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Ye Sylvan Archer “A magazine for the field archers”

No. 1

May, 1940

Vol. 12

Published the fifteenth of each month for archers by archers 505 North 11th Street, Corvallis, Oregon

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page

JAVELINA!

By A. J. Cosner

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NEW MEXICO FIELD ARCHERS

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NATIONAL FIELD ARCHERY

By John L. Yount

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BROWN COUNTY OPEN

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ARCHERY NOTES By “Uncle Hat”

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WINTER INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET ..

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INTERNATIONAL ARCHERY TOURNAMENT

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EDITORIAL

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LOS ANGELES ARCHERY CLUB

OREGON STATE TOURNAMiENT . 7 WASHINGTON’S FIRST NFAA 8

By George Brommers .....................................

SCFA NEWS NOTES . ............ 9 OLD MJSSION FIELD ARCHERS 9 DOGHOUSE ARCHERY 10

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Javelina!

By /I. J. Cosncr, Phoenixm Arizona

It is a euphonious name. It might be tacked onto a ravishing brunette of Latin persuasion or again it might be one of these Mexican dishes that can nourish a man equipped with a cast iron gullet, or burn him to ashes if he hasn’t one.

This beautiful name that would do for a princess is wasted on a bristly, ornery, mean and contemptible little old hog. He isn’t just these things, however. Although he only weighs forty pounds at the outside and sop­ ping wet, he is fleet as a deer. He is lightning fast every move he makes.

He can stop as quickly as he starts, which is instantly, and he can fight a buzz saw and bite out every other tooth if he wants to. He has vitality enough for two other animals. He may be dead, but you have to prove it to him.

From either side, the javelina looks like a lima bean with four tiny legs and a small triangular head pointed at the ground. His rear end is decorated with nothing.

The Arizona Game Department wanted to know how deadly a broad­ head arrow might be and for the purpose of finding out, we were given a permit to hunt these worthless little wild pigs. They even wanted movies of the shindig so that there wouldn’t be any faking. Added to that, a game warden went along so that he might testify as to whether an arrow was brutal or efficient. (Af­ ter drinking two cups of coffee he made, I considered it immaterial.

There are all kinds of brutality.)

The country selected was .desert mountain. Javelinas eat cactus, roots, hunting dogs and people’s legs, so they don’t care where they live. This particular place was rolling desert with ocotilla about twelve feet apart all over it and that alone shows that they don’t care. Ocotilla are branch­ ing bunches of bare sticks like buggy whips and are decked with thorns from ground to tip. Riding a horse through them is like using one of those Japanese bamboo combs, only on a larger scale.

Tom Imler and his brother Bud are used to horses and even own spurs

to prove it, but twenty peaceful years have gone by since I had forked one.

If they tell you that five hours of riding will darn near kill a green­ horn, they are right and it did. Lit­ tle did that horse realize that he was carrying more driveling misery on his back than three men ought to have in a lifetime.

We rode for three miles (I rode six^ counting up and down) at the heels of a skeptical rancher.

Using my bow for a fender among the ocotillas, and kicking my horse in the belly with both heels, I came last. Bud Imler finally decided that such a spectacle as that needed an escort, so he rode behind and kept me com­ pany. We finally separated from the rest in combing a likely place, and in rounding a low hill we found hogs.

Imler, Klaus the warden, and Keith the rancher, had jumped a bunch of eight or ten. Klaus had the movie camera and was sighting through it while Keith was trying to maneuver a hog around so that Tom could get a shot recorded. Bud and I were above them doing the kibitzing. All of a sudden three of them separated, from the bunch and came straight at us. We both strung our bows with­ out dismounting. Bud didn’t want to and I couldn’t. Anyhow, try it some­ time with a 75 pounder.

The hogs kept coming. They have poor eyesight and failed to see us until they were within thirty yards.

At that time I got excited and tried a shot between my horse’s ears. I missed him a good three feet, of course. All three of them went dif­ ferent directions and in a large hur­ ry. The biggest one went down the hill and turned at about eighty yards so I decided to loose. The arrow caught him a little abaft the beam, as the sailors say, and with that he went into high gear. I still think that I distinctly heard- his legs buzz, they went so fast. He went about fifty yards and started in dying.

