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Table of Contents AFTER WAPITI WITH YEW LONG BOW, by Bob Cole A DEER WITH BOW AND ARROW, by E. E. Gervais

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GREENWOOD ARCHERS, by The Arrow Hound 47TH ANNUAL NATIONAL TOURNAMENT, by Louis C. Smith

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INDIAN ARCHERY, bv F. R. Crandall ARCHERY AT CAMP SEQUOYAH AN INTERESTING LETTER, by J. A. RO AKE

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By BOB COLE Pei haps you will be interested to think Jim had seen him. He was cer­ know of our hunt in the Jackson Hole tainly giving us an earful of bugling. country of Wyoming, for the wapiti Mrs. Browne stayed put while Jim bull with the yew long bow.

The and I crawled across a draw to get party consisted of Jim Browne and a shot. Wo rose up and there was a wife of Casper, Wyoming, myself, cow and calf watching us from about (Bob Cole) and wife and Edith Cole 30 yards. There was quite a thicket all of Thermopolis, Wyoming. Jim between us and we couldn’t get a good shoots a 75 pound yew, Mrs. Browne shot. Here came the old bull; he let shoots a GO pound a squack out of osage and I have a him and the cow 75 pound yew bow. and calf beat it. He The Mrs. Coles are was trying to not hunting this bunch the cows to­ year. We outfitte i gether. The cows with Orville Cover seemed afraid of of Wilson, Wyo., T us but the bulls will submit this in were so busy try­ a diary form, omit­ ing to hold them ting camp details that I don’t think and giving it to they had seen us. you just as the Away they went events happened. and we tried for Sept. 15. — Here another position in we were in the a park ahead of Fall Creek country, them.

Jim and one of Wyoming’s Mrs. Browne hid vast game lands, in the brush and I with the bow and crawled down to arrow. the lower end of Jim, his wife the park. Had just and I left at 4 a. got planted when m. to be sure to be I saw a big bull in the vicinity of coming on a trot ,-L.. :>a.. the elk at day­ with his mouth break. We arrived open and tongue Hob and his fine set of horns hanging out. He in the timber at 6 a. m. and, believe me, __ , we were sure was coming after a cow that wasn’t in the middle of them. The old bulls more than twenty feet from me were bugling and champing their teeth, though I couldn’t see her for the We were <on edge, -_o-, as this was oui the quaking aspens, While he was shot at him from first attempt to killI an elk with bow running I tried a tl.. and arrow. An old five-point bub about sixty yards. I held my aim on walked out at about 80 yards. I his head, and shot the shaft through couldn’t shoot as there were some his mouth. He turned instantly and voting- pine tree quaking aspens in the way. I didn t stopped behind a young

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and listened, giving me time to nock another shaft. As he trotted out I tried again, this time grazing the point of his wethers. I got no more shots at him. I should have .got him and I didn’t expect to get such another chance, I suppose I was too anxious, Neither Jim nor his wife got a shot. We talked it over and decided that it was no use to follow that bunch. I picked up Eome fresh tracks and followed them, and about 10 o’clock I jumped another bunch of elk, but only heard them crashingthrough the brush and never got a sight of them. We tramped the hills till evening, seeing lots of fresh signs, especially of moose, but we didn’t see any more game.

Sept. 16.—Jim and I heard that there were about thirty or forty head of elk on a large bench north of camp so we tcok our packs and went out that evening. We had some climb, to an altitude of about 12,000 feet. Got there just at dark and crawled underneath some small pines and tried to go to sleep. Believe me, it was sure frosty up there, but we had a Hudson Bay blanket and kept

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fairly warm, Soon we heard something walking near us and we both rose at once, thinking it might be a grizzly or silver tip as theie are lots of them up there. We could hear it quite distinctly but it soon walked out of healing and we never did learn what it was. Just as we got nicely settled down again we could hear something grazing around not far from us. We were thrilled for we imagined the country alive with elk.

We rolled out at daybreak and went after them fully expecting to butcher today. We hunted about four hours without locating any game so we loaded up our packs and headed back for camp, as there is no use hunting for elk in the middle of the day. Eve­ ning and early morning seem to be the time when they are on the move.

During the day they lie around among the heavy jack pine.

Sept. 17.—We surely were among the elk today. The bulls seemed to be bugling in every direction. We were sitting on a point at sundown and saw two bulls walk out from the timber about 600 yards away. Jim and Or­ ville went over to the pass while I

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started down toward them as the wind seemed favorable. Soon I sat down behind a pine tree and watched them. They would walk a little way then stop and hook some shrub pine.

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died yards they stopped, winded me, and didn’t waste any time getting away. I was sure Jim would get a shot as they headed in that direction.

I didn’t follow but cut across to the pass where they were headed. I missed Jim and Orville and went across a park to another hill. Looking over the hill I spied a cow elk feeding in some quaking aspens. She was only about one hundred yards away and although it was getting rather dusk I tried for her, shooting five shafts at her but as the light was so bad I couldn’t tell very well where I was hitting.

While I was shooting at her a big five-point bull that had been jumped

by Jim trotted past at about 100 yards distance. They were squack-

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ing in every direction. Jim came up and we sat and listened to them and hated to go back to camp; but it was too dark now, so off we went.

Sept. 18.—Today we went to the head of Fall Creek, which is some climb. There were certainly lots of elk there. We could hear them bug­ ling all day and followed them from daylight to dark. It was easy to tell the direction of the herd by the fight­ ing and bugling of the bulls. About sundown they seem to slow down and feed. Jim got a chance at a fivepoint bull at about thirty yards, shooting two shots into him on the right side, one passing between the shoulder and body, not very effective; but the second was sure a good one.

It went in just back of the ribs into the hollow, ranging forward, for some twenty inches. He jumped out of sight and Jim went after him, while I went on after the rest of the herd as there was a big coarse-voiced bull in there that I wanted, I followed him until it was almost dark.

