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March, 1939 Corvallis, Oregon Vol. 10

No. 11

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March, 1939

Vol. 10.

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WILD BOAR HUNTING IN TENNESSEE

By Dr. Paris Stockdale OLYMPIC BOWMEN LEAGUE NEW THINGS AT THE NEXT NATIONAL By the Tournament Committee INDIANA FIELD ARCHERY

By Marjorie Andrews ,........

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS FIELD ARCHERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

By John L. Yount.

117 PERCENT COMEBACK

By Evert M. Hinshaw EDITORIAL COSNER CARTOON NO. 4 CHICAGO TIPS MILWAUKEE S.C.A.A. BI-MONTHLY SHOOT GETTING A BIG RABBIT

By A. E. Andrews THE BOYS IN THE LOWER BRACKETS By the New President CHICAGO ARCHERS IN BRITISH NEWS .................................

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Wild Boar Hunting in Tennessee

By Dr. Paris Stockdale, Columbus, Ohio Wide publicity through the news­ papers has no doubt brought to your attention the hunting prowess of our first Ohio Archery-Golf and Hunting Association president, Harlan G. Met­ calf, who initiated a. wild boar hunt with bow and arrow in the eastern Tennessee mountains last Christmas holiday. Metcalf, who was formerly in the Physical Education Depart­ ment of Ohio State University, is now Chairman of the Department of Physical and Health Education at George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee. Details of the hunt were recently related to the writer in a long and fascinating letter, excerpts from which follow: “I wish I had time to give you the details of this glorious adventure.

Three of us, Ed McNish, Tom Mc­ Nish and myself, hunted in rain, sleet, and a high wind December 26, and I was fortunate enough to shoot the first wild boar with bow and arrow.

It was only a small one, however. It was only a 120-pound boar, but it tasted mighty good. We had to chase it for three hours up mountains, down mountains, and along ravines. The really tough part of the hunt was keeping up with the guides and carrying on when your lungs were splitting. We were wet through by the rain which was con­ stant all day long. I was scheduled to make a speech in Chicago, Wed­ nesday, December 28, and so had to leave the night of December 26. The other two archers, the two McNish. brothers, really had a thrilling ex­ perience the next day. Our guide, Ben Ellis, who knows pretty much where the boars hang out in the mountains, paid us the compliment of saying that we kept up with the guides so well the first day and proved ourselves to be better hunters and hikers than any previous group of men he had guided with highpowered rifles. Therefore, he decided, even at the risk of losing one or two of his dogs, to take the archers into the territory of the biggest boar he knew anything about in the moun-

tains. The guide was as good as his The boar was soon flushed word. by the dogs. They brought him to _ 2 or six different times. bay five Each time he would break away be­ fore the guides and archers arrived.

When he was first discovered he charged at Ed McNish from a thicket before Ed could even draw his ar­ rows. Ed vaulted into a clump of briers, escaping the boar that rushed past. Later on. in the chase the boar at two different times treed the guides and photographers.

Finally the archers were able to get up to the guides, dogs, and boar before he broke bay, and ran off. The archers got an arrow into his chest from each side, and Tom McNish knocked him dead with an arrow entering be­ tween. the eye and ear, going through two inches of the bone of the skull, severing the spinal cord, and sink­ ing into the neck about nine inches.

One of the guides carried a small thirty-two Colt. That was the only firearm in the party either day, and it was used on the boar after he had picked up one of the guides’ dogs, thrown him ten feet in the air against a tree, severely ripping open the mus­ cles of the hind quarter. A lucky shot of the guide severed a rear ten­ don in one of the legs of the boar and slowed him up slightly, at least enough so that the dogs could keep away from him.

This boar was called the “King Bee’ and was known by all the guides of the territory in the Unaka Mountains, because he had killed eighteen of their best dogs in the last three years. He was 310 pounds, stood a little over three feet tall.”

Paging Sasha Siemal Earl Ullrich says, “Evidently B. G. (Thompson) has been feeding on moose meat as his scores in the Olympic League show up with the Corvallis No. 1 team. Why not feed him some tiger or lion steaks, and he may be able to give Keasy a run?”

Earl says business has been fine.

March, 1939 YE SYLVAN ARCHER notice into a mineature archery jour­ nal with cartoons, comments and per­ Reports of the seventh match of sonalities of archeresque interest. We the ten match contest of the Olympic understand that he also holds the of­ Bowmen League mail tournament fice of “Mediator” or official shock shows the Detroit archers still in absorber between the Southern Cal­ first place with match score of 3100 ifornia archers and the Park Board. and total of 21,708. The Portland The man must be a bear for punish­ club is second, scoring 3086 in last ment. week’s match and totaling 21,578. The Cleveland club was only eight behind The Victoria, B. C. ladies are shoot­ Portland, and with a total of 21,464. ing their first tournament matches in Corvallis is fourth in totals and Fort the Olympic Bowmen League and Wayne fifth. Louis Chmura of Cleve­ have increased from 1976 to 2567 land leads Pat Chambers of Portland during the tournament. by 783.7 to 783.1. Nelson Reid of Detroit holds third with 778.6, and DeWitt Hawkins of Portland fourth with 77.6 and Jack Skanes of Detroit fifth with 776.

