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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ARCHERY’S OTHER HOBBY

By Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg ................

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BOWSTRINGING A WILD BOBCAT

By Walt Wilhelm ..............................

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EDITORIAL

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OLYMPIC BOWMEN LEAGUE

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIELD ARCHERS

By John L. Yount ...........

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BUNK BY BROMMERS

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SIX GOLDS CLUB

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ARCHERS I HAVE KNOWN

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^Archery’s Other Hobby

By DR. PAUL E. KLOPSTEG, Chicago, Illinois The title of this story needs ex­ planation.

Once upon a time, while discours­ ing upon my favorite pastime to a group of friends whose interest I was trying to direct down the entrancing vistas, I made the remark that archery is a four-sided hobby.

First, I said, there is that side of it which Roger Ascham describes so well: “. . .most holesome exercise for ye bodye and most honest pas­ time for ye minde, abydinge in ye open sighte and face of ye worlde.”

This applies equally to targets, to hunting, to roving. Second, there are to be found in the bow and arrow, in their action and use, as many capti­ vating problems in science as one may wish. Their solution leads to greater understanding and hence to greater enjoyment of the third side, namely the designing and making of tackle, experimenting with it. constantly im­ proving it. Fourth, there is the fascin­ ation of finding and collecting things pertaining Io archery: old books and prints, Indian materials, bows and arrows of oriental countries.

Further consideration of the possi­ bilities in archery as a provider of hobbies leads me to aver that I missed one. To the incurable hobbyist, it is an important one. Call it “archery’s other hobby," if you will. It inte­ grates. so to speak, the "sides" enum­ erated above. It is the hobby of plan­ ning and developing an archery room or den.

Such a place is a delight beyond description; a haven of refuge from the cares and worries that force themselves upon you in your daily activities; a place of inspiration in which you may think, and read, and write, and browse; where you can express your esthetic Impulses if you have them. It is perhaps, the one place you may claim as yours, to do with as you please—to be painstaking with its appearance or delightfully disorderly, giving yourself completely over to your fancy.

I have a recollection of reading, some years ago, of an archer's den,

built of logs, apart from the dwelling, with a fireplace, comfortable chairs, hunting trophies, bows with pleasant associations, arrows made valuable by sentiment. Fortunate the man whose circumstances thus favor him.

Such a den is beyond the reach of many of us who would have it if we could. Living in cities, far from the woods, we are denied the opportunity of acquiring trophies of the hunt, and must develop a den of another sort.

The one I want to tell you about has its points. You go up to the first landing of the stairway and turn right. It is off by itself over the garage. A pleasant room it is, with a fine closet. The latter lends itself ideally to being made into an armory where hang many of the bows I have made at one time or another. Some of these were experimental, to see how some theory might work in prac­ tice. Others — target bows, flight bows, hunting bows—embody the re­ sults of such tests. Here also is a

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cabinet for storing the accumulation, inevitable as it is, of gadgets, memen­ tos, pictures, movie reels. On the other side is the arrow rack where each, in its own group, stands stiffly upright. In one corner reposes a ver­ itable treasure of yew and osage. To digress briefly, do any of you archers remember Mr. Berry, who used to cut osage in Alabama? One of my most valued staves was presented by him to Art Young. It is full six feet long; was bent backward in seasoning to a perfect arc, its middle full seven inches up when its ends touch the floor.

What a bow that would make! But I doubt its ever being made into a bow.

Returning from the digression, you are about to question how anyone could manage to get such a room for his own when it could not too readily be spared from household needs. For, is not a room with a fine closet more to be desired, by a woman, than two rooms without closets? The answer to that question becomes simple when you know the admirable qualities of my wife. Not an archer herself—hav­ ing always placed her duty to child­ ren and home ahead of even pleasant diversions—she is the personification of kindness towards her husband, and of amazing tolerance towards his hobby. Not merely did she set the room apart for his aen, but it was her idea and suggestion! One day, re­ turning from a business trip to an­ other city, I found that the “regular" furnishings had been removed from the room, and for them had been sub­ stituted a very comfortable day-bed and a floor lamp for the latest directindirect. scientific illumination. That was the beginning of the den.

As I think about this favorable turn of events, I begin to see evidence of much sagacity on her part. You see, there was a time when nearly every available hour found me in my basement shop; and she was not to be blamed for an occasional manifesta­ tion of impatience at my imitation of the groundhog. The difference be­ tween me and the groundhog was that I didn’t ever come up, not even on Candlemas day, to look for my shadow. And I am sure of her sin­ cerity when she expressed some ap­ prehension about the effect of base­

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ment climate on health. Yes. I feel sure now that she knew what she was doing when she lubricated the ways to launch me into "archery’s other hobby.” Now the occasions are in­ creasing in frequency when she will spend the evening with me in the den. reading, or following one of her hob­ bies such as sewing or embroidering, while I am busy with N. A. A. mat­ ters. or writing—as I am now doing— or working on a new design of bow or arrow.