He bugled and I answered him, step­ ping behind a tree. I heard him stop and trot back, probably thinking it was another elk that had answered his call. He hooked a tree for a while and then bugled. Again I answered him and got ready. He came in sight about fifty feet away and stopped while I let go, striking him in the sticking place, cutting all the arteries loose from the top of the heart and burying a thirty-inch shaft up to the feathers in him. The point on the shaft was 114 inches wide, 314 inches long and sharpened to a keen edge. He jumped and fell, tried to get up again, but it was no use. He died almost instantly. He was a fine big fellow, a six-pointer with a beautiful pair of tushes, I wanted to of him but it was too take a picture i dark and as the meat would spoil very soon in this warm weather un-

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less taken care of at once, I thought it best to quarter him at once and let the picture go, much as I hated to do so.

Sept. 19.—Jim got in last night without his elk. It got so dark he couldn’t find him, but I knew he couldn’t be far off for I had seen the shot and knew it was fatal and was surprised that he could go as far as he did. I took a saddle horse this morning and started to look for him.

As we were using Jim’s horse for packing, he did not go along. I rode to the spot where he had shot him, then over the hill a little way and found him under a pine tree. I took a picture of him and am submitting it to you if you care to use it. It is not very good but will show the shots that were fatal. He seemed warm and as the eyes were not sunken I decided to dress him. He had a nice five-point head and well marked tushes. His meat was apparently good though I was afraid it wouldn’t be, after having lain over night. Both the elk we killed were certainly fat and the meat was wonderfully good.

I believe that we are the first to hunt elk in the Jackson Hole country with the bow, successfully. The oldtimers were surely interested and very surprised when we came out with our elk. I think that they rather doubted that we had killed them with the bow and arrow, but we are satis­ fied. I don’t believe there is any ani­ mal that can’t be killed this way pro­ vided one has the proper equipment.

This fall I completed my twentieth trip hunting the wapiti. Being raised in Wyoming, I certainly enjoy the wonderful hunting here. This year there were 500 permits to kill ante­ lope issued; also 100 to kill mcose.

Our state license costs $2.50 for a resident and $50.00 for a non-resident, and this license allows one to kill one deer with horns, one mountain sheep

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with horns, one elk (any kind). A permit to kill bear costs $5.00 for a resident which allows one giizzly or silver tip and two black or brown bears.

Non-resident bear license cost $25.00.

We have an abundance of game here in Wyoming. I have always hunted with the rifle till this year, but I think it is much better sport to hunt with the bow as you have to stalk your game and get close. Too often I have seen hunting parties shooting from long range into a bunch of elk, no doubt wounding many which would wander into the tall tim­ ber to die and never be found.

Hunting with the bow is a good, clean sport and you are certainly jus­ tified in being proud of your kill for you know that they had more than a chance for their life.

The first tournament of the Mid­ west Archery association was held in Chicago on August 6th and 7th. A. W. Lambert of St. Louis, Mo., won the meet with 1498 points. F. W. Mosher of Wayland, Mich., was sec­ ond with 1410 points. Miss Jessie Akester, president of the Lincoln Park (Chicago) club, won the wom­ an’s championship with 1290 points.

There were over a hundred contest­ ants in the shoot. Roy Case of Racine, Wis., was elected first president of the new association and H. F. Rog­ ers, Chicago, vice president.

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Charles I. issued an order prevent­ ing the enclosure of fields near Lon­ don as this practice interrupted the "necessary and profitable exercise of shooting with bows and arrows.” ■ During the reign of Charles I. the firing of a musket was so slow that an archer could shoot six arrows while a musketeer was charging and discharging his musket once.

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C4 dDeei^ With ddow and CArroiv

By E. E. GERVAIS On September 12th, the third day of the deer season, I decided I would have one day’s fling at hunting with the bow and arrow. I left my home in Marshfield at about ten thirty in thd morning, taking my favorite bow, five steel-pointed arrows, and a short hunting knife that a friend, Bert Reeves of North Bend, Oregon, had made for me. He had also made the arrow points, of high speed saw steel, and I must say that they were fine, not too heavy nor too light, and easy to fit to any arrow shaft.

1 took the trail to what is known hereabouts as the Tarheel bum, which is about two miles from my home and right on the summit of the range oi hills between Marshfield and the ocean, the burn on the west side of the hills and the town on the east side.

Reaching the summit of the hill in about forty-five minutes, I sat down to rest a few moments while I mapped out the route of my hunt.

Keeping well to the top of the burn and traveling southwest, I had hunted for perhaps an hour and a half when I saw the tracks of a lone deer. It was going down hill toward open land and the heart of the bum. The tracks were large and I at once started fol­ lowing them.

After tracking for something like a mile and a half I found fresh signs and found where the deer had been feeding on gfass and huckleberry sprouts, I knew that the deer was close so I took plenty of time and hunted slowly, making the least noise I could. The wind was right for me, coming from the southwest. It was raining a slow drizzling rain and the limbs did not crack, making the going

good and the chances for a close shot fine.

I came to a little ridge or knoll and, creeping to the highest point, I stood beside a large stump and looked around for my quarry. Then I heard something move and got my first sight of my game. I could not tell whether it was a buck or a doe ami anyway it was too far for a shot, as it was about two hundred yards away.

I commenced working my way along toward the deer which was walking slowly and feeding toward me but in a line that would bring him in too far below me and too far away for a shot with bow and arrow.

Working my way along logs and be­ hind trees, I stalked for the greater part of an hour and a half, getting closer and closer to my game.

At last I saw the horns but was yet too far away to do any shooting.

Keeping myself out of sight and on the wind side, I traveled with the buck for a considerable distance with­ out getting any closer or very much farther away. When the buck came into a low place and was lost to my sight, I crawled on my stomach the length of a large fallen tree and arose by a large black stump.

