Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
RELAY RUNNERS co ALONG
Triangular Course Over 163 Miles 10
Made in Sixteen Hours.
OMAHA CONTINGENT WAS SHORT
Instead OF Forty Boys, Only Twenty
One Left Here, Because Of Auto
ShOrtaEe-M of the
Mayors.

Young Mems Christian association rum
ners made 1853 miles in 16 hours and eight
minutes in their relay race from Omaha
to Lincoln to Fremont and back to Omaha.
1t was planned to have forty men from
each association to take part In the race,
but owing to the failure of the Omaha Au-
tomobile dealers to furnish the cars which
they had promised it was necessary at the
last minute TO cut the number of men down
to twenty-one from here to Lincoln.
The runners left the Omaha Young
Mems Christian association at 545 Satur-
day morning and at 1:5 that afternoon,
j. Fred Balther, Omaha's last runner, de
livered the following message from Mayor
Dahlman to the chief executive of the
capital city.
OMAHA, May %, 1eoe.-The Honorable
Mayor, Lincoln Neb. The Young Mems
this morning for Lincoln. Omaha sends
greetings. Boys will be dry so cam stop
IN your city very long. Please see they
JAMES c. DAHLMAN, Mayor.
Amid cheers the Lincoln men took a
message from their mayor and started with
II for Fremont. They delivered the follow
ing greeting into the hands OF the Fremont
mayor at 5:S p. M:
To the Honorable Mr.. Burrell. Mayor of
Fremont. Neb.-My Dear Sir: Lincoln sends
greetings to the city of Fremont and a mes
sage Of friendship and good will. We en-
trust 1t to fleet runners who represent our
young manhood, the best product the city
can produce, the safety and well-being OF
whom we consider to be of paramount i'm
With best wishes, I have the honor to
subscribe myself, very truly yours,
O l.. LOVE. Mayor.
Fremont Cheered Runners.
As soon as the message was read, the
Fremont boys started on their way to
Omaha, with the whole town cheering
them on. Leaving Fremont at SIS, they
covered their side of the triangle In three
hours and fifty-seven minutes, arriving at
Omaha at 9:53.
Each man was to run one mile, but as
the Omaha team was weakened by the
failure OF the auto supply. and as eight
of the men had to stop at Ralston and
return to the city to work. 1t was neces-
sary for the thirteen remaining men TO
run five miles each. Under these disad-
v~antages. the Omaha men covered the
distance of seventy miles. as registered by
the automobiles which accompanied them,
in seven hours and twenty minutes. Some
exceptional records we're made turing the
trip, and an average of four miles to the
man WaS4made.
Great enthusiasm was shown at m
and almost the entire town turned out to
give the men a send-off. Before the team
got out of town 1t was necessary for one
of the men to climb over a rapidly moving
freight train. Mayor Burrell's message to
Mayor Dahlmsn was:
Fremont, Neb.
Matt 1912: "And whosoever shall give
to drink unto these little ones a cup Of
cold water, he shall in no wise lose his
reward F. L. BURRELL, Mayor.
Not One Mishap.
The entire trip was made without the
slightest mishap and every runner finished
in the finest of condition. The distance
from Omaha to Lincoln. as run, was sew
enty miles, which was covered in seven
hours and twenty minutes. From Lin
coin to Fremont. fifty-five miles, was COW
cred in four hours and fifty-one minutes.
The run from Fremont to Omaha was thir-
weight miles and was made in three hours
and fifty-seven minutes
The Omaha runners were: ]. Fred Bal
thaser, George Aborlotes, Albert Cleveland.
A. B. Griffith. Mark Hughes, Lothard Jen-
sen, Clifford c. Keirle, Ralph Mason, Har-
Ian ]. McNab, William Parker, Emil Pc
terson, William Roe. Olger Rosengren Ell
mer Sandberg, Maurice Shlllington, Frank
Trcka, Alex Weidenfeld, Clarence Wendell,
Pete Wendell, Joe Writ, Edwin Rosenberg
and Non Wood