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September, 1939 Corvallis, Oregon Vol 11

No. 5

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September, 1939

No. 5

Published the fifteenth of each month for archers by archers 605 North 11th Street, Corvallis, Oregon

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Business Manager

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ANOTHER ARCHERY PARADOX 1

By L. A. Quayle ................................2 OREGON FIELD TOURNAMENT 2 TREE TROOPERS HOLD SHOOT IAN OPEN LETTER TO GUYS WHO FEEL THE SAME WAY I DO

By Erie Stanley Gardner ................. 3 DOGHOUSE GRADUATE MAKES GOOD . ...................................... 3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIELD ARCHERS 4

By John L. Yount CANANDAIGUAN BREAKS RECORD .. 4 JAESCHKE WINS MEET 6 PICTURESQUE RANCH IN ARCH­ 5 ERY RESERVE EDITORIAL ...................... 6 WITH OUR ADVERTISERS

By Russell Jones 7 NEWS OF THE NFAA

By John L. Yount ,...................... 8 FIELD ARCHERY AT THE NATIONAL

By George Brommers 9 FIELD ARCHERY ON THE PACIFIC COAST

By George Brommers 9

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Another Archery Paradox L. A. Quayle, Cleveland, Ohio About a month ago while discussing bow design with William Folberth, Sr., we became impressed with the seeming possibilities of a bow which would shoot the arrow through its exact vertical middle with the slot in the middle of the bow both long and wide enough to sight through easily.

We thought such a bow might have the following advantages: There would be no tendency for the bow to twist in the hand upon loosing the arrow as the bow hand would be taking the reaction of the loose in the exact vertical middle of the bow.

As the arrow: would not have to go around the bow, there would be no slight side shove of the bow on each loose, which when resisted ununiformly tend to send the arrows to different horizontal positions on the target.

Small differences in spine in the arrows should make no difference in accuracy of their flight, since they

would not have to bend around the bow.

The same bow could be used for both left and right hand shooting, which is not possible with the cut­ away type rapidly gaining popular­ ity in Cleveland.

Two weeks after our discussion, Folberth called me up and said he had a bow of the middle shooting type ready for trial. The bow was made of yew backed with lemonwood, and as beautifully made as only a mastei* craftsman of Folberth’s abil­ ity could produce. Pictures of the middle section of the bow show its construction clearly.

But what a surprise and disap­ pointment we had in store for us!

Folberth, who shoots with his bow in his right hand, found he had to aim about seven feet to the right of the target in order to hit center, and I had to aim the same distance to the left as I held the bow in the left

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hand.

This shooting was done at 30 yards with the point of the sight in the exact vertical middle of the slot which, of course, was the middle of the bow. In other words, a right hand loose sent the arrows to the right of the target, and a left hand loose sent them to the left of the target.

We believe the explanation of this seeming paradox is quite simple.

When the three finger English loose is used, the bowstring is given a slight side push due to the string having to go around the tips of the fingers. A loose by the fingers of the right hand shoves the string slightly towards the left, which would make the arrow go towards the right, and vice versa.

The correctness of our explanation, of this paradox is borne out by the following; When we used the primary draw, i.e., the arrow drawn back by a pinch grip between the thumb and fore­ finger, the arrows went straight for the gold.

When we used the Asiatic draw, the arrows also went where they were aimed. With the Asiatic draw, the string was drawn back by the thumb with the forefinger bent over the tip of the thumb to help hold it.

With these two draws the string goes between the thumb and fore­ finger, instead of around the tips as in the English draw, and, therefore, when the string is released it directs the nock of the arrow towards the exact middle of the bow.

No doubt many bows have been made and discarded in bygone years which could be shot through their middle, but never having seen a de­ scription of such a bow or heard how one shoots, we thought it might save some of Ye Sylvan Archer readers a considerable amount of work if we gave them the results of our exper­ ience with the bow described above, and thus save them the trouble of duplicating our experiments.

Oregon Field Tournament The Pope-Young Field Archers of Oregon held their annual tournament on Labor Day weekend at the Christ­ enson ranch six miles south of Eu­ gene.

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Sixty-two entrants registered with many more in attendance as specta­ tors and visitors. The entire program of events consisting of battle clout, wand shoot, and Pope-Young round is shot with broadhead arrows. The Pope-Young round consists of thirtysix animal silhouette targets placed in the woods, one arrow to be shot at each at unknown distance. On Sunday the California field round was shot experimentally.

Pat Chambers, Portland, won the grand championship and was award­ ed the Zell Bros, trophy. Daisy Ham­ lin, Eugene, won the women’s cham­ pionship. Other winners follow.

Clout shoot, John Allen, Corvallis; wand shoot, tie between Pat Cham­ bers, Vic Adcook and Van Robertson, all of Portland; rovers, Gene War­ nick, Portland.

