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Ye Sylvan Archer Official Publication of the National Field Archery Association No. 12

April, 1942

Vol. 13

Published the fifteenth of each month for archers by archers 505 North 11th Street, Corvallis, Oregon Editor

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page STORIES OF PERCY AND DOUGLAS

By George Martin

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BLUNTS FROM THE OLD STUMP By the President

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NFAA BULLETIN

By John L. Yount

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EDITORIAL

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OLYMPIC BOWMAN LEAGUE

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ARCHERY RESORT

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1942 NFAA TOURNAMENT REPORT 8

By Karl E. Palmatier ..............

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ARCHERS SET RECORDS \ FLINT BOWMEN

PUBLICITY

By Lulu Stalker

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Stories of Percy and Douglas

By George Martin in Archery News (England) The gallant, cultured, and magnaminous Sir Philip Sidney, whom no gentler, braver man his own delight­ ful genius ever feigned, in his Defense of Poetry tells us that: “I never heard the old song of Per­ sie and Douglas that not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.”

As is well known, he alludes to the ancient ballad of “The Hunting a’ the Cheviat,” a more modern rendering of which delighted the cultured mind of Joseph Addison, both versions be­ ing re-introduced to the literary world

by Bishop Percy 54 years after the date of Addison’s pleasing essay.

Both versions have ever since been favourites with, not only poets, an­ tiquaries and historians, but by all who take pleasure in contemplating the ever varying phases of human nature.

Whether the story of Chevy Chase is founded on an episode in history, or whether, like the legend of Robin Hood, it is a myth, is a question which has been much debated, yet upon the whole, it may be assumed, having re­ gard to the numerous hostile encoun­ ters between the Percies and the Douglases which, during so many years were rendered inevitable by the rival chiefs being the great landown­ ers on the borders, that some incident, otherwise unrecorded, is with many fictitious embellishments, thus com­ memorated, especially, which it seems unnecessary to invent an account of a non-existent battle, when so many stirring stories of genuine conflicts were already committed to the mem­ ory of the dwellers in the troubled marches. In those wild days on the borders when no man’s life, far less his property, were safe from day to day, when one outrage was immed­ iately revenged by another, when the great freeholders, although actuated by mutual animosity, yet conducted their warfare upon principles of hon­ our to which the men of the twentieth century are generally strangers, the scenes of violence in which they play­ ed so dramatic a part, were occasion­ ally relieved by incidents which il­ lustrate some of the better qualities

of human nature, which suggest that although the history of those times possess few of the picturesque details which render Chevy Chase so attrac­ tive, many of them contain impressive features which invite the attention not only of those whose minds are ap­ preciative of the philosophy of his­ tory but of those more ardent spirits who delight in “thoughts that breathe and words that burn scattered by Bright-eyed Fancy from her pictured urn.” It is therefore proposed to briefly recall a few of the “battles and perilous adventures” which mark­ ed the close of the fourteenth and the opening of the fifteenth century, in the hope that as “Twice Told Tales” they will not prove tedious but will, on the contrary, encourage further inquiry into the annals of those tur­ bulent times.

Towards the close of the reign of Richard II, the unfortunate son of the Black Prince, few of the king’s sub­ jects wielded greater power or pos­ sessed more influence in the national councils than Henry Percy, First Earl of Northumberland, his brother Thomas, Earl of Worcester and the son of Northumberland, Sir Henry Percy, universally known as Hotspur.

The latter’s extraordinary aptitude for a military life displayed itself at the early age of twelve years when he led a party which took Berwick-onTweed by storm.

His father appeared to possess all the qualities which distinguished a mediaeval baron. He lived in a style of princely magnificence, was gra­ cious in his demeanour, affable to his inferiors, seemed desirous that his country should enjoy the blessings of peace and advocated easy taxation.

But unfortunately, there is another side to this beautifully emblazoned shield; the incidents of his career were marked by lack of good faith, of honourable scruples and of sincerity, and suggest that his good actions were due to policy rather than to be­ nevolence.

