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AN ARCHER ON THE KANKAKEE . .

By Maurice Thompson

ARROW MATERIALS IN RELATION TO .

SCORES—By F. W. Peters .

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BUYING ARCHERY FOR SCHOOLS . .

By Phillip Rounsevelle

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CONTENTS

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An Archer on the Kankakee

By Maurice Thompson Arrow Materials in Relation to Scores

By F. W. Peters

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Buying Archery for Schools

By Phillip Rounsevelle

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Archery Golf Firmly Established The Ohio State Archery Golf Tournament Rules of Archery Golf From “The Cleveland District Golfer”

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Mark in Danger—Spencer Shoots 1349 From “Seattle Post-Intelligencer”

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Second International Archery Meeting

By Jan Hom

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Saginaw Archery Club

By Dewey Hesse

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Greenwood Archers

By C. B Hutchinson Archer Beats Pistol Shots From “Oakland Tribune” Letters

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The Editor’s Page “The American Broad Arrow Soci­ Archery Golf rules practiced by the ety” is developing satisfactorily. Going Cleveland District Golf Association a little slower than we thought it courses are, we think, to be recom­ would, but is being received enthus­ mended. The game, as often played, is iastically by the field archers of the not conducive to good archery form.

United States. We hope to make of it For instance, the habit of “creeping an organization that will be of benefit up” to the target to eliminte the danger to all field archers. of the arrow missing the ball by an Those joining before the first of the inch and skidding twenty or thirty year will be charter members, as it were. The T society as planned is to be yards, so that an otherwise good shot is lost. By providing at each hole a in nature somewhat l.~t of an honorary target large enough to eliminate any association, cy — ' open to field and hunt- danger of skidding arrows, the appre­ er archers who ’ o aare true sportsmen, hension of just missing the ball and devoted to the bow ^.7 as a hunting weapon and with a proper regard for wild having to make two or three extra shots is done away with. life and £game — conservation.

Archery golf, because it is not highly At present there are to be no fees or other charges. After the . organ- specialized in any one form of shoot­ ization is finally completed, it may be ing, offers the beginner in archery an necessary to charge? an initiation fee opportunity to make apparent progress. for new members, or a small amount Because it includes clout, flight and target shooting, as well as roving and of dues, to cover postage and other ex­ shooting at close range, the all-round pense of the secretary’s office.

Character, sportsmanship, woodcraft archer is given a fair chance to make '— not dues — are the qualifications good scores on the field. wanted.

A criticism of American archery as For those who who through merit or compared to English is that we are ror those through taking big game with bow “too dead serious” in our sport. That and arrow deserve recognition, special we are after results (and we get them?) medals will be given. but miss much of the relaxation and There has been too much of ruthless good-fellowship archery should pro­ killing; too much destruction of all vide. .Whether this criticism is justi­ wild life. The archers of today are fied or not, archery golf seems to pro­ starting a thing which we dare believe vide a needed relaxation, — an oppor­ will exist and grow and slowly change tunity for loosening up, which is so the hunting traditions of the country. necessary to good shooting.

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An Archer On The Kankakee

By Maurice Thompson (From The Atlantic Monthly, June, 1900) The first opossum-hunter on the Kan­ to us, his face as black as tar. He was kakee of whom we have a written ac­ carrying two animals of the size of count was La Salle; but his bag of muskrats, with fine, ermine-like fur. game, if we may dare call a brace of These he had killed with a club while ’possums by a name so honorable, was they hung from the branches of trees killed in a wood beside the St. Joseph by their tails.”

River just before the Kankakee Port­ Hennepin then tells how La Salle had age was reached. It was December, the wandered in the snowstorm, getting year 1679, with a snowstorm slanting lost in swamps and woods, and how down from the Canadian wilderness, when night fell he stumbled on until and La Salle had been lost for a whole he saw a fire on a hillock, approaching day from his little band. which he hallooed in a friendly way.

That space of- twenty-four hours No answer came, so he strode boldly would have been, to any other man to the spot and took possession of a than Robert Cavelier Sieur de La bed of grass, made warm by the body Salle, a most memorable cross-section of the Indian who had just fled from of his life; yet our fearless explorer it. And here, after building a bush doubtless regarded it as not worth barricade, he lay down and slept, thinking about. Hennepin’s sketch, our while the pine-wood fire smoked his only source of information, is very face and hands to African dinginess. slight; still, to one who understands Meantime the snow fell thick and fast. outdoor life, it brings an immediate re­ Now for myself, two hundred and alization of what the wildwood wildwood wan­ odd years later, I can say that my derers experienced two hundred years sleep would be a trifle disturbed un­ ago in the heart of America. der the circumstances surrounding La Salle and his men had ascended La Salle, Indeed, I awoke one fair the St. Joseph River and were looking spring night, not so very far down for the portage point between it and the Kankakee from the portage, to the Kankakee, which they had inad­ have a creepy feeling when but a bull­ vertently passed. Restless, impatient, frog groaned close by. While I am ever energetic, La Salle went ashore not willing that it shall go upon the all alone to examine the country. His record as a case of fright, I cheerfully little c-company paddled some distance acknowledge my bewilderment just at farther upstream, where they came to the point of opening my eyes. The anchor and awaited his return. “We voice of that bullfrog exceeded every­ stopped here for some time,” says thing bass and gutteral to which my Hennepin, “and, as La Salle did not ears have ever listened, nor can I, come, I went into the forest a consid­ with a fairly willing imagination, erable distance, with two men, who make out how the grunt of an Indian fired their guns to let him know where scalp-hunter could have been more we were. At the same time two other demoniacal. men in canoes went up the river farth-.

And then something cold, snaky, er to look for him. In the afternoon rusty, dragged itself, like one of Pope’s we all got back after fruitless search, alexandrines, slowly along my jaw. It and on the following day I myself went was an opossum’s tail, which I invol­ up the river, but could hear nothing untarily seized with a terror-clutch, of him, and came back to find our men letting go at once when the animal F.reatly troubled, fearing he was lost. snarled’; for I recognized a certain But at about four of the clock in the afternoon here came M. La Salle back rasping wheeze peculiar to its voice This was the second time that such

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an experience had come to me. Once duly frightened ’possum, leaving me before, in the far South, a ’possum dis­ to find out for myself next morning turbed a nap for me. that he had been chewing the rem­ La Salle’s brace of marsupials must nant of a prairie hen which I had have been young, else Father Henne­ stowed in a tin box for my breakfast. pin did not well remember the size of More than this, his curious handlike a muskrat. I did not kill the fellow tracks were in my canvas boat where who touched me with his tail, and so he had been prowling in search of cannot speak of his size; but in the eatables.

