the Sermon Handicap^✦︎

Also Sermon Handicap, the event, the biggest sporting event of the season

The reading-party's betting race on which local parson preaches the longest sermon, devised by Steggles.

Connections

dealings

• Rupert Steggles makes a book on, cleans up on 2
• Jeeves won't bet on 1
• the Rev. Francis Heppenstall is scratched from 1
• the Rev. G. Hayward wins 1

Talked about, but not there

1. Sweltering in London, Bertie gets a letter from his cousin Eustace at Twing urging him to come down for a sporting event, with a baffling race-card of clergymen for a 'Sermon Handicap' on the back, and decides to go.Chapter 13, Bertie's flat, as the biggest sporting event of the season
2. Bingo reads Bertie his poem to Cynthia, then Claude and Eustace burst in to explain Steggles's book on the Sermon Handicap and why Heppenstall is a sitter, and Bertie agrees to finance the syndicate while Jeeves declines a flutter.Chapter 13, Twing Hall, as Sermon Handicap
3. Bertie cycles to Lower Bingley and clocks G. Hayward at thirty-five minutes fourteen seconds, apparently a certain winner.Chapter 13, Lower Bingley, as the event
4. Heppenstall's note reveals that Bates is preaching the Brotherly Love sermon at Gandle-by-the-Hill, on which Jeeves has a tenner thanks to inside information from Brookfield, and Bingo learns that Bates is engaged to Cynthia.Chapter 13, Twing Hall
5. Bingo proposes betting on Steggles's book for the school-treat sports, Bertie forms a syndicate with Jeeves, and Jeeves tips Harold the page-boy for the Choir-Boys' Handicap.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Twing, as Sermon Handicap