Word: simpsonitis
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...four athletes selected to represent the United States in the track and field games at Stockholm, Copenhagen and Chistiania in October should hold their own among the best all-round competitors in the world. The team includes Simpson of the University of Missouri, Murray of San Francisco, Mededith of Philadelphia and J. G. Loomis of Chicago. Both Simpson and Murray, the late two additions to the team, are holders of world's records. The athletes will leave for Europe September 28, and are expected to return November 18. The meetings arranged are as follows...
...yard high hurdles, final.--Won by Simpson, Missouri; second, Gubbe, Cornell; third, Ames, Illinois. Time, 15 sec., equalling world's record...
...Simpson of Missouri equalled the world's record of 15 seconds flat in the 120-yard high hurdles, while Mucks of Wisconsin threw the discus 145 feet 11 1-2 inches, thereby breaking the collegiate record by 5 feet 9 inches...
...Simpson '18, who is now in the service of the Royal Flying Corps of the English army, has been mentioned in dispatches by Marshal Sir John French for gallant and distinguished services in the field. Simpson, who attended school at Eton, left college soon after entering in October, 1914. On his return to England, he accepted a second lieutenancy in the Sixth Dragoons. Subsequently, he received a commission as lieutenant in a division of the Royal Flying Corps...
...Kent Bromley, Thomas Bradley Buffum, Alan Cunningham, Ira Dudley Farquhar, Thomas Powell Fowler. Jr., Stuyvesant Le Roy French, Frank Simpson Graydon, Donald Dunbar Harries, Stephen Perry Jocelyn, Jr., Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr., Bruce Salyers Nichols, John Gurley Quinby, Jr., John Sedgwick Noyes Sprague, John Liberty Kimberly and Richmond Young...