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Annual Meeting, Western Division. 
The annual meeting of the Western Division 
of the American Canoe Association was held at 
the mid-summer camp on Cedar Island, Pistakee 
Lake, Illinois, July 5, 1913. Vice-Commodore 
Henry C. Morse was in the chair and H. L. 
Boynton was chosen to act as secretary pro tern. 
A. M. Callmann, chairman of the camp com¬ 
mittee, reported thirty-two members and three 
applicants for membership present, besides sev¬ 
eral visitors. This was the largest camp ever 
held in the Western Division. 
A quorum being present, the minutes of the 
mid-winter meeting of Feb. 15, 1913, were read 
and approved. Vice-Commodore Morse made a 
verbal report of the meeting of May 31, 1913. 
A verbal report was made by the committee 
appointed to formulate rules and conditions gov¬ 
erning our cups and races. In the absence of 
Chairman J. W. McConnell, a vote of thanks 
was extended to the committee having charge of 
the arrangements for the mid-summer camp. 
The nominating committee was made up as 
follows: Kenilworth C. C., A. W. Friese; Lin¬ 
coln Park B. C., A. M. Callmann; Rockford 
B. C., H. F. Norris; Chicago C. C., W. W. 
Hinkley; Dundee C. C.. F. C. Pundt; Peoria 
C C, H. C. Morse; at large, O. J. West. 
The nomination for the offices of the Divis¬ 
ion for the year 1914 follows: Vice-Commodore, 
Thos. C. Angell; Rear-Commodore, W. W. 
Hinkley; Purser, F. C. Pundt: Executive Com¬ 
mittee, O J. West and J. H. Ware. 
On motion of J. E. Dixon, seconded by 
B. F. Pfeiffer, the report was accepted and the 
secretary was instructed to cast a unanimous 
ballot for the above named men for their re¬ 
spective offices. The ballot was cast by the 
secretary pro tern and the above were declared 
the duly elected officers of the Western Division 
of the A. C. A. for the year 1914. 
F. B. Huntington presented and moved the 
adoption of the following resolutions: 
Resolved, That the Western Division of the 
American Canoe Association accept the respon¬ 
sibility of holding the general meet in its proper 
turn in the year of 1914, and that its choice for 
commodore be its present vice-commodore, 
Henry C. Morse; 
Resolved, also, That this decision as to the 
meet and its choice of Henry C. Morse for com¬ 
modore be transmitted to the board of governors 
and to the executive committee at their stated 
meeting at Sugar Island in August, 1913, by 
some Western Division member in attendance. 
Resolved, That the executive committee be 
requested to designate some point in the West¬ 
ern Division territory as the site of the 1914 
meet. 
Seconded by R. F. Rogers. 
W. W. Hinkley moved to amend by the 
elimination of the last paragraph. 
Seconded by J. K. Eland. 
The nomination of Henry C. Morse for com¬ 
modore was seconded by O. J. West, A. W. 
Friese and W. W. Hinkley. 
O. J. West was called to the chair and 
recognized H. L. Boynton and J. K. Hand, who 
also seconded the nomination of Morse. 
Henry C. Morse was given the floor and 
stated that it would be impossible for him to 
accept the responsibilities and attend to the duties 
of the commodoreship, and declined to have his 
name considered. He then resumed the chair 
and a general discussion of the commodoreship 
and the advisability of asking for the 1914 meet 
in the Western Division territory followed. 
Huntington withdrew his motion. 
Moved by O. J. West and seconded by W. E. 
Jordan to adopt paragraphs 1 and 2 of the above 
resolutions. A lengthy discussion followed and 
the motion was withdrawn. 
Moved by W. W. Blinkley to substitute the 
name of F. B. Huntington for that of Henry 
C. Morse in the first and second paragraphs of 
the resolutions and adopt the same. This motion 
was seconded by A. W. Friese and O. J. West. 
During the discussion of this motion it was 
moved by W. E. Jordan and seconded that the 
meeting be adjourned until 10 a. m. Sunday. 
