Evening journal., 1908-11-12
LOCAL BOYS
RELAY RACE
Members Of the Y. M. c. A.
of This City Will Carry
Message to President
WILL DASH FROM HERE
TO HAVRE DE GRACE, MD.

sevcnty-six boys Of the Wilmington
y. NJ. c. a. will run from this city to
IIavre dc Grace. Nd. in the relay race
by the members OF the boys department
of the Y. NJ c. A. Of cities along the
route from New York to Washington.
d. c., to start from New York a week
from next Saturday 1t will have for its
purpose the delivery OF message from
Richard G. Morse. secretary Of the In
tcrnational y NJ. c. A, TO President
Roosevelt. the purporl Of which win be
the welfare of the boys Of America.
on November q at 6 "a. m. the first
relay will leave New York under the
charge Of A. A. Jameson, and the relays
will continue the rest of the distance.
The message will be brought to this city
by boys of the Chester " NJ. G.. A.. prob
ably. who will be met at Tenth and
Market streets by the boys Of the local
association Leroy Smith. Of the boys
department Of the Wilmington associa-
tin. will have charge of the squad from
this city. Mr.. Smith this afternoon
went with w. D. HaddocS to arrange
a route to Havre de Grace The boys
of the Baltimore association are to take
the message at Iiavre de Grace. The
distance at Havre dc Grace is about 30
miles, and the boys will travel about
seven miles an hour.
The race is strictly Tor the boys who
are members of the association. and any
boy between the age OF i3 and Is, who Is
,ffrril,fa mos. aufQr f1p contest
The end Of the first day relay will be
Newark. n j.. and the runners Of both
Newark and Elizabeth viii continue to-
ward the south until they reach Tren-
ton. where the relay team Of that city
will take the message and proceed to-
ward Philadelphia. There they will de-
liver the letter to j. G. Hammacker.
who win hand il to the squad that will
make the run from Philadelphia to Ches-
ter. The run from Chester to Whining
ton Is regarded as the most difficult OF
the tourney because Of the hily country.
The boys Of the Baltimore association.
having taken the message from the VIII
mington boys az Havre dc Grace will
continue the sprint toward the capital
The following are the boys who viii
probsblv make up the Wilmington team
j. Andrew iiulAtt IhHNt AfetN'~'1f -''ttfft'
shallcross. Louis Gitney. aea~y Robinson
BIN Murphy Erdman Ho!'ef siewar
Pryor. Earle Coffin. Walter Aurand Mal
ter Haines. Arthur Goldbers. Joseph zen
lSins. samuel Cooling. EdSar Goldberg
Elias HAYWARD, Walter Naaaerson. Pau
Hughes. Stewart Moystin. Mewyn Scott
Wilton. Brown. Elias Wha.er, Horace
Carl. wis Rowland. Auson Hess llenr.
pyle. Norman Smith Harold Webb
Henry Clash. Harold Thompson, Edwar'
Bianken. Clarence Cardwcll. Normal
Jones Scott Thompson Thos HILL VIII
liam Thielman. Marvil Armstrong, JOIN
Wertz Juotis Davidson. Fred Whitehead
Norman Mcdaniel. Willard Mcclure. Ari
Adair. Robert Layneld. Harry Toppin
Ralph Alexander. George Shen. Haroh
Wen. Carl Brown. Tenny Mason. Osborn
Biddle. Leon Neck. II. Winner. Franci
Kerrigan. DuShanc Coward. IL. Springle
Willard Logan. Charles Latimer Fred
Mathews. Fred Gibnev. Willard Heald
Algot Salilin. Louis Coke. Woodman
Henry Warner. Francis Blaine. William
Fulton. Walter Blocher. Harvey Baker
! Herbert Potts. Fritz Edward. William
Taylor. William Prickett Earle Sou
der. Ralph Durstein. Leon Stayton.