horseshoe pitching of Livingston coun- 

 ty's state title team, Drew and Patrick 

 (56% ringers), also Adams county's 

 state singles champion Elhs Griggs (68% 

 ringers) ; (8) WLS broadcasts on both 

 Friday and Saturday direct from the thick 

 of the athletic events which stimulated 

 interest and attendance. 



The success of the initial Farm Sports 

 Festival which may be claimed by its 

 sponsors without undue immodesty is 

 due in large measure to the fact that it 

 was a real co-operative enterprise in 

 which all leading agricultural groups in 

 Illinois played an important part. The 

 publicity given it by the I. A. A., Prairie 

 Farmer, radio stations 'WLS, WMBD, 

 WDZ, the Champaign News Gazette and 

 hundreds of other downstate newspapers 

 and radio stations ; the work of the Cham- 

 paign County Farm Bureau, the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois athletic, physical plant 

 and agricultural departments; the en- 

 thusiastic support of some 60 County 

 Farm Bureaus, the local associations of 

 commerce, the unselfish hard work of 

 countless committees and judges, and last 

 but not least the weather man, all figured 

 prominently in the final result. 



No easy task was that of organizing 

 the Softball tournament, getting umpires, 

 scorekeepers, diamond managers, and 

 scheduling teams which was ably handled 

 by Roy Johnson, and W. W. Brown of 

 the University athletic department. Di- 

 rector of staging, property and equip- 

 ment was Frank Gingrich who contacted 

 the proper authorities and contributed 

 much toward the orderly procedure of 

 the two day program. 



The job of assembling the names of 

 winners and their records was a diflficult 

 one at best with so many contests going 

 on at the same time. There was some 

 difference of opinion about the final score 

 of the farm advisers — I. A. A. staff soft- 

 ball game won handily by the advisers. 

 The score was 4 to 3 or 31 to 3 depend- 

 ing on how you figure or when you 

 stopped counting. 



'Vice-president Talmage DeFrees did a 

 good job of presiding and officially open- 

 ing the Sports Festival in the absence 

 of President Earl Smith, Friday night. 

 Mr. Smith was unavoidably detained 

 along with Dean Mumford and others at 

 President Roosevelt's drouth conference 

 in Springfield. Pike county, Mr. Smith's 

 home county had the largest delegation of 

 any coming a like distance. More than 

 40 from Pike took part in the contests 

 and double that number attended. 



The results of the horseshoe tourna- 

 ment will be found elsewhere . The win- 

 ners of other contests based on informa- 

 tion supplied by committees in charge 

 follow; 



ADULT SOFTBALL (32 teams) — (First 

 round) Peoria beat Vermilion, 13-0; Sanga- 



BALL GAME — SPORTS FESTIVAL 

 "She brought her RECORD along." 



men beat Shelby, 11-9; McLean best Iro- 

 quois, 2-1; Tazewell beat Champaign, 7-1; 

 Logan, Kankakee, Livingston, Piatt, Ford, 

 Madison, DeKalb, Randolph, McHenry, 

 Pike, Marshall-Putnam, Hancock, Bureau, 

 Henry, Jackson, Henderson, Lee, Ogle, La- 

 Salle, Winnebago, Carroll, Mercer, Knox 

 drew byes. (Second round) Peoria beat 

 Logan, 4-3 ; Kankakee beat Sangamon, 4-1 ; 

 Tazewell beat McLean, 5-2 ; Livingston beat 

 Piatt, 7-5; Madison beat DeKalb, 9-3; Mc- 

 Henry beat Randolph, 11-7; Marshall-Put- 

 nam beat Pike, 10-5; Hancock beat Bureau, 

 9-3; Henderson beat Jackson, 4-1; Lee beat 

 Ogle, 6-5; Carroll beat Winnebago, 9-1; 

 Ford, Henry, LaSalle, Fulton, St. Clair drew 

 byes. (Third round) Peoria beat Kankakee, 

 11-2; Livingston beat Tazewell, 5-4; Mad- 

 ison beat Ford, 4-3 in eight innings; Mar- 

 shall-Putnam beat McHenry, 15-11; Hancock 

 beat Henry, 6-4; Henderson beat Lee, 9-4; 

 LaSalle beat Carroll, 6-1, and St. Clair beat 

 Fulton, 15-3. (Quarter-final round) Peoria 

 beat Livingston, 6-1; Madison beat Marshall- 

 Putnam, 7-3 ; Henderson beat Hancock, 3-2 ; 

 and St. Clair beat LaSalle, 4-2. (Semi-final 

 round) Peoria beat Madison, 2-0 and St. 

 Clair beat Henderson, 3-2. Madison beat 

 Henderson for third place, 14-6. (FINALS) 

 Peoria whipped St. Clair, 8-1. 



4-H CLUB SOFTBALL (30 teams) — 

 (First round) Livingston beat Champaign, 

 6-4; Peoria beat Moultrie, 12-3; Woodford 

 beat Vermilion, 7-6; Marshall-Putnam beat 

 Will, 3-2 in 12 innings. All other teams re- 

 ceived byes. (Second round) Sangamon 

 beat Douglas, 14-7; McLean beat Livingston, 

 3-0; Knox beat Peoria, 8-7; Kankakee beat 

 Woodford, 17-14; Iroquois beat Lake, 18-5; 

 DuPage beat Gallatin, 14-3; Hancock beat 

 DeKalb, 4-1; Marion, Marshall-Putnam, 

 Warren, Pike, Jackson, Henry, Bureau and 

 Winnebago drew byes. (Third round) 

 Sangamon beat Marion, 5-0; McLean beat 

 Knox, 5-3 ; Iroquois beat Marshall-Putnam, 

 8-1; Pike beat Warren, 10-4; Jackson beat 

 DuPage, 15-3; Henry beat Hancock, 5-4; 

 Bureau beat Winnebago, 15-1; Kankakee 

 received a bye. (Quarter-final round) Mc- 

 Lean beat Sangamon, 8-1; Iroquois beat 

 Kankakee, 5-1; Jackson beat Pike, 7-1; 

 Henry beat Bureau 8-0. (Semi-final round) 

 McLean beat Iroquois in eight innings, 4-3; 

 Henry beat Jackson, 7-4; Jackson beat Iro- 

 quois for third place, 5-4. (FINALS) Mc- 



Lean won the State 4-H Club title beating 

 Henry, 7-4. 