Doubtless he was quite Gulf states Didelphys outgrows Fiber hungry, or he would not have been zibethicus beyond reasonable compar­ so daring. Wild things are finding it ison, as it probably does in the Kan­ harder each year to get an honest liv­ kakee country. Hennepin does not ing on their own grounds, and so they give name to La Salle’s animals, yet have to take greater risks when in­ there can be no mistake; they were truders tempt them with tidbits. ’possums; for he found them dangling The veery’s night song was the cause by their tails, a peculiarity of Didel­ of my staying five days on that lonely phys to be claimed by no other animal spot; for when morning came there of our country, or of any other, if we was a haunting echo in my mind of leave monkeys out of the count. certain strains, more like a dream than It was well for me that a bullfrog a reality, and before I had rubbed the and a ’possum’s tail woke me that remnants of sleep from my eyes I heard sweet night, when the moon had risen a yellow-billed cuckoo strike his tam­ halfway up the east side of heaven; bourine. Then I wondered if there otherwise I should have missed hear­ might not be something worth seeing ing a veery’s nocturne blown softly in the thicket where the veery lived from the dark foliage of a thicket so happily that it must sing by night, close to my tent. A veery, I thought it where the cuckoo could not wait till was, at least; a thrush certainly, of sunrise to begin his rattling monody. one species or another, I knew it to A plunge into the river chilled me be, singing as if under its breath; but wide awake. Three minutes later I the rapture in the notes made the vi­ brations strangely powerful, and the was handling my archery tackle; not that there was any probability of see­ first fancy in my brain was that they were like music filtered dreamily ing game, but a bow in the hand is worth two a quarter mile away in the through rich honeycomb. It was al­ tent, and I walk better when my quiver most unearthly melody, tender, sol­ emn, hesitating now and again, as if rustles at my side well filled with good the bird’s dream had its disturbance, arrows. The poetry of solitude stalks embodied as a sylvan toxophilne yet the strains lapsed away, seeming­ ly into infinite distance, seeking the who goes alone into a primeval grove. remotest hollows of the night with I feel this in myself when I play die part with my imagination for audience their delicate, thrilling plangencies. and the wilderness for my stage. Or. My tent (to call it one is a consid­ that particular morning the vigor of erable risk, for it consisted of a rub­ ber blanket stretched over some May circulating in the air gave prom­ ise of golden weather for a week to stakes) was near the river’s bank on come, and it all crept into my blood; a dry spot; behind it lay a marsh, while on either side a thicket of not a bird in any grove of the Kan­ kakee felt more than I the keen need maple, ash, and oak bushes straggled of song for song’s sake, and sing I did. along a low ridge that ran almost par­ allel with the the Kankakee Kankakee’’ss current. silently, inwardly.

I had embarked upon the Kankakee fi There was scant room was scant room under under my „ roof ----with the purpose to follow La Salle ■ to sit up while I gave ~ the veery audience; meantime away scampered the from the portage near Fort Wayne to I I the rocks at Momence. • At that time g

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her for a large rhubarb pie to be sent I had charge of the Department of to me with a pint of milk every day Geology and Natural History of In­ until further notice. A liberal bunch diana, and I meant to make a fort­ of young onions and some very small night’s vacation add something to my and almost over pungent red radishes knowledge of a very interesting re­ were thrown in for good measure. 1 gion, while at the same time I should cut bushes and built me a tent large have my fill of sylvan hrchery once enough for four men, thatching it with more. I wished to be quite alone and last year's grass over the particular quite unknown during this outing; for which my bed was to be, and spot on the politicians had their eyes upon covering it with my rubber further me, and what would they have said of blanket.

I might have spared myself a state official who played “hookey” the work, for not a drop of rain fell in the woods with a bow and arrows, during my stay. when he should have been in his of­ There was a lagoon between my fice chair with a case of fossils before tent and the farm from which my him and looking as grim as Diogenes? supplies were to come, and I arranged I found it not practicable to begin for a boy to bring the basket of eggs, my voyage as high up the river as I vegetables, and pie, and hang it in a had planned, and my present camping tree at a certain point on the farther spot was at the end of two days of bank (where I could reach it by cross­ hard rowing downsteam, a part of ing in my boat). Thus I shut off the which took me over a beautiful lake only probable danger of being visited. formed by the river, which soon nar­ To get into the lagoon I had to row rowed again, however, until at my some distance down the river, then stopping place it was pinched between double back, following a bilious look­ wooded banks and ran deep with con­ ing and and ditchlike ditchlike channel through a siderable current in the middle. There The spot upon which I was marsh. was a farmhouse on a prairie swell ted proved to be the highest less than half a mile away beyond a encamp t- r and driest part of' a slight ridge or marsh, while on the opposite side of the river and the hummock between the river I could hear cocks crowing marsh land round of the at another homestead; but my tent lagoon. Allbut a few inches above the stood ages away from civilization in about was i that the wooded ridge line, so a place not so likely to be invaded by water ____really _ an island a mile long, vary­ i any beings save wild birds and wary was ing in width from a hundred yards to animals. So much I found out by my morning’s exploration, as will better three quarters of a mile.

My first day slipped by almost before appear in a paragraph from my note­ I could spare a moment to the birds, book: albeit in going twice by way of the “Have found a most delightfully lagoon to the farmstead, and in gath­ promising piece of wilderness; shall ering materials for the bush tent, I try its charms for a day or two, may­ the tail of an eye upon every be longer. A chalybeate spring of de­ kept feather that sparkled and every wing licious water a stone’s cast from my that flickered, thus mapping out, as tent, two farm places not far away, it were, the places where I might ex­ and thrushes,— I have never seen so pect success on the morrow. But at many; they are everywhere in the an hour to sundown, although tired, I thickets round about, blowing ‘the went for a good tramp along the ridge, flutes of Arcady’ even in the middle of and did not get back to camp before the night.”

A pretty full record of my doings dusk fell. went into the notebook, from which, In my notebook is the following enas well as from memory, I make up try: "No 'possum last night. If any this chapter of joy. I got eggs from thrushes sang, the sweet noise was the farmer's wife, and contracted with

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lost on me; not even the bullfrogs dis­ that one was killed by a hunter of turbed my slumber. Woke at day­ his party while on their way down the break with my ears overflowing, so river. The good Jesuit, it being win­ strong the pour of morning’s tender ter, did not see or hear any “thunder discords. My eyes opened perfectly pumpers’’ in the plashy flats, but my clear and ready for work, my blood record mention them frequently. felt fresh. One does not stretch and “This morning,” runs a somewhat yawn when sleep slips off one’s brain blurred entry, “I got a fine specimen in a wildwood lair. A gentle stir of of Botaurus mugitans, called by the the nerves, a deep breath, and then the. sweet chill of a c.

Kankakee folk ‘thunder pumper’ on dewy touch; it is Morning on tiptoe at account of its rumbling voice. Good -I your Arcadian bedside, and there is an ambrosia] sport is bittern-shooting, too, if the richness in the first iconscious taste of archer doesn’t mind crawling in the what she brings." mud through high, musty-smelling dead grass!”

I remember many „a serenade at dawn, but the thrushes The note recalls many an adventure -•> of that May morning —it was very near June — with the herons and bitterns, birds were plus canora quam putes, as the peculiarly interesting to me. I recol­ old poet has it, and they literally de­ lect very well how I worked in or­ luged the wood vwith their gladness. der to bag the thunder pumper, on —“Cantibus vernis3 :strepebat ct susurthat hazy and delightfully cool morn­ ris dulcibus.” ing, between the Kankakee and the Brown thrushes, wood thrushes, lagoon. A triangular patch of bog veeries, catbirds, robins,— what a lot covered with last year’s grass three of melodious cousins! — all their voices feet tall was the scene of my opera­ deliciously confused, were fairly split­ tions. There the birds were pumping ting their pipes. I wonder if Father thunder at daybreak, and I saw them Hennepin and Father Gabriel heard flying in their awkward manner low the like while paddling down past my over the slanting tufts, and dropping island? But no, it was winter. Jays down into them here and yonder. I may have jeered at them, flickers may wanted one for dissection regarding its have shown them the gold of their vocal organs, but I had no arrows to wings; as for the songbirds, they were lose, and the thing was to be sure of far down by the warm Gulf coast. Be­ my aim. sides, I feel sure that it is only since the woods have been narrowed down At sunrise, fresh from a cold plunge to mere patches that these birds have in the river, I began my campaign learned the value of mutual friend­ with all the strategy suggested by ex­ liness, and have agreed to share to­ perience. My purpose was to approach gether, in the few ancient groves, wha very near to a bird, make sure of Mir­ is left of original freedom. and so close the incident. An excellent plan, in theory, which when subjected Hennepin tells us, however, that the to a practical test developed surpris­ savages had been hunting buffalo on ing defects, mainly on account of the the Kankakee flats, and he saw the birds,— they seemed not inclined !-• ground covered with horns where vast assist me in my task. From the begin­ numbers of the animals had been ning, moreover, little mishaps worked slaughtered. Probably an Englishman, me evil; but at last, to make my story who corresponded with me a few short, I saw a fine point and got the years ago, had been reading the good benefit of it. One of the birds, after priest's account, for he inquired very a short flight, dropped into the grass particularly about buffalo-hunting in twenty yards beyond a clump of low Indiana! He might just as well have shrubs behind which I crawled to , expected antelope - shooting on position.

