Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 11, No 6
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
August 1913 seasonal editorial with aphorisms on truth, scorching in hot sun, and the two great cycling events of the year — the National Assembly and the Wheel About the Hub — both scheduled for September.
- p. 3
An extract from the Irish Cyclist's 'Scorcher' arguing that cycle racing is struggling because promoters no longer treat racing men as heroes, combined with Bassett's counter-view that golf clubs are to blame for the public's neglect of athletic cycling.
- p. 5
A mournful account of how the tour's traditional stopping places have been lost one by one to fire — the Massapoag House, Kimball's at Cohasset, and now the Tudor-Farm Club, burned to the ground in July 1913.
- p. 4
A comparative table showing that between 1903 and 1913 the French Touring Club grew from 78,500 to 130,000 and the Italian from 34,000 to 111,000 members, while the English C.T.C. fell from 45,000 to 16,500.
- p. 6
A comic poem advising against swearing, demonstrating with examples of shoelace knots, hammered thumbs, and dull razors that profanity not only fails to relieve misfortune but invariably makes things worse.
- p. 7
A letter from L.A.W. member No. 1127 describing his own private 'Wheel About the Hub' — a regular ride with his wife around a beautiful mountain lake called Hub Lake.
- p. 10
A brief note on an Irish cyclist still riding a front-steering tricycle he has owned for thirty-three years, raising the question of whether this speaks more to the care of the owner or the quality of the original workmanship.