THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Five 



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Baseball Fans Get 



Ready for Mid- Year 



Pow-Wow at Danville 



State League Shows Much Growth in 

 Five Years 



FARM baseball leaders and 

 managers will hold their 

 annual mid-winter conference 

 when the State Farm Bureau 

 League meets for its annual ses- 

 sion at Danville on Tuesday, 

 January 29. This will be the fifth 

 annual meeting of the League. 

 During the past five years Farm 

 Bureau baseball has spread 

 from county to county until in 

 1928 twenty-two county teams 



competed for the state title which was 

 finally won by Tazewell. Heated dis- 

 cussion reg^arding rules, practices and 

 eligibility questions has been the or- 

 der at previous meetings of the 

 League, and this year promises to be 

 no exception to the rule. 



Two schools of thought have devel- 

 oped among the League leaders and 

 followers over the question of who 

 shall be eligible to play. Under the 

 present by-laws players are restricted 

 to Farm Bureau members and mem- 

 bers of their immediate families whose 

 principal occupation is farming. Un- 

 der this rule nearly all Farm Bureau 

 members living in town have been 

 barred. As a result several teams have 

 lost valuable players. One or two 

 teams were forced out of the running 

 completely say leaders because they 

 could not muster enough farm boys 

 to round out a good nine. 



Want* Lenient Rule 



Letters received at headquarters of 

 the State League, Chicago, indicate 

 that the eligibility question has not 

 been settled. One team manager sizes 

 up the situation like this: "A more 

 lenient eligibility rule is the main ob- 

 jective, as I see it, to better Farm Bu- 

 reau baseball. Last year you remem- 

 ber there were only two org^anized 

 teams in our district. That caused us 

 to have a very limited playing sched- 

 ule which in turn caused a lack of 

 interest People are not going to at- 

 tend games to see the same teams 

 compete, especially if one team hap- 

 pens to be stronger than the other. 

 This happened in our district last sea- 

 son for we had considerable interest 

 for the first game or two. A wider 

 eligibility rule will remedy all this for 

 it will permit more counties to organ- 

 ize teams which will make a more 

 complete playing schedule to last the 

 entire season. This will tend to create 

 more interest in Farm Bureau base- 

 ball. 



Keep Out Pro's 



"As to the leniency of the rule why 

 not make any player who signs a 

 three-year contract and pays his own 

 money, and any player who is a mem- 

 ber of a Farm Bureau member's fam- 

 ily regardless of occupation, eligible 

 to play? I am strictly opposed to 

 anyone having his membership fee 



BASEBALL SPEAKER 



COACH CARL LUNDGREN 

 Coach Lundgren. who will address the an- 

 nual meeting of the Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Baseball League, was a former star hurler for 

 the University of Illinois in 1899, 1900, 1901, 

 and 1902. He pitched for the Chicago Cubs 

 for seven years, in two of which they were 

 world's champions and for three years lead- 

 ers of the National L.eague. '- 



Coach Lundgren came to Illinois in 1921 

 and under his leadership the Illini teanss have 

 won most of their games. Last summer Lund- 

 gren led his players to Japan where they 

 made a great record playing the championship 

 teams on the Isle of Nippon. 



paid or receiving money for playing." 

 The baseball convention is called 

 for 9:00 a. m., Tuesday, January 29. 

 The meeting will be held in the dining 

 room on the ninth floor of the Wol- 

 ford Hotel. 



Following the early business session 

 Coach Carl Lundgren of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois will speak on the sub- 

 ject "What It Takes To Make a Good 

 Baseball Team." 



Officers of the State Leag^ie are: 

 L. R. Welk, Morton, president; Wayne 

 Snyder, Versailles, vice-president; and 

 E. G. Thiem, Chicago, secretary-treas- 

 urer. 



President's Address 



(Continued from page 1) 

 structive criticism and suggestions. 

 The progn*ani for the most part will be 

 impromptu, although the directors of 

 departments will be present to answer 

 questions and discuss details of their 

 work if called upon. 



The odd-numbered districts will 

 hold their caucuses to nominate execu- 

 tive committeemen at 4 :30 p. m., 

 Wednesday afternoon. The places of 

 meeting will be announced in the pro- 

 gram. The present executive commit- 

 teemen of these districts are: 1-llth 

 district, Harold C. Vial, 13th C. E. 

 Bamborough, 15th A. N. Skinner, 17th 

 Geo. J. Stoll, 19th J. L. Whisnand, 

 21st Samuel Sorrells, 23rd W. L. 

 Cope, and 25th Fred Dietz. 



The even-numbered districts will 

 hold business sessions during this pe- 

 riod. 



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Serum Ass'n To ' ' "! 



Hear Authorities 



On Cholera Control 



Meet on Jan. 29, In Annual Session 



^HE last word on hog cholera 

 X control and recent develop- 

 ments in manufacturing serum 

 and virus will be presented to 

 delegates and visitors attending 

 the annual meeting of the Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureau Serum Asso- 

 ciation scheduled for Tuesday, 

 January 29, at Danville. The 

 meeting is called for 10 :00 a. m. in 



the ballroom on the ninth floor of the 

 Wolford Hotel. 



Following the business session D. O. 

 Skidmore, chief of the Division of 

 Virus and Serum Control of the U. S. 

 D. A., is scheduled to disclose inter- 

 esting details regarding the manufac- 

 ture of serum and virus. Dr. Robert 

 Graham of the University of Illinois 

 is expected to discuss swine disease 

 control from a pathological stand- 

 point, and Dr. James McDonald, in 

 charge of hog cholera control work 

 in Illinois, has been invited to lead a 

 discussion on control problems. 



The State Serum Association han- 

 dled more than 30,000,000 c. c. of 

 serum and virus last year at a sub- 

 stantial saving to the Farm Bureau 

 members of Illinois. The unified ac- 

 tion of the County Farm Bureaus in 

 this project not only has made pos- 

 sible the purchase of immunizing ma- 

 terials at decidedly lower prices, but 

 also it has insured a safe and steady 

 supply. 



Farm Bureaus have been instrumen- 

 tal in driving cholera out of their 

 counties by advocating consistent vac- 

 cination. Before the discovery of 

 control methods early in the 20th Cen- 

 tury hog cholera took an enormous 

 toll in this country. Back in 1903- 

 1904 approximately one hog in five 

 died from cholera. But during the 

 past two years the loss from this 

 source in comparison has been neg- 

 ligible, i 



PROFESSOR HITS TARIFF 



DOCTRINE OF COOLIDGE 



Prof. H. T. Collings of the Wharton 

 School of Finance, Philadelphia, ad- 

 mitted that farmers for the most part 

 are not getting the benefit of the pro- 

 tective tariff, in an address before the 

 recent convention of the American 

 Economic Association in Chicago. 



Prof. Collings referred indirectly to 

 President Coolidge's tariff pronounce- 

 ments saying that they had been 

 "weighed in the balance and found 

 wanting." He further asserted that 

 farmers and consumers are getting the 

 worst of our tariff policy; that the 

 United States is now manufacturing 20 

 per cent more goods than is needed at 

 home; that it must find markets for 

 these goods; and that modification of 

 our high tariff policy must be made if 

 our trade with foreign nations is to be 

 increased. 



