Sports Festival 



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NOW! 



WANT to enter the eighth Illi- 

 nois Farm Sports Festival, Aug. 

 29 and 30 at the University of 

 Illinois? It's time to pick your 

 sport. Particularly if you'd 

 like to start playing now with 

 a ball team. 



You can enter sports events ranging 

 from archery to wood chopping. There's 

 something for every age group in the 

 farm family, including a trap shoot for 

 men over 70. 



Your youth assistant, farm adviser or 

 home adviser can supply you with details. 

 You can participate individually and as a 

 member of a team. 



Here's a list of most of the sports and 

 music events: Archer) — men, individual; 

 women, individual. Bonding — men, in- 

 dividual and team of five; women, indi- 

 vidual and team of five. 



Checkers — individual. Chair quoits — 

 women only. Clock golf — women only; 

 Dart tlnowing — women only. Hog call- 

 ing — men and women. 



Horseshoes — men singles and doubles; 

 women singles and doubles. Knot-tying — 

 women only. Physical fitness — 4-H boys 

 and girls. Rifle shoot — men individual 

 and team; women, individual and team; 

 special classes. 



Shuffle board — women only. Softball 

 —adult county league; Farm Bureau 

 members over 35 years old; all count)- 

 division; boys' 4-H club division; Rural 

 Youth division; girls' 4-H division; 

 womens' open division. 



Swimming — boys division : 1 5 years 

 and under, and 16 years and older, 50 

 yard dash and low board diving. Girls 

 division: 15 years and under 16 years 



10 



and older, 50 yard dash and low board 

 diving. 



Skeet and trap shoot — men individual 

 and team ; women, individual and team ; 

 special classes. Track — boys division: 



15 years and under, and 16 years and, 

 older: 50 yard dash, 100 yard dash, 

 high jump, broad jump, half mile relay. 

 Girls division: 15 years and under, and 



16 years and older: 75 yard dash, broad 

 jump, and high jump. 



Tug o'war — men, team of eight. Vol- 

 ley hall — men only. Wood chopping — 

 men, individual. 



Events for the Folk Festival include: 

 Choral groups, community song leaders, 

 family singing, folk dancing, music spe- 

 cialties, novelties, novelty bands, square 

 dance callers; special groups for 4-H 

 members, including 4-H chorus, 4-H 

 marching teams, 4-H dramatization of 

 story of songs or composers. 



Twenty-nine teams, greatest number to 

 enter in recent years, have reported for 

 spring warm-up practice in the Illinois 

 Farm Bureau Baseball League. 



These teams will meet in district com- 

 petition before the championship games 

 are played at the Illinois Farm Sports 

 Festival Aug. 28 and 29 at the University 

 of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 



Counties have been divided into dis- 

 tricts by the league executive committee 

 as follows: District 1, Boone, Carroll, 

 Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Winnebago. 



Dist. 2, DeKalb, Kendall, LaSalle, 

 Will ; Dist. 3, Bureau, Henry, Lee. Dist. 

 4, Cass, Henderson, Warren; Dist. 5, 

 Peoria, Marshall-Putnam, Tazewell, 

 Woodford. 



Dist. 6, Ford, Livingston, McLean; 

 Dist. 7, Champaign, Coles, Macon; Dist. 

 8, Montgomery, Macoupin; Dist. 9, Ran- 

 dolph, Saline. 



L A. A. RECORD 



JUNE. 



