Vol 6, No 19
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.
- A leader on the qualities a club secretary needs, opening with the joke that a good one is almost never actually seen, not at a race meeting, where competitors try to get on the path without their numbers and the press are so bibulous, nor at a smoking concert or club ball. Inexhaustible energy comes first, then esprit de corps, business aptitude and mother-wit, and, for a club without the L.B.C.'s two ex-chairmen of the N.C.U. executive, champions and record road riders, a standing in the outside cycling world; it closes with four morals, the third being that every member should assist so onerous an officer.
- District Captain Theo. Godlee asks the district to excuse his protracted and unwilling absence, now ended, and to turn out in force on Saturday to meet the N.W.
- District Captain R. M. Gruggen announces next Saturday's run to Burnham Beeches to meet the West, and hopes every member will attend so that he is not left to carry out the run alone.
- R. G. Francis announces evening runs for the next two months, leaving the Fire Station at 7.30 on Wednesdays for the Keston Ponds, where there is good bathing.
- Reports of the July 7th runs. The N.E., with its District Captain back at last, rode by Whip's Cross, Abridge and Passingford Bridge to the "King's Head," Ongar, where Weeks piloted them to a bathing place and the returned Sub-Editor brought the party to nine; only seven N.W. men went to Shenley despite the strawberries; the West District ran to Ripley almost alone and O. G. M. Leeds rode out to meet Marriott, first man in the twenty-four hours L.T.C. Road Ride, seeing the finish at the "Bay Tree," Merton, at 11.58; the S.E. mustered seventeen at the "White Hart," Bletchingley, including The O'Reilly who had ridden up from Brighton over Handcross; and just two S.W. men with Leeds got as far as Ripley and turned back without tea.
- Tabulated meets for the coming Saturdays, Cheshunt for the N.E. and N.W., Burnham Beeches for the W. and S.W., Westerham for both S.E. divisions, then an Ickenham paperchase, Burford Bridge, East Grinstead and Farningham, with a line announcing the General Meet at Ewell on July 21, times and places of starting to be published in the Gazette.
- Signed "The Front Wheel Hub": the N.C.U. Five Miles Bicycle Championship at Birmingham went to Sutton of the Edgbaston Harriers by two yards from Auster in 16min. 42sec., Gaskell being the only visitor to appear; Liles beat Lowndes for the One Mile Tricycle Championship before a gate of only 3,000; and in the L.T.C. 24 hours Road Ride 67 of 74 entrants started over a Brighton–Salisbury–Guildford route, Marriott reaching Merton with 218 1/2 miles in 23hr. 50min.
- Porcupine reports that Rayleigh Hill, long the defiance of all Essex men, has been climbed by the Captain; that a railway crossing keeper at Doncaster took two passing bicyclists for soldiers of "some regiment"; and that H. R. Reynolds, who had never ridden a tricycle before, borrowed one for the L.T.C. road race and still completed 175 miles despite losing an hour through misdirection at Fareham.
- The list for the fortnight: the B.U. Ten Miles Tricycle and One Mile Bicycle Championships at the Crystal Palace and the L.A.C. at Stamford Bridge on July 14, the Crichton Three Miles Invitation, the Fifty Miles Bicycle Championship, the Eastbourne races, the Crystal Palace Challenge Cup and the races at the Bristol Meet on July 28.
- John W. Wilson's new address is Bransford, Edgbaston.
- 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.