New-York tribune., 1908-07-19
SWING THROUGH OHIO
Relny Runners Ten Hours ahead OF
Schedule Time.

Toledo. July 1s--The Young Mems Christian As
socation relay runners arrived at Fremont Ohio.
0:12 D. m, making the run from Bellevue 70
Fremont IN hour and IS minutes. The run was
made by men from Bellevue Department The race
will start again Monday morning at o'clock. when
Bellevue men will the to Toledo thirty
six miles. expecting TO arrive at a. m Toiedo
men will make the from this city to Adrian
Bellevue Ohio. July 1s.-The Young Mems Chris
tian Association messenger arrived here at $40
Fremont will be made In three hours
Iorafn Ohio July 1s-The Young Mems Chris
tan Association relay runner passed through here
twenty-five miles west of Cleveland, at Al p. m.
Cleveland. July 1s-The silver tubed message
from Mayor Mcclellan of New York to Mayor Busse
of Chicago. which is being relayed over the thou
Sand mile trip by Young Mems Christian Association
boys foot, arrived at the Central Young Mems
Christian Association in Cleveland at 1913 p m.
hours and 81 minutes ahead of the prearransed
schedule The last two miles of the run to the city
made through heavy rain
Since entering Ohio average speed OF only
six and three quarter miles hour has been main
tanned No stop was made here and the message
hustled on to the boys in Lorain. The dash
across the state will include day of rest proba-
bly, tomorrow, at Toledo. IL the present speed Is
maintained.
At an average rate of a little eight miles
an hour the boys have relayed the message from
tne New fOfk Clty Hall since last Wednesday
morning. each running, walking. jumping, wadins
and swimming, from half mile to three
miles. Over six hundred boys utilized In con-
veyng the silver tube to the Ohio state line Up
wards of IT'S boys will relay the message through
Ohio.
Until the tube carried the Ohio State
line. just east of Conneaut break occurred ex-
cept at Fredona. n. Y, last night. when one OF
the relay runners stationed about three miles
further west than expected. Lnneborn. the
hov uh fc havA h>ep relic al EredOnia.
had to make extra run, and did so In good form
and time was lost At Dunkirk the regular re-
lay was resumed, and the message sped on, unin-
terrupted. the northern end of Pennsylvania
and into Ohio.
At 2:47 a. m. the tube carried through Erie.
Penn. The Erie Young Mems Christian Association
carried the message to Ashtabula, Ohlo-
The Ashtabula boys delivered the tube to the boys
PanesvilIe. and they in turn delivered the mes
sage at Cleveland Here the message was received
nv s P Fem president of the board OF directors,
Central Cleveland Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton The boys also were met and Congratulated
by superintendent NJ D. Crackel. of the West Side
Young Mems Christian Association. who conceived
the relay race and carried out the details
The Toledo association boys will take the TUBE OUT
of the state to Adrian. Mich. From Adrian the
course will be to Coldwater. Mich. to south beno'
Ind and thence to Chicago
It is expected that the message will be dehvereo
TO Mayor Busse at the Chicago City Hall on Tues
schedule.
In leaving Ashtabula ten boys in an automonle
en- route to their respective relay points narro"ls
escaped with their lives In dashfng across rail-
tracks in front of a train AS they neareo lne ia
vay tracks IN the western end OF the city they
,oard tho hell ring to lower the gates. They also
saw freight train ahead. The lads feared the
delav might make them late at their posts. lheS
called to their driver to hurry across tne ua'NS
ahead OF the train a..
The driver put all speed, ana o'c"'ns MS
horn furiously that the gate tender "oulo ieaVs
.ba g,tes IN made race for Il. AT speed Oh
6fty miles an hour they crossed the tracks aheAo
of the freight tran.
1rron receiving bulletin that the New York
~h,.1o relay runners had arrived In Bellevue,
Ohio at $40 o'clock last night Central urne)' A. a
Jameson, head of the Twenty-third street ni@non
of the Young Mems Christian Associa''on' k
ont the following report of the race up TO tha'
point
The runners have now carried the message sent
bv Mavor Mcclellan to Mayor Busse Of Chicago.
s miles and they are 10 ho.rs ansaid Showing is
largely due the favorable weather conditions 'ha'
# the same average is maintained the mes
sage will be delivered at the City Hail IN Snicaso
Will be stopped over Sunday that ap
bsWsen nayTs nhsa hsre and Chicago
to get the actual time of the race The hrsr run .
ner left the City Ia in New York at 10 a. M last
It had been planned to stop the race at Beiie-
,yue Tonight so that the runners would not De on
the road Sunday morning. but the Western man
ayers of the race have found that the TRIP 70
Fremont can be made In three hours or less aIn
that the message will reach that city about II az
time and the race will continue tonight to that
city. A., . ,,-;,I ba
resumed The distance from Bellevue to Toledo
is forty-six miles. and Fremont is ABOUT
midway between the two cities, so that tne run
ners should arrive in Toledo at CLOCK Monuay
morning The next stage of the journey is 20
a distance of thirty mlieS iHe
ri,nners are due there at $50 o'clock. The next
RIM will he to Coldwater, Mich. sixty-eight miles
and this city should be reached at p. m NON
dav South Bend, Ind. seventy five miles from
C,oidwater is on the schedule for 2:22 a m Iues-
day: HYDE Park a suburb of Chicago and eienty, :,
seven miles from South Bend should be reached
by IL AS D. m. and then the last lap or tne reIay
a ten-uile stretch to the Chicago City Hail. VIII
he ali that remains between the runners and their
the city hall will probably be reached long before
2 O'Clock. 20 -.
Tt has taken s3s runners 81 hours and 22 min
tes TO cover this first section OF the Journey inc
average time made by the Western runners has
been better than that of the Fasteners FROM
Buffalo to Loran, Ohio, 112 boys ran the distance
in 90 hours an average of s6 miles an hour
against . 1 miles hour made by the Fasteners
The average time for the race so far as IL mas
progressed is minutes 25 u seconds mile
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