Vol 5, No 26
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, written on the Editor's return from the hands of his Substitute, arguing that September meets contrast sharply with August ones because holidaying members are back and full of travellers' tales. It urges regular and irregular attenders alike to turn out for the last meets of the season rather than the first game of football.
- District Captains' arrangements, repeated from the previous issue, for the last General Meet of the season at Halliford on 2nd September, with start times for the N.E., N.W., W., S.W. and the two S.E. divisions, signed T. E. Scrutton, Captain.
- District reports for 26th August: the N.E. trio were caught in heavy rain on the Chigwell road, abandoned Havering and took tea at the "Beehive," Lambourne End amid cocoanut shying; the N.W. mustered eight for Shenley by way of Barnet Gate and Rowley Green, twenty-seven miles; and the S.E. rode the Brighton road to the "White Hart" at Bletchingley, where a rump-steak tea cost 2s. 6d. a head.
- N.W. District Captain W. J. Willis switches the 9th September run from Hunton Bridge to Little Berkhampstead because tea cannot be secured, and asks for a full muster as it will probably be his last run as District Captain.
- H. G. A. Brown announces the Annual S.E. Road Trial on 9th September from Caterham Junction Station to the "George" at Crawley, entrance fee 2s. 6d., open to all L.B.C. men, with starts from Central Croydon at 4.15 and Caterham Junction at 4.45.
- Arthur E. Buckler's account of the S.W. District's third and last picnic, with one boat from Staines, another from Kingston, a riding party and a rail party converging on the Lock Island. Rain drove the eighteen picnickers (nine ladies and nine gentlemen) into the best kitchen of the Lock House, and the ladies are credited with keeping their promises where many pledged members stayed at home.
- The Captain's sanctioned list under Rule 40, running from the St. Paul's Athletic Club and Lincoln B.C. meetings on 2nd September through the Surrey B.C. Autumn Meeting and Nottingham B.C. Sports to the L.A.C. fixtures at Stamford Bridge in October and November.
- A condensed statement of the B.T.C.'s objects, officers, monthly Gazette, handbook, consular districts and 2s. 6d. subscription, prefaced by the Editor's own argument that the B.T.C. and Bicycle Union ought to amalgamate under a fresh title rather than run cycling affairs as two bodies. The club, founded at Harrogate in 1878, is about 7,000 strong with 800 hotels on its tariff.
- M. D. Rucker, Jun., has removed from the Southern side to Crohamhurst, Bethune Road, Stamford Hill.
- Tabulated district meets, noting the all-district run to Halliford on 2nd September and subsequent runs to Brentwood, Little Berkhampstead, Crawley, Enfield and Ewell.
- H. H. S. describes a two-and-a-half-day, 280-mile ride from Mortlake through Ilford, Chelmsford and Colchester to Ipswich, then on by Lowestoft and Yarmouth to Norwich, Thetford and Newmarket, and home by Bishops Stortford and Epping Forest. He praises the East Anglian roads, is blown off his machine half a dozen times near Thetford, dismisses Thetford as miserable, and rode a 50-in. "Norwood."
- "Rambler" retails the American at the "Grand" who found three hairs in the butter and asked for bald butter, asks racing members to send him postcards of their wins, and reports L. B. Reynolds winning the Two Miles Open Handicap at Eastbourne. Also the President's cold postponing his record attempt, and the illness of Mr. Love of the "Bay Tree" temperance hotel at Merton.
- The Captain's address for the next three weeks will be "Cumberland…if not there, try Westmoreland"; members should write to the Secretary on Club business meanwhile.
- One advertisement: a 58-in. "Humber" racer, new last year and little used, £10, from H. Muir of 7 Highbury Quadrant, N.
- Gerard F. Coss continues his Swiss letter, leaving Langenthal amid preparations for a cantonal rifle match, riding to Burgdorf, bathing in the rushing Emme, and taking the train on to Thun with the machines carried as luggage for 50 centimes. He recommends Thun as the bicyclist's headquarters for its central position, roads up the glacier valleys, and the "Thunerhof" with its high-pressure squirt for cleaning machines.
- A note to R. B. H. promising insertion next week and welcoming the matter suggested.
- Standing rules for contributions: address them to the Editor at 35 Eastcheap, E.C., bear the author's name, write on one side of the paper only, and send by Tuesday 5.30 p.m.