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Blunts from the Old Stump By the President A meeting was called by the United States Division of Physical Fitness at Philadelphia on March 16, to ascer­ tain the part that archery is to play in the National Physical Fitness Pro­ gram. Jean C. Trittin attended at his own expense, as a representative of the NFAA. It is unfortunate that this meeting was held at a time when the public was aroused, and justly so, against fan dancers and publicity seeking actors being hired at fancy prices as representatives of the Of­ fice of Civilian Defense. The OCD came in for some criticism because of the appointment of individual stars as coordinators of certain sports.

Charges were also made that money allotted for civilian defense was being used for the promotion of certain sports.

If any government money has been used for the promotion of any sport in the Physical Fitness Program, we do not know of it. But we can state positively that not one dollar — not even a postage stamp — has been used by the OCD or any other govern­ mental agency for the promotion of archery. As far as the NFAA is concerned, we are not asking for any governmental subsidy, as we would rather not have it. The NFAA fi­ nanced its own program with thor­ oughly experienced and capable exec­ utives before the war, and it is our wish that we be permitted to continue doing so during the war.

The Physical Fitness Program has been transferred from the Office of Civilian Defense to the Division of Federal Security, where it belongs.

Because of the large number of se­ lectees rejected for physical defects, those in charge of our armed forces recognize the need for an intensive physical fitness program to build up the health and physical condition of our people. The government recog­ nizes the need of sports for recreation and diversion among those engaged in working long hours in war industries and also for those in our armed forces.

We can quote you no higher author­ ity than our Commander-in-Chief, President Roosevelt, who was person-

ally responsible for sponsoring the Physical Fitness Program.

There is a definite place in the war program for archery and other sports insofar as they are used for public purposes in building up national fit­ ness and morale. But there is no place in the Physical Fitness Program for publicity seekers or for any sport that seeks to build itself up for sel­ fish reasons with public money that should be used for guns, planes, and ships. John B. Kelly and John Da Grosa, the heads of the Physical Fit­ ness Program, are sincere and ca­ pable men. If the politicians leave them alone, they will do a splendid and worthwhile job with the Physical Fitness Program. But with a pro­ gram as vast as this, some chiselers are bound to get in.

Before the war every worthwhile sport was organized on a national ba­ sis and functioning smoothly through its own selected executives. Each national sport was financing its own program. Who are better qualified to represent and direct these same sports during war time than those in charge of the sports before the war? The “Prima Donnas” of any sport are usually not the best exec­ utives, and their appointment as na­ tional coordinators would not serve the best interests of the public nor the sport itself. Fortunately, John Yount is the NF A A representative on the Archery Advisory Council. The NF A A will cooperate with the Na­ tional Physical Fitness Program to the fullest extent. We will welcome any suggestions and advice they have to offer on how we can better serve in this war effort. We will accept and push every sound and construc­ tive program for field archery, but we will do it through our own or­ ganization and at our own expense.

The finances of the NFAA. may be limited, but our capacity for work is unlimited. Until a more definite pro­ gram comes from the Division of Fed­ eral Security, we will continue to push field archery for all we are worth in our own way and according to our own plans. There is no need

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for us to urge every local club and every member to push the Physical Fitness Program, not only through continued participation in field arch­ ery, but by making it available to the boys in the army camps and those engaged in war industries, who need and are seeking good, healthful recre­ ation. We know you will do more than your full part.

Russell Webster, 445 Highland Av­ enue, Passaic, New Jersey, is forming a new field archery club in that city.

Requests have also come in from Sammy Lu then s, 46 Lynn Road North, Hutchinson, Minnesota, for twenty applications for membership for a new field club forming in that city.

Sid Bartlett of Wichita, Kansas, State Director of the National Health Program, asks for full information on field archery with a view of or­ ganizing it in that state. We are pleased to hear from Kansas, and as­ sure them every cooperation. The Secretary is furnishing the necessary information.

The annual Golf Championship of the Ohio Field Archers Association was held at Columbus, Ohio, on March 28 and 29. We regret very much our inability to accept their kind invitation to attend this meeting.

