Vol 6, No 7
Articles in this issue
- A standing announcement that the latest hour for reception of copy for the Gazette is 6.0 p.m. on Tuesdays.
- A leader setting the grumbling "Slinker," who prefers a quiet trundle with a like-minded friend, against "Slasher," who does his part and is liked by all. It argues that in a club scattered all over London the General Meet is the natural way of bringing the members together, and urges those who have never attended to come to Halliford on Saturday "determined to please and be pleased."
- Captain Ashley W. Barrett's final arrangements for Halliford on 21st April: the N.E. leaves Lea Bridge Road at 3.0 for "Jack Straw's" to join the N.W. at 4.0, both going on to Kew Bridge to meet the W. at 5.0 and thence to Halliford via Feltham; the S.W. starts from Kingston Station at 4.30 and the Blackheath Division from Lewisham Church at 3.15 to join the Croydon Division leaving Central Croydon at 4.0.
- District Captain Theo. Godlee notes that some N.E. members will probably go direct by Tottenham, so the party at the Lea Bridge Road need not wait for them but are encouraged to start.
- Captain Ashley W. Barrett again asks for Whit-Monday timekeepers at Devizes, Hungerford, Reading, Maidenhead and Slough, reports that Alfred Herbert will probably take Marlboro' Hill and W. A. Smith Newbury, and appeals for someone to undertake Devizes, where competitors have never yet been timed.
- E. S. Price of "Homelea," Greenhill, Hampstead reminds members that entries must be made in writing to the Secretary on or before Monday, 30th April.
- A. C. Clements has moved to Woodside, Linkfield Lodge, Redhill, Surrey.
- Reports of the 14th April runs. The N.E. rode by Red Bridge and Ilford through awfully dusty back lanes to the "Bell," Upminster, eighteen in all; the W. was chased up Greenford Hill by a bridleless horse on its way to the "Black Horse," Eastcott, where tea had risen from 1s. to 1s. 3d.; the N.W. covered 18 hilly miles to the "Three Hammers," Mill Hill; the S.W. rode 21 miles by Moulsey and Walton, touring the shell grotto in Oatlands Park, reputedly £40,000 to build and twenty years of three Italian workmen's lives, before tea at Shepperton Lock; the S.E. waited half an hour in Croydon for the Captain, who telegraphed his apologies to East Grinstead; and the Blackheath Division met the N.E. at Upminster instead, one visitor, a Marlborough College boy on a 48in., being thrown at the water jump near Romford.
- The meet table for 28th April and 5th May, with the Halliford General Meet of 21st April noted above it. Destinations include Havering ("Orange Tree"), Rickmansworth ("Swan"), Virginia Water, Riverhead, Hoddesdon ("Old Salisbury Arms"), Colney Heath and Thames Ditton.
- Gerard F. Cobb's guide reaches § 13, the Lake of Zug, out of Lucerne by the Zurich road, over the line at Rothkreuz (where the party tailed a shunting train and left the station-master exclaiming "Oh! those English!"), past Cham's condensed-milk carts to a lunch at the "Falcon" in Zug and on by Arth and Tell's Chapel and the "Hohle Gasse." § 14 takes the northern side of the Rigi by Küssnacht, Goldau, across the scene of the great landslip, Lowerz, Seewen and Schwyz to Brunnen, with a whirlwind near Ibach that swept forty yards of road bare as glass.
- Four letters, three of them on the West District. "Districtus" answers J. S. Whatton point by point, 91 of the 128 members north of the Thames live west of the Charing Cross line, and suspects Whatton is biassed by the tram-lines between his house and Savernake Cottage; W. A. Smith, "one of those who fought and bled in the revolution of 1876," explains that the district was created for City men at Kensington, Chiswick, Willesden and Acton who could not reach Hampstead or Kingston in time. T. E. S. protests that shortening the Open Handicap to one mile serves the balance sheet and breeds riders "who can do nothing but spurt"; an "Ex Member of Committee and Medallist" gives five reasons against "Roadster's" twenty-four hours' ride; and H. C. Pigott proposes renting a stable and lockers at Ealing so West members can avoid five miles of bad macadam and tramlines.
- The Porcupine's gossip: Reynolds, F. L. Adam, D. R. Smith, C. A. Brown, Buckley, Jephson and Beck all training at the Crystal Palace, and C. D. Vesey the first entry for the Annual Race Meeting; the Captain enthroned at Committee under the new arrangements "like Solomon in all his glory"; a N.W. member training for Bath Monday by dragging his garden roller at full speed; the marriage of Alfred Henry to Jessie Kisch at the Central Synagogue; a hint to D.C.s on inflating attendance averages; and the N.W. D.C.'s catalogue of Saturday's injuries, "two lovely black eyes" included.
- The Captain's sanctioned list under Rule 40, running from the Lewisham B.C. at the Crystal Palace on 21st April through the L.A.C. at Stamford Bridge, the Lincoln C. and F.C. Sports, the Anfield B.C. Sports at Liverpool and the university matches to the London B.C. Races at the Crystal Palace on 16th June.
- One machine offered: a 56-in. "Special Club" with ball bearings to both wheels and pedals, nickel plated all over and with all the latest improvements, cost £25 and ridden just over 100 miles, price £15 from H. G. Atkinson, Gunnersbury House, Acton, W.
- 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, for immediate insertion, reach the office by Tuesday evening.