Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1918 — SIMPSON WAS TOO OBLIGING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SIMPSON WAS TOO OBLIGING

Missouri Sprinter Nearly Lost Relay Race at Philadelphia in Effort to Recover Hat. Students at the University of Missouri are discussing the unexpected slowness of Bob Slmpsop at the special high hurdle race at the relay games of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, Bob won his race, but with the—for him— unusually slow time of 15:2-5, four-fifths of a second slower than his world’s record and the slowest competition time he has made in two years. The explanation given by members of the Missouri mile relay team is that the starter’s hat blew off after the men had lined up for the race. Bob obligingly started to recover it, but the revolver was shot and the race thus started before the Missourian regained his position.

He overtook his opponents, it was said, by running one of the fastest races In his life, but of course the timer’s watch could, not give him credit for that

Bob Simpson.