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Ye Sylvdn Archer Official Publication of the National Field Archery Association

No. 10

February, 1942

Vol. 13

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

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J. E. DAVIS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page MAD LAKE RECOLLECTIONS

By A. T. (Bert) Wallis

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BLUNTS FROM THE OLD STUMP By the NFAA President

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HOW THEY DO IT

By Delmer F. Pletcher

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EDITORIAL

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THE SUDANESE USE INCENDIARY ARROWS

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BOWS, ARROWS AND JAPS

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NFAA BULLETIN

By John L. Yount

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FLINT BOWMAN INDOOR FIELD ROUND

By Lulu Stalker

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NFAA CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS For 1941

By Karl E. Palmatier

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Mad Lake Recollections

By A. T. (Bert) Wallis The telephone buzzed.

I roused myself from a comfortable corner of the davenport and hurried into the hall.

“Hello.”

“Hello, is this Wallis?”

“Yes.” “The old man?”

“Y-yes.” That was a new angle.

It reminded me I was not as young as I used to be, even though I partici­ pated in sports which, to many peo­ ple, are for adolescents, And also that I had a son as large as I, although he is only sixteen.

“This is Steve, Wallis. How about that venison steak you promised me?”

“Sure, Steve, but it isn’t cut up yet.

The butcher probably won’t get around to it for another week.”

“No fooling, did you get one?”

“Yes, a five-pointer,” I replied. “A beautiful fellow, weighed about two hundred and a quarter.”

“What did you shoot him with?” he queried.

“What did I shoot him with!” That was adding insult to injury. Steve knew I had gone hunting in the Mad Lake Archery Reserve.

“A blow gun,” I retorted.

This year we began preparing in early September for our hunting trip into the Reserve—a new experience for me, not particularly with the bow, but with any weapon.

My first deer hunting trip!

I looked forward to it with a good deal of anticipation. And so, early Sep­ tember found me working in Kore Duryee’s basement shop making rov­ ing and hunting arrows, and, as the month progressed and the season ap­ proached, it developed into a race to see which would be ready first—the season or I. I fail to recall which of us won, but be that as it may, the second week­ end of the season, October 9th, Kore, Son Bill and I headed for the hills.

A good many archery fans, and especially bow and arrow hunters, have heard of Washington’s Mad Lake Archery Reserve, a section east and north of Seattle in the heart of

the Cascades which has been set aside by the State Game Commission for those who wish to hunt big game with bow and arrow. A wooded area, the Reserve is thirteen miles long and from two and a half to three miles wide. It is bounded on the east by Cougar Mountain and Klone Peak and on the west by Maverick Peak at the extreme southwest corner and McDonald Ridge, which terminates near the northwest boundary of the Reserve.

The valley, itself, through which Mad River runs, is some 1000 to 1500 feet below the crest of the surround­ ing peaks and ridges. Mad Lake and two other smaller lakes are situated some ten miles up the reserve, and nestle at the base of rugged peaks and densely timbered hillsides. The floor of the valley ranges from a few hundred yards to over a mile in width, with intermittent hogbacks and draws from the adjacent ridges

"My buck weighed approximately 225 pounds; he was shot at sixty-five yards with a seventy-pound yew-wood bow.”

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forming its contour.

During past seasons the Reserve, although a beautiful area, and to all appearances an excellent place for game, has provided few deer. Com­ paratively few were seen there by hunters during the past season.

Proving the satisfaction one hunt­ er gained from hunting in it, though, was the statement of Joe Wilson, brother-in-law of Art Partee, one of our veteran hunters, in which he said, “If there weren’t a deer in the Re­ serve, I would enjoy hunting in it.”

A good many of us feel the same way about it. Beautiful isn’t the word. It is a place to fall in love with.

It is not accessible to automobiles, but from the base camp at the foot of 1500-foot Maverick Peak, where cars “reach the end of the road,” good trails lead into the heart of the hunting area. Alf. H. Constans’ Dude Ranch is situated almost in the cen­ ter of the Reserve and affords the best in packing facilities during the hunting season for both rifle and bow hunters as well as equally fine fa­ cilities for summer campers and other outdoor recreation. Lodging is also available as well as family-style meals.

Our plans for the trip had been previously made. Sleeping bags at the end of the road on Maverick Peak Thursday night; a cold breakfast (except for a thermos bottle of hot coffee supplied by Duryee); on the trail shortly after daybreak, and dinner at Mad Lake Ranch. The rest of the week-end our headquarters would be at the ranch where we were to be provided with all the comforts of home—well, almost, anyway.

The first night out was none too comfortable. With light showers dur­ ing the night and a constant threat of snow we crawled from our sleep­ ing bags the next morning into a very damp world. A sharp wind from the snow-clad hills added to our discomfort. (Bill slept in the car with too many windows open and' spent an altogether disagreeable night).

Breakfast was planned and we were on the trail, bulging with sweat­ ers, coats and gloves—even ear-muffs would have been welcome. Robin Hood and his men could have displayed no greater variety of accoutrements, nor could the men of Sherwood Forest

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have outdone us in hunting equip­ ment or emergency supplies.

Our quiver bags contained everything from first-aid kits to a trail lunch; knives and hatchets dangled from our belts and a gaudy array of wellgroomed feathers protruded from our quivers.

Not five minutes of trail time had elapsed until Kore, Bill and I were feasting our eyes upon beautiful, though damp, mountain scenery.

Autumn hues intermingled with the varied greens of cedar, pine, spruce and hemlock made a fascinating pat­ tern against the rocky hillsides and deen brown of the forest.

Twenty minutes on the trail and we were still admiring the scenery when Bill drew our attention with a start­ led exclamation.

“No! Down the trail!” he cried.

Thirty-five yards down the trail fine and walking toward us was a fl..w two-point buck. We stopped, The buck also stopped.

“Shoot!” I said to Kore.

“You shoot!” he replied, making certain his arrow was nocked.

“No. you shoot!” I said. My arrow lay helpless across my bow.

