Vol 2, No 30
Articles in this issue
- Roused at 3.30 a.m. by an old man blowing a horn on every landing, the party watches sunrise from the Rigi Kulm among 200 people, telescope-men and hawkers of carvings, then sees a chalet burning on a distant mountain. They run down by car and steamer to Lucerne, the covered bridge, the Swiss Lion, Rucker resisting the wood-carving shops, praise the beautifully engineered Swiss roads, and at the "Trois Rois" find Trollope recovered and Marchant taking his place on the sick list.
- The Editor (J.S.S.) claims space for once to thank Dalton and Alison, who picked him up and saw him home to Frognal after a Wednesday-evening spill riding from Hampstead to Kew by moonlight, and hopes to have helped train them for the S. John's Ambulance Society. Battered, he went on the next night to Portsmouth and Ryde to join the gunboat "Esk" for Naval Volunteer gun-drill, and was credited with two direct hits with a 64-pounder in a rolling sea.
- "Disc" argues the bicycle shows to best advantage at a garden party, where the rider has no hot horse, no flirting groom and no strain on his host's stabling, and can slip away while the Boodels' fly is being driven off by the Milburds. He then describes little Grebe's showy nickel-plated brakeless "garden-party machine," which pitched him over the head down a lawn slope; Grebe landed on his feet, caught the handles, struck an attitude, and told the admiring ladies he got off like that "hardly ever."
- Seven dates, from Clapham B.C.'s mile at Stamford Bridge on September 13th, through Beckenham, Kildare A.C. at Lillie Bridge, Grafton C.C. and Arion B.C., to the L.A.C. meetings at Stamford Bridge on October 4th and November 1st.
- The district table: Lea Bridge Road and Syborn's Corner for Chigwell and Harlow (N.E.); "Jack Straw's Castle" for Hatfield and for Ewell, meeting the S.W. at Kew Green (N.W.); Harlesden Green and Kew Green circular runs (W.); the "Griffin," Kingston for Windsor and Kew Green for Ewell (S.W.); and Central Croydon for Riverhead and the circular run to Ewell (S.E.), plus the standing Wednesday evening runs from Acton Church and Croydon.
- N.E.: only C. E. Sharman and C. Child, 23 miles to the "White Hart," Romford, through dust and obstructive dung-carts, and a torn-up Lea Bridge Road coming home. N.W.: Barnet Fair avoided by the lanes to the "Guinea" at Ridge, with Mill Hill and Highwood Hill both unridable. W.: the District Captain travelled over 60 miles to find one man at Acton Church, and finished with tea at "The Swan," Ruislip and a dangerous mist at Hanwell. S.W.: Holdsworth and Ryan explored into bogs near Claygate, then tea at the "Glyn Arms," Ewell for 1s. 6d. S.E.: Westerham, a travelling circus and cocoa-nut shies, drunken rustics near Keston, and a memo to avoid "The King's Arms" in future.
- M. D. Rucker, Jun. announces a repeat of the rain-spoiled Ewell general meet for Saturday the 27th inst., the last regular club run of the season, with a good moon for the return journeys and good accommodation at the "Glynn Arms"; district starting arrangements are in the fixture list.
- About seven thousand people saw Cortis of the Wanderers carry off everything in what was billed as his last appearance before his match with John Keen. J. F. Griffith won the club event a second time and keeps it outright; Cortis took the mile handicap final from Beeson and House in a time claimed as the fastest on record for a grass course, and won the ten miles from Popplewell of Ipswich and A. S. Brown, who rode a ponderous 50-in. machine. Thorn was the only L.B.C. representative, and Keen held the watch.
- A. B. on a South Eastern weekend from the "Railway Hotel," East Grinstead, where the "Lively One" kept the house awake and in the morning carried a sleeping N.E. man, clothes and all, into a cold bath. Four "philosophers" then rode the six miles to Wych Cross, lay smoking in the heather watching cloud shadows on the South Downs, took beer and bread and cheese at a wayside inn, and after tea, church and supper at East Grinstead rode home by moonlight at 11 p.m. to Beddington, Foot's Cray and Lewisham.
- R. Gerald Trollope's two-day ride of about 118 miles: out by Walton to join the West and S.W. men at Halliford and Staines, then Egham, where Pem's trusty "Humber" broke a spoke, and a night at the "White Hart," Blackwater, where Mr. Gomm's ham and eggs are commended. Next morning 17 miles to Basingstoke against a strong wind, a rough five miles beyond it, a ducking in the roadside streamlets, dinner at Alresford, then Alton and Farnham, a picturesque new route past the "Bush Inn" through Elstead to Godalming that avoids the Hog's Back, tea at the "Anchor," Ripley, and moonlight home to Kingston.
- A two miles open bicycle handicap, won in splendid form by A. P. Shaw (O.S.B.C., 40 yards), who went off fast, caught the leaders on the last round and beat Pritchard and Tobias by five yards, leaving the scratch man Hamilton some 60 yards behind. Cleaver rode for the L.B.C. in the second heat, taken by Tobias.
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- Theo. Godlee writes from Vigo of being recognised as an L.B.C. man by Gerich in a carriage at Flushing, and of longing for his old "Challenge" on the splendid road from Toblach on towards Belluno and Venice; R. M. Gruggen and F. F. Barry are back from the South of France and the Pyrenean chain; the S.E. Colossus fell asleep in the sun and burnt half his face; F. E. Appleyard sails for India; the late Hon. Sec. is recovering from typhoid caught at Cromer; and Eavesdropper reports his first 16-mile tricycle ride with a lady, done in under an hour homeward and threatening his club attendance.