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CONTENTS Noted Archers I Have Met

By James Duff

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Valuable Archery Book Discovered The First International Archery Tournament

By Jan Horn .

Fiber Stresses in Bows

By Dr. Hickman ...... .7 More On Bow Sights .11 Indoor Archery Jn Cleveland

By Earl Mead .13 James S. Jiles .14 This and That, By .14 A. J. Cosner.

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Quoted. Archers I Have Met Mrs. Dorothy Smith Cummings.

By James Dull' Old nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest works surpasses, Her prentice hand she tried on man And then she made the lassies.

Burns And as far as archery is concerned what a glorious production.

Mrs Dorothy Cummings (nee Smith) the new worlds record holder in the single and double National rounds, at least as far as National meetings are concerned, is a product of the last of the old brigade known to me in my earler days in this coun­ try as the Boston archers, better known today as the Newton Archers.

One must never pay too much at­ tention to dates where the ladies are mentioned as to us of the old but still gallant school each and every­ one of them are still lassies. Louis Smith, father of Dorothy, claims that our new record holder has now won seven National championships and of course takes at least seven years to accomplish, and it hardly seems possible that tempus is fugiting in the way it seems to be doing as I think of a mere yesterday when I first met the wee lassie toddling along with the older archers at New­ ton Centre making of her playing hours of childhood something serious, while substituting bows and arrows for the proverbial dolls and baby car­ riages.

■Luckily these were the days when archers were archers and tuition was freely given and certainly the best known was to be had at the old ground with its plethora of talent.

Mrs. Smith even as a child was of an enquiring turn of mind and seemed

to be ever in search of information, and applying as far as she was able the things taught, while at practice.

Is it to be wondered then that she has emerged from the multitude to stand almost alone?

Watching Dorothy before and since

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she became attached to another well known archer whose name she now bears, I soon recognized thatt we had and1 so was a champion in prospect ar.■ ’ • came her not surprised when the title It was my way for the first time. It belief in the little lady that suggest­ ed the thought several years ago that some arrows made in 1870 by Grain-

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4 ger fell into my hands, the said arrows were as near to perfection as anything I have come across and so they found a new owner in Miss Smith and she has informed me that she uses them today in nearly all her keenest competitions. Like all good archers Mrs. Cummings belives that the best that can be purchased is none too good and so the plebian birch dowel finds no place in her ac­ coutrement.

To watch Mrs. Cummings at work with the bow in an effort to find out just why she excells is enough to de­ light the heart of both experience and novice alike. Her entire manner of draw, loose, and stance is of the stereotype description, almost me­ chanical and denotes long years of steady practice combined with a thor­ ough knowledge of what she wants to do. Even tempered and ever genial (and what lady is otherwise if you are not married to them) she is a mighty good model for both men and women to copy, such is the Mrs. Dorothy Smith Cummings I seem to know. I hope Henry dosen’t object to these remarks.

Chicago Indoor Archery Mr.A.H. Andrews of Chicago reports: “We keep fifteen targets up con­ tinuously and unless there are more than fifteen shooting each archer uses an individual target. This less­ ens the danger of injury to nocks.

W e use twenty-inch targets, which in the American round at 75 feet, 62 Ya feet and 50 feet gives exactly the same relation between distance and the size of the target that we have in the standard outdoor targets.

“Our highest team round score to date has been made by Mr. George Nichols with an average for the season of 545.”

Valuable Archery Book Discovered A few weeks ago Mr. Pfc !

Rounsevelle noticed a book '■ advertisement of a copy of ery, It’s Theory and Practice." k j Horace A. Ford, for the unusflj ! low price of $1.95. He immediate; ■ sent for this, not knowing the pa suprise that was in store for bin When the book arrived he founditn be one which had been in the poss— sion of the well known archery anti- i or, C. J. Longman, who had filled i and remarks froc I full of notations and filled the If cover to cover, in both back and front «iti leaves scores of archery tounuvarious ments.

■ with ''A"1' : Comparing this book of the Badminton Library ery ” ’s, it is evident that Mr. 1* Ford direct 1W,, man copied many pages dnect --------.. „ work, with Ford’s original work, ■ alterations in Ford’s own I this anno'^ alterations appear in thi.

