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FOREST AND STREAM. 
Sixty Arrows, Sixty yards .—Beat wore, first prize, 
backed bow; C, G. Slack, Best score, second prize, 
snakewood bow ; L. E. Aiken. Best score, third prize, 
cigar case; L. L. Peddinghaus, Best score, fourth prize, 
regulation target; J. W. B. Sidors. Most bits, regulation 
target; L. F,. Aiken. Best end of three arrows, lemon- 
wood bow, W. A. Clark. Most Missess, “Guide to Cor¬ 
rect Shooting;” J. "Webb. 
For teams of Four Gentlemen, from any Society be¬ 
longing fo the State Archery Association, at the Amer¬ 
ican Hound. —Best gross score, first prize, box of two 
dozen prize arrows ; College Hill, Cincinnati, 1,297. 
Second gross score, second prize, regulation target and 
lawn rack; Arden, Marietta, 1,096. Third gross score, 
third prize, regulation target; Waveriy, Walnut Hill, 1,007, 
Fourth gross score, fourth prize, one dozen prize arrows ; 
Merry Bowmen, Eaton, O.. 1,015. Most team hits, Russia- 
bound club score-book and one target face : College Hill. 
Best team score at one end, portable target stand; College 
Hill, Most individual golds. Finger tips; Adam Gray. 
Most individual reds, “How to Train in Archery;” Adam 
Gray. Most individual blues, “Witchery of Archery;" 
J. W. B. Siders. Most individual blacks. '’ Tae Hussey's 
Score Book;” C. J. Strong. Most individual whites, “ How 
to Train in Archery; L. L. Peddinghaus. 
Gentlemen's Special Prizes for Gross Score. —Best gross 
score at the Double American Round; champion gold 
medal, one half dozen prize arrows and one split bamboo 
bow, fifty pounds, Adam Gray. Second best gross score, 
one dozen fine arrows ; L. I Peddinghaus. 
Awards Ladies Thirty Yards. —Best score, first prize, 
lance and hickory bow; Miss K. Miller, Westwood. Se¬ 
cond score, second prize, copy Tennyson’s poems ; Miss 
Florence Morrison, College Hill. Most hits, “Andrew’s 
Bazar, one year : Miss K. Miller, Westwood. First gold, 
11 Hussey's Individual Score-bookMiss Florence Morri¬ 
son, College Hi l l . 
Forty Yards. — Best score, first prize, grandmother’s 
spinning wheel ; Miss K. Miller, Westwood. Second score, 
second prize, backed bow : Miss F. Morrison, College 
Hill. Third score, third prize, mother of pearl fan; Miss 
Goodman, Ivanhoe. Most hits, copy “French Pictures;” 
Miss Morrison, College Hill. 
Ladies, Forty-eight Arrows, Fifty yards. — Best score, 
first prize, lace pm, archery design; Miss Morrison. Best 
score, second prize, backed bow ; Miss Miller. Best score, 
third prize, fan album ; Miss Goodman. Best score, 
fourth prize, bow ; Mrs. Hayward. Most hits, silk um¬ 
brella ; Miss Morrison. Best end of three arrows, arm 
guard, Jliss Stiller. 
Ladies', Handicap, Thirty Arrows Thirty Yards .— 
Best score, first prize, silver goblet; Miss Miller. Best 
score, second prize, album; Miss Carey. Best score, third 
prize, ladies' quiver and tassel ; Miss Kemper. Most hits, 
“ Scribner’s Monthly for one year; Miss Mil ler. Most 
golds, Japanese tray ; Miss Miller. Most reds, Miss Mor¬ 
rison. Most blues. Miss Penrose. Most blacks, Mrs. 
Myers. Most whites, Mrs. Baldwin. 
