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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page A NEW YORK BUCK HUNT

By Arthur Diehr

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NAA TOURNAMENT NEWS

By John P. Cuneo .................

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AN IDEA IN QUIVERS

By A. E. Andrews

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OLYMPIC BOWMEN LEAGUE

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ARCHERY HUNTING IN INDIANA

By A. E. Andrews

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EDITORIAL

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BIG TOURNAMENT FOR GIRLS

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IRMA LOUISE KLOPSTEG

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIELD ARCHERS

By John L. Yount

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THE BOYS IN THE LOWER BRACKETS

By Retired Basement Champion

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WHY SHOULD I GO TO THE NATIONAL?

By K. E. Palmatier

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A Neu) York Buck Hunt

By Arthur Diehr, New Rochelle, New York buck country in my estimation. A slight fog was rising from the shallow lake. What a picture it made as I gazed on the dead saplings spotted every where on the lake’s silvery shore. A more typical Adirondack early morning setting couldn’t be had.

I thought of a thousand things as I sat there idling the time. How my brother and I used to make shovelbladed broadheads that wouldn’t ef­ fective^ kill a partridge. At that time we believed in our tackle but soon learned that it takes more than a blade of steel to kill cleanly. I glanced at my arrow already nocked and ready for immediate action. It was a real killer. It looked dangerous.

Long, sharp, little resistance gained from a narrdw blade. Well, it’s one like you sent me, Walt, that time I wrote to you after I came near being discouraged with archery.

“That type head was a revelation to me and I’m going to stick to it like feathers to a hunting shaft. A few ducks lit on the water near me, and I stalked for a closer shot. I drew to shoot but the antlered specimen flashed in my mind. So I lowered my bow and crawled back to my hide out. In the distance I heard some­ thing walking in the water. I figured it was a deer feeding in the high weeds that engulfed the shoreline.

“I sat frozen as two deer stepped from the weeds.

One magnificent buck, the other a small doe. They seemed to be feeding towards me so I withheld a long shot. On they came—eighty, seventy, sixty yards.

Now was the time. As I silently

My brother Charlie and I hadn’t more than landed on the great Mojave Desert to visit Walt Wilhelm, when our conversation drifted to deer hunt­ ing in different parts of the United States.

“You know, Walt, hunting in the east is a lot different. These wide open spaces sure are a contrast to our timber back home. There, the going is plenty slow because we have so many trees, and briar bushes,” I continued.

“Did you ever kill any deer in that kind of country,” Walt asked, as he reached in his pocket for the makings.

“You bet I have, Walt. One of the toughest trips I was ever on was a buck hunt in the Adirondacks with my brother Charles. We had a guide that claimed he could take us seven miles back in the hills, get us a shot at a buck and be back in camp before dark. It sounded like a million bucks to us and we made arrangements to go.”

“Swell, tell me about it,” Walt said.

“Well, we traveled into the heart of the Adirondacks and camped on a crystal clear stream. Our guide met us there that night. As soon as it was light enough to see next morn­ ing we hit the trail. After three hours of tough going through woods and briar, we arrived at a little lake.

Following the shore line for awhile our walking was suddenly halted by a splashing sort of noise; it was evi­ dently the splashing of deer feet be­ cause the ground near the water’s edge was covered with their tracks where they had been feeding. “ ‘Here’s a good spot to still hunt,’ the guide said, as he pointed to all the tracks. “ ‘Boy! it looks good to me,’ I ventured, as I claimed the spot. No protest from Brother Charlie so I took it for granted it was okay. The guide and Charlie were soon out of sight. I sat and admired my eighty pound bow.

Its finish was well scarred, and the old pigskin handle was rough, all caused from many a fall in the rocks.

