May io, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
599 
The Newton Archers. 
Newton Center, iNIass., May 3 .—Editor 
Forest and Stream: Saturday, May 3, was an 
ideal day for archery, and fourteen of The New¬ 
ton Archers took advantage of the fine weather 
and appeared on the archery range with their 
tackle in the afternoon. 
The men shot the American round first, and 
then started in to shoot the team round, but 
most of them found the two rounds rather too 
much for one afternoon at the beginning of the 
season, and so did not finish the team round. 
The ladies shot a Columbia and a national and 
the juniors shot the junior team round (ninety- 
six arrows at 30 yards). The following scores 
were turned in: 
American round: 
60yds. 
50yds. 
40yds. 
Total. 
C. T. Switzler .... 
.. 29 
147 
30 158 
30 
202 
89 
507 
B. P. Grav . 
.. 27 
117 
27 155 
28 
158 
82 
430 
S. W. Wilder . 
.. 25 
113 
28 144 
30 
154 
83 
411 
C. E. Dallin ..... 
,. 21 
97 
26 115 
29 
153 
76 
365 
E. C. Smith . 
.. 20 
90 
23 111 
29 
157 
72 
358 
E. L. Ovington ... 
.. 17 
78 
22 102 
28 
148 
67 
328 
Team round: 
C. T. Switzler 22 102 
20 
96 
22 134 
22 
114 
86 
446 
VV. Wilder 19 
8.3 
21 
99 
20 88 
21 
101 
81 
369 
L. C. Smith.. 17 
63 
20 
92 
IS 76 
19 
59 
79 
290 
Columbia round: 
Mrs. L. C Smith. 
50yds. 
40yds. 
30yds. 
Total. 
.. 16 
78 
23 119 
24 
152 
63 
349 
IMrs. B. P. Gray. 
.. 17 
85 
21 91 
24 
131 
62 
310 
Miss R. Brewer... 
.. 5 
23 
6 32 
10 
46 
21 
101 
National round 
60yds. 
50vds. 
Total. 
;\Jrs. E. C. Smith 
33 125 
18 
88 
51 
213 
M rs. B P. Gray... 
. 32 150 
13 
51 
45 
201 
Juvenile team 
round: 
N Cabot . 
. 53 
186 
P. Wilder .. 
. 39 
145 
Ellis Spear Joseph Bishop and Charles W. 
Bond shot, but did not turn in any scores. 
There are two of the above American round 
scores that are worthy of note. 
E. L. Ovington (who by the way is the 
noted aviator) secured his tackle late last fall 
and used it only once before the winter set in. 
His first shooting this spring was on April 19, 
so that he has really had only about three weeks’ 
practice with the long bow, and yet he made a 
score Saturday in the American round of 67 
hits 328 score, with only two misses and a total 
of 148 at the 40-yard range. The writer ventures 
the opinion that very few novices have done bet¬ 
ter than this after only three weeks’ practice. 
C. T. Switzler took up archery in the latter 
part of last summer and is, therefore, a novice 
of less than six months’ experience. He has 
already shot several American rounds over 550, 
and on Saturday he lost only one arrow, making 
a total of 89 hits out of a possible 90. 
Louis C. Smith, 
Secretary The Newton Archers. 
Archery Meetings Abroad. 
Chicago, Ill., April 30. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The following information is taken 
from the Archer’s Register for 1912-1913: 
Dates of the prominent archery meetings to 
be held in Great Britain and France, in 1913. 
The Sixtieth Leamington and Midland Coun¬ 
ties Grand Archery Meeting will take place June 
II and 12. at Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa. 
The Fifth Le Touquet (France) Archery 
Meeting will be held June 18, 19 and 20. 
The Fifty-first Grand Western Archery So¬ 
ciety Meeting will be held Juh' 16, 17 and 18 at 
Salisbury. 
The Grand National Archery Society will 
hold its seventieth annual meeting July 30 and 
31 and .A.ug. i, at Edgbaston. 
The Northern Counties Archery Society will 
hold its thirty-fourth meeting at Derby on Aug. 
27, 28 and 29. 
The eleventh annual meeting of the South¬ 
ern Counties will be held at Weybridge, on Sept. 
16, 17 and 18. 
