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By James Duff Seattle Archery League

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CONTENTS A Plea For A Standard Technique

By Stanley F. Spencer Note on the Strength of Yew Wood

By H. E. Overacker

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Bob’s Den Gets A Trophy By ■.............. " Jos. * M. ’ Sandusky Comments on the Junior Postal Tourn­ ament ................

William Tell Hits the Apple Still More On Bow Sights

By Capt. C. H. Styles................ Golden D. Long Writes Believe it or try it and see

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QA Plea For A Standard Technique

By Stanley F, Spencer Seattle, Washington Before a game can acquire the dig­ nity to be classed as a sport, it must embody a certain amount of features that appeal to, and meet the require­ ments of a fairly large number of people. And to become popular it must have many of these features and meet the requirements of the recreational public in general.

Archery at present is unique in this line as it holds so many of these things, that too many are led off in pursuit of them and overlook the vital points of real archery. That these things are real assets and add great­ ly to the interest of the game passes without comment, but the fact that they seem to hold more importance, and get far more study than is giv­ en the actual shooting of the bow, is what keeps as great a sport as arch­ ery is, still struggling for existance.

In spite of having everything a sport could have to recommend it, archery still remains a very minor sport, while other sports with apparantly far less to recommend them number their members in more mil­ lions than we have thousands. This isn’t just a natural condition, but is the result of a very definite reason.

We all know within ourselves what that reason is, yet we all avoid dis­ cussing it, and for that reason per­ mit it to continue. If we want to re­ move it we have got to drag it out in the light and to find out what will do it.

If the archers as a whole are wil­ ling to become practical and get be­ hind a move to standarize a logical system to use for shooting, and that system to be used by all instructors,

they can boost archery to its place in major sports in a surprisingly short time.

There are some who will oppose such a plan, not those who have, or

Stanley F. Spencer are shooting well, for they know the value of training along well defined lines and. working directly toward what they are trying to attain, Those who oppose systematic train­ ing will be those who have tried every style of shooting and still make no progress, and believe one way to be as good as another. The very fact that they were forced to try everything is what ruined their chance to become good shots.

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tific to start a novice in and let him of them are doing very well. Yet follow all the advice he gets and ex­ each will solemnly tell him a differ­ pect him to worry thru it without ent way to do each thing from what developing habits that will definitely each of the others would tell him, spoil his shooting. and by the time he decides what is No game ever made <"y any pr progress best for him he has another style while every one was playing it; as he and different from all the others, and saw it, with no one 1becoming „ skilled has so many set ways of doing in it. For it is the skill attained in things incorrectly that he is shooting performing the difficult, that creates about as well as he ever will shoot. and holds the intrest. Every game Not because he lacks ability, but be­ that has reached major proportions first had to have a system for in- cause he lacked a direct way to deinstruction that 1was figured out with velope it.

Just as long as an archer can im­ mathematical precision _.i to attain the utmost efficiency, For any game prove his shooting, he knows archery poorly played is neither interesting to be the greatest game in the world, and his enthusiasm is at its height, to the player nor to the spectator. but when the principles of his shoot­ If you ask any r-; one who has been ing style conflict with each other so following a popular sport for : . .. some much that he can progress no further time, rsome ---- question about the I tech- regardless of how much he practices, nique of- his (game, ---- he will give i you it just isn’t possible to keep up his / the same correct answer, that any, old enthusiasm for the shooting, or instructor or rany advanced student — — of to get the same pleasure out of it. that game would give you. you. For For they they will have learned the principles of He may still shoot with others and their game and found that there is enjoy it, but he cannot consistently just one right way to perform them practice a thing and enjoy it if he can’t make any improvement. correctly.

While archery is perhaps the deep­ We all know how poor the average est of any game (and the oldest) bow shooting is, and I don’t want to and more subject to various ideas, it advertise it any more than is abso­ has not even its working principles lutely necessary, to show the press­ accepted to base a system of shoot­ ing need of opening the way to im­ ing on. The result is that the aver­ prove it. Just as long as we let a age scores are far below the mini­ condition exist, we can gain nothing mum that makes them interesting to by denying its existance. the archer or to others.

