Anfield Bicycle Club Circular
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. ANFIELD BICYCLE CLUB FORMED MARCH 1879. PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. Monthly Circular. Vol. XVIII. No. 203. FIXTURES FOR, JANUARY, 1923. Light op as Jan. 6. Halewood (Derby Arms) 5- 7 p.m. 8. Annual General Meeting, 25, Water Street, Liverpool, at 7 p.m. „ 13. Pulford (Grosvenor) 5-16 p.m. „ 15. Committee Meeting, 7 p.m., 25, Water Street, Liverpool. 20. Chester (Bull and Stii i-up) Musical Evon'ig.. s-27 p.m. 27. Newbargh (Red Lion) 5.40 p.m. Feb. 3. Halewood (Derby Arms) 5-57 p.m. 5. Committee Meeting. 7 p.m., 25, Water Street, Liverpool, Alternative Runs for Manchester Members. Jan. 6. Ollerton (Dun Cow) 5- 7 p.m. ., 13. Siddington (Mrs. Sam Woods) 5-16 p.m. „ 27. Lower Peover (Church House) 5.40 p.m. Feb. 3. OJlerton (Dun Cow) 5.57 p.m. Tea at 5-30 p.m. Full moon 3rd inst. The Hon. Treasurer's address is R. L. Knipe, 108, ffloseow Drive, Stoneyeroft, Liverpool, but Subscriptions ©(25/, Anfieldunder 21 10/6, under 18Bicycle5/-, Honorary aminimum Club of 10/-) and Donations (unlimited) to the Prize Fund ean be most conveniently made to any Branch of the Bank of Liverpool for eredit of the Anfield Bieyele Club, Tue Brook Braneh. Committee Notes. 94, Paterson Street, Birkenhead. New Members.—Messrs. C. Moorby and J. E. F. Sheppard have been elected to Junior Active Membership. A Musical livening is to be held at the Bull and Stirrup Hotel, Chester, on 20th January. The Committee hope that the joint meet will be even more successful than the musical evening in November. Applications eoh Membership.—Mr. Reginald Austin, 9, Argyle Avenue, Victoria Park, Manchester, proposed by E. J. Reade, seconded by C. H. Turnor; Mr. R. P. Gilmour, 134, Maine Road, Moss Side, Manchester, proposed by B. Haynes, seconded by E. J. Rgade; Mr. Harold Warwick-Jones, 35, Gt. Western Street, Alexandra Park, Manchester, proposed by V. Fantozzi, seconded by E- Fantozzi; F. E. Bill, 6, Cherry Street. Birmingham, proposed by W. P. Cook, seconded by C. H. Turnor. H. Austin. Hon. Secretary. Cook and Ceiriog. During the last few months numerous appeals have been made in the Manchester Guardian to save the Ceiriog Valley from the grip of the waterworks constructor, and from the sacrilegious, moist and muddy hand of the navvy. 1 at once consulted Cook, many of whose week-end slumbers are lulled by the atmosphere of this Valley. Cook faces the change with a light heart (he is ever an opti mist as long as you do not interfere with his lighting arrangements) except for the damage the roads will suffer meanwhile. Cook adds that the Llanarmon folk are not crying out ''O.L." because the scheme will be above the village, thus in the mountain recesses. One of the appeals enlarges urjon Otfa's Dyke because of its crossing of the Ceiriog Valley and the battles that once were waged around the Dyke. The Dyke crosses the main road at Castle Mill, where it emerges from the Castle grounds. With the exception of one portion over Selattyn mountain, the Dyke is continuous from the Dee, near Chirk toil-bar, all the way to Trefonen near T.lapij;- blodwell, as recently verified by Chem. Answers to Correspondents. Harry A.—We have looked into the Bransby Williams case (King's Bench Division), to which you call attention, and we con sider that, if you go with Chandler on his tandem, and wear out the seat of your pants with East pedalling, you will have every chance of success in suing him for damages . See answer to W.P.C. W.P.C.—We incline to the view that, if you continue to attend Club runs in Arthur's car and meet with an accident en route, you will be able to obtain damages from him. We advise you, how ©ever, Anfieldto come to a compromise Bicyclein the tank. Club D.R.F., E.E., and C.H.T.—Surely the announcement in the last Circuxab was sufficiently explicit. It is clear that, for sub scription purposes, we shall now have to treat von all three as being over 21 3 " Tiny."