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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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November, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 401 much pleasure can be obtained by using less expensive out- fits. Bows and arrows can be purchased at a very reason- able figure, or they can be made at home if one is clever. Bamboo can be utilized in this case. The target may be made of twisted straw, covered with thin canvas or even paper, on which a bull's eye is painted. Archery tournaments may be held in one's own yard, but one thing the invited guests or onlookers must remember is to get out of range of erratic marksmanship. This sport to prove beneficial, like all other exercises, must be kept up, and practiced regularly to obtain good re- sults. There is no tonic in the world like out-of-door life, and this combined with healthful exercise, soon shows in rosy cheeks and fine physique. This sport in the United States has not in the past been nearly so popular as it should have been, considering the ad- vantages which have been attained from it, and it has not been carried to the same degree of perfection as in Eng- land. In 1879 tne National Archery Association of the United States was formed, and holds contests annually, the same regulations being employed as those used by the Eng- lish National Association. The targets are fixed exactly opposite each other at sixty yards, or more, when a longer distance is to be covered. The proper number of arrows called for by the regula- tions are shot from each end (row of targets on their stands) by all the party assembled. When this has been done all pick up or extract their arrows, the marker scoring for each before they are drawn from the target. After this has been done, the arrows are shot back to the other end, and so on until the whole number of ends have been shot. The word end is also used to signify the number of shots fired consecutively from one spot. For instance, if a shooter lets go three arrows, one following the other, it is called an end. In the English field regulations, which could be followed if one wished to enjoy an amateur tournament, the rules are—shooting to be in the order in which the names are entered on the target list, any one not ready when called being obliged to shoot last. No one is allowed to shoot out of his turn. No arrow to be withdrawn from the target until it has been scored by the captain, or it will lose its value. No talking is allowed at the ends while the shooting is going on, and only those shooting are allowed in front of the target. All arrows must be clearly marked in different colors, the colors chosen by each person being entered on the books. The interest shown among the people of England is no doubt increased by its historic associations, and by the fa- mous victories which have been won by their ancestors, but as a sport pure and simple, combining exercise which is ben- eficial for young and old alike, it should be taken up by the people of America, and made as popular as tennis, golf, swimming and others too numerous to mention. In the cultivation of archery in its various fields; that of battle, outlawry, chase, games and sport as practised on the sanguinary plain, in Sherwood Forest, in the hunter's pre- serve, at Olympic Games, or in lawn tournaments, the range of its phases even as we have given it, is hardly com- plete, for one realizes that in the refinements of the art as incidentally pictured in our illustrations and in the play of garden parties where the sturdy archer and the fair archer- ess enter into the glory and the pleasure of sterling compe- tition, they enjoy a recreation, which is that of "Pastime."
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Archery affords a delightful twentieth century pastime in contrast to its employment in Robin Hood days

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