I, Kankakee prairies; for Hennepin our says (Concluded next month) '

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Arrow Materials In Relation To Scores

By F. W. Peters Much has been written and said in maneuver which he can chart to hit laudation of various materials for ar­ within the target a fair percentage of rows. Norway pine has held an en­ the time, he thinks he has reason to viable position in this respect, Port Or­ congratulate himself on his good luck. ford cedar has been in the limelight, I would say that those were expen­ also spruce and various other woods. sive arrow sticks, even though they The too-often hectic efforts, on the were quoted at only $6.00 per thous­ part of dealers, to speedily capitalize and. any popular idea, has led to much On one occasion I was scouting confusion in this matter, as many of about the Port Orford cedar country us can testify from personal exper­ in quest of good material. Among the ience in our efforts to purchase the places visited was a sawmill where best by designation of name only. My much cedar was being converted into one experience, with the much laud­ lumber. I was cordially asked what ed Norway pine, cured me for life.

I wished, upon my request was di­ And no doubt Port Orford cedar has rected to the waste edging pile — a fooled many another archer who huge mountain of it — and cheerfully thought he was going to get something invited to help myself to all I wanted. extra good, just because someone was Much of this was dense grained, and said to have shot “over the moon” stiff, but for good arrows, "nix for with an arrow made from it, or shot me!” I proceeded to the woods, and a <championship score with a set of after much looking I cut some from such -'.1 arrows. But too little was said a desirable log and went home re­ about how _.. many arrow sticks were joicing. Better cedar I have never being discarded in order to get that seen and some of the most exciting winning set of arrows. And the archer shots in archery history were shot who got the chance to purchase the with arrows made from this lot. Too discards, and did, later wondered what much of the commercial Port Orford all the noise was all about. What cedar arrow material in circulation — really is wrong is the fact that too I suspect — came from such sawmill many efforts are in operation to get edging piles. somebody else’s money with the least No doubt Norway Pine has qual­ possible effort. ities for fine arrows. So have Port Good arrow is abundant, abundant, arrow material material is Orford cedar, spruce, fir and other but it requires and pains pains­­ requires intelligent intelligent and woods. The thing that is important to taking care treatment, care in in selection, selection, in in treatment, archers who are obliged to purchase nnm/v and ——1 handling, 1 "■ in seasoning at the base their material, is that great care be of1 supply. (In other words, where it exercised in the first selection at the grows.)

----) base of supply, in order to avoid such Often have I observed how a huge volume of almost Useless ma­ er who makes his r . an arch­ own, will proceed to terial getting into commercial circu­ secure about a hundred or more ar­ lation.

Poor judgment of timber 1 or more row squares or dowels “catch as catch coupled with otherwise best inten­ can," cull them over, discard about tions often has the same result in sixty or seventy-five ] poor arrow material. make up and fletchper cent of them, i the balance of I have had occasion to saw from them and after shooting them logs and split out bolts of timber in­ trial, discard some __ for — —a if he tended for arrow material, from vargets a set of arrows more, out of and the whole (Continued on page 21)

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Buying

Archery For Schools

By Phillip Rounscvcllc 1 large university used. I know of one 175 students If the need for economy will make who gives instruction to yet their archery instructors learn how to buy in the fall archery classes, $50.00 per archery equipment for schools this de­ cost for arrows is not over _ stUpression will not have been entirely semester or about 35 cen s ,p ■ - college with wasted. I know of few other sports aiivi**-dent. I know of another class of about twenty that present such alluring opportun­ only one archery < average of $25.00 or ities to go wrong as in the purchase which buys on an each semester, of archery tackle. To my mind it is a $30.00 worth of arrows What is good thing that the instructors are now student.

More than $1-00 per s. compelled to get down to brass tacks the difference? and learn all they can about the equip­ The difference is is economy. economy, Nowhere ment they are using in order to make hard and constant do arrows get the 1— their purchasing dollar yield the best in college classes. And use that they do ’ results in shooting. honest archer knows in his own every 1..... there is no arrow that vn In the past every craftsman or man­ heart that under abuse as well as th ufacturer who had something new to stand up It is the outgrowth of try out seems to have found some be­ footed shaft. nighted school to do his experimenting • --'in shooting- Wr centuries of experience that'he has'seen Babylonian at their own expense, and the equip­ Duff says „t— oid with footings just ment that I have seen in various in­ arrows 5000 years stitutions is remarkable for its lack of „„ ... make them today. ^is is true as we i.----adherence to that which we are prone then why should many are to to call “standard.” posed experience a answer It is unanimously agreed that the most Pp„.oh.so .h. important part of archery is not the is simple—they don ■ turn out bow nor strings nor targets nor other who is really equipp reasonable accessories — it is arrows. Anyone can good footed arrows at a make a good score with any kind price ever advises school to of a bow that will shoot an arrow thing else, Hl result in a smalldown to the target as long as his ar­ knows that this wi j the er volume of business for him en_ rows are good, but the finest bow loses its value if the arrows shot in it are long run. every instance^ not equally fine. countered where self seUing What are the requirements of an ar­ vised it is because he Pe ar­ row for school use? In my own opin­ them either does not nitf them a* rows or is unable to supply ion they are two: 1. Economy. 2. Accur­ acy. a reasonable price. circumstances under In discussing economy several factors Are there any - is the more eco must be considered.By economy I mean which the self arrow archery is P^' not the actual cost of the arrow itself, Yes, when 5 weekly an but the cost per shot. For instance if nomical? ticed only one or two hourslimited *at one arrow costs 10 cents and lasts for where the budget isexpenditure so must ten shots, and another arrow costs the smallestlargest possible ” possible number of $1.00 and lasts for 1000 shots, then the in cover the 1 cost per shot is one cent for the first „. The same thing ' equipstudents. arrow and one-tenth of one cent for of short duration where three weeks camps c. the second arrow, so in reality the dol­ t0 lie idle ment is used only tw0 °5 lar arrow is ten times more economical _____ B the J... summer’ and haotherwise I during than the ten cent arrow. As a rule the balance of the year. Othe archery tackle in schools is intensively

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wish to state that without reservation greatly is that it is of supreme import­ the self arrow is the most expensive in ance in maintaining class interest in spite of its lower price. the sport. We all like to do the things The footed arrow has another ele­ that we can do well, and to hit the ment of economy — the fact that it is target consistently it is necessary to worth while being repaired or being have arrows that will go where you replaced in case of breakage or loss, shoot them. For this reason the pur­ and most of the larger manufacturers chase of any arrows other than are now equipped to furnish replace­ matched footed shafts in sets of seven ments or repairs at a moderate price. or twelve is not practical for most schools.

The most economical way to buy footed arrows is in sets of seven. This The question of arrow length is one gives each archer the regulation six that we do not have time to discuss in and one spare in case of loss or break­ this article except to state that most age. girls use between 24, 25, or 26 inch If for one reason or another self ar­ lengths, while men usually require 27 rows must be purchased either im­ or 28 inch lengths. ported Norwegian pine or Port Orford The instructor who has to purchase Cedar should be used, as the birch ar­ equipment will find almost as many row is worthless for any serious arch­ ery. different kinds of bows offered for sale Second only to the question of econ­ as she has students in her classes. How is she then to pick out the one type that omy is accuracy. It is not surprising will be the most effective and econom­ to find that teachers of archery in schools do not appreciate this quality ical for her needs? This is a very dif­ in view of all the things they have to ficult problem, indeed, and over 75 instruct. In fact the majority of arch­ per cent of the bows that I see in ers themselves do not appreciate it schools are unsuited for the purpose and it is my honest opinion that 75 per for which they were purchased. cent of the archers ‘ ' -------- s on the shooting line Space does not permit a detailed dis­ at any tournament are handicapped ..

