The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-08-28
v. N c. a. aoYs CARRY MESSAGE
70 CHIEF PLENTY cous.
BILLINGS TO PRYOR
F,steea Russerv From Loca, u. u. c.
a, Cover Course o. sos Miles
With Messaas from Governor 20
ndlan chies-Crows TO Run Course.

Carrying q message from Governor
Norris to Chief Plenty Cous Of the
Crow Indian tribe the first Of the 7.
N. G. A. relay runners left the local
association building at 9:10 o'clock yes
terday morning and 8 hours and 81
n1nutes later the last Of the relay
team delivered 1t to Sub Agent Van
House. at Pryor. and he. translated II
and HANDED II to Chief Plenty Cous.
Saturday q relay team composed Of
Crow Indians will run over a similar
caurse carrying 9 message from the
chief to the governor.
The race was run in remarkable
time. averaging seven minutes to the
mile. Fifteen. mon entered In the eon-
test and the distance travelled was 300
mites..
The 4 was the third one OF the
kind run In America. One Of them
was fron Cleveland to Cincinnati and
the other from New York to Chicago.
In the latter race, 1871 boys ran 1902
niles Ut an average Of 6.3 minutes to
the mile. The roads were good. most
IL macadamixed. The roads travelled
By the Billings relay team were bad,
yet they averaged twice the distance
Of the eastern relay runner and aver
aged . mile In Z minutes. The oficials
Of the local association therefore are
pleased with the result Of the contest.
Bennette took the message at $40
o'clock, carried 1t two miles In twelve
minutes, when Mcdowell took It one
mile in 8 minutes to the first relay
station. Dan Large carried through
the second relay 10 miles in six min
utes, giving 1t to George Salisbury. who
went uphill a distance Of 6 mile in
three minutes. Station D was u by
Cal Holiday. Who covered the 3.3
miles In - minutes. Arthur Salisbury
carried 1t Il Of 9 mi4e up hill in four
minutes. George Mcdowell finishing
the last 100 yards. Tom Schlosser
covered station F in 20 minutes. q dis
lance OF 2h miles. Barton Dakin then
carried It up q bad hill q distance Of
Ia miles In 10 minutes. handing It to
joe Edd.., who went IL miles up hill
iii 3 minutes. The 80 miles Of station
b were covered by Harry Chapple, 220
yards. Jess 7. Hopkins, Y mile; Ger
aid Simpson, 2 miles and Henry Illus.
infeldt, tx miles, the time being %
minutes. George Mcdowell, the cham.
pien long distance runner Of the Z.
M. q. AZ, carried the message from
station y. a distance Of five miles,
in 81 minutes fiat, beating his record
made last spring over q similar dis
taace BY 20 seconds. Stations X. and
T., 81 miles were covered by Harold
Winters and Jess 7. Hopkins, the for
mer going FL. miles and the latter IL
mile, the time being IS minutes. Illus
infeldt, Mcdowell. Simpson and Win
ters made the 81 miles of stations n
and n in Is minutes. John Farrens
ran the last station, s of q mile, IN
4 minntes and delivered the message
II was expected that the Grow In
dams would start back with the mes
sage at once. but owing to delay II
Geographic communication plans mis-
carried and It was decided to have
them make the race later. probably
SATURDAY. Outside Of some sunburI
marks the local boys seem to expert
cree no diflculty.