I figured the amount of arrows When someone becomes interested shot, the hits made, and the total and wants to learn to shoot, what score, with their relative percentage have we to offer him ? We tell him to to each other, that were shot at get some tackle and any archer will 100 yds. in Santa Barbara in '29show him how, or to join a club and Here are the results: all the members will help him, which score hits is correct as far as it goes. But Arrows shot - . 11526 9504 2975 what does he find? That < 0.31294 everyone is trying to do the same thing, each Percentage of hits - 1.21284 Score per arrow shot in a different way, and because they - - 3.8743 Average score per hit were all handicapped as he is, none This may hold some interest but

5 April, 1932 subject, it would seem that indirect archery (or the things that pertain to it) are of the greater importance, and the shooting itself just a detail.

All the sidelines are discussed every­ where to their most minute detail, while a few general remarks are supposed to be all that is necessary about shooting. It isn’t the archers who are improving their shooting that turn to the sidelines to find in­ terest, it is usually those whose method of shooting has brought their progress to a standstill.

By far the greater part of the questions discussed apply only to that person’s particular style of shooting, and have little or no value to archery as a whole.

These sidelines should and always will be explored, but too much of anything always distracts the main issue. Most of these questions will take care of themselves when the When I speak of a system of archers are given a chance to become shooting, I don’t consider that two or Archers shooting the good shots. three things done a certain way big scores don’t find their greatest along in the process of making the difficulty to be finding some new shot constitutes a system. I mean kind of tackle,- for they soon find system in its full meaning, and starts out the type of tackle best suited to with the braced bow, and its natural them, and their shooting is what fur­ action, and how it is influenced by nishes their most interesting prob­ the arrow. Also how the archer ap­ lems. plies the power and other features When the average archer gets a of shooting to the action of the bow, better understanding of the princi­ so that they work as a well organ­ ples of shooting, and becomes more ized unit, and work in harmony for proficient at it, they will know what the same purpose. they want, and impractical tackle If the novice could be given the will not be wished on them, and only basic principles of correct archery to the practical ideas will get attention start with, he would know exactly or will be accepted. what he was trying to do, and as Another thing that at present each move he makes toward shoot­ handicaps the archers is that too few ing practically • suggests the next, he of them have a range convenient would know by his own reasoning he enough to get sufficient practice to was right, and could work directly keep in good form. I know that toward acquiring skill with the full since ’26 I have had very little or no knowledge of how to attain it.

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it is not very impressive for a record breaking National.

Then Then again, again, what what archer hasn t had the experience when showing his tackle to friends of being induced to orate on the virtues of archery.

Then when he is asked to go out and demonstrate, has had to face the fact that probably after yeaars of practice he still shoots very little more skillfully than a novice.

It is entirely too common for an apt novice to master the handling of tackle and in a few weeks time be able to shoot scores equal to the av­ erage archer with years of experi­ ence and practice. This isn’t reason­ able or natural, and is only made possible by the lack of any logical system of training. It is like the archer’s paradox, it isn’t natural to shooting the bow, it is just the result of that method of shooting.

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Ofote On The Strenfefli Of i ew Wood

By H. E. Overacker Palo Alto, California

15,800 pounds per sq in., compres1 ssive strength of heart wood, first test, 8530 pounds per sq. in., second 1 test, 8620 pounds per sq. in. These results are practically the same as for the first sample.

Tests were made on wood from a third billet with the following re­ sults: tensile strength of sap> wood, 15,000 pounds per sq. iin.,, tensile ■—e,— of heart wood justt under strength the sap wood, 14,000 pounds per sq. in., compressive strength ~of r '•heart ‘M -- sq. ~q. in. Just wood, 8300 pounds .per 7 compres­ From a collection of a dozen pairs as a matter of interest the ~..p wood in this sive strength of the sap of billets cut in California in Febru­ i... ‘ and found to ary two years ago, an average piece sample was measured to be 6300 pounds per sq.[. in. was selected and samples prepared, show that Yew for measuring the tensile strength, All the above tests from the sap wood and from the wood is much stronger■ in tension heart wood. Two blocks of the heart than in compression, I have not wood were prepared for measuring measured the modulus <of elasticity but inthe compressive strength. The results for compression and tension t time is were as follows: tensile strength of tend to do so as soon as a» - availmodulus to sap wood, 15,600 pounds per sq in., able. Assuming the the modulus t~ be tensile strength of heart wood, 19,100 about the same in the two cases as pounds per square inch, compressive it is with most woods, the proper strength of heart wood, first test, cross-section for a bow is not a rec­ 8830 pounds per sq in., second sam­ tangle but a symmetrical trapezoid, ple, 9040 pounds per sq in. It is in­ the back of the bow being much

In view of the many recent articles treating bow making in a scientific manner and the general interest in the proper cross-section for a bow, the results of a few tests I have made on the strength of Yew Wood may be of interest. These tests were made at Stanford University and are quite accurate for the particular samples. Of course I realize that Yew wood is variable in it’s proper­ ties, but knowing the strength of a few specimens is better than know­ ing nothing at all definite.

teresting to note that with this wood it would be better to remove all the sap wood if nothing but tensile strength were required in the back of a bow.

