Mr. Perry

Mrse Dart

' Dr. Lapp

Mr Perry

Mrs. Dart

Doc, you know better than that - no bow weighs 50 pounds. The ‘tern mis0
pound bow" refers to the power necessary to draw the bow the full longth
of an arrowe Most girls shoot bows with 2 pull of from 25-32 pouncs,
while boys.can pull bows of 30-40 after they have become accustomed to
drawing. Recognized men's weight of bows is from 40-60 pounds. Mrs.
Dart, ‘just how do you justify archery in your program?

When we justify archery in our physical education program, the devolop-
ment of good standing posture with coordinetion of shoulder and arm muscle.
is always the first objective mentioned. Posture is one of tho main phasc:
of our program. Safety education is accomplished as archory can be a
rather dangerous sport. Therefore, a.great doal of stress is placod on
safety rulese

Cooperation among students in keeping scores and recovering arrows is
nocessarye I have found that students take better care of archery tackle
owned by tho school than any other athletic equipment, thus covering the
teaching of good citizenship. Archery has a great carry over value as it
is enjoyed by evory age groupe Dr. Lapp, we have been interested in flight
recordse “ould you give us a brief oxplanation of that phase of archery?

Shooting for distance is one of the events of archery. It is called flight
shooting. In flight shooting special light-woight arrows are shot from
bows with a very heavy pull. In fact, some of the bows pull so hard that
the shooter lics on his back and places his fect on the bow and pulls with
both hands. Bows with the heavier pull arc shot from this position. Only
last summer a new flight record of 615 yards was cstablishod at the nat~-
jonal tournament held in California. This, of course, was established
shooting from the back position. The record from the standing position
wes also broken at the same time; 486 yards is the modern record. Many
persons, after reading Robin Hood and svcing the moving picture of the
samo name, think the old English hunter and his long bow weve the pinnacle
of archery. The modern archer now shoots morc accurately and farther than
the Englishman of that periode

Yos, that is probably truco, yet the modern archer cannot match the records
of tho Turks of the 12th conturye History tolls us that in the records of
the Constantinople Club many shots were sbove 1200 paces; 100 paces wore
about 70 yards. The longest is credited to Toz-Kopsraw as 1281 paces, or
nearly 918 yards. The present flight record is only 615 yards, so you
can well appreciate how efficient the Turkish bows must have been, This
was probably due to tho peculiar structure of this Turkish bow, which was
made of horn, sinew and wood. It differs greatly in construction from
the wostern long bow, since it is short, usually not over three fect in
length, when drawn. The bow had a wood cantor, usually of marle or mul-
berry, and was covered with the sinows of cnimals fastened by glue pre-
pared by boiling skin from fish mouths or tendons of animals until it was
very sticky. The tips of the bow were from 3 to 6 inches long.

Mr. Perry, that is truc, but the bows the Turks mace in the 18th contury
wore oven finer than tho bows mace in the 12th century. Authentic records
exist which show that shots over onéhalf mile long wore made. In 1768

a man named Mohammed Effendi shot an arrow 976 yards from a standing
position, which is 58 yards farthor than the record in the 12th century.
Only last summer the modern record from the stand was established at 486
yards, which was only half as far 4s the Turkish record. After the Cru-
sades, the archers of Constantinople banded together and with the help

of Mohammed II established a club which existed for a long timo. The