Working my way around the side of the stump, I saw the buck coming straight toward me and about sev­ enty-five or eighty yards away. Be­ lieve me, I stood still and almost held my breath for it was as fine a target as any man would wish to shoot at and was coming right toward me feeding slowly and seemingly uncon­ cerned. I could hardly wait any longer but I did manage to stand still and not shoot.

The buck, a three pointer, came on

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and saw the buck flinch and hump up and then I knew that I had made a hit. I was just in the act of loosing another arrow when the buck wavered and started walking stiff-like.

I knew that he was hit hard.

I stood still, 7 —^' • ■ C r ^7 • • I—in \ "watching my quarry in his stiuggle for life against the ar­ row that I had shot into him. He hump ed up his back and walked with stiff­ like steps, making a small circle probab­ ly thirty feet across, and then fell, and did not seem to so much as quiver. Af­ ter watching him for several minutes, I walked slowly to­ ward where he was lying, circling him The deer, the how, and the hunter to make sure that he and did not change his course very did not have much life left before I much. Coming within the sixty-yard went too close. limit, ho stopped and seemed to turn When I touched him he was stone a little. I came very near letting dead and the arrow was most all in loose tan arrow at him but he seemed his body, penetrating the flesh twen­ to see> something or smell something ty inches, cutting one rib clear in two, and made several little q..L'.. hops. I the point lodging between the joints -■ "Z'.e quick must have moved for he stopped and of the back bone. The point of the actually looked right at me. I was arrow struck the buck on the right in shooting position and ready. He side of the neck, passing between the raised his head a little, . turning it shoulder bones. It followed the backjust a little to c:__ „ __ __ one side and I knew strap or tenderloin, cutting the top of that the next thing ‘ „ would _____ be a a bound one rib. The arrow shaft seemed to and he would be gone. bend a little and the point was lodged I slowly pushed the bow forward between the joints of the back bone, until the arrow head pressed into my making a very fatal wound. When left forefinger and loosed the arrow.

I heard my bow string’s dull whack we skinned the buck we had to use the pliers to pull out the arrow head

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and the remainder of the arrow shaft.

I was using a point 1% inches long and 1 inch wide, with 2-inch insertion into %-inch white cedar shaft 28 inches long and feathered after the methods of the Sioux Indians of Iowa, there being only two feathers on my arrow, on a direct line with the bow string, and the point split straight across so that when head and arrows are in place they are exactly opposite each other.

Getting my buck home was quite a job. In the past I have handled a number of deer but this one I wanted to get home as nearly whole as pos­ sible so I dressed out the entrails, skinned out the legs to the first joint, and tied the head back to the flank with a piece of string. I shouldered him and started for home but I could not go far foi- he seemed to weigh a ton. Anyway I got him to the top of the ridge where the trail led down toward home. There I pulled the oldtime stunt and cut myself a good bushy limb. Tieing the head well up on the limb and the hind quaiters well back, I started down the trail, drag­ ging him most of the way home.

When I reached home I was a very tired but happy hunter and my regard for the bow and arrow had risen a lot and the satisfaction of my kill can only be known to myself and to some few who have also killed their deer with bow and arrow.

Now, I want to say that this was my most pleasant deer hunt, The buck weighed one hundred forty-two pounds with the hide and head on and for a coast black-tail deer was a dandy. The meat was fine and the questions asked me as to how I killed him many. I still have the arrow I killed the deer with and though it is broken it is to me a valuable relic.

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Here is Stanley F. Spencer, presi­ dent of the San Pedro, California, Archery club and former national champion, who at the regular meet of the San Pedro Archery club on Sun­ day, September 25th, at forty yards, shot six arrows and the six cut a cir­ cle two and three-sixteenths inches in diameter, the group being directly in the center of the gold. Previous to this he shot seven consecutive ends as follows: 52, 50, 50, 50, 50, 48, 54.

His ‘scare for the American Round was 90-636.

An act of Parliament during the reign of Henry VIII. directed that all able-bodied men, except ecclesiastics and magistrates, should practice shooting with the long bow. It was also during this reign that Bishop Lat­ imer from the pulpit stiongly advo­ cated the use3 of the bow and that forbidden to use the long aliens were i_

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YE SYLVAN ARCHER THE GREENWOOD ARCHERS

By THE ARROW HOUND The Greenwood Archers of Oakland, California, is the oldest and largest club in this part of the country, at least as far as we know. It was or­ ganized in the early summer of 1924, and has been going strong ever since.

We shoot every Sunday at 10:00 a. m. in Linda Vista Park, at the comer of Oakland and Olive avenues, Oakland.

All archers visiting Oakland are very welcome.

We have a membership of about 40 (and that means shooters) and have on an average about 25 or 30 out ev­ ery week. We hold a handicap shoot for club members every month; the prize a trophy cup. The winner gets his name and score put on the cup and if he gets it on three times he keeps it. The first cup we had was contested for about two years before it was won the third time by W. H. Johnson. We are now fighting it out for a second one.

Our shooting grounds are not large enough to shoot the York Round, so we shoot the American Round mostly.

When a shooter makes his first “300” score on the single American, he is awarded a felt target to wear on his sweater or quiver, and for each 50 points he raises the score he gets an arrow to wear below it.

We hold an annual club tournament every year for club members only.

We have a lot of prizes then, so every­ one has a chance at them. This is followed by the annual dinner and election of officers.

We claim to have the right and left hand champion of the world. Dr. W. H. Dolman was our champion, shoot­ ing scores of well over 500 for the single American, but through an in­ jury to his right eye he had to start

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shooting left-handed, and he is now beating the 500 mark again. iWe have several mighty hunters, too—Bob Knox with a long list of squirrels, jack rabbits, a few skunks and one coyote; W. C. Burgess got a four-point buck last year and says he is going to get another this year; S. B. Jessup, a husky young man with a big bow; Mac Gregory; Ray Thomberg; and a lot more of them with at least one or more squirrels.