As I give further thought to this p'ea'-ant matter. I am even more deeply impressed by the wifely fore­ sight to which I owe the den. No longer are the corners of the dining room and living room made reposi­ tories for archery gear; and the broom-closet in the kitchen is now being used for brooms.

I note that these paragraphs of

The bookcase is devoted to my archery library

February, 1937 YE SYLVAN ARCHER 3 appreciation of the kindly wisdom tunately for one’s bank balance, the which has provided the den in which field is limited, and the total number a hobby may be indulged, have car­ of books small. When the mood is upon me to visit with the archers of ried me somewhat off the course on years past, I need only to turn around, which I started. But who wouldn’t to be greeted by all the old—some begin drifting when he is engaged in such delightful contemplation? very old—friends of the bookshelves.

The day-bed and the lamp con­ The oldest, both as to authorship and publication, is Roger Ascham, includ­ tributed much to making a room into ing “Toxophilius,” in a 1761 edition. an inviting den. A few other pieces of furniture were needed, among There are also Moseley’s "An Essay on Archery,” 1792; Roberts, "The them a desk. The table which came English Bowman, 1801; Strutt’s with the Encyclopaedia Brittanica "Sports and Pastimes of the English serves the purpose admirably. I had People,” 1810; a second edition of only to saw away the shelf on one Waring’s "Handbook of Archery,” side for a kneehole, and put in a 1820; Hansard’s "Book of Archery,” drawer. On the other side of the desk 1840; Ford’s “Archery: Its Theory is an easy chair from which I can roach any one of the twenty-four and Practice,” first edition, 1856 and second edition, 1859, the latter con­ Brittanicas. On my right,.at the desk, taining a hand-written letter of is a combination typewriter stand and Ford’s. An unusual book is “Telchis filing cabinet with ample storage space for stationery and other essen- resail er-rumat,” in Turkish, by Mustafa Kani, published in Constan­ tails for writing, drawing and com­ tinople in 1840. It gives a comprehen­ puting. Behind me, the bookcase is devoted to the single purpose of con­ sive survey of Turkish Archery as it was then known. There are many taining my archery library and re­ (Continued on page 11) ceiving the occasional additions. For-

The den acquires its archery flavor from the things which decorate and ornament its walls.

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Bowstringing a W^ild Cat

By WALT WILHELM, Yermo, California Ed Hill hasn't shot an arrow as far as his brother Curtis, but he’s an 18 carat archer just the same. When I drove into Ed's place he was plenty busy and did not want to have any­ thing to do with me. He was waiting on a good looking woman customer and, not wanting to spoil anything for him, I just waited. He finally gave me enough of his precious time to ask what was on my mind. I told him Ken and I were going after wild cats in the morning.

He quit that customer right now and said, "Who’s goin' after cats and when?”

I told him I’d seen plenty of sign down in Gardner’s Woods. We named it this because Erie Stanley Gardner got feathers from a large hawk there at one hundred and twenty yards using a broadhead arrow. It was the best shot any of us had seen so we named, the woods after him.

I asked Ed to call his wife and’ ask her if he could go with us.

"Wotdaya mean, call my wife?” he asked,, standing erect and throwing out his chest. “Whodaya think runs our house ? When I take a notion to go hunting, I go hunting, and 1 don’t have to ask no wife neither.”

I assured him that I meant no harm; just wanted him to join us, that was all.

“Well,’’ ho said, "I’ll meet you at Ken’s garage in a few minutes.”

I drove around the block, parked the car, and went into a drug store to get some cigarettes. I opened the pack and. as I leaned to get a light, whom did I* see at the phone? No other than Mr. Hill. Oh! Oh! I thought I’d stick around for a few minutes, so I grabbed a magazine and started to read a free story. I’d only turned a few pages when Ed walked over.

“What the devil are you doing here?” he asked.

I told him I’d just bought a smoke and, seeing him at the phone, thought

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I’d waif and see if he could go hunt­ ing.

“You think you are plenty smart,” he snarled, “and besides I was just calling Ken." “Oh. yea," I asked, “and do you always say, 'Okay, honey,’ when talk­ ing to Ken?” Did that burn him up? He threat­ ened to whip me, but I talked him out of it. When he calmed down he said he’d go.

