Sports Festival Hits 

 ]\ew Higli In Interest 



/il WAS all in fun. The weather- 



Ot man smiled and so did 3200 

 vjy farm athletes and their 10.000 

 friends who took part in and attended 

 the third annual Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Sports Festival on the University of Il- 

 linois campus, September 2 and 3. 



High light of the two-day funfest was 

 the program in Memorial Stadium Fri- 

 day night that drew an estimated 22,000 

 audience. The crowd filled the west 

 stand except for a strip at each end and 

 the balcony. 



The performance of blue-ribbon square 

 dancers, folk dancers, music and dramatic 

 contest winners, novelty and square 

 dance bands, the state chorus that sang 

 "Harvest Caravans," radio talent from 

 WLS, WMBD, and WDZ, community 

 singing, all topped off with a thrilling 

 wrestling bout between Ruffy Silverstein, 

 Illinois state champion, and the Arabian 

 strongman, Georgus Mansors, surpassed 

 all previous festival entertainment. 



There wasn't a dull moment in the 

 three-hour show which opened with 

 music by the Boone County Farm Bu- 

 reau band. Earl C. Smith, lAA presi- 

 dent, and Assistant Dean Hudelson of 

 the U. of I. Ag college welcomed the 

 visitors and praised the festival for its 

 contribution to community life and hap- 

 piness in rural Illinois. George E. Metz- 

 ger, lAA field secretary, presided as- 

 sisted by D. E. Lindstrom, U. of I. rural 

 sociologist, and Geo. C. Biggar of WLS, 

 who had charge of the Folk Festival 

 events. 



Editors and photographers for LIFE 

 magazine. Successful Farming, Farm 

 Journal, as well as from Prairie Farmer 

 and the lAA RECORD were on hand to 

 record the event. Moving picture shots 

 were made of the Festival for the com- 

 ing lAA sound picture. 



Out to recapture district participation 

 and competition honors they won a year 

 ago were Champaign, DeKalb and Boone 

 counties. Of the three, only Boone was 

 disappointed when Henry county copped 

 the District III trophy with 720 points. 

 To DeKalb in District II went 192^ 

 points, the greatest number won by any 

 county. Second in the state and first in 

 District I was Champaign county with 

 1895 points. Third in the state was 

 Vermilion with 1360 points. 



Baseball fans, too, were happy. They 

 saw seven tight games between the six 

 divisional winners in the Farm Bureau 

 Baseball League. In the final game 

 Pitcher Lamont of DeKalb shut out 

 Woodford 7-0 to win the championship. 



The tournament curtain-raiser Friday 

 morning was a thriller in which Will 

 nosed out Carroll in a pitcher's duel, 

 score 3 to 2. McLean defeated Bond 7 

 to 5 in the first round. DeKalb came 

 in on a bye and playing behind their 

 first string pitcher, Foglesong, dropped 

 Will 7 to 5. Woodford, also on a bye, 

 won handily over McLean 6 to 1. The 

 teams that draw byes have a decided ad- 

 vantage in tournament baseball and senti- 

 ment was expressed for a new method 

 of matching teams next year. 



The losers played and Will handed 

 McLean a second defeat, 6 to 2. Carroll 

 came back to defeat Bond 11 to 4. Will 

 forfeited the consolation game to Car- 

 roll. DeKalb took the title. 



Most of the spectators at the Festival 

 gravitated to Illinois Field and saw one 

 of these games and several held to their 

 bleacher seats for all of them. During 

 the 14 years of the Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Baseball League interest has waxed and 

 waned but Farm Bureau teams are always 

 popular in the counties that support 

 them. 



It was the sustained interest in the 

 Farm Bureau Baseball League that led to 

 the first Illinois Farm Sports Festival. 



DeKalb county's teams won three of 

 the five Softball tournaments in which 

 116 teams played. They won the Adult 

 County League play by defeating Kan- 

 kakee 4 to 1. The title in the division 

 for Farm Bureau members 35 went to a 

 spry team of DeKalb oldsters when they 

 won from Vermilion, 14 to 10. 



DeKalb county's girls team retained 

 their title by defeating Peoria's team 5 

 to 4 with a final put-out at the plate as 

 what would have been the tying run 

 came in from third. 



McLean boys 4-H Club team defeated 

 DeKalb 2 to 1 in the finals. Henry won 

 the All-County division championship, 5 

 to 4, over Peoria. 



The Illinois horse pulling record was 

 raised from 3625 pounds to 3650 pounds 

 when the World's champion team of 



grade Belgians from Cederdell Farms, 

 Kendall county, pulled the load 271/2 

 feet. Runners-up in the contest, a team 

 of roan Belgians owned by Willard 

 Rhoads of Springfield, pulled 3650 

 pounds two feet. About 1000 jsersons 

 saw the new record made. 



The womenfolks had fun galore vieing 

 for honors in five special contests. Much 

 of their fun was with homemade equip- 

 ment. They volleyed tennis balls with 

 hand-hewn paddles in paddle tennis. 