W. D. Hurd is president of the club and George Shepherd secretary-treas­ urer.

In early English times the demand for yew for bows was so .great that it was necessary to limit the ratio of the manufacture of yew bows to those made from other woods.

Bowyers vzeie allowed to make only one yew bow to four of wych-hazel, ash or elm.

A person under seventeen years of age was not allowed to use a yew bow unless he owned portable property worth forty marks or was the son of parents who owned an estate of ten pounds per annum. The penalty for non-observance of the latter require­ ment was 6s. 8d.

During the reign of Henry IV. a statute was enacted requiring that persons from places where bow staves were derived should import four bow staves for every ton of merchandise taken on board, under penalty of 6s.

8d. for everey bow stave deficient.

By act of Parliament during the reign of Henry VII. the use of the crossbow was forbidden in favor of the long bow as the latter had proved of much greater benefit to the nation.

Prof. B. G. Thompson of Oregon State college and Earl Ullrich of Roseburg recently bagged a 3-yearold bear with bow and arrows.

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Annual cTCational Tournament

By LOUIS C. SMITH Secretary-Treasurer of National Archery Association.

The forty-seventh annual tourna­ the United States shall be the woman ment of the National Archery asso­ who, in an annual tournament, has the ciation, which was held on Soldiers highest result obtained by adding to­ gether the scores and hits of her Field, Boston, Mass., Augmst 23 to 26, 1927, brought out an entry list of 94, Double National and Double Columbia divided as follows: 29 ladies, 59 men, Rounds.”

6 juniors. This was the largest tour­ To determine the championships, nament ever staged by the National therefore, it is necessary for the men Archery association, the biggest pre­ to shoot the Double York and Double vious tournament being the first one American Rounds and for the ladies which was held in 1879 and in which to shoot the Double National and 89 archers took part, 20 ladies and Double Columbia Rounds.

Conse­ 69 men. quently at any annual tournament Both of the 1926 champions, Stanley these are the events which are first shot off, so that if the program has F. Spencer of San Pedro, California, and Mrs. Henry S. C. Cummings of to be curtailed on account of weather, Brookline, Mass., (formerly Miss Dor- as was the case this year, the cham­ othey D. Smith of Newton Center, pionships at least may be decided.

The program was for the men to Mass.) were present to defend their titles. Dr. Paul W. Crouch of New­ shoot the first York Round on the ton Center, Mass., the 1925 champion, first day and the second York Round on the second day and to shoot the whom Stanley F. Spencer deposed in 1926, came with the intention of win­ Double American on the third day, ning back his laurels if possible, and which would leave the fourth day for Mrs. Robert Johnson of Los Angeles, the team shoot, clout shoot, etc.

California, journeyed all the way It was planned for the ladies to across the continent to win the wom­ shoot the first National on the morn­ en’s championship for California. ing of the first day and the first ColBoth were successful so that as a re­ lumbia in the afternoon and to repeat sult of the 1927 tournament California this program on the second day, while passed back to Massachusetts the on the third day it was proposed that men’s championship, while Massachu­ the ladies should shoot the double setts handed over to California the American Round with the men. Un­ women’s championship. It is said fortunately it rained before the shoot­ that “A fair exchange is no robbery.” ing was completed the first day and The constitution of the National Ar­ all the second day so that the pro­ chery association contains the follow­ gram as planned was somewhat dis­ arranged. The men’s program was ing provision: “The champion archer of the United cut by omitting the team shoot, while States shall be the archer who, in an the ladies’ program was cut by omitannual tournament, has the highest ting the Double American Round.

Among the men Dr. Crouch early result obtained by adding together the scores and hits of his Double took a commanding lead which he York and Double American Rounds.” maintained throughout the Double “The champion woman archer of York and Double American Rounds,

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There was really no keen competition for the men’s title and after1 the first day’s shooting it was apparent that Dr. Crouch would win unless he had some unforeseen setback.

An account of the winning of the women's championship by Mrs. Rob­ ert Johnson of Los Angeles is given in the Ladies’ Department of this is­ sue.

For the flight shoot the National Archery association provides two events, one known as the “regular style” event and the other known as the “free style” event. In shooting the .regular style event the archer must shoot in regulation form while for the free style event he is allowed to shoot in any manner he choses pro­ vided he draws the bow with his own muscular effort. In making the free style shot an archer frequently lies on his back with the bow strapped to his feet and uses both hands in draw­ ing the bow. In this way a much stronger bow can be handled than is possible in regulation style.

In the regulation style flight shoot Stanley F. Spencer of San Pedro, Calif., made a shot of 294 yards, 10 inches, which bettered by 1 yard 10 inches the previous record of the N. A. A. made by Dr. Crouch in 1924.

This new flight shoot record, how­ ever, does not equal those made by Dr. George A. Cathey of Portland, Oregon, (300 yards 1 foot 2 inches) and Harry Hobson of Lyons, Oregon, (296 yards) which were made at the first tournament of the Pacific North­ west Archery association that was held July 16-17 at Seattle, Washing­ ton. Perhaps some day one or both of these gentlemen will honor the Na­ tional Archery association by attend­ ing one of its tournaments and bring with them a new flight record.

Another record which was broken was the women’s team shoot record.

The program for each National tour-

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nament includes a a so-called “team shoot” for men and women. This team shoot is a competition between teams of four archers each, which are entered by various archery clubs, any club being entitled to enter a team of four. In the men’s team shoot each archer shoots 96 arrows at 60 yards while in the women’s team shoot each archer shoots 96 arrows at 50 yards. The constitution provides that no team of four archers shall be eligible to shoot as a team unless all four have been members of the same archery club for at least a month prior to the tournament. The purpose of this provision is to prevent any group of archers from hast'ly organiz­ ing an archery club at the time of the tournament and then entering a team.

The winning team is the one which has the greatest aggregate score.