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I have made one bow using this having cross-section, the limbs and uniform straight tapered sides shoots very thickness.

This bow of the twenty A second billet was selected which much better than any. made using looked quite different from the first, five or so bows I have It will be and samples prepared for testing the conventional shape, this type of from it. The results were as fol­ interesting to note how lows: tensile strength of sap wood bow stands up.

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April, 1932

Quoted Archers J Have Met Herman L. Walker,

By Janies Duff (Editor’s Note—This is the third of a series of articles by James Duff.

The next article which will appear in the May issue is about Miss Cyn­ thia Wesson, former lady champion.)

To fit a niche in the hall of arch­ ery fame, one needs not have made a record at some time or other in York, American or other rounds, what one may accomplish in high scoring the other fellow can easily outdo for our sport in his efforts to boost and help the game along.

Such a worker archery has always found in Herman L. Walker, Past President on several occasions of the National Archery Association. Tak­ ing up the reins of office some 25 years ago Mr. Walker led and con­ ducted one of the first tournaments I had the pleasure of attending, and that at a time in our history when things were not running with so much enthusiasm as today. Which reminds me of the question asked at times, a query to which Mr. Louis C. Smith has replied in his official ca­ pacity as Secretary of the N. A. A. “Why a National Archery Associa­ tion?” the answer might well be given in brief. “Why not?” Mr. Wal­ ker and his coterie of Chicago arch­ ers evidently saw a need for such or he and they might well have saved much time and money.

Of champions it might be said with great degree of truth, , “----„ They come and go.” But the faithful of the old -,J school ’ ’ such as -Mr. Walker, are ever with us ready to do either as managers, workers, or shooters, and Herman has shot many a good and true shaft in the years gone by.

Genial, kindly, he is loved by all, his greatest failing if he has more than one is that he cannot seem to dig up a good alibi when he misses.

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friend Dr. E. B. Weston, Secretary of the N. A. A. for many years.

That the passing of Dr. Weston was keenly felt everyone of the older school admits, but the law of supply and demand stood by us and Mr. Walker took up the reins of office for the time being when he became President of the N. A. A.. Today the higher office is keenly sought after and our greatest boast seems to be just how many shooters we may gather together at a National meeting. Not so long ago we could not assemble as many archers at a National meeting as we can find striving for club, state and other kinds of championship meetings, these days, and so we feel inclined to give a belated sort of recognition to a Mr. Herman Walker, under­ standing as we do the gigantic task that was his as president; and I am not prepared to admit that the nu­ merical strength as presented at a tournament today could ever gratify a president any more than in days of old.

To our modem workers in the field of archery, I would like to draw a penpicture of twenty years ago, when 34 shooters all told represented the N. A. A. at a tournament, and when Dr. Elmer set out to beat up a re­ presentative party for the purpose of holding our annual meeting.

There were seven members present at the meeting with Mr. Walker pre­ siding. It took a lot of courage in these days to show active interest and so I feel that archery in these days should appreciate the men who did so much for the sport of archery which has at long last been declar­ ed by a leading writer on college sports as one of the “Major Sports.”

Herman Walker was one of the pil­ lars when the edifice looked rather rocky.

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Seattle Archery League

By K. T. Duryee Seattle has just completed a tenmatch archery league.

We have here six clubs, with five ninety-foot ranges. Two have three targets, two have five, and one has six.

Each club shot one match on it’s own range and one on it’s oppon­ ents’. There were some very sat­ isfactory results, better acquaintance amongst the archers, and each club learned something from the others as to how certain difficulties were to be overcome, and about things to be done to make the club more at­ tractive to its members.

The Seattle Bowman went through with ten straight victories, though the Locksley Archers were close be­ hind as to points.