'Ladies' Special Prizes for Gross Score.-- Best gross 
score at Double Columbia Round, ladies’ champion medal, 
handsome gold design with diamond setting, and one fine 
backed bow and one-balf dozen arrows; Miss Florence 
Morrison. Second best gross score, archey lawn rack; 
Miss Kate Miller. Largest gross score not having won a 
prize, archers’ lawn rack, Mrs. Davis. 
Ladies special handicap second afternoon, 30 arrows, 
40 yards ; won by Miss Miller ; prize, handsome backed 
bow, presented by the association. 
Massachusetts Archers. — West Newton, Oct. Qth— 
Saturday afternoon an archery contest was held between 
the teams of the West Newton Archery Club and the 
Toxarch Archers of Newton, each team consisting of 
three ladies and three gentlemen. The distances were 
thirty yards for the ladies and forty yards for the gen¬ 
tlemen, and the number of arrows thirty each. 
The West Newtons scored 584 and the Toxarchs 492. 
The highest score—27 hits, value 185—was made by Miss 
Allen, of West Newton, G. A. M. 
Not so Bad as Stated.— New York, Oct. 9th— Editor 
Forest and Stream .—In your account of the meeting of 
the Eastern Archery Association, of Boston, published in 
last week’s number. I notice one error, which while the 
shooting at anv range was poor enough, places the unfor¬ 
tunate contestants in the 80 yard match in a rather hu¬ 
miliating position. Only 24 arrows were shot, and not 48 
as was stated. Five hits out of 24 arrows was in all co43 
science a poor enough score, but to miss the target in 
times in 48 shots would be a trifle too bad. Pilot. 
Manhattan Archers. — A number of 1 gentlemen met 
at the Metropolitan Hotel last Saturday and organized an 
archery club, to be known hereafter as “ The Manhattan 
Archers.” The officers chosen are: — President, J. G. 
Johnston ; Vice President, J. O, Innis ; Treasurer, S. E. 
French; Secretary, W. C. Beecher; an Executive Com¬ 
mittee, composed of J. O. Innis, J. O. Davidson, "W. C. 
Beecher, Robert Lawrence, and S. E. French. Special 
committees to draft a constitution and bylaws, select 
ground, and otherwise perfect the organization, were ap¬ 
pointed, and last Tuesday, at 3 p.m., at Mount Morris 
Park, the first shoot took place. 
New York Archery Club. — New York, Oct. llth — 
Editor Forest and Stream :—A number of ladies and gen¬ 
tlemen interested, met last evening at the residence of Dr. 
A B. DeLuna, 368 W. 82d Street, and organized a club 
to be known as the “New York Archery Club of New 
York City." After adopting a constitution, a permanent 
organization was formed with the following officers : Dr. 
A. B. DeLuna, President: Miss Ida Bailey, Vice Presi¬ 
dent : Jas. W. Auten, jr., Secretary; Geo. D. Pond, Treas¬ 
urer ; John W. Sutton, Captain: Mrs. Dr. DeLuna, Juan 
F. Perez, Miss E. T. Morton, Clarence Clayton, Directors. 
We have secured a shooting ground at 8th Avenue and 
87th Street, where the club will practioe Tuesdays, Thurs¬ 
days, and Saturdays, until cold weather. Our meetings 
will take place the last Saturday of each month, the next 
one occurring Saturday, October 25th, at the residence of 
Dr. A. B. DeLuna, where we hope to see those interested 
in archery. Propositions with name can be sent to any 
of the officers, and will he acted upon at our next meet- 
iuf, AVe trust when your readers see the report of our 
doings that we Bliall have them come forward and join 
the club, thus placing it upon a foundation that our citv 
will, in the future, be proud to recognise the “ New York 
Arsliery Club of Now York City.” J, W. A. Jr. 
A Htgh Score .—Or as if order idle, Lnd., Sept. 22 d —Mr. 
