April 5, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
439 
Whitman of Melrose. 
Chicago, Ill., March 29 .— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I received the following letter nearly 
ten years ago. I had then been out of archery 
for nineteen years and did not know that my 
college classmate was, or ever had been, inter¬ 
ested in the sport. When I learned of the fact 
I wrote him, and in reply to my queries he wrote 
as follows: Edward B. Weston. 
Melrose, Mass., Nov. 8 , 1903. 
Dear Friend: 
Yes, I have been interested in archery for many 
years; indeed, before you and the dear boys of our 
class knew me. There has not been a time since I was 
fifteen years old, that I could not have found a bow 
and arrows in my belongings. You need not suppose 
from this that I am, or have been, an expert archer. 
In fact, I can now score more at a target than at any 
time in the past; and now I am only a fair archer, and 
am only able not to disgrace myself among average 
archers. I went to the Maryland meeting last year, and 
found such delightful men that it has given archery an 
additional charm. 
Now, I have a fine rifle, and you know what a fine 
rifle will do. I also have a dog and gun. I use them 
fairly well. A good shot over my dog, that brings down 
a grou.se at fifty yards, is a pleasure that only a 
sportsman knows. But the flight of an arrow from a 
fifty-pound bow, that goes to its mark, 100 yards away, 
is a pleasure the average sportsman does not know. 
There is nothing else to compare with it. 
Ever yours, 
A. G. Whitman. 
This club is the result of the interest in 
archery which has been aroused by the example 
and Influence of Burton P. Gray, president of 
the National Archery Association, who lives in 
Newton Center, Massachusetts. 
Louis C. Smith. 
Newton Center, Mass., March 31 .— Editor 
Forest and Stream: The pleasant weather Sat¬ 
urday afternoon, March 29, lured on to the 
archery range at the Newton Center Playground 
some of the more enthusiastic members of “the 
Newton Archers,” an archery club recently 
formed at Newton Center, Mass. The afternoon 
was bright but rather crisp. The following 
scores were made: 
American round: 
c. 
T. 
Switzler. 
60yds. 
.... 22 118 
26 124 
50yds. 
29 147 
27 143 
40vds. 
29 169 
29 157 
Total. 
80 434 
82 424 
162 858 
s. 
\V. 
Wilder. 
....18 82 
22 84 
26 132 
25 116 
28 142 
.29 173 
72 356 
76 373 
148 729 
L. 
C. 
Smith. 
....16 60 
19 89 
29 161 
26 120 
28 170 
28 146 
73 391 
73 355 
146 746 
Louis C. Smith, 
Secretary The Newton Archers. 
A New Convert. 
The writer had the pleasure of shooting a 
York round on March 8 and a second York 
round on March 22 over a beautiful range at 
Steilacoom, Washington, with Dr. J. W. Doughty, 
a new convert to archery. The doctor first strung 
a bow late last season, and has made as rapid 
an advance in archery as any person I have ever 
known. 
His scores, though very fine, do not show 
him at his best, for only a few days before he 
scored with 72 arrows at 100 yards, 50-200, and 
again 47-197- 
His style is nearly perfection, and it requires 
no gift of prophecy to fortell his greater success. 
First York: 
J. W. Doughty.... 
Will H Thompson. 
Second York: 
J. W. Doughty_ 
Will H. Thompson 
33 145 
32 152 
21 
99 
86 396 
39 169 
38 166 
24 126 
101 461 
35 167 
34 148 
22 
90 
91 405 
47 197 
36 130 
23 127 
106 454 
After finishing the last York, we shot a 
score at 100 yards, and the writer was inglori- 
ously beaten by the doctor, who scored 161 to 
my 154. 
Who has a more apt pupil? 
The shooting was better than the score in¬ 
dicates, as the cold March wind, pouring across 
the range, numbed fingers, and whisked arrows, 
and thus protected the target from greater muti¬ 
lation. Will H. Thompson. 
Sir Thom as’ Challenge. 
PiUsburgh Archers. 
Pittsburgh, Pa., March 31 .— Editor Forest 
and Stream: At the shoot held Saturday after¬ 
noon, March 29, on the Bon Air range, the fol¬ 
lowing scores were made: 
American round, 90 arrows: 
60yds. 50yds. 40yds. Total. 
