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Table of Contents 3

5Oth Jubilee Tournament

General Formulas for Static Strains Stresses in Drawing a Bow

By Dr. C. N. Hickman.. ......

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Utah State Tournament

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Pacific Archery Association Tournament

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Coquille Shoot

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San Leandro Tournament

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Washington

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Tournament

My First National Tournament

By Roy I. Case . ... ..

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Fiftieth Jubilee Tournament

By Louis C. Smith, Secretary, from N. A. A. Bulletin The Annual Championship tourna­ ment of The National Archery Asso­ ciation, which was held at Chicago, Ill., August 12-15 was a fitting one, both as to place and character, with which to celebrate fifty years of or­ ganized archery as a sport in the United States.

The first championship tournament of The N. A. A. was held at Chicago in 1879. The 50th tournament was also held in Chicago, and on a range that was laid out within sight of the place where the first meet was staged.

The setting for this 50th tourna­ ment was rather unusual but unsur­ passed. The targets were set up in the recently-built Grant Park, which is located directly on the lake front in the down-town section of the city.

This Park is of generous size and afforded ample room for the row of sixty targets. The shooting was toward the north, and on the east there was the broad expanse of Lake Michigan while on the west there was Chicago’s unique and interesting sky­ scraper sky line which continued around to the north and conveniently provided points of aim at the 100 yard range. Half a mile beyond the tar­ gets and in front of the northern sky line was the famous Buckingham fountain, said to be the largest in the world, and which made a magnificent spectacle when illuminated at night.

The very efficient tournament com­ mittee headed by K. L. Hartshorn, which had charge of all the appoint­ ments for the tournament, made very complete arrangements for the com­ fort of the contestants.

A row of seventeen tents without sides situated behind the shooting line provided shelter from the sun for those who were waiting their turn to shoot. A refreshment tent still fur­ ther’ in the rear supplied the wants of those who wished sandwiches, pastry, cold or hot drinks, confections, etc. A metal souvenir- badge was given to each archer which not only contained a place for the name but also had de­ tachably mounted on it a target in colors bearing the wording “National Archery Association Jubilee Tourna­ ment 1930.” This target could be re­ moved from the badge and worn in one’s buttonhole.

The tournament was also notewor­ thy because of the high character of the shooting and the records which were broken. There was a record at­ tendance, 121 shooters, five more than last year at Santa Barbara. A new record in a single American Round was made. Russell Hoogerhyde made 89—673, which is 15 points better than the 90—658 made by E. K. Rob­ erts last year.

Miss Betty Gene Hunt of Los An­ geles, shooting in the Intermediate Class made a perfect end at 30 yards, the first time this had ever been done by a lady at a National Tournament.

The most spectacular record-break­ ing events were in the flight shoot­ ing. Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts of Pitts­ burgh, Pa., made a shot of 299 yards, 1 ft., 2 in., over 26 yards better than the record of 273 yds., 2 in., made last year by Mrs. Homer Prouty. In the Regular Style Flight shoot event Roy Case, Jr., of Racine, Wis., made a shot of 362 yds., 1 ft., 5 in., which

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bettered the record of 353 yards, 10 in. made last year by Dr. G. A. Cathey.

But the climax in record-breaking came when L. L. Dailey of Monmouth, Ore., shot an arrow 424 yards, 2 ft., 8 in., almost a quarter of a mile. Al­ though this occurred in the Free Style

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event, yet the arrow was shot in reg­ ulation form, standing on his feet, holding the bow in one hand and drawing the string with the other.

This establishes not only a U. S. rec­ ord, but a world’s record for a flight shot with a long bow.

Among the spectators who wit­ nessed the first tournament in 1879 was a young man about 27 years of age who was very much interested in

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archery. The next year he not only was present at the tournament but was one of the contestants. Two years later (in 1882) he won the championship, and also held the of­ fice of Secretary. Ever since he has been a familiar figure at the various annual tournaments and twenty-nine years later (in 1911) he won the York Round. At this jubilee tourna­ ment, when in his eightieth year he took 31st place out of an entry list of 69. He has also served The N. A. A. three times as President, (1907, 1909, 1924) and is the present 1st Vice President.

