Below is Vermilion Farm Adviser Orin 

 Hertz' account of the interstate i^ers 

 championship game with Iowa which Il- 

 linois won, 8-2 and 6-1. Vermilion won 

 the Illinois title at the Farm Sports Fes- 

 tival in August. 



CORN BELT CHAMPIONS 



TWO games were played against the 

 Webster county, Iowa, 35-and-over 

 champions at Dayton, Iowa, Sept. 

 18. For Vermilion county Forrest 

 Hunt pitched the first game and 

 Elmer Learnard the second, with Ray- 

 mond Sprouls catching both games. 



In the first game it was three runs 

 scored on John Klayer's being hit by a 

 pitched ball, Merle Jeffers' sacrifice, Ray- 

 mond Sprouls' three base hit and Glenn 

 Custer's home run that started the series 

 in proper order for Vermilion County 

 ind Illinois. The final score was 8 to 2. 



In the second game, after two and one- 

 half scoreless innings, it was a single by 

 Ken Berry followed by his thefts of sec- 

 ond and third, coupled with an over- 

 throw at third, that produced the first 

 run, which looked big at that time. The 

 final score was 6-1 with Learnard giving 

 them but two hits. 



Our team was quite anxious to make 

 this trip and to soundly trounce Iowa 

 to make up for a pre-war loss or two 

 to Iowa teams when Vermilion County 

 35'ers had been the state champs. A 

 total of 26 people drove to Fort Dodge 

 in six automobiles. One carload even 

 stopped at Ames to see an Iowa State 

 football game. All felt that the trip was 

 worth while and returned in good order. 



This is Livingston Assistant Farm Ad- 

 viser H. H. Fulkerson's description of 

 the 4-H Club championship game with 

 Iowa which Illinois lost. 3-6; 5-4; and 

 4-5. Livingston won the state title at 

 the Farm Sports Festival in August. 



ONE RUN LOSES SERIES 



THE Livingston County 4-H Club 

 Softball team traveled to Chariton. 

 Iowa, to play an interstate cham- 

 pionship Softball playoff with the 

 Iowa State champions Sept. 18-19 

 After a hard-fought battle, the Iowa state 

 champions pulled through victorious two 

 games to one. 



Iowa got into the one game lead by 

 copping the first game 6-3 on 7 hits 

 while the Illinois champions were collect- 

 ing 5 hits. The batteries were J. 

 Nicols and Rinehart for Iowa and Emmet 

 Trainor and Elmer Huisman for Illinois. 



The Illinois champions came back with 

 a hard-fighting team to win the second 



game 5-4, collecting 10 hits to Iowa's 

 3 hits. The outstanding thing in this 

 game was that the Illinois battery, con- 

 sisting of Trainor and Huisman again, 

 made 15 putouts, with Trainor striking 

 out 10. 



Iowa, taking advantage of five costly 

 Illinois errors, emerged victorious in the 

 third game, winning 5-4 on eight hits 

 compared to 10 for Illinois. 



The team felt it a high privilege to 

 have been able to make this trip to Iowa 

 and felt that Lucus County had made it 

 a very receptive visit. 



Will county's championship Farm Bu- 

 reau baseball team, winner at the Sports 

 Festival, went to Decorah, Iowa, in Sep- 

 tember, where they played Iowa's Festi- 

 val winners Winneshiek county. Illinois 

 lost the three game playoff 2-1 ; 4-7; 3-5. 

 Following is We account of the game by 

 Will County Farm Adviser Wayne 

 Churchill. 



WIN FIRST, THEN LOSE TWO 



N the first game Will defeated Win- 

 neshiek two to one. Will made two 

 runs, seven hits and one error; Win- 

 neshiek, one run, seven hits and 

 three errors. Will's battery was 

 made up of R. Bormet pitching and Mc- 

 Quarrie, catching. 



In the second game, Winneshiek de- 

 feated Will seven to four. Winneshiek 

 had seven runs, ten hits and two errors; 

 Will four runs, six hits and six errors. 

 Battery in this game was Honsbruch 

 pitching and McQuarrie catching. 



In the third game. Will lost five to 

 three; summary, Winneshiek five runs, 

 seven hits and three errors; Will, three 

 runs, two hits and two errors. R. Bor- 

 met was the pitcher with Jacobs and Mc- 

 Quarrie catching. 



More than 65 accompanied the team 

 to Iowa from Will county. The first 

 game was as good as any one would 

 ever want to see with the score tied one 

 to one going into the last half of the 

 ninth inning. Three- singles by Palmer, 



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I HIS month's cover picture is of the re- 

 constructed store in the abandoned village 

 of New Salem at New Salem State Park 

 northwest of Springfield. It is the 18th 

 in our series of historical and picturesque 

 photographs of Illinois. 



It was the first store built in the village ancJ 

 was constructed by Samuel Hill in 1829. It 

 was here that Abraham Lincoln served as a 

 clerk for Hill and later as the village post- 

 master. 



On completion of the building Hill was 

 named first postmaster of the village in 1829. 

 The store thereupon became New Salem's first 

 post office. This was the only store in the 

 village after the failure of Lincoln and his 

 partner, William F. Berry, and two other en- 

 terprises. 



Hill moved the store to nearby Petersburg 

 in 1839. This building was set up on the 

 exact site of the original store and is stocked 

 with many of the authentic articles sold over 

 the counter during the time of Lincoln. Illi- 

 nois' famous son lived in New Salem from 

 1831 to 1837. 



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