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 Wm. Mauk, Clark; 3rd Steve Varianes, 

 Champaign. 



Boys — 16 years and older: 50 Yard 

 Swim — 1st Tom Wise, Champaign; 2nd 

 Buck Drake, DeKalb; 3rd Geo. Magles, 

 Vermilion. Low Board Diving — 1st Billy 

 Wright, Morgan; 2nd Ralph Kern, Pike; 

 3rd Charles Scoggins, Champaign. 



Girls 15 years and under: 50 Yard Swim 



— 1st Dot Dennis, Edgar; 2nd Kathleen 

 Wells, Pike; 3rd Martha Richardson, Cook. 

 Low Board Diving — 1st Dot Dennis, 

 Edgar; 2nd Beth Dennis, Edgar; 3rd Wilma 

 Whitzel, Champaign. 



Girls 16 years and older: )0 Yard Swim 



— 1st Betty Kriegshauser, Pike; 2nd Betty 

 Hoelscher, Champaign; 3rd Marjorie No- 

 varis, Vermilion. Low Board Diving — 

 1st Marjorie Novaris, Vermilion; 2nd Betty 

 Kriegshauser, Pike; 3rd Carie Concidine, 

 DeKalb. 



CHECKERS 



Twenty-two counties — 1st Lee Dikeman, 

 Peoria; 2nd Wm. Goff, Sangamon; 3rd 

 Joe Tuxhorn, Sangamon. Three tied for 

 4th place — W. H. Walker, Moultrie; O. 

 Oltman, Whiteside and Frank Galloway 

 of DeWitt. 



BAIT CASTING 



1st Sam Stubbs, McLean; 2nd A. E. Rich- 

 ardson, Christian; 3rd Lloyd Graham, Mc- 

 Lean. 



HOG CALLING 



1st Otis Kiesow, Peoria; 2nd L. B. Mulli- 

 gan, Champaign; 3rd Merle Reel, Wood- 

 ford. 



WOOD CHOPPING 



1st Herman Toepfer, Carroll county 2:40; 

 2nd W. H. Henegar, Douglas 3:28.6; 3rd 

 Roy Fisher, Wabash county 4:33.8. 



FOLK FESTIVAL 



Twenty counties represented — Family 

 Singing: DeKalb county, Knudson Family. 

 Choral Groups: DeKalb county, DeKalb 

 Rural Chorus, Mary Fisher, leader. Novelty 

 Bands: Macon county, Argenta Home Bu- 

 reau, Mrs. Velma Groves, A. Square Dance 

 Eband: Edgar, county. Pine Grove, John 

 Stanley. Folk Dance: DeKalb county. 

 Rural Youth, Reta Fane, A; Moultrie county. 

 Rural Youth, Dorothy Footit, A; Tazewell 

 county. Rural Youth, William Ellenson, A. 

 Square Dance: Henry county. Rural Youth, 

 Helen Kreuger, Geneseo, A; Kane county. 

 Rural Youth, Don Norris, Sugar Grove, A; 

 LaSalle county. Ramblers, J. A. Kincaid, 

 A; Music Specialties: Champaign county. 

 Bob Morris, Accordian, A; Henry county, 

 Chuck Baum, Geneseo, A; Vermilion county, 

 Dona Jean Gibson, A; Novelties: Cham- 

 paign county, Laura Dexter and Ruth Conn, 

 Tap Dance, A; Champaign county, Jean 

 Gates and Webb Hunter, Novelty, A; 

 Edgar county, Margaret E. Burton, Tap, A. 



SPECIAL EVEIVTS 



Rooster Catching: Herbert Deason, Jack- 

 son county; Wayne Pinnel, Edgar; Lloyd 

 Rosenthal, Livingston. 



Pie Eating Contest: 1st Charles Thomp- 

 son, LaSalle County, 1938 champ; 2nd 

 John Richardson, Cook; 3rd Marjorie No- 

 vario, Vermilion. 



Slipper Kicking Contest: 1st Mrs. George 

 Gerlt, DeKalb county — 73' 9"; 2nd Mrs. 

 Curtis Aftahal, Vermilion — 73' 4"; 3rd 

 Mrs. Otis Kiesow, Peoria — 70' 1". 



Mud Tug O'War: Farm advisers and 

 College of Agriculture Staff Members — 

 Ray Roll, Gallatin; R. I. Shawl, University 

 of Illinois; W. S. Batson, Shelby; I. E. 

 Parrett, Vermilion'; Larry Colvis, U. of 1. 



versus lAA Board and Staff Members — 

 Chet Becker, Illinois Farm Supply Co.; 

 Paul Mathias, lAA; Chester McCord, Jasper; 

 Cap Mast, lAA; W. A. Dennis, Edgar. 

 "Mud" Tug was a tie. All contestants 

 were thoroughly mudded. Ed Harris, Cham- 

 paign county farm adviser, Frank Gingrich 

 of the lAA and L. J. Hager, Marshall- 

 Putnam farm adviser, were also dunked. 



