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Table of Contents A Successful Archery Bear Hunt in Virginia

By W. O. Robinson ..... .

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Effect of Bracing Height of Bow on Static Strains and Stresses

By C. N. Hickman, Ph. D. .

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More to Say About Spine

By Dr. B. L. Rawlins

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Olympic Bowmen’s League Totals

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Making Friends for Archery

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Los Angeles Championship Tournament ... 13

From a Novice

By Colin J. Cameron

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czY Successful Archery Bear Hunt in

Virginia

By W. O. Robinson, Washington, D. C.

Few archers realize the wide spread influence Saxton Pope’s book, “Hunt­ ing with the Bow and Arrow,” has on archery in America. It has been my custom to ask various parties how they became interested in archery.

To this query Hugh Moffett, Jr., of Warrenton, Va., replied. “Through reading Saxton Pope’s book.

“My first interest is in field hunt­ ing and shooting and Ishall not be content till I have killed bears and deer with bow and arrow. Target shooting is secondary and I indulge in it only to improve my marksman­ ship.” He has stuck to this idea with admirable single purpose till he has been rewarded. It meant many 500 mile trips to the great Dismal Swamp, pushing through the dense jungle in hot and in cold, wet weather and

painstaking selection and manufac­ ture of tackle.

Moffett soon found an able part­ ner, V. A. Sisler, Jr., of Washington, D. C., and for several years this pair have roved through the fields, shoot­ ing at whatever fair mark offered itself and many a rabbit, squirrel and quail has fallen a victim to their marksmanship.

After carefully selecting their tackle and becoming crack field shots, the pair made several trips to the great Dismal Swamp to learn the habits of the bear and the strategy to be used in getting within a bow shot of the game. It is no hit or miss proposition, this hunting big game with the bow. Careful planning is necessary for the chance of a shot and when that fleeting chance is off-

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ered it must be taken advantage of with good marksmanship and good tackle. The joy of hunting is real­ ized to its fullest extent. To stalk the game one must know its habits bet­ ter when hunting with a bow than with firearms.

Five trips were made to the swamp before the successful one. On all these trips the archers had to go light and camp without a fire, using “canned heat” for such cooking as was abso­ lutely necessary. Open fires are pro­ hibited in the swamp, for if the under­ lying peat gets afire it is almost im­ possible to extinguish it. The water problem was easy. It is a curious fact that the brown swamp water is thor­ oughly wholesome. Pathogenic bac­ teria cannot live in it. In the early colonial days, ships returning to Eu­ rope would sail up to the outlet of the swamp and fill their water bar­ rels with swamp water, for it was found to be healthful and nevei“spoiled.”

On nearly all these trips to the swamp bear signs were found. Poke berries and gum berries had been brushed down and eaten, but the bears kept out of sight. On one occa­ sion a bear was seen crossing a canal a long distance away. Another time the archers spent the night in a mighty tree overlooking a trail in the jungle. Here in the moonlight, Sis­ ler sighted a bear and gave the shot to Moffett, there being room for only one. The bear was alarmed and the archer’s footing none to secure. The bear did not stop and next morning the arrow was found intact, but there were bear hairs on the broadhead.

There was no blood so the hit must have been superficial. On another occasion a bow shot of some ninety odd yards at a swimming bear missed the mark by only a few feet. The

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day was very windy but no second shot was offered to correct the wind­ age. It will be noted that dogs were not used on any of these hunts, The archers stealthily followed trails through the jungle or waited long hours at what appeared to be favor­ ite haunts.

On the successful trip, Moffett and Sisler arrived near the hunting grounds just before dawn, after an all night trip. Bear signs were found and after a day of scouting and delib­ eration, they decided to watch a trail leading into a rectangular clearing, grown up with poke berries, reeds and briars. They took a stand at a corner of the rectangle near one of the trails and awaited results. A gentle and steady southeast breeze carried the man scent away from the trail. No bears appeared. Dusk came and with it the feeble light of the new moon.

Moffett and Sisler, exhausted from the lack of sleep, divided the rest of the stalking into half hour watches, one sleeping as the other watched the trail. This seemed to the archers the best opportunity yet offered, bear signs were numerous and fresh; but tense ears failed to register a snap­ ping twig or anything else to betray the presence of a bear. And this state of affairs kept up for several hours. They had about decided to give up and find a more comfortable camp­ ing spot when it was agreed that one more watch should be kept. The moon was near setting. Moffett was on watch when he heard something com­ ing, not down the trail they were watching, but farther down the quad­ rangle. Sisler was awakened. A dark form appeared above the poke bushes.