• 7 j copy, changes in the text being .n wriW own ten in Mr. Longman’s : Si^b?

As a note to the preface has the author, Mr. Longman on f* a'delight an interesting sidJ:j 1’t 1

later life.

- ! of this “The second edition :be^ was out vx of print p.L.t k long -------- death in 18S0 the P^ author’s a.___ of June, but owing to ' opinions he jyslife* religious opinions latter part of aJ«r wards the 1 ' ‘ e consii considered i . (Jiwould have

tional which wickedness work itself he loo«e“ |then as his worst crime. j’ one of the Plymouth Brother This probably explains why, being champion of England j", $ consecutive years, he droppe , the archery field towards the his life.

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Ijhe First International Archery Tournament

By Jan Horn Prague, Czechoslovakia The first international archery tournament was held in Lwov, Po­ land, from the 26th of August to the 6th of September, 1931.

The field was about 130 meters long-, in the middle divided by the way, and the targets were placed on both ends of the field, so that the bowmen were shooting from the center of the field to both sides. There were stands for eight archers.

The targets were of paper, and were fastened against large straw walls, 3 by 3 meters. Beside the straw walls stood wood walls behind which were scorers who informed the archers where they shot.

After shooting six arrows, the paper target was changed and taken away. I think it was not good as the new target was not put on the same place, so that the archer was obliged to — seek a new point of aim for every series and therefore he was

handicapped. The paper target faces were four feet in diameter. Colors: gold, red, blue, black, white. For distance thirty meters was used a target 2.5 feet in diameter.

There were shot special rounds and as it was the first tournament in Europe, where this sport is quite new, the rounds were not so difficult as are used in England or America In Poland archery is only three years old. In Czechoclowakia we have shot one year. In France and Sweden, as you know, archery is already a long time. I think that archery is quite a new sport in the Middle Europe but not in the West Europe.

Rounds were: L. 1. Championship of all dimention.

12 arrows 30 meters 24 arrows 40 meters 36 arrows 50 meters Winners: .478 1. Mich. Sawicki, Poland,.

Poland; Center. Mrs. Kurkowska, Poland, and Mr. Fiala. Czechoslovakia:

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Championship Europe and Poland.

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Special tournament in < shooting to the cock.

(A picture of ; a rooster was printed in the center of the tar-Ed.) Score "’as counted in mil­ Hmeters, the -3 nearest arrows to the center, 3 .... arrows, 15 meters.

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E. Heilborn, 168, 50 ffieSeri In the first international t^iu- ■ nient were represented r— four natZ Poles, Swedes, Frenchmen,, Czed?

C.fslowaks, 21 archers. The best at was Air. E. Heilborn although fee in fourth place in round 1,1, Tn Englishmen did not come as te were too short distances for fe

Bows: The Poles had excteki English lemonwood or yew b>r> Tire Frenchmen used French fob! bows, made of lemonwood. T” Swedes had one English yew and one American lenionnwl l<1 Czechoslovaks used English■ b;v I made of lemonwood and yW- .V I have received from the t— Arefe”

Company a new bow of I”-■■jiwcet 1”0"’ and it seems to me better than i— tl‘

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organized. Flft In Lwov was Federation International1 Tireur Arc. Officers Officers are: are: president.

1 Bronislaw Pierzchala, " land; vice-president, Czechoslowakia. .

To FITA were accepted: ’

-2"«. Jan Horn m,. archery club in °re b -v happy uy happy 2 ’CCmd fnm riiht techniqUe. Py cbance than shooting ique.

Winimers: England, America, Peru, Ciec 1- e7] Heilbcakia, Sweden, Swice, Germany.

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The Gouverneur Arche1 n> France,.... 2 In this ers i would welcome comniunicatI<ja Mio ha« bad“", r»ament the new arch- other clubs in the United SCorii'n8 list?SU,ts could I •uatch buy a wish to hold “mail-shoots’ • 1 until' a M >• they had k , P6at■ the 24 The members of this c^u u bette] 24 art°ws 30 meters results. beginners in archery and then j. arr °w s 40 24 ureters aM>ws est score for the American r^u 50 518. Bessie E. Thompson, 159 'reOuters Gouveneur, N. Y., is the tary. ’

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Fiber Stresses In Bows

By C. N. Hickman, Ph. D. Long Island, N. Y.

