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Show GEORGE SPEEDS AS iTHE POLICE HUNT Four-Year-Old Chicago Boy Pedals Ped-als Tricycle Ten Miles Through Busy Streets. DODGES ALL DANGER Goes on Vlilt In Automobile With Par. enta and Decide to Ride Home on Hla Trusty Wheol Four Hours Making the Run. Chicago. Alt long dlstanco records, national, International and Interplanetary, Interplane-tary, for that matter, for llttlo boys four years old riding tricycles bareheaded bare-headed In black shoes and stockings and white Jumper suits were smashod to smithereens the other afternoon. Tho now champion Is Ocorge Hols, also known as Jo and Georglo, ton I of Dr Georgo W. Hols. Ho pedaled , continuously flthout let, Btop, or bin- j Irnnco from 801 Windsor nvonuo to his t nomo, 3247 Armltngo avenuo, about ten miles. Ho triumphed over many per- i ils of tho road, Including strango dogi hiul rnllrood and Btrcct car tracks, and urrlvcd at tho end of his marathon as Ircsh as a dnlay. When his mother and father announced an-nounced early lu tho ufternoon that they wcro going over to tTTd residence of George Uemus, at 801 Windsor avenue, ave-nue, for a lslt In their nutomobllo, and that Georgo had hotter got hit lace washed If ho wanted to go along, tho young nthlcto went out quietly to the back yard und brought his trusty trlcyclo around and placed It In the car. Then he performed his ablutions with a docility that astonlshod his mother, " When tho rtols party arrived at the Ilemus domicile Guorglc HUbmlttcd to being chucked under tho chin and asked what his namo was and what he x Intended to bo when ho grow up to a man. Ho showed not ono of his customary cus-tomary HlgtiH of discontent. Hut after all tlicflo tedious social formalities wero over Georgia mado an announce ment. "I (leas I'll do out and tako a wldo," said ho. I This was about four o'clock. At . about flvo ft was discovered that i Gcorglo was missing. I)y 5:30 Mrs. ltcls wna nearly distracted. At six Dr. Hols, who had been down town on business, arrlvod nt tho Uemus 2 hoiiBo In tho car. Mrs. Rets promptly I foil upon her husband's neck. A ii -!:- llpJii' rnWiA the. pBrkJ-.-ite Slo-' " tlflcd nil tho stations of tho North and Northwest side and bulletins wero M sent out to look for a small boy, bare i ' i Attending Strictly to His Road Work. headed and n earing a white- Jumper suit, with shoos and stockings of conventional con-ventional btaok Meanwhile Georgia was attondlng i strictly to his rood work. His objoc- i tlvo point was his homo at 3247 Armltngo avenuo, and ho know tho road thoroughly, becauso ho had traveled trav-eled tho routo betweon It and the ItenniH hotiBo In his father's car doz- ens of times. When tho tricycle champion turned Into Armltago avenuo It wsb eight -- o'clock, and dusk was descending, Mrs. Itols was Btupdlng on tho porch and straining her eyes Into tho distance, I" and her husband was standing boslde 1 her fooling Just about as bnd as It Is possible for a fathor of a young "Tri-' "Tri-' cycle Mike" to feel. l, Suddenly thcro came from down at the cornor tho faint but steady "clank, clank, clank" of weary llttlo legs pushing push-ing hard ug.ilnst stubborn pedals, and then a llttlo llguro In whlto loomed up In tho twilight. "O, Gcorgle!" exclaimed Mrs Ileli, i clasping her small marlthoncr "O. muwer." said Georgto, "dlv mo yiv somflnk to eat." |