July 1938

July, 1938 Corvallis, Oregon Volume 10

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Sylvan Archer Number 3

July, 1938

Volume 10

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page OLD BOOKS—OLD FRIENDS

By Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg

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NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD OF GOVERNORS

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WESTERN ASSOCIATION TOURNAMENT

EDITORIAL

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TOURNAMENT

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ARCHERY IN KERN COUNTY

By Osage Jim

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIELD ARCHERS

By John L. Yount

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THE VALUE OF TRICK SHOOTING

By George Brommers

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THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ARCHERY Edited by George Brommers

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THE NATIONAL BON-FIRE

By John P. Cuneo

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Old Books - Old Friends

By Dr. Paid E. Klops teg, Chairman, Board of Governors, NA A

When God created the archer, He took particular care to provide him with a liberal portion of sentiment for the love of romance and antiquity, particularly as they pertain to the bow and arrow. Today’s devotee of the bow is the Sam Aylward and the Hordle John of mediaeval England in his affection for the ancient weapon.

He finds great pleasure in partici­ pating, through his reading, in those days of dangerous living and valorous deeds and of exceptional skill in the handling of the stout yew and the clothyard shaft. He finds relaxation in steeping himself in the legends and traditions and happenings among archers of centuries past, and ex­ periences kinship with all of them in his reading about them.

Is it any wonder, then, that he develops affection for the literature of archery, and fondness for the books which were printed in the leisurely days, before' people developed neur­ oses from the terrific tempo of modern living? And, of course, if he is inter­ ested in shooting with the bow, either on the target range or in the field or forest, he will find delight in the more modern books that deal with those aspects of his sport. So he gradually acquires first one book, then

another, until he has the beginning of a small specialized library, made up at first of books still current. Then he sees a copy of a book that has been out of print for some time—a first edition of Horace Ford’s, for example; perhaps also a “Hansard”, a handbook of Waring’s, a first edition of “Witchery.” To get them, he estab­ lishes contacts with one or more dealers in old books, perhaps some of them in England. He obtains one, then another. He has acquired a new hobby, or rather, it has acquired him. For now he has had a taste of what A. Edward Newton has called “The Amenities of Book Collecting”— the title of one of his charming books.

Being an archer, and presumably, therefore, somewhat lacking in this world’s goods, he severely restricts his collecting to the narrow field of archery. Fortunately for him, the total number of the more important books is limited. Fortunately, also, relatively few of them are exceedingly rare and therefore exceedingly valu­ able. If the hobby has taken him with some severity, he will read such books as “A Primer of Book-Collect­ ing” by Winterich, thereby acquiring the necessary background and the ability to “find his way around” in the

Today's devotee of the bow is the Sam Ayl­ ward and the Hordle John of mediaeval England in his affec­ tion for the ancient weapon.

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7. The Archer’s Guide, by an Old procurement of the old books he wants.

Toxophilite, London: T. Hurst, 1833.

During the few years in which I have been identified with archery, pp xi + 178.

8. Longman, C. J., and Walrond, i. e., the years of the “big depression”, I have cultivated assiduously nearly Col. H. Archery, Badminton Library (Reissue 1901). Longmans Green & all the hobbies that have to do with the sport. My introduction to the Co., London, 1901.

9. Elmer, Robert P. Archery (re­ books of archery came during my first year of shooting—1930—when I ac­ vised). Penn. Pub. Co., Philadelphia., quired, without particular design or 1933. pp 564.

10. Archery. Boy Scouts of Amer­ purpose, a copy of the Pinehurst edi­ tion of “The Witchery of Archery”. ica Service Library, 1929; paper My second acquisition came in an in­ covers, 76 pp.

11. Archery. Boy Scouts of Amer­ teresting way. An Evanston archer of former years, in straightened circum­ ica Merit Badge Series; paper covers, stances, offered to sell me one of his 42 pp. 1932.

12. Hoogerhyde, Russ, and Carl G. treasured books, a copy of the Long­ Thompson. Archery Aims.

Pine­ man and Walrond book, “Archery”, in the Badminton Library series. hurst: The Archers’ Company, 1933.

From that time on, my collecting be­ paper covers, pp 54. pp 11 and 12 missing. came more or less systematic.

13. Walrond, Col. H. Archery for In addition to the books listed be­ (1st ed. ptd. 1904 by low, I have a complete set of “Arch­ Beginners.

Horace Cox) Republished by Miss ery Review” with a complete cur­ Philips 1935; paper covers, 32 pp. rent file of the “American Bowman14. Sumption, Dorothy.

Archery Review”; an unbroken set of “Ye Sylvan Archer”; a nearly complete for Beginners. Phila. W. B. Saun­ ders Co., 1932. pp 140. file of “Archery News”, published in __ 15. Archery Rules. L. H. Mayott England; and a voluminous file of monographs and reprints from pubSporting Goods, Springfield, Mass.

-----lications on ethnology, anthropology 1878.

