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November, 1937 Corvallis, Oregon Vol. 9
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SIXTY ARCHERS CAN’T BE WRONG By Walt Wilhelm ARCHERY PRESERVES IN PENN. State Game Commission ........
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OHIO NEWS THE KENTON ARCHERS
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WHAT THEY ARE DOING ABOUT IT By A. W. Eggers
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EDITORIAL
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6 THE FLAMING ARROW 6 REMEMBER THIS PICTURE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIELD ARCHERS By John L. Yount ........................... 7 OLYMPIC BOWMEN LEAGUE 8 By Kore T. Duryee THE BOYS IN THE LOWER BRACKETS 9 By Retired Basement Champion THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ARCHERY 10 Edited by George Brommers
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Sixty Archers Cant Be Wrong By Walt Wilhelm, Yervio, California
It was just another beautiful spring day when seventeen auto loads of archers met on the desert for a romp among the mesquite thickets and sand dunes. So we parked them right on the old Morman trail about three miles west of town in the heart of the Hell Brush country, and under the spreading limbs of giant cotton wood trees. The fire that cooked the weiners and boiled the coffee was kindled in the rut of the old trail where the pioneers had traveled with their bull teams ninety years before. One hun dred and fifty yards due south the great Mojave river was spread out a quarter mile wide as it slowly wound its way to Death Valley where it evaporates and sinks forever among the blazing desert dunes. Most all forenoon was spent visit ing and taking rides in the old “Prowler.” On one trip I had ten— how they held on as the old car bucked the dunes and knocked over the mesquite brush is still a mystery to me; but they stayed and liked it. The women also were game and could take it. Ada Hill scolded me a littlo just because she bounced out of the seat a couple of times. Dot Ahman, Veda Buffem, Ellie Jones and Julia Nelms sang “I’m an old cow hand,” as they rode that bucker through tthe rough spots. Margaret Wooduard, Mabel Bough ton and the Curtis girls yelled, “I’m pulling leather but I’m still on top; there’s a high one—drive over that.” I wish I had space, and could remem ber all the names and wisecracks I heard that day. Brother, would it make a story? After lunch the gang wandered around; some hunted; others shot nt targets we’d arranged for them. We had every thing from a quail to the wild boar and big horn sheep. Ken cut everything from card board and painted them and of course We had to explain to the folks just -what they were supposed to be. He did a fair job on the big horn sheep and they seemed to enjoy shooting at it as it stood majestically on the sky line
atop a large sand dune. Ed Hill shot its tail off with his second arrow but we all expected that. Mrs. (Little Glen) Curtiss won the prize in the women’s rabbit shoot— but she had plenty tough competition. Doc Bailey and Wooduard walked off with the men’s events but they knew they’d been in a match—these men made heart shots on the sheep and wild boar at Seventy yards using heavy hunting tackle. Let me whis per this, folks, if the Indians had had tackle like we have today, and shot like those birds did, settling the west would have been another story. An old friend of mine who passed to the great beyond a few years ago told me many a tale of his early day experiences on the desert when it was raw. This old friend had dodged many an arrow and had taken many an In-
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dian scalp. He said he was riding along the Virgin River in southern Utah and four Indians concealed among some short willows had shot several flights of arrows at him from a distance of sixty yards and he said he didn’t think any arrow had come within a foot of him. I’d hate like he— to have four of these mod ern archers shooting at me with mod-
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em tackle at sixty yards, and the horse running at that. I wish Dan Davis and his brother from New Jersey could have seen Bill Jones and Linkmeyer, along with Boughton and John Price, as they
Big Glen and Little Ken and Their Kills stalked the swiftly moving brush rabbits. These desert rabbits get in a clump of mesquite brush and just dart around. They’re plenty clever at keeping some obstacle between them and a bow shooter. It’s almost impossible to get a shot, but some of the boys collected just the same. Ask Price and Linkmeyer what mesquite brush does to shirt tails. They’ll tell you it takes one hand all the time keeping them tucked in. When Big Glen Curtiss—and when I say big I mean big; this bird weighs two hundred forty pounds when he’s in good humor; and when he snorts and says “Get out!” everybody gets out. Well, when he said, “Come on, kids, let’s get a bunny,” he was ad dressing his two daughters. They’re both good looking young women. They started hunting, this big bird slipping along like a cat and the two girls following at a distance, Jeanne car rying a camera, and Dorothy telling dad how to go about it all.
