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By Erie Stanley Gardner FIFTY-NINTH NAA TOURNAMENT WASH 1 NOTON FIELD ARCHERY

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By Russell Jones FIELD ARCHERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

By John L. Yount NATIONAL FIELD ARCHERY ASSOCIATION

By John L. Yount GARDNER APPROVES NFAA MIDWEST TOURNAMENT

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The Man Who Killed the Wildcat

By Erie Stanley Gardner This isn’t the story of how the wildcat was killed by the bow and arrow, It’s the story of the man who killed the wildcat. And I offer that story because it’s a symbol, a cross section of archery and of human na­ ture.

His name is A. F. Nienke. I don’t know his exact age but he’s far enough past sixty-five so there are no tax deductions from his pay check. He’s over six feet. He weighs over two hundred pounds. He’s been a logger, a boss of logging crews. He’s run. lumber yards, made money and re­ tired. He was, and is, a director in the First National Bank in these parts. Ten years ago the depression dropped into the laps of the politi­ cians. Nienke saw his property val­ ues dissolve like sugar lumps in a coffee cup. He had to go to work— and there was no work.

He got a little service station.

The bank of which he is a director knew the moral fiber of its deposit­ ors. The men who had borrowed money couldn’t pay. The bank didn’t foreclose. The directors dug down into their pockets and carried the loans themselves when the bank ex­ aminer told them to get the paper off the books.

Nienke had pretty hard sledding.

He was on quite a bit of paper, and one by one, his holdings went at frac­ tional prices to liquidate his own paper. All the time he was digging down to help carry bank borrowers who couldn’t pay. The bank didn’t foreclose a single mortgage.

I met him two years ago.

With three trailers swinging along behind, the three cars which dragged my “fiction factory” stopped in his service station for gas. He had a little trailer camp. We stayed over.

It was a fine valley. I told Nienke to find me a piece of property, buy it, put buildings on it, and let me know when it was finished. I went

to New York. Nienke bought the property.

(He’s of German stock, and he has that rugged type of pa­ tient honesty which is like granite.)

We moved in. Nienke leased his service station and started manag­ ing my ranch.

For ten years he’d been taking it pretty much on the chin. His pow­ erful shoulders were stiff from too much work. His mental outlook was that of the man who has had all work and no play. But,like every normal man, he was half boy. When he saw the bows and arrows his eyes glinted.

I put up an archery golf course.

The neighboring ranch owners looked somewhat askance. Hollywood writer —crazy—paper bags on sticks and bows and arrows—keep score, etc.

After a while, when Nienke began to look a little wistful, I got him a bow and some arrows. His should­ ers were too stiff. He chopped with his bow.

He couldn’t stand up straight enough to get any swing or rhythm into his shots.

But the twanging of the bowstring released racial memories which had long been

Nienke took up archery

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buried. And the spirit of play began to loosen some of the grim tension of both mind and muscle,dissolve the lines which disappointment had etch­ ed so deeply.

In the course of a few months he was shooting pretty well.

You’d hear his laugh booming out. He stood straighter and walked more easily, with a free swing.

With the dogged determination which is the heritage of the patient man, he started out to preach the gospel of bow and arrow shooting here in the valley. Ranchers who had figured we were crazy began to lis­ ten. Here and there some rancher whose holdings were closed to all hunting would casually mention that he “guessed there wasn’t any harm in us shooting on his property with bow and arrow if we wanted.” Then, one or two began to comment on how archery had made a difference in Nienke. Then occasionally one would “drift in” about the time we were starting our round of afternoon arch­ ery golf. They’d try a bow—and the gospel would spread.

Nienke was shooting every day.

He was getting younger every day.

He got so he could send a fast, true arrow, and he was ready to go hunt­ ing. On that first trip, he shot a rabbit at about fifty yards, a swift­ flying arrow that hit exactly where he aimed, and made only a whisper when it left the bow.

He’s a substantial citizen here­ abouts. His judgment is respected.

His enthusiasm is contagious. The new swing to his shoulders is appar­ ent. Archery is getting ready to break out in this country like a rash on a measle patient.

And then one morning the dogs jumped a wildcat. It happened in the first gray dawn while I was still asleep. The dogs tore down the sandy wash which marks the bed of a winter stream. Nienke tore after the dogs like a sprinter. Medical authorities will tell you that a heavy man, past sixty-five, shouldn’t run, and can’t sprint. They don’t know archers. I jumped out of bed to see Nienke and the two dogs tearing down the wash, through ankle deep sand —and Nienke was gaining on the dogs.

I can’t divide up the credit—just

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how much goes to the dogs, how much to Nienke.

It was one of those round and round affairs. I grabbed a bow and launched a broadhead which struck a shoulder and glanced.

Nienke sent a broadhead straight to the cat’s heart.

I went and got the camera.

Then was when I got my thrill.

Nienke remembered all that archery had done for him. He held up the _____ his shoulders. __ ___ cat and squared Squared, did I say? Hell, he brought them back until his shoulder blades rubbed together. He looked like a soldier who had won the war single handed.

It had been a long run. The dogs weren’t worth anything for two days.

They were too tired to move. Nienke went up and had breakfast and then quietly went down to dig holes for the fence posts on the middle forty.