P:’aper covered pamphlet of and physics. These are not catalog- 20 pp. “Price 15c”.

16. Rounsevelle, Phillip. Archery ued below. There is also a set of bound volumes of “The Archer’s Reg­ Simplified. N. Y., A. S. Barnes & Co., ister”, a total of 38, which is complete 1931. pp xi + 120.

17a. Ford, Horace A. Archery: Its with the exception of the volumes for 1864 and 1866. The final volume Theory and Practice. London: Bu­ chanan, 1856. 1st ed. pp 4 + 128. of the set was published in 1914.

17b. Another copy.

1. Pope, Saxton. The Adventurous 17c. Another copy.

Bowmen. 1st ed. New York. G. P. 18. Ditto. 2nd. ed. Contains auto­ Putnam’s Sons, 1926. pp. vi + 233.

2. Aim for Finsbury Archers. 15 graph letter of Horace A. Ford, pp pp and folding map of Finsbury 5 + 140.

19. McEvoy, Harry, Jr. Archery Fields. 1738.

3. Hargrove, E., Anecdotes of Ar­ Today. Oak Park: Broadhead Pub. chery. York: Printed for E. Har­ Co., 1837. Paper covers, pp 63.

20. Stemmier, L. E., and Gordon, grove, Bookseller, Knaresbro- 1792.

Paul Hi The Archery Workshop. pp 104.

4. Hargrove, E., Anecdotes of Ar- Paper covers, pp 91. Contains bib­ chery.

----Revised by Alfred E. Har- liography. 1930.

21. Thompson, Maurice. An Arch­ grove. Hargrove’s Library, York: er’s Sojurn in the Okefinokee. At­ 1845. pp ix + 316. lantic Monthly, Vol. 77 (bound) Jan. 5. Thompson, Maurice. An Archer in the Cherokee Hills. Reprint (fac­ -June, 1896. pp 486-491.

22. Dodd, James William, Rev., simile) in deluxe binding from At­ Ballads of Archery. London: R. H. lantic Monthly, Apr. 1897. No. 8 —’’ of a limited edition of 25 issued by Evans & W. Ginger, 1818. — pp xxxi Walther Buchen. pp 38. + + 175 + + 33 music.

6. Hare, Keneth.

The Archer’s 23. Aleyn, Charles. The Battailes Chronicle and Greenwood Companion, of Crescey and Polctiers. Under 'che Wiliams & Norgate Ltd., London, 1929 Fortunes and Valours of King Edward the third name and pp 244. t:_ l.ll of that ___ -— _ his sonne°

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Edward, Prince of Wales, named the Black. 2nd edition, London: 1633.

Printed by Thomas Harper, for Thom­ as Knight, pp xiv + 125.

24. Bogenhandwerk und Bogenspor*. bei den Osmanen. Nach dem “Auszug der Abhandlungen der Bogenschutzen”, von Joachim Hein. From “Der Islam”. Vol. 14, 1925. pp 289360. Vol. 15, 1926, pp 1-78 and 233294. Bound in one volume (See Telchis Resail Er-rumat).

25. Mylius, E. Bogensjchiessen.

Leipzig & Zurich: Grethlein & Co. Date unknown, probably ca. 1910.

26a. Hansard, George Agar. The Book of Archery. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1840. pp xxi + 456 + xxiv plates.

Full calf binding.

26b. Another copy bound in green leather, gilt edged, perfect condition.

27. Pope, Saxton T. Bows and Ar­ rows. UrJ Univ, ” of cf C" Cal. 1. T5 Press, -— Berkeley, Not dated; ca 1925. pp 102.

28. Duff,, James, Bows and ArN. Y. Macmillan Co., 1927. rows. pp x + 173.

29. Hastings, Thomas. The British Archer.

London: R. Ackermann, 1831. pp i + 130.

30. Catalog des Objects et Docu­ ments au Noble Jeu De 1’Arc. Expo­ sition (24 Juin — 15 Aout 1928) Re­ trospective d’Archerie. Preface by Cte. Albert de Bertier. Paper covered pamphlet of 14 pp.

31. Markham, Gervaise.

Country Contentments, or The Husbandmans Recreations, Contayning the Whole­ some Experiences in which any man ought to Recreate himself, after the toyle of more serious business, as, namely .

Shooting in Longbow or Crossbow . . . 7th edition, London: 1654. Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster and George Saxbridge, pp 92 + 4 index.

32. Roberts, T. The English Bow­ man and The Second Part of the Bowman’s Glory. London: Printed for the author. Sold by Mr. Egerton & Mr. Waring.

1801. Orig. leather, one hinge broken, pp xlii + 299.

33a. Bennett, James, Editor, The English Works of Roger Ascham.

Foreward by Samuel Johnson. Lon­ don: R. & J. Dodsley & J. Newbery, 1761. Orig. calf, hinges loose, loose. pp xvi + 395.

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33b. Another copy, good condition.