The women’s team contest was won by a team of archers entered by the Newton Archers and comprising Mrs. H. S. C. Cummings, Mrs. L. C. Smith, Miss Stella Ives and Miss Cynthia Wesson The aggregate score of this team was 334-1664 which was a con­ siderable improvement over the pre­ vious record of 323-1549 made by a team from the same club two or three years ago.

While the shooting on the archery range is an important part of any National tournament yet it is by no means the whole show, for there is usually provided something in the way of social diversion for the en­ tertainment of the archers during the evenings. This year the archers were entertained on the evening of the first day of the tournament by Chief Crazy Bull, a full-blood Sioux Indian who is now studying in the East, and who gave a most interesting account of his boyhood Indian life and of Indian cus­ toms and traditions. Crazy Bull was one of the contestants in this tourna­ ment but the scores which he made

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would seem to indicate that target shooting was not one of his strong points.

On the night of the third day of the tournament Arthur Young’s mov­ ing picture “Alaskan Adventures,” was exhibited for the benefit of the archers together with some films taken by one of our members (Mr. Bushong of Worcester, Mass.) at the tournament of the Eastern Archery association at Deerfield, Mass., June 30, July 1 and 2. This showing of the action at the Eastern tournament was most interesting, especially as many of those in the audience were among the archers who were shown on the screen.

On the evening of the fourth day of the tournament occurred the annual banquet together with the award of prizes.

The question as to where the tour­ nament should be held in 1928 brought forth a spirited discussion. There was quite a strong sentiment mani­ fested in favor of the West Coast, but the final vote was in favor o.f Rye, N. Y. In view of the strong showing which the West Coast archers are making it is not improbable that the National tournament will be held in that section in the near future.

The offeers elected for the ensuing year were as follows: President—General I. Thord-Gray, Greenwich, Conn.

Executive Committee—Andrew L. Biush, Cos Cob, Conn.; Caleb Hyatt, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Thaddeus Merriman, New York, N. Y.; Dr. Paul W. Crouch, Boston, Mass.

Vice Presidents—William C. White, New York, N. Y.; Miss Jessie Alces­ ter, Chicago, Ill.; Stanley F. Spencer, San Pedro, Calif.

Secretary - Treasurer — Louis C. Smith, Boston, Mass.

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OREGON STATE TOURNAMENT The archers of Oregon met at Wald­ port, Sunday, August 28, 1927, for the first state archery tournament.

Thirty archers were entered in the five events of the tournament. A very large crowd of local people and visitors watched the shoot from the side lines.

One of the most hotly contested events on the program was the men’s flight shoot in which Hairy Hobson of Lyons and Fred Schulte of Port­ land were close contenders, Mr. Hob­ son winning with a shot of 298 yards 3 inches. Mr. Schulte’s distance was 294 yards 2 feet 9 inches. William Doughty of Aumsville was third in this event. Seven men were entered far this prize.

Fred Schulte of Portland won the men’s championship in the target shooting with a score of 882 for the double American round.

B. G. Thompson of Corvallis; was second and James Berry of Corvallis was third. There were 14 contestants in this event.

In the ladies’ flight shoot Mrs. Elizabeth Swank Ransom of Lyons established a state record of 239 yards and 3 inches. Mrs. Harry Hob­ son of Lyons was second and Mrs. H. Prouty of Portland was third. Six la­ dies were entered in the flight shcot.

Mrs. E. K. Starr of Waldport be­ came the first lady archery champion of the state with a score of 222 for the single Columbia round. Mrs. P. W. Lyndon of Waldport was second and Miss Margaret Merriman of Cor­ vallis was third. Seven ladies were entered.

Carl Merriman of Corvallis won the cup for the junior championship. Win­ field Kennedy of Albany was second and Robert Cathey of Portland was third. Eight boys were entered in this

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event. The winning score was 309.

The boys shot the single Columbia round.

William Doughty of Aumsville won a special prize for the largest number of bullseyes in the meet, he having hit the center 21 times.

The cups and prizes were donated by the Waldport business men, the Waldport Archery club, and B. G. Thompson of Corvallis.

E. K. Starr of Waldport acted as field judge of the tournament.

A GAME OF BULL’S EYE

By L. C. GOODRICH Marshall Dayton of the Casper Archery Association is the originator of a simple indoor archery game which may appeal to other archers who use an indoor target range dur­ ing the winter. It could also be played out of doors but we have used it mostly as diversion from a long evening of indoor target shooting.

The number of players is limited to the number of targets, as one is needed for each archer but as the game is quickly played, several groups may play during an evening or a .game can be played while r est­ ing between rounds of target shoot­ ing.

Each target should be numbered, each player taking one target and confining all his shots to that one.

Shooting lanes should also be marked off, to provide for the safety of any player who does not progress.

The floor of the range is marked off in shooting lines about 5 yards apart. The lines should be parallel to the target, beginning about five yards from the target line. The dis­ tance between lines can be varied to suit any range.

These lines should be numbered,

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number one being- nearest the targets and so on in order to the last.

Staiting with six arrows each, the archers stand on line number 1 and each in turn shoots one arrow at the gold, until he hits a bull’s eye.

As soon as any archer scores a bull’s eye, he moves to the next line, where he again shoots in turn until he scores another- bull’s eye, continuing to move after each bull’s eye until he scores from the last line. .No player may move from one line to the next until he hits the gold, re­ gardless of how many tunes he must shoot in order to do so.

If an archer has shot all six cf his arrows without having scored from the last line, he should be allowed to go to the target and retrieve them. If the targets are very close together, the other archers should cease shoot­ ing until he returns as a safety pre­ caution.

The player who scores a bull's eye from the last line by shooting the fewest arrows is the winner, the ob­ ject being to keep one’s score as low as possible as in Golf or Bonarro.

Any number of lines may be used, depending on the length of the range and the distance allowed between lines, but six is a very good number as this gives an archer an opportunity to score from the last line with his sixth arrow, providing he is accurate enough to make a bull’s eye each time he shoots.