Bud and I helped him no little with another arrow through the heart.

In the meantime, Tom had gotten the setup he wanted. With the cam­ era going and the hog at about thirty

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yards, Tom caught him at the point of the shoulder. The heavy birch arrow cut both shoulder points, the. trachea and jugular. His wild pork simply fell over dead.

This hunt was of more interest to me on account of the fact that I have killed these animals before with a rifle. They can carry as much lead as a jaguar and if a man is afoot when they charge, he is in for trouble. The tusks are short but they are razor sharp and cut with a downward thrust. It is hard to ima­ gine that he is dangerous, but his in­ fernal speed gives him forty pounds of destructive fury. If a bullet is not instantly fatal, and it seldom is, trees are darned near a necessity.

When it comes to a choice of weap­ ons, for an animal of this l^ind, there is no choice. I have news that Bud went back to the same place and got his charging and right be­ tween the eyes and felled him like a shotgun would a rabbit.

W/e have the same old argument here that they have in every other state and will eventually surmount it, but it takes time and demonstra­ tions and lobbying. Some time soon it will be legal to hunt here with the bow.

Los Angeles Archery Club The sixteenth annual tournament of the Los Angeles Archery Club was held April 7, at Griffith Park.

The tournament got under way at 10:30 and inspired by the many tro­ phies on display, every archer was in there doing his best. After shooting the York and National everyone was ready for lunch and a cup of that good coffee made by our excellent coffee maker, P. K. Dugan. While the boys were on the 60 yard line getting a little practice before the af­ ternoon rounds, a big jack rabbit, who evidently had heard about point of aim archers, decided to run down the 80 yard line, which he did with­ out a mishap. At 2 o’clock all were on the firing line and going strong.

After the shoot a meeting was held at which time officers for the coming year were elected, as follows: Mar­ garet Rand, President; P. K. Dugan, Vice President; and H. G. Hall, Sec­ retary-Treasurer. A banquet was held in the evening and at that time the awards for the day were given.

May, 1940

The results of the tournament were: Ladies—1. Ilda Hanchett, Natl. 69385 - Col. 72-502; 2. Gean Bacon, Natl. 61-276 - Col. 68-422; 3. Betty Bradstreet, Natl. 17-67 - Col. 46-208.

Men—1. Larry Hughes, York, 139812 - Amer. 90-636; 2. Willard Ba­ con, York 122-646 - Amer. 88-628; 3. Reed Williams, York 109-541 Amer. 88-534.

H. C.—1. W. Hibler; 2. T. W. Broth­ erton; 3. Chester Seay.

—H. G. Hall, Secretary

New Mexico Field Archers The New Mexico Field Archery Association was organized a month ago with ten charter members sign­ ing a petition to the NFAA to be­ come the official representative body of that organization in this state.

Officers were elected as follows: J. C. Trittin, President; Bud Rubins, Vice President; Joe Robb, SecretaryTreasurer; Dr. C. E. Buswell, Di­ rector of Junior Activities. Provi­ sions were made in the constitution for any group of twenty or more in­ dividuals to be represented on the Governing Board by a director.

Plans are rapidly being pushed to complete an official roving course so as to enter the five national tour­ naments.

An introductory Archery Golf tournament was sponsored to acquaint all archers with this sport. Two gold, two silver and two bronze ar­ rows were donated by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Trittin as trophies. Mr. Pard Wood, owner of the Sandra Golf Course graciously offered his facil­ ities for this tournament. Even tho we competed with an eighty per cent eclipse of the sun, we had a lot of fun.

Our membership has more than doubled. The New Mexico F.A.A. will take an active part in the Coro­ nado Cuarto Centennial Climax, the Entrala, the world premier of which will be held on the greatest open air stage of its kind in the South­ west, located at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mjay 29 to June 1, inclusive.

Strangely enough, in this land of the Redman, modern archery is still in its infant stage. We hope very shortly to have so many arrows fly­ ing around in New Mexico that peo­ ple will instinctively duck as they go down the street.

