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Ye Sylvan Archer NO. 1

VOL 8

Published Monthly By J. E. Davis and J. R. Todd

Alsea, Oregon J. E. DAVIS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FROM THE LAND OF MU?

By Alex A. Eggleston

OHIO STATE ARCHERY GOLF TOURNAMENT

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NOTES

By Karl E. Palmatier

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ART YOUNG CLUB NEWS

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EDITORIAL

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A TRIBUTE OF APPRECIATION

By Howard Hill

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OHIO STATE NEWS

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BUNK BY BROMMERS

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From the Land of Mu?

By ALEX A. EGGLESTON. Bums, Oregon •r or or dance. I wonder, Seated on a rock, arm’s length worship, warrudely jerked back from i from a smooth cliff at the edge of then I am lem, scene scene by the noise of the the south fork of the Malheur river, this ancient Shortline whose tracks have about 50 miles east of Burns, Oregon, Oregon thru the middle of this old plowed I find myself gazing at the work of village. an early artist.

West from here — near- Crane, OreOne might picture him now sitting known L._ .- as Windy on this very rock, crude brush in one gon at a place be found painting No. 2.

Point, can t; f hand and hollowed rock bowl of red­ i overlooks the great This high rim dish yellow paint in the other, re­ Malheur lake and Harney valley.

Harney cording the day’s hunt. Possibly a Malheur lake and !1 this fertile once fed’ in tu« ___ . ’ valmountain sheep was slaughtered, a Buffalo ley and skeletons were found well'1 strange looking creature walking on preserved when the lake was ..S3 dry in his hind feet was encountered, or he the outside may be jumping over’ the rattler 1931. This symbol is on house numof the cave opening, as a just below his front feet. home. might appear on a modem i..

Just above this low cliff is the old her U1C Vu.v Inside, the cave is smoked blllUnvu by many camp site. Obsidian flakes cover the a fire and the imagined smell of ' •*>> seems wms ground but very few arrow points burning sage and rabbit brush are to be found here. I seem to see Farther around to the south of the numerous skin dwellings and real. hear the voices of a populace. Even­ the lake can be found a most inter­ ing is coming and I think I hear the esting record, No. 3. To those who low rumble of a drum, calling all to

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have read the very fine works of Chas. W. Churchward (books of Mu) this writing will work your specula­ tion overtime.

Mr. Churchward has given the very best of proof that oui- earliest ancestors came from the now sunken continent of the Pacific, which was known as the continent of Mu, the lands of the west, or the land of the setting sun. Three was Mu's numeral symbol. As the snake symbolizes water in most ancient glyph writings and these people joined together as a tribe were traveling east (this cliff faces north), may we not read that they have come from across the waters, from che lands of number three or Mu, and followed the frail of the lizard for a certain number of moons.

Painting number four is found in Grant county, Oregon, about 80 miles north from Burns. This is the only symbol, to my knowledge, in these parts showing the cross, the symbol of power, God’s four great forces.As the circle is almost always the symbol of the Creator, this glyph might mean, that the creator is within his creation from which comes all power and by which all things were created by his four great builders or forces.

Some have thot that our present Indians know something about these cliff paintings and arrow points, but they seem to be much in the dark about them. Old Chief Louie, now passed on at an age of about 90, once told me the following when asked who painted on the cliffs and made the arrow points: “We no make-um arrow points; we find-um; we shoot-um; but we no make-um. We no paint-um on cliffs; we see-um but we no paint-um. Long, long time ago many people live here; they make-um stone arrows; they paint-um on rocks; but they grow very bad, so bad great spirit he turnmto coyotes; you hear-um a-howl out on the hills at night.”

Archers Club has orgaMzed at Riverside, also cont^rnnT^6 ?iverside archers an afiiliated^^t_^)unOg*Club^On of

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WILLIAM TELL PICTURES (Contributed)

Movie fans looking for a thrill will find it in a short film soon to be released by Jerry Fairbanks, pro­ ducer of the “Last Wilderness.”