We expect to make this an annual event. There is nothing that will do more to promote archery in any city than to have several clubs.

Competition is needed to keep rhealive.

The following are detailed results: won lost 1 0 1000'.

10 Seattle Bowmen 2 800 8 Locksley Archers 5 50?

5 Seattle Archers 6 400 4 Home Undertaking 200 Washington Athletic 2 8 Wally Burr’s 9 10?

1 Magic Yew Seattle Bowmen’s total team score.

28620; Locksley Archers total tea* score, 28284.

Which was Pretty close.

I. M. Stamps of the Locksley Archers averaged 763, Stanley gp^. cer of the Washington Athletic, 745 and ,S. B. Hayden of the Seatti; Bowmen, 738.

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(Dr. Pope

By Cassius Hayward Styles, Berkeley, California. shafts, using a piece of sandpaper In the field of archery the romatic in his bare hand. In his attic, whith­ figure of Dr. Pope has been an in­ er you were led, very solemnly, by spiration to a legion of bowmen who the light of a candle, lay a supply of now carry on to ends no man dream­ He was yew staves, seasoning. ed of fifteen years ago. It was my ' there> should be no mighty careful happy fortune to know him during of his house taking fire, for the last five years of Iris life. I want danger c. .... 1.. to tell one or two things of this ac­ quaintance to “Ye Sylvan Archer.”

His home in San Francisco was a beautiful one. In the library was a fireplace before which he sat even­ ings and worked on bows and broad­ heads. At the right of his chair was a small table; in a drawer of this were a plane, some sandpaper, a small rasp, and a sharp knife. Many times I have watched the delight with which he studied the tricky problems of yew. One night as he was finishing a bow for a far away enthusiast, he said to me, “Well, I guess that will do for that man.

Any way, it is just as good as the one I made for you, and it seemed to be all right for your- purposes.” I must say it was good enough for me, putting it very mildly.

I hunted with it for years, very happy years.

It now hangs on my wall, beside the brows fur of a bear hide through J ' which it cast a broadhead like a dag­ ger through smoke. It belongs to the memory of Dr. Pope and is very Dr. Pope loads the pack horse sacred. Archers who visit my home if it burned, these staves would be handle and shoot it: this is as its lost with it. maker wished. He told me that he During the two years I spent in wanted to have it used.

In the basement of Dr. Pope’s the mountains of Northern Califor­ nia Dr. Pope visited me several home was a work bench, with a vise and a lathe. Here he cut the joints times, for hunting purposes. It was hard for him to pass by an oppor­ of his bows, and roughed them out; tunity of this sort. He loved that with the lathe he shaped arrow

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beautiful land of sky-piercing trails; he once told me that he only existed from one hunt to the next.

In spring these uplands are a par­ adise; grass, clover, and golden flowers cover the sunny openings.

In my second April there I wrote Dr. Pope that he should be out among them with his bow. A letter came at once saying he could not possibly leave his patients. The invitation, however, had infected him with wild­ erness fever; in four days more he wrote again, saying he would be up the next day. I drove down into the lowlands to meet him; he got off the train with his bow and quiver and packsack in the first light of morn­ ing.

At my home we loaded a pack horse with food, bedding, and dishes, and led the animal1 a half days travel on upwards, A log cabin on a tiny flat at the head of a tremendous mountain pasture made our camp. TWe ” hobbled ’ ’ the _____ horse,i and became aborigines. The , — three ----- j c days we spent there were ones full of’ aa harmony I shall never be able to de­ scribe.

Deer crept from cover to nibble ■grass, a bow shot from our door. A spring came from the lground just north of us and below it 1the soil, well watered and soft, made a place to practice shooting where no arrows were broken. Each morning after dishes w'ere washed our broadheads tore up the sod for a half hour’s drill.

Then we unstrung our bows, sat down in the sun and filed our arrow­ heads to a clean hair edge; then put them back in their quivers for the day’s hunt.

Dr. Pope’s tackle was beautifully made. The appearance of his bow spelled serious work, for serious use.

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1 horn nocks were graceful and power­ ful. His arrows, carried in a deer­ hide quiver slung from his belt, were perfection; straight, stiff, and ac­ curately feathered. He used a large pinion, a full five inches long, be­ cause he preferred steadiness “to having his arrow fly so far it would land in another country.” He never urged me to change to his ideas; ex­ perience has done so. Now I use a steadier arrow and my hits are much more consistent.