After the Alfonso and Gaston act Kore raised his bow and drew. I stood petrified, watching the end of his arrow. I had only to step a yard to the right to have a perfect shot, but the end of his arrow seemed to have me hypnotized. The shot was low, passing between the deer’s fore­ legs.

The buck had whirled and disappeared around a bend in the trail before I could draw my bow. j:.’

Bill, behind us in the trail, did not have an opportunity to shoot.

“Score one for the weather,” said Kore, and we agreed with him, as we were cold and our fingers numb.

He had drawn about twenty inches of a twenty-six-inch arrow.

I needed no alibis for missing; neither did I have one foi- refusing to shoot. I just couldn’t think of one.

Quietly Kore and I stepped aside and motioned Bill into the lead. He kept it for the balance of the day.

After a splendid meal in camp at noon we spent the afternoon hunting the upper ridges and meadows. Three to four inches of wet snow and a shifting wind roused the deer well ahead of us and we sighted only one —a large buck—crossing the upper

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meadow a good two hundred and fifty yards distant.

Evening after another hearty meal found us spinning yarns around the fire in the main cabin. Kore told of previous trips into the Mad Lake Re­ serve as well as experiences in the Eight-Mile Reserve to the east in Okanogan County, which had been set aside for archers in former years.

Stories of famous expeditions were told, archery stories of Young and Pope and others of toxophilic fame; of Duryee’s former record of eight misses which he has never been able to satisfactorily explain; of the suc­ ceeding record of Irl Stamps (not present at the session) at which time he missed eleven shots, and also of his success upon another occasion when hunting in the Mad Lake area with Duryee, Art Partee, L. D. Hunt­ er, now of Denver, and L. D. (Alex) Alexander of Seattle.

While on the subject of hits and misses, during the last week of the hunting season this year a record was established which, in our opin­ ion, will remain unchallenged for some time.

Basil Blackmore of Marysville was hunting the lower end of McDonald Ridge above Maverick Peak. It was early morning and. although the sun was shining, a chill wind numbed his fingers enough to make hunting disagreeable.

Coming to a sheltered spot, he lay down to catch up on a few hours sleep, and before long was dreaming peacefully.

An hour and a half passed in slumber and suddenly he awoke with a start. He teas lying perilously near the edge of the trail and a steep hillside. His bow and quiver reposed some ten feet away where he had placed them when he lay down.

He turned and crawled to safety, then looked around him, feeling as a small boy probably does after takingsome undue chance. As he turned his head to look up the trail he saw, not over thirty yards away, a fine buck standing in the same trail as he, but looking off across the canyon.

Cautiously he felt for his bow only to discover it was still out of reach.

He wiggled slowly across the trail and secured his bow and arrows. In the meantime, the buck, still una­ ware of his presence, walked off the

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trail, around a thicket or two, and stopped in a clearing „ below him not forty yards away.

Basil, accustomed to roving ar­ rows which he had been shooting all summer, estimated the difference in weight of his broadheads and the lighter blunt-nosed shafts, drew back on his quarry and loosed his first arrow. It fell short by inches. The second shot grazed the buck’s mid­ section and fell away down the hill; the buck did nothing more than flinch, look around and take a step or two. Frantically Blackmore reached for a third arrow, then a fourth, and a fifth, each one going wildly on its way. A sixth arrow was drawn, then a seventh, and so on until the quiver was empty. By this time the buck, perhaps slightly bothered by the whistle of flying arrows, yet still unaware of the whereabouts of his antagonist, wandered away.

Blackmore checked up; he had had fifteen arrows; there wasn’t a one left.

Previous to this year Duryee, Par­ tee, Stamps and a number of the others have established a base camp above the ranch out of which to hunt, but this year, due to no one from Seattle being able to go piore than a week-end at a time, the only camp established was one made by Bert Spurgeon, J. W. MacFarlane and Mr. Skiel and son from Pasco.

Their camp was located a mile or so below the ranch. Neither MacFarlane nor the Skiels saw a buck, although Spurgeon had a single shot at a four or five-pointer on McDonald Ridge above camp. The four had dinner one evening at the ranch and we all thoroughly enjoyed the discussions and stories related. Three rifle hunt­ ers, Ernest Constans, Al’s brother, and two companions, also took night’s lodging at the camp the same evening.

Rifle hunters are permitted to enter and pass through the Reserve but may not carry loaded guns.

Hunting restrictions in Washington are not as stringent as in some other states, particularly as regards bow and arrow areas. The only qualifi­ cations in the Reserve are that one must hunt with bow and arrows, with no side arms except ax and hunting knife permitted. An archer is not (Continued on page 11)