Jiles . 25 121 28 120 30 198 83 439 
Holmes . 25 127 28 156 28 196 81 479 
Fleming . 12 60 15 75 23 121 50 256 
Haines . 14 72 16 80 24 110 52 262 
Hertig . 29 159 30 176 30 194 89 529 
Hertig . 27 151 30 170 30 198 87 519 
On the Saturday previous Dr. Hertig made 
a perfect hit score in the American round of 
90-522; also a team round of 94-482, and in the 
same afternoon he shot a Keystone match round 
of 144 arrows at 60 yards, scoring 140—700; good 
shooting, but too much to be crowded into one 
afternoon. 
All prospects point to a fine year for the 
long bow. James S. Jiles. 
The Newton Archers. 
Boston, Mass., March 25 .-— Editor Forest 
and Stream: On March 19 the archers of New¬ 
ton, Mass., met and organized a new club to be 
known as “The Newton Archers.” The club 
starts off with a charter membership of fifteen, 
and as there are quite a number of persons 
living in Newton, Mass., who are interested in 
archery, it is expected that the membership will 
increase considerably. The officers of the club 
are as follows: President, S. W. Wilder; Vice- 
President, C. T. Switzler; Secretary and Treas¬ 
urer, L. C. Smith; Target Committee, Mrs. B. P. 
Gray, C. T. Switzler, Joseph Bishop. 
This new club is favored in having the use 
of the excellent archery range on the Newton 
Center Playground, and it is planned to hold 
club shoots every Saturday afternoon as soon as 
the weather permits. 
The refusal of the challenge committee of 
the New York Y. C. to reconsider its action in 
declining to accept Sir Thomas Lipton’s chal¬ 
lenge for a series of races for the America cup 
was upheld by a unanimous vote at a special 
meeting of the club. 
Fewer than fifty members attended, as it 
was taken for granted by a majority that the 
challenge committee took the only proper action 
under the circumstances. 
All that appears to remain for Sir Thomas 
to do now, if he wants a race, is to issue an 
unrestricted challenge. The fault the New York 
Y. C. found with his most recent defi was that 
he, as challenger, appeared to go beyond the 
wording of the deed of gift by demanding that 
the defending craft be not more than 75 feet in 
length on the waterline. 
Boats Change Hands. 
The Hollis Burgess yacht agency has sold 
the 6o-foot motorboat Karl, owned by the estate 
of Charles Dennison, of Boston, to Miles L. 
Carter, of Attleboro, Mass. Karl is a very hand¬ 
some cruising motorboat built last year for the 
late T. W. King, of Boston, and is equipped 
with a 40 horsepower motor. Also the 44-foot 
motor boat Princess, owned by Henry W. Harris, 
of Chestnut Hill, Mass., to Samuel M. Holman, 
of Attleboro, Mass.; the 38-foot motorboat La 
Reine, owned by Herbert M. Plimpton, of Nor¬ 
wood, Mass., to Commodore Charles A. Blazo, 
of the Winthrop Y. C., and the 30-foot motor- 
boat Bob, owned by Arthur T. Stohlbdm, of 
Boston, to Edwin A. Sayward, of Brookline, 
Mass. 
Caini®©mg 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW members proposed. 
Atlantic Division.—Frank E. Esibill, 79 Bank 
street, Bridgeton, N. J., by Robert E. Fithian. 
Western Division.—John Stewart Elliott, 
Beatrice, Neb., by F. B. Huntington; Mark L. 
Powers, P. O. Box 1078, Beatrice, Neb., by 
F. B. Huntington. 
NEW members elected. 
Atlantic Division.—6632, Stanley J. Cypher, 
13 Eastern avenue, Ossining, N. Y. 
Western Division.^—6633, Arthur Santmier, 
Hecla, IManitoba, Can.; 6634, Arthur L. Gourley, 
Highland Park, Ill. 
There'dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, 
And a wealthy wife is she; 
She breeds a breed o’ rovin’ men 
And casts them over sea. 
And some are drowned in deep water, 
And some in sight o’ shore. 
And word goes back to the weary wife. 
And ever she sends more. 
—Kipling. t 
