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This and That About the National By Wc R. Told

As our account of the 58th National as published in the August issue was hurriedly compiled from news stories, it was necessarily incomplete. The following additional facts and high lights of the tournament given in ran dom fashion, we hope will prove inter

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Mrs. Beatrice Hodgson of San Pedro, Calif, placed second in the women’s championship standing with a score of 1930. Mrs. Hodgson shot through the entire tournament, target events, team round and clout, 600 shots, without missing the target once. The following contestants qualified for the Six Golds club: Pat Chambers, M. E. Spansei, L. E. Berg, Sonny Johns, Miss Jean A. Tenney, Mrs. Glady Hammer and Mrs. Elsie Hen drix. 147 registered for the tournament from California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Panama Canal Zone, Ha waii, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ill inois, Massachusetts, Florida, Ohio, Arkansas, Michigan, Indiana, Minne sota and Idaho. It is reported that Fanny Commerce of Beverly Hills left for the National but pulled a “Corrigan” and landed at a bull fight in Mexico City. George Brommers, it is further reported, was sent to bring her back in his one wheel trailer. This may account for the fact that, the last we heard about

George, Walt Wilhelm was looking for him out in Death Valley. Skele tons in a man’s closet will come out to dance a jig in front of him; and it leaked out at the tournament that Brommers in his youth was a left handed pitcher on a baseball team, explaining his ability to turn left handed compliments, and was known as “Swifty”. Louis Smith was so busy with score sheets at the banquet that he forgot to eat. Cuneo cut his steak into cubes and fed it to him while Mr. Smith con tinued to check scores. While Cuneo was busy helping Smith, Klopsteg stole Cuneo’s dinner! Honored visiters were Stewart Edward White; Mrs. Millie Taylor, champion in 1910, 1911 and 1912; Arthur Young, Jr. and wife; and Miss Orrie Young, sister of Arthur Young. Monday evening the barbecue din ner was followed by a camp-fire party in a large grove. Robin Hood was lurking in the forest and, as the guards at the crossroads, in the tree tops and on the mountain tops were busy looking for Fanny, swapping stories with Klopsteg, or out looking for bracers with the Sheriff of Not tingham, it was necessary to call on Sir Guy of Ginsburg to come forth with his merry men to illuminate Sherwood Forest. They started to come forth but were tripped by Brom-

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mers and came in fifth and lighted up the forest with sparklered arrows. (Seems to us We R. Told has his his tory a little mixed—Ed.) Indian sing ers and Tex, the hillbilly yodeler, fol lowed. The banquet was held in the Crys tal room of the Hotel Bellevue. Mrs. Emma L. MacHugh and Mrs. Roy D. Myers arranged the beautifully decor ated dinning room with pineapples, cocoanuts, Hawaiian surf-board fig ures, and tapa cloths. Each lady was presented with a La Jolla fan covered with a large dahlia. These were in various colors. California redwood novelties were the souvenirs. A Hawaiian orchestra played for the 146 who attended the banquet. There was a life size dog house on the field next to the headquarters tent for George Brommers. Because of the hot sun George was usually found lying next to it with his head under the shade of the dog house. Ken Wilhelm gave a thrilling ex hibition of trick shooting at the camp fire. Graham MacNamie Teubner and Ted Husing Klopsteg ably manned the field microphones of the public ad dress system. I. M. Stamps won the Pope-Young round with 14 hits, Bill Folberth scored 13, and F. D. Brown and Na than Rogan each had 12. Miss Glen Vineyard was high lady with 10 hits. Beatrice Hodgson won the 120-yard clout with 36-272 and Helen Little the 140-yard with 36-276. Myrtle Longley and David Davidson won the junior clouts. Larry Hughes, M. E. Spansei and Reed Williams took the men’s clout with 286, 266 and 252 respec tively.