After ten hours of that he came to the study to ask me if I wanted to shoot a round of archery golf.

And that’s the story of the man who killed the wildcat.

Archery? Yes, boys, 1 like it. 1 like it for what it does for a man. I like it for the friendships it forms, for the companionship of the chase, (Continued on page 8)

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Fifty-ninth N. A. A. Tournament The 59th annual tournament of the National Archery Association held at the State Agricultural College, St. Paul, Minnesota, will long be remem­ bered for the record number of arch­ ers participating, for the flock of new records established and for the com­ memoration of the sixtieth anniver­ sary of the organization of the NAA by the presentation to Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg of Chicago of the “J. Maur­ ice Thompson Medal of Honor”—the newly created medal awarded for outstanding service to archery by the National Archery Association.

New records are as follows; Single York, 133-826, Pat Chambers; single National, 72-494, Jean A Tenney; single Columbia, 72-552, Bea Hodg­ son; 80 yard range, 48-332, Carl Strang; 60 yard range, 48-332, Jean Tenney; regular style flight, 517 yds., 1 ft., Curtis L. Hill; ladies regular style flight, 374 yds., 2 ft., 5 in., Mil­ lie Hill; free style flight, 455 yds., 7.9 in., Glendoline Vinyard.

Mrs. Belvia Carter, Seattle, won the ladies championship with a total score of 1985, Jean Tenney followed with 1963, Bea Hodgson 1914, Edith Radtke 1898 and Olive Layer 1894.

Seventy-one ladies competed.

In ladies flight, 35 lbs. and lower weight, Millie Hill was first with 325 yds., 4 in.; 50 lb. weight, Millie Hill, 374 yds.,2 ft., 5 in.; all weights, Glen Vinyard, 371 yds., 5.7 in.; free style, Glen Vinyard 455 yds., 7.9 in.

Margaret Thompson was first in 120 yard clout, Frances Styles second and Pauline Clark third. Eloise Lapp was first in the 140 yard clout, Mrs. E. C. Pilgrim second and Glen Vin­ yard third.

Bea Hodgson won the ladies double American round with 180-1248, Ren­ ette Yanke was second and Marie Bear third.

The Columbus Park ladies team won first place, Chicago Archery Club second and Ye Mariemont third.

Pat Chambers of Portland retain­ ed his championship by rolling up a total of 2979 points, 90 more than the total of Carl Strang of Dear­ born, Michigan.

Emil Pikula was third, Russ Hoogerhyde fourth and Louis Chmura fifth. One hundred

eighteen men were registered.

Carl Oelschleger took the trophy in the 50 lb. weight class in men’s flight with a shot of 359 yds*., 2 ft., 6 in. Homer Prouty took the 65 lb. class with 419 yds., 4 in. Curtis Hill stepped over the 500 yd. mark by 6 yds., 2 ft., to win in the 80 lb. class but stretched it to a new distance record of 517 yds., 1 ft., in the all weights class. Bruce Robertson got 485 yd., 1 ft., to win the free style.

J. P. Schweitzer Jr. was first in clout, Dr. E. C. Pilgrim second and Paul Bohlander third.

The Detroit Archers paced Cleve­ land to win the team shoot. The Twin City club was third and Jackson Park fourth.

Jean Schweitzer of Lakewood, Ohio, won the girls’ championship and Fred Folberth the boys’. How­ ard Wdlson was second and Sonny Johns third. Only five juniors were entered.

Next year’s tournament will be at Amherst, Massachusetts.

Washington State Field Archery Association

By S. L. Michael, Secretary One of the high-lights to develop during the Pacific Northwest Arch­ ery Association Tournament held at Tacoma, Washington, August 5 and 6 was the organizing of the Wash­ ington State Field Archers Associa­ tion.

The association looks forward to a large membership by October of this year, when it is hoped to hold a hunt­ ing jamboree in Washington’s Eight Mile Game Preserve, which offers the finest deer hunting in the entire State, as well as bear and plenty of grouse and pheasants, which is open to hunting with the bow and arrow exclusively.

The association plans to work in harmony with California, Ohio, Ore­ gon, and all other state associations and affiliate with the National asso­ ciation as fast as this field of archery develops.

George Brommers, who plans to spend some time in Washington, (Continued on page 9)

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Tir a la Perche

By Paul H. Gordon, Beacon, N. Y. gional matches.

It’s very ancient, the continental The simple perche of yesteryear game of trying to get the “bird” in­ has developed into a grille not unlike stead of giving it to somebody else.

By means of bows and arrows, of our telegraph pole in appearance; a permanent structure jointed and course. counterweighted so that it can be The modern form of the sport, lowered easily, dressed out with a however bloody its origin, is a con­ whole flock of feather-tricked solids ventional pastime quite as respectable firmly set on pegs, and raised to po­ as our target shooting. Also it has sition again. Such a contrivance is a strong professional flavor, even costly, and a compagnie that owns though played, as formerly, on holy its own is properly proud. days.