Those who are familier with the history of The National Archery As­ sociation do not need to be told that we are referring to Homer S. Taylor of Greenfield, Mass.; a genuine sportsman, a real archer, a true gen­ tleman and a most delightful fellow in every way.

There is probably no other sport but archery in which a person could actively take part in Championship tournaments over a period of more than 50 years as Mr. Taylor has done.

That archery is a sport adapted to all ages is evidenced by the fact that those taking part in this jubilee tour­ nament ranged all the way from 12 to 82 years of age. G. E. Culver of Stev­ ens Point, Wis., having the distinction of being the oldest contestant.

The events of the tournament were run off smoothly and on scheduled time, due to the efficient management of our popular Field Captain, Jimmy Duff and his able assistant, Miss Har­ riet Case, the Lady Paramount.

After the award of prizes on Fri­ day night, Roy Case gave the archers a treat by showing moving pictures which he had taken of the tourna­ ment.

At the annual business meeting (Continued on Page 14)

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General Formulas for Static Strains and and Stresses in Drawing a Bow

By C. N. Hickman, Ph. D., Long Island, N. Y. (Editors Note—This article is the first of a series of scientific articles prepared for Ye Sylvan Archer by Dr. Hickman. The next article will appear in an early issue.)

Introduction It is hoped that we may be able to present a series of articles dealing with some theoretical and experimen­ tal aspects of archery. The articles will deal with two major divisions of the subject.

1. Internal ballistics, which treats the conditions at the bow during the draw, release and discharge of the arrow.

2. External balilstics, which deals with the trajectory of the arrow and with the form or shape of the arrow.

The first subject will be subdivid­ ed into (1) Static Conditions, and (2) Dynamic Conditions.

The second subject will be sub­ divided into (1) The Trajectory, and (2) The Arrow.

All of these subdivisions will be further subdivided as may be deemed necessary.

Our first articles will deal with the static conditions at the bow. By this, we mean the forces, strains, stresses, displacements, etc., without any ef­ fects due to motion.

Development of Formulas It is possible to express mathe­ matically, the tension in the string, the force on the drawing fingers, the motion of the bow tips, the strains in the bow and the work as functions of the draw.

There are many ways in which these expressions may be obtained.

The method used here was selected as being best fitted to the solution of the many problems to be presented.

It must be understood that in the development of these equations, cer­ tain assumptions must be made rela­ tive to the manner in which a bow bends. The results will therefore not be exact for all bows. However, at a later date, the errors introduced by these assumptions will be discussed in detail. The bending of most bows is sufficiently similar to the assump­ tions made here so that no serious errors will be introduced. It will be shown that the mathematical results agree very closely with experimental data.

We shall assume that as the bow is drawn, there is a certain length at the handle which does not bend and that the rest of each limb bends in the arc of a circle.

We shall also assume that the nor­ mal force of each limb at the tip is proportional to the angle made by a line joining the bow tips with the tangent to the circular arc at the tip.

(We have experimental data to prove that the last assumption is true.)

Referring to Figure 1, we shall write what the various letters repre­ sent. Other letters used in develop­ ing the formulas will also be defined.

B=% length of bow.

S=% length of string.

L=% length of unbending portion of bow.

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Y=% length of line joining bow tips.

Yi—Y—L. H=distance from center of bow to line joining bow tips.

Ho=H for bow at rest (i.e., dis­ tance from bow to string.)

A=angle made by line joining bow tips with tangent at bow tip.

Aq=A for bow at rest.

E=angle between bow string and line joining bow tips.

E=O for bow at rest. f= normal force at bow tip. fo=f for bow at rest.

P=distance from arrow nock to line joining tips.

P=O for bow at rest.

D=P + H = Draw = Ho for bow at rest.

T=tension in bow string.

To=T for bow at rest.

C = a constant depending on strength of bow.

F==force on drawing fingers.

N”displacement of bow nocks along their curves.

No=N for bow at rest.

W==work done in drawing bow.

Having explained the letters to be used, we shall develop the formulas.