34. Moseley, Walter Michael. An Essay on Archery. London: J. Robson, 1792. Orig. calf bonding, pp x + 348.

35. Delannay, L. A. Etude sur les (Vnciennes Compagnies d’Archers d’Arbaletriers et d’Arquebusiers.

Champion, Editeur. Paris: Libraire de la Societe de 1’Histoire de Paris et de 1’Ile de France. 1879. pp 412 + 54 plates.

36. The Hand-Book of Archery, (no author stated). London: Robert Tyas (about 1850). pp 61.

37. Thompson, Maurice and ’Thompson, Will H. How to Train in Archery. Being a complete Study of the York Round. New York: E. I. Horseman, 1879. pp 54 + 16 pp adv.

38. Pope, Saxton.

Hunting with the Bow and Arrow. 1st ed. San Francisco: James H. Barry Co., 1923. pp 245.

39. Pope, Saxton.

Hunting with the Bow and Arrow. 2nd ed. 4th printing, 1930. New York: G. P. Put­ nam’s Sons, pp xi + 257.

40. Elmer, Robt. P. Long Bow, Book of the. Doubleday Doran, N. Y., 1929. No. 278 of an edition of 450 copies, pp xi + 206.

41. Lambert, Arthur W., Jr. Mod­ ern Archery. A. S. Barnes & Co., 1929. New York, pp xiv + 306.

42. Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph, Bt. Projectile-Throwing Engines of the Ancients with a Treatise on Turk­ ish and Other Oriental Bows. Lon­ don: Longmans Green & Co., 1907. pp 44 + 26.

43. Gutch, John Mathew.

Robin Hood, A Lytell Geste of London: Longman Brown Green& Longmans, 1847. Vol. I pp vii + 391. Vol. II pp xxii + 447.

44. Spencer, Stanley F. The Spen­ cer System of Shooting with the Bow. San Pedro: Author 1933. pp 100.

45. Strutt, Joseph. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (Glig Gamena Angel Deod). 2nd ed.

London, 1810. Orig. calf binding by Kalthoeber — gilt edges, one hinge loose, pp xliv + 6 contents + 353.

46. Kani, Mustafa. Telchis Resail Er-rumat. Constantinople, 1837. pp 278 + 1 folding plate. In Turkish.

Contains instructions for making bows and arrows, and flight records.

47. Ford, Horace. The Theory and Practice of Archery. New Edition

by W. Butt. Longmans, Green & Co.,-

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London, 1887. pp x 4- 296.

48. de Bertier, Le Cte. Albert, Cor­ dier, V., Guglielmini, A. Le Tir a 1’Arc Libraire Hachette et Cie. Paris, 1900. pp xii + 407.

49.' Ascham, Roger. Toxophilus. writte by Roger Asham 1544 and now newlye perused. Anno 1571. Im­ printed at London in Fletestrete neare to Saint Dunstone’s Churche by Thomas Marshe. White vellum bind­ ing. Printed in black letter. 63 folios (126 pp).

50. Ascham, Roger.

Toxophilus.

Edited by Rev. John Walters. Wrex­ ham: R. Marsh, 1788. pp xii + 232.

51. Waring, Thomas. Treatise on Archery. Second Edition — 1820.

Boards) pp 68.

52. Klopsteg, Paul E. Turkish Ar­ chery and the Composite Bow. Priv­ ately published 1934. No. 1 of a limited edition of 100 copies, pp 104.

Thompson Maurice. The Witchery of Archery. 1st ed. N. Y., Chas.

Scribner’s Sons, 1878. pp 259.

54. Ditto. 2nd ed. N. Y., Chas.

Scribner’s Sons, 1879. pp 269.

55. Ditto. Pinehurst Ed., The Ar­ cher’s Company, 1928. pp xxx + 259.

56. Records of the Woodmen of Arden from 1785. Printed for Pri­ vate Circulation 1885. pp 152.

57. Yana Indians, Waterman. Uni­ versity of Cal. Pub. in Am. Arch. & Ethn. 1918. pp 70. 20 plates & folding map. Yahi Archery, Saxton T. Pope, pp 103 to 131 + 37 plates.

The Medical History of Ishi, Pope, pp 175 to 213 + 44 plates, 1920.

All bound in one volume.

The most valuable of the books in the above list is, without question, No. 49. This is a second edition of “Toxophilus”, printed in black letter in 1571. Others in the group which are quite difficult to find are Nos. 2, 45, 23, 35 and 42. All the hand­ books are qiiite rare because one doesn’t ordinarily consider such a book valuable enough to keep. No. 15 is interesting in this respect, because it was found in a copy of a second edition of “Witchery”. No. 24 is largely based on No. 46. These served as much of the source material for No. 52.

Obtaining out-of-print and rare books on archery has been becoming increasingly difficult during the past three or four years, a fact which may be taken to indicate that the growth

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of archery is developing many col­ lectors of books along with those who confine their efforts to improving their marksmanship.