As I scanned my surroundings I figured they were ideal, a perfect

Arthur (left) and Charles (right)

April, 1938 YE SYLVAN ARCHER raised my bow to shoot, the buck over one hundred yards when I found the old boy dead as a spy in Russia, walked behind some down trees. The sun was getting low, making it dif­ just floating on the water. It was ficult to shoot. It had a way of mak­ my first deer and I started whooping it up. I tossed the old bow string ing my eyes blink every time I looked around the buck’s horns and towed at my quarry.” him to shore. On shore the wound Just then Walt busted out and snorted, “What the hell do I care was plainly visible; the arrow had entered just behind the right fore­ about the down timber, and sun blink­ ing. What I want to know is, what leg and made an exit through the chest. Boy! what a wound. I could happened to that buck when he walked have rammed my arm through that behind the down timber?”

“It’s like this—when that buck hole.

“I stepped the distance and I‘d shot came out from behind the down tim­ ber he was within fifty yards of a little better than fifty yards. At that moment Charlie and the guide me, and looking a little away from me. The doe was feeding near by. appeared on the scene. Charlie could­ My heart was hammering like a rivet­ n’t believe his own eyes as he gazed ing gun, and my knees were shaking on that buck. Down on his knees he rubbed his hands through the thick like a scared darkey. I slowly and deliberately raised my bow. I was hair on the deer’s back and his eye on one knee and in a tough spot to balls bulged out like the torch on the statue of Liberty.

Bubbling 'over shoot.”

“Just a minute,” Walt snorted, with enthusiasm, he sprang to his again, “did you ever shoot at that feet. As he extended me his hand he said, ‘Good work, buddy, put’er there. damn deer, or you just telling me My hat’s off to you. But what gets • what beautiful scenery you have in me is how the devil could any body New York?” with a mother hubbard loose like . “While I had my bow raised I kept looking for a good opening through yours hit a deer at fifty yards?” “ ‘Well don’t let my loose worry you, the trees. Soon I saw his neck and shoulders through a tiny opening in big boy. A guy don’t have to stand the briars. I pulled the old bow like a king’s guard and draw a bow string across his eyeball to toss a clear back and wham how that broad­ head left my company. It was so mean arrow. And what’s more, until you’ve taken a larger buck with that fast I couldn’t catch it’s flight. The sun’s rays also hindered my following fancy loose of yours, just lay off that it with my eyes. But I did see the mother hubbard stuff. Get me.’ buck splashing through the water as “The guide was nearly as happy as he ran for some heavy timber. I I was. Why shouldn’t he be? Putting ran to where he was standing when I me in a country where I got my buck loosed the feathered shaft. A few the first day was a feather in his yards away I found my broadhead cap. So he threw his hat in the air floating on the water—it was shal­ and said, ‘Hurrah for old Art Young low water and the feathers drifted himself but don’t gloat over it too around in a circle the hunting head long or we won’t get to camp before acting as an anchor.

Great red dark.’ splotches decorated my shaft, and the “The Adriondack sun was well down feathers were covered with blood. beyond those pine covered hills when .Had I placed the arrow in a vital we reached camp that night. And jspot was the question.” were we tired? Lugging a 175 pound L “That’s what I want to know,” Walt buck over moss covered rocks, and ^spurted again. “If you ain’t going to down timber is work in any man’s Jkill that buck why in hell have you country and what I mean the old • taken me back to your Addyron hills camp was plenty welcome after that jand placed me by that lake? I’m eat- seven mile trek.

After a hearty ling.your story up but I want you to meal of steaming black coffee, and kill that buck so I can tell you about fried deer liver we crawled into the the time I knocked over a lion in sleeping bags and soon drifted into Utah. Did you follow that deer, Art?” the kind of slumber that only those “Did I follow it? You tell the cruel fortunate enough to sleep under the world 1 did. And I hadn’t traveled stars may enjoy.”

