Vol 2, No 33
Articles in this issue
- Seventy members from all five districts closed the season at Ewell, the S.E. reaching the "Spring Hotel" first and Gruggen photographing twenty-six of them before tea for thirty-four was ordered at the "Glynn Arms." On the road in, Naylor's D.H.F. broke its backbone at Richmond, and W. A. Smith's new plated "Club" drew the crowd; Captain M. D. Rucker, Jun. prints the full roll of those present.
- Palmer Dalton, District Captain, announces meets at "Jack Straw's Castle" at four o'clock next and following Saturdays, the destination to be settled by the members present, with riders of other districts cordially invited.
- Meet at Central Croydon Station on Saturday, October 4th, at four p.m. for Leatherhead, and on October 11th for Riverhead.
- Continued from the last number: a 3 a.m. start out of Strasbourg, a shower-bath in a stream before Rastatt, fourteen shadeless miles of dead-straight road, and a brewery that tapped a fresh cask for the four riders. Pem Coleman loses a spoke from his "Humber" in a wood, and at Karlsruhe's "Crown Prince" the party is called on by Herr Dillinger, editor of the Karlsruhe Advertiser, before a 36-mile slog to Heidelberg.
- Concluding the run: the caves at West Wycombe, Dr. Mouncey's sceptical epitaph, the climb to Bledlow Cross and the Glyde ravine, then Whiteleaf Cross above Princes Risborough and the fearsome Longdown Hill. The Martyr breaks his treadle nut at Amersham and rides one-footed to Uxbridge, the trio passing the London coach before Red Hill on a day of about 85 miles to Acton.
- Misprints in last week's number on page 241 are corrected: "cropper" should read crapper, "Stanwell" should read Hanwell, "the two speeded" should read the trio sped, "sulpheretted" should read sulphuretted, and "old church loft" should be followed by at West Wycombe.
- E. C. Koch summons members and intending members to the Club Headquarters, 108, Fenchurch Street, on Wednesday, October 8th, at 5.30 p.m., to settle whether another concert shall be held and to fix a practice room, the subscription and the season's officers.
- The writer and Wilson sail from St. Katharine Dock on the "Lapwing" for Bordeaux, then walk nineteen miles of paving to Bélin in 97-degree heat before working through Dax, the flea-ridden "Hotel des Voyageurs" at Orthez, Pau and Eaux Bonnes. It ends mid-push up the Col de Bisque, above the clouds in snow, with Wilson lost somewhere below over a cigarette.
- M. D. Rucker, Jun. asks members willing to join a choral society, proposed after the success of the glees at the last Concert, to send their names, and to say whether they can bring lady singers, without whom the scheme would be useless.
- Eavesdropper reports Treasurer Francis Godlee writing from Profile House, Franconia Notch, in the White Mountains with H. L. Cooper; C. C. Fitch off his machine after a foot operation; and Cortis and Keen matched over twenty miles at the Molineux Ground, Wolverhampton, on October 13th and over one and five miles at Stamford Bridge on the 18th under Bicycle Union management.
- Two L.A.C. meetings at Stamford Bridge, October 4th and November 1st.
- The club's "Pyrenean Representative" writes from Deux-Sèvres, some 400 miles from Luchon, hoping to reach Nantes and train to St. Malo for the Wednesday boat. H. Sharp of 30, Well Walk, Hampstead recommends Winsford in Exmoor and argues that elderly friends on tricycles would help persuade country magistrates that not every wheelman is a rackety boy.