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I was on the other side of the brush and I heard Glenn say, “All right, you kids, turn your back and cover your eyes for Pop’s going to shoot.” And Pop did shoot and when I heard the arrow go thump I knew that Pop had connected. He re trieved his kill and after the girls took some pictures he tried to figure a way to get some arrows he’d shot at a moving rabbit in the middle of the thicket. Bernie Ahman was standing on one leg like a Holland stork, trying to get some sand burrs out of his sock. He’d just retrieved a couple of arrows from the brush and was urging Glenn to wade in and get his. Bernie wanted to hear Glenn swear. Just about that time Ken came along with his faithful old retriever panting at his heels. This old arrow retriever is none other than “Duke,” a big mongrel dog. Of course when I’m talking to Ken I always say shepherd. Anyhow I’ve seen old Duke make six or eight trips into the thickest alfalfa field and bring back that many arrows when we’ve been hunting sage grouse. And the old boy never wets a feather. Old Duke is also an ace arrow retriever from water. Duke can’t hear a thing but when Ken gave him the high sign he quick ly got Glenn’s arrows. Glenn was amazed and asked how he taught the dog to do it. Ken told him all he had to do was to know more than the dog. There wasn’t much game killed that day but every one said he’d had a good time and was coming back. And 1 guess sixty archers can’t be wrong.
Archery Preserves in Pennsylvania From State Game Commission Harrisburg, Pa. Archcry fans throughout Pennsyl vania are enthusiastically acclaiming the recent action of the Game Com mission for providing two 1000-acre archery preserves in which they can pursue their sport this fall. For quite a few years the “benders of the bow” have sought legislation which would enable them to hunt un molested in restricted areas of the (Continued on page 4)
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Ohio ?\[ews Here's a Secret To be read by rabbits and pheas ants only, in the interest of their hap piness and well-being: Every year a band of Indian mimickers gangs up on you with crummy bows and arrows and contraptions at your sa cred home and farm known as the archery game preserve near the vil lage of Norton, nine miles north of the town of Delaware. Last year some of the sharp-shooters caught you off guard and put about 25 o’ you in the bag. There are some fellers called Schweitzer (sounds German), Oelschleger, Folberth, Duttwciler, Curt Hill, and Millie too, who aren’t so very con siderate of you when you’re out peek ing around, and who arc going to collect a large gang again this year, including such strange sounding names as Heffernan, Roller, Cooper, Ireland, Kimberly, Someway, and others, and go after some more scalps on Saturday, November 20, while Ohio State’s football team is at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Third Annual Hunting Party Event:— Third annual hunting party of the Ohio Archery-Golf and Hunting Association, followed by group dinner and business meeting. Date:—Saturday, November 20 (the only Saturday during the pheas ant season) from daybreak until dark. Place:—The central Ohio Archery Hunting Preserve, a 500-acre tract at the north edge of Delaware County, reached by turning east off U. S. Hg’y No. 23, on the stone road at the south edge of the village of Nor ton, going east one-half mile. The point of turn is nine miles north of the city of Delaware. Eligibles:—Any resident of the state of Ohio, hunting without dog, and using only bow and arrow. The hunter must have regular hunting license and abide by all the game , laws of the state. Dinner afterwards:— Remember last year; bigger and better this year. Special announcement elsewhere. — Ohio A. G. and H. A. News Letter.
New Hunting Preserves Here’s more good news. The Con-
servation Division of the State, work ing in cooperation with our state Ar chery-Golf and Hunting Association, has just completed the leasing of two additional “archery shooting grounds” —hunting preserves on which game can be taken only with bow and arrow. One tract is of some 900 acres along the Grand River in Ashtabula County; the second is 400-odd acres in Warren County, east of Lebanon, effective in 1938. These two new tracts, along with the initial pre serve in Delaware County, now very nicely serve sportsmen in the three important archery centers of the state —southwestern, central, and north eastern Ohio. Thus the state of Ohio maintains her important leadership among the states of the nation in fostering conservation and protection of game through the establishment of archery shooting grounds which carry the strong support of a substantial state-wide sportsman’s organization. Thanks again to Mr. Wooddell and his Conversation Division and staff. — Ohio A. G. and H. A. News Letter.