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N. A. A. Tournament News

By John P. Cuneo, President NAA

Roy Myers in charge of the hous­ ing committee has done a splendid job of getting the Hotel Bellevue as tournament headquarters. He has also arranged for accommodations in other hotels nearby. Believe it or not, he can put you up in a hotel in San Francisco for $1.00 a night and up, with two persons to a room. Single reservations may be had as low as $1.25 a person. Write him at 756 12th Avenue, San Francisco and make your reservations now. The rooms will go quickly as the prices are ex­ ceptionally low for San Francisco es­ pecially during the summer months.

Send him a postcard and tell him what you want in the way of hotel accom­ modations.

Mr. Chin Wah Lee, a prominent San Francisco citizen who played an important part in the film “Good Earth” has assisted in making plans for “A Night in Chinatown.” The price of the dinner will be only $.75.

The Archers Barrage has been scheduled for Tuesday, August 9, and will be held immediately after the first York has been shot. Taps will be sounded from the rim of the Sta­ dium. Don’t forget to bring an arrow autographed with your name.

Through the kind assistance of Karl Palmatier the Michigan Archery Association will give each archer an autograph book at the National. These proved to be popular at other tourna­ ments and we are grateful for the fine gesture from the Michigan arch­ ers.

The Golden Gate International Ex­ position will supply the registration badges.

Major A. J. McChrystal, head of the sports committee has been very helpful to us.

You’ll get a chance to meet this internationally known sportsman and gentleman as he will have an important part in our activities. Archery is fortunate in having the assistance of Major Mc­ Chrystal.

Mr. Harry B. Rooney, genial pres­ ident of the Ahwahnee Archers of San Francisco has offered to give a tube of Ipana toothpaste to each archer as a souvenir. The tourna­ ment committee will consider allowing it with the understanding that his target fee be doubled on account of the advertisement.

Harold Atkinson tells us that Dr. J. H. Bradfield is making one of his famous Indian teepees especially for the National. The tent will be nine­ teen feet tall, and nineteen feet across the bottom.

It will have archery characters painted on it and those of you who have seen Dr. Bradfield’s teepees at archery tournaments know how much color they lend to the field.

Thank you, Dr. Bradfield.

Kore Duryee of Seattle, a member of the Board of Governors of the NAA writes to tell us that at least ten archers will come from Seattle.

Nice work, Kore. I hope we also get that many from the active Oregon section.

Joe Kloss and Carl Finch, heads of the Pacific Archery Association are arranging to supply medal awards for the letter sections. This will give .he archers who do not stand a chance to place in the first group an oppor­ tunity to win an attractive award.

Milton Connor, president af the Greenwood Archers of Oakland, will have his members look after the clout shoot, and Pope-Young round. We could not expect more co-operation from any group. There isn’t any­ thing the Greenwood Club cannot find time for when it comes to working for the development of archery.

Howard Hill has agreed to be the headliner in an archery exhibition on Sunday, August 7, the day preceding the tournament. There is no figure in archery as colorful as Howard.

There is a possibility of his being away making a picture this summer,

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but, he will do all he can to help make the exhibition a success.

Elmer Davidson of Tulare, Calif­ ornia will be in charge of the junior boys and he will bring about six from his club. If other clubs do as well there should be a large junior atten­ dance.

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George Brommers has offered your scribbler a choice penthouse head­ quarters in his doghouse, He has in the basepromised to keep Styles i.< ment so that we won’t be bothered by his snoring. Klopsteg has had a hunk of rug to sleep on for several years and we’ve been promised one of the ragged corners. Move over, Rover.

Harold Macquarrie, in addition to looking after all the flight shoot ar­ rangements will supply the targets for us. He also volunteered to attend to several other matters. Harold has broad shoulders.

No committee chairman has ever had a more willing and experienced group to work with. In another month they’ll have everything ready and from then on it will be a matter of “coasting in” with perhaps a little refinement and improvement here and there.