Special equipment of a logical and It is Saint Sebastian’s day in Brittany. Jean Bussoz of the Com­ interesting type is employed for pagnie St. Sebastien de Mordelle shooting at the perch. The bows are has risen early, assures himself his less spectacular than the arrows, be­ ing of a traditional long design, re­ cherished bow and arrows are where flexed full length, often laminated, he put them when he went to bed, and of considerable draw-force; since and drapes his captain’s sash over his in most continental archery arrows holiday best; for there will be an archers’ service at church this morn­ are shot singly, or, at worst, in short haltes (ends) of two—at double-tar­ ing. The good Abbe Jussin, himself gets, as in jardin or at local matches once a roi de rare, will pray with them and bless their ancient banners —one down and one returning. wfhich will then be presented to the The arrows used to dislodge the officers by plump village belles, self- oiseaux are heavy affairs with ham­ conscious in their finest attire and mer-heads of horn or hardwood that hand-picked chaplets. Jean Bussoz look like stubby cream-bottles grow­ will make a speech, the compagnie ing out of the shafts. In the interest will form a procession and march in of better rigidity (so the makers and full panoply to the champ de la users of these maquets argue) the perche. There the high grille is shafts are grooved or fluted and waiting, colorfully arrayed with, markedly bob-tailed. There are un­ wooden oiseaux of every hue. And doubtedly good fletchers on the con­ high above all, the gilded coq, jaunt­ tinent, but by and large the arrow­ ily strutting a challenge to all and making jobs I have seen and owned sundry to try to knock him down. have been, according to our stan­ Shooting begins. There is good wine dards, poor; the fletching, particu­ to quench the thirst. All very grand larly, even on the so-called de luxe and exciting! arrows which are richly inlaid with Thus it is throughout the Ille et wood and horn and are otherwise Vilaine today, and les Cotes du Nord' beautiful to look upon. This appears as well as la Loire Inferieure. Foil to be true not only of maquets, nor archery is the plain man’s sport ini alone of French and Belgian arrows, France and Belgium, whether in. but of arrows anywhere employed for town or village, and he loves a good “single shot” archery. Notions of show no less than the sport itself, as match within the set or match to the plain or fancy men do anywhere in bow seem to be foreign to their arch­ the world. Thousands turn out to ery concepts. Unnecessary, perhaps, shoot or to watch the fun—and, of where a single arrow is used. How­ course, to pluck the best cash prizes. ever the maquet is, as a type, an ex­ What with the entry fees of so many, cellent blunt for real birding which it is possible jto offer fairly big American field archers might advan­ money for the coq and lesser birds. tageously copy in slightly modified Prizes of several thousand francs form. are not unusual at well attended reThe conduct of a perche shoot

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might appear to our eyes a little con­ fusing— sort of catch-as-catch-can, like the Caucus race in “Alice in Wonderland”—begin when you please, let off when you please. The arrow retrievers, who might otherwise be knocked into the middle of next week by falling maquets, scurry about under large inverted baskets.

The higher birds pay more than those lower on the grille; those near­ er the cross-arms, more than those close to the upright. The coq, of course, perched in regal solitude at the top, rates first money.

Tir a la perche means, literally, “(a) shoot at the perch”—a perch of live birds or figures representing birds.

For figures did not enter until late in the game. In the ob­ scure origins of the sport, the coq— when it wasn’t a dove or pigeon or duck—was very much alive. In this respect tir a la perche was probably the progenitor of our old-fashioned' “turkey shoot” in which the turkey was shot at, as well as of that charm­ ingly sportsmanlike pastime in which one may engage on the Riviera: shooting at birds with clipped wings as they are released from traps.

Figures, when they came at length to be substituted, were called pepegoe, papegay or popegoe, according to the orthographic fancy of the writer or the locality or century in which he lived.

They were “popinjays” in England and America, where our United Bowmen of Philadelphia shot at them, as did doubtless many lesser known French - Canadian societes.

The sport was popularly called by the designation for the figures; more recently by the general term oiseaux (birds).

It is sometimes supposed that this form of archery derives from the Livre du Roy Modus, in which are described methods of approaching and shooting various species of bestes; but the game is far older than that. It was ancient and held in high honor before the time of Homer, by whom it is mentioned as a Greek funeral game. Here is a passage from the Iliad, quoted by Hansard (from Chapman’s rhymed transla­ tion?) which not only identifies the subject as tir a la perche, but sets forth its direct, realistic quality: Those who in skilful archery contend,

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He next invites the twanging bow to bend.

The mast which late a first-rate gal­ ley bore The hero fixes on the sandy shore; To the tall top, a milk-white dove they tie, The trembling mark at which their arrows fly.

Whose weapon strikes yon trembling bird, shall bear These two-edged axes, terrible in war; The single, he whose shaft divides the cord.

He said: experienced Merion took the word And skillful Teucer: in the helm they threw The lots inscribed, and forth the lat­ ter flew.

Swift from the string the sounding arrow flies, But flies unblest: no grateful sac­ rifice, No firstling lambs, unheedful didst thou vow To Phoebus, patron of the shaft and bow.

For this, they well aimed arrow turned aside, Err’d from the dove, yet cut the cord that ty’d; Adown the mainmast fell the parting string, And the free bird to Heaven displays her wing.