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In a preceding paper we have de­ Width of a Bow on its Form of Bend­ fined, and given a method for locating ing) equation (3), that the total the neutral plane of bending of a moment of force about the neutral bow. plane of bending, at any section of a The fiber stress in any cross-sec­ rectangular shaped bar, is equal to tion of a bow is proportional to the ft-w/12, where t equals thickness, w distance from the neutral plane of equals width, and f is a constant, bending. The fiber stress is therefore which when multiplied by the dis­ greatest at the back or belly of the tance from the neutral plane, gives bow. This stress is usually referred the force per unit of area at the to as the maximum fiber stress. point.

If the cross-section of the bow is It was also shown, equation (4), symmetrical with respect to the neu­ that fwt2/12 equals Fx, where F is ral plane, the fiber stress at the back, the load on the end of the bar and x Which is one of stretch, will equal is the distance from the end of the the fiber stress at the belly, which is bar to the section. one of compression.

Therefore f equals 12Fx/wt3..... (1) If the cross-section of the bow is The maximum stress will be at the non-symmetrical with respect to the greatest distance from wherethetheneutral cross­ neutral plane, as discussed in the pre- Plane’ I" tnls case’.'v „ , vious publication, the fiber stress at section of the bar has the shape of the back will not equal that at the a rectangle, the neutral plane will be belly. For example if the cross-sec­ in the middle and the greatest dist­ tion of the bow is such that the belly ance from it will be t/2. The force side of the neutral plane is a parabo­ per unit of area at the surface under la and the back side of the neutral tension and also at the surface under plane is a rectangle, the fiber stress compression will be ft/2. at the belly surface will be approx­ Making use of equation (1) we imately 30% higher than at the back. get for the maximum fiber stress: If the cross-section of the bow ft/2 equals 6Fx/wt2....................... (2) were kept rectangular in shape on It has been shown in some of the the belly side as well as for the back, he same weight weight bow bow could be ob- early publications that the tension in the string of most bows is approxi­ m>lne a much much smaller smaller maxi’.I a mately equal to the weight of the j ? , ?e1' stress. stress- It It is, is, of of course, bow at full draw. Also at full draw, to. work work the the wood wood to to ias high a stlfable the string pulls in such a direction 'ess as nnocmi- . ... possible without fracture that the string tension or bow weight or serious serious—;permanent set. may be substituted for the load F in We “shall thZt\ ‘“ul now now determine the that the cross-section has uponeffect the the above formula. This formula will give a rough idea of the maximum maximum fiber stress in a bow.

It has been shown in a preceding fiber stress in a bow.

Paper,(The Effect of Thickness and Let us examine a section of a 40 pound bow having all sections rectan-

8 gular in shape, constant thickness and a width which tapers along a straight line from the handle to the bow tip. Suppose we take a section which is 30 inches from the end, where the width is one and threeeighth inches and the thickness is three-quarters of an inch. Substitut­ ing in equation (2) we find for the maximum fiber stress:

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tipIn like manner even oife. section will have the same maxing fiber stress.