This game gives practical applica­ tion of both point blank shooting and shooting with a point of aim, the shorter ranges presenting point blank shots such as would be used in huntones ig small .game and the longeropportunity to giving the archer an use the point of aim.

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By GRACE AUSTIN GOODRICH The last indoor meet held during Shades of Robin Hood and his merthe latter part of March was an Ar­ rie men might not feel at home in chery Frolic and was so successful such strange surroundings as they that it will probably be repeated dur­ would find at the Casper Archery as­ ing the coming winter. sociation’s new range; but they would In addition to the regular- indoor feel the companionship of kindred . rounds for both men and women, sev­ spirits. The association’s members eral novel ideas were introduced; are as ardent devotees of archery as such as using colored toy balloons even the doughty Robin could have suspended from the ceiling, as tar­ wished to meet.

There has been a great deal of in­ gets. Another unique target was pat­ terned after the familiar punch­ terest in archery among the Casper boards. A target about four feet sportsmen for some time, but no defi­ square held concealed numbers which nite organization was formed until corresponded with the numbers on February of this year. prizes donated by the men of the club.

On February 9 a meeting was held Two targets were used, one for the at which L. L. Langworthy was elect­ men and one for the ladies, and each ed president; L. C. Goodrich, vicepresident and G. E. Chase, secretary­ person shot one arrow in turn until all the numbers had been drawn. The treasurer. A constitution and by-laws assortment of prizes was quite varied were drawn up and adopted and the but consisted mostly of smaller arti­ association became a full-fledged or­ ganization with about thirty mem­ cles of archery tackle.

With the advent of spring, it be­ bers.

(The membership is now larger.) came necessary to have an outdoor Later an indoor target range in the .range and the executive committee basement of a down-town office build­ was fortunate in finding a suitable one near town. The range secured ing was rented and indoor meets were lies about a mile from the east side held on two evenings each week. of town on the road leading to the One night a week was set aside for the ladies and a number took part in Country Club. It had been intended the shoots, proving that all the in­ at one time for a city addition and terest and skill was not confined to comprises 150 acres of level land. To the men. the south there is a lovely view of

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Casper Mountain, which is about sixty miles away.

During the early summer the range was carpeted with wild flowers of many colors and was a favorite haunt for hundreds of wild birds.

There were no buildings of any kind and as some place was needed in which to keep the targets, a few of the hardier toxophilites spent several evenings erecting a combined shelter and target house.

Since the association is yet in its infancy’, funds are not plentiful so the building was made as simple as pos­ sible to meet the needs for which it was intended.

Near the shelter house there is a target range of 100 yards with three regulation targets. As our member­ ship increases, more targets will be added.

This will allow room for all the standard rounds shot in national tour­ naments. There is also a range of more than 400 yards for flight and clout shooting, which will give the most ambitious flight shooters ample room in which to test their skill.

Perhaps the most interesting fea­ ture of the grounds is the Bonarro course. Bonarro is an archery field game originated by Donnan .Smith and R. Gardner Carlton and combines the technique of target shooting with the practical application of hunting.

It is played on a course and with rules similar to golf and may be best de­ scribed by comparing it to that game.

Twenty-inch targets are used and, of course, bows and arrows instead of clubs and balls.

Plans had been made for a program of several events to take place Sun­ day, May 22nd, at the opening of the giounds. In spite of adverse weather conditions, quite a number of archers were present, and while the high wind made shooting difficult, some

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target and flight shooting was done and several groups played around the Bonarro couise.

Owing to the wind and the fact that the target range is several yards longer than the indoor one used, the scores made were not as good as the ones made during the winter. It is expected , that these scores will soon be far excelled. Two archers have made flight shots of more than 300 yards, which aie the best made so far.

The association hopes to hold matches with similar organizations later and would be glad to hear from any who are interested in a contest.

Some of the club members use tackle purchased from leading manu­ facturers, but many of them believe with the late Dr. Pope that “every field archer should make his own tackle.” Quite a number of these amateur bowyers and fletchers have produced bows and arrows which ri­ val in beauty of workmanship and ac­ curacy of cast and flight, any which have been obtained from master bo«yers. Yew, osage oiangc lemonwoo.1, hickory, cedar, walnut and black used for palm have been have all has bows and each archer and ; it to have his favorite, claiming do not. advantages which the others ( opinion However, the consensus of to yew, seems to give the preference and lemonwood, in the osage orange order named.

Since the the winters winters here here are are quite severe, November November will probably will pi__.'' find again. the club using an indoor range will increase also The membership school term with the opening of the are enthuas many of the teachers siastic archers.

All the members of the club of Ye most heartily with the slogan build* Archers Guild, that “Archery preserves body, mind and character, f”‘ youth, virility and outlook.”

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Championship

By LOUIS C. SMITH Secretary-Treasurer of National Archery Association.

When the shooting was half over, For several years past thei e has therefore, these four leaders had the been no .real competition for the la -----followingstanding as determined by dies’ championship, Miss Dorothy •-'•-c.

--hits in the first adding scores3 and i — Smith, who is now Mrs. Henry S. C. National and first Columbia Rounds: Cummings, having repeatedly won Mrs. Cummings 966 this honor by a .good margin, This Mrs. Johnson 934 year, however, not only did\ Mrs. Mrs. Rounsevelle 870 Robe it Johnson come on from CaliMrs. Owen 834 fomia with the hope of taking the coveted title back with her, but Mrs. During the shooting of the second Courtney Owen of Scarsdale, N. Y., National and second Columbia Rounds the lady champion of the Eastern Ar­ Mrs. Johnson gradually overcame the chery association, and Mrs. Phillip lead of Mrs. Cummings, while Mrs. Rounsevelle of Pinehurst, North Car­ Owen crept up on Mrs. Rounsevelle olina, who has won championship and when the shooting was over the honors in the Metropolitan Archery four had made the following records: association, were also present to make Mrs. Johnson, double National, 134680; double Columbia 142-904..... 1860 the contest more interesting.

