ARCHERY POPULAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 196, 21 August 1939, Page 9

ARCHERY POPULAR.

SPORT IN THE STATES. MJCKLANDER'S IMPRESSIONS. Most Auckland youngster* have played bows and arrows in the backyard with crudely fashioned weapons, but in the United States archery is a great sport with a huge following. That impression has been brought back from America by Mr. B. E. Adams, of Auckland, an expert in jiu-jitsu, who this morping returned in the Monowai after four months in the United States studying physical culture methods. "It is one of the finest sports—and one of the most popular in the State*," he said. "In accuracy I found that the expert archers I saw were almost as good as riflemen, and when they use their killing arrows in hunting they have a range of several hundred yayls. I gained some idea of the great popularity of the sport from two meets, one on San Francisco's Treasure Island and the other in New Jersey. There were hundreds of archers competing." At Oakland, California, Mr. Adams saw one csta-blishment which employed a dozen skilled men permanently, just: making bows, arrows and other equipment for 22 universities, at which archery had a definite place in the sports curriculum. In his own specialty Mr. Adams found that Americans, generally, had little knowledge of jiu-jitsu," but he was enthusiastic about the number and quality of the country's gymnasiums. "Every organisation in America seems to have a wonderfully equipped gymnasium," he added.