Ed and Ken stayed at my house that night and we shot most of the night on my inside range. Ken drew on a piece of white paper the most horrible thing any hunter ever saw and claimed it to be a cat. I told him that if I over saw a thing like that running loose I’d change my brand.

He then marked a large red spot on his animal and said, " Now. that’s the heart.”

Ed said, "I never knew a cat had a heart as large as a ham. and I never knew they were located half r.ay back on the body."

We're just going to pretend,” growled Ken. "It's something to shoot at. ain't it ?"

Then he wanted to bet a buck he could hit the thing more than I could.

I iewed him down to a dime and took him on. It's a good thing I got him down to a dime, for he surely took me to the cleaners.

Ken then challenged Ed. but Ed cou'dn't see him and wouldn't shoot.

Said he never shot for money. Well, I accused him of being broke and told him I knew who handled the dough at his house. That hire: just can’t take a joke. He cut loose at me with blunts, shooting one arrow clean through my door, and he chased me all over the p’ace. only letting up when I promis­ ed not to mix in the family affairs any more.

It was past midnight and we were r.till trying out arrows and messing around with tackle. Our arrows had been tried out many times, and our tackle didn’t need fixing, but you know how it goes when the gang gets together.

Il was getting daylight when we climbed into the old hunting car and headed for the cat country.

When we got to the woods, the boys got out and were going to take stands

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on the sand hills and watch while I made a circle with the car. We knew that if we jumped a cat he’d go into the mesquite brush and then we'd surround the patch and try to put him to the broadhead.

Right off the bat Ken saw a skunk and started to stalk him. I told him to lay off skunks as it was cats we were after. He said, "A skunk in sight is worth two cats in the brush."

Ed and I watched him while he got his skunk. He made a circle and turned the skunk from some thick brush. At the foot or a big cotton­ wood the old stinker stopped and pointing his tail straight up stood looking at Ken. Like a bolt of light­ ning that blunt left Ken's bow and with a "thump" it plowed through the skunk’s shoulder, killing him almost instantly. For some reason or other Ken did not retrieve his ar­ row. "Just leave it alone,” he said, "I'll get it later.”

I hadn’t traveled two hundred yards with the car when out went an old cat. I jumped it as I plowed through a bunch of mesquite on top of a large sand hill. Heading him to­ wards the boys. I gave chase and we soon put him into a mesquite thicket.

Then the fun began. We surrounded the patch and every time we got sight of that cat we’d shoot. We had that thicket full of arrows and no one had touched him. Mesquite is known to the cattle men as “hell bushes," and it is a good name. There is nothing as hard to see into; it's the kinkiest, rnarliest. and crookedest form or vegetation that God ever let grow.

In winter when the leaves are nearly gone you can’t see through a bunch twenty feet in diameter; and for thorns it's the king of them all. The thorns get two inches long, sharp as needles, and as hard. Our cat was in a patch nearly fifty feet across, so you may know what we were up against.

Ed Hill finally nailed him to a limb. Anyone familiar with Ed’s shooting will know where he hit that kitty. He always gets one arrow way back on anything he shoots at. This was no exception. He shot that cat through the hams as rar back as he (Continued on page 7)

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Editorial Yes, the editor has been having the flu and this accounts, m part at least, for the fact that Ye Sylvan Archer is late this month. However, we have decided that it would be better to change our mailing date to the fif­ teenth of the month, with a deadline for copy the first. So hereafter we shall—unless some of the shop equip­ ment absolutely refuses to let us do so—mail Ye Sylvan Archer promptly on the fifteenth of the month of issue.

Dr. Klopsteg’s article seems to us to be especially timely. These cold days and nights one can enjoy to the fullest “archery’s other hobbies’’ while seated by a warm fire in the den or living room.

We hope for the safety and com­ fort of archer friends along the rag­ ing Ohio river. Many of the cities mentioned in the news stories of the floods are familiar to us as the homes of subscribers.

We regret to announce the death of one of Oakland's best known arch­ ers, Mr. J. E. Weaver, who passed away at his home in San Jose. Friends say he was one of the finest sports­ men and always had, a smile. He at one time was champion of the Green­ wood club and was one of its oldest members.

SHOOTING ARROWS INTO THE AIR Dear Editor: The article by Reming­ ton Schuyler entitled “The Impulse to Point a Bow Skyward” published from the American Legion Monthly in the January issue of Ye Sylvan Archer suggests that authentic infor­ mation, as well as legendary, in re­ gard to the number of arrows it is possible to shoot from a bow before the first arrow returns to earth, might be of interest to your readers.