They looked closely to satisfy them­ selves it was not a man. There was no doubt of it, it was a bear, and a good one, too, and pretty near. Here

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was the opportunity so long awaited.

At a agreed signal, two shafts were quickly loosed. They found their mark for the clearing was filled with growls and roars. It was soon ap­ parent that the wounded bear was not coming their way but had gone off at right angles. They walked care­ fully down a trail to head him off with another shot. Shortly a bear started across the path in front of them and very near. Moffett, being ahead, dropped on his knees and quickly loosed an arrow. The bear, with a fierce growl, turned a back somersault and disappeared in the direction where the first shot had been made. The archers were first under the impression that this bear was the one previously wounded. The moon had now set and it was dark and ap­ peared too dangerous to take chances with a wounded bear that could prob­ ably see pretty well in the dark. The first excitement had somewhat given away to caution, and the growls, roars and general rumpus indicated that there might be two bears to deal with.

Moffett and Sisler retired to a more open place and spent the re­ mainder of the night. With the first streak of dawn they were off to se­ cure the services of a party named Jeffries, an experienced bear tracker.

Jeffries arrived at the spot about 8 o clock and took the trail where the first bear was hit. There was much hlood and the feathered end of Mof­ fetts arrow was picked up. In a few yards more a similar parts of Sisler’s arrow was found. Then Jeffries remarked that he smelled bear, and sure enough, there was the first bear, cold and stiff, barely 60 yards from where he had been hit. They left him there and took the trail where the second bear had been wounded. The trail was plain, the jungle had been

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torn up as though the bear had rolled through and there was blood here and there. The trailers advanced cau­ tiously with bows partly drawn. Again Jeffries smelled bear and soon they saw him, still alive but pretty grog­ gy. The bear was dispatched with Sisler’s arrows.

Jeffries estimated the weight of the first bear at 350 pounds and that of the second at 300 pounds. Both were males at about 6 and 5 years respect­ ively. They measured from tail to nose 6 feet, 4 inches and 5 feet, 8 inches. It took well into the after­ noon to skin the bears. Post mortem showed that Sisler’s arrow had hit the first bear on the side just forward of the hip and the broadhead was pro­ truding on the other side. It is pre­ sumed that Moffett’s shaft caught the bear as it turned to slap at Sisler’s arrow. Moffett’s hit was in the neck, severing the jugular* vein and burying itself in the chest cavity. Either ar­ row would have been fatal. This bear was aout 35 yards away when hit. The second bear was 28 yards away. The arrow struck him in the middle of the back, breaking the backbone and severing the spinal column. The skins have been tanned and are sure beau­ ties.

Archery hunters will undoubtedly be interested in the tackle used by these archers. Both used the Pope broadheads. Moffett used a six foot Styles lemonwood bow backed with rawhide. This bow is stamped 50 pounds but under ordinary condi­ tions, weighs 55 pounds. Under hunt­ ing conditions it is somewhat less.

Sisler uses a five foot nine inch osage of about 75 pounds. The shafts are of stout three-eighths-inch Maine paper birch matched in spine and weight and meticulously feathered. Both archers agree that their broadheads were not

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properly sharpened and that on the next hunting trip every broadhead L. will be filed to a keen, flesh cutting edge.

It has been my privilege to accom­ pany these archers on roving trips, and I have been amazed at their marksmanship. It is customary to set up pop bottles and olive jars on twigs from 15 to 40 yards away. Using these as marks, it is seldom that more than three or four arrows are loosed be­ fore a smash is registered. The mark is varied by objects thrown into the air or a barrel head rolled on the ground. They disdain to shoot at a four-foot target, it is too big.

After parting company with Mof­ fett and Sisler at the close of one of these roving trips I saw the force of Benjamin Franklin’s suggestion that part of the Continental Army be pro­ vided with bows and arrows. Accord­ ing to him they were no mean weap­ ons and were not to be discarded too thoughtlessly. It will be remembered that Dr. Elmer comments on this sug­ gestion in his book on Archery, stat­ ing that the results would be ridicu­ lous. If, however, a company of Mof­ fetts and Sislers could have been formed and had taken a stand on ground of good cover of rocks and trees, they would have exacted a ter­ rible toll of any red coat company in­ vading their sanctum. There would be nothing to disclose the archers’ position, no smoke, no noise and a stream of arrows could be loosed by an archer while a red coat was re­ loading a musket.