Many prominent archers attended, in­ cluding Professor Paris Stockdale, Vice-President of the NFAA, and several times golf champion of Ohio, who is now located at the University of Tennessee. This meeting was also called for the purpose of deciding whether the NA A National Tourna­ ment, scheduled for August, 1942, should be held. We have not heard the results of this tournament, nor what decision was made as to the NAA National. We believe that arch­ ers will support the NAA National,, and we will regret it very much if it is called off.

The 1942 Mail Tournaments have started off with good participation from the western states. April brings spring in the northern states, and we can now look for increased partici­ pation in the Mail Tournaments from the rest of the country. The field tournaments are for us average shoot­ ers and not just for top-notchers, so let’s all get in on the fun. We notice that Dr. Dclmer Pletcher is still doing his stuff — shooting close to 700.

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There certainly must be something to this technique of shooting which he advocated in the February Ye Sylvan Archer. Phil Conrad, in the NFAA Handbook, has a similar article on the technique of field shooting. We are sure that with this opportunity given to field archers everywhere to learn and study the shooting technique of experts, that this year will show a marked improvement in the shooting done by our field archers, not only in the tournaments, but in the field during the hunting season.

All NFAA members should have their copies of the new NFAA Hand­ book on field archery by this time.

We hope you will agree with us that it is the best two-bit bargain you ever received. If you haven’t sent your quarter to the Secretary for your copy, please do so at once.

Copies are still available for non­ members. If you have an archer friend who does not have a copy of the Handbook, we are sure he will be very grateful to you if you send in his name and address to the Secre­ tary, with 50 cents, so that he, too, can get all the answers on field arch­ ery and learn more about your hobby.

Over one thousand archers hunted for deer in Michigan last fall. The prize buck, weighing 312 pounds, was taken by Dorr Sweet of Muskegon Heights, Michigan. It was shot in Allegan County in the first hunting season since the area was stocked in 1932. Archers in Allegan County killed eight deer — six bucks and two does. The archers did well in the northern deer territory, also. Eleven deer were killed near Baraga, Iron­ wood, Sault Ste. Marie, Manitou Is­ land, Atlanta, Mio, Roscommon, and Baldwin. The first legal doe kill in twenty years was made by Harold Eldridge of Mendon. Fred Westendorf of Saginaw, killed a black bear near Roscommon.

This column is a little shorter than usual this month. This is due to the fact that we have not heard from you.

If you do not tell us about interesting and even amusing incidents in your club activities, we cannot pass them on to other archers. We depend upon you for news, and are naturally in­ terested in hearing from you more often. If you have some worthwhile (Continued on page 4)

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NFAA Bulletin OFFICERS President—A. J. Michelson 610 F. P. Flint Bldg., Flint, Mich.

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Vice-President—Paris B. Stockdale, Univ, of Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn.

Secretary-Treasurer—John L. Yount, Box 383, Redlands. California.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Westc lern—H. C. MacQuarrie. )0 Fruitvale Ave., Oakland, Calif 340( .•stern—Fred Bear, Mid-Wes 2611 1W. Philadelphia, Detroit, Mich.

East< tern—T. C. Davidson, 53 Mountain Ave., Springfield, N. J. Southc tern—J. C. Trittin, 150 S. Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah.

By John L. Yount MAIL TOURNAMENTS

It is a little late, but far from too late, to build a course and get in on this year’s mail tournament program.

We know that a mail tournament can never equal the real article, but this is war, and rubber is short. To make the tournaments in this year’s pro­ gram as interest­ ing as possible, we have arranged for three classes, Expert Bowman, Bowman, and Novice — for two di­ visions, Instinctive and Free Style — and made each tournament sectional as well as national.

We have also opened the tourna­ ments to the public as well as to mem­ bers.

If you can’t build a permanent course this year, you can at least set up a temporary one for each tourna­ ment.

If your club members can’t compete against the big boys in the Expert Bowman Class, they still may win in one of the other classes.

Even if your members feel they can’t win a national award, there is a chance for a sectional award.