Seas, shores, and skies with loud ap­ plause resound, And Merion, eager, meditates the wound: He takes the bow, directs the shaft above, And follows with his eye the soaring dove, Implores the god to speed it through the skies, With vows of firstling lambs and grateful sacrifice.

The dove in airy circles as she wheels, Amid the clouds the piercing arrow feels, Quite through and through the point its passage found, And at his feet fell bloody to the ground.

The wounded, bird, ere yet she breathed her last, ________ With flagging wings alighted on the mast, (Continued on page 13)

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Random Shots of an Idle Archer At the 1939 “National”

By C. M. Hitt Another “National” come and gone, declared by many “the best ever.”

Some kind of a record to have eight out of nine members of the Board of Governors present — and working.

To ease the strain, Bea Hodgson and Olive Layer shoot misses with their first arrows—both have shot through a National without a miss.

The usual incipient catfights here and there. Noticeable increase in number of “tin” arrows, undoubtedly speed­ ing improvement, in wood arrows.

Charlie Pierson putting a flight arrow through his hand and being on hand next day.

Curt and Millie busting the flight records. Curt’s 522 regular style will stand until next National at least.

But you can’t hold “Pop”, he was there and made Curt do it. Pat Chambers do­ ing two perfects to finish his second American, and his record-breaking York. Kore Duryee strutting around, like a mother-cat with a litter of new kittens after Belvia Carter had clinched the title — but it wasn’t clinched until the last few ends.

Earle Lee and Tony Kelly being ev­ erywhere at the same time and mak­ ing things run smoothly.

Another record of some kind: three days of rain, producing a record in number of friendships made. Nagler up to his old tricks, such as: “Spell ‘too’, meaning ‘also’; now spell ‘two’, meaning one and one; now spell ‘twain’, meaning the same; now pro­ nounce them in that order. Why don’t you grow up?” Silk backing beginning to show up on the shooting line. More archers suffering from fallen archery, archers’ paralysis, freezing, flinching—there should be a trophy for greatest number of flinches before the loose. New tro­ phies and medals adding interest to tournaments: Hommel trophy for best score of man over fifty, to Doc Dorsey. Ullrich trophy for best total score of a family, to the Folberths.

Reed Williams consolation trophy for women to match Elmer wooden spoon, to Lillian Ashcraft. J. Maur-

ice Thompson Medal of Honor for distinguished service to archery.

Medal of Honor was Henry Cum­ mings’ idea, realized on the sixtieth anniversary of the NA_A. Paul Klopsteg first recipient.

Clayt Shenk going on the Board of Governors—will he be a mustard plaster where it does the most good!

Fred Bear almost getting on the Board. Annual meeting over in two hours after delay because auditorium was locked and nobody with authority to open it.

Lots accomplished by Board Committees, especially by Com­ mittee on Field Archery, Bill Fol­ berth, chairman. A few good changes in by-laws adopted on recommenda­ tion of legal committee, Karl Palmatier, chairman. Fine report on Inter­ national Archery,Dr. Elmer, chair­ man.

Every year the scores go higher.

Unless they work out a handicap sys­ tem us dubs will never have a chance except for the wooden spoon. Carl Strang and the boys from Cleveland will bear watching next year. Fred Bear’s loudspeaker system—wonder if there’s anything Fred hasn’t got in his trailer.

Budding romances here and there. Some kind of a rec­ ord, too. Another one—twelve gophers shot between the shooting line and targets, this being the Gopher State.

Imagine Cash Styles pouring ice water down the neck of a “hot” com­ petitor to cool him off, maybe? No, you can’t imagine it! Hollywood in­ fluence infiltrating the women’s shooting line—more shorts and longs than ever. Another record for Pop Prouty: When asked who had won in his class, he modestly admits that he was it. When asked who was second, he says, “My other five were the next.” Two hundred pound bows in free style didn’t reach farther than regular style bows half the weight or less—so what? Curt Hill spreadeagled, shirt removed, and ice water doused on his back after winning the flight.

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Pacific Northwest Tournament In spite of a bad wind eight asso­ ciation records were broken at the Pacific Northwest Association tourn­ ament at Seattle on August 5 and 6.

Mrs. Vivian Chambers of Portland shattered records in the single Na­ tional, double National, and at the sixty yard range in the National round to total 1890 points and win the ladies’ championship. Mrs. Belvia Carter of Seattle upped the re­ cord in the single Columbia, at the fifty yard range in the Columbia, and tied with Miss Paloma Kirkwood of Seattle in a new mark at the forty yard range in the Columbia round.

Mrs. Carter’s total was only nine points behind that of Mrs. Cham­ bers. Miss Kirkwood was third in total scores, Miss Mary Marquis of Portland fourth and Maie de Gallier of Seattle fifth.

Nineteen women competed.

Miss Marquis won the clout with a new record of 36-244.

In the ladies’ flight event Miss Glen Vinyard of Canby, Oregon, shattered National as well as North­ west records by placing three arrows over the 400 yard mark, the farthest being 412 yds., 1 ft. Glen Vinyard and Mary Haynes tied with 36 in the field round.