Nominations for the Board of Governors To the members of the National Archery Association: The members of the Board of Gov­ ernors are elected for three-year terms, three members, one from the Pacific Region, one from the Central Region, and one from the Atlantic Region, being elected each year by the N.A.A. members at the annual business meeting.

The members whose terms of office expire this year are C. B. Hutchinson, Oakland, Calif., representing the Pacific Region, J. Adams Dashiel, Minneapolis, Minn., representing the Central Region, and E. Hill Turnock, Wilkinsburg, Penn., representing the Atlantic Region, Mr. Turnock having been elected to fill out the unexpired term of Philip H. Ball who passed away last spring.

The N.A.A. Constitution contains the following provision : “Thirty days prior to the annual meeting the Sec­ retary shall solicit nominations by mail from! the membership of the N.A.A. in each of the respective Reg­ ions and shall report the nominations so received to the Chairman of the Nominating Committee for the Com­ mittee’s guidance.”

In accordance with the above, the N.A.A members in each region are requested to send to the N.A.A. Sec­ retary nominations or suggestions for a Board member from their region.

All names received will be turned over to the Nominating Committee for their guidance in making up the slate to be presented when the matter of electing officers for the next year comes up at the annual meeting.

Signed: LOUIS C. SMITH Secretary Mr. Lloyd Graves, chairman of the transportation committee will be on hand at the tournament headquarters, Belleyue Hotel, and also at the field to give information to the archers and their guests. Lloyd will tell you how to get to any place quickly, easily, and inexpensively. “Ask Mr. Graves.”

—John P. Cuneo.

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Western Association Tournament Los Angeles archers swept honors in the Western Archery Association meet held Sunday, July 3 and 4th at U.C.L.A. Larry Hughes won the men’s division and Phyllis Roberts the women’s section.

Hughes tallied 2919 points to nose out the defending champion, M. E. Spancel, who chalked up 2916. Miss Roberts was the surprise of the tour­ ney, closing with a rush on her final round to total 1816 points.

New officers were elected as fol­ lows: Joe Cosner, president; Fay Pearson, first vice-president; Howard Hill, second vice-president in charge of field archery, and Ben Ruddrow, secretary-treasurer.

Target Shooting Men, Target Shooting — Hughes, 2919; Spancel, 2916; Atkinson, 2620; Styles, 2592.

Women, Target Shooting—Roberts, 1816; Hatchet, 1804; Hodgson, 1791; Hammers, 1787.

Junior Boys — May, 2305; Moon, 2079; Davidson, 1972; Butler, 1848.

Junior Girls—Longley, 2240; Smith, 2058; Patterson, 1895; Gunn, 1649.

Intermediate Boys—F. Myers, 2377.

Intermediate Girls — Cleo Giles, 1241.

Clout Shoot Men—Quail (Long Beach), 272; tie for second between Archer and Rowans, 256.

Women—Mrs. Helen Little, 282.

Flight Shoot Men, 50-lb.—Davis, 369 yds. 1 ft.

10.5 in.; Watts, 325 yds.; Daily, 284 yds. 5 in.

65-lb.—Davis, 400 yds. 1 ft. 3 in.; Low, 333 yds. 4 in.; Cashey, 310 yds.

1 in.

80-lb.—Hill, 364 yds. 1 ft. 4 in.; Watts, 362 yds. 2 ft. 4 in.; Davis, 350 yds. 2 ft. 9 in.

Open—Jack Low, 404 yds. 2 in.; Hill, 379 yds. 6.5 in.; Davis, 370 yds.

1 ft. 2.5 in.; Airman, 370 yds. 9 in.

Women, 35-lb.—Bitzenberger, 250 yds.; Marot, 225 yds. 1 ft. 4 in.; Giles, 220 yds. 1 ft. 3 in.

50-lb.—Bitzenberger, 312 yds. 1 ft.

4.5 in.; Giles, 279 yds. 2 ft. 8 in.; Marsh, 234 yds. 1 ft. 10 in.

Open—Giles, 311 yds. 1 in.; Bitzen­ berger, 283 yds. 1 ft. 6 in.; Marsh,

249 yds. 1 ft.

Juniors—Davison, 265 yds. 1 ft.

9.5 in.

Rovers Men—Hill, 668; Foss, 524; V. Jones, 499; Stotler, 469.

Women—Curtis, 336; Marsh, 259; Hill, 188; Daulley, 187.

Oregon State Tournament The Oregon state tournament seems to have developed into a family affair with the Chambers family of Port­ land licking the platter clean of most of the first place honors. Pat, head of the household, took first in Archery Golf, first in York, single American, double American, Clout, and the Grand Championship, courteously re­ linquishing the flight to his fellow Portlander, Bill Williams. Mrs. Pat, boss of the household, took first in the National, 1st Columbia, 2nd Colum­ bia, double Columbia, and the Grand Championship for women.