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Blunts from the Old Stump By the President The 1942 NFAA Mail Tournaments Read all about it in the NFAA Year Book. But whether you shoot “in­ will begin in March. The program for the year will be found in this issue stinctively” or “freestyle,” we want of Ye Sylvan Archer. Two classes you to take part in our monthly mail of competition will be provided for field tournaments. The NFAA, in both men and women—the “Instinc­ sponsoring and improving the Na­ tive Class” with no sights, marks, or tional Field Round, sincerely believes points of aim, and the “Freestyle that it has made a worthwhile con­ Class”—shoot as you wish. These tribution to archery which will not classes are provided so that all arch­ only sustain archery interest but pro­ ers may take part in the field tour­ vide new and increased pleasure to naments regardless of how they archers everywhere and make many shoot. The “Freestyle Class” is pro­ new converts to archery. Any target vided especially to encourage target archer who turns up his nose at the field round, as a passing fancy, is archers to try the field round, and also for those bow and arrow hunters not only grossly mistaken, but he is who use the same form of shooting only geting fifty per cent out of his at both target and field. If you shoot archery. We urge them to try our at animate or inanimate objects, at field round with target tackle and unknown, unannounced, and not pre­ target technique if they wish, and we guarantee that they will find new determined distances, you are a field archer. How you shoot is a matter joys in archery. of your own preference. Archers who Many schools and colleges have tar­ shoot only field nearly all shoot in­ get archery as a part of their athletic stinctively—that is, without marks, program. We are in receipt of the sights, or indicators This is the first notice of field archery being style of shoting we recommend for made a part of the college athletic archers who are not interested in tar­ program. R. J. Pieh of Antioch Col­ get shooting. Many archers who shoot lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio, writes, target use sights or points of aim in “Our wish to expand further in field target shooting and use the “instinc­ archery is because of the reasons tive” style of shooting in field shoot­ which you indicated in your letter. ing. Other target archers who shoot It is simply more natural and funda­ field only occasionally or use heavy mental and as such has more appeal hunting tackle only during the hunt­ to our students.” ing season, prefer some kind of mark, Illinois Field Archers are rapidly sight, or indicator on their bow which organizing. Ten new membership ap­ they use after estimating the distance plications have come in from the of the object to be shot at. They feel Osage Archery Club, August W. Al­ that they can be more accurate with this type of shooting than if they lard Jr., Secretary, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. The State of Illinois does shoot instinctively, where they have not recognize the bow as a legal not had the time nor inclination to develop the latter type of shooting. hunting weapon. Here is the nucleus of a strong field organization in Il­ This is true. However, there is no mystery about developing the “instinc­ linois. Come on, you field archers tive” type of shooting. It is a natur­ of Illinois, let’s get organized and al style of shooting, just as natural get state recognition for bow and ar­ as throwing a stone or baseball. The row hunting.

We are pleased to hear of the ex­ more stones or baseballs you throw, pansion of field archery into the the more accurate you get in hitting Physical Fitness Program of factories what you are trying to hit. But don’t let anybody kid you that no technique engaged in war production. The is required in “instinctive” shooting. Northrup Aircraft Company of Haw­ thorne, California, has introduced Good technique is just as essential in field archery into its recreational pro­ field shooting as in target shooting. gram for its employees. William W.

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Patrick, Commissioner of Archery for that company, is planning a regular field tournament on a standard NFAA course for the employees the latter part of February. We will be interested in hearing the details of this tournament.

The Wisconsin hunters have organ­ ized a club called “Wisconsin Bow Hunters Club,” Howard L. Thrapp, Secretary, 215 N. Allen Street, Mad­ ison, Wisconsin. They have a good strong association which has secured and is securing fine hunting privi­ leges in their state for bow and arrow hunters. The Association awards a gold pin to any archer who shoots a buck with bow and arrow in their state.

The Association also pays $10.00 to any farmer or land owner on whose property any bow and ar­ row hunter has shot a deer. This has secured the good will of land owners and opened up much private posted land to bow hunters which otherwise might be closed. In those states where archers must of neces­ sity hunt on private land, action sim­ ilar to that taken by the Wisconsin Club might get you better hunting territory.

Where small game is hunted with the bow, the payment of some nominal fee for game killed on private property with the bow by your members would undoubtedly open up some choice private property for your hunting.

From Toronto, Ontario, Arnold W. Wyttenbach says, with reference to increased privileges to bow hunters, “I had a long conversation with the Ontario Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries yesterday, and I think an­ other step towards special privilege for Archery hunters has been made.

This year, most or perhaps all of the Province of Ontario will be closed to moose hunters due to too great an influx of rifle hunters from across the line. The Deputy Minister has assured me, however, that he would keep it open for archery hunters to give us a chance at moose without the interference of rifle men. I consider this a good day’s work. I’ll keep in touch with you on any future devel­ opments.” He further says, “Forrest Nagler, John Mitchele and myself all took deliberate aim in securing our game last fall. Snap shooters are usually the fellows who try to shoot too heavy a bow and just cannot con-

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trol it long enough to aim at what they are trying to hit. When we went hunting, we had firmly made up our minds not to take any chances with impossible long shots and only to shoot at game at reasonable dis­ tances. This we did, and the results were two clean hits and two fine bucks for two archers. Score, one hundred per cent.”

A new field archery club has been formed at Cleveland, Ohio, the Sher­ wood Archery Club, Fred J. Rumplik, Secretary, 5337 Dollof Road, Cleveland, Ohio. Ohio is in for a big boom in field archery. Build your NFAA field courses, get plenty of practice, and then come up to Michi­ gan or Wisconsin and get that thrill of thrills! Deer hunting with the bow for a $5.00 license Tee! This applies also to all archers, especially those in the north-central states.

The Iowa State Archery Associa­ tion, A. C. Jensen, President, 2523 Grand Boulevard, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a real live wire state association.

They have added field archery to their state program and are now intro­ ducing archery golf. We again urge target clubs to investigate the fastest growing sport today—field archery.

Archery clubs, to exist and expand, must keep trend with the times. If there is no field club in your com­ munity, it is vital that your program provide for the field archers, because they will eventually demand a field program or organize their own field clubs. The Michigan Archers Asso­ ciation controls both field and target activities, with an adequate program for each. The result is that in Mich­ igan they have harmony, with every­ body satisfied. If your state associ­ ation wants information on how this is done, write Karl Palmatier, Secre­ tary, Michigan Archers Association, J1317 Hillcrest, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

On February 8, the Michigan Arch­ ers held their annual business meet­ ing at Lansing, Michigan. Archers came from all over the state for the biggest business meeting ever held.

The decision was unanimous that the Michigan Archers Association will push archery during the war period more than ever before. However, co­ operating with the Government’s de­ sire to conserve rubber, fewer tour­ naments, more centrally located, were (Continued on page 10)

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Febi'uary, 1942

How They Do It

By Dehner F. Pletcher, Bakersfield, California I was asked (for what reason I am not sure) to write an article on “How They Do It,” that is, shooting the higher scores in the NF A A field round. One thing I might say is that whatever score you shoot you will never be satisfied; at least, I have never found the archer that was.

As for me, I have been shooting a bow since I was “knee high to a grasshopper.” I had no one to teach me that I can remember, but rather, used the old trial and error method.

