of the Waterville , and Colby admirers as plain Varsity nine. He won two championships "Cy " Coombs. That title . "Cy " was a for Colby, one in 1904, and again in his borrowed one,, taken . from the fame of Senior year in 1906. ' Before his graduation, another baseball master, but now Cy has Coombs received many offers from maj or become "Jack" a sobriquet all his own. league managers, but not until his diploma He acquired it three years ago when he was safely in his pockets did he sign the secured a place, on the Philadelphia Athlet- contract which had been left with him by ics, and it became truly his in the great 24- Mr. Cornelius McGillicuddy, ( Connie Mack ) ihning game which he won ,from Boston, the astute manager of the Philadelphia hut howy when Coombs has performed the Athletics. Coombs reported to manager unprecedented feat of winning three out of Mack immediately after his graduation, five games in which his team contested for and he had not been in big league company world's championship honors, he stands three days before he was placed on the first among, the. athhitic heroes of . the day. mound, and his first game was a victory spite of over the Washington American League . It is refreshing to note that in ' the honors , that have come to him, he re- team by a score of 3 to 0. mains as unassuming and modest as ever. Coombs achieved international fame by In the interviews which have been secured winning the 24-inning game with the Bos- from by enterprising reporters, we ton American League team by a score of him : observe the same • John . Coombs whom we 4 to % which was a record performance in , admired W§?n he wore the Colby Blue. American League annals. Last June And it is also a pleasure to note that he Coombs returned to Colby, and on Monday of Commencement week, backed by the for the Boston Americans. Like every mi members of his old team, with two ex- other New England "phenom" of those H ceptions, trimmed the Colby Varsity 3 to 1. days, the name of "Cy " was applied to m Somehow this achievement appeared to him , and it was as "Cy" Coombs that M give him courage, for immediately after Connie Mack heard of him when he was M returning to the Philadelphia team he sur- pitching Colby College into baseball cham- 11 prised his greatest admirers by greater pionships in ' Maine. ||j success than he had ever before secured. Mack watched the collegian's career and II During the past season, he has pitched sent scouts to look him over. The result mi nearly double his share of games, and it was that in 1906 Coombs started for Phila- Ijj was largely due to his efforts that the Phil- delphia-to join the Athletics, leaving be- ||j adelphia team won the championship of hind another championship for Colby. mi the American League. He reached Philadelphia at noon. Get- if When the^orld's series began, it was ting into a uniform, he warmed up before K conceeded that Coombs was the best pitch- the afternoon game. After the contest || er on Connie Mack's staff , but in the first Mack was sitting in his office talking with I game played at Philadelphia, Coombs was Burnham, when Coombs entered. |§ said to show wildness. Not at any time, ' 'Are you planning to work me tomor- l || howeyer, did he lose his head, but pulled row?" he asked, without hesitation. H his team out of many difficult situations The manager paused and then replied in H| with the result that a decisive victory the negative. H was gained. In the first game at Chicago, "Well, I thought I would ask you, Mr. II Coombs again showed his old time form, Mack, because I intend to go to the theatre' R| and pulled off a second win for the Athlet- tonight. Of course, if you were going to 11 ics. Chief Bender, the mighty, lost the use me tomorrow I shouldn't do anything El following game, and it was Coombs or that would }put me out of condition." H nothing for Connie Mack. In spite of great When the manager had repeated his as- mja pressure to put in other pitchers on his sertipn Coombs went out and Mack, turn- H staff , Connie Mack saw that Coombs was ing to Burnham, said: • H the one man who could win the world's "What do you think of the nerve of that II championship. The result of the final game recruit?" H which the Athletics won by a score of Then, as if struck suddenly by the other H 7 to 2 is too recent history for repetition side of the episode, he added : . H here. It is sufficient to say that every "Say, Walter, I like that fellow's nerve.
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