Since we assume that the normal force at the bow tip is proportional to the angular displacement of the tip: (1) f = AC or f/C = A Where C is the factor of pro-

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portionality depending on the strength of the bow. (We shall choose C so that f will be ex­ pressed in pounds.)

Yi=(180 Bi sin A) / 3.1416 A by trignometry.

Y=Yi + L by definition of let­ ters used.

H=Yi tan A/2 by trignometry.

Hq=(S—L) tan Ao/2 by equa­ tion 4 and definition of letters used.

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D=H + P by definition of let­ ters used.

(9) T = f / sin (A + E) by trignometry.

(10) T/C = A / sin (A + E) by sub­ stituting from equation (1).

(11) To/C = A/sin A from equation (10) and definition of letters used.

(12) F = 2T sin E by trignometry.

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(16) Ao = 2$'tan-1 Ho/ (S—L) from equation (5).

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(18) No — 3.1416 Ao (Bo—L) / 360 from equation (17) and defini­ tion of letters.

(19) W = integral from x = D to x = Ho of f x d x where F = f x.

(20) W/C = F(D—Ho / 24C ap­ proximately.

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We therefore have: B = 36", L = 4", Ho = 6", A„ = 21.7° and S = 35.24".

We may obtain the values of N, Y, H, P, T/C, F/C and E for various values of A. We shall write these in tabular form. (See table 1.)

Making use of the values given in the table we may draw curves show­ ing the value of N, T/C, F/C, A and W/C as functions of the draw D. The curve for N shows us the dis­ placement of the bow tips for any draw. It should be noted that the displacement of the tip is always about one-half the total draw after the bow is about one-half drawn.

The curve for T/C shows us the tension in the string for any draw.

The tension in the string is highest when the bow is at rest. As the bow is drawn the tension decreases for awhile and then increases. The total change in the tension does not amount to very much. In other words the tension remains reasonably constant throughout the full draw. This may easily be proven by placing a spring balance in the string of a bow and reading the pounds tension as the string is drawn. As shown by the

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curve, the tension will be greatest when the bow is at rest. It will not change very much throughout the full draw. This subject will be discussed in greater detail in subsequent arti­ cles.

The curve for F /C shows the force on the fingers during the draw. Foia bow, the constant of which it unity, (i.e., C = 1) the force may be read directly in pounds.

The curve for A gives some idea of the stress in the bow. It will be shown in other articles how this stress is affected by “set” in bow, shape of bow, etc.

The curve for W/C shows the work done in drawing the bow. It will be seen by those mathematically inclined that the work is proportional to the square of the draw, (i.e., if you dou­ ble the draw you increase the work by a factor;/ of 4.)

Having developed a set of formu­ las and shown how to use them to obtain the desired curves, we shall in subsequent articles show the value to be obtained from this work. The pres­ ent article may, therefore, be consid­ ered as a foundation on which we may later reach some important con­ clusions.

THIRD ANNUAL UTAH STATE ARCHERY TOURNAMENT

By S. D. Green, Salt Lake City, Utah With new marks being established in almost every event, the third An­ nual Utah State Archery Tournament was held Sunday, September 21, 1930, at Payson, Utah. Two ex-champions, Miss Katherine Rauch and Dean Green, both of Salt Lake City, re­ gained their state championships.

Miss Rauch setting a new mark of 362 in the Columbia Round and Mr. Green making a new high score of 520 in the American Round. The de-

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fending titleholders, Miss Jeannette Herron of Salt Lake and Charles A. Pace of Payson, finished second in the target event, though both set new flight records of 224 yards, 10 inches and 358 yards, 10 inches, respective­ ly, and Miss Herron also captured the Clout Shoot and the All-Around Cup. Mr. Green, with a second place shot of 344 yards, 10 inches, and third place in the Clout, garnered enough points to also defeat Pace for the Men’s All-Around Trophy.

The Men’s Clout Shoot was won

by Roy Lundquist of Salt Lake, with a team mate, Paul Davies, second.

Mrs. Mabel Kelly of Ogden pressed Miss Herron and Miss Rauch closely for all-around honors, taking second in the flight, third in the target and fifth in the clout.