Let us now determine the nai mum fiber stress in a yew bow factored by a well known wfacturer of archery tackle. IL bow weighs forty pounds and is seventy inches long. On aamining a section 30 inches fra one end of the bow and locating lb 6 X 40 X 30 ft/2 equals neutral plane of bending hr ja 1.375 X .75(equals method described in the precefc 9,300 pounds per square inch. publication, we find that the bowls The fiber stress at elastic limit, a thickness of one inch, a width s given by The Forests Products Lab­ one and one-eighth inches and ■ oratory, .for Yew is 10,100 pounds shape such that the neutral pta® per square inch. The stress at rup­ .55 inches from the belly and .6 ture for this wood is given as 16,800 inches from the back. pounds per square inch. We thus As shown in the preceding P'f see that in this bow the wood is being lication, the moment of forced®" worked close to, but below the elasextension is wfb’/3, where b is tic limit. distance from the back to the ne« If this bow had the same thick­ plane. The total moment abo» ness and same width throughout its neutral plane is twice this length, the fiber stress would become The moment due to the load 15 , less and less as you approach the where x is the distance fro™a tte!ci tips. The bow would bend in . f eq®1uulu ueiiu m a foim as shown rIiaw- in figure z> ,, to the section. Therefore as 6a ofA the paper I# 6a of the referred to above. However if SFx/2wb3 ............. <e However if the this equa*" width ’is tapered Substituting in from the handle on a straight line get: to the tips, the decrease in the value of f equals - X 40 X 30 equals I?.* — ~ x is exactly offset by the decrease in the width 2X1.125X.45» . w so that the sill “ fiber stress is the same The imaximum Uber stress throughout the length hoiiTr CIvip where the d*5®. on the belly side where to the W thea b°W’ .For example if we take from the neutral plane . which is il5 ineh^the tip the section thieknei^^ fr°m is .55 inches. Since the 1 dis'* , still three-quarters of fiber stress is f times this, an inch, but the width is tals half as much we have: 17,600 X .55 equithe *' only oneas before, i. inches. e. 11/16 pounds per square inch f°r t imum fiber stress. g- jin* ncnin£ in e—Taking another section he maximum maximum fiber (2) we from the tip, we find the .w, stress: in* ft/2 equals £21^X15 ■’i .95 1 is .60 inches, the width in* is -2’ j 9 300 '687 X -Y5-’ equals and the neutral plane Pounds inches ’This°i s th7 S<iUare incK from the back and .33 the S«^ __ e. v*lue obtained iatio’ (i) the belly. for the section section 30 Using these values in equ< ‘^hes from the we get:

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3 X 40 X 15 f equals---------------------- equals .48,000 1 2 X .95 X .27= The maximum fiber stress will be on the belly side which is .33 inches from the neutral plane and will equal: 48,000 X .33 equal 15,900 pounds per square inch.

This is an increase of 68% over the stress at the other section and is beyond the elastic limit given for this wood. It is very close to the value given for the modulus of rup­ ture.

If the thickness had been left the same as at the other section, and the width reduced to % its former value (.562), the maximum stress would have been reduced to the same value as at the other section. We would have had on substituting in equation (3): 3 X 40 X 15 f equals equals 17,600.

2 X .562 X .45= And: 17,000 X .55 equals 9,660 pounds per square inch.

The bow would have had a better cast and would not have taken a per­ manent set.

If instead of the parabolic section for the belly, a rectangular section had been used, the maximum stress would have been reduced about 18% because the distance of the belly from the neutral plane would have been .45 inches instead of .55 inches.

The bow would have had exactly the same weight. The full thickness of 1 inch might have been used, with an increase in the weight of the bow of 27%. In which case the maximum fiber stress would have been by equa­ tion (2):

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Even with this increase in bow "■’eight, the -.j maximum fiber- stress is

9 1,530 pounds less than for the para­ bolic section.

The reason for selecting these two sections on the bow was to show that the maximum stress exists where the bow took its greatest set. There was no set near the handle but it was very great about 15 inches from the ends of the bow.

On first thought this may be con­ fusing to the reader because we have previously stated that the fiber stress occurs where the bow is thickest.

That statement however applies only to a bow the limbs of which bend in arcs of a circle. Obviously this bow does not bend in the arc of a circle.

However a casual observation would not reveal this difficulty. An apparantly small change in curvature will make a big difference in the stresses.

There is one more point in connec­ tion with the cross-section of a bow which should be mentioned. Many bows are worked beyond the elastic limit, but of course not beyond the modulus of rupture.

It has been shown by the Forests Products Laboratory that the mo­ dulus ot rupture for compression is much lower than the modulus of rupture for extension. In all of the tests which they make in determining’ the modulus of rup­ ture for static bending, it is the com­ pression side which gives way first.

This moves the neutral plane closer to the extension side so that the ra­ dius of curvature is increased at this point until finally the extension side gives way.