22nd and staked out on Aug. 24th, work beginning at once. Impeding brush and branches were cut, stones cleared, ground filled and grass cut to putting-green smoothness. The range will be marked with red flags for some distance about and roped off, except at the shooting end. A locker for targets and stands provided by the city is being constructed, and a row of benches for use back of the shooting line. This temporary American Round range will be available to the public at once on an annual target-locker-key fee basis of $1.00 per archer, and archers of Dutchess County and neighboring parts of the Hudson Val ley are invited to make use of it. Park Superintendent Charles Conger has arranged revision of plans for the new 150 acre 8th Ward Park Recrea tional Center to include a permanent field, a hundred yards by three hun dred yards, adequate for York Round, Art Young Rounds and Clouts. If a hundred or more archers subscribe to keys within a year, club house with locker facilities will be provided. Some thirty archers arc already in. Archery facilities of this kind have long been needed in Poughkeepsie, which includes Vasser College and the Oakwood school and serves a large area with numerous high schools, pre paratory schools and camps that use archery. The 8th Ward Field will be a convenient match ground where people can not help but see archery and be attracted to it.

Poughkeepsie Obtains Public Archery Range Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 26th— The Board of Public Works has given, consent for establishment of an ar chery field in College Hill Park, re ports Dr. James G. Solomon, a leader of the group that has sought intro duction of the sport here. Dr. Solomon arranged to have engi neers of the Park Dept, invite Paul II. Gordon, Director of the Beacon Hill Craftsmen, to assist in laying out the range. A field was selected on Aug.

The way the San Francisco papers dished out publicity was a surprise and a marvel. Compared to the grudging printing of abbreviated scores in some tournament cities San Francisco should be an. archery hot spot. It speaks mighty well for John Cuneo that he could enlist such wholesouled support from the press, and we sincerely hope that John will main tain his place in archery and give fu ture presidents the benefit of his ex perience the way Karl Palmatier does. Archery needs, and needs badly, men of this type. (Contributed.)

The Pope-Young Archers of Oregon hope to compete with the Ohio and Southern California field archers in a field archers round. Who else?

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Seen at San Francisco By Hit. N. Runnc Southern Californians, mindful of their own cold spring, shivering joy ously and calling attention to San, Francisco’s unusual climate . . : Life saving stations established in a num ber of cars. May have had something to do with the scores, but who cared? . . . Well, maybe Pat Chamers. Poor Karl Palmatier has had more sickness in the family than anybody I know. Did him good to get out, and. us good to see him again . . . Willard, Teubner and Wetherill the life of the party at the hotel. Maybe they slept, but when? . . . Paul Klopsteg a com bination of tact and the mailed fist. Both made a hit, but not always with the same parties . . . Mrs. Klopsteg, Marie and Ruth enjoyed Sukiyaki. (Is that spelled right?) . . . Cash Styles being razzed about the air line ticket he won . . . Col. Pierce and his trailer—better known as the perambulating doghouse — it took Brommers back to L. A. ... I never saw either Louis Smith or Cuneo when they weren’t working. Tournaments run themselves, oh, yes, they do . . . The Bay region archers may not al ways agree and everything, but now they do support their tournaments. Mrs. Thompson’s archery movies . . Jack Flinton on the screen, big as life and twice as handsome . . . Others we had read so much about . . . The Wilhelm boys, Ed Hill and Pierson very popular and always surrounded by friends . . . Southern California field archers getting together with the Ohioans for competitive shoots—the real beginning of organized field ar chery . . . Now to line up Oregon and other states on the same basis . . . Stamps taking Bill Folberth into camp in the Pope Young . . . Miss Orrie Young, Dr. Willard Young, Mr. and Mrs. Art Young Jr., and don’t forget frisky three year old Art Young III . . . Mr. and Mrs Stewart Edward White. Mr. White paying particular attention to the boys at the lower end of the field . . . Austin Strong, the playwright . . . Charles Hall being stuck for break fast by the doghouse editor . . . Things ran very smoothly, so Field