For the ladies, Detroit made a new team record of 2936. The Corvallis College girls last year made 2924.

In totals the Seattle women are ahead with 19,790, the Detroit women sec­ ond with 19,717 and the Oregon State College girls third with 19,345. Mrs. Chambers of Portland leads Mrs. Belvia Carter of Seattle by 20 points and Mrs. Ethel Gates of the North Shore archers is only eight behind.

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Olympic Bowmen

The Eugene, Oregon, Pansy club entertained the Corvallis Marshmal­ lows on March 10th. Ye Sylvan Ar­ cher editor, according to the official scores, scored the greatest number of points, in spite of numerous confis­ cated arrows for alleged illegal acts such as shooting at does and at the wrong petals of pansies! There were many objections but the official score card overruled the objections, and the winner was presented with a bag of marshmallows. A ten course dinner tested the gastronomic efficiency and capacity of the assembled archers and beggars the writer’s powers of de­ scription.

With membership well -over the centui-y mark, the Elysian club of Los Angeles must be one of the lar­ gest in the country. It is reported that on tournament days it looks as if every member on the list had show­ ed up with a friend. One reason for this enthusiastic turnout has been the • clever, mimeographed monthly notices that H. D. Hatfield has been getting out. Now Hatfield is really getting, ambitious and tunning the

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A. G. Mortensen, Twin Falls, Idaho, wanted to try eagle feathers on his arrows. He hets the opportunity for he found that a yew bow and a broad­ head is just as effective on an eagle as on a rabbit and the target is much larger as you can see from the above picture.

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New Things at the Next National By the Tournament Committee In addition to the regular target hunting of wild animals of all kinds events which have made the annual in South America with bow and ar­ row will be seen; and for good mea­ tournaments of the National Archery Association famous the world over, sure an “Archery-Golf game by ex­ new and original attractions will be perts” will be also' shown. provided.

Evening Reception at Equipment A Mechanical Deer Exhibit Field archers will be delighted at This will be a gala affair with cash the opportunity to shoot at an ani­ attendance prizes given away. Here mated moving deer that travels under is an opportunity to inspect the var­ its own power. It will take all the ious improved things in archery equip­ arrows that archers can drive into it. ment that you have read about, and and still keep right on going. You always wanted am opportunity to won’t have to tramp weary miles to examine at first hand. Here you can get a shot at this deer. Every ar­ talk technicalities to your heart’s con­ cher at the big tournament will have tent, and compare theory with prac­ a chance to show what he can do at tice. a real moving animal.

Don’t forget that lots of good blunt Wing Shooting hunting arrows will be required for the field events. So be prepared.

This sport, at which the original Thompson brothers used to be so ex­ pert is to be revived. They killed Archery-Golf A La Gardner birds on the wing, and so can modern archers with a little practice. Every Erie Stanley Gardner is experi­ archer at the tournament will have an menting with an archery-golf course opportunity to develop his skill in this that is not just another imitation of direction. No need to .play with, conventional golf. The targets con­ noisy shotguns. A disc-casting ma­ sist of pipes driven into the ground chine similar to a clay. pigeon ma­ and in which a wire loop is placed. chine will be operated. It will throw The loop is covered with paper bags. moving discs before a canvass back­ The ground is rough, and the targets stop, and archers can thus enjoy are nearly all placed on top of ridges the thrill of shooting at objects in * so that a miss of a shot in holing motion. We are going to beat the out leaves the archer about 100 yards trap-shots at their own game, and away.

Repeated shootings have have a lot of fun. shown the advisability of a some­ Roving Shoot what complicated set of rules, which furnishes a lot of humor and keeps On the last day of the tournament this event will take place especially the suspense going. for the benefit of field archers. Under The fiction factory personnel, Erie the greenwood trees in a large game himself, Jean Bethell, Winona Bibler preserve, life-sixed, hand painted an­ and Rae Parker, shoots this course imal reproductions will be used as day after day. Very often they are targets. They will be on display at joined by Ed and Madge Record, and the archery equipment exhibit during

by Mr. Nienke, a neighbor. Writes the tournament week, and thus give Mr. Gardner: you an opportunity to work up a “And here I was coasting along so desire to take a pot shot at them in Nienke could beat me at archery­ their natural habitat. golf, and the son of a gun has beat “Trailing the Jaguar” with Bow me fair and legitimately every time and Arrow we have shot since, and me doing my damndest to keep him from beating This thrilling- movie, never before shown, will afford an evening’s en­ me. He shot the course five and a tertainment for visiting archers at half under par last night, and I was the tournament. Scenes showing the four over par—figure that one out.”

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Indiana Field Archery

By Marjorie Andrews, Indianapolis, Indiana B. Lincoln, Jr., (Abe) produced a It looks now as if Hoosier State Archery Association is going to be “Whamdingit” cup, which is a work Silver cups are common. parent to the field activities of In­ of art. diana archers. It has made a great There is only one Whamdingit trophy.

