Vol 1, No 23
Articles in this issue
- J. W. Alison's N.W. District report of the August 24th run to Essendon through thunderstorms, praising the newly discovered "Salisbury Crest" inn behind the church, found by the Finchley Bicycle Club's captain, where tea cost 1s. 6d.
- Report of the Otter Swimming Club races at the Marylebone Bath, where A. P. Stokes won the novices' 100 yards four yards ahead of Rucker, and Cleaver was beaten by Byrne Jones by a body's length in the final of the Ladies' Challenge Race.
- A. J. Bacon pilots Freeth as far as Canterbury at the start of his Venice ride, then loops home alone by Ashford, Cranbrook, Goudhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Hartfield, East Grinstead and Croydon, 159 miles, with notes on the walked Chatham and Boughton hills and a poor breakfast at the "Bull Inn."
- W. R. Sewell's 480-mile route notes on a hollow-spoke "Carver" via Winchester, Ringwood, Dorchester, Exeter, Dawlish, Torquay and Kingswear, correcting Newman's placing of the steep hill near Bridport and condemning twelve miles of the Langport–Wincanton road as the worst he ever rode.
- W. A. Smith's Routes 12–15: the "Bat and Ball Inn," Broadhalfpenny to East Meon over Highden Wood; Staple Cross to Wickham; Southampton to Botley and Wickham by Northam Bridge; and Basingstoke to Alton via Herriard and Bentworth, warning against riding down King's Hill.
- H. C. Freeth's journey ends short of Venice: after crossing the Vorarlberg and the Ober Innthal to Gargazon he broke the felloe of his back wheel between Gargazon and Botzen and turned for home over the Brenner, having had three falls.
- R. G. Francis continues his Normandy tour by La Bouille, the Foret de la Londe, Bourgtheroude and Brionne to Lisieux and Caen, soaked at Duranville and covered in Norman mud, lodging at the "Hotel d'Espagne" and the "Hotel d'Angleterre."
- "Suspender" traces the itching legs of a long ride to tight garters rather than the Club stockings, and recommends the 3s. 6d. india-rubber waistbelt-and-suspender arrangement he bought under the shop assistant's grin.
- Full heat-by-heat account of the three-miles handicap of the 22nd, in which W. T. Thorn (140 yards) beat H. L. Cortis of the Wanderers by a yard in 9 mins. 37 secs., with Quirk of Kingston third and East of the Surrey B.C. fourth; Parker and Dalton collided in heat 4, wrecking Dalton's Stassen.
- Second instalment: the pair reach Edinburgh by Dunbar and Haddington and are locked into Princes Street Gardens, then return south by Galashiels, Melrose Abbey by moonlight, Dryburgh, Selkirk, Hawick and Langholm to Longtown.
- Forthcoming meetings: the London Athletic Club at Stamford Bridge on August 31st, Windsor B.C. on September 7th, the Civil Service B.C. on the 14th, and Beckenham B.C.'s two-mile open handicap on the 28th.
- Members' machines offered for sale, including Gilbert F. Beck's 57-inch racing and 56-inch semi-racing "Humbers," H. V. Cleaver's 54-inch "Stassen" at £11, and A. Ogier Ward's 56-inch Norwood at £12.
- Solution naming Ward, Stokes, Alison, Falconer, Coleman, Turner, Williams and Thorn, with correct answers acknowledged from Cyril J. Turner, E. Scott, H. McMillan, F. M. Williams and "E. P. C. (sister of a member)."
- The acrostic solution (Gig, Eno, Rome, Afraid, Relief, Diligence, Call, Oil, Borne, Borrow); nobody solved it in full, A. S. Ister getting all but the last light, which the Editors concede was scarcely fair.
- The Editors explain that last week's letter signed "One from the West" was printed by accident, convey the writer's regret that his clumsy joke gave offence, decline to name him, and hope Mr. Smith will think no more of it.
- Brief replies to J. W. Alison, to "Wasp", that the Gazette does not knowingly insert ill-natured personal attacks, and to "Z."