—The Hon. Treasurer is responsible for the announce ment that subscriptions can be "most conveniently" paid in a specified way. For our part, we are disposed to agree with,you that any reference to "convenience" in connection with paying away money is ridiculous. All the same, we do not advise you to call " Beaver " after Knipe. Why not shock him in some other way— for instance, by paying your sub. before 6th January? ITEMS, Robinson writes as follows:—With regard to your critical com mentary on a recent article of mine in Cycling, may I point out that the commentator made two mistakes. It was not a moonlight night, and I certainly did not inveigh against my expensive lunch at the Swan, Tenbury. That lunch was worth every penny of the 5s. 7d. it cost me. In criticising my visions of having to go on to Rhayader," the commentator overlooks " the journalistic touch," and he cannot be aware of the existence of Miss Gwen at the Butchers Arms in that town. For full particulars I must refer him to my Private Secretary (unpaid) ! For the rest, is it seriously suggested that, in the course of a mid-October day-and-a-half outing of 150 or 160 miles, one can find time to indulge in such off-the-road divarshons as the excursion to see Water-Break-Its-Neck? Finally, does my habit of arriving at my destination at closing-time without having booked a bed constitute "a true touch that betrays the disciple of Cook"? The Old Gentleman's habit, on week-end trips, is too ca' canny, and I don't think that I have even week-ended with the Tyrant but he has booked the beds in advance. No, my habit of blowing into places at closing time is original, unique, copyright, patent, and entered at Stationer's Hall. We have been very much intrigued by the advertisement which was recently mentioned in one of our daily contemporaries: — Ford cap spanners 3d. each. Ford cars to fit above spanners l|d. extra. We feel sure that Oliver paid more than l|d. for his Ford, but perhaps he hadn't one of the 3d. Ford cap spanners to start with. We have pleasure in announcing a series of evening lectures on " Gas Lamps and How to Use Them," by Wayfarer, Henderson, Zambuck, and Kreed, which will he delivered at the Club runs if enough students enter for the course, which costs a guinea. The synopsis of the lectures shows that the subject is exhaustively dealt with under the following headings: —How not to fill the water chamber. How to carry distilled water. How to be sure that you will have to re-charge on the roadside. How to delay the crowd by not taking your lamp indoors. Projector sets or club runs made easy. We are very pleased to hear that Chem, who has had rather a nasty attack of illness, is now rapidly recovering, and we hope he will soon be his own self again. We have received a very strong letter of protest from the Cheshire B.B. on the subject of Dazzling Headlights. It appears ©that a partyAnfield of the C.B.B. were returningBicyclefrom Saughall Mjjssie Clubthe other Wednesday night and met Tierney, whose machine was equipped with a blinding light of .0001 glow worm power. We agree that such "powerful" lamps should be forbidden by law, The latest idea, of crediting oneself with a big annual mileage is to take a short period of, say, four weeks during which 1,000 miles are ridden and multiply by thirteen to suggest 13,000 miles for the year. We know a better plan which is to take a day and multiply by 365, which results in collosal figures. By this means Lusty, after finishing the 24, could have written "I am riding at the rate of nearly 130,000 miles per annum "!i Bicycling News says " The tricycle ...even ancient people do not seem to ride them now ...very few tricycles are to be seen on the road to-day." So now we know. In Rearmost Darkness. In the C.T.G. Gazette it is predicted that the agitation for compulsory rearlights will come to nought with the dropping of the present bill, and will die a natural death. I would call it a violent death after seme of the onslaughts by well-known cyclists. It is possible that Cycling will be shorn of this great controversy, the press of its correspondence and the club run of its phantastic rearview : the faint pink will-o'-the-wisp to be dimmed for all time. The Trail of an Anfielder—From Thebes to Clluroum. The last Anfielder seen in the empty treasure chamber on the Roman Wall was meniber Hodges, but this was by no means his first quest to the haunts of treasure. During the war a British soldier was seen lurking around the Valley of the Kings near Thebes of which photographs now appear in the press on account of the recent discoveries of caves with untold wealth in the bowels of the earth. Again his name was Hodges, but it was not he who rifled the caves, who teasrtl the mummy of Tutenkhamen and desecrated the hitter's golden bedstead. 1 doubt if Hodges used any bedstead at all out there.