Captain Thompson and Lady Para mount Miss Lindsay got no credit . . . They seldom do . . . Frank Taylor having a glorious time . . . McCauley from Eugene and Davis from Med ford, Ore., . . . Ullrich and Prouty razzing each other . . . Kore Duryee circulating . . . Martin congratulating Chambers on breaking the hundred yard record he, Martin, set at Battle Creek. The gals from Ohio—charming, wholesome, popular with everybody. How do they do it? . . .The men, too, Curt Hill, the Folberths, Mink and Oehlschlager, wherever you saw them you saw a crowd around them . . . Later they went to Southern Calif, to disgrace themeselves in the desert and to hunt wild grunters . . . Some year we must have a National in Ohio. New Governors Folberth and Kloss being congratulated . . . They have a lot of useful work ahead of them . . . The Clarks from Washington D. C., Tolman from Idaho and Chester Smith from Pittsburgh . . . Yes, and Mr. Baker from Lancaster, Pa. . . . Thomas A. Lee, the American born Chinese gentleman who so cheerfully volunteered useful information . . . Reed Williams being taken to task by gents he had maligned in his cartoons . Mrs. Williams, Virginia and Pat, all having a wonderful time . . . My girl friend and sister columnist Nat alie Reichart putting on her act. It was a wow . . . Larry Whiffen and Fred and Mrs. Bear from Michigan ... A long trip, but worth it, they say . . . Hodgert and Kloss discussing the coming state shoot . . . Chester Seay, not cata mounting this time, behaving himself under the watchful eye of his C. O. . . . Easton and Bitzenburger almost qualifying for the Lower Bracket. They will make it yet . . . Atkinson, Myers, Wayne, Thompson and Macquarrie with their ladies, all very busy helping John Cuneo. Mrs. MacHugh and the ladies certainly ar ranged a wonderful banquet . . .1 am not prepared to render a judicial op inion on the hula; I might hear from (Continued on page 4)

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Oregon Field Archers Shoot The third annual tournament of the Pope-Young Field Archers of Oregon was held at Sheridan on Labor Day, September 5th. About forty archers camped on the grounds Saturday night or pulled in Sunday. Sunday was spent in swapping yarns and squirrel shooting. Chuck Holt, Gro ver Gouthier, Lee Stevenson and John Allen were the high point squirrel shooters. ' Monday didn’t dawn; it just rained in. Great was the excitement in the early morning hours when it was realized that about twenty or more cars were parked about the camp, on a hill, with the only road out a slippery dirt one, and an up-hill start necessary. But necessity breeds in vention, and a new road down the ridge was Steve Brodied by Grover Gouthier. And, believe me, he didn’t do a Corrigan—when he started down that hill he went down and there was no turning back. Just about the time all the cars were safely down the hill the sun came out, the grounds dried out, and on with the shoot. Pat Chambers proved himself a, champion in the field as well as at the targets by carrying off the fine new championship cup. He placed first in the battle clout, first in the rovers round, third in flight and fourth in wand. Vic Adcook, last year’s champion, took first in flight, first in wand, second in clout, but dropped to eighth in rovers to place second in sweepstakes. Dr. Geo. Cathey placed third, Homer Prouty fourth, and W. G. Williams fifth. John Allen tied for first place in the wand. Glen Vinyard took all firsts and championship in the women’s divi sion. Mrs. Hewitt was second and Mrs. McCauley third. In junior division, Loren Hewitt took firsts in clout and rovers and championship; Dick Williams first in flight, seconds in clout and rov ers; and Elliott Wright thirds. The boys couldn’t hit the 2-inch wand with broadheads at 60 yards. The rules allow the use of but one bow throughout the meet and only broadhead arrows are shot. The

men’s arrows must weigh at least 425 grains. Forty men, 1four women and three boys competed. At the business meeting, held just after a feast instead of a lunch pre pared by the Sheridan archers, John E. Cooter of Salem was elected pres ident; Chester Stevenson, Eugene, Homer Prouty, Portland, and Ted Hunter, Sheridan, vice-presidents; and J. E. Davis, Corvallis, secretary treasurer. The next tournament will be held at Eugene.

Seen at San Francisco (Continued from page 3) it at home if I were too enthusiastic. Emelyne Rooney and Harry Rooney, was glad to see them again . . . Glendolene Vinyard will be quite a gal when she grows up . . .

was killed on August 9 at Head quarters, Ida., by one arrow through the brain and another through the neck. Photo by courtesy of W. I. King, Eugene, Ore.