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These archers were the butt of a lot of good natured jokes about kill­ ing bears with bows and arrows when such hunting was first commenced.

Some considered the arrows might possibly annoy the bears or make them think they had been stung by

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bees. Jeffries, however, after wit­ nessing the range and penetration of the arrows, agreed that if properly hit, it might be bad for the bear.

After returning to headquarters from an unsuccessful trip they were accused of being chased by bears. It seems that the same day two wood­ cutters had been chased into a cabin by an enraged mother bear with two cubs, and the story had spread that the bear had chased the archers. This was maddening after vainly trying to catch a glimpse of a bear for several days.

Even after the bears were brought in, there were several that had their doubts as the following incident shows. When the archers were leav­ ing the swamp, a party of sailors armed with high powered rifles came by. One sailor was curious concern­ ing the diagnosis of queer small sticks with feathers on one end and a kind of a blade on the other. These were drying out in the sun alongside the machine. He was told that those sticks killed the bears whose skins were on the running board. The sail­ or observed, “I have been on the sea a good part of my life and I may be green about some land jimcracks, but you can’t make me believe you stuck the bears with them sticks. They are too short and thin, and besides, what fool is going to get near enough to a bear to stick ’em in?”

Mr. J. Simmons of Parma, Idaho, writes us: “I didn’t know there was any such animal as Ye Sylvan Arch­ er and I was tickled as a kid with his first pair of long pants. Spring is in the air here and I just have to brace my bows and feel of them every night and hope that the next day brings a Chinook.”

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Effect of Bracing Height of Bow on Static Strains and Stresses C. N. Hickman, Ph. D., Long Island, N. Y. The question of the proper height of bracing a bow has long been a sub­ ject for discussion among archers.

Many rules have been given, but each archer has his own perference.

It is believed that a theoretical treatment of this subject, together with some experimental data, may assist the archer in selecting the proper bracing height for his parti­ cular bow.

We may proceed as indicated in the preceeding articles to obtain the string tension, the drawing force, the input work, etc., as functions of the draw.

If we obtain values of these varia­ bles for various bracing heights of the bow string, we may plot curves which will enable us to make some interesting conclusions.

Let us consider a six foot bow which has a middle section of eight inches length that ___ ; does not bend.

Adopting the same nomenclature used in the preceeding articles, we may determine the values of T/C, F/C, W/C and A as functions of the draw D. These values will depend upon the bracing height of the bow string, HoLet us determine these values for four different values of Ho; Ho = 0; H" = 2.79", Ho = 6.0", and Ho = 9-47"The formulas given in the Novem­ ber, 1930, issue are used to obtain the values of T/C, F/C, W/C and A, for these four conditions.

■ Graph 3, shows the values of T/C and F/C for the four conditions. Each curve is labeled with, the initial brae-

ing height of the bow string, Hq. For Ho = 0, the value of T/C rises very rapidly from zero to about 37 and then increases slowly to about 49.5, for a 28 inch draw.

For Ho = 2.79", the value of T/C drops rapidly on the first half of the draw. And then increases during the last half of the draw.

For larger values of Ho, the curves (T/C) are more symmetrical, de­ creasing during the first half of the draw and increasing in the last half of the draw.

The tension in the string in pounds is equal to the values as read at the left of the graph, multiplied by the constant C. For example if C — 1, the values of T may be read directly in pounds.

In like manner the value of F in pounds is equal to the value as read from the left of the graph, multiplied

by C. If we study the curves F/C we dis­ cover a very interesting fact that ap­ parently has not been observed by archers. The force F, for a full draw, is practically independent of the bracing height of the string. In other words, all of the curves almost merge into one, for draws of over 22 inches.

This means that a bow braced high does not require much more strength to hold, when fully drawn, than if it were braced low. I discovered this several years ago through some math­ ematical equations. At first this did not seem reasonable to me and I thought some • mathematical mistake

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cal bracing heights, merge into one common curve near the end of a full draw. Any archer may readily test this with his own bow. It should be remembered, however that the stress in the bow fibers goes up with in­ crease in bracing height so that it is not wise to brace it too high for, it

had been made. To check over the mathematical development would have taken considerable time, so rather than do this, I tested a bow and found that the equations were checked by experimental results. Since than, I have tested many bows and find that the forcedraws curves, for all practi-

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in graph 5 some of these interesting results.