The returns show that the men left the “record busting” entirely to the women. Pat Chambers, national champion, retained his northwest championship by shooting a total of 2010 in single York and double Amer­ ican. De Witt Hawkins of Portland was second with 1867, Gilman Keasey third with 1791, Gene Wjarnick, Port­ land, 1692, and L. J. Carter, Seattle, 1677.

Gene Warnick took the clout with Keasey second and Chambers third.

Warnick also was winner in archery­ golf.

The field round established by the Southern California archers was substituted for the team shoot and proved popular. Chambers was first, Keasey second, and A. T. Warner third.

Homer Prouty pushed one out 456 yds., 6 ins., to lead Gene Warnick in the flight. R. W. Denton of Ta­ coma was third.

Sonny Johns of Tacoma, former

national champion, retained h i s Northwest championship in the Jun­ ior class. Dorothy Axtell, also of Tacoma, won the girls’ Junior cham­ pionship.

Officers for next year are W. G. Williams of Portland, president; Dr. P. L. Tawney of Portland and W. T. Haynes of Spokane, vice-presidents, and Kore T. Duryee, Seattle, secre­ tary-treasurer.

The next tournament will be held in Portland, 'July 13 and 14, 1940.

Random Shots (Continued from page 6) Record number of archers on the shooting line—one hundred ninetyMargar-­ one, beating Storrs by one. Margar et Thompson and Frances Styles in a weight-losing competition—winner to be rewarded with lots of ice cream and cake by the loser. Fanny shoot­ ers with two hundred pound bows helping each other with gifts of re­ placement strings—that’s the kind of competition that helps to make arch­ ery what it is. Superintendent of dormitories remarking how much better behaved the archers are than the group accommodated the week before — roughneck engineers. Col­ lege cafeteria, the Home Cafeteria, serving food so good everyone was overeating.

The usual sunburned noses and necks.

The field round, with a hundred shooting; the Pope-Young round, the running deer; the roving in the Greenwood forest—all full of relax­ ation and enjoyment, a perfect end­ ing to a perfect tournament. Ban­ quet for a dollar at college dining hall as good as some we’ve had for double. Table full of trophies and prizes rapidly cleared. Thirty prizes for the field round, everybody en­ vying Hill Turnock his timber wolf hide, first prize. And in 1940 it’s Amherst.

Ray and Bea Hodgson and Mr. and Mrs. Ellwood Mould of Southern California passed through this way recently visiting prominent archers enroute.

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Editorial We are informed that Pat Cham­ bers, Gilman Keasey, DeWitt Haw­ kins, Glen Vinyard, Gene Warnick and Homer Prouty, all national champions or ex-champions, have enrolled as individual members of the NFAA. Get in, field archers, send your 50c to John L. Yount, Box 383, Redlands, California. The NFAA is going over and you should go with it.

A fine Robin Hood archery roving course is one of the featured attrac­ tions of Cold Brook Inn, Frankfort, Michigan.

The course has four ranges with 39 targets placed along winding paths in the cool depths of a beautiful forest.

George Robinson is the proprietor. Shooting ranges are also provided at the picnic grounds beside the inn.

Twelve qualified for the “Six Golds Club at the National.

Programs are out for the annual Pone-Young Field Archers of Oregon, shoot at Eugene on Labor Day. A prize of a Lampert “Arrowmaker” for first place in the Pope-Young round will make the boys draw fine beads on the animal targets.

What an Archery family, the Fol­ berths of Cleveland! They won the Ullrich family plaque.

Our special congratulations to Wal­ ter P. Korn who won the Elmer Wooden Spoon.

Man Who Killed Wildcat (Continued from page 2) for the thrill of stalking quietly through the early morning, dawntanged air—and if you want to know how Nienke feels about it, try and buy the bow with which he killed the wildcat.

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With Our Advertisers

By Rztssell Jones, Business Manager

We learn that Frederic A. Kibbe of Coldwater, Michigan, made a flying (literally) trip to San Francisco, lately and returned by rail by way of Seattle. He says it took fifteen hours to get to San Francisco and five days and nights to return. We are very sorry we missed a visit with Mr. Kibbe.

Earl Ullrich informs us that his trip to California was for his health

and he is much better. Wie are all glad to hear Earl is on the road to good health again. He doesn ______’t __ say that he visited the “gay way” but remarks that he feels he is getting old.

(We are sorry that the business manager is so nearly crowded out this issue. He says it won’t happen again, and as he is a far bigger man than the editor, it probably won’t. Ed.)

Southern California Field Archers

By John L. Yount

Next Association Tournament Sunday, August 27, we are to have the pleasure of trying out the new range of the Malibu Mountain Arch­ ery Country Club. This range is lo­ cated in the mountains back of Malibu Beach, and, while probably not over a mile airline from the beach and within sight of it, it is at an eleva­ tion of one thousand feet. This guar­ antees a fine all round climate. To reach the grounds go through the town of Malibu about three miles, then take the Latigo Canyon road to Malibu Mountain resort.

You will find they have a fine new course and a comfortable club house.

Ilhis latter will especially appeal to the members of your family who are not archers. Also, there is a first class restaurant on the grounds that can not only supply you with eats but with soft and slightly hard drinks.