I think my brother and I kept each other interested in archery most of the time for we knew of no archery clubs, at least the kind of archery in which we were interested. We would watch target archers if the oc­ casion arose, but that is about as near a target as we got.

Anyway, during the time my broth­ er and I were in dental school, we would go out to the sand dunes and “snap shoot” at various targets, such as that cardboard box down there, or that green weed on the bank, etc.

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After that we would go to Golden Gate Park and watch the boys shoot­ ing target. We never brought our bows with us when we watched them, for we didn’t want to look like such duds. It seemed to us they were putting all of their arrows in the gold and red at 60 yards, and we felt at the time that we would be lucky if we could just hit the target face. Of course, our consolation was that we didn’t use a point of aim.

Even though we had done a lot of shooting, we had never realized what was necessary for accurate shooting.

Unless our bows weighed in the neighborhood of 80 pounds, we weren’t shooting a bow. What I am trying to say, in so many words, is that I had been shooting for years the way so many field archers do — inferior equipment, no particular care as to form, and the usual “snap shooting” style.

Regardless of how much shooting you do in this manner, you will never get to shooting good scores. I learned this to be true the hard way, and over a period of years. What im­ provement I have made has really been done in the last year and a half.

It started one afternoon when I had none of my archery equipment with me, and I ran into a bunch of arch­ ers. One of them loaned me some extra tackle that he had with him.

The bow was lighter than mine and it had an excellent cast, but the ar­ rows didn’t appear any better. They were, however, just right for the bow.

I shot better that afternoon than at any time previusly. It wasn’t a week after that until I had some new equip­ ment.

The next thing that happened, to heln me very much, was the result of a motion picture. My older broth­ er, being interested in photography, wanted some motion pictures of my younger brother and me shooting.

When we first saw the pictures, we thought they were pretty good as far as pictures were concerned, but when we ran them through slowly to check our form of shooting, we had quite an awakening. We each did the same thing consistently. Immediately after

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the release of the arrow, each of our bow arms would drop. We had never realized that we were doing this be­ fore. This fault was hard to correct, and I still find myself doing it oc­ casionally, unless I keep my mind on it.

Field archery requires every bit as much precision as does target shoot­ in f. Your arrows must be matched as closely as target arrows, your shooting form must be just as accur­ ate in every detail, and your arrows must be spined to suit your bow.

As to form, a full length draw, with a definite anchor point, must be made for every shot. It is just as import­ ant to make a full draw at a 20 foot target as it is at the 80 yard target.

After your release, which, of course, must be smooth and not “jerky,” do not let your bow arm drop. This is one of the most common faults of all field archers, and one of the hard­ est to correct. After shooting, try to ' keep your bow arm in the same po­ sition it was in immediately before the release. If you can’t pull your bow to a full draw and hold it with relative comfort, then you can’t ac­ complish one of the essentials of ac­ curate shooting—good shooting form.

Granted that you may be able to pull a heavy bow and also use good form for a few targets; after 56 tar­ gets of an NFAA tournament that form is largely forgotten, and the problem reduces itself to just getting the arrow shot. The result is a low score.

Now, to improve that score, here is what I suggest. First, get good equipment that ’,rou can handle with comfort; then practice shooting at close ranges—10 to 15 yards, and at small targets. For these targets just cut out paper discs about the size of a silver dollar, and place them at various points on your target back­ stop. Don’t be discouraged if you can’t hit them. If you keep practic­ ing, you will get your form down pat, and you will find yourself in­ stinctively aiming instead of using an “instinctive snap,” which sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. This means the difference between shoot­ ing arrows pretty close to where you are looking, and just shooting ar­ rows. It doesn’t mean the use of sights or points in any manner. You will also begin to notice that some of

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the arrows seem to consistently fly better than some of the others. In this way you will start selecting the arrows that seem to shoot better, and you will gradually find that you are shooting closer groups. Forget your “snap shooting” and start to really shoot your arrows. Then when you go out on your field course, be just as careful in your shooting as you were at your close range practice targets.

The roving bow I shoot now weighs approximately 60 pounds, and my ar­ rows are 28 inches long, 11/32 inch diameter barrelled to 9/32 inch. I don’t use any mark or sight of any kind on my bow. Just as different equipment is used for target as that for roving, so is shooting form dif­ ferent. I use a high draw (about op­ posite the corner of my mouth), and tilt my bow about 25 degrees. I hold my thumb up so that it puts my fin­ gers more at right angle to the string.

This will also prevent the soreness or callous formation around the in­ dex finger nail.

I think the most common faults found among field archers are: (1) that many are over-bowed, (2) not enough attention paid to form, (3) and improper equipment is used. To fur­ ther emnhasize this last point, it might be stated that it is quite pos­ sible to have a beautiful set of arrows and an excellent bow, but if the ar­ rows are not spined to fit the bow, accurate shooting cannot be done with them.

Truer words were never spoken than the words of the president of our NFAA: “Good form is as necessary in field shooting as in target shooting.

If a good consistent field form of shooting is developed, it will be re­ flected in greater accuracy in your field shooting and hunting.”

Prominent Archer Passes A. T. Wallis sends us the sad news that Harvey Strandwold of Ta­ coma. Washington, was instantly killed while working at his trade when a cable on a pile driver broke.

Mr. Strand wold was a member of the National Field Archery Associ­ ation, and an enthusiast in all phases of archery.

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Editorial We are sorry to learn that The American Archer, which has been published quarterly by J. C. Vives, has suspended publication.

Cassius Styles reminds us that two prominent archers are in the thick of the fight. Lt. Sisler is on a sub, and Lt. DeLano is with Gen. MacArthur in the Philippines.

Our cover photo this month is of “Babe” Bitzenberger of Los Angeles, who has shot so many fine scores and has done so much to promote archery; even, we understand, to the extent of feeding Geo. Brommers at tournaments.

Tony Hines from down on the Mex­ ican border says Calexico has a group of archers who never miss a Sunday of shooting in the desert rain or shine.

