Richard (Dick) Tone

              1946      

Class of 2023
Coach, Competitor, Contributor to the Sport

     Dick Tone’s journey in the sport of archery began at age 5 with a toy bow and arrow game while visiting one of his cousins in Minnesota. Shortly after that experience his family moved to Arizona and he was introduced to real archery by an older gentleman that lived a few doors down from from them in Sunnyslope, Arizona.
      He fashioned a bow from an Oleander bush and made arrows from the slats found in wooden orange crates. The feathers were leaves. The year was 1950 and little did he know he would spend the rest of his life involved in the sport of archery.
     Shortly after moving to Canada and trying his hand at target archery he entered the Ontario Provincial Championship in the junior division. Dick won that event by over 100 points and his love of competition had begun.  His last tournament in Canada   was the Canadian National combined target and field held in Joliet, Quebec in 1964. Dick won both the target and the field portions  of the tournament. (He was then 18 years old), after returning to the United States in the fall of 1964 he began training for the US World Target Archery team. Dick made the 4 man roster to compete at the World Championship in Vestros Sweden and placed 5th individually and was a member of the winning World Target Championship Team.  During the 60’s and 70’s he competed in and won many regional and state titles and began his interest in being part of the archery industry.
       Dick’s business and industry experience in archery has been quite varied and fairly complete. In the early part of his career he managed Hugh Rich Archery in California (a large distributor and retailer at the time). He also spent time working for Easton Aluminum in Van Nuys, CA. and learned the aluminum arrow manufacturing process from the ground up. He went on to manage Henderson Archery in Phoenix, Arizona for several years, He worked for Wing Archery in the mid 1970’s and then for Ben Pearson Archery up to 1980. In the 80’s he moved back to Phoenix and started his own sporting goods rep group which was heavy in archery products. He later started his own company. Cavalier,  with the help of a partner and machinist Mr. Jim Haines Cavalier products were sold world wide in the target archery and hunting industry.

     

     Notes of Interest

• • World Championship Gold Medal Team - 1965
  • Canadian Men’s National Champion - 1964
  • Owned and operated Cavalier Archery &Manufacturing Company for 35 Years holding several US Patents.
  • Head Olympic Coach - 1992, Coached Three
  Other Olympic Games. Student’s Winning Multiple International          Championships Including World & Olympic Gold.
  • Pope & Young Senior Member With Numerous  Record Book Animals.
  • Inducted Arizona Bowhunters Hall of Fame
  • Seventy + Years in Archery.