The archer mustt not be confused by the fact that a bow always breaks --This happens only on the back, the belly because t.._ __ , wgives way and thus causes greater extension stress along the back by the shift of the neutral plane. The archer does know that a bow will break where there is a

10 bad chrysal on the belly side. Here he observes the belly fault before the break occurs.

In most woods which they have tested, the modulus of rupture for extension is over twice as high as for compression. (By modulus of rupture is meant the maximum fibei stress in pounds per square inch at the breaking point.)

In like manner the elastic limit for extension is over twice as high as the elastic limit for compression.

The orthodox cross-section of a bow is such as to make the fiber stress on the belly or compression side greatest. On the other hand, wood will not stand as much com­ pression as extension. Why then do we not construct bows with the belly side flat and the back side narrow so as to take advantage of the greater elastic limit of extension?

The first answer is: Perhaps we should. Another answer is that the back of a yew bow is usually made of sap wood which may have a lower nratr ? i°f el?Sticity> s° that the neutral plane is moved toward the belly side amount to more than 'a ^aent ■ “"Pensate for the shift due to the shape of V -I the belly. Still another answer is that the ...... le e'astic limit is not a definite value but depends upon the shape of the s been shown by thespecimen. It has ! Forests Products Laboratory that the •J elastic limit in • compression is increased by the presence of c---” J considerably fibers. The elasticother 1* less stressed - limit in bending is much greater than forwhere compression parallel to the grain, entire specimen is subjected the to the same stress. This is probably due to the fact that in bendii surface layer of the -’'■ding, only the oompression side

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is subjected to the maximum stresThe adjacent layers of less sttes^ fibers help to suport those receiving the highest stress. This raises tle limit to which the specimen may stressed before failure is reached.

There is a strong probability how­ ever, that for homogeneous wood?, such as osage and lemonwood, that a better cast may be secured by revers­ ing the traditional construction of a bow, by making the belly side the back. In such a bow, however, great­ er precautions must be taken against slight imperfections on the back sur­ face. A trapezoidal shape with the narrow side for the back, well pro­ tected -with a thin layer of some good backing material, would pro­ bably be the most practical shape.

At the present time we do not hare enough data on the tensile strength of woods to reach any definite con­ clusion as to the best cross-section cross-set* for a bow.

Past experience has shown that io many arts, the adoption of a spec>^ design was accompanied with a good reason and science has onbeen able to make slight Wr°.. ments. The construction of a an art which has been develop6 j most arts, by the method of t-ria error. It may be found thati this bo* method has developed the best t- there that can be made. However this method is the possibility that best type of has not developed the science ffltf construction and that considerable point the way to a are ahead? provement. In fact there who indications that those ofmduSbow, ma.r not pull a 50 to 60 poui point of aim be able to have our with a W the gold at 100 yards mds. weighing less than 40 P0111

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From Nat. B. Lay: progressive movement of the stance, I will say to begin with that rm draw, aim and loose. It makes for a confirmed bow sight addict. Start­ decisive action, one of the essentials I 11 ed using one immediately after be­ of confidence. > coming interested in archery, and The bow sight, on the other hand, s have used them more or less ever tends to permit of a vacillating effort > since. Nevertheless, the bow sight at the critical time when all forces is a positive handicap much of the should be fully concentrated. Why time, rather than an advantage. this is so is difficult to understand, ¥ a Theoretically it can’t be a handicap, but the fact will be attested by any but practically it is. Therefore we of the old hands who use either sight theorists of an experimental turn of or point of aim equally well (when mind use the bow sight, while the it happens to be the right day and practical folks use a point of aim the right method together).

I, and win all the prizes.

