FOREST AND STREAM 
251 
The winning of the handicap medals is purely 
a matter of chance. When it comes right down 
to brass tacks there is no more sense in giving 
an archer a medal for the greatest improvement 
in his second round than there would be in im¬ 
posing a fine for shooting like a miserable dub, 
far below his ability, in the first round, save 
that the handicap medal would add an incentive 
to better work and prevent an archer from giving 
up hope. 
We now have a definite promise of two pages 
in our revised Forest and Stream, provided we 
are able to furnish the necessary literature. Let 
us therefore thresh out these matters in print 
with the hope that some definite and beneficial 
conclusions and subsequent action will result. 
“TOX.” 
ARCHERY IN WARFARE. 
We think of the bow and arrow as medieval 
weapons of war abandoned by the nations of 
Europe four or five centuries ago; the bowmen 
of Crecy are the last of any prominence in Eng¬ 
lish history. Yet it is only one hundred years 
since soldiers fought with the bow and arrow 
in European wars, and that too, on the fields of 
southern Belgium where the present war began. 
It was in 1813 when all Europe was armed 
against Napoleon. Every one of the allied na¬ 
tions brought every possible resource of men 
and means to further this end. Among them 
was Russia. To the war she sent soldiers from 
the newly conquered tribes that dwelt upon the 
steppes of Asia; Bokharans and Turkomans and 
Tartars and other half savage peoples. Many of 
these regiments were armed with bows and 
arrows. 
Jomini, the military historian, speaks of a 
great number of these who fought side by side 
with the Prussians in eastern Germany and in 
Belgium, and he says that these bowmen held 
their own against the French infantry. Their 
aim he says, was surprisingly good, and they 
could shoot an arrow with effect almost as far 
as a musket ball was effective—but in those days 
that was not much more than a hundred yards. 
To-day we are reading of a mild revival of 
archery in connection with the present war, iso¬ 
lated cases, it is true, but archery just the same, 
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