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Dr. Klopsteg’s Speech Fellow-archers and Friends of Ar chery: It is a happy circumstance that San Francisco should be host to the National Archery Association at its fifty-eighth annual tournament. It is a happy circumstance because this is the home city of two men—Saxton Pope and Arthur Young of beloved memory.—whose fame will endure so long as there are archers: It is es pecially fitting that the National Ar chery Associatioin should pay them tribute in their home city, and, in commemoration of their contributions to archery, hold a competitive event which, by action of the Board of Gov ernors of the Association, is this year for the first time designated the “Pope-Young Round.” For the information of non-archers, let it be mentioned that this round lays emphasis on the kind of bow shooting which is used in field and forest, rather than at the targets. Each contestant shoots thirty-six ar rows at marks which are placed at various unknown distances and at different heights. The elevation of the arrow is different at every shot. It calls for the kind of skill for which the men whom we honor in this event became outstanding. In the museum not far from here is a group of grizzlv bear which they secured in Yellow stone Park under government permit, using bow and arrow as the only weapon. We honor them not only for their secure places in archery’s hall of fame. We honor them also for their high standards of sportsmanship; for integrity and courage; and for those other qualities which make their mem ory precious and enduring. Some here had the good fortune of acquain tance and friendship with the one or. the other. We testify that knowing them was to admire them, and that their friendship was one of life’s rare gifts. We acknowledge archery’s debt to them for their enrichment of. the literature of archery. Dr. Pope’s “Hunting with the Bow and Arrow” will remain one of the classics of our sport. The National Archery Association, is uniquely honored today in having

as its official guests two persons who were closely identified with the lives of one of the two men whom we celebrate. They are Miss Orrie Young and Mr. Willard Young, sister and brother of Arthur Young. Their presence provides that bond of affec tion and sentiment with the past which makes this occasion memorable. We are grateful to them for their coming. Because of it, we sense that Saxton Pope and Arthur Young are with us in spirit. The Pope-Young Round is about to begin. May it provide enjoyment and inspiration to participants and spec spec- tators alike.

Something New This October is to see, to the best of our knowledge, the first intersec tional field tournament. A mail tournament, if you please. Ohio is to hold their annual field meet on a course identical to that located in Redlands, California. These courses have been built after considerable discussion and exchange of ideas. They contain the same shots, but these shots are arranged to suit the local club and local conditions. The whole idea being to make the course as sporting as local conditions will allow. The two courses having this difference: naturally one of them will be easier than the other, but not enough so to spoil the interest in the competition, and, we believe, just enough to make each group desirous of trying the other course. In fact, if they take us Californ ians, it wouldn’t be surprising if a caravan started east to show the boys that they can’t do it on thb same course. This is just stealing an idea from golf, and we must admit it has gone places in the sport world. Keep the courses different but keep the same rules and the same par, approx imately, so that one knows nearly enough about how good the other man is, which will make us want to meet him on the same course. This is not a closed corporation and any one desirous of getting in on the fun now or later, please address Curt Hill, Dayton, Ohio, or John L. Yount, Redlands, California, for full details.

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Editorial The Washington State Game Com mission has set aside a game preserve for hunting with bow and arrow only. The preserve is approximately 18 miles long and from four to seven miles in width. There is about fif teen miles of auto road within the preserve and there are beautiful government camp sites. The area has been a game preserve for about eight years and is in the heart of some of the finest mule deer country in the state. Non-resident license for out-of-state hunters is $25, except Oregon hunters for whom the fee is $18 by reciprocity agreement between the two states. A special 50c deer tag is also required. Since it seems that the Oregon Game Commission and the Forestry Department have sold the sportsmen of the state out to the sheepmen, by leasing game preserves for sheep pasture and then opening the preserves for a general slaughter of deer, even to does and fawns, Oregon archers who can, might find it profitable to avail themselves of the opportunity offered by the Washington Game Commission.

Harris M. Stafford is now located in Dallas, Texas, where he is offering a complete line of archery material. Army and Navy made an excellent showing at San Francisco. Capt. C. H. Styles and Capt. John Willard were two war aviators. Lieut. Ted Rand, who served in the artillery be fore being transferred to aviation as observer, was more than surprised to meet the then Capt. Stewart Edward White, of his own artillery brigade. Dr. Butts and Lieut. Sisler were there for the Navy, and Major Pierce, the president of the San Diego club, rep resented the Marines. Major Pierce, incidentally, was notified during the meet of his retire ment for war inflicted wounds, also of his promotion to the rank of Lieu tenant Colonel, the award of the Navy Cross and a Presidential citation. President Cuneo announced the news over the loud speaker and the colonel was heartily congratulated by old and new friends. (Contributed.)

