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ANFIELD BICYCLE CLUB FORMED MARCH 1879 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. MONTHLY CIRCULAR. Vol. XXXI. No. 335 A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. FIXTURES FOR JANUARY, 1934. Tea at 6-0 p.m. Light up at Jan. 6 Halewood (Derby Arms). Annual Gonoral Meeting. (Tea 5-30 p.m.)... 4-39 P- m. „8Committee Meeting, 7 p.m. (Victoria Hotel, St. Johns Lane, L'pool) „ 13 Heswall (Black Horse) 4-48 P, m. „ 20 Chester (Talbot) 5- 0 P. m. ,, 27 Stamtord Bridge (Bridge Inn) 5-13 P, m. Feb. 3 Halewood (Derby Arms) 5-27 P. m. ALTERNATIVE FIXTURES. Tea 5-30 p.m. Jan, 13 Holmes Chapel (Swan) 4-48 P,,m. „ 20 Lymm (Spread Eagle) 5- 0 P m. Feb, 3 Goostrey (Red Lion) 5-27 P,,m. Full Moon ... 30th Inst, The Hon. Treasurer's address is R. L. Knipe, 108 Moscow Drive, Stoneycroft, Liverpool, but Subscriptions (25/-; . under 21 15/- ; under 18 5/-; Honorary, a minimum of 10/-) and Donations (unlimited) to the Prize Fund can be most conveniently made to any Branch of Martins Bank Ltd., for credit of th6 Anfield Bicycle Club, Tue Brook Branch. 4 The Eaund, Wallasey, Cheshire. COMMITTEE NOTES. The resignation of Mr. A. E. Morton has been accepted with regret. Application FOR Membership.—Mr. K. B. Crewe, 34 Ein'gard Road, Northenden, Manchester. Proposed by Mr. J. R. Walton- seconded by Mr. R. J. Austin. Changes of Address—Mr. R. Barton, 9 llford Avenue, Crosby, Liverpool, :>3. Mr. J. C. Robinson, Clarernont, Pinetree Drive, Grange, ©West AnfieldKirby. Mr. C. F. Hawkes, Bicycle33 Devonshire Road, Upton, Clubnear Birkenhead. Mr. G. E. Pugh, Gorndou, Meole Crescent, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury. Tea at Halewood on 0th January will be at 5-30 p.m. H. W. POWELL, Hon. General Secretary. 554 TREASURY NOTES. The amber light has changed to red, and the run of Subscriptions to be included in the 1933 accounts has stopped, with still some score of members caught on the wrong side of the crossing ;' and this in spite of all my frantic appeals in the Circular, backed up bv personal letters urging them to jump on the pedals. Some of course are passing through hard times, and to these our sympathy. But there are others. There's B. Hind, D. Lav, O. Bother, A. N. Other and S. O. Else who could have paid months ago just as easilv as next month. To these our curses, both loud and deep, and also a word of advice. You can avoid the stigmata attached to the names of those who pay late, by forwarding both years' Subs, next month (Jan.), and thus join the glorious company of those who stand in the front rank. To the seventeen members whose names appear below, my thanks for their Subscriptions and/or Donations (*). S. H. Bailey. M. Greenwood. F. Jones. E. J, Reade *J. C. Band. P. Hotine. T. E. Mandall. C.Selkirk. H.G.Buckley. *N. M. Higham. G.P.Mills. J. R. Walton. J. Cnmshaw. C. H. Hutton. J. E. Rawlinsou. C. H. Wood- J. Fowler. roffe. R. Leigh Knipe, Hon. Treasurer. Bidlake Memorial Fund. Further donations have been made by the following : H. Roskell, F. H. Koenen, Harold Moore, F. Dutton-Walker, J. Kinder, E. 0. Morris, E. Montag, N. M. Higham, H. S. Barratt, C. H. Woodroffe and Willaston Tea Tasters. This still leaves many rather surprising omissions, doubt less caused by procrastination. Bis dot qui cilo dot. CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the " Circular." The Anfield and the Salamander. As a strong believer in the Monster of Loch Ness and a deep sufferer under the jeers from unbelieving Anfielders in Cheadle Hulme, I for one rank myself among the supporters of the Salamander. These grow daily in number and already include Highlanders from Fort Augustus who have grown up with the Monster these last twenty years. Picknicers from Drumnadrochit have watched it foraging and carrying its prey along the roads, and now Big Game Hunters" from Darkest Africa have been making merry with its slimy deposit and the remains of its footprints. These latter are after the Price on its Head, which would look better in the Aufield Prize Fund. I suggest concerted action by a selected group of Airfield Tourist adventurers to be chartered at the A.G.M. as an emergency measure. ©Frank Chandler,Anfieldwho knows every inchBicycleof the shores of Loch Ness,Club to be nominated their Leader. This promises the best results. When last I met Chandler he kept me closeted and buttonholed for an hour or more retailing his Highland Exploits that ever seemed to start and finish at Invernioriston. Then I stood bewildered but now I see it all. He knew it all ere we fools had yet dreamt our nightmares. Iuver- nioristou