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FOREST AND STREAM 
How Can Archery Be Popularized? 
Archery is undoubtedly the oldest sport in ex¬ 
istence. For centuries it was practiced by the 
youth and manhood of our civilized and semi- 
civilized nations, because it was a necessary train¬ 
ing for the profession of arms. With the in¬ 
troduction of gun powder, archery began to de¬ 
cline. The incentive was missing. 
After all these thousands of years the sport 
is still in existence and practiced ardently by a 
select few, who have learned to love it and to 
prefer its difficulties to those of our more 
favorite games. 
Archery as a sport will never compete with 
baseball or football, as it lacks those crucial 
moments that appeal to the crowd. It will also 
never be popular as golf and similar fashionable 
games, because of the many difficulties that must 
be overcome before a contestant can become 
even a fair archer. From the very nature of the 
sport it will always be handicapped -and practiced 
only by those who have the hardihood and 
patience to practice for years before efficiency 
can be attained. 
Another handicap is the difficulty in obtaining 
the proper archery tackle, especially the neces¬ 
sary bows and arrows. Our leading sporting 
goods dealers handle a very inferior and some¬ 
what shop-worn series of impediments. The 
only way to obtain suitable tackle is directly 
from the manufacturer. There are but two of 
these, whose supplies are of satisfactory grade— 
one in America and one in England—and it 
takes from one to two months to obtain what 
is desired. Furthermore these manufacturers 
■do not advertise in our leading sportsman’s 
journals. A possible convert is thus apt to 
lose his desire to try the noble sport of archery 
because he can not discover the source of supply, 
or is not willing to wait some months, if through 
some fortunate accident he learns where it can 
be secured. 
Serious as these handicaps are there is still 
another of even greater psychological impor¬ 
tance—the lack of the proper incentive to repay 
for months of earnest practice. Our golf clubs 
have learned the need and wisdom of many lo¬ 
cal, semi-local and more extended tournaments, 
to give their members an incentive for prac¬ 
tice and key them up to their best endeavor. 
Few objects are attained in this world without 
the proper incentive. Sport for sport’s sake is 
a dead issue, always was and will remain so 
until the millenium. Archery needs for in¬ 
centive a greater chance for competition. 
To be sure we have our annual national 
tournament where the best archers of the coun¬ 
try compete. This meet holds but little hopes 
for victory to anybody but a select few. The 
rest attend for social reasons, because they 
Enow that a good time with pleasant associa¬ 
tions will result. These meets are held in dif¬ 
ferent cities and all too frequently the necessary 
expense is prohibitive. Interesting and profit¬ 
able as this meet has always proven to be, it 
offers few inducements to the archer who has 
not yet gained a fair amount of efficiency—and 
he it is who constitutes the great majority of 
our guild. 
Tournaments in Archery Centers Like Boston. 
What then is the proper solution to this ques¬ 
tion of furnishing the necessary incentive to our 
archers? The answer is an extended series of 
local tournaments in archery centers like Bos¬ 
ton, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and San 
Francisco, about the first of June, to stir up the 
proper interest for the national tournament 
during August, and another about the middle of 
October to continue this interest to the end of 
the season. 
Several objections might be urged against this 
plan, especially against the local June tourna¬ 
ment. Some archers would probably maintain 
that it would interfere with the attendance of 
the national tournament. Our experience has 
always been that the national tournament act¬ 
ed as a great incentive and caused continuous 
enthusiasm for the following two months of the 
archery season. In a similar way the June 
tournament would react on the national. It 
would get our archers out early in the season, 
give them the psychological training in self con¬ 
trol that is so necessary in a large meet and 
above all would give the archer not yet pro¬ 
ficient a chance to compete in his own locality 
with some chance of success. A little task of 
victory would lead to an attempt in wider fields. 
Another objection might be the cost of these 
local tournaments. Being local, the traveling 
and hotel expenses would be eliminated. Every 
club has its grounds and sufficient targets, so 
that the only expense would be in prizes. These 
cou'ld be printed ribbons—red, blue and white— 
for the first three places in of the two events 
in which the ladies and gentlemen compete. 
A third possible objection might be the ques¬ 
tion of time. These local tournaments could be 
held on Friday and Saturday afternoon—the 
ladies selecting either the National or the Colum¬ 
bia round and the gentlemen the American or 
the York, shooting one round each afternoon. As 
every archer must necessarily have his Satur¬ 
day afternoon free, this would mean the sacri¬ 
fice of but one afternoon from our necessary 
pursuit of earning a living. 
These local tournaments would not only act 
as an incentive to the beginner, but also to the 
tried and veteran archer. The consequent news¬ 
paper publicity would bring the sport before the 
public eye. 
Archery in practically the only sport in which 
we Americans do not hold the world’s records. 
There is that wonderful York round record of 
Ford’s of 2,35-1,251 that we never have been able 
to attain in tournament, and only barely 
approached on but two occasions. 'Why not 
give the American archers a fair chance at 
breaking this record in tournament work? 
Among the archers that have been developed 
during the last few years there are several 
who have surpassed this record in their daily 
practice. There are several who might turn the 
trick if given a fair opportunity. One meet a 
year, handicapped by the intense heat and strong 
winds that have marred our recent national 
tournaments, combined with insufficient practice 
under tournament conditions does not give our 
American archer a fair chance. Why not give 
ourselves a fair deal? 
The English archers have learned the wisdom 
of having many local tournaments. Let us 
follow suit. Archery can easily be made a more 
popular sport, but the correct methods for add¬ 
ing the proper incentive must be considered. 
Let each club adopt a June and an October 
tournament and give the game the chance it so 
much merits. 
The greatest handicap to archery is after all 
our apathy and lack of scientific study of the 
needs of the sport. 
- “TOX.” 
1913 THANKSGIVING ARCHERY SCORES. 
In sending for publication such Thanksgiving 
archery scores, as I had, for years previous to 
1914, I omitted those made in 1913. 
I cannot account for this oversight. Dr. Her- 
tig, of Pittsburgh, was kind enough to call my 
attention to it, and to send me the accompany¬ 
ing list of archers, and their scores. Please 
consider this an important addition to those 
printed in your issue of December 26, 1914. 
Dr. O. L. Hertig, Pittsburgh. 
H. W. Bishop, Chicago. 
J. S. Jiles, Pittsburgh. 
Dr. R. P. Elmer, Wayne. 
W. J. Holmes, Pittsburgh. 
H. S. Taylor, Chicago. 
S. W. Wilder, Newton. 
G. L. Nichols, Chicago. 
L. C. Smith, -Newton. 
C. T. Switzler, Newton. 
Ellis Spear, Jr., Newton. 
Dr. S. M. Stauffer, Pittsburgh. 
T. H. Pendry, Chicago.... 
Dr. E. B. Weston, Chicago. 
R. McNeil, Jersey City. 
F. T. Peckham, Newton. 
Mr. Pettit, Bloomfield. 
Jas. Duff, Jersey City. 
G. Milne, Jersey City. 
F. N. Clay, Bloomfield, N. J. 
Mrs. John Dunlap, Wayne. 
A. C. Hale, Wayne. 
Mr. Powell, Wayne. 
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