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T3oo Soon, Today is Testerday

By CASSIUS H. STYLES, Berkeley, California A poem that I have read, enjoyed and memorized has the suggestion that we would like to keep today.

Well, we can. Some rare days do not pass on into nothing, but stay with us in our memories like valuable etchings that hang on our walls.

Such days are the ones spent in hunt­ ing with the bow.

On Washington’s birthday last the Tempter came to me and told of a trip that could be taken into the foothills of Mount Diabolo. Like a craven victim of the gripping habit, I suncndered. My good helomeet con­ nived by preparing a dish of roast lamb covered with jelly and butter which we put in the rumble seat of the car owned by the aforesaid tempt­ er. Will Sweetland. Our arrows and polished bows were laid there too with hearty provender for outdoor hunger. My wife’s bow and hunting arrows were included, as she is a huntress. Soft sunshine favored us; by late afternoon we were in an oatfield much used by jackrabbits and groundsquirrels. An hour’s stalking, some practice in shooting, then we went back to the large oak tree in whose shade the car stood. This lone tree furnished twigs and dead branches for a fire to cook our lamb; even the smoke was welcome for its pungency and the past campfires it recalled. After one o’clock we started out for our favorite nooks, well fortified and enthusiastic.

In February the ground squirrels are more or less in hibernation, but not as strict a one as that of bear and woodchucks. Some occasionally come out and start fattening, and if the day is warm a bowman can do a certain amount of shooting, say a fifth as much as in the spring or summer. There was very little grass and it surprised me to find that the jackrabbits dug three or four inches down into the dirt to shape them­ selves “forms” or beds. These forms were most artfully placed so that half a hatful of dead stubble concealed the animal, even when right out in the middle of bare and level ground.

I looked, as I strolled over the rolling fields, at a blotch that I thought was the shadow of a handful of weeds.

Something about it seemed just a little odd; but I was sure that it couldn’t be even an empty glove lying out there in the open. A few more steps, and more scrutiny; then I decided to shoot anyway, just for practice. My bow hand had not raised half way when a full grown jack ex­ ploded from the small grey smudge, just the way a small cloud of dust is struck into the air by a shaft from a strong bow in dry soil. I shot at him on the run, clumsily, and the arrow did not oven make him dodge. As I traveled aside to retrieve my little winged hunting companion I stopped and studied the rabbit’s perfect piece of camouflage, and admired it.

Will and I traveled northeast to­ ward the foot of a riving gulch that we had found was liked by our game.

Half a dozen arrows took the air as the winter field uncovered invisible rabbits. These broadheads seemed to time their arcs so that much closer misses were made than on previous hunts, and we spoke longingly of the

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YE SYLVAN ARCHER May, 1937 2 day when we might begin to connect, would be glad to know we were hunt­ like the Wilhelm brothers. Then some­ ing with the weapons they used so thing dogged came into our attitude, well. Then I started my slow rise I think, and we both privately resolv­ again. ed to make great medicine for a kill.

