VOL 10.
MAY 8, 1908,
Relay Time
Crack Chemawa Athletes Gradu
ally Draw Away From Associa
tion Runners and Hand Gove
nor's Message to Mayor Lane 24
Minutes Ahead of Portland Men.
Covered with mud and slush, unex
pected and with scarcely anyone to wel
come him but Mayor Lane, Amog Smok
er, the Chemawa Indian school half breed,
finished the final lap of the 50-mile re
lay race from Salem to Portland in grand
Ftyle at 2:16 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
giving his team a record of .5 hours and
16 seconds for this distance.
The street was blocked a moment after
the red runner delivered Governor
Chamberlain's message to Mayor Lane
at the Y, M, C. A, building, Fourth and
Yamhill streets, and some hundreds of
people tried to shake hands at once
with the hero of the moment, Chemawa
broke her record of last year over the
Bame course by 10 minutes,
Some 20 minutes later a whjtetrunked
ilgim appeared at the brow of the Fourth
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