Every archer knows that the cast of a bow may be increased by increas­ ing the bracing height. If the string is the same length as the bow, ie., Ho = 0, the cast is very poor. However, the work in drawing the bow braced in this manner is greater than if it were braced higher.

It will be realized that if it were possible to brace the bow so that Ho is almost equal to the length of the arrow, that practically no energy would be delivered to the arrow.

Therefore, there is a bracing height that will give the maximum amount of energy to the arrow.

In graph 5, we show the velocity of some arrows as functions of the brac­ ing height of the bow string. For the short bow (5' - 4") for both arrows of weight, 270 and 370 grains respect­ ively, the maximum velocity was ob­ tained with a bracing height of 5 inches.

Going beyond this value decreases the cast of the bow and stresses the bow unduely.

The other curve is for a 400 grain arrow shot from a 6 foot bow. The maximum velocity is obtained for a biacing height of 7 inches. However, the increase in velocity for heights above 6 inches is not appreciable.

Summary 1. The drawing force for a full draw is almost independent of the bracing height of the bow string.

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bow is at rest than when fully drawn.

The tension reaches a minimum at ap­ proximately one-half draw.

5. The arrow velocity increases with increase in bracing height up to a certain point, after which it slowly decreases with additional increases in bracing height. The bracing height for maximum arrow velocity depends principally on the length of the bow.

MORE TO SAY ABOUT THE SPINE

By Dr. B. L. Rawlins, Chicago It looks like we are going to have to call in an osteopath to get us all straightened out on this subject.

I have read with interest Mr. Mor­ rissey’s refined method of gauging the spine of an arrow. While he credits me with a contribution on the subject, he intimates that I would use a junk dealers scale where a high precision analytical balance is called for, or words to that effect; and as I am kind of fussy about using the proper scale for the kind of work to be done, I naturally take some excep­ tions to this. I agree perfectly with what he says about the error my de­ vice may allow in the amount of de­ flection of the shaft under measure­ ment, and if memory serves me the article of mine he refers to stated that the device was capable of refine­ ment and elaboration to any desired extent. The point is, I would not think of using a microscope to get the gross appearance of an elephant, or an analytical balance to weigh out a pound of coffee.

Without doubting Mr. Morrissey’s ability so to match two arrows for the time being that they are exactly alike in spine, I would remind him that they will not stay that way and that he is not dealing with the mole­ cular construction of hardened steel

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when he is looking for a constant in soft wood. Supposing he could do so, what of it?

He talks about arrows shooting the same when the spine is perfectly matched but says nothing about the amount of spine. That was the crux of my article: a definite understand­ ing of what we mean by spine. With all the crudities of my device, it will tell you whether an arrow has a spine of 13 or 14, and very close to which number, and that is as much as one needs to know. If any of your Cali­ fornia shooters can tell the difference between the shooting of an arrow that tests 13.482 (requires 13,482 grains to bend it the required amount) and one that tests 13.587 so far as the shoot­ ing is concerned, they are wonders.

I don’t know of anybody on this side of the Rocky Mountains that can do it. An archer friend of mine who is a gifted mechanical engineer con­ structed a very beautiful and elabor­ ate instrument which took notice of the difference in size of arrows in a very exact way and measured the de­ flection with the greatest precision, and the same arrows measured on the two scales showed practically the same indices, certainly to within a quarter of a point of each.

Certainly if the maker can turn out sets of arrows that measure the same on my scale he has done something that the fraternity will thank him for.

This device presupposes an arrow to be a target arrow, of somewhere near standard length and thickness, and re­ sults shown by it are closer than the skill of any archer warrants or re­ quires. Its operation is not a labor­ atory proposition requiring a techni­ cian, but is one that any yeoman can perform.

It is not in a controversial spirit that this is written, but I am glad to ■

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see interest in the subject, and dis­ cussion is the best way to provoke general interest. The results anybody can get are close enough in my opin­ ion, but let us have a standard by which they can be interpreted.

OLYMPIC BOWMEN’S LEAGUE TOTALS Clark E. Schurman, secretary of the Olympic Bowmen’s League, in his two-page summary of results of the matches to January 31st, reports Se­ attle Archery club ahead with 29,095 points; Portland Archery club second, with 28,847 points; third, Sherwood Foresters, 28,758 points; fourth, Locksley Archers, 28,491 points.

High individual scores were: F. J. Becker, Portland, 7418; Jos. Kerchen, Seattle, 7410; R. B. Williams, Sherwood Foresters, 7408; Joe T. Hess, Sherwood Foresters, 7400.

