Word: bowmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running for last week's championship could have given any aboriginal American archer a handicap and beaten him. Indian procedure in bow & arrow hunting was to stalk a quarry until practically on top of it instead of depending on long distance marksmanship. When each of the 106 ablest bowmen in the U. S. had shot his 468 arrows, Russ Hoogerhyde was champion again, 2,865 to 2,599 for Ed Pikula of Cleveland...
Increasingly popular, big game hunting with bow & arrow has thrived in Oregon for years. Bowmen like the late "Art" Young used to go there for mountain lion, bear. Cassius Styles makes his famed bows, best in the U. S., of Oregon yew. Famed Oregon archers are: Homer Prouty, who has shot an arrow 466 yd. (a record) ; Dr. George Cathey, acting president of the National Broad Arrow Association, whose Oregon Chapter sponsored last week's bill. Dr. Cathey's greatest feat: killing two bears with broad arrows (hunting arrows with razor tips three inches long, one inch wide...
MACHEN (Arthur) The Bowmen...
...yards a hunting bow handled by someone who knows how is more deadly than a short-barreled revolver. Famed U. S. hunting bowmen: Captain Cassius Styles who every year kills mountain lions and cuts yew in Oregon; the late Dr. Saxton Pope who killed African lions, mountain lions, brown and grizzly bears; Arthur H. Young who one moonlit African night buried a shaft feather-deep in the heart of a 600 Ib. lion which died in 20 seconds...