An Idea in Quivers

By A. E. Andrews One of those published “stills” of the Robin Hood motion picture showed a flat quiver. Thinking it over, I wondered why not a quiver, flat, rec­ tangular, but with two compartments, a front one twice the size of the rear one, the front one to hold one kind of arrows—the kind most used—and the rear one to carry the kind not most needed.

For examples: When shooting at target, you could put six arrows in the front compartment, keeping the re­ serves always with you but in the rear compartment; or, when hunting, you could have your broadheads in the front and the blunts in the rear di­ vision. It’s a confusing thing to get hold of a blunt just when you have ideas about shooting a broadhead.

Also, my round quiver has a tendency to roll along my side—I don’t know

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about yours.

Anyhow I figured out I’d make such a quiver, with a top 5 inches the long way, the bottom an inch less, and the length 23 inches. The partition would be of the same material as the rest of the holder, and the whole thing would be sewed together with leather.

I even drew the thing on paper, life­ sized and piece at a time. Then I confided in Hartman Egger and he went and made the thing of pigskin, only he improved on the idea. He sewed a pocket on the side and in that he put a hood of oiled silk which he can fasten over his quiver-top in time of rain. And we have plenty of rain in the hunting and roving season here in Indiana. I haven’t got my quiver made yet and when I do, it will be one to wear at the side, but Egger carries his on his back and does not have to fumble when he tries to get a blunt.

Well, if the quiver fits you, you might want to make one and wear it.

Olympic Bowmen League The Olympic Bowmen League an­ nual mail tournament ended with all records of the league broken during the shoot. The first place perpetual cup for men’s team went to the Port­ land Archers of Portland, Ore. The Portland Archers bettered the 1934 team high record set by the Locksley Archers of Seattle by 34 points, the new record being 3104.8. The Port­ land team also raised their own high single team score made last year from 3114 to 3136. Gilman Keasy of Cor­ vallis took high individual score for men, raising his own 1936 indivi­ dual high average from 793.2 to 802.4; his own 1936 most perfect record from 88 to 114, his own most golds record of 1937 from 817 to 862, and raising the 1937 high single match record of Russell Jones from 806 to 808.

Keasy shot through the matches with­ out getting out of the 7 ring and without shooting less than 800, only 8 points difference between his high and low score. The Oregon State College girls came up from a bad start to take the first place plaque and add 130.7 points to their 1937 record team high average of 2682 and 154 points to their last year’s high single team score of 2770.

Mrs. (Continued on page 5)

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Archery Hunting in Indiana

By A. E. Andrews, Indianapolis, Indiana

Hunting with bows and arrows in Indiana seems to be on the increase.

The game that may be had includes rabbits, quail, pheasants and fur­ bearers such as raccoons. The quail season is open for 40 days; the rabbit season more than 60; the fur-bearers more than 60. Sunday hunting with the bow is legal in Indiana. Archers’ licenses are good for the calendar year and obtainable for $2 for non­ residents, but a non-resident can not carry firearms if he has only a $2 license.

Two hunting areas have been set aside for archers. One is the entire Pokagon Park, in the northeast part of the state; the other is the entire Brown county park and game pre­ serve, 50 miles south of Indianapolis.

The Pokagon area has 2 square miles; Brown county is 23 square miles; a total of 25 square miles. There is an abundance of small game on both areas.

On the Pokagon area, reached by Road 27 and Road 20, there is a good share of lake shore, and there are hills and marshes. At a place where a big spring bursts forth and forms a trout stream, the state has built a shelter house where archers may be protected from the winter winds while they prepare their lunches.

The Brown county area is noted throughout the country for its hills and scenery. Indiana has no moun­ tains, but there are times when the clouds hide the top of Weedpatch Hill; other times when the snow of the elevations is only rain in the valle”. Of the 23 square miles, 1,500 acres have been turned over to the archers especially and in the Green­ horn valley a shelter house, accessible by automobile, has been built.

On the Brown area there are a few whitetail deer, but there is no open season as yet on these animals—not even for archers. Foxes are on the open list, but ruffed grouse are pro­ tected through the year.