DANIEL FREEMAN Earle Stanley Gardner, Dr. George A. Cathey and B. G. Thompson are leaving on Sept. 23rd, we are in formed, for somewhere in Canada to hunt moose, caribou, elk, deer, grizzly bear, common bear, ptarmigan, grouse, fool hens, or what have you. We are pulling for Thompson and a moose, especially, as he has promised us a moose leg quiver. At any rate with a fiction writer like Gardner, an alibier like Thompson and a hunter, like Cathey in the party,we can ex pect a darn fine story for the next issue of Ye Sylvan Archer. Ben Pearson of Pine Bluff, Ark., has enlarged his archery manufac turing plant into a modern machine equiped, two story plant with a testing range which is also used by the local club and visiting archers. Although much hand work is necessary, the ma chines help to reduce manufacturing to a science and allow much greater precision.

Archery lost a staunch supporter in the death in Albany, Oregon, on Aug. 29, 1938, of Dr. Daniel Freeman. Dr. Freeman was born at Kokomo, Ind., August 17, 1864. He was a graduate of Earlham College, Rich mond, Ind., and received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Chicago. Dr. Freeman engaged in educational work in Indiana and North Dakota before coming to Albany College where he served as head of the biol ogy department for 15 years. Prof. Freeman was the promoter of and leading spirit in archery ac tivities at Albany College for many years. He also greatly enjoyed get ting into the woods with bow and arrow on hunting expeditions. Dr. Freeman was more than a biol ogist; he was a naturalist. He could be said to be atune with Nature, and his students as they walked with him on the seashore or in the fields re ceived far deeper contacts with Na ture than mere acadmic teaching could give.

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Southern California Field Archers By John L. Yount, Secretary The Field Archers of Southern California are just starting the “big tournament of the year.” It is too early to even guess at the probable winners, for this meet is thirty days long and is commonly known as “Deer Season.” Just in case you might be interested I am going to give out a little dope on some of the possible starters. Larry Hughes won’t admit that he is a field shot but brought in his buck last year and we would gladly risk a little loose change, if given the proper odds, on his chances to repeat. Then there is Bernie Ahman, an absolute dark horse. We don’t be lieve he even has a pedigree. An other favorite is Elmer Bedwell, an ex-powder burner who handles a mean stick now and knows his game. There has been some talk of disqualifying Ted Carpenter for unfair practice. He has been living with the bucks and the bear for several months. Cook, Clyburn and Grubbs are out of local competition. They are down in Mexico. I hope everything they eat is bitter and that the water is poisoned just because my lousy job wouldn’t let me go with them. If you want to put your money on a man who will be there trying after everybody else has given up in dis gust and gone home, just back Irving Davis. He may be late bn the get away but you can’t stop him when he gets started. Another bunch of back sliders are Bob Faas and Fred Woodley. I hope they have a hot spell up in Canada. Don Huntington has tried closed areas with no avail, so we are told. According to the law of averages it should be about his time. Bill Logg is just like a rabbit hunting coon dog. If he can keep his mind off of squir rels long enough he may get results. Here is a serious note: Fred Mc Mullen is going to miss his old hunt ing partner, Chief Compton, this year. Dan Schacht claims he has a bunch of human dogs trained to chase in the deer, so he can shoot them. We shall see. Last year Emery Watt’s best shot was made at Woody’s

