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it dip and thicken up in places? If it dips, does 
the same increased thickness show upon both 
sides of the stick? Now we must reduee this 
sap, so that we will leave a layer to of 
an inch in thickness along the back of our bow, 
and in doing so we must follow the grain of the 
wood as nearly as possible. .Of course, any 
slight wave or depression we can ignore, and 
make our back practically level and flat; but if 
we encounter a pronounced bend or depression 
ill the grain of the wood, we must follow it. In 
other words, a bow that has the grain of the 
wood “running out” or cut across on the back, 
will not last. The cheap lance and lemonwood 
bows are finished with the back perfectly 
smooth, while there will be found in the hands 
of expert archers yew bows costing as much as 
a hundred dollars, in which the back is far from 
straight, owing to the grain of the wood being 
followed in their making. However, the sides 
or edges of these are perfectly straight, as all 
bows must be, and when strung up and you 
look along the string toward the belly of the 
bow, the string is seen to divide the bow equally. 
If the instructions above have been followed, 
you have a billet of wood that is straight with 
parallel sides i]4 inches apart and with a layer 
of sap along its entire length of about 3 ‘i 6 of 
an inch thick, and the stick more or less round¬ 
ing, depending upon the size of the original 
sapling. If this convexity is too pronounced, 
the back may be reduced along its center, so as 
to make it almost flat—that is, flat across the 
grain. Now measure your stick and find its 
center and mark it. From the center measure a 
point 114 inches and mark that, and mark a 
point three inches below the center. Draw lines 
straight across the back through these last two 
points. With a chalk line pulled very taut, mark 
the center of the back from end to end, or 
rather from where you intend to have your 
nocks or notches for the string. At both ends 
of the stick make a mark 5-16 of an inch 
from either side of the chalk mark if you are 
using a heavy dense wood, and 1-16 of an inch 
more if you are using a lighter and more bulky 
wood. From these marks draw with a straight 
edge a line to the ends of the cross lines that 
you have made near the center of the stick, and 
which mark the handle. These lines are to 
guide you in reducing the sides of the stick, 
which you will proceed to do with the drawing 
knife and finish with the plane, leaving the sides 
at right angles with the plane of the back. 
Now turn your stick on its side and mark a 
point Ys or Y of an inch from the back at either 
end of the stick, and another point Il4 inches 
from the back at either end of the handle and 
connect these points with a line and reduce the 
belly as you did the sides. You may not be 
able to work your stick out in this square, 
tapered form, on account of having selected too 
small a sapling for the purpose, so that in 
place of having the advantage of lines actually 
drawn for }'Our guidance on the sides you will 
have to approximate the lines with your eye. 
The main thing, however, are the lines on the 
back. You now have a stick that is Y 'Kt <^f 
an inch square at the ends and iF) inches square 
at either end of the proposed handle. 'I'he 
handle—so far untouched—should be rounded on 
the inside, care being taken from now on that 
the back remains untouched. The handle should 
be noticeably larger than the finished limbs of 
the bow. When the bow is fully drawn it should 
not bend, even the slightest, in the handle, for 
this reason we are compelled to leave more 
wood at this point. 
The measurements we have been working 
to will in all probability produce a bow much 
stronger than we desire, especially if we have 
used hard wood, but we do this in order to leave 
enough wood in the handle—an important point. 
The handle should be no wider than the widest 
part of the limbs, but it should be, if possible, 
at least Ft ’*ich deeper through from back to 
belly. A bow that bends in the hands is use¬ 
less for any purpose, excepting to produce 
blisters and headaches. The squared and 
tapered stick should now be held in the vise 
{Continued on page 642.) 
Beechview Bon Air Match. 
Pittsburgh, Pa., J\Iay 8. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The scores of the Beechview Bon Air 
archers for Saturday, May 3, are as follows: 
American round: 
W. J. Holmes. 84 495 ,S. M. Staufler.51 187 
O. L. Ilertig _ 83 4-’3 J. S. Ji es. 71 393 
Team round, 96 arrows, 60yds.: 
M’. J. Holmes . 95 517 S. II. Stauffer. 47 171 
Mr. Holmes’ shooting is remarkable. He no 
doubt would have made a perfect hit score, had 
it not been for the breaking of his bow string 
near the middle of the round, which necessitated 
the use of a strange string. The Keystone team 
is to be congratulated on having such a good 
man as Mr. Holmes to help make up the firing 
line at Boston. 
Thanks to a couple of substantial accident 
policies and prompt medical treatment, the 
writer, who suffered a severe injury to his left 
hand from a broken arrow, was able to negotiate 
a single American round just two weeks after 
the accident happened. 
Aside from a little' “gun shyness” and a 
feeling of unsteadiness in the left arm, the round 
was shot in comfort tempered with a feeling of 
thankfulness for so prompt a recovery. 
O. L. Hertig. 
Tournament Notice. 
Will each archer, who may by any possi- 
bilit}' attend the national tournament at Boston 
this August, at once drop a postal to the secre¬ 
tary, expressing his or her preference whether 
the meeting shall be the 12th to the 15th or 
the 19th to the 226. of August? The committee 
is holding its decision awaiting the answers. 
George Phillips Bryant, 
Secretary-Treasurer. 
750 Tremont Building, Boston, IMass. 
Hussey, of Des Moines. 
Chic.-\go, Ill., May 8.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: At the first tournament, held in Chi- 
'cago in 1879, the Des Moines, Iowa, team was 
made up of Tac. Hussey, Geo. F. Flenry, Charles 
A. Finkbine and Robert Fullerton. 
And wonderful to relate, all are still living, ’ 
and the first two named are still faithful archers. 
IMr. Hussey is remembered by all the older 
archers with great respect and affection. 
The following score made by him on IMay 
3, and reported by Mrs. Helen Y'ebb Turner, 
one of the good lady archers of Des Moines, is 
wonderful archery, when it is rememliered that 
he has reached the grand age of eighty-two 
years. 
The score is reported by ends, so that it 
may be seen how steady the shooting was: 
GOyds. 
50yds. 
40yds. 
6 30 
6 34 
6 34 
5 31 
6 26 
6 40 
6 32 
6 40 
6 44 
6 26 
6 38 
6 38 
6 28 
6 36 
6 40 
29 147 
30 164 
30 196=S 
an archer. 
half the 
age of ‘ 
would be proud to make such a score. And 
many archers of years of experience never have 
made so high a score. 
This shooting might be used as an argu¬ 
ment to show that archery was conducive to 
longevity. 
E. J. Rendtorff has been a month out of 
the hospital, where he was confined with a severe 
case of pleuro-pneumonia. He is ready to be¬ 
lieve that had it not been for archery, he would 
not now be where he is, and again making good 
scores. 
The following good archery practice scores 
have recently been made by members of the 
Chicago Archery Club: 
Double York round: 
100yds. 
80yds. 
60yds. 
Total. 
Homer S. Taylor... 
.. 50 218 
33 133 
23 121 
106 472 
52 208 
45 239 
24 112 
121 559 
102 426 
78 372 
47 233 
227 1031 
American round 
60yds. 
50yds. 
40yds. 
Total. 
Geo. L. Nichols.... 
.. 29 169 
30 184 
30 218 
89 571 
Team round, 96 
arrows at 60yds.: 
ieiiiii ruuiiu, VO rtiiuws at ouyus.; 
E. J. Rendtorff. 93 541 
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