It is made of bright tin. The name success of the annual Cottontail shoot Whamdingit suggests that you held every October in the foothillls “wham” away and say “dingit” if of Weed Patch Hill, on the 23 squaremiles of the noted Brown county state you miss. It likely will be one of the most prized trophies of the ar­ park. Although there has been as many as 18,000 paid admissions to chery meets because it is so different. this park when the Cottontail was If the state championship tourna­ held, the archers were secluded from ment is held on the state Brown the crowd. They have at times walk­ county park, as is most likely, the ed more than four measured miles schedule for the year will be as fol­ on these shoots through the woods lows : and over the hills, and every year the March 12, first archery-golf tour­ attendance grows. Last October the nament, Brown county state park. archery groups were followed over a April 16, Redbud tournament, two-mile course over the hills by Brown county state park. groups of spectators. Standard tar­ gets were placed at unknown ranges, May 14, regional tournament, Lin­ through brush, up hill, down hill, and coln state park, south. in trees. Six arrows were shot at June 3 and 4, Missouri Valley tour­ each target. Archers who have at­ nament, Brown county state park, tended the Cottontail say it’s more east-central. fun than any other tournament held July 9, regional tournament, in Indiana.

Mounds state park, east-central.

This year the association is spon­ August 6, regional tournament, soring an archery-golf meet for Mar­ Federal government property, south ch 12. This meet will be held in an Winamac, northwestern. open area at the northern entrance of the park before the spring visitors August 26 and 27, Hoosier State begin to arrive and when the ap­ • championship, Brown county state proach shots can be made without park, probably. interferance by spectators who later September 24, regional tournament, will throng the tennis courts, swim­ Pokagon state park, northeast. ming pool, shelter houses, picnic October 15, Annual Cottontail shoot, areas, and parking area, all of which Brown county state park. will be needed for a good, mile-long archery-golf course.

In past years the Hoosier State May—New York Archery Month association hibernated for the win­ ter but hunters, rovers, and golfers, A movement is being started by far out-numbering the target shots, Mr. Julius Caesar Vives, director of have continued to go afield in fall, “The American Archer” and Chair­ winter, and spring. It looked as if man of the New York Archers mem­ these informal archers might organ­ bership committee, to make the gen­ ize a separate association and become eral public archery conscious. It is the leading association of the state. hoped that archers, clubs and tackle One of the archery groups that did dealers will get behind this idea and not retire in winter hibernation is perpetuate it for the future inter­ the Indianapolis group which often est of archery. All who are inter­ held meets in Brown county for hunt­ ested in pushing this plan in their ing and roving, sometimes camping own state may contact Mr. Vives, 307 out in summer cottages. To stimulate Easton Parkway, Brooklyn, New interest in the roving meets, Willis York, for details.

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Committee Appointments The Chairman of the Board of Governors, Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg, has announced the appointment of the following committees: 1. TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE, Earle Goodrich Lee, St. Paul, Minn., Chairman. This Committee will have charge of the 1939 Tournament, and Mr. Lee is authorized to appoint such additional members to serve on his Committee as circumstances may re­ quire.

2. LEGAL COMMITTEE, Karl E. Palmatier, Kalamazoo, Mich., Chair­ man; Edmund R. Teubner, Horsham, Pa., Pa. and Joseph M. Kloss, Oakland, Calif. This Committee will consider any proposed changes in the Consti­ tution and By-Laws of the N.A.A. or any subjects of general legal nature, and when advisable, prepare matter for consideration by the Board of Governors.

3. P U B L I C I TY COMMITTEE, Henry S. C. Cummings, Newton Centre, Chairman.

The (duties of this Committee are defined by the Constitution as “. . . to secure favor­ able pcblicity for all forms of ar­ chery . .

Mr. Cummings is author­ ized to appoint such additional mem­ bers of his Committee as he may desire.

4. RULES COMMITTEE, Ray W. Hodgson, San Pedro, Calif., Chair­ man; William M. Folberth, Cleveland, Ohio, and E. Hill Turnock, Wilkins­ burg, Pa. The duties of this Commit­ tee are to formulate any proposed change in the rules governing N.A.A. tournaments of all types and to pre­ sent them to the Board of Governors for approval.

5. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE, Edmund R. Teubner, Horsham, Pa., Chairman; E. Hill Turnock, Wilkins­ burg, Pa., and Kore T. Duryee, Se­ attle, Wash. In appointing this com­ mittee, Dr. Klopsteg suggested that it should study the whole question of increasing the membership of the N.A.A. and of establishing continuing membership on the part of a large majority of the members. The com­ mittee is also asked to present at the next Annual Meeting some recommen-

dations for definite action along this line.

6. COMMITTEE ON WOMEN’S ARCHERY, Jane T. Lincoln, Indian­ apolis, Ind., Chairman; Miss Ruby East, Terre Haute, Ind.; Mrs. Mae Marshall, Larchmont, N. Y., and M|rs.

Frances Styles, Berkeley, Calif. This comniittee is asked to study ques­ tions pertaining to women’s archery under N.A.A. auspices, and to make any appropriate recommendations to the Board of Governors.

