Vol 5, No 27
Articles in this issue
- Standing note that the latest hour for reception of copy for the Gazette is 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays.
- W. J. Williams, District Captain, moves the 9th September run from Hunton Bridge to Little Berkhampstead because tea cannot be assured, and asks as a personal favour for a full turn-out at what will probably be his last run as District Captain.
- Arthur E. Buckler announces a circular run by Claygate, Ockshott and Stoke d'Abernon to tea at the "Red Lion," Cobham, hoping the novelty of the route and the beauty of the country will draw a better muster than the districts' recent meets.
- H. G. A. Brown postpones the S.E. Road Trial from the 9th to the 23rd instant, announces next Saturday's run to the "Three Horseshoes" at Knockholt with the two divisions meeting at Locks Bottom, and presses for more entries for the Crawley trial, promising liberal starts.
- Henry Jennings, writing from Eastbourne, finds only 36 L.B.C. names on the B.T.C. lists, about one member in 6.2, and argues from three years' experience that the ticket and badge repay their cost. He rates the hotel tariff the club's greatest success, worth 25 per cent. off hotel bills on tour, and cites the Aberystwith Consul saving him and the N.W. D.C. from an unrideable mountain track in Wales.
- Reports of the 2nd September General Meet at Halliford, spoilt by a strong south-wester: the N.E. and N.W. men could not reach Kew to time and went round by Brentford, Hounslow and Hanworth, 40 miles, with three of four lamps refusing to burn. The S.W. put tea back half an hour so that all could sit down together, and the S.E. Captain, mistaking the start for 3.30, went by train through three changes only to find five of his men had ridden the whole way dry.
- Tabulated district meets for the coming Saturdays, including the circular runs of the W. and S.W., the N.W. to Little Berkhampstead, the S.E. to Knockholt and Crawley, and later runs to Ewell and Walton-on-Thames.
- H. N. S. reports the close of the third round, Rolls beating Hindley, Elgood to play A. Potter, and the fourth-round draw, with Reynolds riding up from Brighton to win 6-1, 6-love. The final must wait until Scrutton and H. R. return from holiday at the end of the month, and a few shillings are still wanting towards the prize fund.
- R. B. Hough trains from St. Pancras to New Mills in the Peak on 26th June and works his way by Hayfield, Glossop, Chapel-en-le-Frith and Buxton, averaging five miles an hour over the hills, then by Leek, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Lichfield and Burton to Derby, Matlock Bath, Chesterfield, Worksop, Sherwood Forest, Mansfield, Nottingham and Grantham. He damns Glossop as the dullest town of its size in England, finds the "St. Anne's" at Buxton had never heard of the B.T.C., and sits out a hotel argument over the merits of Ulyett and the Yorkshire Eleven.
- "Rambler" expects University cracks in the S.E. handicap with the limit man on twenty minutes, teases the S.E. Captain for riding to the General Meet by train, and reports W. T. Hill gazetted Representative Councillor for the B.T.C.'s Eastern English District, grumbling that such officers might simply be called committee men. Also the B.T.C.'s strength of 6,025, the new grey uniform replacing green, and A. Nixon's John-o'-Groat's to Land's End tricycle ride of 1,007 miles in 13 days 23h. 55min.
- The Captain's sanctioned list under Rule 40: the Gresham Athletic Club, Surrey B.C. Autumn Meeting and Nottingham B.C. Sports on 9th September, the Brighton B.C. Annual Meeting on the 16th, and L.A.C. meetings at Stamford Bridge in October and November.
- W. Heath's address is now the Wilts and Dorset Bank, Clifton.
- Gerard F. Coss continues his Swiss letter with the Thun-to-Bern road by Kirchdorf, the bear pit and the clock at Bern, a Swiss veterinary surgeon schooling a shy horse to the sight of a bicycle, and a squeak traced to the saddle rather than the hind wheel. He then sets out five shorter excursions from Thun, the north side of the lake, Spiez and Wimmis, Glütsch and Amsoldingen, Uetendorf and Thierachern, and Wattenwyl to Reutigen, with warnings about a mastiff at Gwatt and a soaked tyre that defeated his brake.
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