SPORTS FESTIVAL 



sted, Iowa, who demonstrated French, 

 Austrian, and German folk dances. 

 The group were winners in last year's 

 Iowa sports festival, and were invited 

 as an exchange number between Iowa 

 and Illinois. 



The evening's fun didn't keep the 

 folks from being ready, bright and 

 early Friday morning, to finish their 

 individual and team competitions. In 

 one of the most popular of the special 

 events, Vermilion won the tug o'war 

 contest, a repeat performance for them. 



Out at the grounds of the Cham- 

 paign gun club, the skeet and trap 

 shoot was going full blast. Gerald 

 Heiden, from Bloomington, a dead 

 shot with a shotgun, broke 50 clay 

 pigeons for a perfect score in the 

 skeet shoot. 



At the track meet held Friday morn- 



ing in the football stadium, little Nan- 

 cy Terwillinger, 13, of Bureau county 

 thrilled both boys and girls entered in 

 the high jump by clearing the bar at 

 four feet, ten inches. This was eight 

 inches higher than the winning jump 

 in the senior division for girls 16 and 

 older. 



In another of the special events. 

 Turner Mayfield, from Adams county, 

 drew cheers as he successfully defended 

 his title as state woodchopping cham- 

 pion by chopping through a 10-inch 

 white oak log in 81.8 seconds to win. 



During the noon hour on Thursday 

 and Friday as folks stopped long 

 enough to eat their lunch, a good many 

 gathered around the WLS microphone 

 in front of Huff gym to hear Art Page 

 broadcast the WLS-Dinnerbell Hour 

 from the Sports Festival headquarters. 



WE FESTIVAL THROUGH THE lAA CAMERA'S EYE 



At the Friday afternoon open air 

 show at the football stadium, the 

 crowd cheered the district winners u 

 representatives received their county's 

 trophy from the newly elected Queen 

 of Sports. They were also introduced 

 over the air by stations WLS and 

 WILL. 



Champaign county was winner of 

 District I and also piled up the great- 

 est number of points. Altogether, 

 there were 92 counties entered in the 

 Festival. 



Other district winners were: district 

 2, DeKalb; district 3, Whiteside; dis- 

 trict 4, Peoria; district 5, St. Qair, and 

 district 6, Randolph. 



The lAA staff whipped the farm ad- 

 visers in their annual sof^ball tilt by a 

 whopping score of 17 to 5. This is the 

 second consecutive win for the lAA staff 

 and reports are that the farm advisers are 

 scouting for new material. President 

 Shuman was on the mound and Vice- 

 President Floyd E. Morris caught in the 

 first inning for the lAA staff. 



It was a great show that the rural 

 athletes, dancers, and specialty enter- 

 tainers staged. As the two day sports 

 drama came to a close, they expressed 

 one almost universal hope. They want- 

 ed to be back in '48, to make it even 

 bigger and better than it was this year! 



fh* IllinoU State Rural Chorus (ings to • 

 large crowd that overflowed the lawn la 

 Iront of the University Auditorium at the 

 Thursday evening program of entertola- 

 ment. 



The young crowd attended the swing festival In droves. Here they watch the floor show. 



Turner Mayfield, Adams, hews his way !• 

 the state woodchopping title which he won 

 last year. He cut his way throwgli • 

 10-inch white oaic log in 1 mbi. 2I.t i%t- 

 onds. 



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