Tunc Up for Archcry-Golf On the day after the hunting party, Sunday, November 21,* all archery golfers of the state are cordially in vited to participate in an informal shoot in Columbus, on the re-vamped state tournament course of the Ohio State University Physical Education department. The Cleveland gang is sure to be there strong as ever, so that means come on Cincinatti, Day ton,, Middletown, Versailles, Ashland, and the rest, and put the pressure on, for we cannot let that Cleveland crowd develop into another New York Yankees. Let’s show ’em and get some new stars on the state’s archery golf roster. —Ohio A. G. and H. A. News Letter.
The Kenton Archers By Ed Schcpcr, Covington, Ky. The Kenton Archers of Covington, Ky. held their second annual club shoot at their range in Devou Park on Sunday, October 17. Although this is only their second year as an organization they had 23
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members on the line. Trophies and awards were made to each of the first two in each class of shooters as follows: MEN’S DOUBLE AMERICAN Championship class: Glenn Evans .178—1108 Howard Benedict ,170—1092 Robin Hood Class: Harry Weingartner ....171— 911 Ed Scheper 164— 881 William Tell Class: R. Garnett 67— 273 G. Bodde 52— 190 LADIES’ DOUBLE JUNIOR AMERICAN Championship Class: Alta Benedict 176—1146 Helen Evans . 171—1105 Diana Class: Louise Schmeing .... 148— 715 Mildred Scheper .... 141— 709 Maid Marian Class: Jule Fedders . 109— 489 Adele Wandstrat .... 91— 380 JUNIORS Junior American: Chas. Ray Hood 102— 504 Ruth Scheper 63— 243 At their annual meeting held im mediately after the shoot, The Ken ton Archers voted to join the Nation al Archery Ass’n and in cooperation with the Louisville Archers are en deavoring to organize a Kentucky State Archery Ass’n. The two clubs also are interested in establishing a Tristate Ass’n consisting of Ken tucky, Ohio and Indiana and would appreciate hearing from other clubs in that area toward this end. At the annual election the follow ing officers were elected: Ed. J. Scheper, President; Harry Weingart ner, Vice President; Emma Scheper, Secretary; Adele Wandstrat, Treas urer; and Howard Benedict and Glenn Evans, along with the above, on the Board of Governors. The Kenton Archers likewise voted to introduce next year an instruction class for beginners and any others who wish to attend, for one hour each Sunday. During this hour all members are absolutely forbidden to do any shooting for themselves with their entire range turned over to this class. This is to be advertised repeatedly in the daily papers, and young and old are urged to attend this class free of charge.
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Archery Preserves (Continued from page 2) Commonwealth, and at last by dint of much perseverance and a cour teous approach to the problem, the recent Legislature granted this privi lege. The Game Commission at its meet ing September 30 approved the es tablishment of a reserve in the Alle gheny National Forest, subject to Federal approval, and one on State Game Lands No. 13 in Sullivan County. Both of these areas will have been properly marked before the small game season on November 1. Archers desiring to take advantage of these special reserves are required to pay an additional $2.00 license fee. Applications for archery licenses can be secured by writing the Game Com mission at Harrisburg. The use of the bow is becoming in creasingly popular in Pennsylvania and those who have never used this ancient implement of warfare in its more modern construction will be amazed at the proficiency and effect iveness which can be obtained through constant practice with the age-old weapon. Hunting regulations are the same in effect for archers as they are for those who use the shotgun and rifle. However, there are a few specific re quirements demanded of the bowman that must be adhered to. Non-resident hunters who hold the regular hunting license, will be privi leged to hunt with bow and arrow on either or both of the preserves. They will have to make application to the Commission for special Archery Preserve Permit and will be subject to all regulations as applied to resi dent hunters. We regret the omission last month of the account of the Rocky Mountain Championship tournament which was held at Denver, September 4, 5, 6. A new National round record of 72402 was made by Mrs. C. E. Love and , Mrs. James A Beal set a new 140yard clout record with a score of 194. Lowell Blankenship established a new record of 214 in the 180-yard men’s clout. Mrs. W. E. Haller shot a 90562 score in the American in win ning the championship.