I believe that if one decides to use S? The bow sight generally results in s. overaimin.g and distracting from the a bow sight altogether he should adopt a light bow and the policy of B loose and co-ordination. Not always, holding a long time for every shot— S as some fine scores will testify, but much longer than he may think nec­ * often enough to justify a sight user essary for the success of the shot. to have a few good cards “up his “Snap” shooting will produce ex­ sleeve” to play when the inevitable IS cellent scores at times in practice, ? “blow-up” occurs. “Overaiming” is but there is something about direct really a misnomer. What happens I' aiming which makes it difficult to with the sight is inability to hold as closely as one can aim, with con­ shoot consistently this way. The greater possibilities of the bow sight b* sequent indecision. Another thing in holding closely entails a correswhich is very likely to occur is grad­ * ually facing the target a little more sponding necessity for close holding at each shot, due to the fact that —a greater responsibility, so to speak. i» with bow sight the alignment of the One of the many bow sights which i» arrow is more or less ignored. This alignment is of more importance I have tried, and which seems the than correct elevation, as one will most practical, consists of an alum­ t agree after trying the method of inum plate of sufficient length to rawing to a point of aim consider- take care of all the ranges up to the limit of arrow clearance (about%”), f a > out of line, then ignoring it completely while swinging over to tied at the top and swinging at the ‘P’nmnt loosing. The hits will bottom by means of a slot and bin­ !* Probably be better than tho the point der post. This gives windage at the t* of aim' bottom where needed and is constant the « ?re concen trated upon up to at the top. The plate is ruled in concentrated i ablv »na ’instant. nstant. This matter is

by Mr. !ated by Ml Seay in his book- horizontal lines, numbered with steel f lety reatad numbers or letters, and the inden­ also is the “bumir, a S0 tbe f importance of tations filled in by painting with lng °°nes nes bridges after every ” opaque stamp-pad ink and wiped off

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the smooth portion immediately. Its chief advantage, aside from the ob­ vious automatic wind adjustment, is in enabling one to hold up the bow against a trial arrow and determine instantly what number should be used for correcting the error on the next shot. Properly targeted and numbered, this sight might be ex­ cellent for hunting, depending upon the users ability to judge distance.

In conclusion will say that I have it on good authority that Robin Hood ■ used a bow sight in his famous wand splitting performance, (my authority is the dream of a fellow archer, which he confided to me, and which is better authority than anything to the contrary yet presented), So, with this fact established, the bow sight users may continue with. un­ troubled conscience, while I shall practice up on 1my '“point of aim” and endeavor to win ...a a tournament.

From Colin J. Cameron: Have read Dr. Klopsteg’s “Analyzing the Bow Sights” and also the courteous comment on it by the two gentlemen from Macon, ’ Georgia.

May I say something also?

There are several angles to t this question. If t one wishes to adheree to the primitive in in archery, just where will the line be drawn? you get away from ,..? The minute the type of bow used by the savage, proving it. For 40 j you are imwatched archery moreyears I have ■ or less and until the p'-rt past few years little un­ provement has -v.3 been made in bows and’ arrows. Talk about doldrums’.

Real archers told me no _t improve could be made, and stop t. ... -vement trying. Now I take the opposite view ..r from that of the gentlemen The fact that no ; from the south, methods were used make it artificial ' to only a few, and “fascinating”, but I the difficulty of

YE SYLVAN AP.CHtj [ shooting good scores has kept fl. game unpopular. This “fascinafr; they mention has actually hurt 4, game. If archery is going to ba-ca popular, it has got to be made e® to shoot good scores, so therefor, I believe Dr. Klopsteg is one of th few that is really doing sonetfa for the game. Most of the ota are just where they were 40 yea ago.

If archery is for the select fe. okeh, “ instinct” only, but if itisu broaden out, let’s have all we cut: improve our scores. On account d “tradition”, some say we don’t ns anything- to help improve our stat­ ing. Why then use “daises”, gl«® armguards, sighters, sticks, or -dnot”? Ask any head of a bigsping- goods house where “tradin'' tradios fits in sports. I’ve asked then-* very biggest ones in the coin® The answer is the same-tr^ just don’t exist, What ever 1«” sport a person likes, he wants ® ,-ith »!'best implements to work wier it is basketball, football) golf, Whitball, baseball, Ay caf‘ shuffleboard ;• surf bathing, roque, anyother game, and it will same with archery, The rt youth, or at least 90*7< of their recreation, wants; a -'l>’!‘.' can have some ,fun much u» _ he don’t want to do tackle Therefore if archery ta . facturers want to suceed <’’’•> in business they will enco^-1;provements. I’ll string a,^t; Dr. Klopateg, but at I have the utmost reaped , f. the Southern gentleman [k have some good arguinen » y side, but I would ask them J the line is going to be tween the old way an(^ e ;i|]j <■' I enjoy these coninient jj) I (Continued on pfl£e I

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Indoor Archery In Cleveland

By Earl Mead The Indoor Archery season at Cleveland has shown an increase in the number of archers who shoot regularly in the Cleveland Indoor ■ •• i yange.