Largest Farm Bureau Member Family: 

 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Mattingly, Edgar coun- 

 ty, 11 children. Runner-Up, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Clark E. Wise, Champaign, 10 children. 



Oldest Farm Bureau Member: John L. 

 Black, 82, Urbana. 



Oldest Home Bureau Member: Mrs. John 

 L. Black, 81, Urbana. 



in counting positions. The court laid 

 out on the sidewalk was in use as long 

 as the mopsticks were available. 



Women at the 



Sports Festival 



As vigorously as they wash, sweep 

 and pull weeds at home, women attencl- 

 ing the fourth annual Illinois Sports 

 Festival enthusiastically entered into 

 the contests. Miss Clareta Walker 

 home advisor from Macoupin county, 

 assisted by Miss Wilma Beyer, home 

 advisor from Shelby county, served as 

 chairman. 



A few figures show what they played. 

 Fourty women from 24 counties were 

 entered in the chair quoits and shuffle- 

 board contests. Thirty-nine women 

 from 22 counties engaged in dart 

 throwing, 34 women from 19 counties 

 played clock golf and 19 women from 

 12 counties competed in paddle tennis. 



Shuffleboard, one of the most popu- 

 lar events, was won by Miss Mae Reel, 

 a young woman from Edgar county. 

 Mrs. Laura Ebert, Christian county, 

 counted enough points for second place 

 and Mrs. Fred Verkler, Iroquois, was 

 third. 



Mrs. Otis Kiesow, Peoria county, 

 last year's paddle tennis winner, became 

 a second time champion when she eas- 

 ily won this year's event. Miss Dorothy 

 Berger, Ford county, was runner up, 

 and Carrie Concidine, DeKalb county, 

 placed third. 



Winnebago county had a champion 

 in Mrs. Russell Coffin who tossed the 

 rings in chair quoits. Mrs. Harry 

 Wright, Clark county, was second and 

 Mrs. George Cory, Greene county, 

 played off a tie to win third. 



Gladys Reel, Edgar county, practiced 

 at home on croquet enough to win the 

 clock golf contest. Mrs. Vern Davis 

 won another blue ribbon for Winne- 

 bago county in the dart throwing. 

 Names of other winners will be found 

 in the tabulated results. 



From watching the play, and listen- 

 ing to the conversation, it would seem 

 that everyone enjoys and plays shuffle- 

 board. As soon as the contest was 

 over, several young couples picked up 

 the mop sticks and started a game of 

 their own. Later, two small boys yelled 

 back and forth as they pushed the disc 



Sitting in the shade watching the 

 paddle tennis contest in the hot Sep- 

 tember sun, Mrs. James Martin, Greene 

 county, confessed she was glad to watch 

 instead of play. She left food at home 

 for four men for the two days she was 

 away at the festival. The day before 

 she canned 14 quarts of tomatoes, 

 dressed a chicken, made ice cream, 

 baked cookies, and swept her house. 



Mrs. Russell Coffin, winner of the 

 chair quoits contest, cooked dinner, 

 supper, and lunch in between, for 14 

 sweet corn pickers the day before she 

 came to the festival. Harvesting sweet 

 corn is hard work, she explained. The 

 green corn is heavy, the men must 

 stoop over and then hurry to get the 

 crop in on time. 



Mrs. E. B. Peterson, DeKalb county, 

 had no worries about affairs at home. 

 Mr. Peterson was taking the nine silo 

 fillers to a restaurant in Sycamore for 

 their dinners the two days of the festi- 

 val. 



Mrs. Leah Busey, Champaign county, 

 didn't win the shuffleboard, but she 

 had the most vociferous following of 

 any contestant. 4-H boys from her 

 community stopped by to root for her 

 until the last shove. 



What is the typical Sports Festival 

 dress.' Some wore fall blacks, some 

 dark summer sheers, some just what 

 they happened to have. Perhaps the 

 most attractive costumes were the fresh, 

 cool looking ginghams, such as the 

 blue checked one worn by Gladys Blair 

 of PRAIRIE FARMER. 



Miss Clareta Walker went in for 

 natty and knobby buttons. On her 

 leather belt were fastened corks, just 

 corks from the five and ten. The belt 

 looked as though it might have been 

 purchased at Marshall Fields. 



Miss Walker and Mrs. Spencer 

 Ewing, state chairman of recreation 

 will be happy to receive personal letters 

 with suggestions for improving wom- 

 en's events at the Sports Festival for 

 another year. 



Mrs. Luella Briggs, 4-H chairman of 

 Christian county, makes those rope 

 rings used in chair quoits. She says 

 the family have fun making them, 

 sometimes you can't buy them at the 

 store, and most farms have plenty of 

 extra rope to be used. Mail will reach 

 her at Stonington. — N.F.G. 



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