On his hunting belt was also a pouch with wax, file and an extra string; and in a sheath, a beautiful dagger brought from the Orient by his brother, Ben. I assure you he was a striking figure. He shaved every day in camp, and kept as neat and trim as he did before his class­ es in surgery. Well in his fifties he appeared less than forty years old.

He stood about five feet and seven inches tall; he was very erect in pos­ ture, and had the most graceful walk I have ever noticed in a man. It seemed as though he was a shadow­ gliding, rather than a man moving on foot.

During this outing our days were planned to give us hunting and a trip into some good scenery, The second day we traveled over Ruff’s Ridge down into Van Duzen Canyon, where he and Arthur Young got their- first bear, We ate lunch, made tea, and rested an hour, Then we went down the Little Van Duzen River to Summit Valley Trail, "here I had some yew staves cut in Janu­ ary snow. I took one on my should­ er; we reached camp after dark.

In the third evening as we niovexj along a deer trail at the edge of a brushy canyon, we were rewarded by­ hearing the heavy growl of a (Continued on page 12)

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(Boi’s Den Gets A Trophy

By Jos. 31. Sandusky

Thoroughly tired out, we three, Bob a former crack shot with a pis­ tol who now packs a sixty-pound osage bow), Eddie, a nice young chap simply devoted to archery, and my­ self, were resting in the grateful shade of a growth of young pop­ lars.

Enroute to a marsh for an all-day hunt, we were obliged to batter our way through one of the ugliest stretches of blackberry and hazel I ever encountered. A half section of it, more or less, tall, dense, and no

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getting through the wicked stuff at all without first tramping down the vines and then walking over- the springy mat of them as best we could, with the hazel brush spring­ ing back and taking a crack at a fellow every chance it got.

We sat and smoked awhile, With a prospect of better going ahead, even Eddie soon forgot his vine­ scratches and hazel-whacks. So we put our quivers in position and pro­ ceeded toward the marsh. We spread out a little, but kept in sight of one another.

Then came the hawk.

Sailing with the wind, he swooped low, mis­ sed his quarry, and alighted on a dry popular about fifty feet high, keeping his eye on the spot where he thought he saw the small animal he wanted for his breakfast. .So in­ terested was he that he did not see me, although I was only fifteen or twenty paces away. I raised my bow, drew, took aim, loosed, and missed by scant inches. Suddenly losing interest in his surroundings, the hawk raised his wide wings to fly when with a dull thud an arrow struck him through the back, passed clear through the breast, and down he came, tumbling over and over, falling at the feet of the startled

Eddie.

"Held him out for us to see"

Reaching over, Eddie picked the hawk up by the talons and held him out fo,v us to see. About that time Mr. Hawk decided to cash in, so he sank his talons in Eddie’s forefin­ ger in a whole-souled death grip, and Eddie swears that never again

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will he shake hands with a dying hawk.

Bob made one of the prettiest shots I ever knew of, on that hawk.

The bird had it’s back to him, and he was about thirty yards away, with only a small open space to shoot through.

Bob says that usually he does not shoot anything when it’s back is turned, but a hawk is a killer of small game, and those big wings sure will look good in his den.

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Troop 13, Team 1, B. S. A, Seattle, Wash 372: 12th Northeast YMCA Team No. 2, Portland, Ore 3415 13th Troop 13, Team 2, B. S. A., Seattle, Wash 3195 The highest individual score, 774 was made by Dean Thomas of the East St. Louis High School Tean No. 1, in the second round of the tournament. Glenn Williams of the Salt Lake City Junior Ute Archer: ranks second with a score of 710.

At the close of this shoot, — everything turns out as satisfactor­ ily as we think it will, we hope t: hold another tournament for thjuniors, an outdoor one, to take place early in the summer.

From Vermont to Washington, and from Illinois to Texas come reports on the entries in the p. postal tournament for junior archers.

— Ye Sylvan Archer is well pleased CD?’. Pope with the number of junior clubs that have (Continued from page 10) entered this tournament, as well as with cat in answer to my imitations of a f their wide distribution.

We have tabulated the results of “wounded rabbit squall.” Fortur- i teams from whom we have received sent to the nostrils of the feline a i swirl of breeze from our direction- * the totalss c. on three shoots, and the thirteen high teams are as follows: he scented us and vanished.

