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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



April, 1931 



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SATURDAY, May 9, was set as the 

 opening day for the 1931 Farm Bu- 

 reau baseball season by directors of the 

 Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League 

 / who met at Peoria March 20. Around 

 ■ -: 100 officials, players and visitors at- 

 tended. Nearly all the 34-3 5 counties 

 expecting to have teams were repre- 

 ■'■/ ; sented. , ' ,.:>\'' ' ''' ' " 



Principal action taken included (1) 

 rearrangement of the districts to make 

 way for new members, (2) adoption 

 of State Arbitration Committee's re- 

 port on eligibility, (3) adoption of 

 • playing rules for the season. 



The accompanying map shows the 

 new arrangement of counties into dis- 

 tricts. Each district will organize be- 

 .; fore the opening of the season, elect a 

 : district chairman and dictator, adopt a 

 . schedule of games to decide the district 

 championship, agree on selection of um- 

 pires, division of gate receipts, etc. 

 The State Arbitration Committee, 

 ; composed of League President Chas. 

 Black, Jacksonville; Vice-President John 

 Stout, Chatham; Secretary George 

 Thiem, Chicago, reported on the trouble- 

 some question of eligibility of players. 

 Eligible are: 



1. Farm Bureau members actively en- 

 gaged in operating a farm or actively 



v. superintending the operation of a farm. 



2. Dependent son or dependent rela- 

 tive of a Farm Bureau member actively 

 farming and living with such member. 



3. Where joint membership is held 

 all parties to membership actively en- 

 gaged in farming. 



4. Part time employment away from 

 the farm shall not be construed as mak- 

 ing a prospective player ineligible un- 

 der the eligibility rule as defined in the 

 constitution. 



5. Farm managers actively superin- 

 tending the operation of farm lands 

 who are members of the Farm Bureau. 



6. Dependent sons of Farm Bureau 

 members, or members of the Farm Bu- 

 reau who go to school and work on the 

 farm during vacation. 



Most significant rules adopted re- 

 , - quire: 



1. Each team to deposit $2 5 cashier's 

 check as forfeit for failure to report at 

 regularly scheduled game. 



2. Each team to fill out eligibility 

 ' questionnaire on each prospective play- 



!" er and file with state league secretary 10 

 days before first scheduled game. 

 The Spaulding No. new cushion 

 . cork center ball was adopted as official. 



National Co-Op. For ^^ 



'"''■■'[y: :": ■ Fruit and Vegetables 



Plan to Co-ordinate Regional Co- 

 Ops. in Nation- Wide Sales Plan 



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DivlMionM in Illinolit Farm Burenn 

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"Skeets" Bloomquist, former Gales- 

 burg star will again act as manager and 

 attempt to lead the Knox county team 

 into the state semi-finals. 



It was decided by the players at a 

 recent meeting to start practice within 

 the next two weeks and attempt to get 

 in all the practice possible before the 

 opening of the league schedule, which 

 will be the latter part of May. 



A. B. Leeper 



Division IV will open the season May 

 16 when Marshall-Putnam and Peoria 

 cross bats in Peoria county, while 

 Woodford and Tazewell meet on the 

 latter's home grounds. Wilfred Shaw 

 was selected district dictator at the di- 

 visional meeting. 



From McLean 



Division VI held its meeting in Clin- 

 ton April 3, where L. R. Welk was 

 chosen district dictator. First games 

 will be played May 16. Each county 

 will keep its gates receipts at home 

 games, pay its own umpires at home 

 and away. 



Douglas county games will be played 

 at Tuscola, Macon county at Decatur, 

 Champaign games at Urbana, Logan at 

 Lincoln, McLean at Normal University 

 diamond. " ■ 



Jefferson County Farm 



Bureau Get-Together 



{/ I / OR the first time in the history 

 -I- of the Jefferson County Farm 

 Bureau, and so far as we have been 

 able to find out, probably for the first 

 time in Illinois, all present and past 

 members of the Board of Directors and 

 their families were invited to a get- 

 together," writes Charles E. Twigg, the 

 new county agent at Mt. Vernon. 



W. T. Wooden, first president of the 

 Jefferson Bureau, told of the difficulties 

 encountered in organizing a Farm Bu- 



AS we go to press a national meet- 

 ing of fruit and vegetable co- 

 operative representatives is scheduled to 

 be held in Washington, probably on 

 April 13 at the call of Charles S. Wil- 

 son, member of the Federal Farm Board. 



On April 6, fruit and vegetable 

 marketing representatives from Illinois, 

 Michigan, Wiscon- 

 sin, Indiana, Missis- 

 sippi, Arkansas, Mis- 

 souri and Kansas met 

 with Mr. Wilson of 

 the Farm Board in 

 St. Louis to discuss 

 possibilities for or- 

 ganizing a fruit and 

 vegetable regional 

 co-operative in the 

 Mississippi Valley. 

 A. B. Leeper, direc- 

 tor of fruit and 

 vegetable marketing, Secretary Geo. E. 

 Metzger, and W. L. Cope of the I. A. 

 A., together with several Illinois grow- 

 ers, sat in the conference. " 



A committee of four was appointed 

 to go to Washington at the call of the 

 Farm Board to meet with 11 other 

 representatives chosen from all sections 

 of the United States to discuss the ad-" 

 visability of organizing a national fruit 

 and vegetable marketing agency. Mr. 

 Leeper was chosen a member of this 

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At present there is little co-ordina- 

 tion between regional and district co- 

 operative^ marketing associations. It is 

 hoped that the new movement will 

 bring the district associations together 

 so that a national plan can be developed 

 and sales representatives of the nation- 

 wide co-operative placed on all the 

 principal markets. . :: . • v' ' ■: 



reau in that county. A. E. Drennan, a 

 former president, brought the history 

 of the Bureau down to recent years. 



I. E. Beall, present Farm Bureau 

 president, gave an account of his for- 

 mer connections with the Farm Bureau 

 Federations in Texas and Missouri, em- 

 phasized the superior Farm Bureau ser- 

 vice program in Illinois. ^ 



Other speakers were F. L. Brissenden, 

 I. A. A. district organization manager; 

 H. H. Connaway, delegate to the I. A. 

 A. convention^ County Adviser Twigg; 

 Assistant State Leader F. L. Longmire; 

 L. R. Caldwell, former county? ad-; ' 

 viser; the secretary of the local Cham-' ^ 

 ber of Commerce, and the manager of 

 the Emmerson Hotel. 