can. From the quality of that shot, I would like to see him get a chance at bigger game this year. If you are wasting your time on some silly thing like trying to make a million, just forget it and go pay your , entry fee by buying some deer tags and a license, and get started. There is plenty of game left. We feel that the Southern Cali fornia Field Archers should do all possible to support the California State Tournament October 1 and 2, at Modesto. It is true that we have had a state tournament for some years, but to be brutally frank, it has never amounted to much. It may have been a very nice local tournament, but never did it represent the State of California. This year there seems to be a real effort to make it a real state meet in fact and not merely in name. There are still changes that we would like to see made, such as al lowing each section to elect its own member on the State Board of Gov ernors and not leave such an impor tant matter to a general meeting in which he may be elected because he is a jolly good fellow, or some equally disgusting reason, and may not rep resent his local district at all. An other thing, let the field men appoint their own representatives. It so hap pens that this year’s choice was a most happy one. Your correspondent can not think of anyone more capable of handling the whole situation than Ken Wilhelm, but he hates to think of what might happen if the choice had been of a different nature. It is a long way to Modesto, but let’s all who can spare the time and buy the gas go up and give Ken a hand. We are to have all of Saturday afternoon for field shooting. Then we all should stay for target shooting on Sunday. If any of you fellows haven’t tried it, you will be surprised how much fun it can be.

The Field Archers of Southern Cal ifornia membership roll is still grow ing.

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The Boys in the Lower Brackets By the Retired Basement Champion Yes, I know, Colonel Pierce, but that’s no way to act. You had no bus iness to bet with Bergstrom in the first place, and he beat you fairly enough. Prouty, Seay and Brother ton had practiced all their lives just as you sav, and no wonder they trim med you. But look at what a rank outsider did to all you, stepped in and grabbed the basement championship that you fellows thought you had cinched. When I asked you to entertain the lower bracket boys I meant it literal ly; it never entered my head that you would throw them in the brig or in the guard house just to get even with them. We will use your talents in the doghouse from now on. Being sorry and claiming that you misunderstood instructions is no help, you should be ashamed of yourself. And you’re dam’ right it won’t hap pen again; I’ll see to that. The way it is now four of your guests have al ready applied for transfer to the dog house, and Cosner says he would ra ther go to Alcatraz. One hell of a way you treat your lodge brothers if you ask me. Just what did you do to them? When anybody comes clear from Honolulu to shoot the lowest com plete score and win the basement trophy it is up to us to do honor to his sportsmanship and not to throw him in the jug the way you did. T. H. Patterson is our duly qualified champ, and we are proud of him. The Neals, Brotherton and Bergstrom all played the game to the finish too, didn’t they. You should know that Prouty and Ullrich are used to the wide open spaces. Ken Wilhelm, Chester Seay, Charles Hall and Larry Whiffen didn’t shoot complete scores, you knew that; it was there for you in black and white. They aren’t criminals, you know. Well, Ken does a lot of funny things, I admit, and Hall is an editor and therefore an enemy of mankind, but— There is Mullen of Oakland and McCauley of Eugene, Ore. They came because they wanted to and be cause they knew we would be glad

Stevenson ... had been to see them. If _________ there now that would have been dif ferent. And Ray Hodgson was in cluded by mistake, he belongs in the doghouse. You made No. 70 yourself, didn’t you, Colonel? Something to be proud of, all right, but that’s no reason for being jealous of the ones who shot poorer scores. And think of how su perior you will feel towards Thomas, Reynolds, Johns of Tacoma and Houck of Seattle. I thought you and Klopsteg were the best of friends. He complains bitterly and wants a transfer. What did you do to him? And Tolman came clear from Idaho, you know. Hutchinson — that’s all right — I don’t care what you did to him, but Widmark and Chester Smith have to be treated right. Chester came clear from Pittsburgh. And Roy Meyers worked his head off to make the tournament a success. Curt Hill and Jack Willard are in the doghouse, that’s why you missed them. A good place for them too. Potter and Graves also did a lot to help Cuneo; both deserved better from you. Walsh, Easton and Macquarrie are border line cases anyway, so it doesn’t much matter about them. Thomas A. Lee, that’s that charm ing Chinese gentleman who did so much to make our stay pleasant, isn’t it? We will have to admit him, and I am glad you didn’t know it in time. Brown of Peoria came a long way, and Kloss was elected governor. We take both of them, but we draw the line right there. The ones above them shoot way too high scores. All right, all right, we will let it go at that. You were carrying out orders—unpleasant orders—but you did your duty as you saw it. Only don’t let it happen again! You will be as popular as a skunk under the bed, Colonel. You know now that you had in your custody the good sportsmen who make the financial success of our tourna ments possible; the strap hangers who pay the dividends in every sport. (Continued on page 11)

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S. C. A. A. Classification System

