The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-05
THE BICYCLE RELAY RACE.
The Riders Arrive An Hour Ahead of
Schedule Time.


The bicycle relay race from Bangor to
Portland, arranged to take place last Sat-
urday by the Bangor Y. M. G. A. was
most successful. MI. H. Jones. the last
relay.rider from Freeport, dismountnd at
the Portland Y. M. G. A. rooms at exact
ly five p. M, one, hour ahead of schedule
time. He bore this message to Secretary
Mcdonald.
BANGOR, Me-, a. m.
Inc Bangor Young Mems Christian Associa-
IONS greetings to the Portland association, with
Ine nope mat the benevolent citizens may soon
give tnem building as fully equipped for the
pnysylcai, social, intellectual, and spiritual up
pu.i4 W OF young men, as we reJolce IN Ban
gor young Mems Christian Association"
The start was made from the Bangor
Z. M. z. A. building in Bangor, at 6 a.
M, when Mr.. Veazie of Bangor took the
message. His distance was twelve miles
and the rest of the fifty-eight miles to
Waterville was covered by w. Hunt, F.
Flynn, H. Hartman and E. L. Meylan.
From Waterville to Gardiner the relays
averaging seven miles each were covered
by Cook, Herbst, Hallock and Drum
mond of Waterville, and Cook rode into
Augusta at 1.02 p. M, being fifty min
utes ahead of time.
The run from Richmond village to
Brunswick was made in three relays of
two men each as follows: First, Charles
Stinson and Ernest Herbert; second,
James R. Griffin and T. J. Southland, End;
third, Charles B. Day and Sidney Rowe,
all members of the Richmond Wheel
Club.
The message was taken by Stinson at
about 1923 p. M, whose run of six miles,
to within two miles of Bowdoinham vii
lage, was made in nine minutes.
From there the next run was to where
the road to Bath branches off from the
main road, and thence the third run was
to Brunswick. Part of the distance be-
tween Bowdoinham and Brunswick is
over sandy roads, hard for the wheelmen.
The second relay, six and one-half
miles was done by Griffin and Southland
in thirty-one minutes. Part of it was
over newly made road. The third relay,
four miles, Day and Rowe, took twenty
minutes. The total time from Richmond
to Brunswick. sixteen and one-half miles
was one hour and twenty minutes.
Brunswick was reached one hour and
twenty-three minutes ahead of time.
Ordway and Coburn covered the dis
lance between Brunswick and Freeport,
making the nine miles in AZ minutes, ar
irving there at 1882 p. m. The message
was Immediately taken possession of by
A. A. Hazelton and O. Reid, who carried
it to Yarmouth six miles distant, arriv-
ing there atfour o clock. At Yarmouth,
Fl. Russ took the message and pedalled
away to Falmouth, where he arrived at
1872. At that point Herbert Jones took
the message and set out for Portland six
miles away. He reached Tukey's bridge
in just twenty minutes, and as we have
said, the Y. M. C..'A. rooms at o'clock.
tits the intention of Secretary McDon-
aid to arrange return relay race, if pos
sible, to be participated in by members
of the Portland Wheel Club. Messrs.
Hezeltine, Russ and Jones, the relay rid
ers from Freeport, spent the evening, in
the city and were entertained at the
house of Secretary Mcdonald.
Jones would have made better time
from Freeport, but his saddle broke de-
laying him five minutes. The roads
were deep in dust