-by cussion of the seven qualities of a good their arrows. I have been in schools bow, so I will instead discuss the more where the students have more than obvious mistakes that instructors most doubled their scores upon substituting frequently make in buying these weap­ matched arrows for the common garden ons. The most common mistake that variety, and if I had to instruct in schools make is in purchasing bows archery at any institution of the kind that are too strong. Personally I feel I would insist upon the most accurate that the heaviest bows for girls’ classes arrows obtainable, as otherwise I know should be 24 pounds and the lightest I would do better by spending my 16 to 18 pounds. For high school boys’ money for some other sport. classes bows may go up to 35 pounds Unfortunately there is no way for and for college men to 40 pounds. the uninitiated to tell whether arrows Heavier bows than these may be are accurate or not,., and this is where purchased by individuals if they so de­ the expert archer has has a expert archer a big advantage sire, but should not be purchased by overr the instrnM^* instructor who "ho c*__ .... does not shoot, the school because they are beyond as the expert can try out the ;arrows the command of most of the students in and soon tell " whether they will ...J group the various classes. I do not mean that on the target they should. Barring there are not many college women this, the onlyasother who could handle bows of 30 pounds rely on a r ’ etho? possibility is to manufacturer whom you or perhaps more in weight, but where know t_ to be! ireliable, preferably one heavier' bows are on hand it is all who has -a a lsufficient _ output to keep tod frequent that some weaker girl or his production man may be asked to handle a weapon My reason for costs to the minimum, stressing accuracy ' so which is beyond their control.

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The next most common mistake is There are two more mistakes com­ in purchasing bows that are either too monly made by schools which are both high or two low in price for the pur­ destructive to good results. One is the pose they are to be used. Six or eight failure to require adequate finger pro­ dollars should be the top price on a tection. In the average college class the good ladies’ lemonwood bow, and ten girls will come with everything on dollars or twelve dollars for the men’s their fingers from cotton gloves to mit­ size. A properly constructed ladies’ tens, but unless required to do so not bow will fit even the tallest girls in one out of a dozen will purchase a any class, and there is no excuse for shooting tab. Many of the record scores buying six foot bows for girls. Men on today have been made with this tab the other hand with their longer arms as finger protection, and there is no require longer arrows and a six foot question of its efficiency. It not only bow if the classic lemonwood model permits the archer to shoot without get­ is purchased. ting sore fingers and flinching, but it In my mind the extra expense of makes for higher scores because it lets backing, handle inlays and other use­ the string slip off the fingers less appurtenances is not justified for smoothly, which it will not do from school use. A plain self lemonwood the bare hand. To allow students to bow should answer every requirement. shoot without adequate finger protec­ The handle should be leather and the tion is to keep archery in a class of tips should either be self tips in the a children’s game instead of a serious wood itself or carefully worked tips sport. of horn or fiber.

The last subject that I would like There is a new flat type of bow on to mention is the use of the score card. the market made from domestic hard­ One of the things that brings school wood that because of its low produc­ archery into general disrepute among tion cost is now retailing at a price the club archers is the fact that very under $4.00. This bow promises to be few school archers have any concep­ an excellent weapon for school use, tion of what they are doing as far as both because of its low price and great shooting for score is concerned. Not durability. one out of a hundred can give you Another common m i s t a k e that their best Columbia or American schools make in archery is the pur­ Round score. Imagine a golfer who chase of targets smaller than the regcould not tell you what his score was.' ular ’ size ’ for ’ outdoor use. Any expert The same is true of archery. Every be­ archer will tell you that the' 48-inch _ -----ginner should be required to keep a target is hard enough to hit. There is record of every arrow shot and as no excuse for buying anything else soon as possible should be required to for schools. For indoor use the 36-inch shoot a standard round for score. 0: or 24-inch target is of course suitale, course score cards are essential for but these small sizes will not answer this, and each student should be re­ the requirements of outdoor shooting. quired to own sufficient score cards to It is a toss-up between the handmade last for the season, whether bound in target and the compressed variety as compressed variety a book or loose. Only in this way can to which is the better purchase. C any check be made upon the results of ' One is less durable and much cheaper, The instruction. other is longer lived and more teaching archery set out 41 If you cue are tuacrurig sive. It is almost impossible expento learn something about it. A failure I which is the better of the two. to say to achieve satisfactory results cannot I Target stands should always be made be laid to any lack of appeal of the out of the softest wood available,, either sport itself. | white pine, cypress, cedar or basswood.

Iron tripods will break dozens of ar­ s, please ■ When writing to advertisers, rows in the course of a year. mention Ye Sylvan Archer.

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Archery Golf Firmly Established Reprinted in Ye Sylvan Archer through the courtesy of The Cleveland District Golfer.

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The first Ohio State Archery Golf championship was con­ cluded at the Mayfield Coun­ try Club, Cleveland, Ohio, on February 27 and 28, 1932, un- | der the auspices of the Cleve- [ land District Golf Association.

This championship was in fact the realization of a dream of the sponsors of this sport.

Dr. H. B. Kurtz, a Mayfield club member, is given credit for having conceived the idea of archery golf some five years ago. Since that time interest in the game has spread to four of our most influential golf clubs, Mayfield, Westwood, Shaker and Country, and the interest shown in this event is an indication that other clubs both locally and through the slate will soon be adding this sport to their winter activities.

William Folberth, an enthu­ siastic archer of the West wood club, as a result of most con­ sistent play, becomes the first Ohio State Champion. His score for the thirty-six tar­ gets, 60-64-124, is 20 strokes less than the par of the Mayfield course. T. E. Leighton of Shaker and F. W. Johnston of Westwood were tied for run­ ner-up honors at 126.

There were just 47 who par­ ticipated in the event which is credited with being just three more entries than the field which took part in the first Ohio State golf championslun, won by Sterling Beck­ with at the old Country Club in 1904.

In addition to the state championship there were also prizes awarded for the best

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scoring team in the five 18-target H. L. Shepherd 77 76-153 matches for the season. This prize J. L. Findeisen 79 74-153 went to the Westwood team whose E. C. Higbee ............... 83 73-156 season score was 49 strokes better than Judge H. W. Ewing 84 85-169 Shaker and 53 strokes under Country.

18 Targets The Mayfield team only had a full Chas. Little .......

68 team in four matches. The individual C. B. Ingersoll .

- 73 winner for the season was T. E. Leigh­ A. S. Kelley ........

73 ton with a total score for the five Dr. Chas. Hoover 74 matches of 327.

C. E. Smoyer ......

79 Besides the Cleveland contestants, J. G. Armstrong ..... 83 there were entries from Ashland, Ashland, W. H. Cox 63 Akron and Cincinnati, and the ManeJack Kinnear ... .

63 tewah club of Cinncinnati sent their Carl Honsechild 71 manager here to study the game, Dr. H. D. Grubb 79 equipment and method of play with the J. H. King 79 idea of getting it started at their club.

Carl Johnson SO A few enthusiasts at Ashland have D. E. Mook .

82 been playing for some time and some H. A. Mowrey have been playing at the Portage club D. C. Eberwine 86 in Akron.

G. H. Heaverman ...... 97 It is not at all unlikely that the en­ M. W. Newcomb 100 tries will double in this tournament next season, and any clubs desiring in­ formation on the game can get it by applying at the office of the Cleveland District Golf Association.