Two squirrels were out. one near My scheme I wove as we approached the spot I shot at just before, so that the corner fence; here were two now I could check my elevation from gulches, six feet deep, near burrows my previously ascertained point of used by a number of the grey furred aim, and most likely make a good squirrels. I sat down in one, with my shot. Slowly and smoothly my old bow across my knee and my head be­ yew bow came up, and I began pulling low the level of the ground. Will its 58 pounds of silent energy. The slipped quietly up on the side of the squirrels aid not move. When I had ravine. a good aim, and had carefully touched In ten minutes I raised myse'f my anchor _____ xpoint, I held a second, and slowly to where I could see around; loosed softly. The arrow glinted not very cannily, for sunward from noiselessly out into the air; the alert me a squirrel popped into his hole be­ little animal turned in a flash for its fore- I much more than began to sus­ burrow, but was impaled before he mche'. I picked him pect that the grey place where he had had moved been, wore about two too many sus­ up and started home. piciously parallel bars of light mark­ Jn less than five minutes I caught ings. They proved to be. as I had sight of Will running his toughest just begun to conclude, the indis­ over the top of a ridge. By the time tinctly ribbed cape that our ground 1 topped it I saw him loosing his last squirrels wear. He was lying there arrow toward a fence comer, where like a little flat grey stone, and when crouched a jack into whose flank he he saw my eyes turn and scrutinize had a moment before struck a broad­ him the second time, into the ground head on rhe run. The jackrabbit is he scurried. an unbelieveably tough animal, and I ducked down the gully and moved will often travel on and on when half to a spot which would bring the sun his abdomen has been blown to pieces to my back when I reconnoitered. by a Springfield .06 bullet. This one .iust as good Ishi counselled one Will had winged on the run, kept should. Then in about fifteen minutes moving with a broacihead in ms I slowly pushed my head up again, trunk. Just as Will missed with his with no more than the speed of the last arrow his twelve-year-old broth­ hands of a clock, and this time I saw er. Gene arrived, and at twenty-five two squirrels, with the sun in their yards, cooly pounded a heavy blunt eyes, puzzling as to whether I was into the animal’s shoulder, and the a stone or an enemy. The range jack traveled no more. Gene made a seemed to be thirty yards; I raised shot any hunter could take pride in; my bow very carefully, aimed until we shall'hear more of him.

I felt the elevation could be neither over nor under, checked a point of Within the next few months an aim on the bend of a iarge weed, then loosed. The shaft whipped out and article on the “Dynamics of a Bow and Arrow” by Dr. C. N. Hickman tore up dirt two inches over my mark. Down I went for ten more will appear in the Journal of Applied Physics. minutes.

The sun was half down on the western sky, and it now threw clear Jas. F. Murphy, president of the amber light on the round trunks of Bakersfield, California, archery club, three oak trees which stood on the reports a lively club of forty members slope above, so that tne heavy crack­ there. He says they have not done ed bark showed clear patterns, letter­ much on big game yet but are hard ing of legends I could enjoy even on squirrels and rabbits. though I could not decipher them.

Just once a yellow hammer loosed his According to press reports, arch­ wild wickering war whoop, and I thought of two other archers, Will ery is one of the most popular sports and Maurice Thompson, who had also at San Diego State college. Lucille loved his lusty music, long ago. They West is the team captain.

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Interviewing the Tiger'Man

By GEORGE BROMMERS, Los Angeles, California Even a worm has its use. Ask Stan­ ley Christilaw. He furnished the transportation when we went to Hol­ lywood to interview the far famed Tiger-Man, Sasha Siemel, for Ye Syivan Archer.

Stanley started with some reason­ able doubts; he knew Sasha’s record about as well as I did—101 Brazilian “tigres.” we call them jaguars, downed with a rifle. Nice, playful beasts, more solid than the Bengal tiger and up to 350 pounds in weight, ’twenty-seven additional ones had been brought down with a spear, three killed outright with bow and aiiow and four dispatched with a spear after being wounded with an arrow. As Stanley said, a bird like that had to be tough just to be alive and he hoped he wasn’t going to practice on him.

Mr. Siemel is in the city for the first time, being under contract with Columbia foi some adventure films, lhe nature of which will be known later. Every archer will want to see

them, we know.

Never again will Stanley go with me when I interview a celebrity.

Because when he gets as interested as he was this time he will paw over everything in sight and ask the ques­ tions that should be put by the head reporter. How does he get that way?

Not that he didn’t have a good ex­ cuse this time. Anybody would be curious to know how to stop 300 or more pounds of snarling cat with a spear. It calls for nice judgment. We make some remark to that effect.

“Now I would just love to be a hero,” says the Tiger-Man, “and I am very sorry to have to disappoint you. But the fact remains that I learned the art from a poor native who had nothing but a home-made spear where I had my high-powered rifle. But I do think I was a good pupil and will admit that it calls for experience and judgment.”