At least, your members will get a lot of fun, some fine exercise and probably help save rubber and gas by staying home and competing in these mail shoots. For full informa­ tion on these tournaments see the Handbook.

HANDBOOKS You now have your Handbook, but have you read it? I mean from cover to cover. If you have, you know what the NFAA is and how it works.

Members may obtain additional copies at the usual price to them of 25 cents. Why not send for two or three to give to friends? We believe that this little book can be a big help in creating a local interest in field archery.

BLUNTS FROM STUMP (Continued from page 3) ideas on tackle, hunting tips, hunting experiences, or news of any kind, won’t you tell us about it?

War Savings Bonds buy the guns, planes and ships we need to win this war. They are the soundest invest­ ment any individual can make for his own future security. By putting your dollars into War Savings Bonds you help your country and help yourself.

Buy War Savings Bonds every pay day!

Field archers should support the National Field Archers Association.

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Editorial Physical Fitness Program The storm of criticism throughout the country has resulted in the aboli­ tion of the Physical Fitness Program as a separate organization. Archery shared in this criticism through car­ toons and editorials.

We heartily agree with President Michelson in his comments on the “program” in his “Blunts” column.

Harold A. Titcomb of Farmington, Maine, says: “Development of sport should be secondary to the war ef­ fort and should not be a source of additional burden to the taxpayer who has a deadly serious task of ap­ plying his resources towards the win­ ning of the war.” We believe most archers will agree. Mr. Titcomb fur­ ther states: “The present national and state organizations and archery clubs are entirely sufficient to carry on that sport and to decide archery matters without the help of Coordi­ nators. As William H. Jackson so truly said, archers are individualists and dislike being regimented. That is a fact.” This is especially true of field archers.

Olympic Bowmen League The fifteenth annual Olympic Bow­ men League mail tournament has ended with the Cleveland Archery Club in first place with a total of 31,478 points.

The Umpqua Club was second and the Badger Club third. In taking the championship, the Cleveland archers, with 3147.8, broke the “team high average” record of 3136.1 set by the Chicago Grant Park archers in 1941.!' No other team records were broken, The Cleveland ladies also took first place with a total of 22 29852. The University of Connecticut team was second and the Spokane Archery Club was third.

In individual scoring, Bill Haynes and Carl Fath shot scores of 804 to come within four points of Gilman Keasey’s 1938 and Tom Farnsworth’s 1941 mark of 808. Mrs. S. R. Leaman set a new “individual high single match” in equalling the men’s score of 804. Previous high was 802 shot

by Ethel Gates in 1941. Women’s individual high average of the tour-

nament was 776.8 shot by Kathleen Wheeler; Mrs. S. R. Leaman, 772.5, second; and Eleanor Maczadlo, 764, third.

Bill Haynes’ average was 798.4, Carl Fath 795.8, Darle Neeper 789.8.

Kore Duryee says regarding the tournament: “If this contest has helped to keep up your attendance; if it has helped you to iron out some kinks in your shooting form; if it has given your new archers a thrill when they made the team; if it has taught you to shoot under the strain of tourna­ ment competition; if it has put your muscles and nerves in better shape for the summer shooting—then it has all been worthwhile.

“We talk and emphasize the high scores made by a few but that is not the object of this league. The real purpose is to develop the new archer and improve shooting technique. That is why we have always used the 48 inch target face. A smaller face would be better for the top archers, but not for the new archers (and a lot of us old timers, too).”

Archery Resort Unique in the attractions of the 65-acre Robinson’s Resort, at Frank­ fort, Mich., is a fine Robin Hood arch­ ery roving course, the only one of its kind in the Middle West, and a fav­ ored course among leading archers of the country. The course has four ranges in a perfect Sherwood Forest setting with 39 targets skillfully placed to lead the archer along wind­ ing paths in the cool depths of a beautiful forest, through the valleys and over the hills, always protected from winds, and with every target set against a bank for safety and to prevent loss of arrows.

Shooting ranges are also provided at the picnic grounds beside Cold Brook Inn and shooting tackle is available for sale or rent. Archery lessons under expert direction can be arranged by appointment.

