BIGGER and better than any in 

 history. That was the record of 

 the Eighth Annual Farm Sports 

 Festival as it was written by the 

 4,000 farm athletes who com- 

 peted for state honors on the 

 University campus at Champaign-Ur- 

 bana last month. 



Clean, hard play marked the two 

 day farm Olympics as softball teams, 

 bowlers, and crack rifle shots con- 

 verged at the University of Illinois 

 campus from the four corners of the 

 state. 



As a symbol of this fine spirit of 

 sportsmanship, and representing these 

 thousands of rural athletes, Evelyn 

 Koski, pretty star pitcher of the win- 

 ning DeKalb women's softball team, 

 was crowned Queen of Sports by Doug 

 Mills, University director of athletics, 

 •during the closing ceremonies of the 

 festival. 



More than 20,000 farm folks were 

 drawn to the two day sports pageant 

 to watch 200 softball teams, archers, bowl- 

 ers, swimmers, and hundreds of other 

 sport specialists go through their paces. 



For sheer staying power among the 

 softball teams the McLean County 



BIGGEST and BEST 



Boys' 4-H Club softball team from 

 Hudson was unofficially, the cham- 

 pion of champions. They emerged the 

 one unbeaten team among the 54 teams 

 in their division. 



Thursday evening, after a full day 

 of sport and folk festival competition, 

 all this was set aside for the time, and 

 the folks attending the two day fun- 

 fest took time out for dancing and en- 

 tertainment. 



During these Thursday evening 

 hours you could hear in Huff gym the 

 gay notes of the fiddle player, and the 

 sing-song chant of the caller as hun- 

 dreds of square dance couples scraped 

 and bowed to old time music. 



Over at the Union building the 

 young folks danced and romanced to 

 the mellow strains of Dick Cisne's 

 swing band. Outside a third program 



was in progress as entertainers from 

 the afternoon's folk festival performed 

 under a canopy of stars and moon- 

 light before an audience of 3,000 rural 

 music lovers. 



Stealing this amateur show were 

 Billy McFarland, 10, and Gary Grimes, 

 8, from Edgar county, who, with their 

 saxaphone and accordion, got an extra 

 bow for "Peg O' My Heart" and 

 "Memories." 



During this outdoor show Mary 

 Naflsiger and Paul Woerner of the 

 Ta2ewell county 4-H clubs presented 

 J. C. Spitler, representing the College 

 of Agriculture, with a check of 

 $2,265.85 for the 4-H club camp at the 

 Allerton estate. 



In the meantime, at HuflF gym the 

 square dancers were giving a big hand 

 to the Danish folk dancers from Ring- 



Thlt is the McLoon county trapshooting toam which placed 



•ecend. Left to right: Heiden, Stubbiefield, Corpse, Tietge, 



and Culoude. 



The DeKalb girls' catcher Is going to miss this tip foul off the 



bat of her Iroquois county opponent. DeKaib wen. Note 



ball In midair. 



U. of I. Athletic Director Doug Mills hands 



a crown to Evelyn Kosici, DeKalb, as she 



became Queen of Sports. 



The kids from Kane county got a big hand 



with their square dancing at Huff Gym and 



Memorial Stadium. 



Earl Bomlce of Sangamon county draws ■ 



bead on the stake as he went on to wla 



senior horseshoe pitching title. 



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