The first official Junior Champion­ ship of Utah was won by Maurice Scanlon of Salt Lake, who made a fine score of 448 in the Junior Amer­ ican Round and placed second in the flight and clout. Dean Holden of Payson took runner-up honors in the Junior All-Around by making a good flight shot of 250 yards, 1 inch and taking third in the target and fourth in the clout. Mardee Robinson of Salt Lake captured the Clout Shoot and took second in the target and fifth in the clout to finish in third place for All-Around honors.

With archers present from Salt I ake City, Ogden, Provo, American Fork and Payson, the entry list was just double that of last year, evidence of the steady growth of archery in Utah.

Beginning with this issue we expect to publish Ye Sylvan Archer monthly.

Circumstances over which we had no control prevented publication of an issue since the July-August number.

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Pacific Archery Association ^Tournament Reported by Frank R. Morrissey, Oakland, California Wind, that varied from a zephyr to half a gale, furnished a perfect alibi for failure at perfect scores at the Pacific Archery Association’s annual mid-summer tournament, held August 2 and 3 at Hilgard Field, University of California, at Berkeley.

Sixteen women and forty-two men faced the targets when the starting whistle blew and six men’s teams and three women’s teams competed in the final event of the meeting.

When the P. A. A. was formed but a single day was devoted to the an­ nual tournament and in order to pro­ vide competition at the longer- ranges the Metropolitan round was adopted as the standard for association cham­ pionship, the American round being started, for those who prefer the short ranges, when the 60 yards dis­ tance was reached. The trophy which was presented for the association championship, basedi on the Metropolitan round, is to be awarded to the archer shooting highest -t score at any one of three annual tournaments.

Since the association has expanded there has grown a demand for- the standard rounds and the single York has been added. However, because the Metropolitan trophy still remains to be shot for (ownership will be de­ cided in 1931) it was necessary to shoot the Metropolitan round this year in addition to the single York.

To clarify the situaton the associa­ tion based its “open” championship on total scores in the single York and single American and the “Associa­ tion” championship on the score made at the Metropolitan. These rounds, of course, were for the men. The women shot the single National, which was

an added event this year, and the sin­ gle Columbia, which has always been shot.

Three days before the tournament the weather had been mild, clear and almost dead calm. When the shooting opened at 2 o’clock Saturday after­ noon at the single York the sky was overcast with a high fog, the wind gusty and cold.

Miss Isabelle O’Connor, of the Greenwood Archers, Oakland, a “dark horse,” won the Single National with 57 hits, 255 score, with Mrs. H. G. Clark, San Leandro Archers, second with 50 hits, 193 score, and Miss Ethel Higgins, Greenwood, third with 42 hits, 186 score.

F. R. Harville, Vallejo, shooting un­ der the colors of the Greenwood Arch­ ers, won the single York with 110 hits, 480 score. Cassius Hayward Styles, Greenwood, was second with 95 hits, 438 score and W. R. Benjamin, Sac­ ramento Archery Club, third with 81 hits, 369 score.

Following the National and York the Robin Hood wand shoot was held, the men shooting 30 arrows at 80 yards and the women 30 arrows at 60 yards. A. B. Downing, Modesto, scored three hits in the men’s wand and Mrs. J. P. Hendrix, Sacramento, and Mrs. H. G. Clark, San Leandro, tied with two hits each at the women’s wand. In the shoot-off Mrs. Hendrix was winner.

Sunday morning at 10 o’clock shoot­ ing was begun on the single Columbia and the Metropolitan, the weather re­ maining the same, or, as one archer said, if anything a little more so.

Mrs. George Lewis, San Leandro, a novice, won the single Columbia, with

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70 hits, 402 score. Mrs. H. G. Clark was second with 71 hits, 385, and Miss O’Connor third with 60 hits, 362 score.

At the Metropolitan, Styles “sneaked up” on Harville, beating him by 13 points, with 134 hits, 726 score.

Harville had 133 hits, 713 score. H. G. Clark, San Leandro, was third with 124 hits, 657 score.

At the American, in which scores at 60 yards, 50 yards and 40 yards of the Metropolitan were counted forthose who participated in the longer event, Styles was high with 88 hits, 528 score; Harville second with 87 hits, 513 score. W. R. Benjamin, third with 87 hits, 499 score.