Will H. Thompson, of the Wabash Merry Bowmen, in a 
match shoot with several members of tlio chib, made the 
wonderful score of 1,028 at the Double York Round. This 
score has not been equalled in England since tho year 
1878, when Major Hawkins Fisher scored 1,083. Tbo 
details of Mr. Thompson's score are as follows; 
00 Yds. 80 Tils. 100 Yds. Total. 
HUs.Score. Bits. Score. ms.Scorc.ms.Snore. 
1st.24 arrows. 24 150 1st 48..37 100 1st 73..39 171 100 400 
3034 arrows . 31 140 36 48..35 170 24 72.-53 210 113 633 
Total ■ ■ 73 348 02 “111 818 1,028 
Chicago.—T eam shoot between three members of tho 
North Side Archery Club of Chicago and three members 
of tho Chieago Archery Association. American Bound ; 
Sept. 15th. 
XOHTn SIDE AHOHEHB. 
40 i'mvls. 90 Yards. 00 Tarda. Total. 
J. Willdson.28 108 21 79 18 70 07 323 
Conkb'n.23 111ft 24 104 14 0 4 01 277 
I). P. Wilkinson 17 79 15 05 8 33 40 183 
Total..168 782 
Chicago auchkiis. 
Laraeil... . 27 135 23 09 10 48 06 282 
Brewster.. 28 150 15 45 10 58 59 253 
Spalding. 34 100 20 80 18 80 82 240 
Total. .187 781 
An exceedingly close contest. 
Iowa —Das Moines, Sept, 14th .—First match in a series 
of three to be shot between tiie Crescents and Toxoph- 
ilites. This match was shot at tho Driving Park. Amer¬ 
ican Round ■ — 
CRESCENTS. 
40 Yard*. 50 Yards. 00 Yards. Total. 
Sherman.. 100 323 101 393 
Bnttollo. 108 123 99 389 
McCain. 138 95 58 281 
Eason. .124 83 28 235 
Total .1,398 
TOXGPHIUTES. 
Hussey.. . 194 144 100 438 
Henry. 113 112 100 331 
Etnlrtrfne. 101 138 90 398 
Fullerton . 81 54 71 200 
Total.... .1,373 
The Toxophilites winning by 75 points. 
ARCHERY MARKSMANSHIP. 
Though many a year has fled since I drew a bow, I 
still feel nearly as strong an interest in archery as in the 
early days when I roamed the woods and sent an arrow 
after every squirrel, robin, rabbit, cat-bird, and thrush 
that crossed my path. I loved the sport then as dearly 
as I ever have loved the dog and gun ; and though I long 
since laid aside the bow for something better adapted to 
cope with the slippery nature of modern game, I still retain 
almost unimpaired the fondness for it I oncehad. There¬ 
fore it is that I read with as much pleasure as I do any 
sporting article, the excellent articles on archery in the 
Forest and Stream, and none have pleased me more 
than the late one by Mr. W. H. Thompson on the “ Fa¬ 
bles of Archery.” 
Mr. Thompson has made a bold, almost audacious, at¬ 
tack upon a long cherished delusion, and many wise¬ 
acres and J“white-haired friends" will doubtless think 
him an envious ignoramus who wants to pull down to 
his own level those those to whom he cannot climb. 
So far as my experience goes, Mr. Thompson is exactly 
right. The hitting of pennies at thirty or forty yards with 
an arrow, stands upon exactly the same ground that the 
driving of nails and snuffing of caudles at 100 yards with 
a rifle does. But a few years have passed since that stuff 
was almost universally believed about tho rifle, and thou¬ 
sands believe it yet. Mr. Thompson has done well to at¬ 
tack this kindred nuisance so boldly, and should be sus¬ 
tained in bis efforts to tell us just what can and wbat 
cannot be done with the bow. No arrow can ever be 
made that could be driven so straight for forty yards as to 
hit a penny every time: any more than a rifle can be 
made that will snoot into the same hole every time at 
100 yardB. The Lndian-penny shooting, as described by 
Thompson, is just about what I have always seen : half 
the time the penny is knocked down by hitting the stick, 
and most of the time is missed entirely; and the shoot¬ 
ing is done at about ten paces instead of forty. 