Women’s tournament—Clout shoot, Daisy Hamlin, Eugene; wand shoot, Glendolcne Daisy Hamlin; rovers, CL..d~L..~ Vinyard, Canby.

Junior tournament — Clout shoot, Dick Williams, Portland; wand shoot, tie between Dick Williams and Ches­ ter Stevenson Jr., Eugene; rovers, Dick Williams.

The following officers were elected for 1940; President, Dr. Henry Hew­ itt, Portland; first vice-president, John Hubler, Alsea; second vicepresident, John Allen, Corvallis; third vice-president, Anne Knight, Portland; secretary-treasurer, J. E. Davis, Corvallis.

Tree Troopers Hold Shoot A competitive clout shoot was held as a feature of a safety record cele­ bration at Camp Arboretum, Co. 3503 recently.

Senior Leader Herbert Morrison won the shooting glove do­ nated by Gilman Keasey and Joe Abrams took second place.

Chas. W. Trachsel, who will be re­ membered as a former participant in Northwest archery activities, is edu­ cational adviser and instructor of the archery class. All the equipment used has been made in the archery class by the Ohio boys who are tree trooping in Oregon. Camp Arboretum is located a short distance north of Corvallis.

Send NFAA dues to J. L. Yount, Box 383, Redlands, Calif.

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An Open Letter to Guys Who Feel the Same Way 1 Do

By Erie Stanley Gardner One of the great virtues of the av­ erage archer is that he’s inarticulate.

Which means that the gabby guys like Brommers and me do a lot of talking. Someone has to do it.

Recently I’ve been listening — to other archers. I’ve tried to get some of them to write letters. They won’t.

Now I don’t know how all archers feel, be here’s how some of them feel.

1. It’s swell for field archers to have their own organization. Had field archery been administered by an association of target archers, every time an official made a mistake, or what some sorehead thought was a mistake, it would have been listed as sabotage.

2. Field Archery, being more in­ formal, requiring less well - kept grounds, will probably make more NEW} archery converts than target archery.

Lots of those new field converts will subsequently take up target archery.

3. It would be swell to have two powerful, friendly associations, work­ ing together for the joint good of archery, helping each other out, each feeding the membership of the other.

4. It would be tragic to have two archery associations jealous of each other, boycotting each other, or fight­ ing.

Archery isn’t strong enough right now to stand internal friction —and it never will be. The manage­ ment of both associations has a very, present, very real and very impor­ tant executive problem—keeping the ultimate good of all archers in mind, remembering that all bow and arrow shots are archers and comrades, and squashing any feeling that because one archer likes to shoot at a straw target on a lawn while another arch­ er likes to shoot at a paste board cir­ cle across a barranca, there is any es­ sential difference in their really com­ mon interest.

You’ll find hotheads in every or­ ganization. Friendly rivalry in re­ gard to membership drives may ripen into antagonism if some hothead

doesn’t stop to think. One of the big problems of the executives of both associations is to fit the field archery association into the picture with tact, common sense, courtesy, and intelli­ gence.

There’s room for two, or two dozen archery associations, devoting their energies to their own particular arch­ ery problems, if they can only re­ member that they’re all part of the great bow-and-arrow-shooting family when it comes to facing joint prob­ lems.

It’s important that both members and executives get started right.

How about doing our share?

Let’s go.

Doghouse Graduate Makes Good A letter from Ray Hodgson tells me that Walt Wilhelm now writes a weekly archery column for the Los Angeles Examiner. I can think of nothing of greater value to the sport than such a column, written by one who knows his way about and how to express himself.

Walt has some rare gifts, among them the ability to make even tech­ nical matter interesting to one who isn’t interested in such things. He has experience in writing as well as in archery, being a more or less reg­ ular contributor to Field and Stream and the Desert Magazine, as well as to archery publications. Walt has originality, he has style; he has a priceless gift of humor. Above all he is genuine, and that means a lot.

Walt is one of those guys who go through life without any pretensions.

He is trying very hard to be a better writer. He loves criticism and sug­ gestions.

Go to it, you archers. Tell Walt how you think he can put out better and more interesting copy. He will appreciate it. Write the editor tell­ ing him how you appreciate an arch­ ery column. Because if this weekly (Contuined on page 7)

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September, 1939

Southern California Field Archers

By John L. Yount

The Southern California Field Archers Association tournament held Sunday, August 27, on the new course of the Malibu Archery Country Club was, as most of our tournaments are, a grand success. The new range is a beauty. The only complaint we heard was that it was a bit dusty.

This dust is a sure sign that the boys had turned some dirt in building these trails. It really was a big job.

Mother Nature will take care of the dust with the first fall rain, and then what a course! Not the least of the attractions was the club house. A mighty nice place to re-shoot the day’s rounds. ’ ’ High score was shot by George Sky Eagle. You have heard that the American Indian wasn’t much of a shot. Well, here is one that is.

