Sports Festival Rules Ready 



Farm Bureaus And Home Bureaus Plan County-Wide 



: Sports Festival And Picnics For July And August 



Rules for all contests are now in the hands of 

 County Farm Advisers and Home Advisers. Com- 

 mittees for County Sports Festivals and picnics will 

 be supplied on request. — Editor 



r^ yO AST years dub — this year's 

 vA/-^ champ, and vice versa! That's 



J^^ the way it goes at the big Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureau Sports Festival. With 

 nearly 3,000 participants in 50 contests 

 of strength and skill, anything can hap- 

 pen — and it frequently does ! 



But dub or champ — the state Farm 

 Olympics on the campus of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Sep- 

 tember 2 and 3, is a good place to forget 

 your cares. There'll be lots of action, 

 excitement, thrills, color and fun. Plan 

 now to attend. Don't miss it! 



If you want a chance to represent 

 your county in one or more events, see 

 your farm adviser. He has all the de- 

 tails. 



The third annual Farm Sports Festival 

 boasts nine new events. These are slceet 

 shooting and bait casting for outdoors- 

 men, boxing and wrestling exhibitions 

 for fans of the squared circle, four new 

 games of grace and skill for girls anck 

 women, a prize for the oldest Home Bu- 

 reau member in attendance and a contest 

 for musicians who specialize in novelties. 

 Events that failed in popularity have been 

 discarded. 



Baseball, that for 14 years has been the 

 most popular Farm Bureau sport, is go- 

 ing in full swing. Twenty-four teams in 

 six divisions of the Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Baseball League are busy week-ends meas- 



A POPULAR SPORT 

 Dart throwing drew many contestants 

 in the second Festival. It's a simple, excit- 

 ing game thot requires a keen eye and 

 steady nerves. 



uring each other for divisional champion- 

 ships. 



Divisional winners will play a tourna- 

 ment at the Festival for state honors. 

 While Ogle county, 1937 champs, are 

 still in the running, other teams are out 

 for their scalps. 



Softball teams are reported in strenu- 

 ous training. Ford county is the defend- 

 ing champion in the Adult County 

 League division. Peoria copped both the 

 All-County titles and Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers over 35 last year and is expected to 

 be out to retain them. Henry and De- 

 Kalb, winners of the Boys 4-H and Girls 

 Division, respectively, will try to hold 

 their titles. 



The track program has been rearranged 

 to make it more attractive to contestants. 

 Boys 15 and under will compete in 50 

 and 100-yard dashes and in the high and 

 broad jumps. Boys 16 and older will 

 run the 100-yard dash, the 880 yard run 

 and will compete in the high jump, broad 

 jump, pole vault, shot-put and half mile 

 relay. 



Events for girls 16 and under are a 

 7 5 -yard dash and the high jump. Older 

 girls will compete in the broad jump as 

 well as in the high jump and the clash. 



Horseshoes, singles and doubles, are 

 limited to men only. Gaylord Peterson, 

 Marshall-Putnam county, is the defend- 

 ing titleholder in the singles. Floyd and 

 Harry Torbet, DeWitt county, hold the 

 doubles title. 



Most difficult title to defend is the 

 tug o'war championship which was won 

 by the Rahn family of Douglas county. 

 Much depends on the condition of the 

 ground. Beefy teams seem to have an 

 advantage when the soil is hard. There 

 is a five-dollar forfeit fee in this contest 

 and entries must be in by August 27. 



Trap shooting was so popular last year 

 that the committee decided to add skeet 

 shooting to the program this year. Skeet 

 is simply a game played with shotguns 

 and clay targets. Anyone can play it with 

 any kind of a double-barreled shotgun. 

 The beginner has just as much fun as 

 the veteran. 



If you like to shoot clay birds and want 

 to enter the skeet shoot, you can get full 

 information by writing to The National 

 Skeet Shooting Association, 275 Newbury 

 Street, Boston, Mass. 



Trap shooting, too, will be continued 

 with Ed Cooper of Vermilion county de- 

 fending his title. While Miss Carmaline 

 Cuddy of Greene county was the only 

 woman to fire last year, the contest is 



CLOCK GOLTS FUNl 

 and no special equipment is needed. Thir- 

 teen bricks, or stakes, a goli ball and a 

 goli club and you can make a game that 

 the whole family can enjoy. 



open both to men and women this year. 



For those who prefer the small-bore to 

 the shotgun, there will be rifle shooting 

 for men and women in the singles divi- 

 sion and for five-man county teams. The 

 range is in the Armory. Rifles shall be 

 of .22 Cal., rim-fire, equipped with any 

 sights, says the rule-book. 



Enthusiasm is running high for the 

 new program of women's events. Dart 

 throwing, popular at county picnics and 

 festivals last summer, is the only game 

 retained in the new schedule. 



Chair quoits, paddle tennis, shuffle 

 board and clock golf, all games of skill 

 that can be played with homemade equip- 

 ment, will attract many entries. The rule- 

 book now in the hands of home advisers 

 and recreational chairmen contains rules 

 and tips for playing the games and mak- 

 ing the equipment. 



Special events include swimming, 

 checkers (for men only this time), bait 

 casting, hog calling, educational tours, 

 largest Farm Bureau family, oldest Farm 

 Bureau member, oldest Home Bureau 

 member, a horse pulling demonstration 

 and boxing and wrestling exhibition. 



The St. Louis Cardinals and their Mis- 

 sissippi Mud-Cat novelty band, will have 

 nothing on Farm Bureau baseball and 

 Softball teams that play in the Festival 

 tournaments. Many counties will have 

 novelty and square dance bands, square 

 dance teams, folk dance teams. In addi- 

 tion, there will be a contest for individual 

 music specialty and novelty entertainers. 

 Entries in the Folk Festival and Music 

 events must be in the lAA offices not 

 later than Saturday, August 27. 



The same system of scoring counties 

 on participation honors that operated a 

 year ago will be used. The state has 

 been divided into three scoring districts 

 based on distance from Urbana. Coun- 

 ties will be awarded points on the basis 

 of both participation and winnings. 



Color will be added to the great state 

 Farm Bureau two-day picnic with special 

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JULY, 1938 



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