Tournament scores: 36 Targets Wm. Folberth .60 64—124 T. E. Leighton ... .61 65— 126 (Editor’s note: The following para­ F. W. Johnston . .63 63—126 graphs are taken from a circular mailed W. M. Horton .65 63—128 to YE SYLVAN ARCHER by the H. M. Beatty .64 65— 129 Cleveland District Golf Association.)

F. M. Roby ....... .66 66—132 P. L. Small ....

The Cleveland District Golf Associ­ .63 71—134 ation, comprising forty-one golf clubs H. H. Dyer, Jr. .. .66 69—135 in the Cleveland district, believes that Walter Klie ........ .67 68— 135 H. K. Kelley the time has arrived when a State .66 71—137 Archery Golf Tournament should be Bud Petrequin .... .68 69—137 held. A number of golf clubs in Ohio Ted S. Strong .68 71—139 have been playing the new game for E. W. Phelps ......

69 70—139 several years. A State Tournament K. A. Henn • 72 67—139 E. I. Bailey ........ renders possible an interchange of ..70 70—140 H. B. Shepherd ... ideas that should improve the game.

• 69 72—141 Carl Shem ..._......

Local tournaments have been held for ■ 71 70—141 R. C. Griswold ... the past four years by several clubs -75 69—144 of the Cleveland District Golf Associa­ G. S. Salzman .75 71—146 tion. The game originated at Mayfield G. L. Harrison ■71 75—146 five years ago. It has passed its de­ E- C. Chandler, Jr. .73 74—147 A. E. Henn velopmental stage. The rules and .75 72—147 equipment have been standardized.

R- B. Newcomb ...

•77 70—147 Any live golf cluo in Ohio can afford to M. V. Shane ..... .69 80—149 Dr. H. B. Kurtz .... equip its course for the new game, thus .72 77—149 increasing the life of the course from L. C. Drefahl ■71 79—150 four to five months.

The Ohio State Archery Golf Tournament - Its Object And Purpose

OCTOBER, 1932.

The purpose of a state tournament is, therefore, to arouse more wide­ spread interest in the game. If that can be done, state tournaments in the future will become more interesting and important. The Cleveland District Golf Association and the Mayfield Country Club have extended invita­ tions to every club in Ohio to send a representative to Cleveland for the purpose of studying and playing this new <and fascinating winter sport. No doubt .......... in timee many courses will be­ come equipped.

The game is■* e>* growing .»

--------o —— slowly but surely ... in popularity. _______j. Fear cr cold " weather is ------. enemy. That of its only ffear "“ is ’ largely ’ ' mental. Once on the course and properly dressed, no one minds the weather. Skill in the use of a bow and arrow is easily ecquired.

Some of the crack bowmen in Cleve­ land started only last year.

Every golf club in Ohio has some thick-blooded men who enjoy the out­ doors in winter. The thin-blooded ones prefer the fireside. That means soft muscles, weak hearts, poor wind, fat fronts, thick heads and lowered vital­ ity, and that means more business for doctors.

One sure way to lick “old man de­ pression” is to keep fit and keep going.

Your golf course should yield good health dividends through the winter, if you use it. Everyone who has played the game agrees that it is much better than the summer game when the snow comes.

1716 regular archery golf season be­ gins December 1st and ends April 1st, thus adding four months to the life of i the northern courses. The game has a 1 fascination much the same as summer I golf. It can be played in any sort of tweather. The beginner often acquires s skill with surprising rapidity.

After all, the main object of the (game is to induce one to tramp around tithe course in winter and enjoy the bhracing air and wholesome exercise, nmore needed in winter than in sum­ mer. Proper clothing is important— Warm underwear, woolen shirt and sttocks, windbreaker, waterproof shoes opr boots, heavy cap and gloves. No

13 two dress alike. Every player has a style all his own. No winter weather stops the game when properly dressed to meet it.

The Mayfield winter course is nearly 7200 yards long — over 1000 yards longer than the summer course, and is laid out to avoid the traps and greens. Par is 72. The course is equipped with 18 regulation Westwood targets, 4 feet in diameter. Play is much the same as the Scotch game.

You drive, approach and smack the bull’s eye, which is equivalent to "holing out.” Play is fast and great care is exercised to avoid fatalities.

When the game began five years ago a drive of 250 yards was unusual. To­ day 350 and even 400 yards is poss­ ible, due to the pronounced advance in the development of bows and ar­ rows.

When the large investment in your course is considered, it seems only good business sense to make the most of it. Adding several months’ use of the course at slight additional expense, along with the great benefit to those who wish to keep well and enjoy a real winter game, should appeal to the members of every club.

The Cleveland District Golf Associa­ tion, therefore, invites the other golf clubs in Ohio to accept the invitation extended and send a representative to study the new game. If the report is favorable, you may equip your home course for the coming year and develop a team to enter the state tour­ naments later on. Whether you enter the state tournaments or not, it will offer an opportunity to develop in­ terest in your club through the win­ ter and popularize a sport in your community that has undoubtedly come to stay.

In its “Through the Years” column, the Boston Traveler of October 6, 1932, remarks: “100 years ago, October 6, 1832, we note a revival of local interest in the fine old sport of archery.”

When writing to advertisers, please mention Ye Sylvan Archer.

14 wide, and this in turn by a black ring, four inches wide, making the outside diameter of the black ring twenty and As Adopted in the Cleveland District one-fourth (20%) inches. The black Rule 1—Course and red rings shall be known as tar­ (a) The course shall comprise the get color. playable area of any recognized golf (c) The target stand shall be so course, and be subject to its limita­ constructed that the target may be tions, boundaries and hazards. All turned in any direction desired. target distances of 250 yards or under, Rule 6—Definitions shall be par 3; over 250 and under (a) The starting place or tee shall 550, par 4; 550 or over, par 5. be suitably indicated by a marker or (b) A Championship course shall be pole. The marker or pole line is at at least 6000 yards in length and the right angle to a line between the target minimum and maximum of any one and marker. target distance shall be 100 yards and (b) The archer shall take his stance 800 yards respectively. within three full paces from the (c) Eighteen double-faced targets marker or pole and with his foremost shall be placed adjacent to the putting foot back of the marker or pole line. greens. (c) The word “stance” shall apply Rule 2—Archery Equipment to the archer’s position with drawn Official equipment comprises one comprises bow ready to shoot with the head of bow of any size or type type (except (except a the arrow over the previous dead arcrossbow), which may not be changed row, marker, or yardage line. in any one game unless former bow or (d) The word “hit” or “strike" as bow-string breaks; and arrows of —.J arrows of any used herein shall mean so penetrating style and length. or piercing the target that the arrow­ Rule 3—Object of the Game head remains imbedded therein suf­ To score with an arrow ano™ in each of ficiently to hold the weight of the the eighteen targets in I., the -.e least num- arrow above the ground. If arrow is ber of shots. T — o The general rule and not so imbedded then the provision practice is to followr as <-closely as “ ' for the next shot shall be the same possible U. S. G. A. rules ofI golf, except where otherwise specifically pro- as for any dead arrow (e) The term “dead arrow” shall ap­ vided. ply to the location of the point of the Rule 4—Players arrow when at rest after playing from (a) A side consists of one or two the tee or after successive shots until archers, to be known as a twosome, striking the target. threesome or foursome.