Mrs. Cummings,, double National, At the end of the first National 128-646; double Columbia, 142-910 Round these four archers were closely 1826 bunched with the following scores: Mrs. Owen, double National, 130Mrs. Johnson 69—357 1706 648; double Columbia, 137-79.1— Mrs. Cummings 67—339 Mrs. Rounsevelle, double Nattonal, Mrs. Owen 66—332 118-590; double Columbia, 13" Mrs. Rounsevelle 66—328 L t) / The scores made by these four in the first Columbia Round were: Mrs. Cummings Mrs. Johnson Mrs. Rounsevelle Mrs. Owen

71—489 70—438 70—410 68—368

shoot of ■ handicap Mrs. Ra> At the regular Archery club American. the San Pedro cently shot an of 90-564, Hodgson re' round with a score «.

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Indian Archery^

By F. R. CRANDALL, “Chief Pull ’Em Bow”

I was raised among Indians from the time I was six years old. My playmates were Indian boys, and In­ dian toys fascinated me. The bow was common forty years ago,— among the younger generation, and so, from the age of six on up, I had a bow of some sort.

Generally speaking, the present In­ dians of North America are not fa­ miliar with the bow, it having been

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discarded years ago for the rifle and shotgun. However, the old Indians still know how to shoot—and also manufacture the necessary tackle.

To the average white man, the bow was the original weapon of the In­ dian. We always think of archery as belonging to the Indian only,—but archery was further developed in England, Germany, France, Spain, and the southern countries, as well as

China, Japan, and Asiatic countries.

It is conceded that our American In­ dians were the poorest equipped archers of all, probably because they were primitive people. But we shall have to give them credit for shooting well, and living by their cunning. I have personally lived among many different tribes of Indians, and know the different bows and arrows each used. They are all generally the same—some made from yew, but most from ash, hickory, walnut, osage, ce­ dar and willow. They used short bows, from three to five feet, al­ though I have seen long six-foot wil­ low bows from the Yaqui Indians of Old Mexico.

“Why did they use such short bows?” I have 1been — asked time and I can only guess—and time again, would be, that the short my guess ' bow would be handy for an Indian that had to sneak up on his quarry, could also on horseback a long bow L Again, you not be handled at all. short, stiff must remember that a bow will send an arrow farther than weight or a long bow of the same people. ___ . Indians are lazy strength. .... They did They lived to eat and fight, > not have any future to look L-. forward killed as they to, so the game was needed it. able to At the age of 12 I was string' from make my own sinew 12 inches long, small strands not over a long strand spliced and rolled into Such a string the size of a BB shot, ; large touring when dry would tow a had strings car anywhere; so Indians strings and tougher than our linen just as good looking. the arArrows were obtained from Continued on page 22

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ARCHERY AT CAMP SEQUOYAH

By CHARLES LUCAS Archery was introduced at Camp Sequoyah, one of .the leading boys’ camps of western North Carolina, only two years ago and since that time it has gained rapidly in popularity as an interesting anti scientific sport.

The archery class during the past season consisted of 30 boys, a few of whom had their own tackle but ample equipment for all was furnished by the camp. Small bows were provided for the little boys and heavier ones for the larger fellows. The boys were allowed to practice almost any time they cared to, but the regular

classes were held twice a day, three times a week.

Many things were taught—the cor­ rect form in shooting, tournament rules and the conducting of matches, and archery games, such as rovers, chevy chase, etc. Toward the close of the camp, twenty-four bows and two hundred and eighty-eight arrows were made under the supervision of the instructor.

It was very interesting to watch the boys at work on their bows and ar­ rows, and the camp wood-working shop was occupied practically all the time. Some very nice bows and ar­ rows were made.

It is evident that archery has been firmly established as one of the lead­ ing sports at Camp Sequoyah.

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MAKING THE HIGH SCORE

By FRED W. YOUNG Huntington Beach, California I am fourteen years old, and a stu­ dent of Virgil Junior High School of Los Angeles, California. I became interested in archery when the other boys in “wood shop” began making bows. This was about the middle of the year.

I found that our shop teacher was going to have an archery tournament

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near the end of the year, and as some of my classmates were going to enter, I decided to try my luck—make a bow, and enter also. Rock elm was all our teacher had, so I used it for my bow. I soon finished it with a dozen arrows or more.

Next I made a 1target out of an automobile tire andI started to P ’ practice at home, I was pretty poor at first but soon I was able to hit the

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bullseye nearly every time at twentyfive yards. That was all the space I had. Every day I got a little better.

A few days before the contest I learned that the other boys were practicing after school on the gym grounds at forty yards, the distance required in the tournament. That made me fear for my chances because I had to practice at twenty-five yards.

The morning of the meet I signed up.

I had shopwork first period, there­ fore I was the first on the list and first to shoot. I raised my arrow a little higher than my usual point of aim and my first arrow flew. It hit high on a three. I heard behind me a couple of “Atta boy, Fred.” The sec­ ond arrow flew to its mark, “The .gold!” Then I heard many more, “Atta boy, Fred,” than the first time.

My next four arrows hit fair and the first half was over.

One boy in particular, out of the other 23 contestants, missed the tar­ get every time.

My next six shots were even better, with two bullseyes. When the final score was read my name came first, with a score of 51; second place was 39; and third was 38.

My heart jumped to my throat, al­ though I at least expected second place, I’ll admit.

My shop teacher is not a million aire, so there were no prizes; other beautiful than ribbons, but I got a L_. red ribbon blue ribbon. I also got a for the second best set of six anows, best and a white ribbon for the third bes

bow.

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old, Robert Hodgson, 10 yearsColumbia San Pedro, Calif., shot a C round with a score of 293.

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AN INTERESTING LETTER Editor Ye Sylvan Archer: I was very much pleased to receive a copy of the first edition of Ye Syl­ van Archer. I read it with a great deal of pleasure. It is just what we need to promote the good sport of archery.