Here is pretty much the key to the man. Competent, but with a keen

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like? Well, he is tall, but not too tall. sense of justice to others and a well You would hardly judge from his developed sense ot proportion. His appearance that he is living such a judgment might well be inherited wild and adventurous life. And if from Teutonic Knights ancestors, as you haven’t already read “Green well as his courage. Great lads with Hell,” or “The Tiger Man.” thrilling a lance, these ancestors were, and books by Julian Duguid, published what is a lance but a spear that got into society? Sasha’s particular spear by the Century Co., New York and London, you will want to do so at is seven feet long, almost long enough to be used from horseback, if this the first opportunity. I know that I have enjoyed few books as much as were practicable.

“Green Hell,” and this was long be­ "It is all in a day’s work,” explains fore I had heard of the Tiger-Man. our Tiger-Man. “Just plain hard work.

Archers owe a vote of thanks to Dr. Crawling through that jungle is no fun. Neither is heat, mosquitoes, nor Elmer for another great service to the sport. It was the doctor who in­ being thrown off a horse that stepped terested the Tiger-Man in archery into an armadillo burrow any spec­ and gave him his first instruction in ial pleasure.’’

“I do not suppose it is any special the modern phases of it. It was also the doctor who put Mr. Siemel in pleasure to be the cat either," sug­ touch with Art Young, and the two gests Stanley. became great friends. There is a "Why should the cat complain?" demands Sasha. “If he doesn't like it great deal of similarity in the two he can beat it. I couldn't catch him if men.

Not so much in manners, Art was I wanted to. Hunting is hard work," moans our host, coming back to his more reserved, in fact, quite shy on pet grievance. occasions. But he had the same genu­ "There is one redeeming feature ineness. understanding and simple about it though." continues the courtesy and sincerity that character­ Tiger-Man. “At the end of the spear izes Sasha Siemel. To have been in it is the cat that labors, not I. He is the presence of either for as much as impulsive, does not like me. Few cats five minutes is to feel that you have do, as a matter of fact. So he makes known them for years. Instinctively his lunge and is rewarded with a foot you felt in both cases that these men really liked you as you liked and re­ or so of cold steel. His intentions were laudable, but his judgment spected them. And both of them com­ poor.” pelled respect. Gentlemen do.

"Suppose you miss," says Stanley.

Young was hard to draw out and "Would I be here if I did?” asks Siemel. while spontaneous enough, is the Tiger-Man, and there is reason none too easy unless you know the and logic on his side. Sasha will never technique. Fortunately I do. and make more than one mistake. Even these fellows fall for it every time.

Stanley has to admit that. Possibly Just suggest to them that they are this is the reason why there are so reckless to the point of damphoolishmany tigers and so few takers. ness and they will proceed to show Patiently the technique of hunting you how really conservative and cal­ culating they are. In the process you is explained to us. The spear is held will learn plenty. just so. the impulsive cat does the rest. Of course there are a few fine “It is all a matter of developing a points to it. You must know where certain skill,” says Sasha. “To be sure, the cat is in the first place and what there is an element of risk, wouldn’t he will do in order to afford him the be sport if there wasn’t.” But he fullest facilities for self-demolition really has done nothing that you or and suicide. Just a matter of experI could not do if we applied ourselves.

What’s more, he really believes it. ience, as Sasha explains.

Stanley looks doubtful, but I have and so did Young. After all, such is the sportsman’s creed. It is the lad no doubts at all. I do not say that a who is not sure of himself who is so jaguar is not an undesirable citizen superior to the rest of us. and all that, but I am broadminded And now. to make it a little more about it. Live and let live is my sport and to take as much as possible motto—with anything bigger than I of risk and uncertainty out of his am myself. hunting, Siemel has discarded the What does this Tiger-Man look

5 May, 1937 YE SYLVAN ARCHER rifle for cat hunting purposes. Bow Sasha Siemel has had his share of and arrow is so much safer, he thinks. distinctions. He has guided big game Of course a cat is inclined to argue hunters like Col. Theodore Roosevelt and explorers like Lincoln Ellsworth. matters occasionally. The safe and He has had books written about him. sane arrow fails to kill it, and down it comes out of a tree. It has a just He has lectured before the National grievance and a mission in life. It Geographic Society at Washington.