In the Championship Class, the gold bar went to Wayne Stotler, who scored 460 for the two rounds. Sec­ ond place silver bar was won by Volus Jones, with 440.

In the Men’s General Division, the Championship Gold Medal was won

by George Sky Eagle, with a total of 486 for both rounds. George-is-now iin—the-Ghampionship Class. Second ■ place went to Larry Hughes, scoring 440, and third place to Harry Stot­ ler with 396..' Watch Harry. He didn’t know “he was a field shot, but before long he will be in the coveted Champ Class.

Of the women, Eva Bedwell won the gold medal for 286 points. Dor­ othy Ahman, the silver medal, and Hfelen Berry the bronze medal.

The Bedwell Trophy for Juniors was won by Eddie Franklin, with a score of 277; Harold Robinson was second, with 253 points, and Angus Bruce third with 203.

The King-Moore Leather Goods Company, Los Angeles, presented some very lovely awards.

Their quiver was won by Harvey Franklin, the ladies bow case by Dorothy Ah­ man, and the three shooting gloves

by Eddie Franklin, Harold Robinson, and Angus Bruce.

The association unanimously adopt­ ed a motion to automatically remove

from membership and participation in any of its tournaments anyone found guilty of disobeying any game law of California. We believe this will do much to stop the adverse criticism caused by those few archers who, because they are shooting a bow, have the feeling that they can shoot anything that walks, crawls or flies.

“You simply must clean your own. house,” was the first thing the sports­ men’s organizations have said to us.

Please report any infractions of the law that you see or know of. You are not being a stool pigeon. You are only protecting your privileges, and we cannot have game reserves as long as we have game law violat­ ors in our ranks.

Special to Hunters Fred Woodley presented the asso­ ciation with a beautiful hammered bronze plaque to be given as a per­ petual trophy to the archer bringing in the largest buck this year.

It must be taken in the state and be properly weighed and validated.

Canandaiguan Breaks Record A world’s record was shattered by 14 points Saturday afternoon by Miss Loretta Smith, Mason Street, who shot 300 out of a possible 324 perfect score at the Lower Lakes Archers Federation’s annual championship tournament at Erie, Pa. Miss Smith, secretary of the Canandaigue Archery Club, made archery history as she bested all previous scores in the clout shoot for 36 ar­ rows at 120 yards.

The championship event, which was based on a total score for the two day shoot of 96 arrows at 60 yards, 96 arrows at 50 yards, 58 ar­ rows at 40 yards and 48 arrows at 30 yards, was won by Miss Hazel Heddrick, of Erie. Miss Smith placed fourth in the list of winners.

Miss Isabelle Arthur, a member of the Canandaigue Archery Club took part in the Pope-Young Round at Syracuse on Saturday, placing third in this event which is comparatively

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new in this section of the state.

The Lower Lakes Archers Federa­ tion extends from Canandaigue on the east to Erie, Pa., on the west, Warren, Pa., on the south and To­ ronto, Canada, on the north.—Daily Messenger, Canandaigue, N. Y.

Jaeschke Wins Meet In one of the closest finishes in the history of the Wisconsin Archers’ as­ sociation, Harry Jaeschke of Mil­ waukee, a dark horse entry, won the championship of the state archery tournament at Two Rivers Sunday.

After Saturday’s shooting Jaeschke held only eighth place with the vet­ eran, Bruce Robertson of Milwaukee, leading the field by a comfortable margin. Jaeschke came back strong in the American rounds on Sunday, shooting scores of 655 and 650, the highest rounds ever shot in state his­ tory, to overtake Robertson and win by four points. His last arrow de­ cided the tournament.

Mrs. Manola Hanley, West Allis, who has dominated the women’s di­ vision for the last three years, suc­ cessfully defended her championship in the women’s target event. Mrs. Hanley and Ruth Wilke, Two Rivers, who copped the junior girls’ event, did some sensational shooting in winning their championships, each being credited with shooting a per­ fect end. Miss Wilke’s perfect end of six gold arrows was the first ever shot in the state junior girls’ event.

Sheboygan was awarded the 1940 tournament.—Milwaukee Journal.

PICTURESQUE RANCH IN ARCHERY RESERVE One of the picturesque places of Grant county is the site of the A Bar L Dude Ranch, located about 12 miles south of Canyon City and some four miles off the Joaquin Miller Trail, where 40 years ago Uncle Bob Neece and his wife took care of the county poor. Several years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Williams acquired the old William Byram place for a stock ranch, later purchasing the Neece place and the Fred Carlin ranch. The old Byram house where they first re­ sided burned down and they moved to the log cabin on the Neece place.