Rule 7—Scoring (b) No player may shoot until the (a) A score of one is counted archers ahead are two full shots away and playing their third shot, and are against a player for every shot taken and for each penalty incurred until clearly out of range. the bull’s-eye is hit. If the arrow hits Rule 5—Targets (a) Targets shall be made of such target color but not the bull’s-eye, one material as will withstand any ordi­ additional shot shall be charged but nary penetration without damaging no more shots made at the target (b) An arrow clearly cutting tw the arrow. colors at the plane of surface of the (b) Targets shall be be forty-eight to target shall score the lower count, but fifty inches in diameter faces. Each face shallr and be have white two the arrow shall not be removed until J in opponent or scorer admits the inner color, except for a gold center, four color. and one-fourth (4%) inches in diamRule 8—Shooting eter, to be known as the 1 *. bull’s-eye, (a) A shot is any releasing of £= encircled by a red ring, four --r inches arrow from the bow-string so that

Rules OF Archery Golf

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it travels to such a distance that the archer cannot touch any part of it with his outstretched bow without changing his original position, The single exception is that no sshot is charged when either bow or• string breaks. (b) The arrow lying farthest from the target shall be played first. (c) After the first shot (except as otherwise specifically provided) the archer shall take his next stance so that the head of his arrow is over the previous dead arrow. (d) The minimum distance for sec­ ond shots on par three holes, for the second or third shots on par four holes, and for third or fourth shots on par five holes, shall be five yards. The minimum distance for succeeding shots shall be ten yards. (e) The stance for all shots at the target from distances not greater than ten yards may be taken, if measured, in any direction, provided there is no improvement in position or view with respect to the target, hazards or bounds line. (f) The side having the lowest score on a given target shall have the honor and shoot first at the next stand. (g) In the event of dispute not cov­ ered by the rules, settlement may be made by replaying the shot from the original stance without penalty.

Rule 9—Penalties (a) If a dead arrow is in or projects over a sand trap, it shall be played from where it lies, with a penalty of one shot. Bunkers surrounding sand traps shall not be considered as a part of the trap. (b) If a dead arrow is in or becomes lost in a water hazard or any other recognized hazard, it shall be played from a point no nearer the target, and on the line ini which it entered the hazard, and a penalty of one shot be taken. (c) If a dead arrow lies in or or pro pro-­ jects over the cut surface of any golf green including practice greens, a pen­ alty of one shot shall be taken (This penalty may be waived as a local rule on any or all holes desired at the in­

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stance of the authorized committee.) (d) Arrow out of bounds shall be replayed from original stance, taking a penalty for loss of distance only. A provisional arrow, suitably distin­ guished, may be played. (e) An arrow shall be deemed to be lost when it cannot be found after five minutes search. The next stance for all shots except as provided in Rule 9-(f) shall be at the approximate dead arrow position, adding a penalty stroke. (f) When shooting at targets at dis­ tances not greater than fifty (50) yards, if the arrow becomes lost, not in a hazard, the next stance shall be at a distance not less than twenty (20) yards and there shall be no penalty. (g) A player who shall overstep his stance or shoot out of turn may, at the option of the opponents, have his shot recalled. (h) A player shall not move his stance so as to avoid trees, traps, haz­ ards, etc., but must play his next shot from dead arrow position. Should the player consider such stance unplay­ able, he may take his stance as near dead arrow position as possible but not nearer the target, adding a pen­ alty shot. (i) A broken arrow shall be played from dead arrow location and no fur­ ther penalty shall be taken.

Rule 10—Out of Bounds Out of bounds lines shall be the same as those used in golf, unless otherwise established.

Rule 11—Obstructions Any temporary obstruction relating to the construction or upkeep of the course, such as piled leaves, cut hay, felled trees, wheel-barrows, vehicles, brush, etc., may be moved or the player may take his stand to one side, pro­ vided that by so doing he does not take posi-­ undue advantage to better his posi tion.

Rule 12—Practice No practice by competitors is alcn days of tourlowed on the course on nament competition unless otherwise agreed as a courtesy to visiting (Continued on page 19)

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Mark In Danger - Spencer Shoots 1,349 The new world’s record made at the National Archery Shoot this year was only five points higher than that made yesterday by Stanley Spencer in e 1 archery competition held by the Seattle Archers’ Association in dedicating new field at Boyer Avenue and Washington Boulevard. Spencer scored a o of 221 hits for 1,349 points. .... j Mrs. I. M. Stamps was high in the women’s division of the competition Dick Izzard was high junior. Complete results were: Men’s York and American Rounds York Total Amer. Total Grand Total H. S. H. S. H. S. 221-1,349 Stanley Spencer ..................................... Itn'wR 90-658 210-1,202 F. H. Hahn 20-598 90-604 I. M. Stamps ..........................................

197-1,111 89-589 180-926 Tom Belshaw ............

89-537 172-886 A. M. Anderson ............................

84-356 88- 530 172-848 Joseph Kerchen 83-341 89- 507 N. A. Pearson 155-825 82-530 144-764 C. A. Baker .................. 62-304 82-460 160-736 E. R. Houck ....................................................... 8°-2® 80- 403 153-731 Kore T. Duryee .................. 72-272 81- 459 143-657 C. M. Huntley 63-275 80-382 132-611 O. R. Huntington ................................. 57-239 75-372 132-610 Leslie Mathis 54-212 78-398 97-473 Robert Kolsbun 31-137 66-336 Women’s National, Columbia and American Rounds Grand Amer.

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Nat. Total Total Total Total H.S. H. S. H. S. H. S. 161-744 Mrs. I. M. Stamps 45-206 65- 275 51-263 163-734 Mrs. Gladys Baker 37-la9 66- 312 60-283 169-711 Mrs. Maud Anderson 50-184 63-273 56-254 144-610 Mrs. Colette Kolsbun 39-175 45-171 60-264 127-487 Miss Patsy Duryee ..........................

22-70 49-179 56-238

Double Junior American and American Round Grand Amer.

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H. S. H. S. H. S. Dick Izzard 247-1.192 70-304 84-449 81-439 Jack Samuelson 193-929 54-225 70-358 .70-346 John Burns 185-850 48-211 66-298 71-341 Earl Norton ............................... . .... .33-119 114-408 32-84 49-205 —Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mailed to Ye Sylvan Archer through the courtesy of Mr. Kore T. Duryee.

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Second International Archery Meeting Reported by Jan Horn Five nations were represented at the Second International Archery Meeting, held in Warsaw, Poland, August 9 to 16, 1932. They were: England, eight archers; Belgium, three; France, four; Czechoslovakia, three; Poland, four­ teen.

The shooting field was 200 meters Jong and sixty meters wide. The mid­

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targets were placed at both ends. target stands were used. The targets. made of paper, were placed on sand hills, or bunkers, and the center of each target was only one meter from the ground, which made it very <W-. ficult to shoot at them from long distances. Targets used for short dislances (thirty meters) were eighty

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OCTOBER, 1932. centimeters (about 31 inches) in diam­ eter. For longer distances, targets 120 centimeters (about 48 inches) were used.

As to bows, the English used Eng­ lish bows, made of yew, of 36 to 42 pounds pull. The Frenchmen had French folding, or take-down, bows of 25 to 38 pounds. The Belgians used one-piece bows, about 36 pounds. Tire Poles had English bows 42 to 50 pounds, and the Czechoslovaks used 40 to 48 pound American made bows.

The Second International Archery Congress was composed of the follow­ ing delegates'. From England, General Maquoid. Lord Revelstoke, Mr. Ernst Nelson: France Mr. Quantin and Mr. Demarc; Poland, Dr. Fularski; Czecho­ slovakia, Jan Horn. I am disappoint­ ed that America was not represented.

Results are as follows: 30 Meters, 30 arrows: points Georges de Rons, Belgium . ...

222 E Reit Belgium .................... .212 M. Maureaux, France 169 50 Meters, 30 arrows: Janina Kurkowska, Poland 168 E. Reit, Belgium ..................... .162 Mr. Kosinski, Poland ..............

154 J- Lenecek, Czechslovakia ..... .152 70 Meters, 30 arrows: Mr. Lotocki, Poland ...........

104 Mrs. Sandford, England ____ 102 Round of 30-50-70 Meters, 90 arrows:

Laurent Reit, Belgium ..................... 456 Z. Kosinski, Poland ......................... 413 Mrs. Janina Kurkowska, Poland. .406

Saginaw Archery Club

By Dewey Hesse, Secretary The Saginaw Archery Club of Sag­ inaw, Michigan, held its first annual championship shoot Sunday, Septem­ ber 18, 1932.