7. COMMITTEE ON FIELD AR­ CHERY, William M. Folberth, Cleve­ land, Ohio, Chairman; Curtis L. Hill, Dayton, Ohio; L. A. Hodgert, Modes­ to, Calif.; F. Nagler, Toronto, Can­ ada; B. G. Thompson, Corvallis, Ore.; Ken Wilhelm, Barstow, Calif., and John Willard, Hollywood, Calif. This committee is asked to study the whole question of cooperation between field archers and target archers, and par­ ticularly to determine in what man­ ner the N.A.A. may effectively pro­ mote the interest of field archery.

Archery Sport Short— Not Shorts Archers will need no girls in shorts to add action and interest to a new Grantland Rice sport short, recently filmed by Ernest Corts, one of the best known and most experienced camera men in the business.

The short will feature our old friends, the Wilhelms. There will be no hair-raising charges; no man-eat­ ing wild animals dropping dead at the hunter’s feet, but it will show the desert as it is; it will show the prowler and it will have plenty of thrills, real thrills and not the syn­ thetic kind. Also there will be a comedy background, but we won’t spoil it by telling you about it.

The release will be a national one, and archers will be advised of the dates through this magazine. Mr. Corts has shown that it is possible to film an archery picture that shows the sport from a sportsman’s angle; a picture in which the killing is sub­ ordinated to the hunt.

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Southern California Field Archers

By John L. Yount, Secretary California Field Neivs Just an idea for the heading of a new column; ’but to go back to the beginning: At a meeting in Fresno between J. W. Canfield and Herb­ ert C. Davis, who is executive officer for the Division of Fish and Game, it was decided that if a representa­ tive group of archers were to meet with Mr. Davis at Sacramento to talk things over something might be done about this reserve business.

The time was short, but by plenty of letter writing Mr. Canfield suc­ ceeded in bringing together 14 men from the various sections of the state.

The meeting was in the Hotel Sacra­ mento, February 25.

I rather imagine that all present felt just a little uneasy. We knew that there were two quite different bills pending, also that neither were entirely satisfactory to the Fish and Game people. This feeling of uneasi­ ness was very short lived for Mr. Davis soon gave us to understand that it was not a question of whether or not he would support special ar­ chery legislation, but rather whether or not the archers would get together on a program. He showed himself to be better informed on archery hunting than most of the archers present and outlined a bill that was entirely acceptable to all present.

The bill is not complete as yet but the following is roughly what it will contain. The Fish and Game Commission will be given authority to select reserves for archery hunt­ ing and will have the authority to regulate the hunting thereon. This means that if everything goes as it should, we will probably have five reserves scattered through the state, including some of the best deer hunt­ ing territory.

Following this meeting, and at the suggestion of Mr. Davis, this same group met to form the Field Archers Association of California. It was felt that such an association was quite necessary to guarantee the passage of our new bill.

Present at the first meeting were these charter members: ’James P.

Hendrix, Joseph M. Kloss, V. L. Un­ derwood, L. B. Garner, J. W. Canfield, N. L. Rogan, Earl Grubbs, M. C. Macquarrie, C. H. Styles, W. E. Sweet­ land, W. G. Moody, Roy R. Crawford, and John L. Yount. The following ■officers were elected: John L. Yount, president; H. C. Macquarrie, vicepresident; and Earl Grubbs, secre­ tary-treasurer.

Attention N.A.A. Field Committee After hearing Mr. Davis advocate, in fact practically insist, on a state association for its political value to us in putting over our legislative program, I am more than ever con­ vinced that we should have a national field association. If we are ever to have such an organization it would seem that right now is the time to make a start. It so happens that a group of competent, carefully selected and representative men have been named by the Board of Governors of the N.A.A. to investigate the field archery situation and offer their sug­ gestions to the Board of Governors of that organization.

Some will undoubtedly think my proposal is completely out of order under those conditions, but it docs seem to me that the greatest service this committee could render would be to take it upon themselves to organ­ ize a national field association. It need be nothing more at first than a paper organization. Just elect some officers and make a start. An asso­ ciation so started could be developed along lines that would be to the lik-* ing of the N. A. A.. I believe the two could be made entirely independent in their own spheres and yet loosely bound together into one large organi­ zation for the good of archery as a whole.

I am confident such an organization would receive the support of most of the California archers. But, Commit­ tee, whether or not you can see your way clear to form such an organi­ zation, I for one, am for you.

F.A.A.S. C. Our second annual tournament will

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be held at Pasadena, March 26. If you haven’t shot on this course be­ fore, I can promise you that it is a very beautiful one with shots that are plenty hard to hit. What more could be asked of any roving course?

Even though this will be the first time this course has been used for an association tournament, they have had several large local shoots and we promise you a course of a per­ manent nature, which means one in good condition with the chances of lost and broken arrows cut to the minimum.

There will be the usual rounds of Rovers together with whatever else the Pasadena bunch can think up, topped off by an exhibition put on by the members of the championship class. As you probably know, this last is to be one of the regular events at all tournaments.