It starts out tamely enough as an educational archery picture, show­ ing how bows and arrows are made and shot. It ends with the William Tell stunt. It is not faked either, make no mistake about that!

For once there was no competition for a job in Hollywood and no enthu­ siasm. Nobody wanted to be on the receiving end as the upholder of the apple. Finally Kenneth Wilhelm, who will try anything once, was ap­ proached. Ken said, “sure, why not?”

He had had plenty of cans shot off his head before by his brother Walt­ er, the mighty jackass hunter.

Howard Hill takes Tell’s part, and unless we are very much mistak­ en, it is a mighty shaky William, too. We know we would be in his place. It is pictures like this that are largely responsible for the present popular interest in archery.

As a reward Mr. Fairbanks took his gladiators over to Santa Cruz Island for a pig hunt. We do not know just how the hunters enjoyed the trip over—it was in the Fair­ banks airplane—but once landed, they acquitted themselves nobly.

Howard got three hogs, Kenneth four and Walter five. They were gone four days and Mr. Fairbanks had quite a job picking them up in the about the pig fog. We will hear more i----hunt later.

According to the Archers Register of 1910, the following appeared in the London Daily Mail of August 31, 1909: “During a garden fete near Paris, M. Falconnier, an actor, ar,.

"YU, the rayed as William Tell, performed pel feet of shooting an apple off • the head with a of Mlle. Mirval, an aactress, mmy, „„„ distance of bow and arrow, at Jtwenity -------- ■J— ------Jc >’”— yards.

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The fifth S.C. A. A. A. bi-monthly bi-monuuy team shoot will be held at the Lake­ Beach, wood club range, Long E—’. May 10th.

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Ohio State Archery'Golf Tournament The second annual Ohio archery At the annual banquet held at the golf tournament was held at the Faculty Club of the University, Sat­ athletic field of the Ohio State Uni­ urday night, April 25th, L. Wooddell, versity, Columbus, by the Ohio commissioner of the State Depart­ Archery Golf and Hunting Associa­ ment of Conservation, was the guest tion on April 25-26. Championship speaker. The championship trophies was based on low score for the were awarded to the winners. Wil­ thirty-six target round. Seventy-five liam Folberth, Sr., Cleveland, was participated in the tournament with elected president; Paris B. Stockdale, the following results: Columbus, was re-elected secretary­ State Championship—Men’s Divis­ treasurer; and vice-president repre­ ion — 1st, William Folberth, Jr., senting the various districts were se­ Cleveland, score 100. 2nd, H. G. Met­ lected as follows: E. I. Bailey, Cleve­ calf, Columbus, score 101. 3rd. J. P. land, Mrs. Helen Evans, Cincinnati, Schweitzer, Sr., Columbus, score J. L. Heffernan, Dayton, George 103.

Harvey, Middletown. H. A. Mowrey, State Championship—Women’s Di­ Ashland, Perry Ford, (Columbus. vision—1st, Erna Schweitzer, Cleve­ land. 121. 2nd Frances Schweitzer, ROVING AMONG THE SAND Cleveland, score 125. 3rd, Mrs. Helen DUNES Evans, Cincinnati, score, 128.

Class B — Women’s Division—1st, H. Fred Woodley writes us as fol­ Dorothy Sumption, Columbus, score, lows: “The Art Young Archers of 160. 2nd, Grace Zorbaugh, Columbus, Los Angeles have a 15 target roving score, 163. 3rd, Mrs. Johanna Stein­ course and plan to lay out another metz, Middletown, score, 165. eight or ten target course in the near ( Class B—Men’s Division—1st. J. D. future. We also have a good Art I Ireland, Columbus, score 120. 2nd, Young round course laid out, which \ H. A. Mowrey, Ashland, score, 128. is tricky and popular. Our roving 3rd, R. A. Nell, Ashland, score, 129. courses are laid out among the sand Trophy for most bullseyes— W. M. dunes, and that is why no damage is Folberth, Jr., .Cleveland, score 29 done to arrows. bull’seyes.

