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June, 1932 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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G. L. Clarke of McLean county 

 was chosen dictator for District 

 VI, Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 

 League, at the organization meet- 

 ing held at Bloomington. This 

 division includes McLean, Living- 

 ston, Ford, and Logan counties. 



Most of the 36 teams in the 

 Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 

 League went into action Saturday, 

 May 21, when the ninth season of 

 the league was officially opened in 

 most of the nine districts. 



Although several of last year's 

 teams failed to enter the league 

 this year, a number of new 

 counties organized teams to take 

 their places. Last year 34 teams 

 were affiliated with the state or- 

 ganization. 



Games within divisions will 

 continue until about the middle 

 of August. At that time winners 

 in the nine districts will start the 

 elimination contests for the state 

 finals. , :;■..:- ■^:\r-<:S---:-::''^^:M :-.;-;\-:;';:- ';■ ":y;V:^v ■ 



The general practice is for each 

 team to play every other team in 

 its district at least two games 

 during the season. District win- 

 ners are then chosen on their 

 percentage of games won and 

 lost. 



Ford county defeated McLean in the 

 opener of the season May 21 by a score 

 of 16 to 2. McLean was held to six hits, 

 three of which were doubles by Builta. 

 Read, the Ford county hurler, struck out 

 six batters. The game was played at 

 Purdueville in Ford county. Weinzeirl 

 and Caton pitched for McLean. 



Winnebago took JoDaviess for a 

 cleaning 14 to 5 in their initial game. 

 Winnebago is a newcomer In the league 

 this year. The heavy hitting of the 

 Winnebago team (19 hits) was an out- 

 standing feature. JoDaviess got nine 

 hits. Batteries for .Winnebago were 

 Rhyner and Walch; for JoDaviess C. 

 Ware, Bonjour, and F. Kupersmith. 



Honefinger of Christian county turned 

 in the best pitching record for the day 

 when he let Montgomery county down 

 with only 4 hits, resulting in a 13 to 1 

 victory for Christian at Hillsboro. E. 

 Ray and Claykamp pitched for Mont- 

 gomery. Hawkins and Unser were the 

 heavy hitters for Christian with three 

 hits each. 



Carroll county defeated Lee 12 to 

 6 in an evenly matched hitting contest 

 in which 7 errors by Lee played an im- 

 portant part. Carroll got 12 hits and 

 Lee 10. Vivian, pitching for Lee, turned 

 in eight strikeouts. E. Rahn and Levan 

 hurled for Carroll. 



DeKalb hitters swamped Kane county 

 with 22 hits to win 20 to 15. C. John- 

 son, pitching for Kane, was unable to 

 halt the DeKalb nine In spite of ten 

 strikeouts. DeKalb used Nelson, R. 

 Challand, and McKenzie on the mound. 

 The three pitchers together struck out 

 17 batters. Bartelt, Kane county short 

 stop, hit a homerun; Gramley, Kane 

 third baseman, got a doijble and two 



At the annual sprine meeting: of Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League, Bloom- 

 Ingrton, \^-here plana for the 1932 season were -worked out. 



triples; Decker of DeKalb got three 

 doubles and two singles. 



Lake county defeated Boone in a 10-6 

 game at Belvidere. Lake got ten hits 

 to Boone's seven. Dowell pitched for 

 Lake; Camp for Boone. Wallace and 

 Paddock of Lake and McEachran of 

 Boone hit homeruns. The game was 

 tied 2-2 at the opening of the eighth 

 inning. Lake then ran in six runs and 

 two more in the ninth to make Boone's 

 four-run rally in the ninth Ineffective. 



McDonough county wound up on the 

 long end of a 6 to 5 score in a see-saw 

 game with Knox county at Macomb. 

 Knox went into the sixth inning with a 

 4 to 1 lead, but two errors, a hit batter, 

 and a single gave McDonough two runs, 

 and in the seventh two walks, an error, 

 a single and a double scored three runs 

 to give them the lead. Ross Sornberger 

 did the pitching for Knox and Xrntzen 

 was on the mound for McDonough. Sorn- 

 berger turned in three singles and a 

 homerun to complete his day's work. 



Henderson county's six errors and the 

 16 hits produced by the Henry county 

 nine resulted in a 13 to 4 victory for 

 the latter in a game at Carman. Henry 

 played errorless baseball behind Van- 

 dersnlck and Robson, w^ho allowed nine 

 hits. Anderson and Samuelson of Henrv 

 produced homeruns. Pogue, Leinbach. 

 and Chandler pitched for Henderson. 



Commission Men Trying 

 To Ditch Co-op Marketing 



Agr. Marketing Act Working 



Too Well To Suit Them, 



Kirkpatrick Says 



PRIVATE operators in farm 

 products, who helped get the 

 Agricultural Marketing Act en- 

 acted, are today trying to ditch 

 the whole program of co-operative 

 marketing because they now see 

 that it is succeeding in spite of the 

 limitations of the Act, Donald 

 Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 declared before 600 farmers and 

 business men at Decatur May 3. 



"The law is not working to the 

 full satisfaction of the farmer," 

 he said, "but it is working so well 

 that those who. originally were for 

 it because they thought it would- 

 n't work, are now using every 

 effort to get rid of co-operative 

 marketing." , /-.- ; - : . ; 



Kirkpatrick explained that the 

 group especially interested in the 

 repeal of the marketing act was 



made up principally of grain and 

 livestock commission men and 

 was organized as the Federation 

 of American Business Men. 



"This group does not attack co- 

 operative marketing directly," he 

 said. "It attempts to cover up its 

 activities by blaming the Agri- 

 cultural Act and the government 

 in general. They use every means 

 to deceive farmers as to the actual 

 results that are being accom- 

 plished by co-operative market- 

 ing. 



"Co-operative marketing tends 

 to stabilize prices which is just 

 what the speculative grain buyer 

 does not want. He wants the 

 prices to bob up and down. 



"The Agricultural Marketing 

 Act was not what farmers asked 

 for through their organizations. 

 The Farm Bureau leaders, how- 

 ever, agreed to use the legislation 

 and try to make it work, with the 

 understanding that if it was found 

 incomplete amendments would be 

 asked to make it effective. 



"This is the position of the 

 Farm Bureau today. It is not 

 asking that the act be repealed, 

 but that it be amended with the 

 addition of some devices by which 

 surplus may be controlled." 



An attorney named Hensley 

 from Decatur, and Fred Cum- 

 mings of Mazon, formerly an or- 

 ganizer for the Farm Bureau, en- 

 gaged Mr. Kirkpatrick in friendly 

 debate at the close of the meet- 

 ing. Hensley and Cummings are 

 trying to get a new organization 

 started known as the Farmers 

 Protective Association. , n , 



It was generally agreed that 

 farmers wouldn't get anywhere by 

 dividing their forces among new 

 organizations. Kirkpatrick pointed 

 to the record of the Farm Bureau 

 and invited non-members to join 

 and lend their influence for the 

 good of the industry. 