Carried. H. L. Boynton, Sec’y Pro Tern. 
ADJOURNED MEETING, JULY 6, 1913. 
The meeting was called to order by Vice- 
Commodore Morse, If. L. Boynton acting as 
secretary pro tem. 
The motion of W. W. Hinkley to substitute 
the name of F. B. Huntington for that of Henry 
C. Morse in the resolutions to the board of gov¬ 
ernors and executive committee was before the 
meeting. It was carried. 
Moved by W. W. Hinkley and seconded by 
J. K. Hand that paragraph No. 3 of these reso¬ 
lutions be tabled. J. K. Hand, O. J. West and 
W. W. Hinkley spoke on this motion. Hand 
demanded a rising vote; result, ayes 8, noes 13. 
Motion lost. Moved by O. J. West to adopt 
paragraph No. 3 of the resolutions. Seconded 
by E. H. Tryon. Friese demanded a rising vote; 
result, ayes 13, noes 5. Carried. 
The matter of a Labor Day cruise was in¬ 
formally discussed and the merits of the fol¬ 
lowing waters presented: Illinois River from 
Joliet to Starved Rock, Iroquois River from 
Watseka to Kankakee, St. Joe River from South 
Bend, Ind., to St. Joe, Mich. 
Moved by O. J. West and seconded by EI. 
F. Norris that the selection of waters for the 
Labor Day cruise be left to a committee to be 
appointed by the vice-commodore with instruc¬ 
tions to give preference to some new territory. 
Carried. 
Meeting adjourned. 
H. L. Boynton, Sec’y Pro Tem. 
Forest and Stream is the official organ of the National Archery Association. 
The Genesis of a. Great Archer. 
BY WILL H. THOMPSON. 
When young Harry Richardson, then four¬ 
teen years of age, attended, as a competitor at 
the National Archery Tournament, held at 
Niagara Falls in 1903, the writer confidently and 
openly prophesied his early triumph and the 
attainment of the first place in American arch¬ 
ery. This prophesy was based upon the follow¬ 
ing grounds: 
First—The boy was very intelligent. 
Second—He loved the pastime. 
Third—Being modest, almost shy, he studied 
the action of successful archers, rather than to 
trouble them with questions. 
Fourth—He greatly preferred to practice at 
the 100-yard range, even when his scores seemed 
scarcely worth recording. 
How well the writer recalls the day, preced¬ 
ing that meeting at Niagara Falls in 1903, when 
a dozen or more attending archers went to the 
golf grounds for some pre-tournament practice, 
and the division of sentiment, which caused Col. 
Robert Williams, Wallace Bryant and the writer, 
with one or two others to go apart to seek a 
100-yard range, and the others to essay an 
American round, which they preferred to shoot, 
and of the shy, hesitating request of the young 
boy to be permitted to shoot with us. I said: 
“Of course, Harry, but we are going to shoot 
only at 100 yards.” His answer actually thrilled 
me. “That is why I wish to go with you.” My 
dear boy (he will always be a boy to me), it re¬ 
quired no gift of prescience for me to foretell 
the triumph that I witnessed seven years later 
when up into the breast of the Lake Michigan 
gale your arrows went, beating a victor tattoo 
on the distant target, and registering a record 
of public skill matched by only one man that 
ever lived. 
He was wise enough to early realize that 
years of short range shooting would never make 
or aid in making a longe range archer, but that 
the conquering of the longest range carried with 
it the mastery of the shorter ranges. Another 
thing he learned: That even great archers have 
faults of style, and shoot well despite these 
faults, and not because of them. 
Lately it has been my keen delight to watch 
the genesis of another great archer—great in 
the promise his rapid advance in scoring gives, 
but greater still in the earnest study he is giv¬ 
ing to the science of the noble pastime. Dr. 
J. W. Doughty really began the practice of 
archery last April. He had shot a little with 
my bow and arrows last fall, but not enough 