I have, perhaps, never seen the best Indian shooting, 
but have seen some that was pretty good. Moreover, 
when a hoy, I shot a good bow, very different from the 
common boy’s bow, used turned arrows made perfectly 
straight, and put rifled feathers on them at as early an 
age as thirteen. Of course I never attained the skill 
of Mr. Thompson, or even of the average Indian, per¬ 
haps, but attained enough to know that with such bows 
and arrows as the Indians use, such shooting as is gener¬ 
ally attributed to them is utterly out of the question. 
The trouble that Air. Thompson and others will have 
to encounter, is that the vast majority of even intelli¬ 
gent people do not know what good shooting is, and thou¬ 
sands who think they do have not the most remoto idea 
of it. Last year Mr. Maurice Thompson broke with a bow 
and arrow, at the first trial, thirty-five out of fifty glass 
balls thrown up at ten paces. This was an infinitely bet¬ 
ter performance than those at which the world was then 
standing aghast with wonder ; for this was Mr. Thomp¬ 
son’s first trial, and it is very fine shooting to hit that 
many with an arrow a.t ten paces, even when at rest; 
whereas to hit them at rest at that distance with a rifle, 
requires absolutely no skill at all. Aloreover, Carver had 
already fired thousands upon thousands of shots at balls 
thrown up, where Air. Thompson had fired none. And 
yet this fine shooting passed almost unnoticed, and is 
probably now forgotten. Dr. Parker at Logansport killed 
with a rifle last year four woodpeckers out of six shots, at 
fifty yards, and all crossing shots; probably the best rifle 
shooting over done, or that ever can be done, and incom¬ 
parably superior to bis ball smashing at ten paces. Yet, 
though well attested, this performance elicited scarcely 
any notice whatever. 
The crowd wants to see the mark hit often. No matter 
how difficult it may be to do it, it is no shooting unless it is 
clone often. To shoot with a rifle twenty-five pigeons sprung 
from a trap at 100 yards, would be marvelously good 
shooting: especially if they were all cross fliers. Ancl 
yet I believe * crowd would hoot at it asjt swindle, and 
Hie next minute split the ai-oh of Heaven with cheers 
for some pancake who should make a clean score on 100 
at thx-ee feet. 
But it will he long before Air. Thompson can make the 
world believe him. So long and so often has nonsense 
about shooting been dinned into people’s ears, that the 
echo will ring there for many a year to come. That 
marvelous faculty, often seen in mankind, of manufac¬ 
turing observation and experience in support of some 
cherished whim will here play its part. The horsehair- 
snake. man will stick to it until tho crack of doom, that 
he has actually tried the experiment and made snakes 
out of horseliair. The man who tells vou of birds being 
killed on the telegraph wire “ by the shock," has always 
a knock down answer for you when you tell him the 
electricity could not possibly injure the bird, but that 
they are idlled by flying against the wires. He shuts you 
up in a flash, with the assertion that he has “seen them 
drop off the wires.” And so Mr. Thompson's ‘'white- 
haired friend” will stick to it for years to come that he 
has seen the wonderful Indian shooting in question, and 
will clinch the subject by tho assertion that ho “meas¬ 
ured the distance.” You can never make him back 
down, and his “ suppression ” is a good job to sublet. 
Few will agree with Air. Araurico Thompson about the 
relative merit of the bow and gun for hunting. Few 
havo ever been cloyed with’ the ease of clipping with a 
gun the whistling wing of the autumn woodcock, the 
buzzing pinion of Bob White plunging through the tan¬ 
gled brush, or the obstreperous wing of the booming 
grouse as he darts like an arrow through tho dark ranks 
of tree-trunks. And fewer still have been cloyed with 
the ease of tripping with a rifle ball the fleeting beauties 
of the forest, mountain and plain. 
