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FOREST AND STREAM 
April 26, 1913 
Forest and Stream is the official organ of the National Archery Association. 
Olympic Games Archery. 
Chicago, Ill., April 14. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Plans have been made for the biggest 
athletic event in the history of the United States. 
The American Olympic games will be held in 
Chicago next June 28 to July 6, inclusive. 
Partial list of officers of the American Olym¬ 
pic Games Association are: Honorary President, 
Harold F. IMcCormick; President, Lawrence 
Heyworth; Vice-Presidents, Everett C. Brown, 
A. A. Stagg and others; Director-General, 
Everett C. Brown (Mr. Brown had charge of 
the United States contingent at Stockholm last 
year); Treasurer, Frederick H. Rawson; Secre¬ 
tary, Charles E. Bartley. 
Archery will have a place on the program. 
The number of days given to it, and the pro¬ 
gram to be shot, have not yet been selected, but 
will be announced in due time. 
The Olympic Games Archery Committee are: 
Dr. Edward B. Weston, Chairman, 511 Peoples 
Gas Building; Homer S. Taylor, care of Frank¬ 
lin MaeVeagh & Co.; Dr. Carver Williams, Audi¬ 
torium Building; James H. Pendry, care of 
Western Union Telegraph Co.; Homer W. 
Bishop, Insurance Exchange Building; Herman 
L. Walker, Fine Arts Building; Percival S. 
Fletcher, Chicago Stock Exchange Building. 
Will you probably attend the meeting? If 
it is impossible, urge others to come. 
Please let me know how many archers in 
your vicinity will probably attend? 
A meeting at the time mentioned will not 
interfere with the National Dleeting in Boston 
under any circumstances. 
Those who plan to go to Boston will go 
anyway, and should they come here first, it will 
be good practice for the meet to come later. 
Please write me at your earliest convenience, 
•so that we may know how many contestants to 
expect. 
Time is short, and we must begin prepara¬ 
tions at once. 
We need the help and good will of all in 
this work for archery. Edward B. Weson. 
The Duff Arrow. 
The Duff arrow is a replica in sterling silver 
of a 25-inch lady’s target arrow. It was pre¬ 
sented to the National Archery Association by 
James Duff, to be awarded each year to the 
novice making the best score in the American 
round at the national tournament. The first 
competition for it took place in 1910, when it 
was won by G. L. Nichols. In 1911 it was won 
by Dr. Elmer, and in 1912 by Ellis Spear, Jr. 
In those years the interpretation of the word 
“novice” presented no difficulties, as all of the 
men who were shooting for the first time in 
the national meeting had had no chance to shoot 
in any other. This year and henceforward it 
may be different, and a more exact definition of 
eligibility to compete for the arrow seems de¬ 
sirable. The Olympic championships at Chicago 
and the Eastern championships at Wayne are 
certainly tournaments, and archers competing in 
them can scarcely be called novices afterward. 
Yet it is probable that the men who by dint of 
hard work during the past year have fitted them¬ 
selves to try with credit for this novice’s trophy 
will shoot at either of these two places. Inas¬ 
much as Mr. Duff gave the arrow and set the 
terms for its awar.d, let us call on him for an 
opinion as how best to provide for these changed 
conditions. 
Targets. 
BY ROBERT P. ELMER. 
While shooting in my first tournament at 
Chicago in 1911, I was surprised on one occasion 
to see three arows hit my target simultaneously. 
This of course was due to the fact that the 
archers on either side of me had at the same 
time mistaken my target for theirs and had fired 
at it with correct aim, but with loss of score. 
Last year at Boston a similar mistake was made 
more than once, though by only one person at 
a time. Indeed, it is a surprisingly easy mistake 
to make. The English have sought to eliminate 
this source of annoyance by having painted on 
each alternate target a round black spot at 12 
o'clock white. This, however, creates a slight 
element of unfairness because in looking at a 
spotted target one can mentally project a line 
through the spot and the gold and thus assist 
himself to find his point of aim. In my opinion 
an easy, and impartial way to overcome the diffi¬ 
culty is to make the outmost line bounding the 
white of a different color on each target and 
wide enough to be easily seen. The Wayne 
archers have had targets rimmed with red, blue, 
yellow, green or black and no confusion has ever 
arisen in their use. 