This cabin has been renovated and a

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new log house built adjoining, Impressed with the beauty of the sur­ roundings, Mr. and Mrs. Wlilliams last year decided that it would be an ideal location for a dude ranch. With this in view they built the new log house, where they can take care of 10 or 12 guests. In one end of the large living room is a big fireplace, built of rocks from the mines around Canyon City. Near the fireplace are racks with autographed arrows, con­ tributed by hunters and celebrities who have been guests at the ranch.

In the other end is a baby grand pi­ ano. A modern bathroom and hot and cold water contribute to the pleasure of the visitors.

In other words it is an ideal dude ranch and, as time goes on, will attract visitors from far and near. Guests as far away as Pennsylvania have been at tracted by the beauty of the sur­ roundings.

Situated in the heart of the bow and arrow reserve, it provides an ex­ cellent stopping place for the arch­ ers who come in the fall, and later for the rifle hunters when the reserve is thrown open for guns. At the present time Mr. Williams is running 200 head of cattle and has a supply of saddle horses for the hunters and other guests.

“I am not attempting to run a re­ sort,” says Mr. Williams, “but a place where guests will find home-like sur­ roundings, with plenty of wholesome food and the best of beds to sleep in.”

And Mr. and Mrs. Williams and two sons, Larry and Bill, know exactly how to make the folks feel at home.

They are the ideal hosts. — Blue Mountain Eagle.

Ken Wilhelm is busy promoting archery in Texas and New Mexico.

New rovers ranges have been estab­ lished and 186 new archers started in field archery. Ken bemoans the fact that in New Mexico at 5000 ft. elevation the best he could do with hand bow was 525 yards. In Arizona at 6000 ft. he shot 500 yards, in Death Valley at 287 ft. below sea level he could get only 463 yards, at Amarillo, Texas, at 3400 ft., he shot 896 yards with foot bow and 579 yards with hand bow. We expect to hear more from Ken soon.

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Editorial Ted Carpenter reports the thrill of a life-time recently when, as he says, “I went boar hunting up state and got a 380 pound boar. What a thrill! The next hunt we got two more, smaller, in a moonlight hunt.

I am going to write these up soon for Ye Sylvan Archer.” We’ll be wait­ ing, not too patiently, for the stoi-y, Ted. According to press reports an “expert archer” was jailed in Chi­ cago for “hunting his wife with a bow and arrow.” He was at least “expert” enough to “hit the side of a house.” Just which one of oui! prominent Chicago archers was guilty of this cave man stuff we do not know. Let’s hear from Chicago.

Notice to Soicthern. Californians Just for your information, George Brommers paid for two meals while attending the Oregon Pope-Young tournament.

We are informed that Leisure mag­ azine has discontinued publication but back numbers are still available and also a bibliography, “3000 Books of Leisure.”

According to the English “Archery News” we now know who killed Cock Robin.

At the Tunbridge Wells Archery Club, an arrow from the bow of “H. M. P,” killed a robin that flew in its path and then scored a seven on the target.

We welcome the name of Mr. Van Allen Lyman of Balboa, Canal Zone, to our subscription list and hope Mr. Lyman will have some interesting experiences to relate for us.

George Brommers now reports that he will be busy cutting yewwood at Index, Wash., until “snow flies.”

The NFAA needs your membership.

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“He gets him.; he gets him not?”

See next month's cartoon

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With Our Advertisers

By Russell Jones, Business Manager They say an army travels on its stomach but a magazine travels on its advertisers. We have several new ones this month and will appreciate attention to the new ads as well as the old.

Earl Ullrich calls our attention to the fact that we omitted his address from his ad last month. We do not believe it made much difference be­ cause yewwood has made Roseburg famous.

A New Type of Blunt There is one thing about archers that appeals to me especially. They are so darn openminded. No matter how screwy the idea, we always give it a try, and the funny part of it all is that sometimes it works.

I haven’t made any screwy contri­ butions to the cause for some time so it occurs to me that I had better get on the boat with a little dope on a new head we have been using for small game. It has proven very ef­ fective and quite inexpensive.

We have all done considerable ex­ perimenting with different types of blunts for rabbits, squirrels, etc., but they all seem to lack something.

Quite often a hit on a rabbit will glance off and though it may not do him any good, he may not add much weight to the bag. On the other hand, where logs and stumps are as numerous as they are in many parts of our hunting territory, one hesi­ tates to use a broadhead. Then too broadheads come a little high to throw at ground squirrels and rab­ bits.

I had planned a trip into the east­ ern part of the state for a shooting trip, so in getting my tackle ready for the trip I made a few of the heads as illustrated. They worked out so splendidly that I have been asked by several of the boys here to tell some of the other archers about it. * In two days I killed twelve jack rabbits using this point without los­ ing a rabbit. I find that it gives about the same smashing hit as the regular blunt but also has good pen­

etration. Never had a one of them glance off and at the same time they stay put on a miss just as well as a blunt. A direct hit on a tree or stump will bounce back, as the point is too short to hold. It is also short enough to stand a good hard hit on a rock without breaking. In two days of constant shooting, I bent the points on two arrows and broke one shaft.