of course : the Salamander's headquarters. We have heard of the Monster being as swift afoot as afloat, as Wary as a bag of monkeys and as resourceful as a cyclist. The big game hunters are starting in earnest after the Christmas festivities are over and they have let the New Year in. They are " most enthousiastic." Well, so am I, and I trust so will the Anfield be. I have the greatest confidence in Chandler, both as bicyclist and tricyclist, as tourist and trapper, provided he gets his Charter. Rapidly changing from two wheels to three he will confuse and non plus the fiend. It goes foraging for sheep and deer in those woods and swamps. So does Chandler. He knows every corridor around every kitchen. Chandler is known to be able to take in vast stores of alimentary supplies that help him to go long periods without further redress. The big game hunters will waste their powder and shot on the monster's tough hide. Without Harry Buck, I myself may not be of strong support, but I put my trust in a strong team of Tricyclists— Jonas amongst them—to enmesh the fiend in wheels within wheels. Finally, Cook with bodyguard, putting in the finishing touches, will put the crown on his career. Deeds not words. These arc not days for Spreading Salt on Salamanders' Tails. " Entiiousiast." ITEMS. Again we regret we have to report that Frank Chandler has been involved in proceedings with the police. * Readers will remember that he had been appointed to represent the Club at the Annual Dinner of the Bath Road Club, in London, and we understand that after this function was over Chandler was arrested in the early hours of the following morning and taken to Vine Street Police Station. Unfortunately, the case came before the magistrates in camera, and we 'ad an 'ell of a job to find the camera man so that we could place the lurid details before the members of this Club, and show this pest of society in his true colours. However, Chandler got seven days and costs, hence his appearance at Pulford the following Saturday with a gaol crop. The charge was a very serious one, and impossible to print in a journal of this standing. The prosecution said the prisoner had been before the Nautwich Bench only a short while before. He also rode a tricycle and in the summer wore short trousers like a Boy Scout, which were without visible means of support (we mean the trousers not the scout). For the defence it was said that he belonged to a very famous cyclinc club, went walking over mountains, and ate black puddings. ° ****** An old and valued correspondent asks us how the Anfield fared in the Tunnel March ? How 40,000 Tunnel tramps © AnfieldSaw the.Airfield onBicycleparade, Club From Traumere to the Waterloo shore Went the fearless foot brigade. Well, one could hardly say it was the Anfield on parade, as we have heard of only five who made the pilgrimage to see the Mersey Road Tunnel when the public were allowed through on December 17th, 1933. 550 Our Special Correspondent was on the starting line, a quarter of an hour before zero, i.e., 12 noon, and on the first stroke of the chime from Birkenhead Town Hall clock, the crowd of several hundred started the trek from the Futuristic City to the Second City of the Empire, via an £8,000,000 Tunnel. The steepest gradient is one in thirty, and on an ordinary road would be ridden by most cyclists. But what if the ventilating plant draws the air down the hill in some places ? And if the umpteen horse-power plant works very efficiently, we can see the poor miserable wretches of cyclists being drawn up into the ventilating shafts and ejected from the various towers which have risen on both sides of the river. However, it is not yet decided whether cyclists will be allowed in and we must wait and see. Meanwhile we are suitably impressed with the " world's largest," which looks exceeding]}' smart with the white semi-circle roof and the walls lined with a black glossy material divided by shining metal. The lighting is also very fine, with no glare, the lamps being let in the roof, and it will be a wonderful sight to see four lines of traffic careering under the Mersey. George Mercer, Chandler, Howarth and Tommy Royden, we believe, also did the trip ; the latter, of course, having walked through the Mersey Railway Tunnel a century or so ago. ***** * A man in Birmingham (Birmingham, of all places '.) stole a bicycle and rode to Worcester on it. There he " exchanged " the machine for one fitted with a three-speed gear " because that was easier to ride." Had Grandad been on the Bench, such rank heresy as that would have earned the thief penal servitude for life.