The Washington times., 1937-09-06
MARYLAND GIRL
TRUMP HE'D IN
1885 AND 1896
BY CHICK KENNY

the WOmeQS' national Clld1lAplOAA,
Jean Tenney, of Clear Spring, Nd,
near Hagerstown.
The tourney is two-day affair
which got underway yesterday
morning and is concluded this
afternoon at a late hour.
But to tell you about Miss Jean
Tenney and her bow, and then
a little about the sport in general.
Miss Tenney is the defending
womens' champion of the Old Do
minion group, as we'll as the Mary
land State titliSt, and as we said
before, the national women's
champ.
ACTIVELY ENGAGED
She has been interested in
archery for about five years now,
and for the last four seasons has
been actively engaged in competi-
ton. It was no doubt due, she
says, because her daddy makes
archery equipment. And aside
from that she dabbled a great deal
in the sport as a student at st.
Mary's Academy at LeonardtoWn,
Md, and later as a coed at Will
liam and Mary College where she
graduated this past June.
1t was in 1885 that she captured
the Old Dominion Association
championship as well as the Mary
land State crown. She successfully
defended both championships in
1896. Yesterday she said she
wasn't doing so well.
Last July Miss Tenney COM
peted In the national champion
ships and won fairly easy. The
tourney was staged at Lancaster,
Pa.
Perhaps her outstanding
achievement aside from holding
the national title, is the high score
registered in a york round. This
work round is firing, or rather
"zinging" arrows at target from
100. 80 and so yards distance.
York rounds are only staged In
mems competition as the distance
is so great.
And now for a bit Of the early
history of archery.
USED FOR HUNTING
It is said that archery, or rather
the bow and arrow was first used
by the Aurignacian race, which
peopled the earth about 23,OOO
years ago, and about 1000 years
later that the Egyptians revived
the art of using it for hunting.
The Egyptians, one day, went
to war against the PerSians, and,
10 and behold, they used the bow
and arrow to score a quick and
overwhelming victory. DOW
through the ages from that time
on, the trusty bow and arrow be-
came the main weapon in wars.
The famous Hundreds Years
War" between England an d
France, started in 1910, was
largely fought with bows and ar
rows.
This means of butchery was dis
solved from warfare with the inVa-
sion of the Spanish armada in
1888 when firearms were intro
duced. The Chinese used the
bow in 1860 at Taku, and of course
the American Indian and the saw
age tribes of Africa and elsewhere
used the means of warfare, but as
this is on the sports page of The
Washington Times, we'll cut the
history, and return to sports.
FOSTERED IN ENGLAND
Archery sports tournaments
were fostered in England as early
as 1876 from where a century
later it was introduced to the
United States. The first club was
founded in Philadelphia and most
of the equipment was imported
from England. In 1879 the Ma
tional Archery Association was
founded and there has been an in
creasing popularity of the sport
throughout the country ever since.
Many girls schools as well as the
large universities for men have
teams in annual competition.
The york round for men con-
Sists of shooting 70 targets at 100
yard range, AZ at 80-yard range,
and "a at 60-yard range. The
American round for men calls for
80 shots at so yards, 80 shots at
SO yards and 80 shots at 40-yards.
The National for women calls
for 48 shots at so yards and "a at
so yards. The Columbia for
women allows "a shots at so
yards, "a at 40 and "a at 30.
FIVE CIRCLES
A target is four feet in size and
made up of five different colored
circles. Gold, the center, and then
receding from it in succession,
red, blue, black and white. The
archer scores 9 for gold, for red,
5 for blue. 3 for black, and l for
driving the arrow into the white
circle.
The bows are usually made of
lemon wood; and the arrows of
cedar, pine or yeW wood. The
bow is 51a to 6 feet in length. The
standard stretch, 26 to % inches.
Women put from 80 to IS pounds
in their pull" men from As
pounds up. Such pulls sometimes
sink the arrow about four inches
into soft target.
BALLSTON TEAM COPS
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