GIRLS SOFTBALL (8 teams) — (First 

 round) Champaign beat Livingston in eight 

 innings, 16-15; Logan beat Douglas, 20-6; 

 Monroe beat Peoria. 20-2 ; DuPage and Pike 

 drew byes. (Second round) Monroe beat 

 Pike, 19-1 ; Champaign, DuPage and Logan 

 drew byes. (Semi-finals) DuPage beat 

 Champaign, 20-13; Monroe beat Logan, 

 10-5; Logan beat Champaign for third place, 

 15-12. (FINALS) Monroe won the state 

 championship beating DuPage, 14-13. 



SWIMMING — Women — (50-yard 

 swim) Torrence, Randolph, first; HoUscher, 

 Champaign, second. Time: 46.6. (100 

 yard swim) Torrence, Randolph, first; 

 Reigcl, Champaign, second. Time 1 :58. 

 Men 16 years of age and over — (50-yard 

 swim) Miller, Logan, first; Scoggin, Cham- 

 paign, second ; Foster, Ford, third. Time 

 26:3. (100-yard swim) Miller, Logan, first; 

 Joster, Ford, second; Reid, Winnebago, 

 third. Time 65.8. Boys 15 years of age aod 

 under: (50-yard swim) Swain, Kankakee, 

 first; Rydbom, Winnebago, second; Tor- 

 rence, Randolph, third. Time 37.7. (100- 

 yard swim) Swain, Kankakee, first; Ryd- 

 bom, Winnebago, second ; Clay Secor, Ran- 

 dolph, third. Time 1 :30.9. 



WOMEN'S CONTESTS — (Darning) 

 Mrs. Walter Neal, Peoria, first; Mrs. Ed 

 Elliott, DeKalb, second; Miss Petrauel, Liv- 

 ingston, third. (Chicken-calling) Mrs. B. 

 O. Erickson, Livingston, first; Mrs. Delbert 

 Blood, Henry, second; Mrs. Edna Jenkins, 

 Vermilion, third. (Husband-calling) Mrs. 

 Margery Barr, Livingston, first; Mrs. Harold 

 Wildmuth, Henry, second; Mrs. Clyde Wat- 

 son, DeKalb, third. (Rolling-pin throwing) 

 Mrs. Harry Crane, Iroquois, first; Miss 

 Elizabeth Dietz, Jackson, second. Winner 

 hit hat 3 out of 6 times. 



TRACK EVENTS — (Relay race) Ma 

 coupin, first; Peoria, second; Livingston, 

 third. Time 1:41.9. 16 and over — (Shot 

 put) Reigel, Champaign, first; Reed, Knox, 

 second; Lee, Ford, third. 46' 41/2". (880- 

 yard run) Mies, Livingston, first ; Schraeder, 

 Lawrence, second; Lodge, Henry, third. 

 Time 2:03.9. (100-yard dash) Rice, Sanga- 

 mon, first; O'Connor, Marshall-Putnam, 

 second; Kirkpatrick, DeKalb, third. Time 

 10.8. (High jump) Riegel, Champaign, 

 first ; Leon, Hancock, second ; Johnson, Bu- 

 reau, third. Height 6'. (Broad jump) 

 Rice, Sangamon, first; O'Connor, Marshall- 

 Putnam, second; Sniff, Peoria, third. Distance 

 19' 5". (Pole vault) Borneman, Marshall- 

 Putnam, first; Deson, Jackson, second; Dola- 

 han. Champaign and Sykes, Vermilion, third. 

 Height 11'. 15 aod under: (Shot put) 

 Ritter, DeKalb, first- Irwin, Sangamon, sec- 

 ond; Thompson, Warren, third. Distance 

 37' 6". (High jump) Blue, Champaign, 

 first ; Robinson, Sangamon, second ; Attig, 

 Livingston, and Juston, McHenry, third. 

 Height 5' 7". (100-yard dash) Dunlap. 

 Knox, first; Warne, Kane, second; Justen, 

 McHenry, third. Time 11.2. (880-yard 

 run) Johnston, Livingston, first ; Edgecomb, 

 LaSalle, second; Crull, Winnebago, third. 

 Time 2:18.4. (Broad jump) Dunlap, Knox, 

 first; Sternberg, Livingston, second; Scale, 

 Champaign, third. Distance 19' 4". (Pole 

 vault) Blue, Champaign, first; Hoke, Liv- 

 ingston, second: Robinson, Sangamon and 

 Donnelly, Marshall-Putnam, third. Height 

 8' 8". GirU (75-yard dash) Garleb, Mon- 

 roe, and Taylor, Vermilion, tie for first; 

 Mevis, Champaign, third. Time 8.8. (High 

 jump) Fern Mevis, Champaign, first; Klein, 

 DeKalb, second; St. John. Edgar, third. 

 Height 4' 6". (Broad jump) Mevis, Cham- 

 paign, first; Taylor, Vermilion, second; St. 

 John, Edgar, third. Distance 14' 4". 

 (Continued on p3ge 33} 



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