LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS FESTIVAL 



PLAN BIGGEST 

 AND BEST 



FARM SPORTS 



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PLANS for the biggest and best 

 Illinois Farm Sports Festival in 

 history are now well under way. 

 So get somebody to take care of 

 the chores Thursday and Friday, 

 Aug. 28-29, folks, because those 

 are the days we expect to see you in 

 Urbana-Champaign. Get out and root 

 for the home county. Or better still, 

 get on one of your county's teams. 



Yes, even grandma and junior will be 

 able to add a few points for the greater 

 glory of the home county. So get on a 

 team or enter the singles events now 

 before it is too late. 



What would you like to do.' There 

 must be something in the list below that 

 you can do better than the other fellow. 

 Come on, your county needs those points. 

 Take your choice. Here are most of 

 the events planned: archery, baseball, 

 Softball, bowling, checkers, 4-H physical 

 fitness, hog calling, horseshoes, rifle 

 shoot, skeet shoot, trap shoot, swimming, 

 track, tug o' war, volley ball, wood- 

 chopping, chair quoits, clock golf, dart 

 throwing, horseshoes, knot tying, shuffle- 

 board, table tennis, barber shop quartet 

 singing, choral and family singing, mu- 

 sic specialties, novelty bands, folk danc- 

 ing, and square dancing. 



Wrestling has been dropped from the 

 festival program this year because of the 

 lack of entrants. Added will be the 

 barber shop quartet. So get out the old 

 derby, glue on a handlebar mustache and 

 round up three other fellows who can 

 carry a tune and you're all set. Also 

 added are 4-H rhythm and marching 

 groups. And for a few laughs we are 

 planning a pie-eating or watermelon eat- 

 ing contest during one of the dinnerbell 



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■hot of girls' softliall talcan during an Illinois Farm Sports 

 Festival a few years age. 



hour broadcasts. No points are awarded 

 in the eating feats. 



Bowling this year will have a special 

 division for Rural Youth, with classes 

 each for boys and girls teams and singles. 

 A mixed doubles event also has been 

 arranged for Rural youth members. Men 

 and women will continue to have team 

 and singles in the "Open" division. 



The skeet and trapshooting events 

 have been expanded to include competi- 

 tion for women and juniors, oldtimers 

 and doubles of father and son, husband 

 and wife, etc., in the trap shooting. 

 Skeet shooting also has been enlarged 

 but there are no classes for women. 



By June 15 seven Farm Bureau base- 

 ball leagues were conducting district play 

 and an eighth district was being worked 

 out. Indications are that competition 

 will be strong this year because of the 

 close scoring. All of the teams say they 

 have an eye on the championship won by 

 Will county last year. District cham- 

 pions will settle the issue during the 

 Sports Festival. 



In the same way champions from 32 

 districts in the state will meet during 

 the festival to decide the winner of the 

 state Rural Youth Softball tournament 

 won by Carroll county last year. Rural 

 Youth district playoffs must be com- 

 pleted by Aug. 10. All counties will re- 

 ceive points if their Rural Youth soft- 

 ball team participates in district play. 



Another departure from former years 

 will be the elimination of the general 

 program of competition and entertain- 



ment held at the university's Memorial 

 Stadium the first night of the Festival. 

 Substituting will be a "three-ring circus" 

 of music, dancing, and entertainment. 



1. A square dance jamboree for the 

 folks who like the old time dances will 

 be held in Huff gymnasium. 



2. For the younger folks who like to 

 "cut a rug" Dick Cisne and his orchestra 

 will provide the jive for a big swing 

 festival at a place to be announced later. 



3. And for the folks who would 

 rather look on, a general program of 

 entertainment will be held at the uni- 

 versity Auditorium including music, 

 singing, and a special showing of the 

 lAA color movie of the 1946 Sports 

 Festival. 



The climax of the two-day event will 

 be the staging of several final contests, 

 such as woodchopping and hog-calling, 

 at the Stadium Friday afternoon, the 

 awarding of trophies and ribbons to the 

 winners, and the selection of a Sports 

 Festival queen. Both WLS and WDZ 

 will provide talent for entertaining the 

 spectators. 



All contestant entries in the Sports 

 Festival must be made through county 

 Farm Bureaus or Home Bureaus and the 

 names of contestants in all events except 

 Softball must be in the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association office at 43 East Ohio 

 Street, Chicago, 111., by August 25. Soft- 

 ball eligibility lists must be postmarked 

 before midnight, Aug. 16. 



Room reservations will be handled 

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