Tony is another claimant to the “Basement Championship.”

We have verification from Jim Murphy of the “Gadberry episode” related by Dawson Feathers in the last issue. All the verification we can get for that story the better.

Some of us would hardly believe it, even if Geo. Brommers vouched for it. Also, we just want the record to show that Jim has invited the editor to hunt in that hunters’ paradise, where one can’t help but get rab­ bits—even when shooting just at knot holes.

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East African forces operating against Asosa, the big Italian military base in Western Abyssinia are using with advantage a new and terrifying weapon. It is an incendiary arrow, and is used by a small group of ir­ regular levies, bowmen picked from Sudanese troops famed for archery.

The arrow can be shot at ranges up to 300 yards and the most terrify­ ing element about it is its silence.

Bowmen surrounded by night groups of grass huts which form the Italian camp—Asosa garrisons are almost all housed in such huts—and let loose a hail of arrows. The soft thud of their impact is inaudible to the enemy.

A few seconds later their incen­ diary mixture flares up, and the Ital­ ian quarters are ablaze before they are aware of the attack. The arrow was devised by a young Sudanese official, a former Rugger “Blue” in co-operation with an officer.

—Archery News, England.

BOWS, ARROWS AND JAPS The Negretoes are members of a small tribe of pygmies living on Lingayen gulf, which borders Bataan peninsula on the north. These little men are doing a good job in guer­ rilla warfare against the Japs, doing most of their damage from tree tops with their bamboo bows and poison arrows.

The information and picture are from Captain J. B. Sallee, now with General MacArthur’s forces in the Philippines. Captain Sallee is the son of H. B. Sallee, who for several years was Scout Executive of the Wallamet Council, at Eugene, Oregon.

“These boys can do more than pose.

They were shooting at a 2-inch strip of bamboo about 50 feet away. The second boy from the right was cham­ pion with no misses.”

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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

Western—H. C. MacQuarrie.

3400 Fruitvale Ave., Oakland, Calif.

Mid-Western—Fred Bear, 2611 W. Philadelphia, Detroit,M™..

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Eastern—T. C. Davidson, 53 Mountain Ave., Springfield, N. J.

- -1942 MAIL TOURNAMENT

By John L. Yount This coming season our program will be considerably changed and en­ larged to meet the wartime needs.

The rubber shortage and long hours are bound to have their effect on tournaments that call for extended driving. So, while we don’t want to see any of the big tournaments cancelled, we are planning our mail tournaments to sort of ease the blow to the man who can’t attend the major meets.

As a first step in this direction, we have decided to make these tourna­ ments sectional as well as National.

For this purpose, the country will be divided into four sections, East, Mid­ west, West, and Southern.

These lines will be drawn in accordance with our Constitution, except that the Canadians will compete with those states directly south of them.

Next, we have decided to eliminate the instinctive versus sight contro­ versy, by having a division for each.

To add further to the interest, we have made certain changes in class­ ification and have arranged to han­ dicap the second class as well as the first.

Last, as a war measure, we have

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once again decided to open our tour­ naments to all archers, rather than confine them to members only.

Please Read Carefully There shall be nine tournaments, beginning with March, and running through November.

Archers may compete at any time during the month, preferably in local tournaments, but never without at least two witnesses, and they must declare their intention before starting the round.

In each tournament there shall be two divisions, Instinctive and Free­ style. Archers in the Instinctive class must use bows free from any sights, marks or blemishes that could be used in aiming. In the Freestyle class any type of sight may be used, except one calibrated for the course.

There will be three classes in each division, “Expert Bowman,” “Bow­ man,” and “Novice.” These classes shall be made up of archers shooting the following scores: Novice, under 250 for a double round (56 targets); Bowman, 250 to 400; Expert Bow­ man, 400 and over.

The Ladies’ Novice class will be made up of archers shooting under 180; Bowman, 180 to 280; Expert Bowman, 280 and over.

The Bowman will be handicapped from 400, the Expert Bowman from 800 for the double round. All ladies will be handicapped from 400. Arch­ ers who shoot consistently higher will be given minus handicaps.

All present handicaps will be

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changed to conform with this arrange­ ment, and the same method of fig­ uring handicaps that was used last year will again be used. Others may be handicapped by turning in their last four local tournament scores.

That is, if these tournaments con­ sisted of a single round (28 targets), only two double round (56 target scores) need be turned in, but all scores must be signed by the local secretary. Otherwise, a new archer will automatically receive his handi­ cap after shooting in two NFAA tournaments.

The National competition in each tournament will be on a handicap basis.

In the sectional tournaments the same divisions and classes as in the National will be used, but there will be no handicap. This gives each archer an opportunity to shoot in both a high score and handicap tour­ nament at the same time. It also makes these tournaments of more in­ terest to the archer who does not as yet have a handicap.

Very Important This year’s National championship will be decided in the same manner as in ’41, that is, from the four high­ est scores turned in by each archer.

This is not a handicap event.

The sectional champions will be decided in the same manner.

Since these are both NFAA cham­ pionship events, only NFAA mem­ bers will be eligible, and they must be members at the time the scores are shot. They may join the day of the tournament by paying their mem­ bership dues to the local club secre­ tary before starting their first round.

Target Fees The target fees for members shall be 15c.

For non-members, the target fees will be 25c.

Awards

The number of awards in each class will depend somewhat on the number shooting, and will be worked out and announced shortly, as will all further details of these tourna­ ments, but from the above you can make your plans.

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BLUNTS FROM OLD STUMP (Continued from page 5) decided upon. District target tour­ naments are scheduled in central areas on the west side of the state, where the bulk of the target archers are located, and field tournaments are scheduled on the east side of the state, where the field archers are concentrated. The NAA will hold the following district field tournaments (one a month) on portable field tar­ gets in 1942: Fenton or Howell, May 17; Detroit, June 7; Flint, July 12; Detroit, August 2; Flint, September 20. The State Field Cham­ pionship Meet will be held at Owosso, October 4. There will be more arch­ ery played on home grounds and an increased participation in the NFAA mail tournaments.

