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Show Athlete George Simpson Was Almost Invalid When Boy George Sidney Simpson, Ohio State's dark-haired flash on the cinder path, was almost an invalid and under a nurse's care for several years svhen a youngster. Today he's the greatest track star his school has shown. He can thank Papa Simpson for his fleet feet. He realized the worth of exercise in the fresh air for his sick boy and bought George every kind of athletic apparatus he could find base-hall base-hall equipment, tennis racquets, golf clubs, basketballs and made him use them. " George won back his health and with that victory came an unflagging interest In athletics. "When you'd think he'd be all tired out, playing all day, George would be out playing basketball In the evenings with his chums," recalls his father, G. M. Simpson, a wholesale milliner of Columbus. "But now be always is careful to George Simpson. get plenty of rest before a big race and for two or three nights before he Is to run he goes to bed at 9 :30," he chuckled, remembering, perhaps, his youthful reluctance to desert play for slumber. |