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AVhdt They Are Doing About It Editor, “Ye Sylvan Archer”, Corvallis, Oregon In your September number you ask what Archery Associations are doing for the youngsters. While not able to speak for the Associations I would like to suggest what archers might do if they are interested in keeping Archery alive, as we so often read of. They can learn something of church and other organizations who know how to begin with the young. The enclosed circular letter is self explanatory except that “The Arrow” is a high grade felt jacket ornament. Gold stars and panels are fastened on with screw buttons. The Ishi Association consists en tirely of non-archers who have noth ing even remotely related to the game for sale, not even paradoxes or alibis. They had one meeting, about as wordy as an interview with a constipated Indian, elected a would-be archer as secretary or man of all work,—who happened to have a daughter among the Juniors—, made their donation and told him to get busy. There is no reason why similar organizations could not be started to take care of other groups. We believe that just two things should be guarded .against, whid,h cheapen the business. Do not spread an appropriation out over too much territory lest it become attenuated even unto ten cent store thinness and don’t sell anything—give it without strings. A. IF. Eygers To the Junior Archers Southern Archery Ass’n. After the 1937 S. A. A. Tournament a number of people who are interested in young archers, organized with the purpose of providing a few awards for the S. A. A. Juniors. Wishing to remain in the background, they call themselves the Ishi Association in memory of a real American archer, bowyer and fletcher of whom more is said below. This Association is not connected with the S. A. A. and its awards do not interfere with S. A. A. champion ship trophies, but it has adopted the
S.A.A. Juniors as its “home team”. All Ishi awards are for individual achievement. The Arrow, enclosed, is marked according to points scored per arrow in the S. A. A. Tournament. Up to three points the markers are stars. Four points and above are marked by bronze, silver and gold archer panels as they are won. Since a beginning has to be made some where all markers from one point up to your latest standing have been put on. The Ishi Six Gold award will be made to any holder of the Arrow, whether won in Southern or any other scheduled tournament, on statement signed by an offiicer of the organiza tion sponsoring the tournament. The Ishi Improvement award will be made after each S. A. A. Tourna ment to the boy and girl making greatest per cent improvement oven previous year. The Ishi Perseverance Award goes to any archer who increases his or her score in each successive round in the Southern Tournament. This is of course partly a matter of chance like Six Golds, but an archer who does not keep on trying would hardly have a chance. All trophies are permanent proper ty of the winner. As they are either made to order or engraved, and' the required number is not known be forehand, they cannot be awarded at the end of the tournament. They will be mailed as soon as possible thereafter. To some of you the name Ishi may be strange. Ishi was the last of the Yana oi* Yahi Indian tribe of North ern California. To most people he may have been just the last “wild” Indian in the United States, who still hunted with the bow and stone tipped arrows. To archers who knew him he was a natural nobleman and an artist whose small arrowheads of ob sidian were so finely made that they looked more like jewelry than wea pons. Ishi first came among white people in 1911. From a so-called savage he became in a short time the friend of the best among white men, such as (Continued on page 8)
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Editorial TELLIN’ YOU Dr. W. B. Parsons, Red Deer, Altai,, Canada—Your fellow-towns people, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Weaver, dropped in for a visit this week. Roy is another of those guys who were “dead-eye-Dicks” with bow and ar row when they were boys. Will Bullock, Swindon, England— Thanks for the subscription and will surely be looking for the hunting story. Shades of Robin Hood. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California Archers—Congratulations on the new archery reserves. Who is next? Kore Duryee? Seattle, Wash.,— And you complain! Blame the typo graphical errors in the last issue on the fact that Todd slobbered on the keyboard while setting Gerdner’s de scription of that steak, and made the keys slippery.
ing a running rabbit, or by an out standing show of sportsmanship. We hope archery clubs everywhere will help us make this club grow, but make those Flaming Arrows hard to get. By the way, folks, was this a Rover Shoot? Well, if you don’t think one hundred and twenty-five shooters and targets by Pop Harter at Dayton, Ohio, does not make a Rover Shoot, just ask the thirteen clubs attending. REMEMBER THIS PICTURE?
