State Title to De Kalb 



Farm Bureau Baseball Season Closes With Final Series 

 Between Henry and DeKalb Counties 



TWENTY-ONE year old Paul Fo- 

 glesong, who operates his widowed 

 mother's 180 acre farm near Kirk- 

 land and pitches Saturday afternoons 

 for the DeKalb County Farm Bureau 

 baseball team, had a lot to do with the 

 latter winning the 1935 state champion- 

 ship in the final series with Henry 

 county. 



In the final game played at Sycamore 

 Oct. 9, Foglesong struck out 11 batters, 

 allowed no bases and balls, and yielded 

 only one clean hit. With such pitching 

 coupled with some heavy hitting by its 

 batsmen, DeKalb breezed through to 

 the championship on the long side of 

 a 10 to score. 



The loss of several players in the 

 last two games by Henry county 

 coupled with their inability to solve 

 Foglesong's fast low ball brought de- 

 feat. 



Henry county took the first game of 

 the final series at Sycamore 6 to 3. The 

 Henry county boys refused to be photo- 

 graphed fearing that the charm of their 

 unbroken series of victories would be 

 broken. At Cambridge for the return 

 game, DeKalb evened it after a pitch- 

 er's battle between Robson and Fogle- 

 song with the latter striking out 15 men 

 to Robson's 11. In that game won by 

 DeKalb 4 to 1, Henry made five hits 

 to DeKalb's seven. Robson allowed 

 seven bases on balls, Foglesong only 

 two. The latter added a final punch 

 when he belted out a home run in the 

 ninth inning which his teammate E. 

 Lamont duplicated a moment later for 

 two more runs. 



At the final game, it was DeKalb 

 county's day from the beginning. In the 

 first inning Wayne Paulson, DeKalb 

 county's slugging catcher, drove one of 

 C. Johnson's fast balls over the left- 

 fielder's head for a home run. Though 

 none realized it at the time, this was 

 enough to win. .In the second inning, 

 DeKalb continued its barrage of hits 

 for three more runs. In the third it 

 added two more. Harry Robson went 

 to the mound for Henry county in the 

 fourth after DeKalb had piled up an 

 impressive lead of six runs. He 

 handled the situation to better advan- 

 tage but could not prevent four more 

 rtms from crossing home. 



A representative crowd of northern 

 Dlinois Farm Bureau folks witnessed 

 the game in Sycamore's community 

 park. 



PAUL FOGLESONe 



"He pitched his team-mates to the State 



Championship." 



DeKalb county's victory marks the 

 first time since the organization of the 

 League in 1924 that a team from ex- 

 treme northern Illinois has taken the 

 championship. Will county, which many 



had picked to repeat its state title per- 

 formance of last year, lost to DeKalb 

 in two successive games after elimina- 

 ting the strong Adams county nine 

 from west-central Dlinois. Henry coun- 

 ty defeated Carroll and Clay in inter- 

 divisional matches to win the right to 

 play in the 'state championship series. 



A total of 23 County Farm Bureau 

 teams competed in the seven divisions 

 of the League this year. Divisional 

 winners were DeKalb, Carroll, Henry. 

 Will, Adams, Coles, and Clay. 



The counties with Farm Bureau 

 teams this year were Lake, McHenry. 

 Boone, DeKalb, Carroll, Jo Daviess, 

 Henry, Peoria (two teams), Woodford. 

 Will, Livingston, LaSalle, Henderson, 

 Adams, McDonough, Fulton, Coles. 

 Moultrie, Clay, Edwards, Wabash, 

 Wayne. Several other counties had 

 impromptu Farm Bureau teams en- 

 tered in the League, which played un- 

 official games at picnics. 



The organization of soft-ball leagues 

 in many counties which formerly had 

 strong baseball teams has been an im- 

 portant development in the field of 

 farm sports during the past three years. 



As many as eight or ten community 

 teams played regularly, often at night 

 on lighted fields, in some counties this 

 year. Tazewell, Henry, Stark, Knox, 

 Lee, Henderson, Carroll, McLean, Ran- 

 dolph, are among the counties which 

 have actively fostered Farm Bureau soft 

 ball. The fact that a much larger number 

 of players are enabled to compete in 

 this sport together with the low cost of 

 equipment and avoidance of travel ex- 

 pense has led to rapid expansion of 

 soft ball. The game spread from city 

 to city and from state to state during 

 the depression as an inexpensive form 

 of recreation, exercise^ and amusement. 



^ . ' • ■ THEY BROUGHT HOME THE BACON 



DeKalb County's State Champions — Front row left to right: — W. Paulson, Foglesong, Eldon 

 Lamont, John O'Brien, manager, Geo. Tindall, R. Dannewitz, B. Donnelly. 



Second row left to right: — Malvern Bland, Dale Dienst, Mel Maerlr and mascot, W. Lamont, 

 Clarence Wales, Ralph Nelson, Ross Paulson. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



