Vol 5, No 19
Articles in this issue
- A standing note that the latest hour for reception of copy for the Gazette is 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays.
- An unheaded leader on the Club's chronically unprofitable Race Meetings, reviewing the free-tickets correspondence of "Cassiopeia," "Eucalyptus," "Non sibi sed L.B.C." and "W. X. W." The Editor cannot see why free tickets should be sauce for the Annual Meeting but not for the Inter-Club contests, and urges that next year the Club sail on a fresh tack, either unlimited free tickets to members and their friends of both sexes, trusting to programme sales, or no members' free tickets at all.
- A list of members who have changed address since the Blue Book, G. L. E. Andreae now in Heidelberg, H. G. Gilmour Dymes at Scrivelsby Court, Horncastle, W. A. Smith at Savernake Cottage, Mill Hill, together with newly elected members including both Whattons of Trinity College, Cambridge, the five Bicycle Union delegates, A. C. Adamson's resignation, and corrections to members' Districts. Messrs. Platt & Son of St. Martin's Lane have been appointed to sell the Club cloth.
- A. Barker and H. N. Sharp of Croydon propose an L.B.C. lawn tennis tournament, single-handed, entry one shilling, two prizes, ties playable anywhere by arrangement between opponents and published in the Gazette. No tie played off on a Saturday afternoon will be valid, "and members attempting to do so will probably be shot"; courts have been offered all round London.
- The Captain's sanctioned list under Rule 40, running from the Bury St. Edmunds B.C. second annual meeting and the L.A.C. Four Miles Open at Stamford Bridge to the South London Harriers, the Five Miles Amateur Championship at the Crystal Palace and the North Warwickshire B.C. races at Aston.
- The district meet table, with the N.E. paperchase from Whip's Cross, the N.W. from "Jack Straw's Castle" for Ickenham and Little Berkhampstead, the W. from Savernake Cottage and Hammersmith Bridge, and the S.W. and both S.E. divisions converging on Reigate ("The Grapes") and Riverhead, plus the Wisley Hut picnic.
- District reports for 8th July: only Lloyd and Theo. Godlee rode the N.E. run to Hoddesdon, taking a new route avoiding Waltham Abbey; six N.W. men including A. H. Koch rode 40 miles to Digswell Hill and found the North Road quite dry; the W. and S.W. met at Shepperton, with Hawley and the Captain arriving by the Surbiton lanes, Ditton and Hersham, and a punt chartered home; and the S.E. run to East Grinstead was drowned by a record shower on Godstone Hill, eight members reaching the "Railway Hotel" to find The O'Reilly and L. B. Reynolds up from Brighton.
- Theo. Godlee reminds N.E. members of last week's notice, hopes to beat record again, and asks even those disinclined for a paperchase to find their way to Whip's Cross for tea about 6.30 to 7.0.
- Arthur E. Buckler repeats last week's notice of the W. and S.W. picnic: provision can only be made for ticket-holders and casuals must take pot luck, but several ladies kept away by the earlier bad weather are coming, and members' sisters and other lady relations are welcome.
- The Union's One and Twenty-five Miles Championships at the Aston Lower Grounds, Birmingham on the 8th instant drew nearly six thousand through the gates. F. Moore of Warstone B.C. won the Mile final from Whish by six inches in 2 min. 47 3-5 sec. and also the Twenty-five in 1 hr. 25 min. 8 sec., with Fry, Crute and W. K. Adam behind; Day smashed spokes on Jephson's step and Lowndes dislocated his shoulder. Keith-Falconer was on the ground but prudently did not start, and Cortis distributed the prizes.
- The Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer's own day-by-day letter from Keith-Hall on his record end-to-end ride, begun at 4.5 a.m. on the 5th instant, arguing that road riding deserves more encouragement than path racing. He recounts five and a half hours stormbound at a temperance inn in Jamaica, Cornwall, a broken spring mended at Rugby, a night in a pitman's lodging-house beyond Newcastle, the crippling foot injury from Alnwick northwards, and the 994 miles covered in 13 days less 45 minutes on a 58-inch Humber & Marriott weighing 45 lbs., whose hind wheel ran the 260 miles from Dunkeld unoiled. He praises Scottish road engineering and believes 1000 miles could be done in ten days.
- "Rambler" notes the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News drawing of the Two Miles Handicap finish at the Club sports, G. L. Hillier's new paper The Tricyclist, D. R. Smith riding both sides of Shooters' Hill, and a coming twenty-miles-in-the-hour attempt by the President and Cortis at Surbiton. He describes the Birmingham crowd, which addressed the big Lowndes as "Jumbo," and praises W. K. Adam for recovering four hundred yards and Jephson for restarting after tying up a spoke. A birth notice for the wife of C. R. Hutchings closes the column.
- "Tota" proposes that the District Challenge Cup be scored by points with all finishers counting, which would prolong the interest to a furious finish for the penultimate place. "An Innocent One" complains that the Club photograph advertised at four shillings and sixpence cost him six and sixpence once the carrier's charges were paid, and suggests copies be lodged with Messrs. Darling so members can buy at the advertised price.
- The Editor is reluctantly obliged to hold over an account of H. R. Reynolds, Jun.'s ride from London to York, an article by W. R. Sewell, and other interesting matter.