In his book, “Hunting with the Bow and Arrow” Saxton Pope re­ corded his experiments along this line and asserted that with special prep­ aration, tackle and practice he on several occasions almost accomplish­ ed eight arrows in the air at once.

And by the way in this same book is a very effective line drawing by Mr. Remington Schuyler, “friend and fellow archer” of Saxton Pope.

Very truly yours, A. Osborne Mayer ™.VMPIC BOWMEN LEAGUE Four teams in the Olympic Bow­ men Leanne scored over 3000 in the first week’s match and four came back with over 3000 the nevt week.

Corvallis archers were high the first week with 3046 but a loss of six points the next week put them in second place for the second match, the c’imbing Birmingham Archers shooting 3044. The first week the Lock^ev Archers of Seattle were second with 3026. the Birmingham Archers third with 3012. the Seattle Bowmen fourth with 3008, and the Portland Archers fifth with 2972. The second week Corvallis was second with 30^0 Portland stepped to third with 3028, Locksley fourth with 3004, and Seattle with 2982 placed fifth.

The Seattle ladies placed first with 2607 the first week. Oregon State College Girls second with 2526 and Portland third with 2369. In the sec­ ond match OSC Girls scored 2591.

Portland 2562 and Seattle 2530.

In the totals for the two matches lhe Corvallis Archers led the Birming­ ham Archers 6086 o 6056 and the Seattle ladies led the OSC girls 5137 to 5117.

Cxflman Keasey of Corvallis leads the individual scoring with a 790 av­ erage, and F. H. Hahn of Seattle.

Tom Ewing of Seattle, and N. Reid of Birmingham are tied for second with 777. Russel Jones of Eugene, Oregon, Roger Baker of the Peru Archers and C. C. Evans of Portland each have 774.

Billie Carter of Seattle and Vivian Chambers of Portland lead the ladies’ division with 710 each.

WHO CAN BEAT THIS CLOUT RECORD ?

Harry Zollars of El Paso made a c’out record in the Texas State Tournament that he thinks is a. world one. It was 36 hits for a score of. 224.

7 YE SYLVAN ARCHER ing and the performance began. That baby put all circus tumblers to shame as he turned flips and bucked like a bronco. You could have heard had any room, and with the head in Ed Hill laugh for four miles. We a limb and th> featner end in a played with him for a while and de­ crotch the cat couldn’t move. cided to let him loose. We knew that We tried many shots but couldn’t flesh wounds in the hams would soon get through for limbs. Ken said, "I”m heal and he’d be as good as ever. In going after him.1 Unstringing his fact, he was in better shape than we bow, he lay flat on his belly and rirri wriggled in. He tried to snare him were.

With the aid of long poles, Ed and with the bow string, but the cat I held him while Ken cut the strings. promptly bit the nock off his bow.

It surely burned Ken up. He tried to When he found he was free he jumped twenty feet straight up and left the strike the cat but the brush was too country like a pay train leaves a thick; tried to spear him and couldn’t tramp. move.

Ken asked, "What would the Ken backed out and whittled a new ranchers say if they knew we let that neck on his bow. He said some sweet things about cats as he sat there jab­ chicken thief get away?’’ bering, Ed figured he’d go in behind "H------ !” I told him, "We’re sports­ the cat, get the arrow, and drag him men and that cat more than paid for out. He crawled in, smiling as the his freedom with the amusement he sharp thorns ripped through his gave us. Getting scratched up is part tough old skin. He couldn’t pull the of the game. We’ll go again soon and arrow out so he cut it off, all the time if wo see that cat in the woods or if the cat kicking sand in his face. wo can stalk him we’ll shoot to kill; Every time he got a mouthful of sand until that time more power to him." he’d burst out laughing. It wouldn’t "Righto,” said Ed. have been a laughing matter to most fellows, but Ed’s that way. When the average man swears Ed smiles, and what I mean he can smile; he smiles right out loud. iven rigged a snare with a strong stick and a bow string und went back in opposite Ed. He thought to snare the cat around the neuic, and with Ed holding his hind feet they could drag him out. Ken got him by the neck all light but that cat had two front feet that weien’t tied, and he was doing things with ’em. Ed had his hind feet and Ken had his neck but they couldn’t budge him and they dare not iet go.

They kept yelling for me to stop laughing and do something. Holding a bow string in my mouth, 1 went in And what a cat! from the side. The sharp thorns did enough to me as I wriggled in, and Mr. R. Renzius reports a large and those birds kept hurrying me on. I enthusiastic archery club at Picker­ put a couple of hitches around his ing college, Newmarket, Ontario, hind feet, but tying his front ones Canada. was different. By wrapping my hands in my shirt tail, I finally tied the front feet and the boys got him out.

