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Show o SPORTS o "According to Pete . . ." 10,000 Salt Lake Archers Study Joining Boy Scouts gaard. had ever been beaten in competition in this country. Reddish and Nergaard tied for j first in the double slalom run. Possibility of 10,000 new recruits for the Boy Scouts m the Salt Lake area is becoming-more and more probable as the weeks go by with little being done to calm the tempers of 10,000 local -archers who have no place to practice their ancient and noble art. According to Willis K. "Pete" Peterson, well-known Anticlimactically, this week Mr. Peterson said that the state archery association was notified by Mr. Ken Scott, city recreation recrea-tion manager, that a project to build a small range at Jordan Park has been given the go-ahead go-ahead signal. This archery area will provide room for an American round (up to 60 yards) and the association hopes they will have room to build ranges for a York round (up to 100 yards) and possibly a Claut range (up to 180 yards). Next problem of the association associa-tion is to secure a roving range for hunters and rovers, composed com-posed of 28 targets over a distance dis-tance of 1 1000 yards. In the meantime, to promote better archery, the association has formed a plan whereby competent compe-tent instructors will be furnished furnish-ed upon request to give instruction instruc-tion and exhibitions to groups interested. Mr. Peterson stated that a survey taken of Senior Scouts in the southeast district disclosed dis-closed that 95 per cent had ' archery equipment. Local dealers deal-ers in i941-'42 sold 875,000 worth of ' archery equipment. One of the questions which greatly interests the association is where is this equipment now. There was an increase in deer hunters last season who hunted hunt-ed with the bow and arrow of 372 over the previous year, Mr. Peterson said. sports figure and archery enthusiast, enthu-siast, the 28-target roving range built for Scouts at the Wigwam in Mill Creek Canyon is the first "shot in the arm," archery fans have had in months. Salt Lake, Mr. Peterson states, is the only city of comparable size in the nation which does not have at least one fully laid out range for students of the bow and arrow. And Salt Lake, it seems, has none. In fact, Mr. Peterson says that local archers arch-ers have been kicked off of some of the best parks in the I city. |