—J. C. Trittin

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National Field Archery

By John L. Yount

By the time you read this, if you do, the first of the national mail tournaments will be over, but don’t let that discourage you. There will be four more. Each, we hope, big­ ger and better than the last. Since only the three best scores turned in by each archer are to be counted, you still have four chances to turn in three good scores. If you haven’t a course, and you probably haven’t or you would have been in the com­ petition, you have plenty of time to put in a temporary course before the next tournament. You can build your permanent course later in the summer.

Having received more letters than I can possibly answer from people who want to know just how to go about laying out a good, official rov­ ing course, I am going to try to ans­ wer them collectively by describing the construction of our course here at Redlands.

Having had six previous courses, we had a pretty good idea of what we were looking for and what to avoid.

We first wanted a place not too far out and on or near a good road. We expected to keep this course in good condition and fully equipped with targets for three hundred and sixtyfive days in the year, and wanted to be able to get to it as easy as the average golfer gets to his course.

It must be in a fairly wild state with scenery that wouldn’t hurt your eyes and would have water available for drinking purposes.

It took a sur­ prisingly small amount of hunting to locate some hilly country that exactly answered every requirement.

Now for the course. As you know, the rules describe fourteen shots of which ten are single position shots and four are four position shots.

While we expected to build a twenty­ eight target course by putting in two of each so that we might shoot a full round without having to shoot any target twice, we also wanted each fourteen target course complete in itself, with each beginning and ending near our parking space. This makes it possible to start archers on both target number one and target

number fifteen when conducting a large tournament and, even more im­ portant, it gives each fourteen the same par and thereby makes it pos­ sible for an archer with an hour to spare to shoot a fourteen and know just how he is doing. It may be true that this idea was lifted from golf, but having been a success there, we thought it might be popular in arch­ ery. It is.

We had learned from past exper­ ience that the way not to lay out a course was to take an hour off some afternoon and just hike over the pro­ posed location with a friend and say, “Wouldn’t that makje a swell shot over there?” and then without further thought locate a target there and then rush on looking for another likely spot. Instead, we took a couple of weeks and a steel tape. We located each target only after considering the following: Would it make an in­ teresting shot? Hjow would the back­ ground be about finding arrows?

What would the chances be of build­ ing a good trail to the target? Too much going into gullies and climbing out the other side will eventually take the joy out of any course. Was the target in line with any other target or trail? If so, it was too dan­ gerous to be considered. If we were to place the target at that point where would our next shot be and would we be able to make the circuit in just the fourteen specified shots? Gentle­ men, it is an engineering job but one well worth while.

After we had carefully measured and staked each shot we went to work on the trails. For a single tourna­ ment on a temporary course, any old trail or no trail at all will do; but for ,our purposes we must have good trails, not too steep and never run­ ning direct from the archer to the target, for such would spoil the nattural appearance of the shot. This meant, in our case, the spending of some $250, to which another $100 has since been added, but we now have trails that are wide, hard and smooth, and a pleasure to walk over. This hasn’t made the course a bit easier to shoot a score on, but it has made

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it possible , to shoot a round without looking like a ditch digger at the finish. These trails have made the round a shooting contest rather than a hiking and climbing contest, which fact is greatly appreciated by the ladies and older men who on some of our previous courses became so com­ pletely exhausted that good shooting was out of the question.

I have made no mention of the ranges. They are in the rules and you can probably have _a copy, L-C ,___ _____ __ but here is how they are placed in our first fourteen.

Number 1 ..................... 60 yards Number 2 .................... 30 yards Number 3 .................... 25 yards Number 4 .................... 65 yards Number 5 .................... 40 yards Number 6 .................