But there is neverthless far more in Air. Thompson's 
views than most votaries of the gun would at first sup¬ 
pose. Where the bow can be used with any reasonable 
chance of hitting, as on hares, etc., and without danger 
of losing too many arrows, it will afford much more 
pleasure than the gun to that class of sportsmen whose 
pleasure lies not in a big bag, not in the tickling of the 
almighty palate, and not in mere murder, but in the 
skill required, the scenety and associations of the chase, 
etc. That class, too, is fast on the increase. I joined it 
years ago, and have no disposition, to leave it. On the 
contrary, tho changed taste grows upon me. Year after 
year I carp less for game and counts, and more for the 
way and manner of securing a little. A few ducks or 
geese shot with the rifle are far more satisfactory than a 
score bagged with the shot gun, and three or four hares 
killed on tho ran with a rifle afford more pleasure than a 
deer shots rending. Fawns and does now often go un¬ 
shot at, whtae a few years ago I could not have resisted 
tho temptation; and can contemplate with sublime con¬ 
tempt the whiz and buzz of straight-away flying quails, 
and find great pleasure in picking only the swiftest cross 
shots. And herein lies I believe the truest pleasure of 
hunting. 
For persons of such taste hunting with the bow is a 
solid reality, and not a poetical fraud. Here, in Cali¬ 
fornia especially, are opportunities for its use that are 
seldom found in the Northern and Eastern States. If I 
could shoot as well as either of the Thompsons I could 
kill hundreds of hares, quail (mountain quail especially), 
ducks, and even some geese, with the bow, and have lots 
of fun on many other things that I never shoot at with 
gun or rifle. I know no place so good for bow shooting 
on ducks as some of our sloughs and lagunas; high banks 
allowing close approach without much deep water or 
weeds to lose arrows in. Gladly would I change the gun 
for the how on some kinds of our shooting, if I could 
only use it as well as Air. Thompson does; though from 
the'nature of the case it can never be of much use on 
Eastern quail, woodcock, grouse, etc., which must be 
taken on the wing and can rarely be seen upon the 
ground. 
For target shooting the hold archery has taken upon 
American taste must be permanent. So long as people 
will love out-of-door amusements, shooting will hold the 
first rank; and of all short range shooting on anything 
else but game, bow shooting is the finest. But its vota¬ 
ries may as well learn Drat as last just what can and 
what cannot he done with it, and then there will be 
far less temptation to lay it aside from a feeling of 
disappointment. T. S. Van Dyke. 
Fall Brook, San Diego Co., Cal. 
The O’Leary Belt. —The competition for the O'Leary 
Belt began at Madison Square Garden in this city on Mon¬ 
day, Oct. 6th, with thirty-five contestants, and ended 
last Saturday night with only eleven men on the track. 
The following table exhibits the daily records of each of 
those who remained until the finish 
Murphy receives $5,000 as the first prize; Howard, 
$2,000; Faber, $1,000; and Briody, $500. Alahony re¬ 
ceives $200, and Allen, Walker, Russell and Curran re¬ 
ceive their entrance money for Bearing 450 miles. McKee 
gets the prize for neatness. A prize of a silk suit, pre¬ 
sented by Thomas Aliller, of Sixth avenue, and a pair of 
shoes from AlcSwynv, will also be awarded as fifth and 
sixth prizes. 
Capt. 'Williams deserves credit for the order preserved 
at tlie Garden during the week, notwithstanding tbo large 
disorderly element present day and night. 
—The first annual fall meeting of the Knickerbocker 
Athletic Club will be held on the Alanhattan Club 
Grounds, Eighth avenue and Fifty-sixth street, this city, 
Oct. 28th. 
— The Westchester Athletio Club games will beheld on 
their gi'ounds, Highland Street, Fort Chester, N, Y. Oct¬ 
ober 88th. 