To make the point, I take an old hack saw blade and heat it enough to pull the temper. Then, using a card­ board template, I hold the blade in a vise at the correct angle, score it along the edge of the vise with a hack saw just a little and then break it off by bending the longer part of the blade over the edge of the vise.

Then by alternating the angles, one can get several points from one blade.

For the shell I use a 32-20 case.

I cut off the bottle neck and find that the base will just fit snugly over a 11-32 shaft. I saw down into the base to the depth of the cap socket, insert the point and solder it. I haven’t found it necessary to sharpen the points and find that they are stronger if they are left with square edge.

Well, there it is, and I hope you like them. I know what some of you old timers will say. “Heck, we’ve been doing that since we were kids,” but maybe there are a few of you to whom it will be something different, so be a good archer and take a try at it; it might work.

Doghouse Graduate Makes Good (Continued from page 3) goes over a daily one will follow.

And if Los Angeles is interested other cities will follow suit.

Good luck to you, Walt, Don’t forget that we are all rooting for you. I wish we had more archers with your literary ability. If you can make this column stick and spread you will be the greatest asset to archery since the late Art Young.

I will eagerly watch your progress.

—George Brommers.

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Netos of the NFA A

By John L. Yount

Yes, there is such an organization as the National Field Archery Asso­ ciation. We have many more than enough members from both Oregon and California to make those two state associations members of the NFAA. We hope by the next issue to have added at least three more states and have the machinery start­ ed to make this a permanent organi­ zation. Until this point has been reached, address John L. Yount, P. O. Box 383, Redlands, California, for further information.

Hats off to Harry Glover! He not only won the Championship of his own club, The White Company, of Oakland, but he set a new record on a standard course, and by that act became as near a national champion as field archery has had. His score was 310 for a single round of twenty­ eight targets. The highest up to that time was 285 made by Howard Hill on the Redlands course.

To those wiho do not believe such scores can be an accurate measure, we submit the following proof. The Redlands club keeps all scores of its members for use in figuring handi­ caps for intra-club meets.

Using the last fifteen of these scores, we struck an average score of every member of that club shooting in the Southern California field tournament at Malibu, August 27. This meet was on the new standard range of the Malibu Mountain archery club.

Only two members of the Redlands club had ever shot on it and then when the course was only partly built with 14 targets. Further, this course is as sporting as it is possible to make a course. The club members take great pride in this fact. Here are the scores.

Form your own opinion.

Redlands Average Malibu E. J. WJoodward 153 166 Bernie Ahman 188 177 147 163 John Yount 120 Harvey Franklin 125 139 Harold Robinson 129 142 Eva Bedwell 151

72 114 Dorothy Ahman 95 85 Angus Bruce 169 Eddie Franklin 126 1214 1247 Total In forming your opinion, the point to remember is that the Redlands archers shoot at least weekly on their course, and know every pebble, yet their average on a familiar course is identical with that on a new and en­ tirely different but standard course.

More Standard Scores Here are a group of the best scores for the month. We wish we could include those made in Oregon Sep­ tember 3, but are afraid they will be too late for publication in this issue.

Harry Glover, Oakland ................. 310 George Sky Eagle, So. Calif........... 258 Dawson Feathers, Oakland .......... 248 Wayne Stotler, So. Calif ................. 239 Emery Wlatts, So. Calif.................... 231 Darrow Olson, Oakland ................. 229 Minnich, So. Calif.............................. 226 Larry Hughes, So. Calif.................. 224 Harry Stotler, So. Calif.................... 224 Earl Eurick, Michigan ................... 219 Volus Jones, So. Calif....................... 196 W. J. Morrow Sr., S. Calif ............. 195 Robert Cooper, Michigan ............... 193 Bill Joy Sr., So. Calif. ..................... 191 Nelson Crumley, Michigan ............. 190 Did you see the article in the last issue of the Bowman Review by Carl G. Thompson? W/ouldn’t you like to see the fun when he tried to sell the NAA on the idea of a combination field and target tournament to de­ cide the National Archery Champion­ ship? After all, there are two prin­ cipal types of bows and shooting techniques just as there are two types of guns and gun. technique.

Now, whoever heard of a gun tourna­ ment for the gun championship of the nation in which one-half of the meet was shot with a .22 rifle and the other half with a shotgun? Field archery is field archery, with its own champions. If they can go over on a target range and win, more power to them. The same for the target men.

That still doesn’t make the two games one. I' know an excellent archer who can pitch a swell game of horseshoes.

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Field Archery at the National

By George Brommers The smile that won’t wear off is ennobling my classic mug these days.

I am laughing at Ohio, laughing so much harder because I know that they are laughing with me.

