Vol 6, No 13
Articles in this issue
- Standing editorial notice that the latest hour for reception of copy for the Gazette is 6.0 p.m. on Tuesdays.
- Leader arguing that a member's duty is not discharged by the Treasurer's receipt for his subscription: with Dunstable past, every man should sell tickets for the Oxford match of 13th June and the Club's own sports of 16th June at the Crystal Palace, enter events himself pour encourager les autres, and hunt up outside competitors, the racing man being 'somewhat coy' and needing a good deal of finding out.
- The Committee urge members to sell tickets everywhere, and set out a comparative statement of expenses showing that a 1s. 6d. ticket from the Hon. Sec., admitting to Palace, grounds and Race Meeting on an ordinary half-crown day, saves a shilling on the price charged at the Palace, railway stations or other agents.
- E. S. Price repeats that the meeting is on Saturday 16th June at 3 p.m., tickets 1s. 6d. from Committee members, asks for the entry forms sent round with the last Gazette to come back filled up for at least the Club Mile, and notes that the three ex-Captains Rucker, Theo. Godlee and Scrutton have given this year's prizes.
- Captain Ashley W. Barrett announces the annual match with the Cambridge University Bicycle Club at Cambridge on Saturday 9th June at 3 p.m., with the 11.55 a.m. train from Liverpool Street for competitors, and offers to lead a party riding up from Waltham Cross at 8 a.m. if the weather is favourable.
- E. S. Price gives notice of the Oxford match on the Crystal Palace track on Wednesday 13th June at 6 p.m., 1s. tickets from the Hon. Sec. (the Club being liable for a hundred whether used or not), and asks for names by Thursday 7th June for the dinner in the Palace after the match.
- Prints the tournament draw through five rounds, Hewitt, Wyndham, Gruggen, Naylor, Powell, Rucker, Elgood, Heeley, the Scruttons, Potter, Beck, the Francises, Barker and others, with the first round to be played and winners declared by 23rd June, best of three sets in the first three rounds and best of five thereafter.
- Captain Ashley W. Barrett's notice to competitors that the timers at Newbury and Maidenhead are considerably out of pocket for champagne, brandy and other refreshments supplied to riders, and that no one should fail through forgetfulness to discharge his obligations to them.
- Captain Ashley W. Barrett asks for the names of members willing to ride for the Club in the matches against the Universities.
- District reports of the wet 26th May runs. Theo. Godlee's N.E. rode James's Lane, the Flats and East Ham to the Woolwich ferry and on to Erith, praising the six-mile road despite one big hill and the tram lines, and found tea laid for forty at the 'Cross Keys'; R. M. Gruggen laments the S.W.'s tiny turnout for Iver and the missing double tricycle, and calls the next run to Shepperton (Kingston Station, 4.30); R. G. Francis waited in vain on Hayes Common and rode alone through the Cray Valley to Erith.
- Chas. E. Parker, the only member to attend the Erith Meet, rode from the Crystal Palace by Locks Bottom in soaking rain to find the landlady of the 'Prince of Wales Hotel' aggrieved that no telegram had come and tea for thirty laid out; he changed into dry clothes bought in the town, promised to eat the thirty teas, and afterwards could not get his saddle far enough back to mount for the ride home.
- District Captain R. G. Francis announces that the Captain will join the annual paperchase next Saturday: the Croydon Division leaves the Fire Station at 4.30 for Sanderstead, the hares Barker and Wyndham start from the Church at five o'clock, and tea is at the 'Glyn Arms,' Ewell, at half-past six.
- Tabulated district fixtures for the two coming Saturdays, Harlow, Chenies, Shepperton and the Sanderstead paperchase, then Blackmore, Wheathampstead, Leith Hill and East Grinstead, closing with the note 'June 16.…Annual Race Meeting.'
- Gerard F. Cobb's touring instalment covering § 19, Zurich to Einsiedeln and Egeri and back (with a height-and-distance table, the parish gates across the moor road at Altmatt and Rothenthurm, and the little-known Lake of Egeri), and § 20, Glarus, Elm and Linththal, the gluey slate-mended roads of the Sernf valley, the 1882 Elm landslip judged far smaller than the English papers had suggested, and the factory girls of Luchsingen scattered by a sudden peal of bicycle bells.
- 'The Front Wheel Hub' on a soaking Saturday's racing: the West Kent meeting at the Palace before about 150 spectators on a cut-up track where no heat was run under three minutes, Buckley beaten into second in the final by Wilson with McKinlay third, Letchford's win in the Invitation Tricycle Mile with Radford second, Wyndham's thirty-yard win in the Three Miles Invitation in 10min 47 3/4sec, Medcalf's Mile Handicap at Stamford Bridge, and the prospects for the Inter-'Varsity.
- W. R. Sewell writes in defence of 'the noble army of potterers' against 'Dodo's' impeachment of the lazy friend, arguing that the hill has no terrors for the potterer because it promises a view and a pipe, and asking the Scorchers to be gentle with a man who pays his subscription and gangs his ain gait.
- Porcupine's notes: a prominent University member sailing for the Antipodes two days before the Annual Race Meeting, a call for the N.E. to fix their Meet to Cambridge via Chelmsford for the Inter-Club Match, a jibe that the S.E. should abdicate after being outnumbered at Erith, the Cyclist's error about the Bath Trial never being done under ten hours against a head wind, the Club's eight prizes so far this year, and Gerard Smith and H. S. Naylor returning from tricycles to the ordinary bicycle.
- The Captain-sanctioned list under Rule 40, from the Surrey United and Anfield B.C. meetings of 2nd June through the Inter-University at Oxford, the Cambridge and Oxford matches with the L.B.C., the London B.C. races of 16th June, to the A.A.A. Championships at Lillie Bridge and the Brixton Ramblers on 30th June.
- Regrets that no account of the W. and N.W. runs had been received at the time of going to press.
- H. C. Pigott's new address, Gunnersbury, W.
- Standing note that contributions must go to the Editor at 35 Eastcheap, bear the author's name, be written on one side of the paper only, and reach the office by Tuesday evening for immediate insertion.