The Scorton Arrow Meeting, established 239 
years ago, will be held at Clitheroe, Sept. 9. 
The Nineteenth Annual Hereford Round 
Meeting will be held at Herefordshire County 
Cricket Ground, Oct. i, 2 and 3. 
The Hereford Round is not shot in the 
United States. It is a woman’s round, made up 
of 72 arrows at 80 yards, 48 arrows at 60 yards 
and 24 arrows at 50 yards. 
In the interesting preface to the Archer’s 
Register, the double York round score of 223 
hits, 1067 score, made by H. P. Nesham at the 
Southern meeting, is given as the highest made 
in forty-five years. 
The scores made at our last national meet¬ 
ing, which are reported in full in the Register, 
show that George Philips Bryant made 230 hits, 
1094 score; the highest score save one, made at 
a national meeting in this country or in England 
since Ford made his record score in 1857. In 
1910, Henry B. Richardson, of Boston, made 231 
hits, IIII score. Edward B. Weston. 
Effect of Varying Light. 
BY G. L. NICHOLS. 
As I usually use a light bow and a high 
draw, my point of aim is on or quite near the 
target at all distances in the American round. 
I find I can judge distances better and conse¬ 
quently do my best shooting when the day is 
cloudy. In bright days the reflection from the 
gold center of the target was a great annoyance 
and a strain on the eyes. The Chicago archers 
have removed this source of trouble by using a 
dull yellow for the center instead of gold. There 
is also likely to be a confusing reflection from 
the polished steel pile when the sun is at cer¬ 
tain angles. I have tried blackening the piles 
and find it a very distinct help. So far I have 
not been able to hit on a method to blacken the 
pile that would leave it smooth, and yet not be 
worn off in a short time by the friction when 
shot through the target (or into the green). 
One of our writers has noted the fact that 
greater elevation is required later in the day 
than was necessary at an earlier hour in the 
afternoon. He ascribes this to the poorer qual¬ 
ity of light. I think that if he started at 9 a. m. 
and shot 200 arrows, he would notice that more 
elevation would be necessary at noon than when 
he started. Of course, in that case the failing 
light could not be the cause. And again, if 
he unstrung his bow and gave it and himself 
two or three hours’ rest, on returning to the 
range he would find his point of aim right back 
where it was in the early part of the day. 
I know that difference in light does not 
affect the elevation of my point of sight, though 
it does affect the general accuracy of my shoot¬ 
ing. 
All the bows I have ever used will get tired 
after two or three hours’ shooting and lose some 
of the sharpness of cast. In addition, there is 
a probability of the bow string stretching a 
little. 
The archer is also likely to have become 
somewhat weary and not pull his shaft quite so 
far out. The difference may be only a small 
fraction of an inch, but all things work toward 
the same result. And yet again, tired fingers 
will not give the sharp, smooth loose that was 
easy at the beginning of the shooting. 
Consequently, it is my opinion that with the 
strength of light constant, or even increasing, 
more elevation would be necessary at the end 
of a couple of rounds than at the start. 
Cattle Ranges in the East. 
“At one time the New England States 
furnished nearly all the meat and most of the 
wool used in the United States, but New Eng¬ 
land now gets five-sixths of its meat from other 
States and its wool manufacturers have to de¬ 
pend on other States and foreign countries to 
provide their raw material,” said E. L. Pearson 
in the Washington Post. 
“I have been over the ranges of Wyoming 
and Montana and I say they cannot compare 
with the unused ranges of Vermont and New 
Hampshire. It is rather amusing to hear it 
said that range cattle or sheep cannot be sus¬ 
tained on the grass that is grown there, and 
that the snow is too deep. 
“For over a hundred years sheep and cattle 
survived and that country would to-day be pro¬ 
ducing great quantities of wool and an im¬ 
mense amount of beef if it were in the hands of 
Western men, who would see that the right 
kind of grass was grown. In five years the 
great ranges of those States could with proper 
attention greatly reduce the price of meat and 
wool. Some day—and it will not be far distant 
—Virginia and other Eastern States will tear 
down fences of abandoned farms and convert 
them into cattle ranges.” 
Revival of Archery 
Archery outfits are now in demand—lovers of the 
sport and “Country Clubs’’ are taking it up. 
Outfits supplied from $5.00 upwards. 
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