In thirteen years of hunting with the bow, I have never seen so much game as at Pokagon, but there is nearly as much on the Brown county

area—certainly enough for any arch­ er. On the Brown county area, prob­ ably less than half the valleys have been visited by archers; yes, probably less than half have been seen. The whole south half of it is accessible only afoot or on horseback, and there are so many places to go within reach of the shelters or cabins that archers never have ventured far beyond the Schooner valley, south of which lies fully half of the acreage. Though I have hunted there for three years, I never yet have shot an arrow into the valley of the Gold Mine and that valley is on the 1,500-acre special area. The slopes northward to Dead­ fall Creek and Salt Creek have been hunted by many a party, and so has Skinner valley, which drains to the south but is in the east-central part of the area.

The state makes special arrange­ ments for tournaments at both parks and in addition roving meets are held.

Olympic League (Continued from page 4) Vivian Chambers of Portland emulated Keasy by breaking four rec­ ords. They were Ruth Tawney’s 1936 individual high average from 736.4 to 765, Daisy Hamlin’s 1937 record for high single match from 764 to 786, and her own 1937 records for most perfects from 17 to 25 and most golds from 581 to 685. Ko re Duryee, secretary, expresses his ap­ preciation to the secretaries for their fine cooperation in the way the week­ ly reports were turned in.

The Cascadian Bowmen of Eugene, Oregon, report a pleasant visit with Dr. Klopsteg on the evening of April 6. Dr. Klopsteg gave a talk on archery in general and the coming National tournament in particular.

According to “Archery Sportline/’ Miss B. M. Legh of the Cheltenham Archers in England has been shooting for over 50 years. Last year she took twelfth place in the Grand Na­ tional and the prize for the most golds at 60 yards.

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Editorial The editor of Ye Sylvan Archer had a brief but pleasant visit with Dr. and Mrs. Paul Klopsteg on April 6. Dr. and Mrs. Klopsteg are making a business and pleasure trip to the Pacific Coast.

Advance notices are out announcing the publication of a new archery book, “‘The New Archery; Sport, Craft and Hobby,” by Paul H. Gor­ don. The author says, “I have never been able to understand why ama­ teurs should not be entitled to know the best and surest in hand tech­ niques. I have tried to tell the ama­ teur what my professional experience and an unusually wide circle of archery contacts have taught me.”

William Morrow & Company are the publishers.

BIG TOURNAMENT FOR GIRLS

An archery tournament for girls will be held at Palm Springs, Calif­ ornia, on April 24. The tournament

is sponsored by Warner Bros., pro­ ducers of “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” big feature film which will be released soon. All girl archers are invited to attend and entrance notifications should be sent to Mr. Earl Coffman, Desert Inn, Palm Springs, California. The tournament has the approval of the Board of Governors of the National Archery Association, through Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg, president.

Many features of particular in­ terest to girls will be on the program and a large attendance is expected.

In connection with this tournament there will be a coast-to-coast radio broadcast in which the Naional Ar­ chery Association will have a part.

Howard Hill who has a prominent role in “The Adventures of Robin Hood” will give an archery exhibi­ tion and many motion picture celeb­ rities will attend. The main award will be presented personally by Mr. Basil Rathbone, one of the stars in “The Adventures of Robin Hood.”

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IRMA LOUISE KLOPSTEG The many friends of Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Klopsteg will learn with sorrow of the passing away of their second daughter, Irma Louise, at the Evanston Hospital, March 18th, af­ ter five months of illness.

Originally caused by a sinus infec­ tion, the disease spread until ten op­ erations and six blood transfusions became necessary. Finally even an exceptionally strong constitution could avail no more and the over­ strained heart gave way.

Inna, born in Germantown, Pa., on Sentember 18th, 1921, was a senior at the Evanston high school, where she would have graduated with this year’s June class. The family had moved to Evanston six years ago.

