Vol 5, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Standing note that the latest hour for reception of copy for the Gazette is 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays.
- Leader on the vexed question of Winter Entertainments, observing that Dramatic Performances and Smoking Concerts have yielded profits while District Balls and Promenade Concerts have always ended in deficits. Members with strong opinions either way are urged to fill the correspondence columns so the Committee can gauge the wishes of the majority before the autumn.
- Announces the Club Run from Bath on Easter Monday, when L.B.C. men will congregate at Bath as usual for the preliminary canter over the 100 miles course.
- Signed E. S. P. An account of a 70-mile ride begun by young moonlight from Hampstead on 24th February, meeting Hindley at Finchley Station and running via Hatfield and Digswell to the “Wellington” at Welwyn on three eggs apiece and jam. Next day a gale carried them the 13 miles to Baldock in 54 minutes before the same wind turned and made 11 miles into Hitchin's “Sun” take over two hours.
- By E. J. and H. H. Sheringer; the instalment runs from Kington into Wales to New Radnor and the “Eagle” (B.T.C.), then over the moorlands through Llandegley and Pen-y-bont to Rhayader and a 1s. 9d. breakfast at the “Lion and Castle.” They lose a watch and chain above the Wye, spend two hours among the Mynach falls at Devil's Bridge, and finish at the “Queen's” at Aberystwith, 53 miles.
- Signed Rambler. Notes Griffiths and Oliver Thorn first and third in the L.A.C. handicap, a tricycle club that turned out fifteen members (four of them ladies) for a run to Warlingham, a member who fitted barrel organs either side of his home trainer, E. H. Hindley riding up Muswell Hill on a bicycle, and the outbreak of “Bathomania” before Easter Monday.
- Tabulated April meets for the N.E., N.W., W., S.W. and the Croydon and Blackheath S.E. divisions, Lea Bridge Road and Syborn's Corner for Sidcup, “Jack Straw's Castle” and the “Clarence,” Teddington, Central Croydon Station for East Grinstead, with no official run on April 8 and a General Meet for Halliford on April 29.
- District Captains' reports for 1st April: Theo. Godlee's N.E. seven to Chingford and the “New Inn” at Waltham, W. J. Wittig's N.W. run to Eastcott via the gravel-rashed Kenton Lanes and Pinner (31½ miles), Arthur E. Buckler's W. and S.W. tea for fifteen at the “Anchor,” Ripley, and H. G. A. Brown's twenty-strong S.E. run to the “Clayton Arms,” Godstone.
- H. G. A. Brown, S.E. District Captain, warns that the joint S.E. and N.E. meet is at the “Black Horse,” Halfway Street, near Sidcup Station, and not the “Black Horse” in Sidcup village, and asks for a large turnout to welcome the N.E. men who must cross the river.
- Season list from the April 10 races at the South of England Meet at Brighton through to the Fifty Miles Amateur Championship at Crystal Palace on July 29, taking in L.B.C. v. O.U.Bi.C., the L.B.C. One Hundred Miles Trial, the Border City Races at Carlisle and the London B.C. races at Stamford Bridge.
- Six letters answering McCullum Hill's charge that the Club is “effete” and “played out.” T. E. Scrutton counts opening-run musters of 54 members in 1878 against 70 in 1882 and asks every man to turn up at the Inter-University Meet at St. Albans and the Cambridge Match at Surbiton; Theo. Godlee, A. E. B. and K. F. defend the smoking concerts; “Comfort” and “Kappa” then fall out over whether the Club cap should give way to a helmet or a cricket cap.
- Contributions must be addressed to the Editor, L.B.C. Gazette, 35, Eastcheap, E.C., bear the author's name, be written on one side of the paper only, and reach the office by Tuesday evening for immediate insertion.