Taken all in all this new club has just about all that any archery club can be expected to have and a good many more things than we are accus­ tomed to. It seems that we have the healthy condition of each club trying to outdo the other in having things nice for our tournaments.

We haven’t exactly been flooded with names for our Field round but here is what sounds to me like a very good one. It was submitted by Joe

Cosner, the well known archery car­ toonist. It is “Spot.” His card lists its various uses as follows: “Spot Shoot,” “Spot Shooting,” “Good Spot Shot,” “1st, 2nd, or 10th Spot,” ra­ ther than target, and for the winner, “Spot Champion.” Neat, don’t you think? If you don’t think it is, let’s hear you give a better one. Remem­ ber we are not renaming field shoot­ ing but are trying to get a name for just one round. Something to dis­ tinguish it from all other kinds of field shooting.

Washington Field Archers (Continued from page 3) gave a very encouraging report on the development of field archery throughout the Western states and honored the association with his membership, along with some very helpful suggestions.

All archers in the state who are interested in field archery as well as all target archers should avail them­ selves of the opportunity of being charter members of this association by enrolling before October 1 of this year.

The association is headed by Pres­ ident, Kore T. Duryee; Vice-Presi­ dent, Earl M. Stamps, both of Se­ attle; and Secretary-Treasurer, S. L. Michael of Tacoma.

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August, 1939

National Field Archery Association

By John L. Yount The National has come and gone and it would now seem to be time to do something about this field archery business if we ever intend to. Let’s develop some games for those in­ stinctive shots, sometimes known as “field shots,” who want permanent courses and official rounds. Because of their preferred style of shooting they don’t fit into target archery, neither do they belong to field as it is at present conducted. At the same time let’s keep events suitable to the wildest and wooliest of the field shots, who can’t see fun in anything more serious than a bit of stump busting.

To do this the first thing we must do is get together. Here is a consti­ tution for a temporary setup for such an organization. It is submitted with the full realization that both it and its authors ■will be very severely crit­ icised. The only thing that we have to say in its defense is that we have tried to construct it so that no per­ son or group of persons can dominate the association. It means Field Arch­ ery for Field Archers. All persons, clubs, or associations interested please address P. O. Box 383, Red­ lands, Calif., for further information or for membership blanks.

Temporary Constitution of the New National Field Association Article I Name The name of this organization shall be National Field Archery Associa­ tion.

Article II Purposes For those field style archers to whom target archery has little to offer, yet to whom no sport can be complete that lacks well regulated competitive events, this association has been formed.

Its purposes shall be; 1. To develop rounds and regula­ tions for competitive field, or in­ stinctive style shooting; to conduct championship tournaments using these rounds, and in general, to do all possible to promote the field style

of shooting.

In doing these things we shall not set our game up as being superior to other forms of archery, but rather, as a complement thereto, and try at all times to work harmoniously with other organizations in presenting the grand game of archery to the Amer­ ican public.

2. To use the full power of the organization to better conditions for the bow and arrow sportsman; (a) By cooperating with all other worthy organizations and the federal and state governments in conserva­ tion of game and its natural habitat, the forests and fields; (b) By promoting good fellowship among sportsmen, tolerence for, in­ terest in, and compliance with our conservation laws; and (c) By conducting a continuous educational program, to acquaint the public with the bow and its use as a practical and humane weapon, suit­ able under proper regulations for the hunting of any game in North Amer­ ica.

Article HI Officers The temporary officers shall be a Board of Governors, which shall con­ sist of the presidents of the state field associations, who shall by mail elect a chairman from among their number. They shall then, with the advice of the National Field Commit­ tee, conduct all business of the or­ ganization, until such time as a per­ manent organization has been com­ pleted.

Article IV Membership Membership in this temporary as­ sociation shall consist of individuals and state associations.

Before a state association may be­ come a member, at least ten of its members must have joined the Na­ tional Field Association as individual members.

In case the existing State Field as­ sociation of any state is not interest­ ed and that state has ten members belonging to this association they

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shall be considered as a new state association and may elect their mem­ ber of the Board of Governors of the National Field Association.

Article V Dues Prior to the adoption of a perma­ nent constitution, dues per individual member shall be fifty cents per year.

Member associations shall pay no dues.

Article VI Permanent Organization When the number of affiliated state associations reaches five the Board of Governors shall appoint a committee to draw up a permanent constitution.

Following the completion of the permanent constitution and not later than ninety days after the admit­ tance of the fifth state archery asso­ ciation, all officers prescribed by the constitution shall be elected. After said election of officers all future activities of the permanent associa­ tion shall be governed by the consti­ tution of that organization and this temporary organization shall cease to exist.

Gardner Approves NFAA Mr. John L. Yount, Redlands, California.

Dear John; From what I can hear of your new national field archers association, it sounds like a swell idea.

I’m not much for competitive sport, scores, prizes, or rules. I shoot bow and arrow as a relaxation, enjoy­ ment, and pastime. My chief delight is hunting small game with the bow and arrow.

Originally my stump hunting activities were purely for the purpose of keeping in practice so I could shoot better while hunting.