An honor student at school, she was closely associated with all activities.

A library and student leader, chair­ man of various committees for Tri­ reme, Freshman-Sophomore and Pent­ angle Junior-Senior clubs, Irma was also active in many forms of athlet­ ics.

She was well known as an archery enthusiast.

For several years she taught archery at Camp Greystone, a girls’ camp near Henderville, N. C. She had been awarded many medals and cups for her shooting.

Her hobbies included horseback riding, modeling for style shows, and drawing. A year ago she modeled in the annual spring style show and was awarded first place. Listed among other honors was first place in the safety council plaque contest, for which her drawing was selected from a group of many students’ work.

Her teachers and fellow students were very proud of Irma’s accomplish­ ments and expected great things from her.

In addition to her parents, Irma is survived by two sisters, Marie, age 22, and Ruth, age 15. Mrs. Klopsteg and Marie, as well as the doctor, are familiar and welcome visitors at many of our tournaments.

Dr. Klopsteg, while best known among archers because he is the Chairman of the Board of Governors, NA A, is one of the really hard work­ ers of the country. The author of many books and magazine articles, he is secretary of the American Phy­ sicists Society and associate editor of

the Journal of the Optical Society of America. As a former instructor in Physics at the University of Minne­ sota and as the present president of the Central Scientific Company of Chicago, he is well known among our higher institutions of learning. In­ numerable friends from all parts of the country have already expressed their sympathy with the bereaved family.

Mrs. Myrtle Miller, a pupil of Russ Hoogerhyde, national champion, will conduct the archery school this sum­ mer at Tella-Wookt Camp, Roxbury, Vermont, from June 22 to 28.

Mrs. Bill Weeks, 236 Plant Ave., Tampa, Florida, secretary of the Tampa Archery Club, would like to contact other Florida archers in the interest of the annual tournament of the club.

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Southern California Field Archers

By John L. Yount, Secretary The Field Archers Association of Southern California held its first an­ nual tournament Sunday, March 27.

This tournament marked the close of what we consider a very successful year.

During this time we have grown from nothing to 134 paid up members. We have conducted seven tournaments, each of which was larg­ er than the one preceding. Where formerly there were not over six or eight possible field shots in Southern California, we now have many times that number. We feel that the com­ petition in the regular tournaments, together with permanent roving courses over which to practice has brought about this improvement.

Summary of Annual Tournament Seventy-two archers took part, shooting a double rovers with the following results: Howard Hill, first; Vincent Dillon, second; Bill Lyon, third.

In the ladies’ class, Glenn Curtis, first; Beatrice Hodgson, second; Jean Marsh, third.

Winner in the Championship Class: Howard Hill, first; Bob Faas, second.

In the General Division, Vincent Dil­ lon won the Championship medal and moved into the select Championship Class of six. Bill Lyon was second in the General Division, and Bernie Ahmann, third.

There was a special event consist­ ing of ten life-sized, natural color animal targets placed in brush and shrubbery backgrounds.

In this, Volus Jones was first. Howard Hill and Bob Faas tied for second, Vince Dillon won third.

Of the ladies, Glenn Curtis, first; June O’Neal, second; Beatrice Hodgson, third.

A banouet was held in the evening, attended by 55 archers, at which time President H. Fred Woodley was re-elected for the coming year. Walt Wilhelm is our new vice-president, and John L. Yount re-elected secre­ tary-treasurer. After the business meeting, motion pictures were shown of one of the wild boar hunts on San­ ta Cruz Island.

The next bi-monthly tournament will be at Bakersfield, May 22.

Highlights and Raspberries Volus Jones got lucky and won the moose leg quiver donated to our as­ sociation by Forrest Nagler. Nagler killed the moose himself.

June O’Neal finished in the first four. Ladies watch out. She is just a beginner.

The Carters, father and sons, from Santa Monica, in their first field tournament. Our money is on one of the boys next time.

