Sports Festival 

 Plans Are 



Under Way 



Many Popular Contests and Some 



I¥eiv Ones on Program 



for Sept. 2-3 



^ COOL season failed to re- 

 , ■X i' tard budding of the third 

 ^^^ / Illinois Farm Bureau Sports 

 Festival. The state committee met in the 

 lAA oflFices, April 29, to lay plans for the 

 big event to be held on the University of 

 Illinois campus, Urbana, September 2 

 and 3. 



With two years of experience behind 

 <hem, 25 men and three women on the 

 ■committee sailed in, turned out a smooth- 

 -working organization and built a pro- 

 gram that may draw 5,000 participants. 



The third Festival will pack more 

 J5unch than either of its predecessors. 

 The biggest difference is that less f>opu- 

 'lar events have been supplanted with 

 ,more lively ones. 



Farm womenfolk bid fair to steal the 

 :show with a series of smart events espe- 

 .cially for the ladies. Most of them are 

 ihome-made contests. There'll be chair 

 <juoits, paddle tennis, shuffle board, clock 

 _golf, dart throwing, rifle shooting, swim- 

 ming and track events. Trap shooting 

 .and skeet shooting too, will be open to 

 women. 



FOLK FESTIVAL COMMITTEE AT U. OF ILL. 

 L*t to right: Helen Harrison Hurst. Edgar County; Harold 

 Templeton, Champaign: D. E. Lindatrom. Univ. of HI.; lohn P. 

 Weaver, Country Liie Ins. Co.; H. R. Brunnemeyer, Winnebago; 

 Geo. C. Biggar, WLS; E. G. Thiem, lAA present but not in 

 picture. 



Events of the Festival are: Baseball, 

 Softball (including divisions for all 

 County teams, County league teams. 

 Farm Bureau Members over 35, Boys 

 4-H Club, and Girls teams), track for 

 boys and girls, horseshoes for men, tug 

 o'war, horse pulling, trap shoot, skeet 

 shoot, rifle shoot, women's events, hog 

 calling, checkers, swimming for boys and 

 girls, bait casting contest, oldest Farm 

 Bureau member, oldest Home Bureau 

 member, largest Farm Bureau family and 

 a tour of the experiment station. 



A folk festival is planned that will in- 

 clude family singing, novelty bands, 

 square dance bands, square dance groups, 

 folk dance groups and musical sp>ecialties 

 and novelties. 



WOMENS EVENTS COMMITTEE 

 Left to right: Mis Clareta Walker, Macoupin County; Miss Lois Schenlc 

 .'Prairie Farmer; Mrs. Spencer Ewing, McLean County, chairman, representing Il- 

 linois Home Bureau Federation. 



A tentative Friday evening program in 

 the Memorial Stadium includes a band 

 concert, entertainment by WLS, WMBD 

 and WDZ radio artists, music and dance 

 festival events, a chorus of a thousand 

 voices and a boxing and wrestling ex- 

 hibitions. The committee plans to secure, 

 if possible, a nationally famous radio or 

 opera star for the program. 



Complete rules for all events are being 

 assembled and will be sent to all County 

 Farm Bureaus as soon as they can be 

 printed. Folks interested in any of the 

 events are asked to contact their farm or 

 home advisers. 



Members of the state committee are: 

 Eb Harris, Chairman; Frank Gingrich, 

 Secretary; A. O. Eckert; Otto Steffey; 

 Paul E. Mathias; George E. Metzger; 

 George Thiem; Larry Potter; C. L. 

 (Cap) Mast; C. M. Seagraves; Harrison 

 Fahrnkopf; George C. Biggar, WLS; 

 Clair B. Hull, WDZ; E. L. Bill, 

 WMBD; Mrs. Spencer Ewing, Illinois 

 Home Bureau Federation; Clareta Walk- 

 er, Home Adviser, Macoupin County; 

 Roy Johnson, DeKalb County ; H. C. 

 Gilkerson, Lake County; J. E. Harris, 

 Champaign County; Paul Dean, Bureau 

 County; T. W. May, Madison County; 

 J. C. McCall, Jackson County; Lloyd 

 Rodman, McLean County; J. L. Stor- 

 mont, Livingston County; D. E. Lind- 

 strom, U. of I.; J. E. Spitler, U. of I.; 

 E. I. Pilchard, U. of I. ; and Lois Schenck, 

 Prairie Farmer. 



Committees made up of the state com- 

 mitteemen and assistants number nearly 

 140 persons. They represent the I A A, 

 Illinois Home Bureau Federation, Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureaus, County Home Bureaus, 

 the University of Illinois, Prairie Farmer, 

 WLS, WMBD, and WDZ. 



The next meeting of the state commit- 

 tee is scheduled to be held July 29, 9:00 

 AM (Central Standard Time) in the 

 lAA oflfices, Chicago. ., i. . 



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L A. A. RECORD 



JUNE, 1938 