Most golds: Becker, 601; Williams, 584; Hayden and Kerchen, 581.

Most 54’s: Hess, 14; Williams, 11; Kerchen, 10.

Chester W. Brown, one of our sub­ scribers who has built and used Dr. Rawlins’ spine tester, recently de­ scribed in Ye Sylvan Archer, vigor­ ously protests Mr. Morrissey’s criti­ cism of Dr. Rawlins’ article. Mr. Brown thinks that not “many of the archers have either the space or the money to provide instruments of the accuracy employed by the Bureau of Standards of the U. S.,” and that “many will appreciate a device which can be built in the small space of 2 inches by 31£ inches by 26 inches and weigh not over IV2 pounds, rather than one the size 10 inches by 2 inch­ es by 36 inches and weight 5 to 6 pounds.

Send us the stories of your hunts.

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■^Making Friends for Archery H. L. Baslee of Mill Valley, Cali­ fornia, while spending a holiday last summer with his bow and arrow, found a way to get permission to hunt on posted land. He was becoming dis­ couraged as he wandered down a road and found “No Hunting” signs lib­ erally distributed on each side. Fin­ ally his wife stopped and said, “There

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Another member of the snake in one club.

is something to shoot.

Sec that snake.” when she found it was a rattler she gave a scream and jumped on a high wooden gate. Her screams brought (out the old farmer who arrived just- as Mr. Baslee was climbing

the fence to retrieve the arrow which he had shot through the snake.

The farmer demanded the cause of the rumpus and Mr. Baslee meekly informed him, “I’m sorry, Mister, but I was forced in self defense to kill your pet rattler.”

The farmer smiled, H. L. smiled and Mrs. Baslee smiled and climbed down from the gate.

And then the farmer said that he had 640 acres with hundreds of deer, plenty of wild cats and other game, and the Baslees were welcome to hunt there.

The snake had eight rattles and a button.

LOS ANGELES CITY CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT Reported by Alta Armstrong, Sec’y.

The second annual Los Angeles City Championship Tournament was held at Poinsetta playground, Los An­ geles, January 17 and 18, 1931. The weather was ideal with no wind, with the result that some rather good scores were made. The Santa Mon­ ica men’s team came within one point of tying the national record, making 2267. Those composing the team were Jay Plowe, Carl Langley, Henry Bitzenberger and G. Meyer.

We give the winners in the various divisions: Men’s division, consisting of Double York and Double American — 1st, Jay Plowe, 2340; 2nd, F. X. Goulet, 2331; 3rd, Carl Langley, 2304; 4th, G. Meyer, 2234; Sth, E. Mould, 2186.

Women’s division, consisting of Double National and Double Colum­ bia — 1st, Mrs. E. Grubbs, 1735; 2nd, Mrs. G. Meyer, 1673; 3rd, Mrs. C. Seay, 1508; 4th, Alta Armstrong,

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1481; 5th, Mrs. Lena Gunn, 1399.

Boys’ division, consisting of Double Junior American and Double Junior Metropolitan — 1st, Elvin Fernatt, 2274; 2nd, Robert Hodgson, 2126; 3rd, Al Davis, 1849; 4th, Henry High, 1435.

Girls’ division, consisting of Double Junior National and Double Junior Columbia — 1st, Kathleen Thorburn, 1549; 2nd, Cecilia Reiniger, 951; 3rd, Betty Matthews- 904; 4th, Virginia Hunt, 397.

FROM A NOVICE

By Colin J. Cameron, Amesbury, Mass.

I am but a novice in Archery and only a recent subscriber to your pub­ lication, but it might, nevertheless, be of interest to comment on an arti­ cle of Philip Rounsevelle, “What Price Technique.” I am old newspaper man (perhaps not so old) and have written mostly on sports. Having had to give up baseball, football, basketball, etc., years ago, and perhaps being on my last legs at tennis, I decided last sum­ mer to take up Archery, as I thought it was something I might enjoy for years. When a boy 10 or 12 years old, I had my father, who was an ex­ cellent wood worker, make me a bow, as most kids did. We made our ar­ rows from dried cat-tail reeds, and used them mostly for flight, and not target shooting. I decided that some time I would like to take up archery, and all these years I have let it pass by simply because there was little of it done in this immediate district. It was tried here in the 80’s but fell through.

I know comparatively little about shooting after six months, and I be­ lieve what Mr. Rounsevelle says is true. The sport needs good teachers to make the game popular. I believe, as it is, it is one of the hardest though

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most fascinating sports I ever- tried.