Elmer Engleman, a new member, in the afternoon doubled his morning score. Can he keep doing it?

Chester Seay was just having a real good time.

Stotler, Stotler and Stotler. That family sort of goes in for field shoot­ ing.

Beatrice Hodgson, of target fame, won second in the ladies’ class.

Fred McMullen, a real old timer out again. Be seeing you next time, Mac. Dr. H. Page Bailey took pictures of everybody and everything.

Emery Watts was present with a hook, slice, or maybe just jitters.

Earl Grubbs strutted his lumbago.

Just an easy way to keep from get­ ting beat. Truly, these archers are getting good with their alibis.

Glenn Curtis outshot his wife. Still we don’t believe he can do it.

E. J. Woodward—we don’t believe he is that good either.

Vince Dillon maintained he wasn’t shooting over his head.

Miss Edith Lindsay of Mills College has been appointed Lady Paramount for the 1938 National at San Fran­ cisco. Miss Lindsay has held this position at other important tourna­ ments and her experience and ability will be of assistance to the archers.

She is planning to attend summer school at Stanford University and the week of the tournament means miss­ ing a whole week of classes. Her willingness to make this adjustment is one more indication of the co-opera­ tion archers in California are showing to make the National meet a success.

—John P. Cuneo

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The Boys in the Lower Brackets

By THE RETIRED BASEMENT CHAMPION

We decided to sift personally the wholesale applications of the Bakers­ field bunch, and choos.e the first tour­ nament of the newly formed San Joa­ quin Bowmen for the occasion. To hear them tell it they were all qual­ ified red ribboners, and there were 56 of them on the shooting line. When they found out that they were going to be checked up on, they turned on the sprinkler and I am telling you it rained.

Next time they would only spring some other alibi, so I will appoint a committee to pass on their claims.

Brothers J. W. Canfield, Mike Har­ vey, Kenneth Jones and Foxworthy will do as well as any. They will probably take advantage of the op­ portunity to lie themselves in and to lie out some more worthy applicants, but I will have something to say about that. I deliberately pass over Jim Murphy, because I know that the truth isn’t in him.

The San Joaquin Bowmen are off to a splendid start and already have more than a hundred members. They will do a lot for archery, and their tournaments will attract a lot of Coast Californians.

We from the South will probably play more with the Bakersfield bunch the way they have supported us. Fresno and the northern part of the valley are closer to the Bay Regions, and have always cooperated. From now on we will have three strong regional bodies in the state instead of two. I throw in the field archers where they belong, with the target archers. We have shown locally that the two groups can support each other splendidly and without friction. Ahmann, Woodley, Hodgson and Yount, step up and make your bows!

But what I am beginning to wonder about is if we haven’t too many tour­ naments this year and too many cen­ tralized bodies. Would it be better to have cooperating but loosely allied regional groups? I am afraid that we have too many major events slated and that some of them will have to suffer for it.

Our first duty comes to the Nation-

al at San Francisco. San Francisco asked for the tournament, and all of us on the Coast promised our sup­ port. The Bay regions have loyally sunnorted every National meet on the Coast and they deserve the same sup­ port themselves. That’s axiomatic, just and fair. Archery’s main show is at San Francisco this year.

But how about the Western, the Pacific and the State meets? To give only the men at the head, Cuneo is not the only one who has worked hard.

Bergstrom for the Western has given unlimited energy, time and money. So have Kloss, Canfield and Hodgert.

Archery owes all these gentlemen a heavy debt, but how will it be discharged? With the best in­ tentions in the world some of these meets can not fare as well as they deserve. Financial, if no other reas­ ons, will cut down attendance. Have we been too ambitious and tried to take in too much territory? A few months from now we will know, be able to judiciously weigh the evi­ dence and profit thereby. Let us hope that every one of these meets will be a success, and that the hard work of the sponsors will not be even partly wasted.

