SPORT OF ARCHERY.

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 21 (Supplement)

SPORT OF ARCHERY.

REVIVAL IN AMERICA. SPREAD THROUGHOUT STATES. Noting Americans in fashionable circles of Washington have gone back to mediaeval times for their latest sport, it is the smart thing to belong to archery club similar to the famous Toxophilite Society of England. So much interest has been aroused in the ancient pastime that golf and tennis have almost been relegated to a secondly place among fashionable sports. ♦k lr * s • are Pl a^’*n f> an important part in ,“ e revival of archery. The movement ? s rapidly spreading throughout Ameranc* plans are being made for interstate “shoots.” Targets are set up in gardens, and to Protect passers-by, as in the days of henry VIII., a police order forbids Practice at a shorter distance than one Tk Qj * ( rom a public road, the Washington archcry clubs comined recently to present a pageant, ne group appeared as the historic om P an y of Scottish Archers, ana *k^ r as ln °* Gaunt’s bowmen, and third wore the gay apparel of the ConJW armies of the 12th century, ana e pigs were roasted in the open Jia ser yed on a long table in mediaeval • ym, with “troubadours” entertaining ‘^guests. Or.e club on the banks of the Potomac '5 r ovvs the old Japanese style of * 4*7* anc * a clubhouse has been re sembling the archery halls of u . and Tokyo, where the archers, bamboo bows, have to shoot the 100 ; en ßth of a low-ceilinged corridor, long. Another club is known as "The chimf lCan Finsbury Archers,” whose m*. called the marshal, after the a t:*i 3 *h e Fraternity of Archers duh k rec °gnised by Charles 11. This rev * ve d the curious “goose” land *tl which originated in Scothead # ftc arc “hers had to aim at the toi»«° f ? Soose buried in the butt up moM' bn t now a small glass globe, j s rom Slc * e to slc * e by electricity, *h!?h y clu b, s use the famous long bow, wmeh * as drawn to thc ear _ an “ xpcn . Sea soned P « n^ ma r de of yew ’ Properly men .f an average length, for sft gj n * Ir *. Women use a bow of club, however, has which ». j short bow of Hastings, by Will" < * rawn to the chest, as used *h.o n *he Conqueror’s archers ‘ a routed the saxojp army.