The picture of the Ohio archers What a sight we were. Looked like published in the January issue should we’d been in a knife fight. And what have been credited to the Mowrey a cat! I’ll be he weighed fifty pounds.

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Southern California Field Archers

By JOHN L. YOUNT. Secretary Sunday, January 24, all archers of Southern California interested in field shooting were Invited to a rov­ ers tournament at the Redlands rovers range in the hills southwest of Redlands. This tournament was sponsored by the Los Angeles Art Young Archers and the Redlands Archery Club. Despite the extreme cold a surprisingly large number came from long distances.

Awards in the men’s division were: gold medal, Howard Hill of Los Angeles; silver medal. N. L. Logan, Venice; bronze medal, Walter Wil­ helm, Yermo. Women’s division: gold first place medal, Glenn Curtis, San Bernardino; Beatrice Hodgson, San Pedro.

At noon the picnic lunches were taken to the commodious adobe club house of the Redlanas archci's and eaten in front of the cheerful Mexi­ can fireplace.

As the primary purpose for the . tournament was the organization of . an association of field archers in ; Southern California, a meeting was ’• held after lunch to get such an or. ganization under way. The unani’ mous opinion of those present was that such an association was abso, lutely necessary if field archery was to continue to develop as it should in Southern California. It was decided that the association setup should correspond as nearly as possible with the Southern California Archery As­ sociation, which is an association of years standing and which we believe to be the soundest organization of archers in the United States. It was. also, definitely decided that while these two associations should be en­ tirely separate they should in a mea­ sure work together. Since there will be no conflicting dates, we hope to have the largest part of the Southern California archers belonging to both, organizations. This will make it pos­ sible for an archer to attend both a field tournament or a target tourna­ ment and know that it is going to be properly conducted.

We expect a membership in the

new association of at least 150.

The officers elected were as fol­ lows: Fred Woodley, of Art Young Archers, president: Kay Hodgson, secretary of the S. C. A. A., vice-pres­ ident, and John L. Yount, past presi­ dent of Southern California Archery Association, secretary.

The committee to draft the consti­ tution and by-laws !«• D^. H Page Bailey, Riverside: Walter Wilhelm.

Yermo: Ray Hodgson. San Pedro: Henry L. Dagle, Long Beach; Robert Faas and Fred Wood’ev. Inglewood; Pernio Ahman and John L. Yount, Redlands; N. L. Rogan, Venice.

The next tournament and meeting win he held the fourth Sunday in February. The place to be announced later.

Those present were: Howard Hill.

N. L. Rogan, Walter Wilhelm. Kennoth Wilhelm. Martin Sabransky, Glenn Curtis. Fred Woodley. Bernie Ahman. Robert Faas. Benn Patrick.

Tfen^v L. D^le. pav Hodgson, A. Bendixon. Robert Hodgson. Elv Mil­ in". F. Grav. B. Gray. McLeod. Earl Grubbs, John L. Yount D”. H. Pare B^Pev Mr. Salvo. H. O. Berry and Ruth Rogan. Ethe1 Dendixon Glenn Curtis Beatrice Hodgson. Audry Grubbs. Elizabeth Hill. Dorothv Ah­ man. Mrs. Henry Dagle, Mrs. Salvo.

Mrs. H. O. Berry. Frances Kennedy and Vera A. Yount.

GIVES THE BUNNIES A CHANCE Dr. H. S. Hedges of Charlottesville.

Virginia, says: “We have decided it is too easy to kill the bunnies sitting; on Thanksgiving morning four of us started out agreeing not to shoot at anvthing sitting still. Mac got one, Bob two. and I knocked a squirrel out of the top of a big oak tree. I shall not try to tell you how many arrows we shot; but sometimes when four of us are after the same squirrel you really have to watch your own head.

We have an enthusiastic little group here—though no organized club.

Some shoot in the tournaments of the Potomac Archers in Washington.”

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Bunl{ by Brommers SCHOOLo&

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Truth is stranger than fiction, and this is too good to keep. ] had a letter from Washington, D. C., signed W. O. Robinson. No letter­ head and no address.

I consulted my mental filing cabi­ net. Mr. Robinson was head of a bureau of some kina. Something to do with wood, I knew, because he had been writing on the subject. Ex-vice president and ex- governor of the N. A. A. Means something to have a memory like I have.

It was an inquiry about wood for bow backing. I suggested plastics of the collodion type instead. Patiently I instructed and copiously I lectured.

Ended by the suggestion that he could augment even my exhaustive knowledge of the subject by consult­ ing the proper government agency.