15 yards Number 7 Four position, 45, 40, 35 and 30 yards Number 8 Four position, 35, 30, 25 and 20 feet Number 9 Four positions, all of them 35 yards Number 10 .................... 20 yards Numbe 11 .................... 45 yards Number 12 .................... 50 yards Number 13 .................... 55 yards Number 14 Four positions, 80, 70, 60 and 50 yards You may not think they are very well mixed, but that is the way they fitted into the scenery, and to date no one has complained about their being easy to hit. We, of course, took advantage of light, shadows, scenery and angles to make the course “sporty.” I use that word rather than “difficult,” for we have found that while it is more fun to shoot on an apparently tricky course, there is very little, if any, difference in the score.

In laying out our four position shots we were careful to locate them at positions where it was possible to fan the shooting positions out in such a maner that the trail could be built to go from the longest to the shortest of the shots and then to the target without at any point being in line of fire. This saves a lot of time, for by the time the first archer has reach­ ed the fourth position the last of the foursome is already shooting from the first position.

Brown County Open For the third year Brown County

May, 1940

State Park will be the scene of the annual tournament of what was for­ merly the Missouri Valley Archery association, now called the Brown County Open association. The meet will be June 1 and 2 on the permanent archery range in south central In­ diana, three miles from Nashville.

The park consists of 23 square miles of heavily timbered hilly coun­ try, and includes two lakes, 100 miles of trails and roads, and swimming, tennis and horseback riding facilities.

Camping and trailer grounds, cot­ tages and a hotel are available to accommodate the archers. Meals may be obtained at the Abe Martin lodge in the park, where an informal din­ ner meeting will be held Saturday night. Sandwiches and soft drinks are sold near the shooting field.

The men’s championship will be based on the York score shot Satur­ day and the double American shot Sunday. Cups will be awarded to the men making the highest double American score, not counting the champion’s scores.

A National and a Columbia will be shot by the women on Saturday and the same on Sunday. In the boys’ and girls’ junior division a single junior American will be shot Saturd v morning and a double junior Am­ erican on Sunday. Clout events for all divisions will be shot Saturday afternoon. Flight events will be held on Sunday morning at the airport atop Weedpatch hill in the park. The hill is one of the highest in the state, with an elevation of 1152 feet above sea level.

W. B. Lincoln, Jr., 638 Berkley Rd., Indianapolis, Ind., is president of the association. Included on the board of governors are Fred Bear, of Detroit, Mich., E. S. Richter, of Chicago, Ill., and Charles Pierson, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

At the 1939 met it was decided that since the interest in the Missouri Valley meets had shifted farther east, th'e organization should be renamed the Brown County Open association, and all future meets should be held in the park on the week-end nearest May 30. An archery club from Mich­ igan, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky or In­ diana will sponsor the meet each year. Bids for the 1941 meet must be presented to the board of gover­ nors before or at the 1940 meet.

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Archery Notes By “Uncle Hat”-—Harold A. Titcomb

My last Notes to Oscar Lundberg, President of the Surrey Bowmen, were written at Grass Valley, Calif., and told of my first visit to Captain Cassius H. Styles at Berkeley, Calif., and of the delightful time I had there.

These are further notes jotted down from time to time.

The Pacific Coast is a mecca for archers and during my limited stay in California I have been lucky in meeting many of them, but only a very small percentage . of the to­ tal.

These notes are therefore necessarily most incomplete and in the form of a diary. Time did not permit visiting the states of Wash­ ington and Orgeon where live many archers and where are published those splendid monthly journals, “American Bowman Review” and “Ye Sylvan Archer.”

The climate of Southern California is especially adapted for archery all the year round, and interest in this splendid sport is increasing year by year. Many of these western arch­ ers also hunt wild game whenever they get the chance, and I have met in California probably a dozen men who have shot fair sized game in­ cluding deer, bear, moose, wild boar, mountain lion, wild cats, etc.

I regret that I could not visit Walt Wilhelm who lives at Yermo in the Mojave Desert. His brother Ken is away giving exhibitions of his won­ derful skill in archery; and Howard Hill, who lives in this Southern Cal­ ifornia district, was also away some­ where in the middle or eastern states, so I could not meet those renouned shots.

Arrived in Pasadena February 11.