The American Falconer, published quarterly at Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, is ready for delivery, $3.00 per year.

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1942 NFA A Tournament Report

By Karl E. Palmaider EXPERT BOWMAN CLASS­

Kenneth Moore, Los Angeles, Calif.

Leo Sipe, Los Angeles, Calif.

Robert King, Los Angeles, Calif.

Arthur Hoffman, Bakersfield, Calif.

Tiny Munson, Malibu Mtn. Club Alfonso Gonzales, Bakersfield, Calif.

Kenneth Jones, Bakersfield, Calif.

Delmer Pletcher, Bakersfield, Calif.

Bill Otto, Los Angeles, Calif.

Al Biordi, Los Angeles, Calif.

Earl Grubb, Los Angeles, Calif.

C. W. Seastrom, W. Hollywood, Calif.

Perzy High, Los Angeles, Calif.

Roy Hoff, Los Angeles, Calif.

E. J. Woodward, Redlands, Calif.

John Tinsley, Bakersfield, Calif.

Emery Watts, Los Angeles, Calif.

Merle Hathaway, Los Angeles, Calif.

Phil Conrad, Long Beach, Calif.

28 Target Score 318 256 263 72-262 219 77-287 83-302 86-352 242 249 210 228 276 247 54- 208 55- 209 244 270 240

28 Target Score 296 261 294 60-226 218 72-270 72-269 84-326 214 194 192 214 248 206 60-234 57-221 257 235 214

56 Target Score ~ 614 517 557 132-488 437 149-557 155-571 170-678 456 443 402 442 524 453 114-442 112-430 501 505 454

41- 153 62-240 48-191 133 44-164 36- 130 157 47- 175 127 42- 146 48- 188 37- 145

42- 160 43- 147 53-203 135 41-157 40-144 151 39-143 158 48-184 45-165 44- 158

83-313 105-387 101-394 268 85-321 76-274 308 86- 318 285 90-330 93-353 81-303

126 114 28-104 27-101 27-103 89 26-92 21-73 18-60 18-70 10- 32 11- 38

114 95 27- 101 25- 97 26- 90 94 24-84 28- 98 22-82 18-70 21-66 11-39

240 209 55-205 52- 198 53- 193 183 50-176 49-171 40-142 36-140 31-98 22-77

154 32-125

156 32-120

310 64-245

Han- Handi- dicap cap Score 964 350 917 300 330 887 360 848 410 847 280 837 260 831 150 828 370 826 823 380 812 410 812 370 280 804 350 803 360 802 360 790 250 751 200 705 604 150

BOWMAN CLASS­

Milan Elott, Seattle, Wash.

John Yount, Redlands, Calif.

Irving Davis, Bryn Mawr, Calif.

Paul Ludwig, Los Angeles, Calif.

Bernie Ahman, Bryn Mawr, Calif.

Fred Brockhoff, Seattle, Wash.

Bennett Gandy, Los Angeles, Calif.

Kore T. Duryee, Seattle, Wash.

Carl Seastrom, W. Hollywood, Calif.

Jim Murphy, Bakersfield, Calif.

A. T. Wallis, Seattle, Wash.

A. J. Cosner, Bellevue, Wash.

170 70 40 140 80 120 70 40 70 20

483 457 434 408 401 394 378 358 355 350

80 120

390 365

NOVICE CLASS­ T. Thorsen, Malibu Mtn. Club Vince Buk, Malibu Mtn. Club C. D. Cole, Seattle, Wash.

Angus Bruce, Redlands Calif.

Alfred Sanchez, Bakersfield, Calif.

Louie Krutak, Malibu Mtn. Club Joseph Monroe, Redlands, Calif.

Robert Blackmore, Marysville, Wash.

Frank Thornton, Seattle, Wash.

Basil Blackmore, Marysville, Wash.

Chester Babcock, Seattle, Wash.

Clare Babcock, Seattle, Wash.

EXPERT BOWMAN CLASS— Frieda Hoff, Los Angeles, Calif.