The Flaming Arrow By Hill, Mink and Stanley What is that, an arrow on your head? What is the Flaming Arrow? Look! There’s another Flaming Arrow! These were some of the remarks heard at the Dayton Rover Shoot. Here’s the dope. It was Hallowe’en, and a phantom message from the deceased archers was read, and its instructions car ried out. This message read, “Since our stay in the happy hunting grounds has been so long, our arrow supply is exhausted, and we are in need of a new supply.” In compliance with their request, a target was set up on the course, with instructions that each archer must leave an arrow. Naturally the archers were not in on the secret. At the end of the shoot, with a lit tle ceremony, the arrows were drop ped into a roaring fire. The howl of dismay was terrific. Oh boy! Those pet arrows! For each shaft offered on the al tar of sacrifice the owner received a small felt arrow to wear on his shooting clothes. This club of Flam ing Arrows we intend to enlarge by admitting new members only by some unusual feat, such as six golds, kill-
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Chas. A. Pace, then Utah state champion, got his picture in the Jan uary-February, 1930, issue of Ye Syl van Archer because he silenced a bunch of kidding gun hunters by splitting another arrow with a broad head at thirty-two paces. Charlie acted just as though he could do it every time and got away with it. And not one of the gun shooters of fered to do it with his 30-30.
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Southern California Field ^Archers By John L. Yount, Secretary With no tournament results to re port this month, the editor’s deadline October 30, our Southern California Field Archers bi-monthly tournament October 31, and no announcement for the next “conflict” because the No vember meet is to be held in con junction with the Redlands turkey shoot the Sunday before Thanksgiv ing and will probably be past history when you get this issue, I am going to try to start something. What is field shooting (other than hunting) and where are most of the best field shots? Some fellows I know think they are field shooting when after considerable deliberation they decide to shoot at a certain stump, then carefully step off the distance, go back to the point from which they decided to shoot, painstakingly adjust their sights, take a deep breath, draw the bow and hold until everything is just right, then release. My observations have been that the chief difficulty with this technique is in training the rab bits to stick around in exactly the right place. Owing to the climate, our Southern California rabbits are chuck full of pep. Another system which would seem to have its disadvantages, especially in game stalking, is the “T. Gallop” system as developed by Earl Stanley Gardner and shown on page two of the October issue. Seriously, we Southern Californians have developed a round for tourna ment field shooting that we think is pretty good. We hereby submit it for your approval and criticism (con structive, of course). We do all this in the hope that you archers in Ore gon, you Ohioans, or you fellows wherever field archery is shot, will challenge us to a field tournament to be shot by mail and governed by rules agreeable to all of us. Here are the rules for rovers as shot in Southern California. Tackle. Any weight bow and any type of arrow—11-32 in. blunt arrows are preferable. This may possibly be made compulsory later. No ad justable sights are allowed, but if
anyone wants a permanent sight fixed to the bow for point blank shooting, that is O. K. Course. We at present have four courses. The shortest one is 20 tar gets and the longest 29. The range of the shots varies from 15 to 80 yards, but the yardage is not mark ed. The whole plan somewhat re sembles a golf course with the target corresponding to the “green,” and the next shooting position to the “tee.” We have good permanent paths built and take advantage of all natural cover and hills for haz ards. We mix our shots as much as possible. For example, a short one in shadow will be followed by a long shot in the sunshine. One up the side of a hill precedes one down and across a ravine, etc. These courses are permanent. Champions are crowned and scores are kept the same as in any other tournament. If you think