Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 8, No 5
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
A collection of comic one-liners and seasonal wisecracks in honor of the Fourth of July.
- p. 3
A report on the Century Road Club of America's first annual Bermuda cycle tour, including plans for a ten-mile handicap race open to both tourist and local riders.
- p. 4
An account of how the official portrait of Charles E. Pratt, first President of the L.A.W., came to be donated to League headquarters after resting in Boston's old Council Chamber for years.
- p. 5
A poem of spring anticipation as a cyclist prepares to clean and restore his dusty machine and take it out for the first ride of the season.
- p. 4
Letters from long-standing L.A.W. members explaining why they continue to support the League decades after the cycling boom, citing health benefits and fond memories of the road.
- p. 8
An obituary notice for Conway W. Sams, a former president of the League of American Wheelmen whose death came as a sudden shock to the membership.