“We use any kind of arrows on Lowest 18 target round—R. D. Jack- our roving course from broad heads son, Geneva, score 48 for 18 target to target arrows. Blunts are the most round. popular.

Club team championship—Won by “Our courses are extremely inter­ Columbus Archery Club, represented esting and exciting, as one never °y H. G. Metcalf, Dep’t Physical knows when a jack rabbit is going Education, O. S. U., score 101; P. B. to get up in front of us and we have Stockdale, Dept. Geology, 0. S. U., learned to carry a nocked arrow in score 106; J. p. Schweitzer, Jr., the bow at all times. None of us have «•> student, O. S. U., score, 107; G. hit a jack on these courses yet, but Cooper, State Highway Testing Lab­ have come darned close for such a oratory, score, 116. target.

Inter-City cup—W]on by (Columbus difficult “Methinks that Lady Luck will Archery team, above. smile on one of us soon. Until then, Womens Club team championship— ‘Hope springs eternal in the human won by Cleveland Archery club, rep­ breast.” resented by Frances Schweitzer, ^ore, 125; Erna Schweitzer, score, Ye Sylvan Archer is in the market Mrs. Irma Oelschleger, score, for old magazines containing articles U Jean Oelschleger, score 155. regarding archery.

Longest flight shot—Men— won by on Oelschleger, Cleveland, distance At one time in England it was pro­ , ? ^ar^s- Women—won by Mrs. vided by statute that ten bow staves nanna Steinmetz, Middletown, dis- should be imported for every tun of Ur>«, 288 yards. wine.

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J^ational Association 'Njjtes

By KARL E. PALMATIER, President, Kalamazoo, Michigan

I presume that the readers are in­ terested in what the officers of the N. A. A. are doing. Mr. Ray Hodgson has served as chairman of a commit­ tee on rules. His committee has re­ ceived the suggestions of many arch­ ers who have had charge of meets and from them he has made up a set of rules for the conduct of a meet.

For so many years there have been many questions such as what should be done when seven arrows are shot, when is a junior a junior, etc., upon which no written ruling was known.

All of the best decisions of this type have been collected and presented to the Board of Governors for their com­ ments. As a result a very good body of rules has been agreed upon.

These are to be put into printed form very soon and will be sent to all sec­ retaries of clubs in the United States as a part of the work of the N. A. A. to regulate archery. Mr. F. X. Goulet and Mr. Yount helped Mr. Hodgson.

This committee must be given praise for the excellent enthusiasm the members showed in tackling this problem.

Dr. Klopsteg served as chairman of the committee on Constitution and By-Laws. The members of the Board of Governors acted on this committee at my suggestion. Work was started last August. The constitution embodymg the general idea of what the members of the committee thought would be the best constitution to per01 m in the way the archers at the ast national meet desired has been is now in the hands of Smith t0 be distributed to the members of the N. A. A. Field o’ Adams Dashiel is to be the this vei>Ptvrln at tbe National meet and wT? ?e.wJas an officer in 1935 years sta^JaCte<^ .^or tbe next three East,’ foa*Lnrg wth 1936. Miss Ruby Indiana* ^'President of the also vice Association and ern AreUv £ent-0f.the Mid-Wested the offer- ^l°C1?tl0,n has acceptshe is now Arct La<^ Paramount, magazine *'S^rtSwomfn.»0r °f the

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Robinson was chairman of the comnuttee on an official organ. After much study it was decided to con­ tinue with the old Bulletin. Four membership in the N. A. A. will en­ title you to this organ.

Mr. Roy Case is in charge of the Art Young Program part of the N. A. A. meet. He has the Birmingham Archers doing the local work for him.

A full day’s program of field shooting has been outlined and in shape. Mr. iCase is to be Field Cap­ tain of this part of the program. It will be an experiment in that section of archery that is devoted to using hunting equipment. From the results of the meet this year much guiding information will develop. The Bir­ mingham Archers are hunters of deer and wildcats which are the two big game animals of Michigan. We do have moose but we are not allowed to hunt them. Elk are also protected.