I refer to the field event at the Na­ tional, of course. The Field Archers’ Committee, NAA, and Ohio fought it out tooth and nail. Ohio put it over and Ohio paid its way. In re­ turn Ohio took the licking of its life.

This is as it should be if field archery is to become a national sport­ ing contest instead of a purely local affair. What was needed was the very strongest competition that was to be had. Ohio went after this very competition, and that it got licked in. the process does not matter. Anybody who can lick Ohio’s best will have to shoot for it.

I do not have complete data, just the five highest scores, but they tell plenty.

Assuming that our field archers shot consistently about the way they have been doing, Turnock beat the very best California-Ohio score by fifty points, and Chambers by 45. Strang, the runner-up in the target event, was third, also with a record score.

Field archers all over the country will sincerely congratulate the win­ ners. Seeing that Chambers won the hotly contested Pope-Young event in Oregon last year, the results came as no shock to the field archers, though the scores were so much higher than, had been expected.

When the leaders of organized field archery challenged the best target shots they asked for trouble, and well they knew it. But what kind of a sportsmanship would it have been not to make the challenge? The compe­ tition and the outcome were the best that has ever happened to both phas­ es of the sport.

FIELD ARCHERY ON THE PACIFIC COAST

By George Brommers Without a dissenting vote the PopeYoung Archers of Oregon officially, endorsed the National Field Archery Association at their Annual Labor

Day tournament, held at the Chris­ tenson 1100-acre ranch near Eugene.

A better setting couldn’t have been found.

The coast setup is now complete— Washington, Oregon and California are all in. By this time no doubt also official action has been taken in several states on the other side of the continent.

The Pope-Young shoot was an out­ standing success. It necessarily had to be, seeing that Oregon has the greatest number of archer-hunters in the West.

The interstate (California, Oregon, Washington, Ohio, Michigan) round was shot Saturday, but only experi­ mentally. The preparations hadn’t been fully completed, and some ar­ rows sailed through the targets. The field captain, Major Williams, was vastly disgusted because he had been forced to put on a last minute job, but the 41 participants enjoyed them­ selves hugely.

Sunday, September 10, an official shoot is to be held in Portland. The high score was 258 by the same Pat Chambers who shot 330 at St. Paul. But Pat didn’t care, and I fail to see why anybody else should. Incidentally, Pat must have spent the week painting targets— they were the best I have ever seen.

The Pope-Young field events in­ clude almost everything. There is a battle clout, there is wand, there is roving at animal silhouettes cunning­ ly placed in the woods. It is shot with broadheads only and the same bow. It is field archery at its best, because every contestant finds some­ thing of interest. The NFAA had better study Oregon methods thor­ oughly. The Oregon archers have gone a long way toward meeting our prospective problems.

Now let us go back to the Inter­ state round. I will try to summarize the highlights from memory and ac­ cording to available information.

Southern California was defeated

by Ohio last year, but this year I believe that Howard Hill’s Pasadena 285 was high until St. Paul. Then things started to happen.

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At St. Paul Turnock shot 335, Chambers 330 and Strang about 320.

Am I right? This was quite a shock to SC, but worse was yet to come.

In Northern California last month Harry Glover shot 310 for a new state record. And Harry has been shooting field less than six months.

Karl Palmatier sends more news from Michigan.

At a field meet held at Croton, Payne shot 315, Loomis 310, and Cory 298. Now Southern California’s nose is really red, but you watch out for reprisals.

They won’t take this lying down.

Not if I know them.

At the Northwestern in Tacoma we enlisted our foremost target and flight archers for individual mem­ bership in the NFAA. Now listen to the type of men we got at Eugene.

The pioneers in Oregon field arch­ ery, Dr. Cathey and B. G. Thomp­ son, naturally signed on the dotted line. You couldn’t have kept them from it. The same applied to Chester Stevenson, as good a hunter with the bow as there is in the country. We need their influence badly.

We have J. E. Cooter, the retiring Pope-Young president, an immensely valuable man. We have Dr. Hewitt, the incoming president, a hard worker and very strong with the archers in the West. We have Major Williams, the president of the Northwestern, with us. The Major, incidentally, got the endorsement of the PopeYoung archers for the National to be held in Oregon* in 1941. Wash­ ington, Oregon State and the NWAA had already endorsed the proposal, so here is hoping. Oregon has never had a National before and is clearly entitled to it.

Dr. Tawney, another very influen­ tial archer, as well as an old timer in the sport, took out individual mem­ bership in the NFAA, so did M. E. Damewood of Drain, who will be in charge of the next Oregon State shoot. The . Drain archers, by the way, are thinking of installing a per­ manent interstate range, and Port­ land has already decided to do so.

Other new charter members are Col. Knight of Portland and V. D. McCauley of Eugene. J. E. Davis and Russell Jones had already ap­ plied. This gives us twelve new indi­ vidual members for Oregon this month in addition to the six cham-

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pions listed last month. This kind of membership assures success for any kind of an association.