The other big event of the day will be the business meeting at which the officers for the coming year will be elected. We are a new organization, and can’t afford too many mistakes just yet. Please give the matter of selecting officers a little forethought.

They are the ones who will be largely responsible for what happens to our association during the following year. Later when the association has a little more background this matter of officers will not be quite so im­

portant.

117 Percent Comeback Ye Sylvan Archer, Dear Sirs: In answer to Mr. A. E. Andrews, of Indianapolis, “From Thompson to Thompson.”

I wish to say I was in his state at my beginning, but it was 117 per­ cent too good for me, as I soon con­ tracted a bad case of ground itch in my “foots.”

Further if Mr. A. E. A. had split as many millions of hickory rails as the writer he would know where “Red Hickory” comes from; whether from shagbark, bull nut, sweet or bitter pig nut, wortle nut or whutnut.

Red hickory occurs in all 117 spe­ cies of hickory grown in “Our” na­ tive “Hoosier” state. First on the outside of the tree grows the “boo’ rak”, then the white sap (single tree

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and backin’ up wood), then the slight­ ly brittle but well spined red heart.

The true rail splittin’ hickory al­ ways grew with its head stickin’ up out of the “primeval” and was so easily split when cut that we used to cant the 12 foot logs up on one end with one hand and with a small broad axe in the other hand split the log into rails as easily as the average man of now-a-days splits kindling for the electric stove.

But since the “big blow” 41 years ago this cornin’ 23rd of 'June there just “ain’t” no more primeval hick­ ory left in Indiana, and what second growth stuff as is found there is all bird-pecked sap and cork-screw heart.

In using arrows made from this second growth ’tis advisable to wear a heavy metal shield on your back to keep from shootin’ yourself in the back of your neck, boomerang fashion.

If A. E. A. will go down and look in the northeast 'corner of Uncle Jesse Swain’s hay mow—he lives on Duck Creek—he will find genuine, hand split, red hickory palin’s. They ought to be well seasoned now for they had been there 117 years, or thereabouts, when I left there in 1910.

I have a son that is “Right Much” of a tackle maker (I’ve whittled a little on tackle myself). He also is a subscriber to the Y. S. A. I have tried to discourage him in this archery madness, but to no avail. ’Stoo bad, (Signed) Evert M. Hinshaw Fern Park, Fla.

Houston Bowmen Want Help The newly organized Houston Bow­ men are having a hard time convinc­ ing their city officials that a place should be set aside for them to shoot.

They ask us to publish an appeal to Vvery archery club to write them concerning efforts to secure archery ranges so that they may convince their city fathers of the necessity and ad­ visability of a municipal range. They would also appreciate pictures of dif­ ferent ranges. We know that many clubs, as a result of their own ex­ periences, can be of help to the Hous­ ton club and we hope and urge that they receive a hearty response. Write R. H. Busse, Secretary Houston Bow­ men, Houston, Texas.

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Editorial The newly appointed field arch­ ery committee of the NA A has the opportunity to write archery history in capital letters. The Broad Arrow Field Archery Association under Dr. Cathey’s leadership pioneered the way for a national movement for field archery. The Art Young Foun­ dation, dedicated at the grave of our beloved field archer, carried the movement on in the organization of field archery units in all parts of the country.

These organizations encountered the rough spots that are common to pioneers but they pushed back the frontiers to a point that seems to give an open field for the organization of a national associa­ tion of those who love archery for the contacts it gives us with Nature in the raw and undefiled. The com­ mittee members are all true field archers, all have grown up with the movement, all have broad contacts that give them a true picture of the desires of the field archers generally as well as those of the sections they represent. We can not all have our pet ideas adopted but let us all pro­ mote whatever program is proposed

by this committee because we believe that, whatever it is, it will be the best course for us at this time.

How are these for titles for the ■January Cosner Cartoon?

“Wide of the mark ev’n for a mad­ man’s dream.”

Tennyson, Queen Mary, Oct. V. Sc. 3, by George Miles, Los Angeles.

“Confidentially, eet steenks,” by Will Montague, Wash­ ington, D. C. “How to get your neighbor’s goat,” by Chester Steven­ son, Eugene, Oregon.

A new archery club has been start­ ed at the Bannock Stake Seminary, Grace, Idaho, under the leadership of Prof. Wendell O. Rich.

Spokane, a new club in the Olympic Bowmen League, jumped from 11th to 6th place in the seventh match of the series.

The next National tournament will be held at St. Paul, Minnesota, July 17 to 22, 1939. The range will be on the state fair grounds.