Mr. C. B. Hutchinson of Oakland, California, is collecting tall" the . These games of archery he can. games are to be given to archery clubs for entertainment. We consider this is part of the work of the N. A. A.—to stimulate the sport by supply­ ing games to those clubs that have been losing memberships.

Mr. M. S. Cummings, Newton Cen­ ter, Massachusetts, is chairman of the committee studying what shall be done about club affiliation. It seems that this is now a weak spot in the N. A. A. program. Why do not more clubs affiliate? The answer to that we hope to have settled before the annual meet this year.

Dr. Cathey is chairman of a com­ mittee to study the laws and atti­ tudes of the various conservation de­ partments of the states, to learn their attitude toward the bow and arrow. It is hoped that as a result of this we may supply some concrete information to states desiring to work with their conservation depart­

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-Art Young Club Y[ews (CONTRIBUTED) Wishing to give visible endorse­ ment to the Art Young Movement, a temporary organization to be known at the Art Young Archers of Salt Lake City has been formed. It is an affiliate of the strong Salt Lake City Archery Club. Officers are Dean Green, President; Mrs. C. I. Henn­ inger, Vice-President; Afton Brown, 1027 Logan Ave., Secretary-Treasur­ er; Mardee Robinson and Kenneth Cromar, directors.

Dean Green, expressing hearty sympathy with the idea, points out that Utah has always been strong for field archery in all its forms.

Mardee Robinson, it will be remem­ bered, won the Art Young trophy at the last National. The directors, how­ ever, judge it best to have at present a temporary setup, pending definite national organization. Utah will un­ questionably be one of the strong­ holds of the movement and one of the first to organize on a state wide -

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Dr. Pfouts announces an Art Young Archers |Club of Payson, Utah. President, Dr. L. D. Pfouts; Secretary-Treasurer, Chas. Pace Field i Captain, Dean Holden.

Field, Flolden.

The Payson club will be greeted with no enthusiasm by mountain lions, wild cats, bears and other ma­ rauders. They, the marauders, had a hard enough existence as it was. Now with organized pursuit the outlook is swell—for Pfouts & Co. With the kind of leadership and opportunity that Utah offers, much can be expected. o

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Showing a sustained interest, two new Art Young Archers clubs have been formed in Southern California, making the number four at this time.

The Art Young Archers of El Segundo are affiliated with the El Segundo Archery Club. Officers are F. J. Martin, Pi’esident; E. A. Wilm°t> El Segundo, Secretary-Trea­ surer, and Jack Harper, Field Cap­ tain.

The roving range, established at El1 Segundo in the sand dunes by

the Los Angeles club will be used for joint events. Sunday. April 5th, the first of these shoots was held. It was a.n. informal affair, but keen compe­ tition is forseen as both clubs have some excellent field archers. An Art Young round was also shot.

Among visiting archers participat­ ing were Lieut. F. D. Latta, U. S. S. Chester and Ensign V. A. Sisler, U. S. S. West Virginia.

The Art Young Archers of the Des­ ert also made their bow in April.

They should really not be allowed to compete on equal terms with the other California Clubs. Ask Erie Stanley Gardner, who was guided by Walter and Kenneth Wilhelm. You will read all about them in “Field and Stream” soon. Distinctly they are not amateurs at field hunting. The Wilhelm brothers and Ed Hill are plain poison to competitors in the Art Young round, and harbingers of ill luck to desert coyotes and wild jackasses.

Officers of the desert archers are Ed Hill, President; (Charles Niedermeyer, Barstow. Secretary, and Walt Wilhelm, Field Captain.

There will be fur flying when the four Art Young clubs of Southern California gather. The Redlands club is the largest and the desert rats the toughest. Los Angeles and El Segundo are no setups at any time.