“Open Championship” was won by F. R. Harville, with a total of 197 hits, 993 score, Styles second with 183 hits, 966 score and Benjamin third with 168 hits, 868 score.

In the team shoot, which was held in the afternoon, Greenwood Archers No. 1 team, composed of Harville, Styles, Vance Brown and Wallace Stoneman, shot 1782. San Leandro No. 1 team, composed of H. G. Clark, H. S. Eberhard, J. W. Bridwell and F. R. Morrissey, shot 1684 and San Leandro No. 2 team, composed of George Lew­ is, R. R. Litchfield, S. F. Delvin and C. F. Gilman, shot 1341. By one of those freaks of archery it developed that San Leandro apparently had split its best team shots onto two teams, for scores of its four high men totaled 1785. Other teams competing were Fresno, which scored 1242, Green­ wood No. 2, which scored 1190 and Sacramento, which scored 1113.

In the women’s team event San Le­ andro, composed of Mrs. H. S. Eber­ hard, Mrs. J. W. Howell, Mrs. H. S. Clark and Mrs. George Lewis, took first place with a score of 1597.

Greenwood, composed of Miss Ethel Higgins, Mrs. Roberta Lietch, Miss

Isabelle O’Connor and Mrx. >5.

Perrine, wan second with J 234 a'-C Fresno, composed of Jins. Cr-uar-e>.

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Reaves and Mrs. H. O. Neal, was third with 497.

The association was unusually for­ tunate in the matter of trophies and prizes.

For the women’s championship, Miss O’Connor was awarded a silver cup; Mrs. H. G. Clark a medal for second place and Mrs. W. G. Lewis an arrow case for third.

For the Columbia round Mrs. Lewis was awarded a silver cup and Mrs. Clark a medal for- second place.

For high score at 60 yard range Miss O’Connor received a silver medal.

For high score in team round Mrs. Eberhard was given a set of target arrows.

For high end at 50 yards Mrs. Lewis received a point of aim marker.

For the wand shoot Mrs. Hendrick won a silver arrow.

For the team shoot the San Lean­ dro women’s team was awarded a sil­ ver cup, and each member of the win­ ning team was given a medal.

In the men’s events, F. R. Harville captured the silver cup emblematic of the open championship. C. H. Styles was given second place medal and W. R. Benjamin, third, an arrow case.

In the Metropolitan round Styles received a silver cup and Harville a second place medal.

In the American round (Metropoli­ tan round competitors disqualified) Benjamin won the silver cup and H. R. Clark the second place medal.

For high score at 100 yards in the Metropolitan round Styles won the silver cup which he presented to the association last year but waived pos-

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session in favor of Harville, who was second.

For high score in team shoot Har­ ville was given a set of hunting ar­ rows.

For high end at 60 yards Harville and S. E. Perrine, Greenwood, were tied. Perrine, on the toss of a coin, won a chromium plated ground quiver.

For the want shoot A. B. Downing won a silver arrow.

For the team shoot Greenwood Archers were given a silver cup and each team member a medal.

As consolation prize, for low score, R. B. Black, Oakland, was given a dozen spruce arrow staves.

At the business meeting, which was held following the annual dinner, W. C. Burgess, Berkeley, member of the Greenwood Archers, was re-elected to the presidency. Dr. F. W. Epley, of the Ahwahnee Archers, San Fran­ cisco, was elected first vice-president.

H. S. Eberhard, San Leandro Archers, was elected second vice-president, and J. W. Bridwell, of the same club, was elected secretary-treasurer.

The association voted to assess each club a fee of 25 cents for each member of that club, the object being to bind the clubs together with a feeling of responsibility toward the association as well as to assist the treasury. It was also voted to include a flight shoot and juvenile and intermediate events in next year’s tournament, the place to be announced later.

COQUILLE, OREGON, SHOOT Mr. Coleman of Corvallis took the honors in the men’s division of the state archery shoot held in Coquille on Labor day and won the honor of being first to have his name inscribed on the Durant cup.

Mrs. Perma Harris of Coquille cap­ tured first place in the women’s di­

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vision in the target events, thus win­ ning the Stone-Burr-Gouthier cup.