A handicap of three-fifths of the dif­ ference between score and 400 was added to make total score.

Donations of prizes by fifteen merch­ ants and business men did much to­ ward making the shoot a success.

The following scores were shot:

Hits Score S. Langer ................................. 176 936 S. L. Bennett ........................... 166 910 J. Gerschbacher ....................... 162 871 A. Czada .................................143 796 Paul Bennett ............................. 156 793 William Hesse ........................ ...146 728 K. Mathews ...........

126 695 J. Hughes .................................. 115 687 William Houston....................... 120 676 D. Hesse ..................................-118 674 J. Schur .................................... 119 672 Burt Willrich ........................... 92 663 Chet Parkins ........................... 100 656 William Schroeder, Jr. . .... 88 623 Art Devaux .............................. 80 555 John E. Shur ............................ 78 530 Mrs. A. Czada ....................... 87 657 Doris Hildebrant .........

102 643 Esther Taussell ........................ 94 639 Irene Gelinas ........................ 89 633 Mary Dickerson .................

101 630 Mrs. A. Walworth ................. 88 601

Greenwood Archers Cherrily blow the bugle horn In the cool, gray woods of morn; Loose the hounds and let them go,— Wax the string and bend the bow!

So .runs the old rhyme, used on the menu folder of the Greenwood Arch­ ers of Oakland, California, at the din­ ner celebrating their ninth annual tournament.

According to the menu, here’s what they had to eat: Metropolitan Round a la Perrine 1000 score French Polish and Finger Tips Beeswax and Yew Chips " ' • au Brown Broiled Target Center Points of Aim Bow Strings: L Shellac Writes Mr. C. B. Hutchinson: “We had a good crowd, and the o_'. I.L.LMovies’ of scores were fairly good. the shooters were made and added to .... ’We are getting some our collection. . and find them very interevery year r..._ _.

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annual dinner on Wednesday evening following the tournament.

“H. C. Macquarrie was elected the new president, C. G. Thompson first vice-president, Miss Frances Suydam second vice-president, and C. B. Hutchinson secretary-treasurer.”

The scores:

1st 2nd Dble Ameri- Ameri- Ameri­ can can can J. E. Weaver .. .90-580 90-568 180-1148 C. B. Hutchinson 86-560 89-559 175-1119 V. S. Brown 86-546 90-566 176-1112 C. G. Thompson 88-560 88-532 176-1092 W. C. Stoneman 88-556 87-531 175-1087 C. H. Styles.... 87-505 87-543 174-1048 E. C. Williams .89-547 87-493 176-1040 H. C.Macquarrie 89-511 83-431 172 - 942 S. - E. - Perrine.

- ■ .88-464 84-460 172- 924 J. T. Potter. .. .81-467 „ — — 83-401 164- 868 G. A. Reynolds..81-441 76-422 157- 863 A. G. Suydam. ...73-359 79-371 152730 G. B. Cadwell....54-250 64-300 118- 550 A. C. Broberg...82-398 82- 398 Dr.A. P. Krueger 80-380 80- 380 Dr. J. S. Engs ...67-275 67- 275 L. J. Fletcher....63-243 63- 243 Natn’l Col’bia Total Mrs. Perrine... .64-362 71-461 135-823 Miss Higgins.

---------.70-366 .v-wv 72-440 I o—*±**u 142-806 xaz — out> Miss O'Connor .. 64-290 72-460 __ .....u,um 11—*4ov 136-750 ran—taO ■n-JMrs. Cadwell 56-280 67-369 123-649 Miss Broberg. n—i—.____.56-238 67-365 123-605 Mrs. Eccles—...........46-236 sv—k—jo vo —ooi 115-603 no-OU*5 69-367 Mrs. Macquarrie..50-204 66-366 116-570 ____ w..vw-wv*z WOOD ±±O”O/U Miss Coleman.

Coleman...... 48-206 68-358 116-564 Juniors—1st Jr. Am. 2d Jr. Am. Dbl. R. Holt............. .79-413 79-375 156-788 R Eldridge G. Cadwell Jr. .67-371 74-378 141-749 60-238 60-238

Archer Beats Pistol Shots Boy! Page Postmaster William Nat Friend.

The boys who drive the mail wag­ ons are afraid they’ll have to quit car­ rying the old .45 revolvers, in favor of the more primitive bow and arrow.

More primitive — maybe! But Sup­ ply Clerk Ernest Williams, of the main postoffice, in 30 shots at a regulation target with bow and arrow, has beaten

five mail wagon drivers armed with their .45 revolvers, scoring 172 points out of a possible 300, against the small­ arms’ men’s score of 165.

It all rose out of a chance remark one of the boys passed at Williams, who is a member of the Greenwood Arch­ ers Club.

Challenge Issued “Your old bow and arrow wouldn't stand a chance against the revolver when it comes to hitting a bull’s-eye target.”

Archer- Williams was up in arms in a minute.

“I’m the only archery man in the pistol service here, but I’ll shoot against six of your mail wagon drivers and we’ll see which is best,” he challenged.

So the postal men “shot it out” down at the postoffice garage on Sixteenth Street—regulation targets at the width of the garage — about 55 feet.

Williams’ first six arrows scored 42 out of a possible 60. That put the mail­ men right on their toes.

One of them, Harry E. Cole, landed his six revolver bullets in and around that tricky little black spot that marks the center of the target, to score a nice 44.

Bowman in Lead Some of the boys did well; others not so well, and when they counted scores, Williams’ bow and arrow led by seven points.

However, the mailmen point out that Archer Williams is one of the crack bowmen of the Greenwood Archery Club, being a handicap cup winner and general high man, whereas they’re just “run of the mill” mailmen.

Before finally deciding to put in requisitions for twenty or thirty bows and a gross or two of arrows, the mail­ men will ask for a reshoot, however.

Seems that one of their men, with his revolver- dead on the bull’s-eye, pulled a misfire—and, say the mailmen, that lost ’em 10 points.

Competing against Bowman Wil­ liams were Reese Oversteg, Cole, Bay­ ard Parker, Charles A. Hill and Mad­ ison Seely. — Oakland Tribune, cour­ tesy C. B. Hutchinson.

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Letters Editor, Ye Sylvan Archer: In the June number, the article by Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg entitled “The Effect on Scores, of Errors in Aiming and Holding" is of great interest. In his remarks regarding the disastrous effects on trajectory and elevation ac­ curacy, of the habit of “creeping,” the doctor seems to adhere to a purely mathematical calculation. I would just like to call attention to the fact that there is also another factor in this habit of drawing„ and __ I creeping creeping the the loose which is not plainly' i. ct.—— apparent from a purely mathematical calculation, For example: With a given weight of bow and arrow, drawn 28 inches and loosed with a half-inch creep (or at 27 Vz inches) such a shot would give notice­ ably less velocity, and would register a lower hit at a given distance, than if the same bow and arrow were drawn only 27*,c inches and loosed without creeping, or at the extreme height of the draw of 27 (A inches.

This difference is due, no doubt, to the effect of strain on the resiliancy of the bow. A somewhat similar deterior­ ation in velocity is also caused by the custom and habit of holding long at full draw while aiming. A bow being held at full draw suffers from strain, and will deteriorate more rapidly than it would otherwise.

It therefore becomes vitally import­ ant that any archer who would wish to cultivate a high scoring consistency, and would desire to preserve the unimpared pep and long life of his bow, would naturally guard very carefully against this disastrous habit of “creep­ ing loose,” and cultivate a shooting form that would cut down to a min­ imum the time required to hold the bow at full draw for the purpose of aiming.

F y/ PETERS Salem, Oregon.

