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RECREATION 



successfully defend, especially as an accompani- 

 ment of an amateur spirit. Baseball, tennis, la- 

 crosse, golf and other games will interest many, 

 and are to be commended. 



But there is a pastime which* will interest the 

 student, as well as the trained athlete. We refer 

 to archery. It has a history more ancient than any 

 other sport. It is only a few hundred years since 

 the use of the long bow became a means of athletic 

 recreation and not a powerful weapon of war and 

 the chase. 



In this sport, the muscular, well-trained athlete 

 will find all his wants, as to strength and skill, met. 

 He may use a 6o-pound bow, and during an after- 

 noon's shoot //// 60 pounds with each of his 100 

 to 200 arrows shot, and walk from four to five miles. 

 And to hit the centre of the target requires much 

 practice and patience. The physically weaker 

 man, or woman, will use a weaker bow, and derive 

 equally as much pleasure and benefit from the 

 sport. 



As a rule, the college man wants a game that is 

 exciting, not only to the participant but to the 

 spectator; consequently the majority of students 

 take no part in physical exercise, except what the 

 rules may require them to take in the gymnasium. 

 This is drudgery. To this class, archery will 

 Appeal. The physical benefits is undeniable. All 

 his muscles are used and he is straightened up and 

 his lungs expanded; and as he becomes fairly pro- 

 ficient as a marksman he soon believes that archery 

 is the only recreation and exercise, and he becomes 

 thoroughly devoted to it. 



To show what our leading teachers of physical 

 culture think of archery, I am permitted to make 

 extracts from personal letters from a few of them. 



Dr. D. A. Sargent, professor of physical culture 

 in Harvard University, writes as follows: "I shall 

 be very glad to have you use my name in recom- 

 mendation of the fine physical and mental effects 

 of archery. Is there not some one in Boston, a 

 member of your association, who could give us 

 some instruction in the art?" 



Prof. A. A. Stagg, of the University of Chicago, 

 was present during most of the shooting at the 

 meeting of the National Archery Association held 

 in Chicago last August. He says: " I think it grand 

 good sport, and worthy of every encouragement. 

 Some day I hope we shall have an archery club 

 among the tudents." 



Robert D. ("Bob") Wrenn, the Harvard foot- 

 ball and baseball player of a few years ago, and 

 four times tennis champion of the United States, 

 closes a letter as follows: "Wishing you every 

 success in your endeavors to put archery well to 

 the front, where it belongs, believe me, "etc. 



can scarce fail to attract notice. But what really 

 rivets attention is the face, with its expression of 

 immutable purpose and unflinching courage. 



We, to whom the traditions of a brave and honest 

 ancestry are of account, can find inspiring food for 

 contemplation here, though we should like to see 

 the good yew bow and feathered shaft take the 

 sword's place. 



To archers, however, the face there pictured can 

 hardly fail to suggest the spirit which is the soul of 

 their enchanting sport. And it is this: that in an 

 age of commercial interests and grand stand 

 effectiveness this has remained singularly free from 

 everything spectacular and cheap, devoting itself 

 to what is clean and honorable, and to a develop- 

 ment of pure skill and nerve, which cannot be 

 matched in any other sport known to man, unless 

 it be the hunting of big game. And the result is 

 that among archers there exists a common interest, 

 and a love of each other, and each other's attain- 

 ments, which is sadly wanting in other fields of 

 athletic endeavor. While rivalry is keen, yet the 

 writer has not known of an instance of any un- 

 sportsmanlike feeling in an experience quite ex- 

 tended. 



Not that we wish to proclaim a higher grade 

 of manhood in archers by nature, but it would 

 seem that the sport in itself has inherited much of 

 the essence of the best chivalry which governed 

 the lives of men when the archer was the mainstay 

 of old England's military glory, and such a man as 

 Robert, Earl of Huntington, erstwhile Robin 

 Hood, was the chosen companion of his King, 

 Richard, Cceur de Lion, not only because he was a 

 magnificent bowman, but because he was a true 

 man among men. 



Archery at Coronado Beach 



Every lover of archery in the United States will 

 be under the greatest obligation to Mr. Morgan 

 Ross, manager of Hotel del Coronado, Coronado 

 Beach, California, for his great help in reviving 

 archery in America. He has encouraged in every 

 way the lovers of archery to make it one of the 

 pastimes of this more than ideal place of true 

 pleasure and rest. He has persuaded Mr. F. S. 

 Barnes, of Forest Grove, Oregon, to be there for a 

 time, with a fine line of archery goods, form, and, 

 if need be, train a club. As the guests are from all 

 parts of the United States nothing could do more 

 for the cause of archery, which is surely growing in 

 favor. 



The Spirit of Archery 



BY DE. WILLIAM C. WILLIAMS, PRES. C. A. 



In the main hall of the Chicago Art Institute 

 stands a statue inscribed "Our Ancestor." The 

 great two-edged sword, being tried by powerful 

 hands, and the mighty muscles of the whole body, 



The strength of muscle, the grace and the 

 steadiness of nerve soon acquired by those who 

 use the bow especially commend it to the ladies 

 as their most valuable means of recreation, and the 

 vim and vivacity which a few weeks of daily prac- 

 tise will produce will fully compensate for the time 

 and energy spent in learning to shoot. 



What could be more delightful and invigorating 

 to the weary business man, after his day's labor 

 in the city heat, than a long summer evening spent 

 in friendly strife on the archery range ? 