Heard of an archery range located in a beautiful arroyo or gulch at Pasadena and went there. Saw a chap shooting on the target range; he asked me if I was interested in arch­ ery and invited me to shoot, as he was a club member, Edmund Doty by name. Ed makes all his equipment in a neat shop adjoining his home. He makes beautiful tackle and showed me much about his favorite hobby.

Through him I became a member of the Pasadena Roving Archers and

met their secretary, Henry A. Bitzenburger of Los Angeles. Pasadena has two archery ranges in the ar­ royo, the first for target archery and the second for roving. With my helpful friend Ed Doty I have shot at both these ranges many times during the past month.

The field archery range is about 200 yards up the arroyo beyond the target range, and is most beautifully laid out by the Pasadena Roving Archers. There are benches and a large open-air fireplace used for barbecues or luncheons during a meet.

The range occupies only about 300 yards in length along the valley and every advantage is taken of the steep irregular hillsides and trices to make shooting varied and exciting.

One, two or three bales of straw form the butts on which are pinned the targets, which are of varying size. Wooden stakes, painted white, mark the shooting stations for each target, the stakes being numbered.

There are 28 targets, cleverly de­ signed to represent animals and birds, outlined on tough waterproof paper.

The outlines are made with a tem­ plate so they are always the same for the same animal. An outlined “vital” area is then colored red and counts 5 on the score; then a sec­ ondary area colored blue counts 3; then an outer area (which includes legs, tail, ears, etc.) counts 1. I shot over this range with Ed Doty, pacing most of the distances as best I could to give a rough idea of the range for each target.

Where possible, targets were placed so that an arrow would hit the hill­ side if it missed the target; this helps one find the missed arrow.

I bought a full set of these animal and bird targets and I hope to take these to England on my next visit.

Washington State Tournament The Washington State Archery tournament will be held in Tacoma, June 15 and 16. S. L. Michael is secretary. It is expected that the shoot will be held on Jefferson Playfield.

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May, 1940

Editorial We regret that this issue of Ye Sylvan Archer is late but printing office difficulties made it impossible to get out on time. As this is an an­ niversary number we hoped to get out a special edition reviewing the progress of Archery since the publi­ cation of the first Sylvan Archer in 1927. Other duties prevented giving it the time necessary but our cover design denotes that we are launching out again. The prospect may be a little dim with conditions as they are in the world but we and Archery are on our way.

We seldom take space to publish “bouquets” but such as this from Mr. C. F. Schuster, Holyoke, Mass., makes us feel so good we cannot re­ sist: “This little magazine rings true throughout with instructive informa­ tion, story-telling wherein the song of the arrow is always there and a friendliness that brings closer to­ gether those of the feathered shaft clan.”

One of George Brommers’ California friends wants to know why the hero in all of Cosner’s cartoons look so much like George. The an­ swer is easy. Where, short of darkest Africa, could Joe find a more handsome or modest model?

Winter Intercollegiate Meet Winners in Class A group, shooting a regulation Columbia round, of the annual winter intercollegiate archery meet were as follows: 1. Los Angeles City College 5553 2. Arizona State Teachers Col. 5017 3. San Jose State Teachers Col. 3086 Class B—60 Arrows at 30 Yds. 1. Oregon State College No. 1 5714 2. uxcgun Oregon oiaie State College, xnu No.. 2 5367 3. Los Angeles City College 5324 Class C—60 arrows at 20 Yds. 1. Oregon College of Education 5385 2. Goucher College, Baltimore 5165 3. Willamette University 5087 Class D—60 arrows at 15 Yds. (2-foot target) 1. University of Nevada 3676 2. University of South Dakota 3563 3. Washington Univ., St. Louis 2610

Here we have some real news from Southern California not covered by other correspondents.

Geo. Miles tells us “Bill Joy has a new summer suit, Chester Seay some mole-skin pants, P. K. Dugan wears new blue jeans when shooting a roving course so he will look dressed up as he does when he shoots target, John Yount is shooting a much better score as the N'FAA gets in better shape, and Ben Pearson shot with us in Red­ lands. We like him.”

International Tournament I am pleased to advise that under the joint auspices of the Canadian National Exhibition and the Canadi­ an Archery Association, the Inter­ national Archery Tournament will be held again this year on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition, August 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30.