Our Archery Association ‘shooting night is Thursday, and the arrows fly at the little targets from the middle of November till the hist of April.

The attendance runs between thirty and forty, making enough archers to keep the eight teams of the league more than up to their quota of four archers each. The Indoor American Round—targets and distances just one-third the outdoor size— is the official round. During the season each team shoots every other team three times, and the team which has the highest percentage of wins will receive the individual team cups.

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Each distance is called called a a game, and so in shooting the in shooting the whole whole indoor round, we shoot three games. While ---- a games. a team may lose, say the sixty foot game, they still have the chance of winning the fifty and forty foot disance, which helps to keep interest p r‘Eht to finish. As in a bowlTt,k~a^Ue' a ^as been adopted.

100 fS °r th® s'xty foot distance; fortv J Mty: and 120 fbe - 7 foot range. A team with an absent ; for the ai£ er uses the blind score absentee’s score. The blind score is — ‘ so used any team who failsfor any archer on as th» the blii^U° IailS *° ma^e as much

Our is wide ’1byrange about thirty feet one 1 long, . hundred and ten feet and since we r- sevenV use but about left quite aof for shooting, there is and ‘ ounging space for chairs several Pln8 pong tables.

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To permit thirty or forty archers to shoot a round in an evening and get home before the cocks begin to crow, requires a special form of shooting which for a better name we we will call the duplex system. There are eighteen of the little sixteen inch targets which are spaced about twenty inches center to center. These are numbered from one to eighteen.

Since twenty inches apart is closer than archers shoot, four teams take the floor for the sixty foot shoot and each of these archers is assigned a certain target. Half of the archers up—those on odd numbered targets— shoot their six arrows then give place to those on the even numbered tar­ gets, and then all go down and get their arrows. When the four teams have completed the sixty foot dis­ tance, they retire usually to the ping pong tables while the other four teams shoot the sixty. The fifty foot and then the forty foot distance is shot in the same manner. Shooting begins about eight and the shoot is usually over by about eleven.

On other" than league nights the range is operated by Mr. H. S. /Wahle for public use. Mr. Wahle who is secretary of the Indoor* Archery As­ sociation, is the father of indoor shooting in Cleveland.

Bob Jackson of Geneva,, Ohio, holds the league high score of 1 682.

Several other archers have made better than 650.

More On Bow Sights (Continued from page 12) icisms amongst the archers, and a: the _____ "i have, more good natured banter we for' “rag the better the game will 1be, '~ fn chewing” is a sport in itself.

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Ja?nes S. Jiles In the passing away on December 16, 1931 of James S. Jiles of Pitts­ burg, Pa., the sport of archery lost one of its most loyal devotees. Mr. Jiles or “Jimmy Jiles”, as he was familiarly and affectionately called by all who knew him, was 51 years old when he first became interested in archery and in the same year, 1912, he attended his first National Tournament.

He developed slowly but steadily and was runner up in 1916, 1919 and 1920. (No Tourna­ ment was held in 1917 and 1918 on account of the War). In 1921, at the age of 60, he won the National Championship.

He was runner-up again in 1922 and 1923 and won the championship a second time in 1924.

He served as President of the Nat­ ional Archery Association in 1922.

Although he had not been able to attend the National Tournaments in recent years, yet his interest in arch­ ery continued unabated and and it it was his custom to make arrangements to have a report of 1 each National Tournament sent to 1 him by telegraph as soon as the results -3 were known.