Archery became an organized sport in Duluth. Minnesota, with the re­ cent forming of the Duluth Archery club. According to the Herald of that city, “the newborn Duluth club hopes to develop some outstanding marks­ men for tournament competion.” The officers of the club are as follows: Meda St. Pierre, president; L. A. Erickson, secretary-treasurer; E. Miller, membership chairman; Dr. E. D. Bettenhausen, Dr. A. J. Huderle, and W. G. Campbell, Jr., members of the board of governors.

Barnes and (Company announces the publication of a new book, “Teaching Archery,” by Dave and Cia Craft.

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Sditorial In May, 1927, the first bright green issue of Ye Sylvan Ai'cher was offer­ ed to the archery world. Green it was not only in a literal sense but in a slang sense as well.

It was truly a pioneering enter­ prise and the path we trod was un­ marked and unfamiliar. But, though scattered and mostly unorganized, the archers of almost a decade ago were as enthusiastic and ambitious as those of today. Some took their archery very seriously and, seeming­ ly, painfully, as some do today Others, as many still do, enjoyed, the fraternity and comradeship of true archers more than they did the actual shooting.

The welcome to Ye Sylvan Archer was hearty and immediate and we hope and believe Ye Sylvan Archer has played no little part in the growth of what we feel is so well called “the king of sports and the sport of Kings.”

Ten years pass quickly, an all too short a time in the life of man, and an insignificant period in the ages involved in the history of archery; but the past ten years have been sig­ nificant in modern archery for our enthusiasts have now increased from tens to thousands, clubs have sprung up, almost ceutury-old rec­ ords have fallen like tall grass before a flood, and the public attitude to­ wards archery has turned from open ridicule to amused toleration and then to respectful interest.

There has been no pause in the ad­ vance of archery during the lean years and there is no reason to ex­ pect any faltering in the next decade, nough our economic and social life is so unsettled. Ye Sylvan Archer is ?lay its Part> be that part , Pedant or unimportant, to do its in pleasant or onerous, tho^sn^^u11 oldest of sports, hasXTr^ is so human because it has developed with man himself.

No doubt one of the reasons why the -windmills over the country, are running short of power is because Stan Spencer is sojourning in the ■wilds of Arizona.

Russell E. Ofstad uses four feath­ ers on his arrows. He sends us a pencil drawing showing the arrange­ ment of the feathers and says, “This arrow can be nocked quickly, as you don’t have to bother with a cock feather.”

Dr. H. G. Metcalf, president of the Ohio Archery Golf and Hunting Association, has resigned his position as associate professor of physical education at Ohio State University to accept the chairmanship of the physical education department at the George Peabody Teachers College.

Nashville, Tennessee. While the Ohio archers are bemoaning their loss, the Tennessee archers are welcoming this inspirational and enthusiastic archer.

The Archer’s Register for 1909 gives an interesting account of arch­ ery competition in the fourth Olym­ pic contest held in London in 1908.

Gold medals were awarded to Miss Q. Newall, England, Mr. W. Dod, Eng­ land, and M. Griscot, France.

Mrs. Phillip Oakes, of Dayton, Ore­ gon, tells us that her relatives in Holland report great interest in archery there. The father of Mrs. Oakes, Mr. W. Engelen, is a profes­ sional bow maker in Heeze, Holland.

We wish to thank each of those who have so kindly sent in lists of magazines containing archery stories or articles about archery. We hope to have something interesting about this to publish in the near future.

A Sylvan Archer correspondent is compiling a bibliography of archery and we would much appreciate for his use any lists of archery stories any of our readers can furnish.

In the Archer’s Register for 1898-9 an illustration was given of the “Fly­ ing Arrow,” in which the flight was shown by a continuous line. This was considered quite a feat of photogra­ phy at that time.