■ i/X:J-.-.^2 Cosner Cartoon No. 4

9 YE SYLVAN ARCHER Pasadena range.

Chicago Tips Milwaukee The green sward un ’.crfoot has There is nothing like outside com­ been especially colored for St. Pat­ petition to make things interesting, rick's day and that will be held over even when you take a licking. At till April Fool’s day at least: least that’s the sentiment around Under the greenwood tree, who Milwaukee after the Chicago aggre­ cares to rove with me, here is no gation moved in on them Sunday enemy, nor dictator nor rumors of afternoon, February 26th, for an in­ door meet. Four teams were involved, war and if you see a deer, which is likely enough to happen, refrain from two men’s teams and two women’s slaughter, for after all you are in teams. They all shot 30 yards at 30 inch targets, 90 arrow rounds. Chi­ the Pasadena city limits.—R. W. cago had been looking forward to S.C.A.A. Bi-Monthly Shoot this meet for a number of weeks with a certain gleam in their eyes, so had Larry Hughes shot a 780 York and Milwaukee, but their gleam wasn’t 682 American to win Class A in the so bright. They had only been shoot­ bi-monthly tournament of the South­ ing indoors for about four weeks, ern California Archery Association. and that was the first target shoot­ Frank Breest was high in Class B ing the Milwaukee archers had been and Frank Meyer in Class C. Bea doing since the early part of Septem­ Hodgson shot a National of 434 and ber when the fall weather drove them Columbia of 534 in Women’s Class into the woods after big game. Com­ A. Mary Kusel placed in Class B petition between the men’s first teams and Bess 'Seay; in /Class >C. Pat was fairly close, Chicago had 716 by Williams won the Junior’s trophy.

Jim McMonies, 652, 648, 638 for a Ray Hodgson says in his report: total of 2654.

While Milwaukee “Dr. Roy Moreton and his colleague, showed 652, 627, 625, 614 for a total Mr. Spice, threaten suit against of 2518, a difference of only 136 S.C.A.A. for 19 cents and 6 cents re­ points. The men’s second teams were spectively, which they claim is due not quite so close. Chicago totaled them for blowing the whistle on a 2444 against Milwaukee’s 2202. But part-time basis in this tournament. there the competition ended because My, my, they should offer to pay the Chicago girls took the Milwaukee for the honor and privilege of being girls for a merry sleigh ride. The chosen field captain. first team lead off with a 680 by After the archers had worked for Edith Radtke and followed up with weeks and months preparing a pro­ 596, 594 and 577 for 2447 against gram to get George Brommers out of Milwaukee’s feeble 1814. Even the town, didn’t he show up at this tourna­ Chicago second team of women scored ment, when only a day before he had 2169, while Milwaukee could only ga­ been reported in Phoenix, Arizona. ther together 1267 points. All of It is said that dogs have a sense of which will spur Milwaukee on to de­ returning to their homes no mat­ velop more and better archers for ter how far they stray or how rough the 1940 meet which will be held the country. We are proud of Geo­ in Chicago. By that time Milwaukee rge that he hasn’t lost his dog sense.” promises Chicago a run for their money.

We learn, through, vary obvious sources that the Dean of Archers, On to Pasadena the Hon. Daniel Cupid has been prac­ The Southern California Field Ar­ ticing on the new range. RESULTS: 1938 Western Women’s Champion chers Association has wisely picked Miss Phyllis Roberts has signed up the Pasadena roving range for its from now on with popular lower annual tournament. We understand that local archers are praying that bracketeer Mr. Howard McCord.

CONGRATULATIONS! — and to March 26 will be unusual, on the make it a 100 percent Archery Ro­ sunny side, even hot, so that they can enjoy the pleasure of shooting mance your editor suggests that the in the shade all day long. Few of ceremony be held on the range, near us have ever experienced the thrill the flagpole. What say, Phyllis?

—The Elysian Archer of shady shooting except at the bosky

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Getting a Big Rabbit

By A. E. Andrews, Indianapolis, Indiana. but we killed none. That was in Many westerners will not under­ 1937. stand the cottontails of Indiana; so a In 1938 I was hunting with Herman word about them. There are two: the Shields and 0. G. Lidikay. In the common, gray rabbit, which, corn-fed,, is one of the most delectable wild bottoms, one of these big rabbits got meats nature offers; and the swamp up in front of me and stopped in a rabbit, a species of cottontail that, heap of dead willow cuttings. I tried according to Dr. H. E. Anthony, comes to tramp the rabbit out and it came into the southwestern toe of Indiana. out as far as the side of the heap, Some two years ago, talking at and I was trying to aim an arrow McCormick’s Creek State Park with through the old brush when the wil­ lows under me gave way and I sub­ Dr. Bebb, a student of dentation in rodents, our conversation turned to sided ungracefully to the bottom of The rabbit scampered game.

Dr. Bebb took down two the heap. rabbit pelts, one the gray cottontail, out to a little stack of weeds and the other the swamp rabbit, and asked grasses, but I could not shoot.

An archer came up from my right me to handle and compare them.

Then he got two jewelry boxes in and the rabbit was frightened out which he had preserved the pellets on my side and I then did get a snap from rabbits found in the bottoms shot at it—a fortunate shot, for I of the West Fork of White river. got the rabbit. It was the largest He said the hunters told him of “big” rabbit I ever bagged and so far as I rabbits in the river bottoms, and he know the only “big” rabbit killed in evidently thought he had found the Indiana with a bow in any low, damp, pellets from the two species, one more wooded lands. But was it merely than a hundred miles north of its an overgrown cottontail or really a supposed range.