D. C., and distinguished Explorers’ uses the best argument it knows, and clubs. The Adventurers Club in Los a final settlement has to be reached over the point of a spear. So far Angeles nearly tore the roof off Siemel’s line of reasoning has had the their club house with the spontane­ edge on the cat’s. ity of their applause.

To show how far fetched any ref­ But there is one distinction that erence to danger is in connection surpasses them all. He made the with these matter of fact hunts I archers at Griffith Park drop their quote from Mr. Arthur B. Cleaves’ sandwiches in the> eagerness to at tide in Explorers’ Club Tales, pub­ see him demonstrate spear technique. lished by Dodd Mead & Co.: Never before have I known anything “As Sasha stooped to peer through to be allowed to interfere with the some matted vegetation to the left, sacredncss of an archer’s lunch.

I became aware of the jaguar about What Sasha Siemei will mean to twenty feet directly ahead, bearing Archery I leave to the reader’s imagi­ down on us. He filled my sights and, nation. as I fired, my impression was of a As this is written, a letter from cat about the size of an elephant, Walt Wilhelm tells me that Erie about to engulf me. Instinctively 1 Stanley Gardner, "the world’s worst fell back behind Sasha, who fired shot," as he unblushingly announces from the hip and then took the himself, is on his way back from charge on his bayonet.

Mexico. Wouldn’t I like to see Siemel and Gardner hunt jaguars together “The weight of the animal was so down in Brazil. It would be the great­ great, and the charge so furious, that est combination I could think of for the first time in his life, the Tigersince Pope and Young.

Man was bowled over backward. I was so close that, in falling, he Lest we forget, a full pardon is knocked me down and the jaguar hereby issued to Dr. Klopsteg. It is careened past my feet. While falling thanks to him Los Angeles archers Sasha had twisted his rifle in such were notified in time and had the a manner that the cat was forced privilege of meeting Mr. Siemel. No beyond us. Doubtless his presence of matter what Paul does or does not mind saved one or both of us from do in the future, no doghouse warrant being terribly mangled or killed. ...” filled out in his name will ever have Nice Kitty! my signature.

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Reed’s idea of what happened at Griffith Park Tiger-Man demonstrates his methods. Tiger shown was not actually present in person but the likeness was supplied by our research department. Please do not try to identify any of the ladies in the audience. Any seeming resem­ blance to actual persons is purely accidental.

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Editorial We wish to apologize to our many contributors who have not as yet seen their articles in print. Twelve pages just will not hold all the in­ teresting matter we receive and we hope that before long our advertis­ ing patronage will justify an enlarge­ ment of the magazine so that we can catch up. The fact that your article is left out does not mean that it is less interesting than other copy we use but some articles take precedence because of the time element or just because the printer can work them in to advantage.

The many friends of George Jud­ son Higgins of Detroit will be pleased to learn that he has received a com­ mission in the U. S.Naval Reserve as Lieutenant Commander. He is in special service in aviation. Command­ er Higgins entered the aviation field first in 1918 as an Aerial GunnerEngineer, U. S. Navy; and after graduating from the University of Michigan in 1923 became actively en­ gaged first in research work with the National Advisory committee for Aeronautics till 1928 and since then as associate professor of Aeronauti­ cal Engineering. He has been an ac­ tive archer since 1925 when he was located at Hampton, Va. After going to Detroit. Prof. Higgins was a member of the Birmingham Archers.

He was president of the Michigan Archers Association for foui- years.

1930 to 1934.

ARIZONA TOURNAMENT The fifth annual tournament of the Arizona Archery Association was held at Tempe, on March 13 and 14, 1937. In the men's senior division, A. J. Cosner of Phoenix won the cham­ pionship with a total of 1021 points in the York and American rounds. Vic­ tor Kiessling of Tempe (932 points) was second and Stan Hewette (823 points) of Tempe was third. The junior men shot the double American, Benjamin Sauer of Bowie being first with 604. Walter Tuttle Jr. was sec­ ond and Delbert Fowset third.