The NFAA expects soon to reach its 1000 membership mark. New mem­ bership applications from individuals and clubs are pouring in at the rate of 75 to 100 per month. Here are a few samples: A half-dozen applica­ tions from J. J. Sanford, 825 Mc­ Kinley Avenue, Kellogg, Idaho; re­ quest for a dozen applications from Richmond Archers Club, R. C. Thomp­ son, Secretary, Box 109, Glen Allen, Virginia; six applications from Harry E. Hursey, 9505 Emerson Avenue, Overland, Missouri; requests for a copy of the NFAA Constitution and membership applications from a new field club in Cincinnati, Ohio, Eugene Grill, Secretary, 3510 Madison Park Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. The past few days’ mail has brought in indi­ vidual memberships from Princeton, Michigan, Rome, Georgia, Meadville and Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and Wil­ ton, Maine. We are hearing from scattered archers in remote places that we never knew even existed, and where there are no archery clubs.

We have always contended that there are tens of thousands of archers in the United States, who have never even heard of organized archery. The “proof of the pudding” is now be­ ginning to show up. We are gradu­ ally contacting these unorganized archers to their benefit, and that of organized field archery, also.. The NFAA handbook is going to be of immeasurable value to these isolated archers as well as to the organized and expert archers. Now is the time

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to send in your memberships (and renew if expiring), so that you won’t miss out on the NFAA Handbook, all compiled and just going to press.

The March issue of Ye Sylvan Arch­ er will have details on the distribu­ tion of the Handbook.

The NFAA is fully cooperating with the Government’s Physical Fit­ ness Program. Archery for national physical fitness and national morale.

You can help by keeping up your archery activities and making archery available for those who are looking for a good, wholesome recreation.

MAD LAKE RECOLLECTIONS (Continued from page 3) restricted to a bow and arrow area, but may hunt in any section of the state which is open.

Our second trip to the Reserve came two weeks later—the last week-end of the season. Harold Lusk and Kore left Seattle Friday morning and Irl Stamps and I left that afternoon for the camp at the end of the road.

We arrived about eight o’clock and sat down to steaming cups of coffee which Kore had prepared for us as we drove into camp.

The four of us hit the trail a little after sun-up Saturday morning, hav­ ing decided to hunt a comparatively new area to us—the valley and ridges up Tommy Creek. The north side of the narrow valley, along which side the trail follows, rises quite abruptly to the first ledge of rocks some five hundred feet above. Inter­ mittent stands of ripe timber and jackpine cover both hillsides, with here and there an open meadow. The meadows afford excellent forage for deer and in many places the brush and evergreens were scarred and bro­ ken.

Irl and I left the trail in the lower valley while Kore and Harold fol­ lowed the trail another quarter or so before turning off.

We scanned the rocky knolls and succeeding ridges for game, our prog­ ress slow due to the steepness of the terrain. Occasionally we snatched a small root or trailing vine to aid us in our climb.

Suddenly a subdued hiss called my attention to Irl, who was trailing me and to my left some forty yards. He waved five protruding fingers in the

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air and pointed directly above me. I peered around a bush which partly concealed me from above, but could see no more than a bare rocky ledge and a hillside well covered with rocks and shale.

The two of us converged on a knoll and I listened to Irl tell how a fine five-point buck had stood not over forty yards away watching me slowly advance toward him up the hill. Irl had passed up his first attempt at game in trying to point out the buck to me. The buck had disappeared as Irl informed me of his wherea­ bouts.

We separated at the knoll, Irl fol­ lowing the tracks of the deer while I followed the ridge.

Thirty or forty paces carried me into the edge of a jackpine stand and Irl disappeared from sight. I threaded my way over a deer trail into the heart of the stand of timber.

Suddenly patches of grey and tan moved swiftly among the trees and a deer trotted along the next trail above me. He moved across a tiny clearing and stopped abruptly, his front quarters concealed by a thicket.

I had seen for a brief instant a pair of antlers branching into an inde­ terminate number of points; to be sure, he was old enough to be the grandfather of most bucks I had ever seen; his hair was long and shaggy like a mangy dog. It was a forty to forty-five yard shot with not six inches of clearance between the tips of the branches and his midsection back of the ribs. A number of other branches drooped intermittently be­ tween where I stood and my quarry.

I drew carefully but the sharp ping of my arrow as it embedded it­ self in a tree told me I had missed him. The old buck trotted off into the upper timber. However, my shot had startled a young buck which I hadn’t seen. He circled me and stop­ ped to my right and slightly below, well hidden in the same jackpine stand.

I pondered my chances. Which way? After the young one—a threepointer—or the older “big boy?” I watched the timber where the young­ er buck had disappeared for a minute or so and then turned to look after the other. To my dismay he had just crossed an open area of twentyfive or thirty yards and was disap-

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pearing into a patch of timber about seventy yards away.

That decided me. I went after the big one.

Following the bench on which I had been hunting, I watched the hillside and ridges above. Two or three hun­ dred yards of this brought me com­ pletely out of the timber. I pro­ ceeded around a knoll and across a sidehill meadow. A hundred yards below the jackpine stand began; above, a few yards away, rocky ledges and cliffs rose to a succeeding bench.

Again I saw a movement above me.

This time a pair of antlers bobbed along, just visible over an up­ per ledge. The buck had been watch­ ing me and as I had paralleled him from below he had whirled and started back the way I had come.

He swung into the open around a rocky knoll and I shot hurriedly. The arrow passed in front of him and bounded off a rock. The buck turned and ran toward me, stopping about fifty yards above between two huge boulders. The shot was wide and the arrow shattered against one of the rocks. The buck turned, swung onto a small ledge and stood broad­ side, his head and shoulders hidden by a young spruce.

My next shot passed inches over his back; I had not been aware of drawing the arrow. My fourth ar­ row passed through the spruce be­ hind which the buck stood and he turned and plunged headlong down the hill.