you can learn to shoot a course of this type, just laugh this off: In the last five tournaments four were won by a member of a club other than the home club and a person who was shooting over the course for the first time. Rules. At present we use two sets of rules. Redlands uses round tar gets with a bullseye half the size of the target. Four arrows are used and they score as follows: 5 points for a hit with the first arrow, 3 points for a hit with the second arrow, and one point each for a hit with the third and fourth arrow. Three ad ditional points are added for any ar row in the bull’s eye. The targets vary in size from 12 to 30 inches. This method of scoring is to keep target shots from using the first ar row to get a point with. The Art Young Archers of Los Angeles use animal targets marked with 5 points for a vital hit, 3 for a severe wound, and 1 each for shooting off various appendages. The targets are so divided by lines and marked. They shoot three arrows and score all alike. If you haven’t a place for this (Continued on page 11)
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Olympic ^Bowmen League The Seattle Archers are sponsoring club may enter and you select the four highest. An archer shoots only the 11th Olympic Bowmen League, once a week for score. You cannot starting the week of January 9, 1937, shoot several times and take your and lasting for ten weeks. _______ Entries must high score. Score of each end must be checked ••■X .JS be in by Janu ary 1, 1938. The by another archer before arrows are acceptance o f pulled. Report postcards will be mailed any entries af you to report the number of PER ter January 1 will be optional FECTS, number of GOLDS and the with the com total score of each archer and the total score of the team. Check all mittee. Entries will additions carefully and put the names i limited to on the card with the highest first, etc. A perfect is an end of six Golds. twenty teams. Mail the post cards the same night Do not enter a the match is shot. Reports received team unless you expect to con later than Wednesday of the follow tinue through ing week will be too late to get in vhe report for that week. Space alone out the ten matches of the will determine whether a detail re port will be included the following contest. v. Men and wo- week. The averages for the individ uals and teams will always be in. 0,e men teams may Each club may enter as many teams enter. Women may shoot on a man’s as it desires. Teams shooting on team but men are not eligible to Saturday and Sunday had better start shoot on a woman’s team. January 8th or 9th. Entry fee is $4.00 per team. Half of this may be paid with entry and Kore T. Duryee, Secretary, the balance with the report of the 301 White Building, first match. Seattle, Wash. The League Round is 90 arrows at 30 yards at a standard 48 inch target What They Are Doing face, shooting six arrows each end. Plain faces, with distinct lines are (Continued from page 5) O. K. We have been buying 75 lb. Dr. Saxton Pope, Mr. Arthur Young Craft wrapping paper in 48 inch and Mr. W. J. (Chief) Compton. It rolls. We use heavy pencil lines and was he who interested Dr. Pope in a 3 inch black gold in place of mak Archery and hunting with the bow, ing all of the Gold a solid black, as with the result that the Doctor wrote it is better for those using sights. some of the finest American books on Be sure your lines are correct in the subject and travelled as far as measurement. Africa to hunt big game. May be shot indoors or out.. You can read the complete story Each team to consist of four :mem of Ishi in Dr. Pope’s books. There bers of the club entering. is also a story about him in the July, All matches to be shot under com 1936, issue of “Ye Sylvan Archer” petitive conditions. Some archers written by Mr. Compton, who says can shoot better scores when only of him, “A true friend and noble two or three are shooting. This is character; everyone loved him who not considered competitive shooting. knew him.” The entire team does not have to With wishes for many future Golds, shoot at the same time providing the The Ishi Association above conditions are followed. Four A. W. Eggers, Secy., or more should be shooting. 454 N. Harrison Ave., It is not necessary to pick your team before scoring. Your whole Kirkwood, Mo.