Grover Gouthier of Coquille made a fine American round, winning over the day’s champion by eighteen points but dropped back in the York round to such an extent that he was elimi­ nated from the finals.

John Stone of Coquille won the flight shoot with a distance of 346 yards. Gouthier was second and Don Donaldson third in this event.

The junior shooters were not very much in evidence. Harrison Greenough won in the target event and H. Storey of Sweet Home took second, while in the clout and flight events, Storey took both first with Greenough a close second.

Following is a list of winners in the principal events, with their scores: These scores are counted without adding hits, which system was adopt­ ed for the cup shoot.

Men’s American Round—Gouthier, 517; Coleman, 499; Harvey, 487.

Men’s York Round—Coleman, 440; Harvey, 410; Burr, 386.

Combination—for the Durant Cup —Coleman, 939; Harvey, 897; Burr, 849.

Men’s Clout—Trachsel, 201; Stone, 167.

Women’s Columbia Round—Harris, 454; Trachsel, 393.

Women’s National Round—Harris, 311; Trachsel, 264; Coleman, 192.

Women’s Clout — Trachsel, 258; Harris, 170; Coleman, 110.

Women’s Combination for Local Cup—Harris, 765; Trachsel, 657.

Perfect weather as is usual at this time of year in Coquille, with very little wind, made it an ideal day for the meet. The attendance was very fair and quite a gallery of spectators watched the events.

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The San Leandro Tournament Reported by Frank R. Mor rissey, Oakland, California On September 22, R. R. Litchfield scored 1108 points to win the double American round in the first annual tournament of the San Leandro Arch­ ers’ club.

J. W. Bridwell was second with a score of 1082. H. S. Eberhard was third with 1056.

Mrs. H. G. Clarke captured the women’s championship in the double Columbia round, with a score of 727.

Mrs. George W. Lewis and Mrs. H. S. Eberhard tied for second, with 703.

The boys’ juvenile championship was won by Dick Clarke with 292 for the Junior American round. Gor­ don Clarke placed second with 156.

Jean Howell took the girls’ juvenile championship with 262. Ruth Potter was second with 180. The balloon shoot for men was won by John T. Potter; Mrs. J. H. Howell won the women’s event; Dick Clarke, the boys’ and Dorothy Delvin the girls’.

J. H. Delvin won the wand shoot for the men and Mrs. Harmon Eberhard for the women. The novelty shoot won by Frank R. Morrissey for the men and Mrs. J. H. Howell for the women was devised by this club and is explained as follows: It is the “elimination shoot.” Five ends of six arrows are shot. At the first end all hits in the target are scored as usual. But at the second end all arrows that missed the target or struck the white at the first end are eliminated, the archer being forced to shoot with only the remaining ar­ rows. At the second end the white ring is also dropped from the target and arrows that strike in it are scored as misses. Arrows that strike in the black ring at the second end are

scored, but are eliminated for the third end, and the black ring is also dropped, so that on the third end hits in the white and black are scored as misses. On the fourth end the blue ring is dropped and all hits must be in the red and gold, and at the fifth end the red ring is dropped and all hits must be in the gold.

A checker-board round, was also shot, when the target faces were re­ moved and checker-board faces sub­ stituted. Only hits in the white were counted, and they must be wholly sur­ rounded by white. An arrow that cuts two colors is called a miss, theoreti­ cally having gone through the hole represented by the black square. This round was not scored officially.

Harry G. Clarke was elected presi­ dent of the club. Other- officers are Horman S. Eberhard, vice president; R. R. Litchfield, secretary, and Mrs. Dorothy Lewis, treasurer.

WASHINGTON STATE TOURNAMENT J. T. McLean, Secretary The Annual Washington State Tournament was held June 7th and 8th at Tacoma, with 59 archers com­ peting for high scores for the men, women and junior rounds.

Sunday shooting started with a flight shoot, Finch Haggard taking first place for the men, 309 yards, 2 feet, 11 inches. Lorna Haggard took first place for the women with 229 yards.

It was decided at the banquet Sat­ urday night to hold the next year’s tournament at Olympia.