Miss Brauns of Corvallis was first in ladies’ Clout and Miss Vinyard first in flight, shooting 351 yards 2 feet and 10 inches. Miss Vinyard was second in the National and 1st Col­ umbia and Mrs. Daisy Hamlin second in the 2nd Columbia. Gilman Keasey was second in the Men’s target events, Vic Adcook third in the York and John Allen third in the American rounds.

Homer Prouty seconded Williams in the flight. Wayne Boyd swept the junior events. Portland Archery Club took both ladies’ and men’s team shoots.

Mrs. Wayne Thompson has an ex­ cellent collection of archery pictures taken in Europe which she will show on Wednesday night after the Chinese dinner. You will see how they shoot at the tournaments in France and England. Mrs. Thompson will show you how they looked at the 1937 Grand National archery tournament at Ox­ ford and many of the Continental archers whom we’ve heard about will be described by Mrs. Thompson. She has met with them. There ■will be some of Dr. Klopsteg’s archery movies as well.

—John P. Cuneo.

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Editorial Dr. Bradfield is spending his vaca­ tion in Oregon and was a welcome participant in the Oregon State and Pacific Northwest tournaments.

The Pope-Young Field Archers of Oregon annual field tournament will be held at Sheridan on Labor Day, September 5th.

Wm. Loomis of Newaygo, Michigan, planed his vacation trip to the Pacific Coast so that he could shoot with the Oregon archers at the state shoot at Eugene. Mr. Loomis is no mean archer at the target but his principal interest in archery is hunting and he has shown his prowess in this respect by getting his deer with bow and arrow.

Southern California Archery Association Another milestone in the history of the Southern California Archery As­ sociation has been turned, and turned well, with the thirteenth annual Cham­ pionship tournament held at Reldands, June 11-12, 1938.

Shattered records, and several out­ standing achievements were among the highlights in the shooting affray: Fred Woodley set a new Southern California record for flight of 409 yds2 ft. 7 in. Helen Little set a new Southern California 120 yds. Clout record of 36-274. The 60 yd. highscore record during the double Nat­ ional was advanced to 566 by Bee Hodgson. Three perfect ends were chalked up, one each by Warren Wardman, Margaret Rand, and Helen Little. Margaret Rand shot all six of her arrows in the gold the last end of the last day. We call this the end of a perfect day. Warren Wardman not only won the first place in B division, but finished as a runnerup to Larry Hughes in Class A. Helen Frost shot a perfect end in the Clout shoot. Many other highlights will be noticed by reading over the detailed report.

The Elysian Club again carried home the “Iron Man” for piling up a total of 36,250 points by its mem­ bers. And, as usual, the Elysian Club

took both the men’s and women’s Class A team trophies. Something must be done to give these folks more competition.

At the annual dinner and business meeting held at La Posada Hotel, eighty-one enthusiastic archers laid their plans for the coming year. New officers were elected as follows: pres­ ident, Walter Egger, 783 So. Los Rob­ les Ave., Pasadena; vice-president, George Estabrook, 285 E. Montana St., Pasadena, Secretary-treasurer, Ray Hodgson, 734 33rd St., San Pedro. The secretaries of the various clubs form the Board of Governors.

The Pasadena Club offered to spon­ sor the tournament next year, which offer was quickly accepted.

A banquet highlight glared when the thoughtful Redlanders presented the exhausted secretary with a-big dish of sliced tomatoes. Life was quickly restored.

A special luncheon will be served for archers at the Beach Chalet on the Ocean front in Golden Gate Park.

It is a five minute drive from the tournament field.

—John P. Cuneo.

The N.A.A. Tournament committee has planned a rather elaborate pro­ gram for evening events at the Nat­ ional so that the visiting archers may enjoy and see San Francisco while attending the tournament. The pro­ grams will be timed so that the ar­ chers may leave early enough to get a good rest. In arranging the entire program of shooting events and even­ ing entertainment the traditions of archery, and the National Archery Association have been borne in mind as we believe in heeding what the centuries say, rather than the years, and the hours and plans have been made accordingly. There will be fun for those who want it. The evening events will be over not later than 10:30. The enjoyment of those who are making a vacation trip to the National has been considered so that their time will not be devoted entirely to the tournament field.

—John P. Cuneo.

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Archery in Kern County

By Op.aae Jim

The Bakersfield Archery Club came into existance a little over two years ago, when five or six stray bow-shoot­ ers got together and formed a club, which has been growing steadily ever since. We now have over thirty mem­ bers with prospcts of more coming in.

Our first draw-back was a suitable place to shoot. We moved about five times before obtaining a permanent place, adjacent to one of our city parks. We were given permission to use a piece of ground 100 yards wide and 300 yards long. It was rather rough so we prevailed upon our city manager and the street department to fix it up for us. They moved in with a couple of graders and when they got through, we had a range 100 yards wide by 135 yards long and as level as a floor. Also a three foot levee 30 yards behind the butts to catch the wild arrows. With the ten baled hay butts we have up we can handle quite a group of archers.