I rounded up my arrows. One— the first one shot—had its point bad­ ly damaged; one was broken when it ricochetted off a rock; another was imbedded in the hillside, and the fourth was missing.

By the time I reached the buck he was stone dead.

As all the pack horses had been taken from the area the day before, three of our party and a rifle hunter from Seattle, Burl Sexton, and Har­ vey Stranwold, a veteran bowman of Tacoma, packed the buck out. Irl, the fourth member of our hunting party, arrived in camp late in the afternoon, having hunted the north ridge all day without success.

My buck weighed approximately 225 pounds; he was shot at sixty-five yards with a seventy-pound yew wood

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spliced bow. The arrow, weighing nearly four hundred fifty grains, was one from a dozen or so I had made several years ago. I had made a dozen new hunting arrows in Kore’s shop before the trip and had shot a number of them before drawing the light broadhead from my quiver. Odd as it may seem that a light arrow should have such effective power at a fairly long distance, I can truth­ fully say I had not intended to shoot my lighter shafts. However, I did not care to take the time to draw another arrow before I shot. My heavier broadheads weigh about six hundred fifty grains.

The buck was shot behind the right shoulder, the arrow penetrating the lungs. It touched a rib on the far side, was broken off as the buck plunged down hill, turned and came back out the same side which it had entered. There were two holes about four or five inches apart on the right side of the buck.

Kore set the custom late last winter of treating members of the Seattle Archers to a venison dinner. Two weeks after our successful hunt last fall thirty pounds of my venison went for the same good purpose. We are wondering who will be next.

A large osage growing in Dallas County, Texas, known to be 94 years old. Photo by R. R. Ransom, 1401 Five Mile Drive, Dallas, Texas. Who knoius of a bigger or older osage?

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Flint Bowman Indood Field Round

By Lulu Stalker, Flint, Michigan The Flint Bowmen are field shoot­ ers—99.44 per cent. With five per­ manent practice butts on our practice field, but one had a faintly discernible path worn through the grass. The paths on the adjoining twenty-eight target field course, however, did all right.

Winter came and we were forced inside. On club nights, target prac­ tice would get under way in a de­ sultory manner, but soon one after another deserted the line or began shooting at balloons or anything that could be tied on the end of a swing­ ing twine.

In an effort to add a measurable spirit of rivalry, Mr. Michelson came up with the skeleton of a competitive game that not only entertains but also furnishes excellent practice to­ ward next summer’s outdoor activity.

It took a little cutting and fitting under actual play but we finally evolved a mighty fine game; one in which the whole club eagerly par­ ticipate. In the hope that other clubs may derive a similar pleasure, we pass it on: On our thirty yard range, shooting lines are marked on the floor at 30, 25, 20, 15, and 10 yards, with another one at only 20 feet. These lines are plainly numbered at the ends as fol­ lows: “3” - “1” - “5” - “4” - “6” - “2”.

Across the backstop are placed a row of regulation field target faces, alternating the 12-inch and six-inch sizes, centered forty-eight inches from the floor. Below these is alternated a similar row with centers thirty inches from the floor; a six-inch target coming under a 12-inch in one instance and over in the next.

If many are shooting, it is a good idea to number them off, starting part of them out on the higher row and part on the lower. If a high target is shot on the first end, a low one should be shot on the second, etc.

Number One, being 25 yards, calls for a 12-inch target. At this four arrows are shot and scored conven­ tionally on regular field score cards.

Number Two, 20 feet, the shortest “rabbit” shot of the standard round,

is shot at a 6-inch face and at a change of height.

For Number Three, we drop way back to thirty yards, the longest out­ door shot at the 12-inch face.

End Number Four is from the 15 yard line, and while outdoors this merits a 12-inch face, for the sake of variety, we have used the 6-inch face indoors. (Won’t that make the 12-inch face look easy when we get out there in the spring!)

Number Five — 20 yards — is shot at a 12-inch face, even as in the field.

While a standard course has no single 10 yard target, one of the “rab­ bit” shots is made at 30 feet, so our Number Six is shot at 10 yards, at a 6-inch face.

Number Seven is of the “walk-up” variety, and calls for one arrow from each line; 30, 25, 20, and 15 yards.

The 12-inch face is used.

Fifty-six arrows are considered one round, just filling the regulation score card for a fourteen target course.

For the last seven targets, the height at which one shoots is auto­ matically reversed- thus, if his first end was shot at a high target, number eight—the same distance—will be shot at a low one, giVirig considerable variety to the shots. With a little imagination, one can visualize inter­ vening hills, valleys, and creeks to make the game more realistic.

Archers coming in after the round has started, begin wherever the line is shooting, and fill in the missing targets later.

Improvements to this plan may be worked out as you go along but, at any rate, it is a definite step toward providing competition for field shoot­ ers who do not seem to enjoy the ex­ acting precision required for the Olympic contests. We hope you like it.

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NFA A Championship Standings for 1941