I do not know how you discovered that I am interested in archery; how­ ever, I am pleased to be recognized.

I first learned to shoot the bow about forty-two or three years ago in the pine forests of northern Wiscon­ sin. At that time the Indians in that part of the country killed most of their game with the bow, and sold the local meat shops a good deal of their stock in trade. I remember going to our butcher on a good many occa­ sions for my mother to buy fifteen cents worth of venison, which made a good meal for a family of six.

About three years ago I read an ar­ ticle in a sporting magazine about some fellows who were doing some hunting with the bow and arrows. I never stopped to notice who they were, for my imagination was fired right there, and all my old boyhood enthusiasm came back to me like a whirlwind, and I decided right then and there that if other mature men were going to take up their old boy­ hood sport I was not .going to be left behind. ( Remembering that several years be­ fore a man had brought into our pat­ tern shop a yew log to be squared up for a gate post, and we had laid the slabs off this up in the rafters of our pattern shop, I immediately resurrect­ ed tl.ese slabs and proceeded to make a long bow. The yew was of the coarse grained, female tree; however, 1 rnade an excellent bow. As we use a °t birch dowels in our pattern shop, I had not far to go for my arrow

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stock. I procured some turkey feath­ ers and made some arrows. When my outfit was complete I went down our alley to a little ravine where nobody could see me and started shooting with better success than I anticipated.

Since then I have found a number of men in our town who have become as enthusiastic as myself and together we have found a great deal of enjoy­ ment going out in the hills for our yew wood; also on trips to eastern Oregon on jack rabbit hunts.

Find enclosed my check for $1.00 for one year’s subscription.

Yours truly, (Signed) J. A. ROAKE.

HEAR YE—ARCHERS The following bulletin was issued by the Lincoln Park Archery club of Chi­ cago:

Sunday, October 16, 1927, at 12 noon all archers equipped with regular target “hunting” tackle (including finger tips), and properly clothed in red flannels, blazers, wool socks, fur caps, boots and warm mittens, will meet at the regular hunting grounds in Lincoln Woods just north of Birds Sanctuary Forest of tall Noiwood pines and Douglas fir, and at the blow of the cow horn bugle, start north along Lake Michigan, following the blazed trail, on their first hunt for wild game. range reeks It is said this open (range with prey and ye hunter who successfully bags the biggest “buck” will have the joy of being- host and making merry with his guests around a camp fire, over which the juiciest of the venison quarter will be broiled.

License and Permits:—Resident hunting, including clerk’s fees, 50c.

Payable to Judge Middleton, collector.

By order of Squire Akester, war­ den.

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INDIAN ARCHERY Continued from page 18 low weed in the southwest, and tiaded to the Indians of the north for ponies. Osage wood was the favorite bow wood and came chiefly from the Kansas and Oklahoma tribes. The heart of the osage was the prized stave and still brings a good price to us pale face archers.

Several years ago I wrote my father, who was U. S. Indian agent at Santa Fe, to obtain for me a choice piece of New Mexico cedar, which by the way, was the choicest bit of wood the New Mexico Indinas could get.

I got my cedar cut by an Indian, and a message from dad, “Why take up something the Indian discarded?”

True, with a bow in my hands, the game would be safer than if I used a rifle; yet the sport of hunting with a bow can only be described by the archer himself, who makes his first kill with an anw. There is the call of the bow in many of us. It is a sport more worthy than we realize.

Many clubs find their membership growing monthly; and from now on archery will not die out, but live and grow until laws are passed that big­ game can only be killed with the ar­ row. It will come,—and when it does come the silent message the flight arrow carries will bring back archery in all its glory. At one time it was the king’s sport. Today it is the sport of only a few who find it as fascinating as fishing or golfing.

Our California and Oregon moun­ tains give us wonderful yew trees out of which we fashion, as our fancy craves, fine target and hunting bows.

Hanging on the wall of our dining­ room is a collection of yew and osage bows I have created. Some are short and powerful and others are long and slender, but each is for a different

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purpose, like golf sticks, For hunt­ ing we have our light 5-16th arrows pointed with light steel blades, and for the larger game the sturdy 3-Sth shafts with large hunting points, ca­ pable of bringing down any game our United States contains. All archery, as we copy it, not from the Indian, but from our English forefathers, is as scientific as any sport one can mention. By practice, shooting is done accurately and skilfully. The late Dr. Saxton T. Pope did more for the present enthusiast than anyone else. His books are not only interest­ ing but instructive, and from them you, too, can make your own tackle, and join the throng of lovers of out­ door sports, bringing happhtess and health. Cut or buy yourself a yew stave as soon as you can, and join the nearest archery club. My guarantee is that it will lessen your Doubles and build up a steady nerve, and a sound body.

THE STEEL BOV

By DR. J. M. ARMSTRONG I tried the steel bow on the iSlhIt weighs, drawn 28 inches from the cork handle on a spring scale, 58 pounds.

The draw is remarkablj smooth, with no jar in the handle and it shoots very accurately. Alter re­ peated trials both with target and hunting arrows, however, I am in­ clined to think it is a little slower in action than a wooden bow. It shoots an arrow faster than one ot my }’e" hunting bows of about equal weight and has a smoother draw (this bow must now be overhauled) but two ta' _ equal weigweight’ get bows, one of about .. othei ot and made of yew, and- the lighter in lemonwood somewhat faster in ac' weight, certainly were the differtion. It seems to me that t. between a ence is about the same as

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Its advantages I think are its short length—about five feet—perhaps un­ varying draw in all sorts of weather­ conditions, and unbreakability; all important in hunting. However, it is a total loss aesthetically and all the poetry ,and romance of the bow is missing. The handicraft element is entirely lacking. It will never have tbe appeal of the wooden bow to the imagination. Nevertheless, it is <l highly efficient tool and beautifully made.

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