Twenty women competed in the senior class with Virginia Kling of Tucson first. Mrs. Eddie Cosner of

Phoenix second and Mary Baker of Flagstaff third. Marjorie Hill, Tempe, Maralynn Osborne, Phoenix, Harriett Lovett, Phoenix, and Louise Payne, Tempe, placed first, second, third and fourth, respectively in the intermedi­ ate class. Mrs. Cosner won the women’s American round with Mary Baker second and Virginia Kling third.

ARCHERS I HAVE KNOWN

By DAVE J. MACK, West LaFayctte, Indiana 4. The Terrible Tackleer. — For­ tunately this goof is rather uncom­ mon because he’s a prime nuisance.

Makes and shoots (nobody else would), his own tackle about which he is very proud. Loves to make bows and arrows and is liable to make them out of anything. Thinks nothing of making a bow and a dozen arrows in an evening. How he can do it, no one ever figured out because from their appearance they must have been made with a butter spreader and a can opener. Crests arrows by dunking them, feathers and all, in a can of paint. Bearable if he didn’t insist on having you use and admire his tackle.

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(Composite Bows

By L. E. STEMMLER, Queens Village, Long Island, N. Y. (All rights reserved) ingly strong. The limbs just below (Continued from last issue) A short discussion of why a Com­ the bend or shoulder must also be very strong, hence The ridge under­ posite Bow is made the way it is might not be amiss. Hom is the ideal neath for added security. All strains material for the belly of a bow. It resulting from the drawn bow con­ stands great compression and posses­ centrate at these points. Hence all ses tremendous cast or spring. Sinew materials are thickened where these may be stretched a great deal and has strains are greatest. The ridge the rubber-like quality of contracting strengthens the upper limbs; at the when the strain is removed. There­ handle the wood core thickens, the fore, it makes an ideal back for a horn is heavier, and the sinew of the how. The wood core establishes a back swells out in a bulge. The wood­ base from which to work, fixes the en reflexed ends are stiff, they do shape and adds cast. The reflexed not bend at all; neither does the ends do not bend at all, but they do shoulders or bends. The limbs for an act as levers to help bend the short, inch and a half to two inches im­ powerful horn - wood - sinew limbs. mediately past the shoulder, are stiff Their action is very noticeable every too.

Assume that a Composite Bow is time you draw a Composite Bow. There is a distinct ’■cocking” feeling 54" from nock to nock. Half of that when the arrow is drawn over twenty would be one limb—27". The stiff four inches. This is because the lev­ reflexed end is 10" long, the shoulder ers. which are the refiexed ends, pass and inert end of the limb 3". Above fiom one plane to another, and are the handle there is a 3" piece that exerting their full leverage on the doesn’t bend or bends so slightly that fulcrums — the stiff shoulders or you can’t notice it. If your handle bends. There is a decided tug up to is 4" long, half of it is 2". Add all that point but immediately over it, these figures up and you get 18" the pull needed to draw the arrow is inches of bow that is stiff. That leaves you 9" in each limb for all the greatly lessened.

For clearness sake, it may be well bend in a 54" bow. And that is exact­ to name the various parts of a Com­ ly what happens. All the bend of the posite Bow. The handle is the grip entire bow is in these two nine inches by which the bow is held; the limbs of each limb. The rest of your bow is extend from the ends of the handle designed to bend the powerful, flex­ to the sharp bends of the reflexes. ible casting arms, and that is the The bends at the ends are called reason why Composite Bows shoot shoulders. The more or less triangu­ so far and hard.