Ruth Davis, Bryn Mawr, Calif.

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BOWMAN CLASS—

Margaret King, Redlands, Calif.

Minerva Gandy, Los Angeles, Calif.

Clara Jones, Bakersfield, Calif.

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28 Target Score 38-147 134 34-120

28 Target Score 34-130 98 30-111

56 Target Score 72-277 232 64-231

16-60 9-31 7-31

17-61 11-41 11-39

33-121 20-72 18-70

Han- Han­ di­ dicap cap Score 447 170 382 150 130 361

NOVICE CLASS—

Blanche Wallis, Seattle, Wash.

Trini Gonzales, Bakersfield, Calif.

Jane Duncan, Seattle, Wash.

Fifty-one archers took part in this tournament.

Some of the names may not be spelled correctly. If you should no­ tice such a case will you notify the tournament secretary?

In reporting scores be sure to in­ clude the hits.

There is a Free Style as well as an Instinctive Division. As there were no indications on the scorecards as to the division the archer shot in, and because many in this report shot in tournaments last year, all are in­ cluded in the Instinctive Division.

The secretary should mark every scorecard with either the letters F.S. or I. When the regulations for the 1942 Mail Tournaments were sent to the NF A A Secretary, the handicap sys­ tem to be used had not been definitely worked out. When the secretary of the mail tournaments tried to classify the archers who took part last year and put them in the classification according to last year’s handicap he immediately ran into tronble. All handicaps for archers who partici­ pated last year were figured on the average of all tournament scores shot last year.

Be sure to deduct postage or express.

The regulations state that there shall be three awards for any class of between ten and nineteen, inclusive, consisting of one medal and two rib­ bons. All the classes for men in this report come in this division.

Smaller classes shall receive rib­ bons only. This includes all the classes for women in this report.

The medals will be sent to the winners by John Yount. The ribbons will be sent by K. E. Palmatier. It may be necessary on such a few rib­ bons to place the order for two or

three tournaments so the printers will consider it.

Karl E. Palmatier, 1317 Hillcrest Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Archers Set Records The fine rack and head of the 312pound buck killed by archer Dorr Sweet of Muskegon Heights in Alle­ gan County, is a trophy of which any hunter would be proud. In the northern deer territory, also, the archers did well. Though returns are incomplete and in some cases uncon­ firmed, a total of eleven deer were reported killed by bow-and-arrow there, near Baraga, Ironwood, Sault Ste. Marie, Manitou Island,. Atlanta, Miq, Roscommon (3), and Baldwin (2). First legal doe kill in twenty years was made by Harold Eldridge, archer from Mendon.

Archer Fred Westendorf of Sag­ inaw, disregarding advice and prece­ dents, killed a black bear near Ros­ common. — Michigan Conservation Magazine, December, 1941.

Flint Bowmen The annual business meeting of the Flint Bowmen was held March 21 at their last party in the indoor range.

New officers were elected as fol­ lows : T. L. Stalker, president; George Calvert, vice-president; Lewis Rich­ ardson, secretary-treasurer. Member of the Board of Governors are A. J. Michelson, 3800 Mason Street; Walter Knoblock, 1538 Bennett; Mrs. Donna Diehl, 1713 Lapeer Rd.; Mrs. Shirley Richey, 2112 W Third Ave. Constitution and by-laws for the club was submitted at this time and adopted.

Outdoor range to open soon.

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Publicity

By Lulu Stalker, Flint, Michigan About four years ago, the writer and family, having archery tackle but knowing no archers, learned at a sum­ mer resort 120 miles north of here that Flint had an organized archery club and was affiliated with the Mich­ igan Archery Association, also. who to contact if interested. The Flint Club had been using one of the pub­ lic school gymnasiums for indoor shooting one night each week all win­ ter but as far as the public was con­ cerned, it was a deep secret.

This was due to no fault of the local club but we find has been the experience of numberless archery groups in the earlier days of the game. We really owe a lot to the mov­ ies for their filming of “Robinhood” and shorts showing some of the out­ standing archers in action for this has made the sports editors archery­ conscious.