This will be the 8th annual tourna­ ment and it is expected that a larger number of archers will be taking part in the tournament.

The International Archery Tour­ nament being held on the spacious archery ranges of the Canadian Na­ tional Exhibition during the 'Sime the Fair is in progress makes this a very attractive and unique tour­ nament. All archers who attend this tournament not only enjoy the visit to Canada, but will have the added pleasure of attending the world’s largest annual exposition.

Although Canada is at war, there will be no handicap for visitors cros­ sing the line. In this connection, the H'on. Mitchell F. Hepburn, Premier of Ontario, has stated “For United States citizens, entry and exit are just as free as formerly; no pass­ port is required. An additional in­ ducement to visitors is the fact that the United States dollar now com­ mands a handsome premium in Cana­ dian currency.”

Yours very truly, R. John Mitchele. Secretary.

Geo. Miles says, “It is a hard life; you want to shoot a good target score but can’t so you take up field arch­ ery; and find out they check on you there too.”

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May, 1940

The Oregon State tournament is scheduled for July 4, 5 and 6 at Drpin. The archery-golf event will be held at 1:30 p. m. on 'July 4 at the Cottage Grove golf club course, 17 miles north of Drain. Mr. C. W. Davis, president of the state associa­ tion has just visited Drain and re-

ports that the necessary prepara­ tions are well in hand. V. D. Mc­ Cauley of Eugene is secretary.

The district target meet of the Michigan Archer’s Association will be held at Baily Park, Battle Creek, on May 19. 1940.

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Washington s First NFA A Tournament

By George Brommers Hashimura Togo Duryee had a good idea, but it backfired.

Mrs. Duryee was home in bed, sick (we are glad to hear that she has now recovered), his daughter Pat couldn’t be everywhere at once, and the many sided Mr. Duryee got busy.

First he went in cahoots with the weatherman, not a difficult feat in Washington, and the weatherman duly turned on his sprinklers.

As if this weren’t enough handi­ cap, Kore cunningly hid a few rocks where they would do the most good.

In any case, Pat Chambers looked somewhat doubtful by the time he had busted his third set of arrows.

But in spite of all his industry, Kore was beaten both by Pat and by I. M. Stamps.

Chambers’ high score, 489, wasn’t up to his last year’s high, but the season is young yet, and this was the first time he shot on this course.

Stamps will bear a lot of watching, too. Even Kore isn’t quite as inno­ cent as he looks.

The course is a very tricky one, with plenty of natural hazards with­ out Kore’s help. For the first shoot the scores were surprisingly high.

Washington will be heard from.

On account of the rain attendance was cut down, but there were sev­ eral out of the state visitors, never­ theless.

MEN 1. Pat Chambers, Portland, Ore. 2. I. M. Stamps, Seattle 3. Kore T. Duryee, Seattle 4. J. H. Strandwold, Tacoma 5. Gene Warnick, Portland, Ore. 6. Leonard J. Carter, Seattle 7. Lawrence Belden, Seattle 8. John Garrett, Vancouver, B. C. 9. Harold Lusk, Seattle 10. Fred Brockhoff, Port Orchard 11. Elmer Erickson, Seattle 12. Geo. B. Clark, Tacoma 13. G. Meyer, Seattle 14. M. Belden, Seattle 15. Glen W. Sutherland, Tacoma 16. Herbert Hialberg, Tacoma

John Garrett, the Canadian tim­ berbeast, was there. Mr. Garrett took notes for a course the Canadians ex­ pect to install this year in order to give us some international competi­ tion.

From Portland came Pat and Vivi­ an Chambers, Glendoline Vineyard, the Oregon Amazon, Gene Warnick, another flight shooter, and Mrs. War­ nick. But we missed Pop Prouty, the grand old man who really put flight on the map to stay.

Bel via and Kay Carter (no rela­ tions), were there, and for the first time I had the pleasure of meeting .their husbands. Leonard, that’s Kay’s incumbrance, is the well known dark horse, white hope, and eventual high score champion of this year’s Olym­ pic Bowmen League. Leonard, too, will take plenty of watching, once he warms up to the field round.