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A Tribute of Appreciation

By HOWARD HILL, Los Angeles During the last five years it has of roving and flight shooting, in been my good fortune to travel over archery golf, or in tramping the hills about forty of our forty-eight states. in search of the cottontail. They cov­ In all these states I have come in er all these branches with the same contact with archers and archery spirit of friendliness and sportsman­ clubs, and the associations have been ship. Then in the clubhouse when the more than pleasant in every instance. strenuous day is done, they greet Almost without exception every you with a smile and a welcome so archer it has been my privilege to cordial that it warms the cockles of meet has seemed to be not only an theIf heart. archers scattered across our ardent enthusiast of archery, but a greatallcountry the challenge of good sportsman in additio'n. How­ this greatest ofmet all as do the ever, I have seen only one archery Redland Archers, ofsports Redlands, Cali­ club that functioned with the smooth fornia,we would cease to wonder why co-operation which I felt neared per­ archery lags behind in the field of fection.

American sports, so far as popular We find field archery organiza­ appeal is concerned. There would be tions, archery golf clubs, target millions of archers instead of only a archers, and a few small organiz­ few thousand. It is my aim to be as ations whose purpose it is to beset true a sportsman and as good an game with the bow and arrow. Each archer as these Redlanders. As an group of these various archers is exponent of the bow and arrow I can enthusiastic in its efforts to for­ set my aim no higher. ward the movement of the great To this wonderful club of men and sport, yet it is rare, indeed, to find women I say: May the Great Spirit two different branches of the sport be with you in all your walks of life, that are willing to co-operate whole- for you are sportsmen in the truest heartly with one another. Each sense of the word. group seems to think that its in­ dividual branch is the only aspect of We are informed that Mr. Henry this varied sport that is worthy of their best efforts. When I make these Kjellson, internationally famous statements I am speaking of the archer and designer of the new different branches as a whole, but Swedish steel bow, was in Los Angeles recently on official business not as individual archers.

At last, however, I have visited an for the Swedish government. Most of archery organization that can truth­ the Los Angeles archers were disap­ fully be called toxophilites. It has in pointed in not having the opportun­ its program every phase of archery ity to meet Mr. Kjellson on his short yet discovered and strives to find stay there; but we understand that Ernest Wilson, who has been other diversions to incorporate in its Mr. corresponding with the visitor, did activities. Archery golf, roving, field such honors as his three day visit shooting, target, flight shooting, and real hunting are equally enjoyed by allowed. all its members. Each different branch Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore­ has its champion; in very few instanc­ es does one man master more than gon, is among the many educational one branch of the sport. Yet the co­ institutions now featuring archery in operation and the enthusiasm of that physical education. A picture of group surpass anything I have ever three members of the ladies’ class is seen. They love and enjoy archery as used in one of the college bulletins. has no other aggregation I have Ruth Henry is the instructor. ever known.

It does the soul good to meet with On to Battle Creek, August 10 to men and women on the target range, at the Art Young course, in the field 15.

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Ohio J\[ews T'fptes From “NEWS LETTER,” by Secretary Stockdale Curtis Hill, President of the Ohio sor of a “Southwestern Ohio Cham­ State Archery Association (not to be pionship Archery Golf Tournament” confused with the Archery Golf and Sunday, March 29. The affair was Hunting Association), with the aid an 18 target round, with 55 archers of his peppy Dayton Cohorts, is on entered from the cities of Cincinnati, his way toward making history for Hamilton, Dayton, Columbus, and the target shooters of the state by Middletown. There was plenty of en­ laying great plans for- the state tar­ tertainment and a fine banquet. The get shoot to be held July 11-12 at the following were winners: grounds of the Amercan Trap Shoot­ W o me n ’ s Championship Cup— ing Association, Vandalia, Ohio Mrs. Helen Evans, Cincinnati; score (near Dayton). In addition to the 65. Men’s Championship Cup, Paris regular target rounds, to determine B. Stockdale, Columbus, score 56. the state target shooting champions, Women’s Flight, Miss Johanna Stein­ there will be three classes of flight metz. Middletown. Men’s flight, C. W. shooting, clout shoot, and a nineDeForest, Cincinnati, distance 325 round of archery golf for dessert, to yards. Most Bull’s Eyes, women, say nothing about a rover’s shoot.

Mrs. Alta Benedict, Cincinnati, 6.