Winners in the single York round were Sumner Osborne, Seattle, 106468; W. J. Parsons, Seattle, 107-457;

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F. Zallinger, Seattle, 87-411. Ameri­ can round: J. H. Kerchen, Seattle, 88560; Sumner Osborne, 89-559; L. H. Landahi, Seattle, 86-542.

The winning junior boys scored as follows: Junior American round, Gor­ don Harrison, Seattle, 71-385; Cliff Lervick, Seattle, 55-261; Ed. Snodvik, Seattle, 62-246. Junior Metropolitan round, Harrison, 85-549; Lervick, 81459; Snodvik, 74-378.

The high scores in the women’s events were: Single National, Lorna Haggard, Seattle, 53-219; Jane Adams, Seattle, 51-201; Mrs. C. A. Parker, Se­ attle, 48-200. Single Columbia round, Mrs. Haggard, 64-396; Mrs. Parker, 70-364; Mrs. Adams, 69-351.

Men’s Clout, K. T. Duryee, Seattle, 39-227; R. Zallinger, Seattle, 40-182; W. "J. Parsons, 39-173. Women’s clout, Olive Opgenorth, Tacoma, 35-191; W. De Gallier, Seattle, 29-135; Mrs. T. C. Lewis, Seattle, 26-118. Junior clout, Gordon Harrison, 30-140; Arthur Longworth, Tacoma, 26-134; Rudy Zallinger, Seattle, 21-107. Metropoli­ tan round, Sumner Osborne, 124-730; W. J. Parsons, 124-692; Thomas Belshaw, Seattle, 122-678.

NATIONAL TOURNAMENT (Continued from Page 4) Canandaigua, N. Y., was selected as the place for the tournament of 1931 and the following officers were elect­ ed for next year: President: Carl G. Thompson, Can­ andaigua, N. Y. 1st Vice President: Dr. G. A. Ca­ they, Portland, Ore. 2nd Vice President: Roy Case, Ra­ cine, Wis. For members of the Board of Gov­ ernors: G. F. Weld, Santa Barbara, Calif.; C. B. Smith, Syracuse, N. Y.; and W. S. Gere, Syracuse, N. Y. Secretary - Treasurer: Louis C.

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Smith, 616 Old South Building, Bos­ ton, Mass.

(More details of the tournament in the next issue.)

MY FIRST NATIONAL TOURNAMENT

By Roy I. Case, Racine, Wisconsin

Chicago can well be proud of the 50th or Jubilee Tournament. The weather was perfect, the attendance high and though few records were broken the scores were high enough to compare favorably with the high marks set last year at Santa Barbara.

Although a member of the National Archery Association for four years, it was the first tournament that I had been able to attend. When I heard that it was to be held on the lake shore in Grant Park I thought of the northeasters that blow for days from old Lake Michigan and I kept my fin­ gers crossed; but we had just a cool gentle southeast breeze from the lake that kept the bows and the archers “up” and still did not call for much wind allowance on one’s point of aim.

It is now four days since the tourna­ ment and the northeast wind has kicked up the lake steadily for the last three days. I’ll say we were lucky!

To an enthusiastic archer who has never entered a national tournament it was an enjoyable experience. To meet archers of note that up to this event had only been names in the “Bulletin” and then to have our own mid-western champ, Russ Hoogerhyde, “bring home the bacon” and break a record doing it.

The first person to greet me at the field was H. S. Brown of the Scars­ dale, N. Y., archers. We took to the bow together as boys of 12. I was the bowyer and fletcher and he the best shot of the crowd. For the past

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years we had been 1000 miles apart but both staunch archers. I had hoped but did not really expect to see him at the tournament. It was a delight­ ful surprise. At the end of the first round Brown held a few points lead over me, and we were put on target No. 3 to shoot it out.

It must have been the inspiration of shooting in such “a fine and good­ lie companie” that enabled me to break my own records in the single York and American, and to sneak into that honorably mentioned first ten.

What more should satisfy any archer than to do his best—and a little bit more.