With the others who have spoken on the 
subject in Forest and Stream I heartily prefer 
canvas facings to those of any other material. 
Most people use oilcloth. This is easily torn, 
and in bright sunlight will often appear as a 
reflector of dazzling brilliancy on which the 
rings are wholly indistinguishable. Linoleum is 
used by a few, and is open to the same objec¬ 
tions as oilcloth if the shiny side is used. If 
the rough back is painted in dull finish colors, 
it makes an excellent face. The superiority of 
canvas lies in its total lack of luster and in its 
very great durability. Rebounds practically never 
occur from linoleum nor canvas, but from soft 
oilcloth are fairly frequent. For my personal 
service I use the heaviest sail canvas of two 
pieces sewed down the middle. For tournament 
or club work this grade of material is unneces¬ 
sarily expensive, and may be replaced by light 
canvas fifty-two inches wide. 
One of our archers who is an artist of 
international reputation painted a target face in 
such a way that the eye would naturally focus 
on the center and not be attracted by the bright 
colors around it. The gold was brilliant, and 
the other rings of pale neutral tones’that really 
were clearly defined for accuracy of scoring, but 
at a distance seemed to merge into one shade. 
Several archers shot at it, but so far as could 
be seen the effect on their scores was not appre¬ 
ciable. 
When a new target is received the usual 
custom is to pass a, loop of stout cord through 
one or two turns of the whipping and thereby 
to hang the target up. This is bad practice be¬ 
cause in time after some of the strings have 
been cut by arrows, the target will sag, becom¬ 
ing slightly elliptical and allowing the straw to 
separate between the bundles sufficiently to let 
a swift arrow pass through. The best way is 
to sew a piece of rope around the edge of the 
target back for about three-quarters of the cir¬ 
cumference and tie the ends together at a point 
behind the upper black. In this way the weight 
of the target is supported at the bottom, and if 
there be any sagging, it tends to greater com¬ 
pactness. 
It is difficult to put a target on the stand 
by one’s self. This can be facilitated by the use 
of a rope and small pulley, care being taken that 
the pulley does not show above the target where 
a shaft might break against it. 
Pittsburgh Scores. 
Pittsburgh. Pa., April 15. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: About the time the novice in 
archery begins to think himself ‘‘some pump¬ 
kins,” and to have visions of making scores of 
“Bryantorendtorfic” proportions, watch him. He 
is due for a slump. Saturday was ideal for 
archery and had anyone suggested to Mr. Jiles 
or the writer that either of them would score 
lower than 86-460 in the American round or 
under 400 in the York, that individual would 
have had to cover money. 
Mr. Holmes and Mr. Wolf have not reached 
the big-head stage, although the former has been 
doing some very consistent work, as his score, 
which put him in first place in the American 
round, will testify: 
York round, 72 arrows at 100yds., 48 at SOyds. and 
24 at GOyds.; 
lOOYds. SOYds. GOYds. 
Tas. S. Tiles .16 GO 23 99 21 89 GO 242 
O. L. Hertig . 43 161 32 118 20 92 95 371 
After the loo yards the writer had fond 
hopes of making a 500 score, but the slump 
microbe was at work in his system, resulting 
in a poor score at 80 yards and a still poorer one 
at 60 yards. 
American round, 90 arrows: 
W. J. Holmes...... 85 471 H. A. Wolf. 52 188 
O. L. Hertig . 84 412 H. Amidick . 51 161 
J. S. Jiles. 77 377 
A friendly and observing spectator, who had 
often visited our range, commented on the com¬ 
paratively poor showing all of us, Holmes ex¬ 
cepted, were making, and was told to come to 