There is another thing, however, that we believe will be of help to any club and that is to create the office of Chairman of Publicity, thus plac­ ing the responsibility for press no­ tices on one individual. Our policy from the start, upon accepting this position, was to be a good “window dresser”—to show them that we really believed great things lay ahead for not only archery in general but for t the Flint club in particular.

We really did begin doing interest­ ing things about that time, due to the influx of new members, but not the least activity went unreported. If it wasn’t so very important, we did our best to make it sound v.hat way any­ way.

We soon learned that the news­ paper had a hard and fast rule for­ bidding the publication of stale sport news—it must appear in print within 24 hours. With Sunday tournaments this necessitated either getting the results to their office Sunday evening or before 9:00 o’clock Monday morn­ ing. Telephoning was seldom satis­ factory, due sometimes to misunder­ standings and sometimes moods. Our paper provides a box in which the public may deposit articles when the office is closed and we soon decided

our best bet was to type the results out Sunday night and drop them in there—it didn’t make any difference to them how late it was. From this method we found a much higher de­ gree of accuracy was attained.

Another discovery we made—that the Sports Editors seemed to think it necessary to eliminate about half of our offerings. Accordingly we measured them with a 50 per cent shrink rule and sent in plenty of de­ tails, always remembering to show our appreciation for the space they had accorded us.

Checking back on our clippings, we find that during the last two years, we have had eighty notices or reports of our activities, varying from one and a half inches to ten inches, and totaling better than 320 inches.

One day when expressing appre­ ciation to the Sports Editor for their continued cooperation, he said: (and I pass it on as it may be of help to similar committees) “We like to co­ operate with people who keep us post­ ed all the time. The best thing your club ever did was to put the report­ ing job up to one individual. For­ merly someone called and asked us for advance notice of a meet. O. K. but when we announce a coming meet, we want to follow through and pub­ lish results. On Mondays we would call here and there and try to find out who the winners were but often could locate no one who had specific data, so we quit bothering with them.”

This then may be the answer to the publicity problem. Put the responsi­ bility for the job up to one individual and be sure it is one who will “tell all.”

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PERCY AND DOUGLAS (Continued from page 1) The Earl’s estates, together with those of his brother and son, extended over a large part of Northumberland, consequently the duty as honourable as it was arduous, of defending the northern frontier against the incur­ sions of the Scots, was imposed upon the Percies, necessitating the constant maintenance of a large armed force, which, whilst a source of heavy ex­ pense, could, if the occasion arose, constitute a serious menace to the government.

On the other side of the Tweed, Archibald, Third Earl of Douglas, surnamed the Grim or the Black, was, as warden of the Western Marches, an able and energetic leader. His memory is also preserved by his lib­ eral benefactions to the Church and the poor, which included the founda­ tion of a hospital at Holyrood and a Collegiate Church at Bothwell. It was popularly reported that such was his great personal strength that he could wield a two handed sword, two ells in length, which no other man could lift.

In 1388 an army of Scots mustering 3,000 men, under the command of Douglas invaded and ravaged Cum­ berland and Northumberland.

It fell about the Lamnaas tide When the muir-men win their hay, The doughty Douglas bound him to ride Into England, to drive a prey.

The marauders whilst returning to Scotland near Newcastle fell in with an English force led by Hotspur who was Governor of Berwick and Warden of the Eastern Marches. In a skir­ mish near the city, the two champions fought hand to hand, in which Doug­ las captured Percy’s lance and pennon, exultingly declaring that he would carry it as his spoil into Scotland and plant it upon the tower of his castle at Dalkeith, to which boast Hotspur made the scornful retort: “By God, you shall not even bear it out of Northumberland.’’ Douglas was quite willing to afford Percy an op­ portunity of making good his words: Where shall I byde thee? sayd the Douglas Or where wylte thow come to m&^

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April, 1942

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Arcadian Life Magazine Stories of the Ozarks “THE MARK OF DISTINCTION IN ARCHERY TACKLE Fine Yew Target and Hunting Bows, Plain or Backed with Rawhide.

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