 They shoved heavy glass furniture coast- 

 ers with mop-sticks in shuffleboard. 

 With hand-turned rope rings and a kitch- 

 en chair they played chair quoits. Clock 

 golf was played with miniature croquet 

 sets. And the homemakers tossed steel- 

 tipped darts at a homemade target in that 

 contest. 



The festival was a credit to the big 

 committee of some 200 representatives 

 from the lAA, County Farm Bureau and 

 Home Bureau, Univ. of III. and other 

 sponsoring groups who made it possible. 



The outcome of all events is as fol- 

 lows: 



BASEBALL <6 teams in tournament, 24 in League) 

 DeKalb County State Champions 



Game 1 : Will. 3; Carroll. 2. 



Game 2: McLean. 7; Bond. 5. , 



Game 3 : DeKalb. ^ ; Will, •>. \ 



Game 4: Woodford. 6; McLean, 1. i 



Ciame 5: Will, 6: McLean. 2. 



Game 6: Carroll. 11; Bond, 4. I 



Game 7: Will forfeited to Carroll. 



Game 8: DeKalb, 7; Woodford, 0. 

 SOFTBALL ADULT COUNTY LEAGUE 

 (16 teams) 

 DeKalb County winner 



Round I: LaSalle 3, Champai|!n 0; Livinj;ston 

 6. Crawford 2 ; Piatt 3, McLean 2 ; Kankakee 3. 

 Vermilion 1 ; DuPage 8, Ocle 4 : DeKalb 13, 

 Marshall-Putnam 4: Tazewell 11, Sangamon 3: 

 St. Clair 1. Madison 0. 



Round II: Livingston 7, LaSalle 3; Kankakee 7, 

 Piatt 3; DeKalb 15. DuPage 1; Tazewell 2, St. 

 Clair I. 



Round III: Kankakee 6, Livingston 4; DeKalb 

 3. Tazewell 2. 



Round IV: DeKalb 4. Kankakee I. 



Consolation Game: Livingston 8. Tazewell 4. 



All-County Division (36 teams) 



Henry County winner 



Round I: Iroquois 5. Adams 1: Tazewell 8, 

 FlTingham 3; Peoria 2, Vermilion 0: Macon 12, 

 Sangamon 7 ; Shelby 5. Champaign 3 : Monroe 6. 

 Shelby 3; Livingston 10. Christian 8; Jasper 2, 

 McLean 0; LaSalle 14, Bureau 7; Ford 8, Edgar I: 

 Ford 5, Henderson 4 ; Knox 7. Mercer ; Randolph 

 forfeit to Brown : Lee 7, DeKalb 5 : Warren forfeit 

 to Madison : Henry 5, Carroll 4 ; St. Clair, 3, 

 Kane 0; McHenry 21. Pike 1. 



Round II : Iroquois 7, Tazewell 5 ; Peoria 3. 

 Macon 2 : Livingston 6. Monroe 5 ; LaSalle 7. 

 Jasper 4 ; Ford 9, Knox 8 : Lee 4. Brown I ; Henry 

 9. Madison 1; St. Clair 11, McHenry 1. 



Round III: Peoria 10, Iroquois 0: LaSalle 9. 

 LivinEston 2 : Ford 5, Lee 1 : Henry 3. St. Clair 2. 



Round rV : Peoria 4, LaSalle I ; Henry 8. 

 Ford 1. 



Round V: Henry 5. Peoria 4. 



Consolation: LaSalle won on forfeit from Ford. 

 Farm Bureau members 35 years and over (12 teams) 

 DeKalb County winner 



Round I: Champaign 13, Ford 2; Vermil-on 11. 

 Livin^'ston 4 ; Kankakee |7, Iroquois 4 ; DeKalb 4. 

 LaSalle 3. 



Round II : Peoria 8. Champaign 2 ; Vermilion 

 22. Sangamon 3 ; Kankakee 9. Warren 8 : DeKalb 

 13. McLean 2. 



Round III: Vermilion 13. Peoria 9: DeKalb •>, 

 Kankakee 4. , 



Round rV: DeKalb 14, Vermilion 10. \ 



Consolation: Kankakee forfeit to Peoria. 

 Boys 4-H Club (44 teams) 

 McLean County winner 



Round I: Shelby 17, Clay 1; McLean 4. Cham- 

 paign 3; DeWitt forfeit to Clark; Peoria 4, Sanga 

 mon 3 : Kankakee 5, Vermilion 1 ; Christian for- 

 feit to Douglas ; Moultrie forfeit to Iroquois ; Liv- 

 ingston 12, Woodford 1 ; Warren 23, Madison 3 ; 

 DeKalb 9, Will 7; DuPage 9, Kendall 3: Mar 

 shallPutnam 3, Schuyler 3; LaSalle 9, Greene 5; 

 Bureau forfeit to Macoupin ; Knox 10. Ogle 2 ; 

 Henry 10, St. Clair 6. 



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