Bakerfield was lucky enough to break in the new range with the first meeting of the San Joaquin Bowmen, a new five county organization hold­ ing tri-monthly meets. The first meet went over with a bang, in spite of old Jupe Pluvius getting ornery and turn­ ing the spickets loose on us. Fifty­ seven archers competed and the rain caused a lot more to run for cover.

For the hunters, we had a short roving course of ten animal targets which nearly every one took a whack at. They seemed to get a big kick out of the rovers. Most of them had never done any rover shooting before.

On the twenty-second of May the Field Archers of Southern California held their bi-monthly shoot here. We laid out the range at the picturesque Kern River Park. Plenty of shade and a big out-door plunge to cool off in. Ken and Walt Wilhelm, Bob Faas, Bob Morley, Fred Woodley, Ted Car­ penter and a few others came Satur­ day and stayed all night. A regular archer’s camp was established and did we have fun? On the Saturday even­ ing before the shoot, about four P.M., we knocked off work on the range and went rabbit hunting. Nine bun-

nies bit the dust and were brought into camp later that evening.

Sunday at ten A.M. the first round was shoved off and at hi-noon we treated them to a genuine Spanish Barbecue prepared by Chef Eddie Cor­ bett, who knows his Spanish onions when it comes to turning out a mean barbecue. Chef Corbett dished out dinner to 125 archers, their families and friends. At two P.M. the second round was on its way. After that, scores were compiled and awards given. A short business meeting was held and then the gradual breaking up of the party and departure for their respective homes, all avowing that they had thoroughly enjoyed Kern county’s hospitality, and would all be with us again at some future date.

Hits and Misses at the SCFAA Shoot at Bakersfield Bob Faas and Bob Morley (White Bob and Black Bob) shooting at rab­ bits and targets, a la Indian style, stripped to the waist and on horse­ back.

Walt Wilhelm killing a jack-rabbit at 40 paces, shooting from the hip with that old game arm.

Frank Gould (Bakersfield) clipping a foot or so from the bottom of a new pair of trousers, to get rid of the fox-tail stickers.

Geo. Brommers making the DogHouse Special Badger Shot, for the cameras, while Fred Woodley pulled him (the badger) out of the hole.

Howard Hill taking a dip in the cold waters of Kern River. That boy should be doing the Tarzan- Pictures, no fooling!

Ken Jones of Bakersfield, winning into the championship brackets and the beautiful S.C.F.A.A. Medal. Hope you add a string of bars to it, Ken. The private duel between our sec­ retary, Mike Harvey, and Fred Grib­ ble, for a bottle of coke. Some of these days those old boys are going to hit something.

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Southern California Field Archers

By John L. Yount, Secretary

You have heard of this before but here is just another little reminder: July 24 is the date and El Segundo is the place. The event is the next regular tournament of the F.A.A.S.C. The boys have promised us a perfect day, fine weather, with the roving course cooled by sea breezes, a good course and plenty of action.

Califomia Propaganda Just a little California propaganda.

I hope a few Easterners read it.

What do you think of an association that can hold winter tournaments on the desert where it is warm and dry?

Summer tournaments held at the beach, and in-between-tournaments held in an in-between-section, which is just right for spring and fall shoot­ ing? Florida, please keep out of this!

The Hunting Reserve Hunting season is rolling around again, so I thought you hunters would want to know what has been done about it. All I have to report is plenty of progress but no actual re­ sults for this year. We have to wait for the State Legislature to take action next January.

In the line of progress, we have an Assemblyman pledged to present the bill.

The other San Bernardino County Assemblymen have promised their support.

This week I attended a meeting of the West End Fish and Game Assoc­ iation at Ontario. This is an associa­ tion of nearly 700 sportsmen and is the only strong organization of its kind in the county. They voted to give us unanimous support of any reasonable request for an archery hunting reserve. Also, we were given the personal suport of their presi­ dent, Mr. Dave Vassbynder, of Up­ land, who has been appointed by Gov­ ernor Merriam as the Southern rep­ resentative on a committee of three to act as commissioners of reserves for the State of California. So far we have met with no serious opposition and believe it will be possible to get a reserve of not less than 50 square miles in an accessible but primitive

area, well stocked with deer and beautiful to hunt in.

Kern County Archers (Continued from page 7) threatened to do, dad burn ’im. (I’ll get you next time, me hearty.)

Chef Eddie Corbett, with a pirate’s cutlas, carving the barbecued beef and 125 hungry archers, families and friends, seated at the long tables under the trees, enjoying the food.

Like the feast scene from Robin Hood.

Overheard at lunch: “No, girls, you’re mistaken; Errol Flynn is quite a bit taller and a few years younger than me. I am Mr. Brommers, Mr. Geo. Brommers, the re-tired Basement Champ. Oh, that’s all right, girls, anyone is liable to get identities mixed. Thanks for asking.”