We have several interesting news items from our advertisers, too late for this issue, but look for an inter­ esting page next month.

ULLRICH WOOD The Choice of Champions Mill run 11-32, 21-64, 5-16, and 9-32 in. Cedar Dowels. From split out, air seasoned (in the square) stock.

Dowels from Should same source ssegregated. _ _ match up like hair on a dOg’s

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$30.00 $17.50 $10.00 $ 4.00

(Any combination permissable) EARL ULLRICH Roseburg, Oregon SUBSCRIBERS PLEASE NOTICE A cross appearing in this space means that your sub­ scription has expired and we would appreciate your prompt renewal so that your name may be kept on our mailing list.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES for Classified Advertising 5 cents per word per issue. Count initials and numbers as words. Mini­ mum charge is 50 cents.

YEW BILLETS $2.50 and $3.50.

Staves $3.50 and $5.00 postpaidz High elevation Yew, well seasoned.

Fine dark ten-year-old Billets $5.00.

Leon Chapin, Box 139, Albany, Ore.

BOWS, ARROWS, raw materials, Lowest prices.

Lloyd Morrison, Waldport, Oregon.

RELICS AND CURIOS

INDIAN RELICS, Beadwork, Coins, Curios, Books, Minerals, Weapons.

Old West Photos.

Catalog, 5c.

Genuine African Bow, $3.75. Ancient flint arrowheads, perfect, 6c each— ------ Indian Museum, Northbranch, Kansas.

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YE SYLVAN ARCHER

September, 1939

L. L. “Flight” DAILY

Archery Raw Materials

offers you

“Tackle That Talks”

Dry Cedar and Yew Catalogue Free 245 Pearl, Eugene, Oregon

WM. A. JOY

E. BUD PIERSON Bowyer — Fletcher Tournament Tackle, Sinew, Glue, Raw Materials.

245 University Ave CINCINNATI, OHIO Custom Made Tackle

9708 So. Hoover Street LOS ANGELES, CALIF. J/

“Jim Cray ford — SILVER STREAK Metal Arrows

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ARCHERY

BOWS

(Quarter Inch Diameter)

from the Heart of the Yezv Country

Announcing the Most Satisfac­ tory Arroio Service yet offered.

W. I. KING Woodworking Shop

“LIFETIME” TRADE-IN ON THE WORLD’S FINEST AND MOST ACCURATE ARROWS MADE ....

You pay only 90c per arrow for the first set—then, split a nock or tube, wear out the feathers, bend one out of shape, or for any reason whatsoever, you want a new arrow (or a whole) set we guarantee to re­ place them, when returned, at 45c each.

The high scores of Streaks tell the story.

Silver

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POTTER & MacQUARRIE 1939 Catalogue Ready for Distribution Write for your copy

3400 Fruitvale Ave.

Oakland .... California

(G. L. Nichols) (Jim Crayford)

ARCHERY WORKSHOP 6 West Huron St.

Chicago, Ill.

Beacon Hill Craftsmen Beacon, N. Y. Paul H. Gordon, Director

HANDBOOK-How to Make and lb.

Bows and Arrows-90 Pagos well Illustrated {with catalog) 35a CATALOG-IOO pictures—color

spread—Instruction Folder. 10a

The Works The McCoy No Swanky Showrooms We Put It Into the Product Write for Complete Catalog

CATALOG alone 5a Stamps or Coin.

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Please mention Ye Sylvan Archer when writing advertisers.

YE SYLVAN ARCHER

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Willis H. Barnes

McMillan & Son

Sturgis

Since 1930

Canandaigue, N. Y. Specializing in fine arrows, two point milled arrow shafts, arrow materials and archery accessories.

(Catalog on request by letter)

“THE MARK OF DISTINCTION IN ARCHERY TACKLE Fine Yew Target and Hunting Bows, Plain or Backed with Rawhide.

Lemonwood Bows with Rawhide Backs.

College and School Equipment Target, Hunting and Roving Arrows Price List on Request Wholesale — Retail EARL GRUBBS 5518 W. Adams Los Angeles, : California , ■ ■

601 N. 4th Street : Michigan

Bowyer and Fletcher

63 Chapin Street

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W. A. COCHRAN Archery Equipment High Elevation Yew Wood Port Orford Cedar Osage Orange Air Seasoned 10,000 Billets and Staves in Stock Route 2 Eugene, Ore.

I The Elat Bow—70 pages of Archery information for 50 cents, well illus­ trated. Ye Sylvan Archer, 505 N. 11th St., Corvallis, Oregon.

TRUE-MADE Lemonwood Bows $6.00 and up. There is a difference.

Try our D. Fir Self tourna­ ment arrows $5.00 per dozen.

