rraST MEETING OF STATE FAflM SPORTS FESTIVAL COMMITTEE. URBANA 



Members oi the state committee, seated left to right, are: C. A. Hughes, Monroe county; Miss Cleo Fitzsimmons, Univ. oi 111. club 

 work: Miss Clareta Walker, Macoupin county; Mrs. R. E. Milligan, Champaign county; Lois Shenck, Prairie Farmer; Ebb Harris, lAA, 

 chairman, George Biggar, WLS; A. O. Eckert. lAA; George Thiem, lAA. i 



Standing, leit to right, Merrill Gregory, Prairie Farmer; Donald Teare, Champaign county; C. M. Seagraves, lAA; I. M. Keay, 

 Lee county; Otto Stetiey, lAA; F. E. Longmire, University oi Illinois; Roy lohnson, DeSalb county; G. H. Dungan. Univ. oi Illinois; 

 C. E. Yale, Lee county; E. C. Foley, Boone county; Paul E. Mathias, lAA; S. F. Russell, Adams county; Frank Gingrich, lAA; H. C. 

 Gilkerson, Lake county; Lowrence Potter, lAA; D. E. Lindstrom, Univ. oi III.: I. E. Parett,' Vermilion county; and I. E. Harris, Cham- 

 paign county. 



Counties Organize For 



State Farm Sports Festival 



V^ ^V ULL a sit-down strike this sum- 

 ^L/ rner. Take a couple 6( days 



^. off to go to the Farm Sports 

 Festival on the University of Illinois 

 campus, Urbana, September 3 and 4. 

 You'll see plenty of action! You'll come 

 back all pepped up, ready for fall work. 

 Ever hear another fellow's wife call him 

 to the phone? Or bounce a rolling pin 

 off his dome? Both husband calling and 

 rolling pin throwing contests will be part 

 of the Festival. Don't miss it! 



Bet you've been wanting to see a bang 

 up baseball game ... or a neck and neck 

 footrace. And swimming races . . . ever 

 see one in a big tank? Well, here's your 

 chance. 



No matter what your favorite sport, 

 you can see it or take part in it at the 

 big Sports Festival. There'll be some- 

 thing doing every minute. Checkers, 

 horseshoe pitching, square dances, band 

 music, tug o war, horse pulling contest, 

 rifle matches, trap shooting, running, 

 jumping, hog calling — just to mention 

 a few. 



Who'll Be Baseball Champs? 



Last year the Henry County I'arm Bu- 

 reau team won the state championship. 

 That team recently met its Waterloo at 

 the hands of a hardhitting nine from 

 Peoria county. 



In the Northeastern division. Lake. 

 Boone. McHenry and DeKalb have been 

 playing some extra inning games. The 

 South Central division has been turning 

 in double number scores. What will 

 happen when the best teams in these 

 divisions meet is any^dy's guess. 



The big leagues are full of farm boy 

 stars. They have a natural liking for the 

 game and. as a rule, are better players 



than city boys. When the divisional 

 champs of the Farm Bureau Baseball 

 League play for the state championship 

 at the Festival you'll see a whale of a lot 

 of good baseball played by farm boy 

 teams. 



Softball Is Faster 



Official rules of Softball for 1937 

 permit base-runners to leave their bases 

 the instant the ball leaves the pitcher's 

 hand. In comparison to, the old rule, 

 which held the runner on the base until 

 the ball passed the batter, the new rule 

 will speed up the game considerably. 



In the state tournament all games will 

 be seven innings. The pitching distance 

 will be 40 feet with 60 feet between 

 bases. 



For each Softball team entered in any 

 of the five different divisions of the 

 Sports Festival, the Farm Bureau in the 

 county represented by the team will be 

 required to post a $5 forfeit fee on or 

 before August 21. The mqpey will be 

 refunded if the team reports for play. 

 No entry will be complete unless ac- 

 companied by the fee. 



General eligibility rules governing 

 Softball players are available at your 

 County Farm Bureau office. 



Every member of the family except 

 mother will have an opportunity to play 

 Softball. But if she's good enough some 

 team manager will probably sign^er up, 

 too. There will be fi\e divisions of soft- 

 ball. Two are design.ited as adult teams, 

 one for adults over 35, one for 4-H club 

 boys and one for girls. 



The rules provide for the organization 

 of an adult Softball league in each coun- 

 ty. The championship team of each 

 county league will play for the state 



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championship at the Sports Festival. 



In order to claim a county league, 

 counties having fewer than 750 Farm 

 Bureau members must have at least four 

 teams in the league. Counties having 

 more than 750 members must have a six- 

 team league. To be eligible for play at 

 the Festival, a player must have been a 

 member of his team during the last four 

 league games played. Each team, to be 

 eligible, must have played in six county 

 league games. 



The second or All County Division 

 is open to any County Farm Bureau 

 which can enter a team of eligible play- 

 ers. Players from the championship teams 

 in the county leagues are not eligible 

 to play in this division at the state tourna- 

 ment. 



Any county may enter a team of eli- 

 gible players in the Adult Farm Bureau 

 Member division. The eligibility is lim- 

 ited to Farm Bureau members m good_ 

 standing who are 35 years of age or over 

 on or before July 1, 1937. 



The Boys' 4-H Club division is open 

 to teams from any county provided the 

 players are regularly enrolled in a 4-H 

 Club. Teams entered from one county 

 shall be selected from a Club or a com- 

 bination of Clubs whose combined mem- 

 bership does not exceed 35 boys. 



To be eligible to play in the Girls' 

 division the player must be a member of 

 a Farm Bureau or Home Bureau family 

 or a 4-H Club member. Any county may 

 enter a team in the division. 



The Speed Department 



The track program scheduled for Sat- 

 urday, September 4, at 10 A.M. will in- 

 clude events for both boys and girls. 

 Each county will be limited to two entries 



I. A. A. RECORD 