The experience of Mr. Jiles is another proof of what has been so often said, that is, that archery is a sport adapted for all ages. Here was a man who did not take up the sport of r-rchery ’ until he was over 50 years old and who v ,J Won Championships after he tw<> National was 60.

Mr. Jiles was able person who a ™ost companionroade friends whef_ ever he went, and the * -a sport ery is decidedly richer for of archtribution to it.—N. A. A. his conBulletin.

and That

By A. J. Cosner.

Phoenix, Arizona.

Mr. Archibald Caldwell retend. submitted an article on making til bowstring, and was thanked by editor and promptly disagreed uii by some of the readers. Caldwells a member of the “Phoenician Anters”, as I am, and when I saw li was disagreed with I rushed to ti rescue. I made bowstrings with <3 loop before I met Caldwell and «i continue to do so.

By the way, Duff says he can C repair arrows in some cases wte casein .glue is used. Nor can MJ'-else. It is good for fletching a! backing, etc., where its waterpnd qualities are necessary, but 1 do O'­ care to throw away shafts that be repaired.

There are exceM flake glues on the market and I ■! «! can all be steamed apart. Why 1'hyi-

use each in its place?

Now we come to my own pH® child. If there is any detail so printed on how to 'nser^ W^ nocks, I have so far missed Ibooks say “now we notch theJ the shaft to receive the go blithely on as if one migh them out with a pocket km I am a woodworker of oyer g- I years’ experience and I »e'er ‘ 2pted a nice nock without so pliance. That which I use 1 ,, and exact, and if the cut is ; correspond to the pitch 0 jj, serted wedge it will be a Pe It is merely a block of hal e a “V” groove in it to hoi $,. steady. A saw cut is he vertical angle to the vertical afls at the bod i. groove and ends < groove. This cut is the The block is screwed

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against the side of the bench and is ready for business.

The spotter is any % by % sticks that may be handy, their' exact di­ mensions being of no consequence anyhow. The function of this is to have something fixed to the shaft that will show that it has been turn­ ed exactly halfway round in makingthe cut.

This rig is simply a mitre box, and can be made in a few minutes.

The saw should be as thin as possi­ ble, the thinner the better, and the teeth should have no set, since this will tend to widen the guide cut.

In closing I wish to add that I in­ vite criticism. I have some other matter that will be fourthcoming, and might need some squelching! I also might add that I would like to hear from your advertisers.

The archery classes for the spring semester at Humboldt State State Teach Teach-­ ers’ College, Humboldt, California, started work the last weekCalifornia, in Janu­ ary with thirty-five students enrolled.

The unique thing about the enroll­ ment is the fact that more men than women entered the courses—eighteen men, and seventeen women. The classes meet twice a week for in­ struction, and shoot as often as they want to for fun. The college fur­ nishes bows, but each student taking but each archery is required to supply himself to which are sold with a set required of arrows, arrows, which' ... store. them by the college book book men’s Professor Fred college Telonicher, Telonicher, athletic coach, is the teacher of arch­ ly* It is a credit course in the Physical training but if otker college, department, university, or nort a school within reach can be found . th Utnish comPetition the boys say * WiU “take them on” in a tourn-

in the spring

Colin J. Cameron’s “Whitbo” is being featured in a series of moving pictures. The “Whitbo” is a direct shot bow with a metal centerpiece which has been developed by Mr. Cameron.

Our cover this month shows a scene from The National Tournament of 1931, at Canondaigua, N. Y. We are indebeted to H. 0. Beebe, Fulton, N. Y. for the use of the picture. ’ The Outdoor Amusement Company is to be congratulated upon securing the services of Earl B. Powell, the well-known archer, as supenintendent of construction. Mr. Powell has had many years experience and is well known throughout the entire country.

We acknowledge receipt of a new bow string whipper from Mr. Chester W. Brown which we have not had an opportunity to try out yet but it looks good.

Two interesting articles that we have on hand for publication in the near future are by Stanley Spencer, former national champion, and by Capt. C. H. Styles. We are sure our readers will enjoy them.

The Modesto, California Club has , of maintaining ■an interesting way built interest that has t— the club from Of three to twentya membership More about it nine in one year, next month.

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