“Caramba,” says Chef Don Eduardo Pasquale de Corbetto, lighting his cig­ arette on the Mexican Chilli Sauce, “Thees Don Frederico Woodley ess sure wan hongry Gringo. I theenk she’s feel up those plate five or seex time. Some time I cook heem a whole bool! ! ” After the tournament shooting is over the annual banquet at the Belle­ vue Hotel will be a relaxation. Mrs. Roy D. Myers and ladies of the Pa­ cific Archery Association are arrang­ ing a banquet that you’re going to like. Mrs. Emma L. MacHugh will see to it that a Hawaiian orchestra will greet and play for you during dinner. The soft, sweet music will make it difficult for you to pay at­ tention to your dinner because you will feel a tremendous urge to dance, but, Mrs. MacHugh’s secret is out and when you see the graceful hawaiian dancer come out you’ll be content to sit back and figure out how soon you can hop a boat for the Islands.

Mrs. Emma W. Pope, and Miss Orrie Young will be official guests of the National Archery Association dur­ ing the Pope-Young Round at the National.

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The Value of Trick Shooting

By George Brommers Do I see some eye-brows rise? Keep what good did it do, and what did it prove except, possibly, that Neilson is your shirts on, brothers, and I will give you a few angles. even a bigger damn—well, write your own ticket—than Ken is? Wait a The Santa Barbara Fish and Game minute!

Commission held a convention not It so happens that we are trying to long ago.

Present were Governor get some archery preserves in this Merriam and other state officials. state. Here were the Governor and The total attendance was about 2000. the ranking Fish and Game commis­ Walt and Ken Wilhelm had been sioners. They were frankly sceptical, engaged for an archery demonstra­ and just as frankly delighted to be tion. Walt’s arm is still bad, and the shown what can be accomplished with burden fell on Ken. bow and arrow by an archer with or Now I have the misfortune to know without any nervous system. They Ken rather well, and I will not at­ knew the Wilhelm brothers by repu­ tempt to defend him. Not long ago tation as archer-hunters. Figure out he offered me the honor of riding for yourself what the effect will be with him in his desert prowler when when the matter of archery reserva­ he turned the car over a couple of tions comes up before the legislature times going down a fifty foot, 70 and these officials are consulted. degree pitch, of a sand dune. A Again, I am not attempting to ex­ movie was to be taken, showing me cuse Ken. He is a menace on two sailing through the air.

(Continued on page 11) I declined. I have been told, at times heatedly, that I am none to bright, but I refuse to have it proven by being mugged in the company of Ken Wilhelm.

To get back to Santa Barbara. Ken went through his usual bag of tricks, knocking match boxes off the rims of hats, plugging playing cards held in fingertips, breaking balloons on the fly, and generally working up to his climax, the William Tell stunt.

Well, Ken has had a lot of practice and the apple was duly polished off.

But it wasn’t the climax by any means.

Reuben Neilson was the guinea pig, having, if any, less sense than Ken. Neither of the Wilhelms, not to men­ tion Neilson, has ever heard of nerves.

Ken felt his oats that day. There are times when a man is in perfect trim, and this was one of them. It seemed that he just couldn’t miss. He anounced that he was going to shoot a cigarette out of Neilson’s mouth.

One of the officials tossed a long cigarette holder to Reub. Reub look­ ed at it with disgust, and tossed it back. Then he broke a cigarette in half and stuck one half in his mouth.

Ken neatly removed it.

All right, you say, he did it, and Horseshoes! Ken scores a close one he did it before a big audience. But as the arrow misses his quiver.

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July, 1938

The Lighter Side of Archery

By THE DOGHOUSE PHILOSOPHERS

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By George Jack Willard is nothing if not a ’. Anybody who can versatile „ gent. act, sing in the opera, and write plays; all of them successfully, is— well, let us be modest about it, and call him a brother genius. I myself have been known to act up; when I sing the mountain lions leave the country, and I am so good at writing that my editorial correspondents print their letters to me.

But Mr. Willard will have to be a Houdini this time if he escapes from my doghouse. This is the why of it!

I joined Willard and Chester Seay in a glass of near beer at Redlands.

There I was, half embarrased to be seen in such low company as that of Chester, and more than half flattered to be seen with a celebrity.

What do they do? Both rise, slight­ ly staggering. This was no trouble for an actor, of course, but Chester was no slouch either. Both of them claim to have been led astray by “the old soak”, meaning me. What would you do about it?

Most decidedly Walt Wilhelm is an­ other inmate of my pooch heaven. He let out a bellow behind the ladies’ shooting line. The Lady Paramount very properly kicked him off the grounds, but she made a grieveous error when she ejected me too for being seen in bad company. And just as I was getting set to do some coaching.

I had some talent to coach that day, too. There were not less than five former National champions on the shooting line, and all of them dead set to get some needed instruction from me. The last I saw, Genevieve Johnson was reaching for a hat pin, Bea Hodgson was nocking a blunt, and Audrey Grubbs was experiment­ ally jabbing with her ground quiver.