This trip netted us no trophies f:~ i 1st Junior Ute Archers, Salt Lake City, Utah 7995 our walls, but I have a clear pictars of those blue hazy mountains in the 2nd Seattle Bowmen, warm sunlight, a treasure in rry ; Seattle, Wash .6444 memory. It is possible that I shxZ 3rd East St. Louis H. S. again hear the mountain quail ser J Team No. 1...

4th Troop 10, B. S. ................ 6125 his flute notes piercing the shadowsA., Syrof late dusk, or that the ravenacuse, N. Y. . ................ 5624 weird bugle shall wake me again 5th Scout ----Arche , ", lery Team, w:i----- '• as beautiful daylight; I believe th— Wilson, N. C. ......

6th Atlantic Archery Ass’n, .4891 it will be only in the Happy Hunt!"

Brigantine, N. J 4877 Grounds when I camp there w— I Doctor Pope.

7th Troop 65, Team 1, B. S. A., In the front of my copy of “Hun. Seattle, Wash 4727 ing With the Bow and Arrow” is f 8th Northeast YMCA Team No. 1, Portland, Ore 4561 inscribed the following in his o* H lettering: “April—1924—On an « | 9th Tulsa Junior Archers, pedition to Monte’s Cabin—Hunting 8 Tulsa, Okla .4555 yew staves, bob cats and gro- - ■ 10th Troop 104, B. S. A., squirrels.

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William Tell Hits The Apple No doubt it will interest you and Ye Sylvan Archer readers as to the activities and way in which we cre­ ate interest in our Modesto club.

A year a.go we started with three members, today we have a member­ ship of twenty-nine archers, five of which were taken in last Sunday.

Each Sunday we hold, during our shoot some sort of trick or stunt shoot, just to create interest. The

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newspapers eat it up and give us plenty of space and write ups.

Last Sunday we held a “William Tell Shoot”. A dummy boy was made and placed in front of a tar­ get, an apple was placed on his head and each archer was allowed to shoot six arrows from the fifty yard line.

The archer shooting his arrows the closest to the L,. r apple and not hitting the dummy placed -—J first and received

a prize. Mr. Art Downing was the successful William Tell, his arrow going through the apple and the other five around the boys head, and not one arrow hitting the boy.

The public reading about this ‘•William Tell” shoot turned out in large numbers as there were about two hundred cars pai'ked along the firing line and when an archer came close to the apple, or did some good shooting he was applauded by the tooting of horns and many ahs, re­ minding one of the good old days you read about.

We also hold a ‘‘Silver Cup” shoot once a month. The archer shooting the highest score for a double Amer­ ican round receives the Silver Cup and is allowed to keep it until our next shoot, His name and score is engraved on the cup. This has proven a 1very good means of getting the members out and . keeps up the t’.._ attendance.

In making the dummy, we used a pair of boys pants and a boys shirt.

The head is a small flour sack sewed round with a face painted on and stuffed with sawdust. This dummy turned cross eyed after the first flight of arrows.

Still More On Bow Sights

By Capt. C. H. Styles It is an occasion of rare satisfac­ tion to read comments upon oui sport so filled with fairness as are those made by Nat B. Lay in his talk on bow sights in the March number of this magazine. I learned much from what he said, and went on my way feeling that I had talked

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with a wise and helpful man.

He goes to the heart of the matter when he says that bow sights dis­ tract from co-ordination and cause vacillation at the loose. My friend Chester Seay has shown me how to loose, and I now believe that a good loose is far more important than a pre-digested aim.

As a matter of fact, aiming is a much over-estimated item. Actually, an archer can shoot very well with his eyes shut. Try it, and you will learn something. Get your aim in any way you please, hold a second, then close your eyes for a second or two, and loose. If you make a de­ cent loose, you will easily hit the red at sixty yards.

One of the best shots I ever bump­ ed up against in hunting with the bow is Perry Wright, He covers aiming in a classical manner; “I just point the arrow where I want it to hit:” My one real objection to the bow sights is the fact that it takes the rich tang out of our simple, beautiful sport, shooting the bow and arrow.

And I bring forth this objection only because I have noticed that using bow sights is followed in nearly every case by total loss of interest in archery by the* one who has adopted this so-called “improvement”.

honors for the month of February in the men’s and women’s divisions and are entitled to have their names on the Club’s score board. Sample or drawing enclosed.

