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FOREST AND STREAM 
Oct. 18, 1913. 
The Bloomfield Archers 
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 6.— Editor Forest and 
Si ream: The following scores were made dur¬ 
ing the week: 
York round: 
Hertig . 
120-544 
Holmes . 
.... 117-535 
American round 
Holmes . 
' 89-539 
Postgate . 
. 76-346 
Hertig . 
87-527 
Collingwood ... 
. 62-276 
Jiles . 
82-446 
Staulfer . 
. 71-267 
Dr Haines . 
. 84-424 
Corby . 
. 49-179 
W Douthitt . 
. 82-420 
Burkel . 
. 47-181 
Team round: 
Ilertig . 
. 91-553 
l’ostgate . 
. 73-319 
Jiles . 
. 75-387 
Burkel . 
. 41-171 
In answer to the request of Messrs. Gray 
and Smith, of Boston, regarding York rounds, 
I submit the following scores made Saturday 
afternoon, Oct. 4. Mr. Jiles was unable to 
shoot: 
100yds. 80yds. 60yds. Total. 
W. T. Holmes. 53-253 42-196 24-144 119-599 
O. L. Hertig. 55-24.3 44-204 25-149 122-596 
These scores have also been sent to Dr. 
Elmer to be entered in the weekly York round 
contests of the Eastern Archery League. The 
following eighteen : 997777775555553300 = 16 —96. 
O. L. Hertig. 
Second N. A. A. Nail Natch. 
The advisability of holding this series of 
matches has been demonstrated by the interest 
our archers have taken in it. Some of the 
scores are splendid and would have won nearly 
any of our national tournaments. To-day we 
have the pleasure of printing what is probably 
a world s record for a ten-year-old girl. 
Dorothy Smith’s score of 60-294 is better than 
either of the two scores by which, added to¬ 
gether, her mother won the Columbia cham¬ 
pionship this year. 
American round: 
E. J. Rendtorff. 
.. 28-188 
30-176 
30-210 
88-574 
Dr Elmer . 
28-176 
30-214 
88-540 
G. E. Nichols. 
.. 29-141 
30-180 
30-200 
89-521 
H W Bishop. 
.. 27-141 
30-164 
30-162 
87-467 
Dr. Weston . 
.. 26-122 
23-105 
28-170 
77-397 
Tames Duff . 
.. 20-102 
20- 96 
27-149 
67-347 
A. Pettit . 
.. 22-108 
23-115 
27-131 
72-354 
F. U. t lay. 
.. 19- 63 
27-131 
29-147 
75-341 
( 1 . Milne . 
.. 17-95 
17- 79 
25-125 
59- 9 99 
T T Hare. 
.. 16- 74 
20- 92 
26-130 
62-296 
T M Cleland. 
.. 10- 42 
18- 70 
26-108 
54-220 
W McChven . 
.. 11- 57 
11- 37 
23-105 
45-199 
R. Me Neil . 
.. 10- 32 
10- 36 
24-118 
44-186 
J McRae . 
.. 8-26 
13- 55 
19- 95 
40-176 
Average, 68-351. 
York round: 
Dr. Hertig . 
.. 55-243 
44-204 
23-149 
122-596 
W. J. Holmes. 
.. 53-253 
42-196 
24-144 
119-593 
G. W. Nichols. 
.. 41-173 
33-163 
22-110 
96-446 
Dr. Elmer . 
.. 45-169 
31-133 
23-123 
99-425 
F. N. Clay. 
27-101 
22- 94 
83-349 
A. Pettit . 
.. 9-27 
12- 46 
11- 33 
32-106 
Average, 92-419. 
National round: 
Mrs. B. P. Gray. .. 
, 46-240 
22-120 
68-360 
Mrs. John Dunlap, Tr... 
. 29-101 
11- 54 
40-155 
Mrs. R. P. Elmer. 
. 11- 49 
8- 36 
19- 85 
Columbia round: 
Dorothv D. Smith. 
.. 14- 46 
23-117 
23-131 
60-294 
Mrs. Dunlap . 
10- 40 
24-134 
46-210 
Mrs. Elmer . 
.. 6-26 
19- 65 
20- S6 
45-177 
Mrs. Emerson . 
.. 4-16 
9- 25 
6- 22 
19- 63 
Miss M M Watson. 
.. 4-20 
0- 0 
4- 22 
8- 42 
Mrs. A. H. Elliott. 
..1-3 
4- 16 
1- 5 
6- 24 
Miss L. L. Love. 
..0-0 
2- 10 
0 - 0 
2- 10 
Mrs. Gray now ranks as one of the best 
women archers in the world. Her score, given 
above, if considered as half of a double national 
round, would have won every national tourna¬ 
ment except that of 1895. 
Dr. Hertig writes, that after making his 
York of 122-596, he immediately shot another 
with the score of 124-578, or 246-1174. This is 
superb. It passes the United States tourna¬ 
ment record by 63 points, and has never 
been equalled in an English public meeting, 
except when Ford made his world’s record of 
1251 in 1857. 
Archers will be interested in the ends made 
by Mrs. Gray and Dorothy Smith, which are 
as follows: 
60 yards. 