Ilda Hanchett had borrowed a pen knife from Chester, and Gladys Ham­ mer was sharpening her claws with a nail file. As I left I felt kind of sorry for Walt and for Mrs. Ahman, though I had to admit that they had both been hasty.

There is a new set of officers in the

Los Angeles Archers’ club, and there by hangs a story. It seems that George Miles, secretary for two years, wanted to retire. But not unless his disgraceful boon companion, Ches­ ter Seay, was removed from the pres­ idency. Chester got; by acclamation.

The new president is Ilda Hanchett, Elwood Mould is vice-president, and Ted Rand secretary.

Walter Egger is the new president of the Southern Calif. A. A. The selection was a popular one, but was mildly offset by the choice of my disreputable friend, George Estabrook, for vice-president. Ray Hodgson was reelected secretary without contest.

Now for some Lower Bracket news: I do not know, nor do I intend to find out, just what kind of a score Emery Watts shot at Redlands. He is too good a sport to be ruled out on a technicality.

Because Emery lent his flight bow to Fred Woodley, who had had bad luck with his own, Fred preceeds not only to soundly thrash Emery, but to set a new S.C. record of better than 409 yards. And Watts was tickled pink.

Dr. Bradfield qualified a long time ago. He will go farther to attend tournaments, and go to more of them than any man I know who hasn’t a chance in the world to place. He is just as popular and as well known in Oregon and back East as he is in California.

Always he will shoot, and always he knows he shouldn’t. His health is anything but good. It is sportsmen like ~ Dr. Bradfield ______ who make archery the sport it is.

Doug Easton also shot when he shouldn’t have. We are sorry to shouldi^ learn of his ill health, and hope for his speedy recovery.

Henry Bitzenburger and Earl GrubGrub­ bs competed earnestly for the right to join. Neither quite made the grade but they tried, brothers, they tried.

Old lodge brothers in attendance at the Redlands meet included Ted Rogers, Art Kauder, Don Hunting­ ton, S. R. Giles, Dan Schact, Dr. Leigh, James Johnson, T. W. Brother-

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ton, H. H. Franklin, Sam Bailey, Don Caskey and Frank Hanson. If anybody had a better time than these good sportsmen did—well, go ahead and show them to me.

This is pretty much all Southern California, but you readers are partly to blame for that. This column is eager to have news of Lower Bracket activities in all parts of the country and abroad. How about duffing in to help?

By the time this appears we will all be ready for the National, having disposed of the regional meets. And I will have the pleasure of meeting old cronies and new friends once more. Three fourths of us go to tournaments for that reason alone, and I will tell the world it is worth it.

See you in San Francisco.

Trick Shooting (Continued from page 9) legs, and shouldn’t be allowed to run loose. Walt was even worse before his injury. What I am discussing is trick shooting. It is something the man in the street can understand.

I hope to see a lot of trick shooting at odd times at our tournaments, but I believe everybody will agree that Walt and Ken should not be permitted to shoot that close to living targets.

We know it can be done by anybody possessing the required skill and nerve. But there can be no danger involved if silhouettes are used.

We have quite a few accomplished trick shots in the country, and they are doing archery a tremendous amount of good. We will have more, competition is a heady wine. But I have my own ideas about these com­ petitions.

From the very nature of things these trick artists must be specialists.

It takes long practice even for the very best target or field archers to turn his talents to tricks. We need more variation too. For this reason I believe that each trick shooter should concentrate on the things he knows best and has practiced most, compe­ tition taking the form of inventing and perfecting new stunts instead of trying to play the other fellow’s game.

I hope to see a lot of new stunts introduced at San Francisco, and I hope to see a little of it each day.

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at himself. We have good talent already and we will have more. The publicity that is given these stunts will take care of that.

Here is to you, you trick shooters, may your numbers increase! We, who are watching you perform, get a lot of enjoyment out of it, and archery is the gainer.

The National Bon-fire The Golden Gate International Ex­ position has given final approval to the bon-fire after our tour of Trea­ sure Island. After the flight shoot is over on Monday, August 8, all ar­ chers and their friends are to drive over the San Francisco Bay bridge to the road leading to Treasure Island where guides will conduct a tour around the Exposition grounds. You will drive off the bridge and down about a half mile to a vision that millions of visitors are watching as it grows to reality, the most exciting project in the West, a mile square Magic City. Come then post-haste.

Suddenly you will realize that it rep­ resents something never before accom­ plished. Grasp the spirit of the West; eat with us; stroll jovously through the places you will be shown, and then warm your hearts in the friendship at the bon-fire.

Illuminated arrows shot by Howard Hill and Harold Macquarrie; songs and dances, hill-billies, hill-nellies, and other entertainment. Maybe we’ll come through with that “muscle dan­ cer.” Fun, and lots of it. George Brommers will do the “Big Apple” with Gladys Hammer!

—John P. Cuneo.

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