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Lohe Boys in the Lower Brackets By THE RETIRED BASEMENT CHAMPION
Before proceeding to mete out jus tice to our rogues gallery, it gives me a lot of pleasure to greet two legitimate members, T. W. Brother ton and George Miles of Los Angeles. For years both these boys have been coming to our tournaments, paid their fee to help out their clubs, shot con sistently at or near the bottom of the list, cheered for the winners and generally proved themselves not only thorough sportsmen but no end of good fellows. Gentlemen, you are a credit to ar chery. Step right in, don a red rib bon and make yourself at home. You will have plenty of company before very long. It is a good thing that our detec tive agency is on the job, or we might have been taken in by the application of Forrest Nagler and Commdr. De Marbois of Toronto, Canada. Late advices from Operative Bill Joy tell us that Commander de Marbois kill ed two moose, two caribou, one black bear and a mountain goat with bow and arrow on a recent hunting trip in the Canadian Rockies. And Mr. Nagler is worse yet, if possible. In addition to all kinds of big game he specializes in hard-to-hit ptarmigans and pheasants. Gentlemen, we can’t take you. Or rather we will take you when we ad mit Roy Case of Wisconsin. And Roy has associated with you too long to be admitted without investigation. He, too, has plenty of big game on his conscience, if any. We don’t want to be snooty or high-hat, but really, we have to draw the line somewhere. A deputation of outraged wildcats called to protest the admittance of Dr. L. D. Pfouts of Utah and Capt. C. H. Styles of Berkeley, Calif. What made them wild, and what also makes our cougars rise up in justi fied indignation, is the fact that these two pretenders to a noble distinction are, and have been for years, notor ious and ruthless exterminators of anything in the cat line. I am sorry, but you two go out on your ears. At the time Pope and Young started the present revival of field archery you were right with
them. Personally, I like you, but justice is justice. Red ribbon, huh? C. B. Hutchinson, gallivanting in Hawaii, sends in his application. Sorry, Hutch, you have done a lot for archery as secretary in the bay re gions and as governor of the N. A. A. But in this case your score just does not qualify you. Don’t say there is no place provided for you, though. When you get back you can serve your time in the dog house for run ning off. Frank Horack, of Buffalo, N. Y., writes that if a dozen or two of the top archers die off he will surely win the National in 1940. And if a few hundred from the bottom drop out you may qualify for the red ribbon in 1950. Get the hell out of here, Frank. Walt and Ken Wilhelm, also Ed Hill, denisons of the desert, ask me to have a heart. Walt says that he can’t help that Gardner is such an unmitigated—well, writer of fiction. Walt, we will make an exception in your case, seeing that your injury keeps you from shooting, and we hope that you are progressing nicely. But as far as the other two are con cerned, I would just as soon have Ed’s brother Curtis, or Howard Hill. You see, Walt, you haven’t the best character witness in the world in the desert jackasses and wildcats, and what the hogs on Santa Cruz think of you I would hate to put down on paper. You birds can’t expect to shoot up everything on four legs and then have us admit you as brothers in good standing. We don’t want to seem unreasonable, but— If there is such a thing as a per sistent pain in my vertebrae it is Chester Stevenson of Eugene, Ore. Self-confessed slayer of eleven deer, cougar and what have you, he thinks the red ribbon would nicely fit his manly chest. A red stripe, laid on with a cat-o-nine-tails would be far more appropriate, if you ask me. I have had personal contact with this obnoxious imposter and will tell the world to watch him. I must be aw fully hard up for game if I ever go hunting with him again.
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73he Lighter Side of Archery By THE DOGHOUSE PHILOSOPHERS
Cascadian Bowmen Hold World’s Flight Record By Chet Good and Cyril Ball
plainly see from the picture, it is the same bow. We rigged up the shooting machine as pictured and used telephone poles with sod-buster plows for the arrow points, leaving the cross-arms on for feathers. To pull this giant bow we used a 5 by 7 Crackerjack logging Donkey. This engine is built to work under 250 lbs. of steam but we could not get the arrows back even after greasing the bull-block with bear’s grease until we had 1500 lbs. of steam in the boiler. Some day we hope to have enough members in the Club to pull it by hand but at present the Donkey will have to do. Paul’s bookkeeper, Johnny Inksling er figured out the trajectory after three days work with his calipers and slide rule. We were astonished when he told us that the arrow in its 94