For the benefit of those archers who have recently fallen victim to “the urge of the bow”, and who are perhaps not familiar with the Class ification System used by the Southern California Archery Association, we feel that the following description will be of interest: All archers who have taken part in one or more Southern California Archery Association tournaments dur ing the year, are classified according to their scores with an A, B, or C rating. When a man shoots a score of 1100 or over, for the combined York and American Rounds, he is classed as an A man. If his score for the York and American is 900 to 1099 inc., he is a B man, and if under 900, he is a C man. In the women’s division, a woman shooting 800 or over, for the combined Nation al and Columbia rounds, is placed in class A. If she shoots 600 to 799, she is in class B, and if she shoots under 600, she is in class C. When a person is once classified in to the B division, he is given a felt emblem (red) with three stars, which he may sew to his sweater. He keeps this classification throughout the year, unless he enters the A class, at which time he is given a blue felt emblem with four stars, which designates his class. These emblems are not given as prizes, but as a badge of recogni tion. Once a man has reached the A class, he may always keep his em blem, and he has a privilege of re maining in that class, if he desires, regardless of his future scores. If, however, he shoots a low score the remainder of the season, he automa tically goes back to the class to which his average for the year places him, unless he makes a request to the secretary that he wishes to remain in class A. A five-star blue emblem is given to the champion man and woman. Methods of Keeping Records'. The secretary makes out a chart and en ters each person’s name who takes part in a tournament, with his or her score, and the class in which he shoots. At the end of the year a summary chart is made and each

person is listed according to the av erage he made during the year. This will be his classification starting the new year, unless he makes a request to be left in the higher class which he onced reached. The secretary posts these charts on a bulletin board at all S. C. A. A. shoots. In this way we have three dis tinct tournaments in one. The C di vision receives just as much consid eration in the way of prizes etc., as the A man or the champion. The champion man and champion woman only receive the S. C. A. A. gold ensignia pin at the annual tournament, which compares to the Dallin Medal used in the National Archery Assoc iation. Medals for the B and C di visions are also furnished at the annual tournament, which are distinc tive of their class and highly coveted. It has been the custom of the South ern California Archery Association for the past several years to hold BiMonthly tournaments and team shoots to raise money to send representa tives to the National Tournaments. This method was used to avoid a last-minute “pass the hat” campaign, or an assesment to raise money. Now, all money saved in the treasury is to be used as the members vote from time to time to use it. If it is de sired to vote a certain amount of money to help pay expenses for a representative, or for association needs, it is there for that purpose. The S. C. A. A. holds a Bi-Monthly team shoot throughout the year in connection with a Metropolitan round. Thus, once each month (the second Sunday in each month) the various clubs who are members of the S. C. A. A. hold a get-together shoot. As the S. C. A. A. is an association of clubs, it is our practice to hold these shoots at the home grounds of the various clubs. Location of these BiMonthly shots is voted on by the Board of Governors at each preceding shoot. The Board of Governors (made up of one representative from each club) holds a meeting during the noon hour of each shoot to decide any business that might be pending. (Continued on page 11)

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The Lighter Side of Archery By THE DOGHOUSE PHILOSOPHERS The Archery Doghouse By George When loggers take to writing they fall into two classes, the ones who making an outstanding success and the ones who build and fill doghouses. Stewart Edward White already be longed in the first class,and now he has. reached the pinnacle of fame by crashing the second objective. Mr. White isn’t the archer he once was. Being chawed by an ill-tempereed leopard didn’t help his bow arm any. He still can, and does, shoot a rifle. Big game in all parts of the world knows this to its sorrow. We were very pleased that Mr. White found time to attend the tournament, and very sorry that accumulated work prevented Mr. Gardner from doing the same. President John Cuneo impounded himself, and fairly so. He has worked like a dog and deserves a few bones. He will find a distinguished gathering in his new abode, and the inmates will be very pleased to see him. Hard times and long distances made for a poorer attendance than we had hoped for, but we all can certify that whatever, the tournament lacked in quantity it made up in quality. We will long remember San Francisco. Dr. Klopsteg was released by mis take and is hereby re-impounded. Anyone who can run a meeting as efficiently as the doctor does, and make impromptu speeches that really mean something, is an administrative asset not to be overlooked; be the af fairs those of the N.A.A. or those of our very select private club. Nor does Louis Smith stand the least chance of being excused from duty. As Mr. Teubner expressed it in his tribute “After Louis Smith, what?” We ourselves can hardly fea ture either a National or a wellrounded doghouse without the Boston gentleman’s participation. Front, take Mr. Smith up to the penthouse. It seems kind of hard to go several thousand miles by air to land in the doghouse, but this is what happened to Mr. Teubner and to Mr. Wetherill. We just couldn’t get along without

