Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-20
RELAY RACE FROM GOTHAM
Y. M. C. A. LADS START ON LONG
JOURNEY TODAY.
Scheduled to Deliver Message
President Roosevelt Monday
Afternoon.

NEW YORK, November 2O.-More than
,O0O boy runners will take part in the
Y. NJ. c.. A. relay race to Washington
which will start from this city at 3 o'clock
this afternoon. Bearing silver tube con-
the first youngster will whisk away from
the International Branch of the Y. NJ. C.
A. in 2sth street. He will be quickly re-
lieved. however. the distance for each re-
lay being limited to $50 yards In this
way fast time will be made and the num-
ber of participants greatly increased. In
the race to Chicago last summer each
runner covered more than half mile.
The boy who was selected to make the
start has a patriotic sounding name, Pc
culiarly appropriate for the occasion. He
is George Washington Wilson of the
Washington Heights Y. NJ. c. A. Wheth-
er his selection was a coincidence or the
result of a decision of the committee on
arrangements was not made known.
Final arrangements for completing the
relay race from New York to Washington
with a message for the President of the
United States were announced this MORN
ing by the local Y. NJ c. A. committee In
charge. The schedule calls for reaching
Baltimore with the missive at 7:3O pm.
Saturday, a much later hour than origi-
nally planned. The best figures seem to
indicate O'Clock as the earliest possible
moment when the message can be deliv-
cred at the limits of the city OF Baltimore.
Lay Over Saturday Night.
The Washington runners will carry
the message as far as possible within
reasonable distance, but the committee
in conference this morning felt that it
would be unwise to run the boys OF
Washington after midnight over the dark
and very uncertain roads between Elk
ridge and Laurel. and that they would
let the message lay over until Monday
afternoon at a point as near Washing
ton as it can be carried before midnight
Saturday If, however, the message
should reach Baltimore at an earlier
hour than scheduled by the latest bull
letin received this morning the runners
will rush it through Saturday to the
President.
If layed over outside of Washington
Saturday night the school boys of Wash
ington will rush the message Monday
afternoon. and by short relays of fifty
yards from the Bladensburg road will
run it to Pennsylvania avenue and 18th
street. when the boy who has been chosen
to deliver it to the President will carry
the message from that point to the White
House steps.
The committees plans for the relay
from Baltimore are announced as follows:
In charge of first division, Baltimore city
limits to Elkridge, Leonard Paulson; in
charge of second division. Elkridge to
Laurel Chase Taylor; in charge of third
division. Laurel via Bladensburg road to
18th and H streets. e. ]. Worms A. NJ
Chesley. secretary boys department. Y.
NJ. c.. A.. Washington, will cover the en-
tire route. Baltimore to Washington. by
automobile and handle the finishing
stretch. Two hundred boys will partici-
pate in the run between Baltimore and
Washington. c. l.. Harding of the boys
work committee is in charge of the auto
of further autos to help handle the race.