Hey There You Athletes! 



Compete in Your Specialty at the I.A.A. "Sports Festival"— Urbana, 

 Sept. 4 and 5 - Baseball, Softball, Track Events, Bands, Prizes-FREE 



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C'MON let's have some fun! Mix a 

 little play with the routine of 

 farming. Make farm life happier! 



With this sentiment the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association and County Farm 

 Bureaus are launching this year the first 

 state-wide farm sports festival ever 

 staged in the country. 



The time and place have been definite- 

 ly set for Friday and Saturday, Septem- 

 ber 4 and 5, 1936 on the University of 

 Illinois campus at Urbana. 



A state-wide tournament of soft ball 

 with 40 to 50 or more farm teams in the 

 various divisions will be one of the lead- 

 ing events. Finals in the Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Baseball League featuring the 

 leading four teams, will be played. 



The three divisions for soft ball include 

 adult County Farm Bureau teams in 

 which all players are required to be Farm 

 Bureau members in good standing or 

 dependent members of their families, 

 4-H Club division in which all players 

 must be regularly enrolled members of 

 a 4-H Club, and a soft ball division for 

 girls. 



Preliminary soft ball games will be 

 played on Friday, September 4, and the 

 semi-finals and finals, the following day. 

 The semi-finals, likewise, in the Farm 

 Bureau Baseball League, will be played 

 on September 4 and the state champion- 

 ship game on Saturday afternoon, Sep- 

 tember 5. The University has 40 to 50 

 diamonds available for the games. 



On Friday night, September 4, an eve- 

 ning program with a folk dance contest, 

 old fiddlers' contest, WLS entertainers 

 and dancing will be held in the big new 

 men's gymnasium which seats 6,000 or 

 more people, or in the skating rink seat- 

 ing 1600 or more, either of which will be 

 available. 



George C. Biggar, director of pro- 

 grams for station WLS, and D. E. Lind- 

 strom in charge of rural sociology. Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, Urbana have pledged 

 their cooperation in making this event 

 an outstanding attraction. 



WANTED: A NEW HOME FOR BILLY 



This fine 6 year oM Shetland pony will be 

 given away by fhe lllino's Agricultural Asio- 

 ciation to some I'icicy boy or girl who regis- 

 ters at the Statu Fflrm Sports Festival, on the 

 University of Illinois campus, Sept. 4-5. Billy 

 is a mahogany brown gelding, plump, smooth, 

 clean, and gentle as a kitten. The boy and 

 girl are Glen, 5 and Dorothy Hurley, 7 of 

 Woodford county. The pony comes from the 

 herd of Simon E. Lanti, Woodford County. 



G. HUFF, THE GRAND OLD MAN OF 

 the University of Illinois, puts his OK on the 

 State Farm bports Festival Sept. 4-5. "G." 

 has been director of athletics for 41 years, 

 the oldest man in service on tSe campus. 



Present plans call for holding the finals 

 in the soft ball tournament and base- 

 ball league on Illinois Field at the north 

 end of the campus. Extra bleachers will 

 be erected in the expectation of an over- 

 flow crowd. 



The track meet, with one entry per 

 county in the various events, is on the 

 program for Saturday. This meet is 

 expected to bring together outstanding 

 runners, pole vaulters, jumpers and 

 swimmers from the entire state. Among 

 the events will be a County Farm Bu- 

 reau half-mile relay race with four on 

 each team, half-mile race, 100 yard 

 dash, pole vault, high jump, 100 yard and 

 50 yard swim, county tug o'war contest. 



hog calling and husband calling, fat 

 man's race, etc. 



A state-wide horseshoe pitching 

 tournament featuring the best ringer 

 pitchers developed at County Farm Bu- 

 reau picnics and fairs, w.U be another 

 leading event. 



A fine six-year old mahogany brown 

 Shetland pony and gelding, has been 

 purchased from the herd of Simon E. 

 Lantz of Woodford county, as an attend- 

 ance prize for the boy or girl drawing 

 the lucky number. A place will be pro- 

 vided for children to register on or be- 

 fore Saturday morning at an hour to be 

 fixed. Each applicant will be given a 

 ticket and a number after writing his 

 or her name and address and County 

 Farm Bureau aflfiliation. Prizes for the 

 oldest Farm Bureau member, largrest 

 family, biggest feet and others will be 

 awarded. 



Roy Johnson, director of athletics 

 and vocational .\g. teacher at Mahomet 

 in Champaign county, has been employed 

 until after the sports festival to visit the 

 counties, schedule entries and assist in 

 organizing the sports program. He is 

 now on the road traveling from county 

 to county and helping to organize soft 

 ball teams. 



"My first week out indicates that there 



is a lot of enthusiasm in the counties for 



the sports festival." he said. "Every 



county I visited is planning to enter one 



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JULY, 1936 