My interest was swamp rabbit? I am not a scientist; that of an archer; I am not a scien­ so I do not know. Here is a sum­ tist. mary of information, taken from I also talked to Dr. John D. Black, Anthony’s “Field Book of Mammals”: author of “The Mammals of Kansas.”

Common gray rabbit (Sylvilagus Dr. Black does not make definite floridanus inearnsi) with a range statements until he knows, but he all over Indiana and extending from thought it possible that the swamp northeastern Kansas to near Superior, rabbit might be found north of its Wisconsin, and from Superior to the supposed range.

Tennessee-Carolina corner.

Swamp rabbit (Sylvilagzis agnati­ Now if you draw a line from Mc­ Cormick’s Creek State Park straight ons) with a range from eastern Tex­ as and southern Alabama and Mis­ east, the line strikes Bean Blossom, at the north foot of Bear Wallow sissippi up to the “toe” of Indiana.

It’s a shame to get a “big” rabbit ridge. If you climb that ridge in and then not know to a certainty your car and head south and east, what it is. So it looks to me as if you come to the Salt Creek bottoms and the base of Weed Patch Hill in it is going to be necessary to add the Brown County State Park and archery to the other sciences of the one of the two archery hunting pre­ mammalogists and get them down in Brown county for a hunt. They serves.

When hunting in the Salt Creek might find something down there that is not in the text books. Per­ bottoms with Willis B. Lincoln, Jr., he told me of seeing “big brown rab- sonally, I don’t know, but in the un­ split-verb phraseology of quaint bits.” This information came with Brown county: “I never did see noth­ much interest; so I toddled along with Lincoln and we got up two rab­ in’ jest like it.” bits. A small cottontail scampered from the hills; a big rabbit hiked' Ohio State Championship Archery toward the water. We saw others Golf tournament, March 25-26.

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The Boys in the Lower Brackets By the New President There has been a lot of loose talk and numberless insinuations ever since the great day when your cor­ respondent, sponsored by the South­ ern California Archery Association and by seven governors of the N.A.A., was duly certified for the National Archery Basement Championship ti­ tle and elected the new president of the Lower Brackets.

It is intimated that the title and the presidency were awarded me as a bribe to leave Los Angeles, and that I was fed and watered by the victims of my lunch-raiding habits.

It is said that Southern California got off cheap at the price. That Bea Hodg­ son and the San Pedro crowd had to bring out my vittles in a five gallon tin, and that they were tired of it.

Ted Rand is supposed to have stated that he couldn’t support me in the style I had become accustomed to on the pay of an Army Engineer. It is high time that the country learns the truth.

The basement title is unquestion­ ably and legitimately mine. S.C.A.A. says so, and so do the field archers.

Dr. Klopsteg says so, Karl Palmatier swears to it. Henry Cummings af­ firms it and Bill Folberth wired the unanimous confirmation of Ohio.

Tubby Teubner and Proctor Wetherill voted for me, but I am afraid they did so under a slight misap­ prehension. They thought that the wet goods consuming title was at stake, and, having watered me well, they thought they knew my capacity.

That Hodo'son and Kloss would go on record for me goes without say­ ing. California is justly proud of its adopted son and knows full well that only modesty keeps me from claiming international and world’s honors in addition to the national title.

The presidency of the Lower Brack­ ets was bestowed on me by acclama­ tion.

Sasha Siemel, in retiring, thought I should have been selected in the first place. Erie Stanley Gard­ ner grumbled a little, not about the presidency, though he thinks he rates the title, but he brightened up when

Ed and Madge Record, Jean Bethell and Winona Bibler pointed out that the opportunity of seeing George Brommers shaved and in a clean shirt was worth the price of admis­ sion.

From far off Oregon came shouts of acclaim. Through J. E. Davis I learned about new hunts being plan­ ned in my honor. Well, I don’t know about that, but a wire from my girl friend, Natalie Rei chart, diverted my mind. Natalie, at least, has no she­ nanigans in mind. Neither has my old friend C. H. Styles.

Joe Cosner expressed his gratitude for favors shown him in a letter, and so did Ted Carpenter and the Wilhelm boys. Reed Williams wrote a special play, and Jack Willard and George Miles shed bitter tears in the bar room. Maynard Parker gave me a symbolic photo, Jim Murphy of the Bakersfield bunch viewed with alarm, Dr. Schrader of Iowa was quite en­ thusiastic, and Art Downing of Mo­ desto expressed his sympathy. Quite an occasion, I am here to tell you.

To return to that lunch-lapping charge that is brought up against me by my detractors, have you ever tried Margaret Rand’s sandwich spread? What do you know about the capacity of Willard and Gene Bacon’s larder? How about Dr. and Neenah Moreton? How about-Ilda Hanchett?

Ask me, I know, and am I to be con­ demned for my good judgement? I know and have sampled Ellwood and Lily Mould’s offerings and I am an authority on Bill and Mae Joy’s con­ tainers. I can say little about Ches­ ter Seay, except that he generally beats me to George Miles’ bottle.

