The record-union., 1892-04-25
SACRAMENTO WON.
The Capital City Wheelmen Get Away
With the Oak Leafs.
Yesterdays Relay Race Between Sac
ramento and Stockton-An Inter
esting Event.

The relay bicycle race between team
of five men from the Capital City Wheel
mems Club and an equal number from
the Oak Leaf Club of Stockton, which
had been talked of for several weeks.
came off yesterday. 1t was won by the
Sacramento men, who made the run
from Stockton to this city, distance OF
fifty-two miles, in three hours, nine MIN
utes and twenty-three seconds, the Stock
ton men being eleven minutes longer In
making the ride.
The time agreed on for the start was L
O'Clock NJ, but it was put off until l:oO
o'clock, owing to delay in getting the
Oak Leaf relays to their respective sta
tions along the road.
Promptly at the latter hour the first OF
the Stockton men started from in front OF
the Postal Telegraph Company, on Sec
ond street, in this city, and at the same
instant the first Sacramento man started
from the telegraph Office in Stockton.
The one who left here was A. L. Wulff,
who went off amid the applause of large
crowd of people who had gathered at the
starting-point. He was accompanied by
several ambitious young riders, whom
he soon left far behind him.
The starters and judges at this end OF
the route were: w b. Morrill, for the
Sacramentans and A. II. Ashley for the
Stocktonians. AT Stockton the judges
were: NJ. S. Lavenson for the Sacrament
ans and G. +. Hutchinson for the Stock
tonians.
Wulff rode to point about a mile and
a half south of Florin, where he delivered
copy of the RECoRD-UNIoN to L. X.
Lille, whose run was to the Costumes
River. Here the paper was handed to
John III. Bargmann, who sped with 1t to
Gait, where George Swain snatched II
and dashed off TO a point twelve miles
from Stockton. There it was transferred
TO Robert Inglis, who rolled off his wheel
in front of the Stockton office at 4:5l P. NJ,
only to learn that the copy of the Stock
ton Mat carried by the Sacramento man
had been delivered in this city eleven
minutes before.
l.. S. Upson, Captain of the Capital City
Club. opened the ball for Sacramento at
the Stockton end of the road. He handed
his message to G. S. Wells, who passed
it on to G. G. De Merritt, he to George
Hudson. The last of the Sacramentos'
relay men was w. A. Dexter. and he
made great race into the city, being ac-
companied by number of would-be
coachers. There was a large crowd on
the street to greet him, and he was
abundantly cheered.
Indeed, all along the route the people
turned out and greeted the riders with
cheers as they whirled along.
The Capital City team would have made
even better time, had not one of its men,
Wells, lost his way between Lodi and
Gait. He wandered nearly mile from
the road, and finally had to go to farm
house TO ask his way.
Each club had judges at the several re-
lay stations, to see that everything was
done on the square. The race passed Off
pleasantly, although the Stockton men
claim that the Sacramentans had little
the advantage of them by having the wind
at their backs. The Capital City riders,
however, declare that the wind blew
across the road from the west, and
that neither side had any advantage
on that score. DeXer says that his
run into the city was made right in the
face of strong breeze.
The race was for a trophy, or silk pen
nant. If the Stockton team had won, the
trophy would have been presented to
them by the RECoRD-UNIoN, the Stock
ton Mail to do the handsome thing if the
Sacramento men should win. Hence, the
pennant will come to this city.
A professional wheelman, named Hop
kins, left Stockton early yesterday morn
ing and made the run to Sacramento in
three hours and twenty eight minutes.