Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-07-02
ihTER.CiTY RELAY RACE
CHARLOTTE TO ROCK HILL

and Tor the information of the
general public, the following
facts are submitted regarding
the inter-city bicycle relay race
for boys to take place on July
the 9th between Charlotte and
Rock Hill.
There will be three competing
teams of ten boys each, repre-
senting the three contending
cities. Charlotte, Fort Mill and
Rock Hill. The members of each
team will wear a streamer or
number tag Of one color: the
Rock Hill team wearing red,
Charlotte team white. and Fort
Mill team blue. in harmony with
the color scheme of the national
flag. This arrangement will al
so serve to inform the Specta-
tors along the way which team
from time to time is leading in
the race.
The mayor of Charlotte will
deliver a duplicate message of
greeting for the mayor of Rock
Hill to each of the three boys
who start the race in front Of
the Y. Nj. G. A. building at
Charlotte. These three starters,
one representing Charlotte, one
Fort Mill and one Rock Hill, will
ride out three miles from Char
lotte to the end of the first re-
lay. where three more riders.
one on each team. will be wait
ing to take the messages. and
these in turn will ride three
miles to the next relay station
where three more boys will re-
ceive and carry the message the
next three miles. and SO on till
the entire distance, approXi-
mately thirty miles, is covered.
The finish of the race will be
on Oakland avenue in front of
Winthrop college at Rock Hill.
The team which succeeds in de-
livering its message first to the
mayor Of Rock Hill, who will be
at the finish of the race, will be
the winning team. provided that
none of the members of that
team have violated the rules of
the race.
Starting from the Y. M. C.. A.
at Charlotte the race course pro-
ceeds out South Tryon street to
Moorehead street, thence cross
ing over Moorehead street bridge
one block to South Boulevard,
thence along South Boulevard to
the macadam road which
parallels the railroad for two or
three miles and crossing the
railroad veers off to the right
past Longs store and continuing
to the end Of the new Mecklen-
burg macadam road. From this
point the course proceeds along
the road passing the farms of
Victor Bales, and Major w. w.
Boyce. over the railroad bridge
near Springs place on to Fort
Mill, passing through Main
street at Fort Mill and out past
Griffin's store to the wagon road
bridge crossing the Catawba
river thence over the Whitner
road to the Cherry road finish
ing at Winthrop College. The
course will be marked with flags
or arrows at the various forks
and crossings along the way so
that the riders will make no mis-
take in following the race course.
Any boy under 1S years of age
in either of the three competing
cities is eligible to enter the
race. Each boy will provide his
own bicycle. The boys who are
selected to ride in the race will
be taken out in automobiles or on
the train to within an easy riding
distance of the relay station
assigned them.
The relay stations will lie
marked by Il United States ilag.
No boy can go back of his relay
station to meet the ON coming
rider who is to deliver him the
iilSSHdSC.
Five hundred feet in front of
the relay station a yellow flag
will be located to warn the rider
that he is approaching the next
relay station. Twenty yards
beyond the relay station a red
flag will show where each rider
after delivering his mes age to
his riding mate must cut off of
the course and wait till the
official car has passed. The
official car will contain a time
keeper for each city competing in
the race, the timekeepers also
acting as judges of the race.
The official car will follow i'm
mediately behind the rear rider