Gray . 6-36 6-30 6-32 6-24 5-27 6-34 5-23 6-34 46-240 
50 yards. 
Gray . 5-23 6-40 6-32 5-25 22-120 
40yards. 
Smith . 6-34 6-32 6-30 5-21 23-117 
30 yards. 
Smith . 6-40 5-25 6-34 6-32 23-131 
Heavy rains at Boston prevented most of 
the archers in that vicinity from participating. 
Robert P. Elmer, M. D. 
Archery in Asia. 
Chicago, Ill., Oct. io.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: A few friends of Albert Rankin Clark, 
who was the champion archer of the United 
States in 1900, and who is the son of W. A. 
Clark, of Wyoming, Ohio, who also has held 
the championship, have had the pleasure of read¬ 
ing a very interesting description of “Hunting 
Big Game in South India.” It is hardly neces¬ 
sary to say that bows and arrows were not the 
weapons used. 
Mr. Clark speaks of a conversation he re¬ 
cently had with the Rev. Dr. Gamewell, who for 
thirty years has been a missionary in China: 
“I was interested to learn from Dr. G. that 
archery still finds uses even in these modern 
days,” he says. “The Manchu besiegers at the 
time of the Boxer trouble set fire to one of the 
Legation gates by shooting into it arrows carry¬ 
ing burning tow. I am told that up to twenty- 
five years ago by the police of Peking were armed 
with bows and arrows. They used very power¬ 
ful bows and were great archers.” 
Edward B. Weston. 
A General Electric engineer is said to have 
discovered invisible light waves that will explode 
dynamite five to ten miles away. Instrument of 
production is in possession of the United States 
Government and is being rigidly tested. Appa¬ 
ratus is so simple that it may be carried around 
in a man’s pocket. 
The United States Bureau of Entomology 
estimates that this year's crops in Wisconsin, 
Illinois and Iowa suffered loss of $7,000,000 from 
attacks of common white grubs, while loss to 
corn, timothy and potatoes in country north of 
the Ohio from Atlantic ocean to South Dakota 
was $5,000,000. 
The forests of Norway are mostly in private 
or municipal ownership, the nation owning 28.5 
per cent, of the total forest area. The national 
forests of the United States occupy only about 
20 per cent, of the total forest area of the 
country. 
Drumming of the Canada Grouse. 
Bethel, Me., Sept. 20 .— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I notice in one of your recent issues 
reference made to the drumming of grouse, and 
especially the Canada grouse, or spruce par¬ 
tridge, and I am very glad of the chance to 
offer my mite to the natural history department 
of your valuable paper. I take great pleasure 
in reading this department, and find many valu¬ 
able zoological facts described by your many 
interesting correspondents. 
I have followed the occupation of hunting 
for twenty-five years in the northern part of 
Maine, and am pretty familiar with the habits 
of birds and animals of these regions. The 
spruce partridge is quite plentiful in the swamps 
and lowlands of these northern countries, and 
is a very pretty bird when in full plumage, 
especially in the months of March and April, 
when they can easily be approached, being very 
nearly as tame as our domestic fowl. They are 
easily captured by a slip noose on the end of 
a long pole, which can be slipped over the head 
and quickly drawn up. 1 have made a business 
of capturing and keeping them alive through all 
seasons of the year, and have sold them in pairs 
to go to all parts of the country. The cock is 
very finely marked with black ground and pure 
white spots with red lines over the eyes. They 
are about half the size of the ruffed grouse. I 
have frequently seen them drum, if drumming 
it can be called. They fly up into a tree some 
ten or fifteen feet, and by beating their sides 
by short, quick nervous action of the wing in 
their ascent, produce a loud sound. They re¬ 
main but a short time in the tree, when they 
almost noiselessly descend, and very soon re¬ 
peat the same operation. This they often do 
when they have one or even two or three hens 
with them. They feed on the tender boughs 
of spruce and fir in winter, and in summer on 
berries and various herbage. I. G. R. 
The Whooping Crane. 
Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 25. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: I am this morning in receipt of a 
postal card dated Dawson. N. D., Sept. 23. It 
is from Mr. Spencer Aldrich, of 29 Broadway. 
New York city, in which he says in relation to 
my communication in Forest and Stream of 
Nov. 11, 1912, wherein I speak of the whooping 
cranes being extinct. Mr. Aldrich says: "I saw 
a ’large flock of at least fifty of these grand 
birds at Lake Etta last Friday.” This is indeed 
good news. I do not think in all my shooting 
trips in the West that I ever saw as many’ as 
fifty whooping cranes together, but twenty-five 
years ago I did used to see the sandhill cranes 
in gatherings of hundreds. 
I have lain and watched them go through 
their grotesque dance,' and they would gather 
from all directions just at sunrise on some knoll, 
which was their usual ballroom, and they would 
go through this dance performance much to 
their own enjoyment and mine; then suddenly 
and silently they would take their departure in 
different directions. W. B. Mershon. 
Commissioners of Indian affairs says an 
initial expenditure of $400,000 has been made 
for cattle to be grazed and bred for market on 
Crow Indian reservation, Montana. Similar pur¬ 
chases will be made for other reservations. 
