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Bigger &. Better 

 Sports Festival 



REEP August 28 and 29 open dates 

 on your calendar! 

 That's right — they're the days 

 for the eighth annual Illinois Farm 

 Sports Festival — the biggest fun 

 event of its kind in the country. 

 Plans are being made to make the 

 Festival bigger and better than ever this 

 year. And that will be going some be- 

 cause last year it drew some 3000 con- 

 testants and 20,000 spectators to the 

 University of Illinois campus at Urbana. 

 Meeting in mid-April at the lAA of- 

 fices in Chicago, the statewide committee 

 decided that more emphasis would be 

 placed on the folk festival section of the 

 program this year. One of the new list- 

 ings will include barber shop quartets, 

 and another will be 4-H club choruses 

 and march and drill teams. So if you're 

 interested in these, get in touch with 

 your county leaders. It's not too early 

 to get things started. 



Aug. 16 has been set as the deadline 

 for all Softball entries, and Aug. 23 is 



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the deadline for all other entries in the 

 Festival. 



It also was decided to have the coun- 

 ties set up in 32 districts for Rural Youth 

 Softball competition this year. District 

 winners will compete at Urbana, and 

 points also will be given for participation 

 in district contests. 



In order to spur competition this year, 

 the state has been redistricted for the 

 Festival. The map illustrated on this 

 page shows the counties in the new dis- 

 tricts. 



Wrestling is being eliminated from the 

 1947 festival because of the past record 

 of few entries, but tug 'o war will be a 

 colorful event again. 



The women plan to give more promo- 

 tion to their events this year. Both 

 teams and individuals will compete in 

 table tennis, shuffle board, horseshoes 

 and chair quoits. There will be two di- 

 visions in girls' table tennis, one for 4-H 

 members and an open division for those 

 over 16. 



Softball will continue to be a big 

 drawing card at the Festival with bowl- 

 ing nearing the top of the list. 



A committee was scheduled to meet 

 May 1 to work out the entertainment pro- 

 grams for the two days of the Festival 

 program. There is considerable support 

 for making the Friday afternoon program 

 as big an afifair as the Thursday night 

 program in the University Memorial 

 Stadium. 



The Friday afternoon session usually 

 has been held near HuflF gym in front 

 of a few temporary bleachers. It has 

 been suggested that the Friday session 

 be held in the Stadium and a special 

 award ceremony be held to give proper 

 recognition to Festival winners. 



Chairmen named to the Festival events 

 are: L. B. Culver, U. of I., woodchop- 

 ping; Kenneth Flake, Henry, swimming; 

 Mrs. Louise Foster, Bond, shulTleboard ; 

 Oliver Gaebe, U. of I., swing festival; 

 Helen Garrison, Jefferson, table tennis; 

 Lloyd Graham, Kankakee, skeet shoot; 

 D. E. Hall, U. of I., 4-H physical fit- 

 ness; H. W. Hannah, U. of I., rifle 

 shoot; Ebb Harris, Grayslake, baseball; 

 James Holderman, Gnmdy, trap shoot; 



A. C. Johnson, Kane, schedules; Don 

 Karnes, lAA, track; Emmett Keim, St. 

 Clair, 35'ers softball; Mrs. Orla Kemp- 

 er, Marshall-Putnam, chair quoits; Mary 

 Kitchens, Winnebago, girls' track; 

 Duane Kunt2, Country Life, farm ad- 

 visers versus lAA staff softball. 



D. E. Lindstrom, U. of I., folk festi- 

 val; Ellsworth Lyon, lAA, Rural Youth 

 softball; Ralph McKenzie, U. of I., 

 square dance jamboree; Charles Mayfield, 

 lAA, co-chairman, special programs; F. 

 E. Morris, lAA vice-president, softball; 

 O. O. Mowery, Macoupin, all county 

 softball; Eugene Mosbacher, McLean, 

 county league softball. 



J. T. Nelson, lAA, tabulation of re- 

 sults; Elizabeth Pace, DuPage, clock 

 golf; W. B. Peterson, Illinois Farm Sup- 

 ply, co-chairman of special programs; 

 E. I. Pilchard, U. of I., 4-H softball; 

 Sam Russell, lAA tug 'o war; Lillian 

 Schrader, Jersey, knot tying; H. J. Snid- 

 er, U. of I., horseshoes. 



Margaret Van Schoick, Wayne, girls 

 rifle shoot; Clareta Walker, U. of I., co- 

 chairman, women's events; Ray Watson, 

 Mason, scoreboard and announcements; 

 W. W. Whitlock, lAA, facilities; Jerry 

 Trimble, Champaign, co-chairman, in- 

 formation. 



Miss Eureth Freyermuth, LaSalle, 

 ladies swimming; Miss Virginia Guthrie, 

 Moultrie, dart throwing; Miss Miriam 

 Morgan, Rock Island, ladies horseshoes; 

 Mrs. Jane Pretchett, Shelby, ladies arch- 

 ery. 



E. J. Barnes, Richland, volley ball; 

 C. H. Becker, Illinois Farm Supply, 

 bowling; Helen Bennett, Montgomery, 

 ladies' bowling; William Bunn, Cham- 

 paign, room reservations ; Mrs. Clar- 

 ence Castle, Will, girls' 4-H softball; 

 Robert Castle, Country Life, umpire-in- 

 chief; John Cox, lAA, co-chairman, in- 

 formation, and John Bryant, DeKalb, 

 reporters. 



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