Vol 5, No 4
Articles in this issue
- The unheaded leader regrets the financial failure of the Promenade Concert despite 400 circulars and blames an extraordinary apathy among members, then welcomes the February A.A.A. meeting and the March Bicycle Union Council as ending years of sullen neutrality: each body will now accept the other's suspensions and disqualifications, pointing towards an athletic federation of amateur sport for all England.
- R. B. Hough of 151, Amhurst Road, Hackney reminds every member elected before the General Meeting of the five-shilling contribution voted towards clearing off last year's deficit, and asks for it with subscriptions as soon as possible.
- The meeting of 27th March elects Harry Morse Hewitt, Guy du Maurier, Andrew Lusk Potter and the brothers Guy and Walter Whiteside, accepts five resignations, sends G. P. Coleman to the Pickwick's Alexandra Palace race-meeting conference on condition the B.U. rules are kept, and votes hearty thanks to Messrs. Darling and Son for remitting their £5 5s. account for the St. Andrew's Hall concert.
- The three resolutions carried unanimously at the Council Meeting at the Manchester Hotel on the 23rd ultimo: that each sport's governing body alone may legislate for it, that the B.U. will accept the Amateur Athletic Association's suspensions and disqualifications until further notice, and that both bodies exchange notice of future rule changes.
- Report of the third Promenade Concert at St. Andrew's Hall on the 15th ultimo, attended by only about 200 people…some 140 of them belonging to the Club…with Fred Morris praised for finding a cheap hall and Jolly for collecting the orchestra, singing by Lyne, W. A. Smith, Gerard Smith and Bridges, A. Borwick's violoncello solo, young Leonard Borwick's Chopin, and the full 21-item programme.
- A two-line announcement, dated 1st April 1882, that the Captain's address is now “Copsefield,” Buckhurst Hill.
- The season's calendar from the South of England Meet races at Brighton on 10th April through the L.B.C. v. O.U.Bi.C. match on 20th May, the Hundred Miles Trial on the 27th, and the Club's Stamford Bridge meeting on 24th June, to the Amateur Championships at Birmingham and the Crystal Palace in July.
- The April meet table by district, with no official run on 8th April and a General Meet for Halliford on the 29th; a footnote states that unless otherwise stated the West District meets at the new District Stable, Savernake Cottage, Mill Hill Road, Acton.
- District reports of the March runs: the N.E. to the “Castle” and Forest Hotel and its opening run to Chigwell, where the Captain overshot the party; the N.W. to Essendon, forestalled at tea by sixteen Finchley tricyclists, and a 22-mile opening run to Potter's Bar with its gallon teapot; the W. and S.W. meeting at the “Magpie,” Sunbury; and the South-East's runs to Godstone, Downe…where the new landlord of the “George” accompanied the songs…and an opening meet at Orpington that drew thirty-four members.
- A two-line warning that the Division's runs will start absolutely punctually and that no grace will be allowed.
- Rambler's paragraphs: a nickel-plated cyclist upset before the North Warwickshire hounds, the Athletic Review now on W. H. Smith's bookstalls, Darling and Son's five-guinea donation saving the Concert Fund from a declared loss, the Acton District Stable open to all members at 1s. 6d. a key, 78 men out at the opening meets, H. G. A. Brown equalling the S.E.'s 1878 record of thirty-four, and Andreae's report of splendid roads between Heidelberg and Bâle.
- For sale: a strong 48-in. “Challenge” Roadster for a learner at £3 10s. from H. H. Sherriff of Mortlake, bound copies of the 18th edition of “Paterson's Roads” at 12s. to 20s. from J. W. Alison, and Stephen P. Smith's 55-inch “Timberlake” on view at Hutchings & Hicklings, Moor Lane.
- Four letters: McCullum Hill calls the Promenade Concert's reception a disgrace and asks whether the L.B.C., in its ninth year, is “played out”; Dry Thatch wants a cap material that will not shrink in the rain; “Horn Lane” writes in its own defence against the Gazette's annual abuse of it; and Arthur H. Rolls questions the cost of the Blue Book, the Editor noting it is 1s. 7½d. a copy.
- X.Y.Z. is asked to send notices in ink rather than pencil and one subject to a sheet; G. L. E. Andreae's Gazette has been posted to Geneva and 7d. is due to the publishers; Dodo's contribution is received with thanks.
- Standing notice that 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 him by Tuesday evening for immediate insertion.