By Karl E. Palmatier, Mail Tournament Secretary MEN—CLASS “A” Pour Highest Scores Average 1. Phil C. Conrad, Long Beach, Calif . 679 712 703 705 176-700 2. E. Hill Turnock, Wilkinsburg, Pa 735 670 698 660 173-691 3. Delmer F. Pletcher, Bakersfield, Calif 637 639 698 723 170-674 4. Merle Hathaway, Los Angeles, Calif 584 626 580 612 152-601 5. Willard Bacon, Fontana, Calif. .................. 553 619 600 583 149-589 6. Emery Watts, Los Angeles, Calif. .............. 605 528 577 531 148-560 7. Alfonso Gonzales, Bakersfield, Calif 564 540 581 555 142- 560 8. Kenneth L. Jones, Bakersfield, Calif 540 541 562 582 143- 556 9. Fred Gadberry, Bakersfield, Calif 575 538 571 486 142-543 10. Perzy High, Los Angeles, Calif 521 506 531 541 136-525 11. Robert C. King, Los Angeles, Calif 467 439 550 443 125-475 12. Jack Peters, Oakland, Calif 449 460 529 402 122-460 13. Ken Moore, Los Angeles, Calif 416 415 495 494 120-455 14. Irl Stamps, Seattle, Wash 435 437 513 410 117-449 15. S. Leo Sipe, Los Angeles, Calif 425 407 448 503 117-446 16. Jack Young, Oakland, Calif 381 463 443 493 115-445 17. Leo Cornell, Oakland, Calif ............ 427 482 484 362 114-439 18. Roy Hoff, Los Angeles, Calif 462 410 466 409 113-437 19. C. W. Seastrom, West Hollywood, Calif 415 496 414 398 111-431 20. William Otto, Los Angeles, Calif 417 354 473 454 111-425 21. E. J. Woodward, Redlands, Calif 400 413 399 475 109-422 22. M. E. Spansei, Berkeley, Calif 401 398 351 465 106- 404 23. Carl Seastrom, West Hollywood, Calif 380 398 389 425 107- 398 24. Jim F. Murphy, Bakersfield, Calif 381 374 412 410 106-394 25. Kore T. Duryee, Seattle, Wash 383 422 393 332 102-383 26. Leo Hoffmeyer, Flint, Mich 349 390 371 417 102-382 28. John Yount, Redlands, Calif 369 381 389 376 102-379 28. Irving Davis, Bryn Mawr, Calif 338 361 410 389 99-375 29. Earl Grubbs, Los Angeles, Calif 351 390 386 355 101-371 30. Bennett Gandy, Los Angeles, Calif 395 347 366 375 99-371 31. Elmer Bedwell, San Bernardino, Calif 341 336 357 394 96-357 32. John Willard, Hollywood, Calif 394 392 187 441 95-354 33. Russell Berry, San Diego, Calif 301 369 367 356 91-348 34. Joe Brooks, San Leandro, Calif 364 356 278 389 95-347 35. George Calvert, Flint,\ |Mich.

Mich.............................. 341 346 309 387 93-346 36. Harvey Franklin, San Bernardino, Calif. .. 292 278 360 421 91-338 37. Bernie Ahman, Bryn Mawr, Calif.

Calif................... .

369 365 264 331 88-332 38. William Horr, San Diego, Calif 346 321 305 226 82-300 39. Franklin Jones, Everett, Wash 316 336 237 363 77-288 40. Paul Ludwig, Los Angeles, Calif 243 228 340 284 74-274 MEN—CLASS “B” 1. William Smith, Flint, Mich .

84-306 300 313 282 329 2. Tracy Stalker, Flint, Mich....................

303 293 295 287 78-295 3. W. C. Woolnocgh, Trenton, Mich 301 225 293 305 77-281 4. L. J. Markham, Durand,Mich 242 283 289 244 73-265 5. Fred Brockhoff, Seattle, Wash 198 269 262 289 71-255 6. Bert Wallis, Seattle, Wash 164 231 264 284 63-236 7. Jimmy Ratcliff, Detroit, Mich 224 240 206 203 61-218 8. Angus Bruce, Redlands, Calif 56-208 226 224 197 184 9. Karl E. Palmatier, Kalamazoo, Mich.

59-205 227 199 179 216

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MEN—CLASS “C' 1. Joe P. Monroe, Redlands, Calif..............

2. W. B. Blackmore, Marysville, Wash.

3. W. Harmon, Langley, Wash....................

4. William Irvin, Seattle, Wash..................

166 146 150 105

148 153 192 139

186 175 157 107

250 201 55 105

56-188 47-169 39-139 35-125

WOMEN—CLASS “A" 1. Gene Bacon, Fontana, Calif.....................

2. Eva Bedwell, San Bernardino, Calif. ...

3. Ruth Hathaway, Los Angeles, Calif. ...

4. Mrs. C. J. Code, Crafton, Pa..................

5. Bessie M. Stephenson, Flint, Mich.......

6. Ruth Davis, Bryn Mawr, Calif..............

7. Lulu Stalker, Flint, Mich.........................

8. Mary Calvert, Flint, Mich.........................

9. Minerva Gandy, Los Angeles, Calif. ...

10. Bertha Hoffmeyer, Flint, Mich............ .

11. Frieda Hoff, Los Angeles, Calif............

12. June Franklin, San Bernardino, Calif.

13. Margaret King, Redlands, Calif. .........

14. Kay Ratcliff,, Highland Park, Mich. ...

15. Ina Woolnough, Trenton, Mich.

Mich.............. ..

16. Mercella Kuntz, Etna, Pa............... .........................

485 419 293 282 316 361 277 288 271 254 243 237 202 175 154 121

397 342 349 430 343 291 321 283 260 312 231 244 264 208 232 207

427 401 376 360 348 304 295 341 356 280 240 279 280 246 175 198

422 353 406 331 352 313 325 295 257 270 326 243 226 184 180 154

115-433 103-379 98-356 93-351 90-340 87-317 82- 305 83- 302 78-286 77-279 70-260 68-251 65-243 56-203 52-185 47-170

WOMEN—CLASS "B" 1. Phyllis Diehl, Flint, Mich...............

2. Blanche Wallis, Seattle, Wash. ...

168 115

168 124

184 124

190 58

49-178 27-105

High Scores—Total for Year Delmer Pletcher ............................ 5737 Kenneth Jones ................................ 4673 Alonzo Gonzales ............................ 4467 Phil Conrad ..................................... 4462 Fred Gadberry ................................ 4053 Eva Bedwell ..................................... 2484 Ruth Davis ....................................... 2247 Mail Tournament Financial Report for 1941 551 Target Fees ..................... $137.75 Medals (Money sent to John Yount) ........ $48.75 Ribbons (270 @ 14c) ........ 37.50 Postage ..................... 31.75 Envelopes & Paper .. 5.80 Stencils ....................... 4.89 Scorecards ................. 2.50 Record Cards .......... 1.00 Phone & Telegram .. .99 Total Expenses .................

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