The writer has seen German lar shape of the under part of the refleved ends, under the bends or cross bows with horn prods or bows shoulders, and for two or three inches about 20" long. They were some three on each side of them, are called the inches thick and it took a block and ridge. The ear is the continuation of tackle and winch arrangement to the reflexed wooden ends and ter­ bend them. Similarly, but by an alto­ minate in the nocks. The back is the gether different arrangement, the flat part of the bow extending from Composite Bow arrives at bending bend to bend and Is covered with the two sections intended to do all sinew. The belly is the rounded side, the work. Here may be noted one held towards you when shooting, and great difference between the action extends from bend to bend. It con­ of a long bow and a Turkish bow. The sists of buffalo or yak horn. long bow throws the arrow with a The handle or grip of a Composite more or less horizontal sweep of its Bow. and for an inch or two on either long arm. The Composite Bow speeds side of it, must be stiff and exceed- the shaft by a vertical expansion of

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a compressed horn - wood - sinew spring. The bow works up and down and not horinzontally.

Clever people those Orientals, but considering the refinement of their civilization and culture while most of Europe was still inhabited by bar­ barians. it is no wonder they develop­ ed bows very unlike the ones we know as long bows. The fundamental difference between long bows or any self wooden bows, and bows of the Composite type, is that the wooden bow is cut out. and the other built up. When making a simple wooden bow. you start with a bow stave, and plane, cut. scrape, or rasp wood away until the limbs bend evenly and the how is properly formed. A Composite Bow is a complicated combination of ingenious materials, each possessing qualities intended for a definite pur­ pose.

Whi'e basicly the same, since they are all made of sinew, wood and horn, the shapes and lengths of Com­ posite Bows varied greatly. The writer has heard it said that the nat­ ural bend of the horns from which the bow was made determined its shape. Since there are so many shapes, sizes, lengths and widths, this does not hold. It seems to me that each tribe or nation or the Orient de­ veloped its own particular fashion in bows, and that the shapes resulted from centuries of trial and error experimentation. There was no set standard; each bow was influenced by the limitations of the materials and hall marked with the individual bowvers technique. Some were quite crude; others exquisite works of art.

They had this in common—all were reflexed some a lot and some not so much. Their length and width varied too. Lengths were from thirty-six to fifty-eight inches; a good many of the Turkish type were about 44".

They reflexed some so the ends actually overlapped, while others bent at less than a right angle. Some of the Chinese bows were six feet long, beautiful pieces of workman­ ship, but disappointingly futile as weapons; they probably wouldn't shoot an arrow over a hundred and fifty yards. The little Indian, Turkish and Persian weapons, on the other hand look decidedly efficient and some of them may have had ranges

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over four hundred yards. However, just as with wooden bows, some o( them have an inferior cast. It is only the exceptionally fine wood bow. shot by an experienced flight shooter, that has shot its shaft long distances. So with the Composite Bow, it was only the very finest bow, made by a mas­ ter bowyer of the Orient, and used by a trained flight shot, that accom­ plished the astounding distances of from six to eight hundred yards. It follows, therefore, that every Com­ posite Bow we make isn’t going to be a world beater. Eventually we may produce bows and men to shoot them that will approximate half mile shots.

It would be use'ess for any modern bowyer to attemnt to make Comnosite Bows in all the shapes and sizes they assumed in days of long ago Therefore, the writer has confined his efforts to reproducing bows from India, Turkey and Persia. The making of the Indian bow. which is shaped like a Cupid’s bow; the Turk­ ish bow. which looks like the letter “C” and the Persian (the one nicked was straight, flat and with reflexed ends at right angles to the limbs) will each be treated separately. In the writer’s opinion it is a logical arrangement, since the East Indian bow seems to present the least num­ ber of problems for a beginner, the Turkish next, and the Persian last.

The descriptions of the techniques employed in making these three tvpes of Composite Bows are ones the writer developed over a period of years. They may differ from those used by Oriental bowyers and the methods described may be good or they may be bad, but at least they work. Good Composite Bows, of ex­ cellent cast and sweet to shoot, can be and are being made that way.

Given a certain amount of patience and skill, others may make them too.

(Continued in next issue)

Archery was one of the featured snorts at the Linfield college, Mc­ Minnville, Oregon, May Day festivties held on May 7 and 8.

The April Nature Magazine con­ tains a very interesting archery article by A. E. Andrews.