j ” and I can agree’ on them. “Tubby j-t-•_______ __________ _____ mighty few things, ibut I like his __ o_____ .______________ iJ on -------Mi arguments. They are■■ based reason and common sense, not on prejudice. And Proctor could be one of our most valuable young men if he wasn’t so infernally lazy in his archery corres pondence and writing. We assign no quarters to either Capt. Willard or to Col. Pierce. Nei ther one would stay put anyway. All we hope is that John gets in before 5 A.M., and if the colonel takes as much interest in his new quarters as he docs in organizing new archery clubs and in rescuing the frost-bitten we will make him our provost marshal. A lifelong ambition of mine has been to give orders to a colonel; the species never thought much of me, 1 am afraid. Pop Prouty and Curt Hill arc in, not because they have done anything to deserve it, but because we like to have them with us. These two have done more for flight shooting the last few years than anyone in the country. Carl Oehlshlager and Bill Folberth will be very acceptable kennel mates to both of them. And while we arc at it, make room for young Bill Folberth, too. As is well known we do not admit the fair sex to memership, but if Mrs. Prouty, Millie Hill, Jean Folberth and Irma Oehlschlager will visit us as well as their spouses, we will all feel honored. In return we will sweeten the disposition of those incumbrances of theirs and do a good job too. Nor must we forget to impound Gene Warnick, M. B. Davis, Morton Mendels and Ken Wilhelm. Nothing could be better for flight shooting than the showing made by these dark horses. Welcome home, gentlemen! Miss Glendolene Vinyard, Miss Alice Lacker, Mrs. Babe Bitzenburger and Mrs. Agnes Small, if you ladies want your boy friends impounded, just call on us. We will take care of them. Jean Tenney may mislay her range finder but not her scores. Miss Ten ney is also awarded a guest card, lettre de cachet, or whatever you may t

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call it, and any nominee of hers will be given the works. at• Vivian Chambers’ special cross Pat is in for a thorough going over. Pat pinned back the ears and skun the britches off Larry Hughes and Capt. Styles, both good friends of mine. At that Styles shot the best score he has ever made to take the lead for the first 100 yards. Larry — well, Larry either shoots like a house afire or like a truck horse—if so be that truck horses shoot 2839. Larry goes to the stockade with Cosner, and the. first time I ever catch him by himself I will kick his east end. All of which, translated, means that we are very proud of Jean Tenney and of Pat Chambers. Both will make splendid and popular champions. Take your paws off my shoulders and lie down, Bill Joy! I am just warming up, you will see the fire works later.

Lower Brackets (Continued from page 8) Sooner or later this will be even more widely recognized, but meanwhile who gives a damn? Not the Boys in the Lower Brackets. Gentlemen of the Board of Gover nors, wouldn’t it be possible to at least toss a few ribbons in the pot for the lowest complete scores shot at our tournaments? Not that the boys •care much; they will heartily support you anyway, and have a good time doing it.

Classification System (Continued from page 9) Since September 26, 1926, the S. C. A.A. has glorously enjoyed the cooper ation of the various archery clubs in Southern California. Many ideas have sprung up and many plans have been tried. The fact remains that, while some plans are found to be im practicable, there are plans that have been found to work. The double-scor ing system- was tried for a number of years and proved to be so practical that it is now used by the National Archery Association. Because the above classification system has been used successfully for a number of years in Southern Cal ifornia, we submit the plan to other associations, including the California

State Association and the National Association, with the view that it be studied, and that some system, if not this one, might thereby estab lish a uniform classification of ar chers, with the purpose of giving us “lower-bracket” boys a chance to compete among ourselves. Ray Hodgson, Secretary Southern Cal. Arch. Asn.

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