Glendoline took the ladies’ first place handily, as had been expected, but my young friend, Jane Duncan, is warming up and, as I said before, the season is still young.

As this is written, no scores have come in from other sections. But if the other N-FAA groups are as tho­ roughly sold on the new official round as Washington is by this time, that round is going to be hard to dis­ place. Here are the scores:

1st Round 65-245 61-233 48-177 45-167 43-159 29- 111 30- 108 34-122 30- 106 31- 107 25- 91 22- 84 22- 82 20- 66 18- 62 15- 51

2nd Round 60-244 58-212 60-230 39-145 33- 110 36-136 36-134 31-117 34-126 29-105 28- 94 23- 89 22- 90 29-105 26- 98 21- 69

Total 125-489 119-445 108-407 84-312 76-269 65- 247

66- 242 65-239 64-232 60-212 53-185 46-173 44-172 49-171 44-160 36-120

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17. Harold Strandwold, Shelton 18. Mike Errigo, Tacoma 19. 'Jim McKinnell, Seattle 20. George Murry, Seattle WOMEN Glendoline Vineyard, Portland 2. Jane Duncan, Seattle 3. Ruth Boyle, Seattle 4. Christine Stamps, Seattle 5. Elsie Houle, Seattle

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11- 39 11- 35 19- 63 10- 30

18- 66 17- 61

29-105 28- 96 19- 63 10- 30

26- 98 17- 63 13- 43 7- 27 8- 30

29-101 21- 83 14- 48 10- 36 8- 30

55-199 38-146 27- 91 17- 63 16- 60

S. C. F. A. News Notes

By Elmer W. Bedwell, Secretary

With over 100 archers and friends present at the Redlands Archery Course Sunday, April 28, the annual Southern California tournament and banquet was held. The goodfellow­ ship of the archers, and the weather being pleasant, all summed up to a successful day.

Some of the scores were of special interest—Merle Hathaway, of Mali­ bu, setting a new record for the new standard course in the morning, by making 291 points; and in the after­ noon Larry Hughes beat the course record by making 314 points.

After the tournament, dinner was served at the Redlands Country Club, officers were elected and trophies were awarded.

President Edmund M. Brock. Malibu, and SecretaryTreasurer Elmer W. Bedwell. Red­ lands. were re-elected. Ruth Hatha­ way, Malibu, succeeded George Miles as Vice President..

Awards were as follows for double rounds: Men’s Championship Class—Lar­ ry Hughes, gold bar, 585; Merle Hathaway, silver bar, 547.

General Division, Men — Richard Sands, Championship Medal, 433; Fred Woodley, red ribbon, 431; John Daulley, white ribbon, 427.

Ladies’ Championship—Eva Bedwell, Redlands, gold bar, 311.

General Division, Ladies’ — Glen Curtis, Redlands, Championship Med­ al, 249; June Franklin, Redlands, silver medal, 235; Margaret Quayle, Pasadena, bronze medal, 196.

Annual medals for high scores, men—Larry Hughes, Pasadena, gold, 585; Merle Hathaway, Malibu, sil­ ver, 547; Roland Quayle, Pasadena,

bronze, 541.

Annual medals for high scores, women—Eva Bedwell, gold, 311; Glen Curtis, silver, 249; June Frank­ lin, bronze, 235.

Juniors, for the Bedwell Trophy— Harold Robinson, Redlands, 298.

These scores were all entered in the National Archery Association mail tournament, the results of which will not be known for three or four weeks.

Ben Pierson, tackle maker, from Arkansas, and wife were guests of the day. We enjoyed having them.

The next regular S.C.F.A.A. tour­ nament will be held at Malibu, June 23. This is a return tournament from the February 25 tournament, which was postponed on account of rain.

Old Mission Field Archers April 15 found the Old Mission Field Archers assembled in the San Diego River bed, merrily slinging blunts in the general direction of various and sundry silhouette tar­ gets. We must admit the day was plenty warm; more of that “unusual weather” we have so frequently.

