Vol 5, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Standing note that the latest hour for reception of copy for the "Gazette" is 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays.
- Unheaded leader on the coming Bath Trial: fewer entries than in former years but quality well up to the average, a call for members to rally round the ninth milestone and cheer the medallists, sympathy for those who ride a losing trial untrained, and approval of the passing of the old fashion of starting wholly unprepared.
- Surbiton Grounds, Thursday 8th June, One Mile Handicap and Novices Race, entrance 2s. 6d., entries closing 3rd June, practice on the path for 6d., machines housed, racing at 6.45, with trains from Waterloo at 5.25, 5.50 and 6.15.
- Report by Hon. Rep. Sec. Wm. Pye-English of the Executive meeting of May 16th at 17, Ironmonger Lane: championship arrangements, revision of local centre rules, and the appointment of G. C. Lockett (Liverpool local centre) and C. R. Maddox (Wanderers B.C.) to the vacancies left by M. O. Goodman and G. Lacy Hillier.
- Revised instructions to competitors, the drawing for places at the "White Lion," a Great Western van for machines, tea afterwards at the "Milford Arms," Isleworth, and timekeepers posted (Alfred Herbert at Marlboro' Hill, D. T. Nops at Hungerford, W. A. Smith at Newbury, W. J. Williams at Maidenhead), with the 100-mile course from Cleveland Bridge to Hounslow, the four forks to watch between Bath and Melksham, recommended hotels and the list of entries.
- Report of the annual match at Oxford, where the Club failed to score a single win: W. F. M. Buckley took his Mile heat and the Four Miles in championship form, W. K. Adam and M. H. Jephson won the other heats, and W. A. G. Walter took the Fifteen Miles; J. F. Griffith, riding the track for the first time, snatched second in the Four Miles by three inches, and H. R. Reynolds turned out after seventy miles on the road.
- Captain-sanctioned meetings from May 26th to the end of July, including the L.B.C. One Hundred Miles Trial, the London B.C. v. Cambridge University match, the club's own races at Stamford Bridge and the amateur championships at Birmingham and Crystal Palace.
- E. H. Pollock of 25, Thurlow Road, Hampstead re-offers his 53-inch silver-plated "Humber" roadster, cost £30, now reduced to 15 guineas.
- Tabulated district meets for June, Ongar, Rickmansworth, Wisley Hut, Chelsfield, Upminster, Essendon and Thames Ditton, with no official run on Bank Holiday May 27th, all districts to St. Albans on June 3rd, and the Annual Races on June 24th.
- The meeting with the O.U.Bi.C. and C.U.Bi.C. stands at St. Albans on Saturday 3rd June, the "Peahen" having agreed to take the party in three rooms; the N.E. leave Lea Bridge Road at 3.0 to meet the N.W. at Barnet at 4.30, and W. J. Williams, Arthur E. Buckler (leaving the "Coach and Horses," Kew, at three for Harrow Weald and Elstree) and H. G. A. Brown (riding through from the S.E. by the Woolwich ferry) each press their districts to attend in record strength.
- Reports of the 20th May runs: the N.E. and N.W. met at the "Green Dragon," Cheshunt, the N.E. delayed by a bent crank, a broken spoke and a loose pedal and the N.W. by two more spills, Jackson's 58-inch wheel left behind at the "Duke of York"; a bare handful of W. men rode to the "Essex Arms," Watford; the S.W. skirted the Hampton Court crowds to Walton; and the S.E. paperchase became a "man chase" to Westerham after a hurricane made laying a trail impossible.
- Alfred and Arthur Herbert's Easter ride by Farnham ("Lion and Lamb"), Winchester and Romsey, where a jumping leg of Alfred's "Grasshopper" broke off, to Stoney Cross and Rufus' Stone, then Lyndhurst, Ringwood (the "White Hart" and its signboard legend of Henry VII's white hart), Christchurch and Bournemouth.
- A comic verse report of the annual mount, the marshals and police keeping the peace, the procession trundling round the same old ground with metropolitan, provincial and unattached riders, twenty-four "Ottos" and "Facile" men on tricycles, and the marshals' flags patching up the ugly gaps.
- "Rambler" runs through the Bath Trial field, Reynolds, Barrett and Jephson the favourites for the "enamel," E. H. Hindley scratched with erysipelas, Beck untrained, and reports the B.T.C. annual meeting at Exeter Hall (Shipton's Cyclists Touring Club renaming negatived, the uniform changed) and about 1,900 riders from 200-odd clubs at the Hampton Court Meet.
- "A. E. B." accepts McCullum Hill's explanation of his ponderous joke but objects to his wholesale condemnation of Club life, and proposes that stewards should buy enough tickets for re-sale to cover the expenses of any future entertainment; the Editor closes the correspondence. Alfred Herbert points out useful through trains from New Croydon to Willesden and on to Watford and St. Albans.
- "Titia" is told the notice to competitors has been revised and to follow this issue's directions, and "Rambler" is asked to be less personal in future after his "Echoes" were inserted with some hesitation.
- Contributions must be addressed to the Editor at 35, Eastcheap, E.C., bear the author's name, be written on one side of the paper only, and reach the office by Tuesday at 5.30 p.m.