I’ve been a member of the golf club here since it started some 15 years ago. We have a wonderful course and a nice club house, and I have tried to warm up to the game, but as yet I cannot see how it can compare with Archery. As to miniature golf, I think it is far from being up to roque or even croquet.

We’ll give a young lady, Miss Catharine Nelson, the credit for start­ ing Archery here in Amesbury, and she did fine. Having had only a few weeks at it in an athletic school, she became proficient enough to be the class champion, and impart to others what she knew. She at least gave us a good start, and over 20 are members of a club in this small town. I, per­ sonally, have read practically all the American books on Archery and have made a pretty thorough study of the theory of shooting, the different woods and all phases of the sport that I can. I have neglected the actual shooting for the time being. As the young lady was in town but a short time, we got together after she left, helped each other, kidded each other, and perhaps got a little jealous of each other at times, but all in all we got good results.

Most of us went to a tournament where some of the best archers in the state participated, and, to tell the truth, we did not get much help from them. We were told that after we shot for four or five years, we would then be far enough advanced to use a peep sight. It made us more deter­ mined than ever to learn. We have pulled together and worked. After six months’ practice we have now beaten a club which has been at it for years, and we believe before two years are passed, wre are going to have some of our archers up there with the

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big fellows. And what’s more, we’re going to help everybody we can. I have taken people who never shot a bow and arrow before, and in a very few hours, had them making 28 hits out of 30 arrows at 30 yards, and run up around 175 to 200. Although prac­ tically all my time has been given to experimenting with different types of bows and arrows, I have squeezed in enough practice to run up scores that compared favorably with all but a very few in last year’s tournaments.

The authors of the archery books have given us all they can, and have helped us wonderfully by personal correspondence, but I almost inclined to believe that some of the archers, having become efficient themselves, rather jealously guard what they have spent years to learn, and are not quite so generous as they might be about showing others. There was suspicion of this before, or it would not be in the books. To become popular, the sport will certainly have to have good teachers. Then there is the exclu­ siveness idea. I know some clubs that do not want more members, as they prefer to keep the sport among a few.

This is something like the old country club idea of not letting people of a certain race or religion belong. I think Rotary, Kiwanis and the other service clubs broke up this idea to some ex­ tent.

I expect to be criticised in saying that I do not think many archers are any too willing to help others into the ine tricks. It may be that by a strange coincidence, I happened to run >nto a few like that, but upon inquirln? from other sections of the country, they tell me they have found it so also. . Mr. Rounsevelle says we need good teachers and to get in groups to help each other. He is right, but I’ll go a

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little further. Encourage new people to try it, both young and old, show them all you know. Let the begin­ ners beat you once in a while by not working too hard. It will encourage them.

I’ll close with an incident. I hap­ pen to be well acquainted with the athletic director of a young ladies’ school. They have advertised Arch­ ery in their catalog for years, and have the equipment, but could not get the girls interested because they could not get any results. They did not have a teacher, and did not even get the fundamentals right. I asked the instructor down to my private indoor range to help him as best I could, which, of course, was not much, but it helped. I got him so interested he ordered a complete new equipment and is going to talk up Archery all over the country among schools and clubs. This man, besides being an athletic director, is an explorer and lecturer of national prominence, and I will gladly inform anyone who cares enough to write to me, what his name is. Is not this a good way to popu­ larize Archery? It’s a great game!

George W. Hayes writes us, “We have a nice little club here in San Francisco of which the writer is the president. We only became organ­ ized the first of the year but we now have about 30 members, and the club continues to grow. If the present im­ petus is maintained we shall have around 50 to 75 members by the mid­ dle of the year.”

Mr. Hayes sends us a club of 10 subscriptions and reports an archery article by himself in the February number of the Pacific Sportsman. We thank Mr. Hayes for his interest in Ye Sylvan Archer and his commenda­ tion of our work.

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We are informed that Russ Hoogerhyde, national archery champion, is now in Brownsville, Texas, engaged in archery promotion work, and the operation of commercial archery ranges.

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Stanley Spencer, ex-national cham­ pion, who is spending the winter in Seattle, Washington, has regained his health after a serious illness necessi­ tating an operation. Stan is getting back his shooting eye after his en­ forced rest and will have to be reck­ oned with in the summer tournaments.

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C. E. Schurman, secretary of the Olympic Bowmen’s League, reports that as a result of the article about the league in the last issue Bangor, Maine, is entering a team in the league tournament.

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