Yewwood and Osage Target and hunting bows $15.00 and up.

Douglas Fir and P. O. Cedar footed target arrows $8.00 per dozen and up.

Hunting arrows made to your requirements of Douglas Fir and Birch. Ask for prices.

Tackle Built to Please Barnes Bows and Arrows are known the world over for Quality

The New ARCHERY

By Paul H. Gordon “Most complete volume ever published on this sport, hobby and craft*’—Los Angeles Times.

“Who could be better fitted to bring to layman and teacher alike a re­ vitalized account of his subject?”— Boston Transcript.

All CONTENTS — Target Making.

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Wooden Bow Types. Hunting T cceBsorFitted and Footed Arrows. Act ies.

Special Equipment.

Ear" •asy craft Advanced approach for the novice, projects for the highly skilDied. Illustrated. §3.50.

At All Booksellers

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Cassius Hayward Styles

Special

BOWYER AND FLETCHER

GENUINE LEATHER BOW CASE

—Tackle that has stood the test—

With Zipper Fastener RED — BLUE — GREEN BLACK — BROWN

28 Vicente Place

— Postpaid — “Specify Length of Bou"

$1.95 each BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

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WIN WITH BEN PEARSON ARROWS Beautiful and accurate to the Nth degree but win their real laurels on the range. Arrows made as arrows should be—and at prices you can afford to pay. Send for catalogue.

BEN PEARSON, INC. — PINE BLUFF, ARK.

“The American Archer” (The Spokesman of the East) $1.00 per Year Issued Quarterly

521 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.

GET YOUR COPY NOW

Now! Finest Archery Wearing Accessories Obtainable TAN STEERHIDE ARCHERY GLOVES, small, medium, large $1.00 LEATHER BOW CASES (made to order) Colors Brown, Chamois, natural, single case $2.75; double $3.50; take down $2.85. (With zipper pocket 50c extra).

MEN’S QUIVER CASES, large, Elk Leather with large zipper pocket, cordovan color, $6.00.

WIOMEN’S HIP QUIVER CASES, beautiful tan color with zipper pocket, genuine leather $3.25.

(Above items with your initials 50c extra) Archery wearing, accessories made to your individual taste. Also best grade suede leather archery jackets made to order, forest green.

(Wholesale and Retail)

KING MOORE LEATHER GOODS CO. 5954 Burwood Ave. ' Los Angeles, Calif.

AIR SEASONED STOCK

TARGETS

(.Satisfaction Guaranteed Hand split, winter cut yew of finest quality. Green or seas­ oned. Price $2.00 to $8.00.

Perfect milled dowels from split stock. 1-4 to 3-8 inch by'.

32nds. Port Orford cedar 3c.

Douglas fir 2 l-2c» Smooth straight squares from split stock. Port Orford cedar 1 l-2c. Douglas fir 1c.

Split bolts surfaced one side and one edge. Port Orford 4c I per square inch of cross section.

Douglas fir 3c per square inch of cross section.

Handmade, precision Stitched, Tournament Quality — Coiled Rye Straw — Non-Glare Faces, No Passes or Rebounds.

m. l. McKinney Oakland, Ore. (Formerly McKinney Bros.)

48 in. $9.00 36 in. $6.50 24 in. $3.00

Prices F.O.B. Kansas City, Mo,

DICK LAUDON 554-1 Lydia — Kansas City, Mo.

Rose City Archery Co. 1149 NE 31st Avenue Portland, Oregon Now under the management of

C & C ARCHERS “Quality Archery Tackle at Reasonable Prices” Pyroxylin Nocks—Arrow Savers 35c per dozen — $2.00 per 100 SPECIAL . Automatic String Server 50c Price list on request—discounts to dealers and manufacturers.

C. & C. Archers

J. E. Clifford 416 Dechman Ave. Peoria, Ill.

Arcadian Life Magazine

Telle the Story of the Ozarks Nature, Health, Folklore, pre­ sented in a charming way.

Published monthly in the backhills where the highway meets the by-ways. $1.00 pays for three years* subscription. Sin­ gle copy, 15c. Try a classified ad in our Market Place. $1.00 pays for three insertions of your thirty word advertisement.

Short Pastoral Poems Wanted O. E. RAYBURN, Editor Caddo Gap, Arkansas

Pat Chambers Catalogue on request

BROADHEADS

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Complete, or blades and fer­ rules. Select from 5 Swedish clock spring blades. Also 3-8 in. and 11-32 in. blunts. Lower quantity prices. New circular.

ROY CASE The Arrowsmith, since 1927 1755 S. Main Street Racine, Wis. sz

Make Your Arrows with a

Lampert Arrowmaker parallel — tapered — barreled 3-8 to 1-4 $30.00—two models—$20.00 For Information Write Claude Lampert 3527 N. Haight Ave. x Portland Oregon