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T hey were getting ready for the| I 2nd annual U.S. Open IndoorJ Archery Championships to be held in Las Vegas early in 1970. As one might ■ ascertain from this month’s cover, since Jim Easton gave mini-skirted Sherri -p Schrull that lesson in the fine points of shooting the recurve bow, tournament archery styles have changed a bit. Slacks are now de rigueur for women shooters, purses have grown larger, compound power (aided by relases) was unleashed in unlimited competition, NFAA’s Pro Division appeared and prospered and, through it all, Jim Easton appears to have aged by almost six months. As for Miss Archery, Ms. Schrull subsequently received love letters from ardent archers around the world, then she went on to be a Miss Universe runner-up. And the U.S. Open? Well, since that second edition, it has gone on annually in Vegas for six more under a couple of titles, with a seventh version the $25,375 International Indoor Archery Championships - getting under way on the 28th of this month. The tradition of a Las Vegas tourna ment of national import really goes back 15 years to the Castaways Open in 1962 - actually an outdoor PAA round with a total purse of $10,000. Big winners that yearwere a pair from just over the border in California, Matt ! Yurick and Lucille Shine, who was to continue her winning that year by • at ..•? capturing an NFAA national title. After a hiatus of three years, in 1966 another large Vegas money shoot convened in out of the cold with a $12,000 pot and a new title, the SaharaColt U.S. Open Indoor Archery Cham pionships, and Chuck Wertz and Roma
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