More recently, however, I have no­ ticed that the few gatherings of field archers I have been able to attend have been composed of men who talk­ ed my langugae and with whom I had a great deal in common, not only in my attitude on bow shooting but on other things as well. I am not certain but what the friendly and easy, informal companionship and camraderie of these outdoor shoots is commencing to mean more to all of us than individual hunting expe­ ditions.

You can walk into any

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gathering of field archers, stroll over to the shadow of a tree, sit down and start talking with whoever happens to be there, and find every one of them a person with whom you’d like to be friends—which is more than vou can say about a gathering of any other group, at least any I have ever tried.

I am enclosing herewith check for $3.50, representing dues sent in by seven people, and lumped together in this one check for convenience In transmission; Jean Bethell, Temec­ ula, Calif., Winona Bibler, Temecula, Calif., Rae Parker (Mrs.), Temecula, Calif., A. F. Nienke, Temecula, Calif., E. S. Gardner, Temecula, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Edward Record (Madge and Ed), Murrieta Springs, Calif.

I have two or three more people who I am quite certain will want to join as soon as we find out a little more about it.

With kindest regards, Sincerely yours, E. S. GARDNER.

Midwest Tournament The thirteenth annual midwestern tournament was held at Jackson Park, Chicago, on July 1 and 2.

Over a hundred archers competed, and there were seven shooting in the junior class. The ladies shot a dou­ ble National. Minerva Lanzer was high with 1840; Olive Layer next with 1798; Irma Oelschleger 1766; Edith Radtke 1688, and Manola Han­ ley 1678. Renette Yanke won the women’s clout with 222 and the flight with 267 yds., 1 ft., 9 in.

Walter Laws won the junior cham­ pionship and John Crimp won the junior clout.

L. Chmura of Cleveland counted a total of 2169 in the single York and double American to take the men’s championship. E. Pikula, also of Cleveland, scored 2124, Russ Hoogerhyde 2078, C. Strang 2072, and C. Layer 1991.

Art WJahlen of Milwaukee took the men’s flight, regular style, with 392 yds., 8 in., and free style with 459 yds., 1 ft., 2 in. D. Widman scored 211 to win the clout.

Officers of the Midwestern are James Monies, president; Joseph Messick, vice-president; Frederick Kibbe, secretary-treasurer.

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August, 1939

Archery in Raleigh, N. C.

By Miss Pat Abernathy, Assistant Recreation Director Archery is fast becoming one of dozen arrows which they lend to any individuals or groups who wish to the most popular sports in Raleigh, after a comparatively slow start. shoot but have no equipment of their For a long time, a few archery en­ own.

The other range is indoors, in the thusiasts made their own equipment pistol range at the city armory. This and did both target shooting and is only wide enough for one target, (hunting of small game as often as their leisure time would permit, and but serves the purpose in inclement some intrepid hunters even went after weather, and it is hoped that in the deer on two or three occasions. But near future other indoor ranges can as far as any city-wide interest was be secured.

Another of the pioneer archers in concerned, Archery was the forgotten Raleigh is Carl Thompson, a for­ sport.

Then in September, 1938, Mr. G. mer newspaper man, now with the M. Matlack, Director of Raleigh Re­ State NYA. Carl is the son of Carl G. Thompson, former Eastern and creation Commission, called a meeting for the purpose of organizing The Midwestern Archery Champion, and a past president of the National Raleigh Archery Association, to be Mr. composed of those persons who were Archerv Association (1931). actually shooting or who were inter­ Thompson has been doing excellent ested in becoming proficient in the work with the sport at Southern sport or in promoting further inter­ Pines, where he recently filmed for RKO the movie short “Bowstrings” est in it. As is. always true in every successful movement, a small, but en­ with Russ Hoogerhyde and Jean Ten­ thusiastic group responded. ney. Mr. Thompson plans to open an Among these were Mr. Clifton instruction range there next season.

With such a father, Carl Thompson Beckwith, City Purchasing agent, who can without question be called could hardly help being enthusiastic the first Archer of Raleigh. For about archery. years Mr. Beckwith had been making 0. N. Rich has also done a great his own tackle and had had consid­ deal with the sport, largely by ac­ cident. A cabinet maker by trade, erable success as a hunter with bow and arrow. Not only had he become he practically stumbled into the mak­ a great lover of the sport, but had ing of tackle as a hobby, but soon passed his enthusiasm on to his wife became so fascinated by its possibil­ and twin sons, who have just grad­ ities, that it has become one of his uated from high school. main interests. He began shooting Mr. Beckwith was one of the guid­ a ninety pound bow of his own con­ struction, but has since graduated ing spirits in the formation of the to a thirty pounder.

Archery Association, and along with Mr. Roy Williamson, Commissioner Other charter members of the Ral­ of Public Works, was largely respon­ eigh Archery Association are; Rob­ sible for the facilities for shooting ert L. Battle, C. C. Stott, C. L. Cham­ whidh the city of Raliegh is now pro­ bers, Wade C. Lewis Jr., and Moses viding for its citizens.

Sanderford.

Raleigh now has two well equipped Perhaps the most active and inter­ ranges. One is an outdoor range, ested archery group are the Junior which will accommodate four to six Archers, organized at the Day Camp targets, and which has been lighted for girls, held during the summer by the city, so that archery enthus­ at the Armory and the adjoining iasts can shoot at night. This range park. A|bout thirty teen-age girls is maintained by the city and the learned to shoot and wanted to con­ Recreation Commission furnishes tar­ tinue their archery after the camp gets which may be used free of closed. Members of this group bid charge.