Where I have eaten longest, most earnestly, and hardest is at the San Pedro meets. I know just by tast­ ing whether it comes from the Hod­ gson’s, the Grubbs’, the Yeamans’, the Reeds’ or the Breests’ larder. It is all soul-satisfying fodder, worth going a long way for, if you are an authority on lunches as I am.

I might just as well have the game as the name, and I do not mind tell­ ing you these things now, since I ex­

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pect to spend the next few years in ^ve you " all the woods. I will givz 11 the best places to mooch,, ;and the best Don ’ t say I persons to pan-handle, do nothing for archery.

Try the Redlands bunch for a change. Sneak up on them in their clubhouse. John and Vera Yount are always good for a handout, and the Curtises can be managed. Stay away from the Ahmans, Bernie would eat a whole ox with the hide on, and the Woodwards are pretty good feeders themselves. You will get nothing out of Mel Walker, he . sees only Florine Spellman.

It is the stags and the married men on the loose that you have to look out for. Fred Woodley and Stan­ ley Christilaw are real competition, they would eat the owner of a pack­ ing house out of house and home.

And watch out for Easton and Bitzenburger on a prowl. Emery Wlatts usually comes out alone, and so does Brotherton. Mendels Morton knows a good thing when he tastes it, and Paul Husbands, well—Paul belongs to San Pedro.

I never have had much luck with the Elysians. I do not know the best sources of supply there.

I have touched the Cochems and the Ham­ mers freely, and I am sure I got May­ nard Parker and Dave Davis. Hat­ field and Wardman are always busy, and on the whole they look as hungry as I feel.

The Parrishes of Pasadena are al­ ways a good bet, and so is Egger.

Eastabrook wouldn’t give you a pleas­ ant look, but Helen Little will fall for the right approach.

I don’t know about Dr. and Mrs. Kelso, didn’t have time to try them out, but they look promising. There are other friends I haven’t placed either; I don’t know if they are po­ tential competition or a promising The Edmund source of" supply. m ’ Brocks and the J. A. Bells, for in____ ‘j Axenty or the Ranstance,, Z'Stewart dleS ]~)iirroT» 1 Hti Dugan TI xxrrMl wouldn ’t iput anything beyond, but Sewell Hanson should be a good bet.

What I am trying to get over is this, that no matter how willing and eager the consumer is, there must be an equally willing producer of eatables, or mooching will not bring sufficient returns to be an attrac-

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tive investment. And when it comes to production, Southern California stands in a class by itself.

It has been my good fortune to know most of the archers of Southern California. If I have received so much more than I have given or de­ served, well, the Bible says that it is more blessed to give than to re­ ceive.

You have given, friends, fully and freely. All that my wife and I can do 'is to offer our sincerest thanks.

Chicago Archers Appear in British News Mill workers who read the evening papers last month in Blackburn, Lan­ cashire, England, saw among the do­ mestic news the startling headlines, “Chicago Shot Up by Mail.” Colum­ bus park, Central avenue and Con­ gress street, in Chicago, is respon­ sible for the story.

The news in the English paper told the results of the first interna­ tional archery match between the ar­ chers of Columbus park and the Community house team of Blackburn.

The scores were exchanged by mail.

England was victorious in the first tournament. There will be another chance for the Chicagoans in a mail contest October 26 as Columbus park begins a full year of experience in exchanging recreational ideas and scores with its British neighbors, a plan of Edwin Weiner, Columbus park director.

After Harry MfeEvoy, Jr. published a book on the history and the tech­ nique of archery, Harry Kellett, di­ rector of the Blackburn Community house, wrote to Mr. McEvoy, a mem­ ber of the Columbus archers, telling him he enjoyed the book and ex­ plaining how his English team was getting on. The contest by mail grew out of the correspondence between these two men, and the Englishmen won by 35 points. The scores show the Columbus park team with a total of 1,895 points and the Englishmen with 1,930.

The event was the “team around,” each archer shooting the required 96 arrows.

Mr. Weiner plans to continue the relationship. Publicity, scores and. pictures of teams will be exchanged.

We hope that the Chicago team will win the next “bout” by mail!

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Card of Thanks A note of thanks to each one of the many archers of Southern Calif­ ornia who were our hosts at the fare­ well dinner tendered us on February fifth would still be inadequate to ex­ press what that gracious heart-warm­ ing gesture meant to George and to me. But to all who contributed by their presence or their messages to that unforgettable evening, we would have you know that the friendship you have demonstrated will go with us and remain with us as an intan­ gible and priceless possession.

—Wilhelmina Brommers

Ken Willhelm, Willhelm, Larry Hughes, Chester Seay and Willard Bacon are not the only Californians to create new interest in archery by means of public exhibitions.

Fred Woodley and Bob Faas recently did some plain and fancy trick shooting before an audience of 4500 at the Shrine Aud­ itorium in Los Angeles; also before 700 Boy Scouts. We can’t think of anything more likely to promote arch­ ery or more to the point. The mov­ ies are good, and a great help, but to actually see this shooting on the stage is far more convincing and leaves no room for argument.

It reaches a smaller audience, to be sure, but it reaches them better. The editor will be pleased if he is inform­ ed of similar events in other parts of the country.

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