Most Bull’s Eyes, men, Paris B. Judging from all the news and Stockdale, Colujnbus, 15. gossip that filter into the office of your secretary Ohio Archery golfers Imagine drawing a hundred and are setting a fast pace for activity and achievement. Tournaments, club twenty-five pound bow! E. W. Althar. shoots, city matches—all have shot Columbus, did it! A 125 lb. Osage ahead the past winter and early bow, constructed for free style shoot­ spring in spite of nature’s adverse ing was drawn 28 inches and shot elements: ' sub-zero temperature and NORMAL STYLE, using a target arrow. What a man! This same arch­ floods. er won the flight shooting ribbon at In some of the shoots around the the archery golf tournament last state women are outshooting the year, shooting a 50 lb. yew bow, dis­ tance 340 yards. men, playing the same rules, with­ out handicap. Mrs. Helen Evans, Cincinnati, not only outscores her The Oelschleger rabbit is now past husband regularly, but in the south­ history. Our president, H. G. Met­ western Ohio district shoot led the calf, took advantage of a half-frozen entire field of both men and women, snow-shoe rabbit (size of a jack rab­ with the exception of one. And how bit) in the hills of Massachusetts those southern Ohio ladies are let­ last winter and felled him with a ting lose flights! Imagine 300 yards! broad-head. His target was large, as Miss Johanna Steinmetz, capable testified by the size of the rabbit’s secretary of the Wildwood Archers foot that Metcalf is displaying of Middletown, won the women’s among his friends, and the range was flight shoot in the recent southwest­ ern district shoot. Many a man envi­ close. ed her feat. Perhaps plenty of talcum Emphasis upon roving is placed by powder (apologies to Mr. Folberth the Dayton Archery Club, J. L and Mr. Evans) helps explain.

Heffernan, President. So enthusi­ Hats off, this time, to the Middle­ astic was the response to the shoot a few months ago (attached to a townites! These stout pullers distance getters, and bull’s women barbecue) that a second rovers shoot ters know how to be hosts to eye hit- is. planned for the near future. It ery crowd. The Wildwood an arch­ will be “too bad” for the rabbits at Club, of Middletown, served Archery the hunting preserve, next fall, for as spon­ those Daytonians are in practice.

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not 50 yards distant, giving him an excellent shot. Mr. Pillsbury says From Sportsman’s Review, Chicago, that he expects to get a buck deer October 22nd, 1910 before he goes home, but that he Archery in recent years has been doubts if he would have a chance with generally considered as a pleasant a moose or bear. pastime, lacking the practical value S. C. A. A. BI-MONTHLY of shooting game in field and forest, TOURNAMENT although the late Maurice Thompson gave entertaining description of the The fourth bimonthly tournament successful use of the bow and arrow even in wing shooting. From Patten, of the Southern California Archery Me., under date of October 11th, Association was held on Easter Sun­ comes the following report of a deer day at Terminal Island Playground.

A dandy turnout, a fine day, and a having been killed by a Connecticut hunter, using the primitive but ef­ successful tournament marked the end of one of the oldest and most fective implements of the archer: F. B. Pillsbury, of Providence, has widely known archery ranges in made good with his little bow and Southern California. Because the arrow, contrary to the expectations land is to be taken over for use as of the guides and natives generally. an aii-port, it is neessary for the Mr. Pillsbury 1'eached here several archers to look elsewhere for a suit­ days ago, and announced that a bow able site. It is hoped that a large, and arrow was ample to kill game. centrally located range can be He had several bows, shorter and secured in the near future.

Leading scorers w-ere as follows: more powerful than the ordinary archery models, and plenty of special Men; Class A; Larry Hughes, 1447; L. M. Richmond, 1280; Geo. Parrish, arrows with long steel tips.

In the Mt. Chase and Shin Pond 1217; Class B; N. L. Rogan, 976; region he killed no end of partridges, Bernie Ahman, 925; Reed Williams, porcupines, and squirrels with his 844; (Class C; R. Quayle , 1067; J. arrows. Yesterday he brought in a Quayle, 1033; E. F. Sinclaire 957.