The Commission also has fair to become really excellent arch­ about half a dozen bows and several ers. Plans are also under way for

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the organization of a woman’s divi­ sion of the Aji’chery Association.

Raleigh, along with being the State Capital, is also a center of education, and six colleges are located here, Meredith, Peace and St. Mary’s for girls, N. C. State (a branch of the greater University at Chapel Hill) and two Negro colleges, Shaw and St. Augustine. Meredith and Peace have fine archery groups, and State has a well organized archery club, the members of which have done a lot of shooting and have also made a great part of their equipment. St. Augustine has done some fine work for the Negro group, and students there have shown great interest and potential ability at the sport.

It seems highly probable that in the fall with the reopening of schools, some very interesting inter - collegiate meets can be held right here in Ral­ eigh.

There arc also several other col­ leges, Duke, Carolina, Wake Forest (to name a few) which are within a radius of thirty miles, and several nearby cities have written concern­ ing inter-city meets with recently formed archery groups in their lo­ calities, so even more interesting meets seem imminent.

It would be impossible to discuss archery in Raleigh without giving credit where credit is due. Raleigh was very fortunate in being able to have Myrtle MSller, Women’s Inter­ national Champion in 1936, for a three day stay in April as the guest of the Recreation Commission, and during that time, the instruction she gave to individuals and groups, as well as the exhibition of her own skill, did more than any other single factor to create a new interest in the sport and to reawaken the interest that already existed. She completely charmed all she met, both as an arch­ er and an individual. It would be impossible to measure fully the work she did in that short time.

Interest in archery has grown rap­ idly in the past few months, and shows every indication of continuing.

Archery is indeed the infant of Ral­ eigh’s sports family, but it is a lusty infant, and is growing fast.

We wish it a lively and interesting adult­ hood.

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Tir a la Perche (Continued from page 5) A moment hung, and spread her pin­ ions there, Then sudden dropt, and left her life in air.

Perch shooting was popular all through Roman times, during which a classic column supplanted the tree, mast or pole, as endless reliefs and drawings attest; and it appears to have been played at in one form or another among relatively civilized peoples wherever bows and arrows were employed. It was no mere sym­ bolism of artist or narrator, trans­ lated into contemporary terms, that • placed the patient Saint Sebastian up against a pillar, to be filled with arrows by archers from below. It was just a matter-of-fact brutal sub­ stitution of man for bird.

In medieval times the perch was frequently no more than a convenient tree, straight, tall enough and well pruned. The coq alone was shot at in these earlier forms, it wall be ob­ served, although objects of lesser value were later hung from the perch as knock-down prizes. A represen­ tation of such a match is shown on page 161 of Henri Stein’s Archers d’ Autrefois, Archers, d’ Aujord’hui (page 15, “The New Archery”).

The origin of many of the compagnies that hold to tir a la perche from medieval times is, in Brittany, es­ pecially, rather amusing. Stein in­ forms us that the canny Francis I, anxious to effect certain economies, actually contrived to convert a stiff annual disbursement into a revenue.

It was the custom to pay a solde per annum out of the royal treasury to every man-at-arms (archers in­ cluded) who turned out with what corresponded, roughly, to the English “train-bands. ” Francis sold his new Breton subjects on the idea of buying charters and special privileges for their companies of archers, to be en­ joyed in perpetuity; making it appear that all this new dignity was in the interest of national defense, encour­ agement of tir a la perche, etc. The special privileges were often no more than the right to march or shoot, in. celebration of Saint Sebastian, on a certain field belonging to the crown.

But the Bretons, too recently under English suzerainty to have very defi-

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nite ideas about French economy or French bargaining, fell eagerly into line. Instead of giving Francis the “bird,” as he rightly deserved, they took it themselves; and they have been contending for it ever since.

Field captain at the National was J. Adams Dashiell of Minneapolis.

Mrs. Ada LaChapelle of St. Paul was lady paramount.

Next month we expect to find room for the very fine tribute by Edmund Teubner Jr., in presenting the “Med­ al of Honor” to Dr. Paul Klopsteg.

Missouri Valley Tournament Kenneth Hazeldine of Terre Haute, Ind., took the Missouri Valley Asso­ ciation championship with a total of 299-1731 for American, team and York rounds. J. Wendling, Colum­ bus, Ind., was second and R. W. Harbold, Alexandria, Ind., third.

W. B. Lincoln Jr., of Indianapolis, won the clout with a score of 34-218.

O. Hart of Evansdale, Ind., shot 354 yds., 2 ft., to win the flight. Thelma Eble, also of Evansville, won the ladies’ flight with 269 yd., 2 ft., 9 in., and Karl Patton won the junior flight.

Miss Minerva Lanzer of Berwyn, Ill., is women’s champion, shooting 311-2065 in National, team and Col­ umbia rounds. Miss Lanzer also won the women’s clout event.

Benny Teeter Jr., of Hayerstown, Ind., won the junior championship.

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