But regardless of whether all these meets are successful or not, next year we ought to have a steering commit­ tee arranging both dates and events.

We have plenty of able and willing men for such a committee.

This year’s tournament experience, prop­ erly digested, will prove invaluable in the planning of future meets.

The fourth annual State ArcheryGolf Tournament of the Ohio Ar­ chery-Golf and Hunting Association will be held on the new golf course of the Athletic Association of the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, on April 23 and 24. A bus­ iness meeting and banquet are also on the program. Cleveland has been “hogging” the trophies in past years and the cry of the Southern Ohio­ ans is “Salvage the sport, and slaugh­ ter Cleveland.”

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April, 1938

Why Should I Go to the National?

By K. E. Palmatier, Kalamazoo, Michigan

That is what I have heard so many archers say. But I was curious to know what one was like and curiousity got the better of me and I went.

I was attending school in Chicago at the time of the last National meet there, and I had the time of my life when I was shown, and later had an opportunity to meet, many of the prominent archers at the tourna­ ment.

My next national was at the Los Angeles meet in 1935. You probably did not even know that I was there as my score was so far down the list. But you can just bet that I knew it and so did everybody else that knew me. I shot the highest York round I ever shot on the first day of the meet, and here it is 80380. Then on the very next day I beat that record with an 85-383. All this in spite of George Brommers.

My Americans were just my usual run. But to increase his best scores at a national meet makes any archer feel fine. Just see what I could put in my scrap book.

I also attended the National at Battle Creek but somehow did not find time to shoot. Louis Smith and Dr. Klopsteg can tell you more about that.

But when the time came around for the 1937 meet I was again on hand.

Why? Just to see if the old man was really getting old. And what were the results? Well here they are: I shot in forty-fifth place at Los An­ geles and at Lancaster I was in twenty-ninth. Did that make me feel good? Wouldn’t any dub archer get a kick out of that? Then on the first York I again shot the highest York I ever shot, 102-472. When I added the two York scores together I found that I had shot the highest double York I had ever shot. Should nat­ ional tournament conditions lower your score? Does this show it? You can do the same, so why not try it?

When it came time to shoot the double American I knew that I was having a record meet for me. One of them was a 570. My highest tour­ nament score is 585. So this was my

second best. But it was the best American score I had shot in three years even in practice. When I added my two American scores together I found that I had shot the highest double American that I had ever shot in competition.

Now to you fellows in the lower brackets: The National holds just as much, if not more, for you as it does for the best archers. You know you may not win over the better archers. But do you know you can­ not win over yourself?

Ask any group of archers if they had a good time at a meet and every time you will get an enthusiastic response from those who increased their score. The National is just the best possible place to try to boost that score.

Then you will meet the noted ar­ chers there. That will be worth the trip alone. You will be welcomed with a cordiality that is far beyond any­ thing you anticipate. You will talk with them. Watch them shoot. Have them explain their tackle to you.

Help you correct your shooting faults.

Here you will meet some of the best tackle makers in the country You see their ads and catalogues but to see them personally adds much to the printed page.

I am getting my tackle all fixed up for the trip to San Francisco this August. I have beaten myself twice.

But there is one fellow that I want to beat this year at the National. It is K. E. Palmatier. We have agreed to be there. Do you suppose I can beat him again.

Mrs. F. W. Epley, and Mrs. Harold Atkinson of the NAA tournament committee have arranged for “A night in Chinatown” on Wednesday even­ ing, August 10. The highlight will be a Chinese dinner prepared especi­ ally for archers. From limited know­ ledge of Chinese our investigator gathered that every dish of this din­ ner will be cooked to order, and that roast squab, fried shrimps, chicken, mushrooms, water chestnuts, fried rice, bamboo shoots, iced roast duck

April, 1938

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The February 15, 1938 Bulletin of the National Archery Association con­ tains a complete list of the 1937 champions of the National Regional, District and State Archery Associa­ tions.

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