Having written the letter, I turn­ ed to my mailing list for the address.

Robinson, W. O., there it was. Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C. As stated, it was too good to keep.

The letter was sent as is.

Fred Kibbe called me on the phone, from Hollywood, of course. Wanted rn introduction to Mae West. Mrs. Kibbe overheard him, and when Fred finally came to our house he had changed his mind and wanted to meet Bull Montana.

Fred got his bull, but it wasn’t the Montana variety.

Speaking of bovines, we have a new member on our editorial staff, Mr. B. E. Davis, ox-products specialist for the Edison Archers. Mr. Davis tells about the facts of life in the booklet we are getting out. What the Edison club members do to him afterwards is none of our business.

The country may be in need of a good five cent cigar, but what arch­ ery needs is a fair ten cent arrow. Not a fifty cent arrow sold for five cents to take business away from a com­ petitor, or a five cent arrow sold for fifty cents because the traffic will bear it, but an honest, fair shooting ten cent arrow sold at a profit to be­ ginners. Nothing, in my opinion, could do more to advance archery; and some of the larger manufacturers who have already made a move to­ wards it. are to be highly commended.

We already have very good values in arrows selling from 25 cents and up.

My idea of a real archer's vacation is to take out his own bow wood, osage orange or yew. It may cost more than you can buy it for, but there is a thrill in it.

At times the treasure hunter has a surplus. Some of it is sold, some traded, but most of it is given away, starting new archers in the process.

Short-sighted dealers complain, fail­ ing to see the boost to the sport, and through the sport to the dealers.

And let us have more discussion of the helpful hints given by Mr. Joy in

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the October Archer. The seasoning of wood is in many instances a needless­ ly drawn out process.

Probably a chestnut, the following was picked out of E. McGahan's column: It tells about the old pioneer who had bought a modern house in the city and tells his friends about its wonders.

"Why, in our new home there is a room with three wash bowls. One to wash your face in, one to wash all over in, and one to wash your feet in.

The last one had two covers on it, so we are using one for a bread board and one for a frame for Grandpa’s picture.

GEORGE BROMMERS

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SIX GOLDS CLUB According to a recent N. A. A. bulletin there are now 116 members of the Six Golds Club. Of the 116 members only seven qualified before 1930. These seven are Mrs. M. C. Howell, Norwood, Ohio, 1893; Prof.

D. H. Cole, Rome, N. Y., 1927; E. K. Roberts, Ventura, Calif., 1928; John Hobson, Lyons, Oregon. 1928; Roy Lawhorne, Santa Barbara, Calif., 1929; Stanley Spencer, San Pedro, Calif., 1929; and Clint W. Douglas, Los Angeles, Calif., 1929. Later quali­ fications by years were as follows: 1930, 3; 1931, 8; 1932, 16; 1933, 17; 1934, 15; 1935, 27; and 1936, 23. Only two earned their medals at the sixty yard range: H. F. Spooner, St. Louis, Mo. in 1936 and Mardee Robinson, Salt Lake City, Utah, at the last Na­ tional. Twenty-one states, the Dis­ trict of Columbia and Canada are rep­ resented in the membership. Cali­ fornia leads with thirty-three mem­ bers and Massachusetts is next with nine.

The requirements for membership are as follows: Six Golds Club membership is granted anyone who makes a perfect end at a national tournament or at the championship tournament of any regional or district or state archery association, or at any major tourna­ ment of a club affiliated with the N. A. A. The Texas archers staged a turkey shoot at their state tournament.

More about it later.

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February, 1937

ARCHERS I HAVE KNOWN

By Dave J. Mack (With apologies to the late Jimmie Duff)

Around and about the archery ranges and fields of me country are many peculiar and eccentric speci­ mens of the species. Homo toxophilius, some common, some rare. We’ve all met them, seen them, or known some of them. Among the most inter­ esting the writer has encountered is The Gadgeteer. This guy simply loves gadgets and accessories and usually needs a small trunk to cart them all to the field. They range all the way from common things like bowsights and talcum powder to automatic releasing devices, mo­ squito nets, and linament. He has never been able • to turn in a good card—is too busy monkeying with his gadgets to practice shooting. He believes the secret of a good score is to make everything as mechanical as possible. He has a secret hanker­ ing to use a crossbow instead.

THE DOPEY WITH THC GADGETS

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Several articles were crowded out of this issue. Each month we have more set than we can find room for.