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Southern California Field Archers

By JOHN L. YOUNT, Secretary, Redlands, California The second tournament of the Field Archers Association of South­ ern California was held on the Red­ lands rovers course April 4. Fifty­ eight archers took part in the day’s shooting, which is very pleasing in an association so new that it is not yet completely organized.

The morning was devoted to roving with the following results: first place, as usual, Howard Hill with a score of 274; second, Ted Martin of El Segundo. This was something of a surprise to some of the other “hot shots.” Third place was a tie between Arnold Tullis, of Riverside, and Emory Watts, Los Angeles. Here’s hoping this pair get in the same foursome at El Segundo in the May tournament.

Among the ladies, Glenn Curtis,

San Bernardino, was winner with the remarkable score of 154, which would have put her in 12th place in the men’s division, and did cause her hus­ band considerable worry in trying to stay ahead of her, which he suc­ ceeded in doing by a rather narrow margin even though he placed sixth among the men. Mrs. Dorothy Ahman finished second, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, third.

After a picnic lunch and a business meeting of the Constitution Commit­ tee, the afternoon was given over to all forms of plain and fancy shooting, mostly fancy as you can well imagine with such fellows as Ken and Walt Wilhelm, Howard Hill and a number of lesser fry trying to out do each other.

THE MISSOURI VALLEY TOURNAMENT The Missouri Valley Archery Tournament will take place in Chi­ cago, May 30th and 31st. It will be held in Hutchinson Field at Grant Park, which is a very beautiful spot and easily accessible to the downtown district. Registration will open at nine o’clock, Sunday, May 30th.

Shooting will start promptly at ten o’clock. A banquet and business meet­ ing will he held Sunday, May 30th at the Y. M. C. A. hotel. A charge of seventy-five cents per plate will cover the banquet. The entry fee for the tournament will be one dollar and fifty cents. The tournament will be open for men and women sixteen years of ago and over. The events will include the York round, Ameri­ can round. Team shoot, Clout shoot and Flight shoot, for men. For women, National round, Columbia round, Clout shoot and Flight shoot.

shall Academy. This campus is well shaded and an ideal place to hold a meet.

The participants will be housed in the academy building and in the dor­ mitory of the Reformed Theological Seminary. Accommodations in frater­ nity houses located nearby are also available. About one hundred and fifteen persons can be accommodated in large single or double rooms at the academy and approximately seventy can be taken care of in equally attractive rooms at the sem­ inary. The fraternity houses can ac­ commodate from fifteen to twentyfive each.

The Lancaster tournament commit'^e has suggested that rroups from various cities form house parties for the duration of the meet. Entire houses can be engaged for the use of these parties.

The attractive Tudor dining room of the seminary will be open to par­ ticipants during the meet. Delicious and wholesome menus have been planned. This dining room is only a few hundred yards from the archery range.

Participants are urged to begin making reservations for accommoda­ tions now or as far in advance as possible with Dr. Mitchell Carroll, 540 North President Avenue, Lan­ caster, Pennsylvania.

THE NATIONAL Arrangements are being made to accommodate more than three hun­ dred archers at the National Archery Tournament which will be held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 19 to 23, 1937.

The tournament will be held on the grounds of the Franklin and Mar-

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By THE DOGHOUSE PHILOSOPHERS D E HOW BOOKS ARE BORN

LOS ANGELES CAL First we take you to the editorial SURELY STOP HOW ABOUT A sanctum. If you can find a place to NICE YOUNG JAGUAR TO GO sit down you do better than we can.

WITH IT STOP SIEMEL It begins in the traditional way That's quite an idea, though we with the exchange of telegrams. This is intended to impress and comes would rather have an old tough one.

It is a tougli bunch we have to deal under the heading of “technique.” with. Also, if it isn’t too much DOGHOUSE EDITOR trouble we would kind of like to have a school of piranhas for the doghouse LOS ANGELES CAL swimming tank. Maybe one of them WILL YOU AND MY OTHER could be slipped down Lou Stemm­ LIABILITIES WRITE A BOOKLET ier’s breeches enroute. He needs OR A SERIAL DEALING WITH something to take his mind off his THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ARCH­ t roubles.