Anyway, the shoot wound up with Bob Hoover, C. W. McNatt and Lafe Kemp high scorers, and in that order.

The prize was donated to the club for future use.

Following lunch the gang indulged in a bit of handicap shooting in­ involving a silhouette and an apple, and called a “William Tell” shoot.

In this event Lafe Kemp took the prize and is now wearing a new Bear Products “Kooler” arm guard.

Plans are going ahead for the field archers’ part of the Western.

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May, 1940

Doghouse Arching

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You can buy meat at the butcher shop, so that isn’t what you are after.

You can chase a golf ball, ride a bicycle, or dig in the garden. You won’t, so exercise isn’t what you are looking for.

You can hunt, or you can fish. You can camp out in the open, you can get filthily and unashamedly dirty.

You can eat your own cooking, and somehow survive it. You can, and do, raise a prize crop of whiskers.

Haven’t they the most gratifying itch in the world?

You can hunt with the rifle, and it is fine sport. You don’t get much game, and do you care. You fish— with worms—or eggs—or fly, all de­ pending on how badly you want the fish. You have a grand old time.

Then you take up arching, more or less as a postgraduate fad.

This time you know you aren’t going to hit anything, but the way that rabbit, or deer, or rat, got out of the way delighted you hugely.

You have joined the game missers, and the rifle knows you no more.

Now there are archers who bring back game. I know quite a few of them myself. So they pack it out, and they clean it, and they brag and lie about it. Sometimes they even eat it. But somehow they haven’t had nearly as good a time of it as the day they missed fifty ground squir­ rels in a row.

There is the game for you—ground squirrels. Any range is fair range, ten to a hundred yards. You do hit one occasionally, and you feel kind of ashamed of yourself. It is true that you aimed at it. It is true that you tried to hit it. It is also true that what you really wanted was to see how close you could get.

There is nothing wrong with the killing power of the long bow, but it is no weapon for grizzlies or lions, in spite of Art Young. Exceptions prove no rule. Every archer will freely admit that as a game getter the bow is far inferior to the rifle.

The archer is no competitor of the rifle addict, has no wish to be.

I have known a number of suc­ cessful archers, but they weren’t the ones who brought home the biggest

bags. They were the ones who ut­ terly forgot themselves in the chase, the ones who came back tiredest, and dirtiest, and hungriest, and with the longest and scratchiest whiskers. The ones who got rained on, and snowed on, and who fell in the river. The ones who ate dough-gods of their own creation that a hungry dog would refuse.

W|e doghouse hunters rejoice might­ ily when one of our lower bracket brothers accidentally connects. We guy Chester Seay about that 700 pound bear he got, Joe Cosner about his javelina, J. E. Davis about his buck. We know they like to be raz­ zed about it, just as Forrest Nagler is ribbed about the game he has miss­ ed—nothing is said about his hits— not by the doghouse or lower bracket gangs.

What we understand best is when Gardner, Klopsteg and Buchen spend ten days in a game paradise and come back without even an alibi. We don’t rib them about it, though—we envy them. We think of the lugging, and the grief, and the expense hunt­ ers like the Catheys and B. G. Thomp­ son had getting their moose out of Canada.

We think of the aching backs of our more fortunate brothers in< the chase—and laugh contentedly.

That’s arching for you—doghouse arching.

See that rabbit, sixty yards if it is an inch. Sitting there laughing at us. Fair game for a bow at that distance, sitting or running.

Why, damn your impudence, Bun­ ny, smelling at that arrow right in front of you. I’ll teach you. One more! Too high! All right, see how you like this one. Crouch, will you, I will straighten you. One right un­ der the belly! Thought it was time to move, did you? Here’s the chaser.

What’s that, a hit?

Good shot? No,, poor Bunny! Dog­ house arching, you said it!

P. S. All his old roughneck crew is quiet in the bunkhouse, testifies Dr. Paul Bunyan. Even the Oregon coon hunters know that the old Tom Cat is back on the job. Act accord­ ingly. They had better take it lying down, says Paul.

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