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A. RECORD 



Baseball League to 

 Open May 23 



Vote to Set up Soft Ball 

 Division and Inter- 

 County Tournament 



BASEBALL will have to share hon- 

 ors with soft ball during the com- 

 ing season as a popular farm 

 sport. But the hard ball enthusiasts will 

 be out there on the sidelines if not 

 on the diamond as in past years rooting 

 for their favorite pastime. <.:'. ■■.: 



At their twelfth annual meeting in 

 Peoria, April 10, directors of the Illinois 

 Farm Bureau Baseball League voted to 

 set up a soft ball division. County Farm 

 Bureaus not yet organized will be en- 

 couraged to form county soft ball 

 leagues. It is planned to schedule games 

 between the best teams in each county 

 in the late summer, possibly at a state- 

 wide farmers' Field Day which is being 

 given consideration. 



Baseball divisions will be organized as 

 in past years and inter-county games 

 scheduled. The directors voted to set the 

 opening games for Saturday, May 23, 

 the deadline for intra-divisional contests 

 to be August 15. 



A. O. Eckert reported that in St. C'.air 

 county the Farm Bureau plans to organ- 

 ize eight soft ball teams. "We are for 

 soft ball because we can get so many 

 people to play," he said. "As I under- 

 stand it, this League is to promote 

 recreation among farm people. I believe 

 soft ball is the way to do it. 



"I am in favor of a state-wide Field 

 Day after harvest where the best teams 

 from each county can be entered in a 

 tournament and where we can have other 

 games and sports. We ought to get our 

 minds off business occasionally and have 

 more recreation in our farm commu- 

 nities. I am not trying to discourage 

 regular baseball, but let's develop games 

 and contests that interest more mem- 

 bers." 



President Harris of the State League 

 appointed a committee composed of Mr. 

 Eckert, chairman, St. Clair county; Al- 

 bert Hayes, Peoria county; and Otto 

 Steffey, Henderson county, to outline 

 rules and plans for inter-county soft ball 

 contests and to report to the I. A. A. 

 board of directors regarding a state-wide 

 Farm Field Day. If such an event is 

 scheduled, C. V. Gregory, editor, promises 



MAY, 1936 :■' f''-:r..i-'r/'-^ ■'''''■:'■ '■■■ 



PAUL FOSLESONG ON HIS TRACTOR. 

 "He pitched the Series that won the State Title 

 for DeKalb last year." 



the support of Prairie Farmer and WLS 

 in arranging an interesting program. 



Eligibility rules for soft ball will be 

 similar to those governing regular base- 

 ball players. Farm Bureau members and 

 dependent members of their families only 

 will be eligible to play. 



W. F. Coolidge, Morgan county, re- 

 ported that his county is planning to or- 

 ganize a soft ball league. Other coun- 

 ties interested are Mason, Iroquois, Madi- 

 son, Randolph, Carroll, Tazewell, Mar- 

 shall-Putnam, Knox, Livingston, Kendall. 

 A number of other counties have been 

 playing Farm Bureau soft ball for sev- 

 eral seasons. 



Delegates from Bond county reported 

 that they would organize a Farm Bureau 

 baseball team and schedule inter-county 

 games with neighboring counties if pos- 

 sible. They have hopes of setting up a 

 new division in that section. 



It was agreed that official soft ball 

 games as well as baseball should not be 

 played on Sunday. The presence of many 

 lighted fields over the state makes pos- 

 sible playing of soft ball in the evening. 



The annual meeting was addressed by 

 Scully Jones, president of the Peoria 

 Municipal League and well-known semi- 

 pro umpire who has officiated at many 

 Farm Bureau games in past years. 



How many of these questions can you 

 answer? 



Try out your knowledge. 



The members of I. A. A. Skilled 

 Drivers' Clubs are expected to know the 

 answers to the following questions. If 

 you drive a car, you should know them 

 too. How many can you answer? 



1. Why is fall or early winter the most 

 dangerous time of the year from the 

 standpoint of fatal automobile accidents ? 



2. Do the most fatal highway accidents 

 occur in urban or rural communities 7 



3. Why are more people killed between 

 5:30 and 8:30 P. M. than at any other 

 time during the 24 hours? 



4. Is there a state law requiring M 

 car operators to make certain hand and 

 arm signals before turning and stopping? 



5. Are the drivers of Illinois cars re- 

 quired by law to dim their lights at a 

 minimum distance of 150, 250, or 350 

 feet from an oncoming car? 



6. Can the driver of a car equipped 

 with four-wheel brakes, new tires, op- 

 erating on dry cement pavement, stop in 

 a distance of less than 95 feet from a 

 speed of 40 miles per hour? 



7. How are most automobilists killed at 

 railroad crossings? By the car hitting 

 the train, or the train hitting the car? 



8. Why is it when an accident occurs 

 on a curve, the occupants of the car are 

 more likely to be killed than if they had 

 an accident on a straight road? 



9. In Illinois is it legal to pass a car 

 on the right, travelling in the same direc- 

 tion you are, on a four-lane highway ? 



10. Which are increasing faster, city 

 accidents or rural accidents? 



11. If you are travelling down hill with 

 your clutch pedal depressed, are you sub- 

 ject to arrest? 



12. Does the pending drivers' license 

 law have any license fee connected with 

 it? 



See answers on page 33 to learn your 

 score. 



The first 12 weeks of 1936, insurance 



companies invested fl2, 100,000 in farm 

 mortgage loans compared to $10,700,000 

 for the corresponding period of 1935. 

 Farmers bought over 1,000 farms from 

 the Federal Land Banks in February, an 

 increase of more than 80 percent over 

 February last year. 



