People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — BIC RELAY RACE. [ARTICLE]

BIG RELAY RACE.

Bicycle Riders tn Carry a .Message fnom New York to Chicago. Chicago, June s.—John Lawson, of the Monitor Cycling club 'and R. H. Winship were the starters at 9 o’clock this morning, from in front of the army headquarters in the relay race between New York and Chicago. It is the intention to start, off two riders in each one of the relays, each man carrying a message to Gen. Nelson A. Mlles in New York. It Is the Intention to make the trip in seventy-two hours, and each relay rider will do his best to cover hi* territory in as fast time as possible. Winship and Lawson covered the first eight miles of the course, which was from the Pullman building to Grand ’Crossing. At that point the riders turned over their sealed messages to R. R. Earl and J. J. Bezenek, who made the trip from Grand Crossing to Kensington, where they were relieved by Twyman and Ricker. . Hammond, Ind., June . s.—Twyman and Bicker, riding in the Chicago-New York relay race against time from Kensington to Hammond, arrived here at 10 if. o’clock tn good condition. The boys rhde the distance in nineteen minutes. There was no delay and,the ride was continued by Stewart and Spike, who went to Tolleston.,