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other is an osage hunting bow which has made the round trip to Little America. Among the wall adorn­ ments are two fine prints, one Japa­ nese, showing a master fletcher with his assistants, each doing one opera­ tion in the making of arrows, and the master examining the work; the other is an aquatint, by J. Townshend, made in 1823, representing the Meeting of (he Royal British Bowmen on Sep­ tember 13, 1822, at Erthig, Denbigh­ shire.

My movie projector is permanently set and ready to go on a moment’s notice. When archer friends visit me, I can entertain them with movies of tournaments. Among the most in­ structive of the movies is a series of studies accurately depicting the shooting form of past and present champions. These prove that there is no single correct way; that high scores may be achieved by a variety of methods; that control and steadi­ ness, and the ability to go through the shooting procedure in exactly the same manner every time, are most important. To entertain the non­ archer there are 900 feet of Art Young pictures, including "Alaskan Adven­ tures,” and color pictures of miscel­ laneous subjects.

What I have tried to tell you about "archcry’s other hobby” has been very sketchy. The use of words to convey a clear picture, and partic­ ularly a complete picture, is diffi­ cult. The accompanying photographs were taken to assist in making the descriptive narrative understandable if not attractive.

To assert that the attractions of the den have caused my complete deser­ tion of basement shop or attic labora­ tory would not be an exact statement.

I still go there on occasion, to make a bow or other tackle, and to experi­ ment. But the dark dampness of the basement and the temperature ex­ tremes of the attic now seem to make those places less inviting, and to pro­ mote the seeking out of the more equable clime and the more pleasant surroundings of the den.

other old books and treatises, less well-known than those mentioned.

Such a library, to have achieved com­ pleteness, must contain Saxton Pope’s books, all of them now out of print, and a set of "The Archer’s Register.” Among the American con­ tributions to the library, aside from lhe recent books which every archer knows or has, is a first edition of Maurice Thompson’s "Witchery of Archcry,” 1878; and a small volume

by Maurice and Will Thompson, "How to train in Archery,” 1879. A complete file of "Ye Sylvan Archer,” "Archery Review” and "Bulletin of lhe National Archery Association,” together with the "Archery News,” published in England, help to round out the library. Although it is small enough to be contained in slightly more than four three-foot shelves, it is comprehensive in its specialty.

The den acquires its archery flavor from the things which decorate and cvnament its walls. Reminders of Na­ tional Tournaments attended are the group pictures in which old friends repeatedly appear. Some faces of stalwarts of former meets are miss­ ing in the later pictures, and that starts a train of memories. I have? rover won a trophy or a prize at a tournament; in place of such a dec­ oration, there is the panel wth a col­ lection of some sixteen badges of tournaments attended and enjoyed, each with its own recollection. On the bookcase, in a silver loving cup which I once won (not in archery) are three a”'nws of the champions of 1936, in­ cluding Curtis Hill’s 577-yard arrow —his second. I don’t blame him for keeping his 615-yard shaft!

On a panel which I prepared a year since for a hobby show are exhibited a Turkish bow, some centuries old. with a Turkish flight arrow of the same period. There are also a bow­ string, a thumbring and a "siper.”

Among the other arrows is one used in Africa by Art Young, and shot by him.

The panel is flanked on one side by Archer Frank Latta is now station­ one of the last yew bows made by Art Young, never to be shot again; on the ed in the Canal Zone.

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RELICS AND CURIOS INDIAN RELICS, Beadwork, Coins, Curios, Books, Minerals, Weapons.

Old West Photos.

Catalog, 5c.

Genuine African Bow. $3.75. Ancient flint arrowheads, perfect. 6c each— ------ Indian Museum, Northbranch, Kansas.

ARCHERY TACKLE HUNTING ARROWS, yew bows, broad heads, quivers, cedar dowels.

Write for list. Harry D. Hobson, Chemawa, Oregon.

YEW STAVES AND BILLETS—Per­ sonally selected at high altitude.

Staves $3.50 to $5.00 postpaid. Billets, $2.50 to 3.50, postpaid. —■ Leon F. Chapin, Sweet Home, Oregon.

SPECIALIZING in Matched Shafts, Paul. Leyda, South Oil City, Penn­ sylvania.

February, 1937

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

"ARCHERY TACKLE, HOW TO MAKE AND HOW TO USE IT.”

by Adolph Shane. Bound in cloth and illustrated with more than fifty draw­ ings and photographs. Information for making archery tackle and in­ structions for shooting. Price is $1.75 Send orders to Ye Sylvan Archer, Alsea, Oregon.

