Vol 6, No 23
Articles in this issue
- Standing note that the latest hour for reception of copy for the Gazette is 6.0 p.m. on Tuesdays.
- Leader dividing the member's brother into non-rider, useful at dances and race meetings, and rider, the enthusiastic younger brother who knows the Blue Book and Gazette by heart and swells a District Captain's score; four of the present officers were members' brothers once. It ends by scolding the many members who subside as soon as a brother joins, offering them Punch's advice: don't.
- Because the Ewell meet of July 21st fell through, a General Meet will be held at Harrow ("The King's Head") on Saturday, August 18th. The N.E. leaves Lea Bridge Road at 3.30 to join the N.W. at "Jack Straw's" at 4.30, the W. starts at 4.0, and the S.W. meets the S.E. at the "Coach and Horses," Kew, at 5.0; tea at the top of the hill. Signed Ashley W. Barrett for the District Captains.
- The third round went to Reynolds, Naylor and Sharp, who beat Beck, Elgood and Francis; Naylor has drawn the bye and awaits the other tie. H. N. Sharp expects Reynolds to win and suggests the final may be played off at the Stamford Bridge meeting in September.
- "West-North-West" describes the countrified little church with the wooden belfry at Shenley, passed by the N.W. District on the way to St. Albans, and prints the quaint verse outside its south porch to parish clerk Joseph Rogers, whom none could excel "in laying bricks or singing well."
- Report of a run from "Tally Ho!" Corner to Digswell Hill, where the inn was temporarily in the possession of beanfeasters who left a dearth of milk; Langmore came in during tea, Neville and Williams rode on to St. Neots, and the rest halted at Whetstone Bridge over the Lea, lit lamps at Barnet and were home by ten. A. H. Lown, District Captain, adds that next Saturday's run is a circular one to Colney Hatch.
- Table of the coming meets, the N.E. from Lea Bridge Road and Syborn's Corner for South Weald, the N.W. from "Jack Straw's Castle" for a Colney Hatch picnic, and the W., S.W. and both S.E. divisions converging on Walton-on-Thames, with the General Meet at Harrow on August 18.
- The last of the championships, decided on Thursday on the Taunton track with ten starters and Chambers, Illston, Palmer, Fry and Douglas Smith absent. King and Brock made the running, Batten of Edinburgh fell and retired at fourteen miles, and within a mile of home C. E. Liles came through to win by eight yards from Sutton of the Edgbaston Harriers, with West close up, King fourth and Gaskell fifth, in 1hr. 22min. 43 3/5sec.
- Notes that the four N.C.U. bicycle championships have gone to four different riders, three of them Londoners; Oliver Thorn's continuing run of second prizes at Hammersmith and the Railway Clearing House sports; Mr. Terry's land-and-water tricycle crossing the Channel and going on to Paris; A. Bird of the Speedwell B.C. beating T. R. Marriott's twenty-four hours tricycle record with 218 miles from Birmingham to Cambridge and back; C.T.C. membership at 9,931; and Wood of Leicester winning the Fifty Miles Professional International in 2hr. 48min. 10sec.
- "Feen" tells how a ragged boy near Waltham Abbey, refused a copper, volunteered that a gentleman had broken his neck riding down that hill the week before and that another bicyclist had been drowned in a flooded road with "'is werlocepede on 'im." Five minutes after the boy was paid and out of sight, the writer's machine broke at the neck.
- "Porcupine" jokes that A. L. Gruggen's change of address puts Canada in the North-West District as California (a station near Epsom) is in the South-East; notes L. B. Reynolds second in the Newbury combination race and A. Ogier Ward, a former Gazette editor, admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons; recounts Weeks and Hindley's Bank Holiday run with Lumley of the Chiswick to Benson, Dorchester and Ewelme and Hough, Kelsey and Lloyd's quiet ride to Dunmow; and berates a club of 230 members who will not send in even a paragraph about their rides.
- Reprinted from the Times of 7th August 1883: "S.," a lady writing from Chamounix, describes meeting a young gentleman with a bicycle while crossing the Tête Noire on a mule. The rider's attempt to lean the machine against the bank only made the bright spokes flash in the sunlight, and her terrified mule ran away beside the precipice, an incident she offers as a check to correspondents recommending the machines to Continental tourists.
- 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 if immediate insertion is desired.