Vol 2, No 10
Articles in this issue
- A protest that matter from the Gazette has been reprinted in other columns without leave: the copyright in articles and letters printed on this private sheet belongs to their writers, and unauthorised republication is an actionable piracy as well as a breach of the delicacy owed to a club's private papers.
- Minutes of the Committee meeting of 21st April 1879 electing Alfred Fowler, Edward Steane Price, Hume Young and John Blyth Fleming to membership, and accepting Mr. Alison's offer to stand on Reading Railway Bridge on the Bath road and tell members riding for the medals their position in the race.
- Ernest C. Koch asks members to settle at once for concert tickets sold and return the unsold ones, with Post Office orders payable at Lombard Street, and asks each steward to report exactly what he took for programmes.
- Four weeks of divisional meets tabulated by district, Lea Bridge Road and Syborn's Corner for Waltham Abbey, Abridge and Chigwell Row; Jack Straw's Castle for Northolt, Welwyn, Harefield and St. Albans; Acton Church, Golder's Green and Harlesden Green; and the Griffin Hotel, Kingston and Central Croydon Station for Ockham, Westerham, Crawley and Ripley, including a joint meet with the C.U.Bi.C. at Welwyn.
- District captains' reports: Francis Godlee on nine N.E. men to the 'Old Thatched House,' Epping via Buckhurst Hill and Loughton; Palmer Dalton on a thin turnout to Ridge and the ponderous machine ducked in the water splash; W. A. Smith on the Western circular run to Elstree via Bentley Priory, where one John Bartrum of Wood Hall Farm, Pinner, half drunk, upset a rider; and the S.W. and S.E. divisions meeting at the 'White Horse,' Dorking.
- A warm notice of the concert at the Langham Hall, praising secretary E. C. Koch, conductor F. Jolly and M. D. Rucker, jun., and running through the programme from the Strauss 'Wein, Weib und Gesang' waltz to Miss Johns's encored 'La Serenata,' the Captain's 'Olivia,' H. W. Bridges's 'The Silver Cup' and the closing 'Dreamland' waltz.
- W. A. Smith rides from Kew via Leatherhead and Dorking down the supposed Roman Stone Street towards Billinghurst, is misdirected by a countryman at Roman Gate and adds six miles in a blinding snowstorm; he commends Mr. Mott's inn at Billinghurst and the Eagle Hotel at Midhurst, and describes the view from Hartwig Hill.
- Dated list from the Surrey Bicycle Club at Kennington Oval on April 26th to the Pickwick Bicycle Club at the Alexandra Palace on July 5th, taking in the L.B.C.'s evening and race meetings at Stamford Bridge and the Bicycle Union 1, 5, 25 and 50 mile championships.
- Jos. C. Keynes describes the eleven-foot single wheel built by King, a Wimborne smith, for an enterprising watchmaker, a hundred spokes, a pot-hole for the rider to climb through, a seat slung from the axle and chain drive from the treadles, and doubts how it is to be started or stopped; he then rides home to Shaftesbury through snowflakes the size of half-crowns.
- Palmer Dalton's 126 miles with Marchant and Alison from Virginia Water to Petersfield, taking in the Civil War ruins of Basing House, the Roman walls of Silchester ('Calleva'), Stonehenge and the Cursus, Old Sarum, and an hour spent buried in a haystack near West Meon to escape the snow.
- Part one of the Easter tour of E. H. Carr, J. Franklin, A. Herbert and E. H. Hindley from Croydon via Guildford and the Devil's Punch Bowl to Southsea and Ryde, forty machines piled outside the 'Dolphin' at Petersfield and one Salisbury lamp beaten flat by a fallen rider, ending at Carisbrooke Castle and its donkey-drawn 240-foot well. To be continued.
- Captain M. D. Rucker, jun. announces a three miles open handicap at the L.A.C. grounds, Stamford Bridge, on Tuesday May 27th at 6 p.m., with gold, silver and bronze medals and entries of 2s. 6d. to the Hon. Sec. by May 17th.
- Report of the bicycle handicap at Stamford Bridge, with heats won by M. Pritchard (Druids), H. L. Cortis (Wanderers, from scratch) and J. R. Hamilton (Druids), and Cortis taking the final by two feet from Baker after picking up the long starts; Wyndham, Thorn, Rucker and Koch rode for the L.B.C.
- Palmer Dalton answers 'Goethe' on meet cards, arguing that a card must be adhered to and so hampers a captain who rides out weekly to find new places, tea and a bathe; and A. H. Garvey excuses his missing account of the Bath run, having made a 'slowest on record' with Woodall and O. Thorn and then given up at the 'Lansdowne,' Calne.