ARCADIAN LIFE MAGAZINE “Devoted to Natural Living and Pastoral Contentment” here is a magazine that is as charming as the Hills of Paradise. It features folk­ lore, legends, old ballads, tradit­ ions, homespun philosophy, and pioneer history. Monthly—$1.50 a year; 25c a copy. Four months trial subscription—50 cents. When subscribing for the full year call for the “Arcadian Surprise package”—It’s free to subscribers who pay in advance. ARCADIAN LIFE is a good advertising medium. $2.00 per column inch for display — 4 cents a word for classified—Three insertions for the price of two. Order from: O. E. RAYBURN, Editor Caddo Gap : : Ark.

FOR ARCHERS AND TEACHERS OF ARCHERY

Modern Methods In Archery

By Natalie Reichart and Gilman Keasey Will supply helpful ideas on shooting, teaching and care of equip­ ment.

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This book emphasizes the principle of relaxation, so important in all sport skills. It is the only archery instruction book having a com­ plete series of photographic illustrations showing correct and in­ correct form in all hand and body positions In all there are 67 in­ structive illustrations in photographs and drawings. Price $1.50.

Address.

KEASEY ARROWS are making new records. They will help you improve your scores.

Equipment for schools and individuals. Write for price list.

GILMAN KEASE1, 700 N. 3rd St., Corvallis, Oregon

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GADGETS FOR ARCHERS Prism Glasses, 13 to 17 degrees 40c Ferruling Tool—fast and accurate, $3.

Feathering tool—$1.50

Craftco Champion XXX Arrows

Electric feather trimmer, any shape you want to make; 2 seconds to an arrow—$2.50 Write for descriptive folder.

JOHN S. GERSCHBACHER 212 Jackson St. Saginaw, : Michigan

Guaranteed To Your Satisfaction Our Triple XXX Arrows have never yet failed to increase scores.

9/32 diameter for medium bows.

5/16 diameter for heavy bows.

ARCHERY MATERIALS Brass Piles, 5-16 or 9-32 inch, 3 doz, ................... —.75 Handmade Linen Bow­ strings, each ... .60 Lemon wood Bow Staves 1.50 1 1-8 inch square Turkey Wing Feathers, (1-3 white) 3 doz.......... .... .35 Broadhead Hunting Points, nickled, doz 3.00 ILLINOIS TACKLE IS GOOD Snappy Yew Bows, latest model, each $25.00 Self Arrows, selected to match these bows, 1 doz.... 6.00 —New Address— ARCHERY MATERIALS G. L. Nichols, Mgr. 439 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, III.

HUNTING TACKLE by

Howard Hill Reasonable Prices 1358 Burnside Ave.

Los Angeles, California

Price $10 Per Dozen

Craft Archery Co. TULSA,

1739 S. Main OKLAHOMA

PERFECT FLETCHING TOOL $1.00 All metal, fletches all 3 feathers at once, fits any size parallel or tapered shaft, uses stripped or cut feathers.

6” Tool for Hunting Arrows, $1.25.

—Satisfaction Guaranteed— C. E. LOVE 2231 So. Ogden St.. Denver Colo.

ULLRICH WOOD “The Choice of Champions” Folder and price list on request.

EARL L. ULLRICH Roseburg, Oregon

HOLLAND-MADE BOWS 0J/2 feet-30 lb.

Hand made of Turkish Oak by Willem Engelen, Heeze, Holland Write Winnie McDOUGALL’S Market Dayton, Oregon

Cassius Hayward Styles BOWYER AND FLETCHER

—Tackle that has stood the test—

GLUE FOR BOWSTRINGS 4-oz. can 40c-8-oz. can 65c Instructions for Making Bow­ strings, per copy, 10c Salmon Twine, 10 or 12 ply, 75c per Yi lb. ball.

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Seattle, Wash.

28 Vincente Place BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

“THE MARK OF DISTINCTION IN ARCHERY TACKLE Exclusive Mfg’r and Distributor for the Howard Hill ’ Hunting Ar­ row and the Howard Hill Broad­ head.

Fine Yew Target and Hunting Bows. Rawhide Backed Lemon­ wood Bows.

College and School Equipment Price list on request Wholesale — Retail EARL GRUBBS 5518 W. Adams Los Angeles, : California

ACME GLASS BOW SIGHTS Prism & Plano Glass Sight $4.50 Prism Glass Sight................ $3.50 Plano Glass Sight ................ $2.50 Circular on Request THE H. J. REEB CO. 434 N. 24th St. E. St. Louis, Ill.

YEW BOWS For target, flight, hunting and archery golf $8.00 to $20.00 ARROWS For hunting, flight and target.

Steel dies, feathers, nocks and points Write for 8 page catalog HOMER PROUTY 1604 N. E. 50 Ave. Portland, Oregon

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