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TRODUCTION STOP D E A J COSNER D E PHOENIX ARIZONA LOS ANGELES CAL MAY I COUNT ON YOU FOR CAR­ I WILL BITE STOP ODOR QUITE TOONS STOP PRINTABLE ONES NOTICEABLE STOP WHAT YOU PREFERRED STOP DE REALLY NEED IS LYSOL STOP GARDNER D E Having now our center strongly LOS ANGELES CAL JOE IS DRYING DISHES STOP fortified, we begin to straighten our EDDIE wings.

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"No," he assures us, "I am peeling potatoes.”

SASHA SIEMEL "Art is calling, my friend.” we tell MATTA GROSSO BRAZIL him. “Your public is getting curious.

MAY I BORROW YOUR SPEAR Rumor lias it that there were rings FOR DISCIPLINARY PURPOSES in your bath tub for months after STOP D E

11 YE SYLVAN ARCHER hunt on Santa Cruz Island.

Ever since I learned to shoot the bow, I have longed to get into some country where I could meet up with something larger than a rabbit or a squirrel. My dream came true. The trip in itself, aside from the hogs we bagged, was an experience I shall never forget. To be out in a real wild country for five days with a party of experienced hunters, he men from the boots up, to see my arrow go straight to its mark, to return with the same group with five wild hogs and a fox added to our baggage, was a thrill of thrills.

Many thanks to my companions who saw to it that my trip was a NOTICE TO POPE-YOUNG pleasant one.

ARCHERS OF OREGON Bob Hodgson.

The rules and events committee appointed at Roseburg last Septem­ ber for the 1937 tournament to be held at Corvallis on Labor Day, Sep­ tember 6, 1937, has reported as fol­ lows : Evcnts 1. Battle clout, 36 arrows at 240 yards.

2. Flight, “3 arrows.

3. Wand. 36 arrows at 100 yards, 4. i. Pope-Young round, 36 arrows at i. _ _ _ different aninot less than twelve mal and bird targets.

5. Special surprise event.

Tackle As it is the purpose of the associa­ tion to encourage the use of the bow and arrow as a hunting weapon, all events will be shot with hunting bows and broadheads. Each archer will check in at the beginning of the tournament one bow and one set of standard hunting broadhead arrows, each alike, with 7/8 inch or wider steel blades and completed arrow weighing a minimum of one ounce avoirdupois of 440 grains. Set of arrows may consist of as many ar­ rows as the archer wishes if they are practically alike and meet the re­ Bob seems much happier than the quirements. The same bow must be hog. used for all events except in case of breakage.

J. E. Davis, Secretary PopeYoung Archers of Oregon.

REED WILLIAMS

May, 1937

your debut in the movies. How about it?”

"Possibly a little beyond the usual fair allowance,” admits Reed. "Why not?"

“How would you like,” I ask (damn this editorial "we.” Our dig­ nity demands it) "to write a sequel to that stirring tale of the filming of the "Crusaders,” telling the after effects of fame and glory. Your public is en­ titled to know.”

"All right,” says Reed. " I have a few bones to pick anyway."

(Story by Reed Williams appears in the next issue.)

BOB’S BIG THRILL Dear Editor: The "Big thrill” came last week when, with Howard Hill and a group of experienced hunters, I had the privilege of taking part in a boar

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TOO SOON, TODAY IS YESTERDAY

By Cassius H. Styles

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INTERVIEWING THE TIGER-MAN

By George Brommers

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EDITORIAL

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ARCHERS I HAVE KNOWN

By Dave J. Mack

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ARIZONA TOURNAMENT

6

COMPOSITE BOWS

By L. E. Stemmier

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MISSOURI VALLEY TOURNAMENT

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SO. CALIFORNIA FIELD ARCHERS

By John L. Yount

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THE NATIONAL

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THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ARCHERY Edited bj' George Brommers

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BOB’S THRILL

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NOTICE TO POPE-YOUNG ARCHERS

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