One incident of the tournament should encourage those archers that have shot and shot and see little or no improvement, and I am one of these. I refer to the fine shooting of Capt. Cassius H. Styles. Styles has been a regular at national tourna­ ments for years and though a noted bowyer and a successful hunter with the bow, his tournament position was usually some distance down the list.

He changed his form a short time ago and took fifth place in this year’s national.

Congratulations, Captain Styles!”

The beautiful Robin Hood trophy was handily won by Dr. Hodgson of St. Louis by making two of his three hits in the next to the last end. It was “nip and tuck” until the end, for Dr. Weld had two hits to his credit and was leading the field. And if you don’t think “dat’s sompin”, try shooting from a stool one foot only on the ground, which is a handicap the genial Dr. Weld so bravely overcomes.

And, now the flight shoot, a new national record of 362 yards. 1 foot, 5 inches made by Roy Case, Jr., 16 years, 124 pounds. That’s my boy!

What if the glory of his fine shot was

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somewhat dimmed by the remarkable 424 yard shot of the husky Rev. Daily in the next event, the free style event.

The boy did his stuff when it counted.

The flight shoot is drawing more interest every year and the many archers that participants feel that it should be made more of an event.

Three arrows are not enough. Why not six? Three and then three more.

The second three arrows to be shot by, say five archers, with the longest shots. This would make it more in­ teresting to everyone, both spectators and shooters, as it would be more of a contest. Of course, the longest shot would win whether in the first or sec­ ond group of three arrows.

Then, why not limit the “free style” to those only that shoot dif­ ferently from the regular style? I be­ lieve that was the object in putting this event on the program. Now at some national tournaments (as wit­ ness last year and others) no one shoots free style or “freak” style, and the event is usually a repetition of the regular championship event.

Should the winner of the free style shoot further than the winner of the regular style he naturally feels the title should be his. As Daily re­ marked, “It is tough to have to shoot 424 yards to win third place,” Walter Fahsel, of Milwaukee, being a close second to Roy, Jr., in the champion­ ship event.

Some say why not eliminate the “free style” entirely ? I believe that would be a mistake as long as there are archers that want to shoot that way. Professor Curtis, the originat­ or of the “free” style method, has done much to show what a bow is capable of doing, and in nearly every case with bows that could be handled by men of such physique as possessed by the Rev. Daily and by Howard

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Hill. The hand shooters have caught up with the foot shooters but give the foot shooters a chance.

Another reason for keeping the free style free from the regular style is that Professor Curtis in donating the trophy for this event really expected it to be shot for in other than the regular way. Professor Curtis donat­ ed two flight cups to the Mid-Western Association, one for regular and one for free style, and we keep the two events separate as he intended.

I hope from now on to be a regu­ lar at national tournaments for many years. I only wish I had known of archery as a sport years ago so that I might have the chance to lay my course with that of Homer Taylor who still comes “to shoot if not to con­ test.”

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Now I’m back on the job, and another year added to the age of my stock of fine, air seasoned yew.

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Sixteen year old Roy I. Case, Jr., of Racine, Wisconsin, estab­ lished a new record in the regular style flight event with a mark of 362 yards, 1 foot, 5 inches.

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An experienced archer knows that cast is not the most important point in a bow — Dr. Roberts returnd one yew bow to me, saying that it was too fast. He, a very canny master of the bow, knows that action and reliability are most important, and has found these points most marked in my weapons.

Still, the cast that is inherent to 7-year-old, winter-cut yew, is unbelievable. Recently a customer wrote me that a 32-pound yew I made him of this timber has cast identical to that of a very good 42pound yew, using the same arrows. Nor was this bow built for speed.

From a letter Dr. Roberts wrote me: “Arrows, at about 30 yards from the target, would look as though they were going to fall short, but from there on the carry seemed to be perfecly flat, and they would be good hits. Every one noticed that peculiarity, and it is one I have never seen in another bow. What that quality is due to, I don’t know, I’m sure, so I’ll have to credit it to your skill as a bowyer. Frankly, if I could find any fault in the bow, I’d not hesitate to tell you. By the Black Rood, it is a good piece of yew, well nocked, well strung, well waxed, and very joyful to feel.” This from the greatest living archer.

My average price for a yew bow is $50.00. Circular on request.

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