The score board was my suggestion to help keep up interest.

We intend to hold the Open Cali­ fornia Archery Championships again on the Fourth of July. During the morning the York and NatiomJ rounds will be shot and in the after­ noon the American and ColumbiaIntermediate, Junior and beginners will also shoot. A flight contest wt_ complete the day. All archers are invited to attend and take part in the contest.

I would like to offer this as a suggestion for other clubs: To keep up the interest in corn­ petition, the following plaque hasbeen drawn up and made for tre Fresno Archery Club.

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Golden D. Long Writes The Fresno Archery Club will hold its First .San Joaquin Valley Arch­ ery tournament on Sunday, April 3rd, 1932. This shoot will include all clubs from Stockton to Bakersfield.

I will forward you the results as completed.

Charles Jenkins, president of our club, and his wife, each won the

The winners for the month hxvthe distinction of seeing their nasaes placed thereon and the highest winners at any one shoot are giv-the distinction of seeing ttheir nar~ placed in view. This is a little aid­ ed incentive to do better each sheet

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CA Plea For A Standard Technique

monthly at Albany, Oregon for April 1, 1932.

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County of Linn ) Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, per­ sonally appeared J. E. Davis, who hav­ ing been duly sworn according to law, chance really to practice. Recently' deposes and says that he is the Editor I have had access to an 80yd. range of the Ye Sylvan Archer and that the following is, to the best of his knowl­ and my shooting has certainly’ im­ edge and belief, a true statement of ownership, management (and if a proved by' my practice. This range the daily paper, the circulation) etc., of the question will in a great measure aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required take care of itself too for as archery' by the Act of August 24, 1912,, em­ bodied in section 111, Postal Laws and becomes more popular, ranges will and Regulations, printed on the re­ verse of this form, to wit: be more easily secured.

1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, (Continued in next issue.) and business managers are: Publisher Ye Sylvan Archer Publishing Co., 325 W. 2nd St., Albany, Oregon, Editor J. E. 325 W. 2nd St., Albany, Oregon, ^Believe it or Try It and See Davis, Managing Editor J. E. Davis, 325 W. 2nd. St., Albany, Oregon, Business Man­

By Capt. C. H. Styles ager B. G. Thompson. Corvallis, Oregon.

2. That the owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately there­ Good finger stalls, made of pro­ under the names and address of stock­ perly tanned Cordovan or horse-butt, holders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of stock. If will lower your point of aim 4 to 10 not owned by a corportation, the names and addresses of the individual owners feet at the 100 yards. must be given. If owned by a firm, The best way to procure such company, or other unincorporated con­ its name and address, as well as stalls: make them yourself, using cern, these of each individual member, must the pattern shown in Dr. Elmer’s be given.) Ye Sylvan Archer Publish­ ing Co., 325 W. 2nd St., Albany, Oregon, “Archery”, on page 261. And it will J E. Davis. 325 W. 2nd St., Albany, Ore­ gon, B. G. Thompson, Corvallis. Oregon. take ten minutes of your time.

3. That the known bondholders, mort­ gagees, and.other security holders own­ ing or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or For our cover picture for this other securities are: (If there are none issue we have to thank Capt. C. H. so state.) None.

4. That the two paragraphs next Styles for a photo of Dr. Pope and above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders if Monte. any, contain not only the list of stock­ holders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockhold­ We received a copy of the March er or securty holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in “Tepee Tackle Talks”, a mimeo­ any other fiduciary relation, the name graphed house organ and news bul­ of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also letin edited by the Tepee Archery the said two paragraphs contain state­ embracing affiant's full knowl­ Company of Natick, Massachusetts. ments edge and belief as to the circumstances There is no archers’ publication in and conditions under which stockhold­ ers and security holders who do not ap­ New England, and the bowmen of pear upon the books of the company as hold stock and securities in a the eastern states should hail with trustees, capacity other than that of a bona fide gladness the coming of this small owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, asso­ but lively sheet. ciation, or corporation has anv interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, ± , JDavis. Editor Management cirpnia«A m Sworn to and subscribed before me •by the Act of rnn1«?vl2n’ ^tc- Required this 2nd day of April, 1932.

1912, Of Ye Svlv^leA83 August 24, (Seal) . F. P. Nutting published (My commission expires Dec. 5, 1934.)

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