Vol 6, No 15
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.
- An anonymous contributor's account of the editorial office, impartiality, punctuality and temper; the agony of rejecting a friend's copy; the perpetual want of quills and letters, with a plea that members send up ideas however crude, and a comic description of the installation ceremony in which the new Editor dines his predecessor, plies him with wine and Havanas, and pumps him dry of the contents of the 'tub' before packing him off to a 32-degree bath.
- Repeats the notice and full agenda for the Special General Meeting on tricyclists at the 'City Arms Tavern,' St. Mary Axe, on Monday 18th June at 6.30 p.m., the Committee's recommendation against any change, T. E. Scrutton's two rule motions and W. J. Williams's motion on the attendance prizes.
- E. S. Price's final reminder that the meeting is at the Crystal Palace on Saturday 16th inst. at 3 p.m., asks members to return unused free tickets since the Club pays for those not returned, and prints the entry lists for the Two Miles Open, One Mile Club, Five Miles Scratch and Ladies' Challenge, with a note that nearly twenty late entries are still missing.
- E. S. Price asks members to settle up at once for any tickets they had for the Oxford match.
- Successful competitors in the Bath Trial are reminded that their medals and certificates will be presented at the Annual Race Meeting on Saturday 16th inst., and are particularly requested to attend.
- Reports of the 9th June runs. The N.E., their D.C. still in Vienna, rode through Chigwell and Abridge to Blackmore, admired the church's three-storey wooden tower and the house called Jericho where Henry VIII kept a country seat, and took tea at the 'Leather Bottle' with Weeks and Arnott arriving on a 'Sociable'; R. M. Gruggen was soaked by a purely local S.W. thunderstorm and turned back at Reigate Hill; R. G. Francis brought sixteen men and two visitors to East Grinstead, where Wyndham's telegram announced the win at Cambridge; and H. C. Pigott reports that F. M. Williams was the only West man to get there.
- Tabulated district fixtures headed 'June 16.…Annual Race Meeting,' then the joint runs to Chigwell, Stanmore and Newland's Corner with the Silent Pool, and the following week's Stifford, Little Berkhampstead and Mickleham meets.
- Gerard F. Cobb's closing instalment, § 23, Zurich to Bale, the single real climb over the Botzberg, the squalid plastered villages of Canton Bale so near the Black Forest, 43 miles from Zurich to Rheinfelden in 4hr 20min on bread and butter, and the packing of the machines into their crates at the 'Hotel Euler' with the carriage costs of sending bicycles home to Cambridge.
- The Club won all three events at Cambridge, compensating for three previous defeats, on a well-watered course in unspeakable heat and against a Cambridge side deprived of their Captain J. S. Whatton through ill-health. F. L. Adam won his Mile heat with a fly in his left eye; Beck led the Four Miles from the first mile home in 12min 26 3/4sec; the Fifteen Miles went to the L.B.C. by 13 points to 8, with a mile-by-mile table of times and order.
- 'The Front Wheel Hub' on the gale at Oxford for the Inter-Varsity, Buckley's brilliant sustained spurt in the Ten Miles (and the memory of his being given 75 yards start at Leicester in 1881), Day's unlucky fall within fifty yards of home and his pluck in racing again four days later, the three accidents suffered by the C.U.Bi.C. team at Oxford, and the fast Pickwick B.C. meeting at the Crystal Palace where Thompson of the Sutton B.C. did three miles at around 2min 48sec each.
- C. H. F. Christie writes 'as an Essex calf' to protest at Porcupine's jibe about 'Essex Flats and Essex Mole Hills,' citing the roads from Cambridge to Linton and on by Sible Hedingham and Halstead, the view from a gate near Stondon over the Ongar valley, and the hills at South Weald and Theydon Bois.
- 'Dodo' argues that while dulce est desipere in loco, the Club risks nourishing a viper by officially running a lawn tennis tournament: barring ties on Saturdays does not stop men practising then, several entrants have been feeble supporters of their District and one has not attended a single Club run this year.
- Bare results of the Oxford match: Wyndham, F. L. Adam and W. K. Adam took the three Mile heats; Beck won the Four Miles in 12min 24sec to give the L.B.C. the team race 13 points to 8; and H. R. Reynolds led home a London one-two-three in the Fifteen Miles in 47min 30 1/4sec for a 15-to-6 win. Full particulars promised next week.
- Porcupine's notes: the 'meet of the Freddy Williams'' at East Grinstead, the bowl of punch brewed there to the health of the men victorious at Cambridge, Jack Kinder's cracked backbone, the promised joint Meet at Chigwell where the N.E. mean to beat record and the S.E. to revenge Erith, and the occupant of the N.E. 'Sociable' who filled his shoes at the Navestock watersplash.
- The Captain-sanctioned list under Rule 40, from the London B.C. races of 16th June through the A.A.A. Championships at Lillie Bridge on the 30th, the B.U. championships at Birmingham and the Crystal Palace in July, the Fifty Miles Bicycle Championship on 21st July, to the Surrey B.C. at Kennington Oval on 15th September.
- Regrets that no account of the N.W. run had been received at the time of going to press.
- One machine for sale: a 53-inch 'Humber' racer with ball bearings and a 26-inch handlebar well bent down, in good condition, £7 10s., from L. B. Reynolds of 10 Adelaide Crescent, Brighton.
- E. R. Shipton's new address, 139-140 Fleet Street, E.C.
- 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.