Soon after the Cascadian Bowmen organized we decided to go after the World’s Flight Record and to date we have hit the Sun four times. Some of the members thought the Sun was too close but it was finally chosen because on the more distant objects it would be hard to call the shots and California’s 200 inch spotting-scope is not in operation yet to verify our hits. Put on a pair of rawhide glass es any bright day and you can see the four hits we have made. This is how we did it. After due deliberation of the Ways and Means Committee it was decided to ask the sage advice of our oldest charter member, Paul Bunyan. Paul cogitated a while and finally said that he had a bow that ought to do the trick but we would have to figure out some way to draw it ourselves as Old Babe, his blue Ox, who used to pull it wouldn’t be available because he was let out on a contract to graze off /jf the high grass of one of the Canadian Provinces so r? Ll the Caribou could get around. It was an old 270 ft. Onionwood bow /,'==• which has a string of //, I 7568 skunk hides braided together to give the necLkSWWS’Ht ? . / essary strength. Paul had " used the bow when he was . president of the HighBall Lumber Shipping Association to deliver 90 ft. piling to San Pedro Bay. He flung those •sticks down there that fifteen hundred miles, 107 a minute, as easy as you or I would shoot a 28 in. arrow the shortest distance of the American Round. As you can Wt AMA SMAWCIUB OvrwE CAN MSIHINCS IM A B» WAY
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million mile flight would have a dip of 52 ft. 3 in. instead of travel ing in the usual rainbow curve. Johnny worried and figured some on a point of aim, but Paul came along and said to just aim her point-blank, because he’s shot that bow and knew what she’d do. Paul also told us never to waste time whittlin’ on a Hossradish stave when you can get an Onionwood stave because the latter is much the stronger. Paul says that he’s got a few good staves left that he cut off his Pyramid forty during the winter of the Blue Snow, and they are all well seasoned. Our first shot was a failure. We aimed too low and the arrow followed the curvature of the earth. If it hadn’t caught fire from the friction and burned, undoubtedly it would have circumnavigated the globe and hit one of us back of the ear and the account of this wonderful flight shot would have never been made public. We put a 400 lb. cake of ice on the bow in place of the arrow plate, nailed a “No-U-Tum” sign on the next tel ephone pole we shot and made a hit, but just a trifle high. As near as we can ascertain the time of the arrow’s flight is something over fourfifths of a second. The strain on the equipment is un believable. The cables had to be re placed after each shot and the Donkey engine every third shot. The DoubtIt bird, shown sitting on the top nock has never returned, but there has been an odor of burned feathers in the air for the past week. The four shots following the first were all hits as you can plainly see for yourself, but the sixth may never be released. Our president, who is the chief dispatcher with the axe, has a bad set of cramps and cannot cut the release cable. Scientists will undoubtedly soon an nounce the existence of four new sun spots thus verifying our claims, or if you want conclusive proof drop out to our club range at the fair grounds next Wednesday and we will show you the axe we used to cut the re lease cable. Dear Dogosophers: It goes on and on. In fact it seems intermi— .intermeda—, undertemi—, well, unending. That wouldn’t be so
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bad if it were not for the fact that just about the time I feel things are becoming clear and show a pattern of reason behind it all, a disturbing element pops up like a weasel and damme I’m losted again. For example, at the National I shot on a target (the only one left on the right end which was, in turn, the wrong end), with a Parker. There was an advantage in that his good ends found their way on my score card and he got my poor ones in return. Please don’t tell him. Personally, his ends didn’t help me a bit. Well, to make a long story longer, I filed him away in my mental cabinet, properly classified. Then I met a Parker archer at a local shoot and he too, is number ed in my brain (ahem!). Now the disturbing element is this: in the June issue of the Archer and in the September issue, mention is made of another Parker. Now, boys, in all fairness, What-th’ ’ell? Who is this man and why and does his mother know about him? There are lots of Napoleons. We have several acres of them in our local home for worn-out Philosophers. But when it comes to having all the pseudo-archers named Parker, then I protest. Please, Williams or Brommers, or Rohm or someone, who is Parker? Love and Kisses Clem Clement C. Parker Norristown, Pa. P. S. Also, who is this Brommers? P. S. No. 2. A little Yardleys Lav ender sprinkled on the feathers, when used in an electric-trimmer, makes a swell stench.
S. C. FIELD ARCHERS (Continued from page 7) type of range, just put a bunch of targets in a cow pasture and mix up the ranges, then tell us what you have and we will take you on at your own game. At least let’s give this a little thought and do a little cor responding. We might start some thing, who knows?
Redlands Archery Club was .in vited by the Redlands Country Club to give an exhibition of their archery skill by competing over the 18 hole golf course with the best golfers Red lands afforded Saturday afternoon,
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October 23. The result was that the archers won. Par on the course is 70. John Yount won the tournament with a score of 73; Donald Hunting ton was second with 74; Theodore Curtis, third, with 78. The lowest golfer’s score was 78. In each four some the archers had the edge on the golfers. Members of the archery club competing were: Donald Hunt ington, 'Theodore Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Ahman, and Irving Davis. A four inch playground ball was used for the cup by the archers. The ladies of the Country Club served tea after the match.
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