150 lb. doe shot with an arrow Women; Class A; Bee Hodgson, 949; through the heai-t, which, as far as Dorothy Ahman, 926; Ilda Hanchett, known, is the first killed in the Maine 883; Class B; Mae Collins, 690; Flo. Wood by that method since the days Heryford, 675; Anna Tullis, 603; Class C; Margaret Quayle, 811; Marg of the Indian hunters.

Mr. Pillsbury said he was sitting Parrish, 737; Helen Daulley, 634.

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®un^ by Brommers “I have been a-building me Turk­ eer, he would naturally get started ish bows,” writes Lou Stemmier. “If I on spirals. A cork screw being the don’t lose my wife and child, my only spiral I knew, I got ready to do happy home, burn down the shop the honors. But Scott meant spiral and go stark raving mad soon, it will curves and was talking about bows, be a miracle. I have a couple not liquids. that shoot swell. Dr. Elmer r" was over to see me the other f I am an old logger, and day, and brought a cobra i once I tended a hook for shaped affair from India Lv > .«* Paul Bunyon. Some smart What in the name of all ' young punks in the crew that’s holy those old sonsagave me a lot of trouble. Al­ guns had on the ball is a • ways experimenting, they mystery. Black magic is in• were. Now Cyril Ball and dipotori But ■D--. I’ll learn them ' dicated.

Chet turn up in Eugene, —sooner or later 1_ I shall Oregon. Through L. L. have made all •<" the mistakes ...... nave made I 'N**’ Daily they send me a car­ i’_ is Is possible to make, and it -j then I can’t help but do it jg#. < toon and a very improbable account of their latest flight right. Thirteen bows I have jJW. shoot. It seems they have smashed so far, but it can’t tuned up the old bow we be long now. I know the in­ used to shoot piling down to nermost secrets of buffalo and yak San Pedro. horns—can pick them in the dark. I It is Paul’s bow all right. But be have made so many glue foru(mlas careful, boys! Three years ago you that I smell like a goat and my wife missed San Pedro and hit Long refuses to sleep in the same room Beach. My hair stands on end yet. with me. And I still think your fish­ That’s no way to treat your old ing is lousy.” hooker.

Cheer up, Lou! I have exactly the same opinion of your fishing. And if you have to sleep in the doghouse “It is a nice day,” whispers Gladys you can throw butts on the floor.

Hammer whenever I approach her on . Wish I could. the shooting line. What she means is: “Get out of here, you big bum, or tune down that bull voice of yours!

The telephone rang the other night.

Don’t you know that this is sacred Keasey was on the wire, and would I be home that evening? “Sure,” I ground ?" said, “come along, but what are you doing down here?”

Meyer, the oil man, is minus a Gilman was in Hollywood, he told painting which now graces the Brom­ me, having his portrait painted for mers living room. I won’t bare the the next Olympics. sordid details, nor will I allow any­ “In Hollywood”, I howl, “And I body else to elongate the Meyer low­ will bet in the raw. If you come out here you wear pants, and that’s er extremities. I saw him first. Archflat.” I could hear him blush over the ry and painting are not the only arts wire. that require technique.

“That’s what the cops keep telling me,” he wails, so I know he is in safe hands. Somebody must have lent “The windmills in our part of the •urn a barrel, because out he camo country are now slowing down,” and we had quite a pleasant visit. writes G. P. McMillen of Canandai­ Scott St( gua, N. Y. “Can it be that you are on erling of Rochester, N. Y., also -3 Paid me a' your vacation?”

- a visit. Being an enginGEORGE BROMMERS

May, 1936

The love of archery endures through much tribulation to the end, arid “many waters” cannot quench it.

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HIGHEST GRADE BROADHEADS, to trade for Archery pictures. What have you? Howard McChesney, 2414 Portland Ave., Minneapolis, Minn.

100 GOOD ANCIENT arrowheads $3.00, 2 tiny bird arrows 25c. 2 war points 25c. Catalog 3c. H. Daniel, Dardanelle, Ark.

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