Editor, Ye Sylvan Archer: ’'lay I make -J a plea as one who says we should have ive a standard of measureWent for cast?

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say a bow has good or poor cast, when everyone realizes that there is so much divergence among individuals where the so-called anchor spot is on the face, under the chin, under the ear, and so on, with various lengths of 25-inch to 28-inch arrows.

A standard measure should give a definite idea of a bow shot in a ma­ chine rest at a target of definite dis­ tance, with specific arrow weight and length. For example, take the distance as 100 feet, arrow weight 300 grains, length of draw 28 inches, shot point­ blank at the gold, and then give a ratio per measured drop. Another method (but too difficult for simple measuring) is a ratio record based on feet per second of flight. Either of these methods would be a definite tra­ jectory ratio that would give a definite idea of cast.

A York or American round means definite distances and a definite num­ ber of shots. It seems to me that bowyers in the business could and should get together and determine on a stand­ ard, and sell bows with standardized measurements of cast from machine rests, just as the trajectory of various gun calibers and loads of rifles are reported to a buyer if he cares to know.

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opponents. However, any target or targets may be designated as practice targets.

Rule 13— No exceptions or modifications of the rules governing archery golf shall be made without the approval of the archery golf division of The Tourna­ ment Committee of the Cleveland Dis­ trict Golf Association. Amendments may be made by a majority vote of this committee by giving a thirty-day notice of such action to all affiliated clubs.

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R. S. Hamilton of Fort Worth, Texas, who won Ye Sylvan Archer flight event at the Texas state tournafment with a 39 pound Osage orange bow, writes that the description of his bow given in the September issue of Ye Sylvan Archer, should have been, in part, as follows: Bow is tapered 1% inches to % inch side to side; back to belly 1 inch to % inch.

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in trying to shoot better scores with arrows made from poor material would be much more satisfactorily and prof­ itably employed in being able to shoot much, very much, better scores with arrows made from correspondingly better material. When it comes to making and shooting arrows it will be found that the very best of mater­ ial is none better than desired Our wishes and ambitions for better quality Stanley F. Spencer < of' Seattle is at always speedily catch up with our work preparing a book -----o —- on shooting technique. We are glad to hear about acquisition in this respect. And from this. Because it is very likely, — we a standpoint of economy it will be should say more than likely — to be found that the best, the very best, in this respect will be proven to be the something we are all looking for. Many a reader of Ye Sylvan Archer has had least expensive in the long run, even good things to say about Mr. Spencer’s if the initial cost of the raw material articles which have appeared in this be correspondingly much greater.

Many archers love to spend their magazine. At any rate, Mr. Spencer’s leisure hours in making up their own, shooting records (past and present!) but not all are so located that they should insure a wide distribution of a have opportunity to venture into the book written by him on shooting tech­ nique. woods and select the raw materials. It is these who would especially wel­ come more uniformity, and depend­ ARROW MATERIALS able quality in raw materials.

(Continued from page 7) Better rank-and-file archery per­ desirable density and stiffness of grain formance does reflect on expansion texture is located, it is then import­ ant to split out the desired strata for in interest on the part of the general uniform arrow stock. Even if this public. One reads and hears of indi­ scrupulous care is i being exercised in vidual outstanding archers who can on occasion best some of the crack the initial selection, selection, it it will will be found later when it is sawed up into arrow pistol shots. Such feats always win squares and <seasoned, tested for in- public recognition. But too general is the impression amongst the public at dividual spine and weight, that a suf­ ficiently wide range of difference in large that such skill at archery is very quality and price value exists, to suit difficult — yes, almost impossible — the fancy and purchase price of quite to achieve, whereas it really is not a variety of opinions among archers so impossibly difficult when the en­ thusiast is equipped with good quality as a whole. tackle, and has the opportunity to get In view of the general the general desirability some sound advice and coaching at the of advancing the L." : individual perform- beginning. ance of rank-and-file . file archers all over In connection with high archery this country, it might be a timely sug- scores, as well as rapid advancement gestion that all of us-e who ployed at supplying archery are em- on part of beginning archers, good materials quality arrow material is one of the and who are domiciled in localities very “essential details,” and of very where the material grows, employ the most scrupulous care and also culti­ great importance It is evident that vate our judgement in selecting this application of more care and skill, also improved in selecting ar­ raw material at the base of supply. ohivmjudgement, m row stocks in the woods, should reThere can be no doubt about it, that fleet favorably __j all down the line, in much time which is and has been spent future advance future advancement of archery.

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OCTOBER, 1932.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN­ AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., RE­ QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, Of Ye Sylvan Archer, published monthly at Corvallis, Oregon, for October 1, 1932.

State of Oregon, County of Benton, ss.

Before me, a notary public in and for the state and county aforesnid. personally ap­ peared Allan J. Stover, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the manager of the Ye Sylvan Archer and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation) etc., of the afore­ said publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of Au­ gust 24, 1912, embodied in section 111, Pos­ tal Laws and Regulations, printed on the re­ verse of this form, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and busi­ ness managers are: Publisher: Ye Sylvan Archer Publishing Co, 636 S. 16th St., Corvallis, Oregon.

Editor; Maud Rolfe Stover, 6 36 S. 16th St.. Corvallis, Oregon.

Business Manager: Allan J. Stover, 636 S. 16th St., Corvallis, Oregon.

2. That the owner is: (If owned by a cor­ poration, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corpor­ ation, the names and addresses of the indi­ vidual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated con­ cern. its name and address, as well ns those of each Individual member, must be given.)

Ye Sylvan Archer Publishing Co., 636 S. 16th St., Corvallis, Oregon; Allan J. Stover.

636 S. 16th St., Corvallis, Oregon; Maud Rolfe Stover, 636 S. 16th St., Corvallis, OreS. That the known bondholders, mortgaKeea. and other security holders owning or bolding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: securii (If there are none, so state) None.

4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security jcurit; holders as they appear upon the books ks of the com­ pany but also, in cases where the stockholder iere th< B?CQr^y holder appears upon the books cf the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person cr corporation for whom such trustee is act­ ing. is given; also that the said two parae™*?8 .contain statements embracing af­ fiants full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a ea­ j L01^ than that of a bona fide owirner ; and this affiant has no reason to believe ithat .__ any other person, association, or corporation .. any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than *’r’° si?ted by him. . That the average number of copies of ,l8fue, thia publication sold or disle v through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months prefr e date shown above is: (this inon is squired from daily papers gj . ALLAN J. STOVER, Manager. j01 to and subscribed before me this of October, 1932. E. F. NICHOLS, taeaiiMy commission expires April 10, 1935.

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ARCHERY GOLF SETS. Reflex bows to 60 lbs. and set of 3 golf ar­ rows, $20.00. Homer Prouty, 358 E. 50th St., Portland, Oregon.

HANSARD’S TREATISE ON ARCH­ ERY, 1840, in excellent condition.

Illustrated with steel engravings.

Price $10. Vesper L. George, 44 St. Botolph Street, Boston.

FEATHERING TOOL, now $1.00.

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PRECISION CUT MACHINE FEATHERS. Enough for one dozen arrows, $1.00. Free samples. New fall price folder. Craft Archery Company, Famous for Feathers, 22 E. 18th St., Tulsa, Okla.

HAVE YOUR ARCHERY pictures developed and printed by an archer.

Any six or eight exposure film de­ veloped, and one Higloss print of each, for 30 cents; with fancy borders 40 cents. Postpaid. Expert work. J. M. Hoff, Abbotsford, Winconsin.

CONTINENTAL SPECIALTIES for Archery Sport: Genuine Flandrish bowstrings; feathers for arrow-fletch­ ing; badges for clubs; trophies for tournaments. J. Schwarz and Bruder, 57 Lindengasse, Vienna (7), Austria, Est. 1873. Price list on request. Cable address: “Marahout.”

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