Charlie Orimm (contor), manager of the Chlcose Cubs, talk* over his team's prospects 

 with Bob Saaly, manager of the Will county team, last year's Farm Bureau champions, 

 and Otto Ste0ey (right), lAA director from Henderson county and president of the Illinois 



farm Bureau Baseball League. 



Farm Bureau Baseball 



League Changes Competitive Districts 

 To Conform to the 1 6 Regions 

 Set Up For Farm Sports Festival 



THE Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 

 League has changed its districts for 

 the 1949 season to conform to the 

 16 districts set up last year for Illi- 

 nois Farm Sports Festival competi- 

 tion (See map) . 



The changes were made during the 

 recent 25th annual meeting of the Farm 

 Bureau Baseball League held at the Hotel 

 Sherman in Chicago. This is the only 

 major change in the rules and regulations 

 for the 1949 season. 



Under the new plan for the 1949 

 season, district elimination tournaments 

 will be held before the Sports Festival in 

 Champaign. This will cut down entries 

 in the finals to eight teams. 



Principal speaker at Farm Bureau base- 

 hall's silver anniversary meeting was 

 Charlie Grimm, jovial manager of the 

 Chicago Cubs. Grimm complimented 

 the League managers for their fine work 

 in training youth in baseball. "It was 

 fellows like you who gave me my start 

 in baseball 32 years ago," he said. 



Grimm told the assembled group that 

 72 per cent of all big league players hail 

 from rural areas. "If you see any prom- 

 ising major league material, don't forget 

 'he Cubs," Grimm said. In a free-for- 

 all discussion Grimm said he did a lot 

 better farming last year than managing a 

 baseball team. Asked if he would ven- 



ture a prediction on the Cubs or the price 

 of fat cattle, Grimm smiled and shook 

 his head. 



Counties with memberships in the 

 Farm Bureau Baseball League are Boone, 

 Bureau, Champaign, Christian, Coles, 



Robert Builta 



Dorothy Giese 



Map shews how the slatm Is dhtUed for 

 Illinois farm Sports festival competition. 7he 

 Illinois farm Bureau Baseball League has 

 redlstrlcted to conform to the 16 districts 

 above. 



DeKalb, Ford, Henderson, Jo Daviess, 

 Kendall, Lake, La Salle, Livingston, 

 Macon, McDonough, McLean, Marshall - 

 Putnam, Montgomer)', Peoria, Rock 

 Island, Stephenson, Tazewell, Warren, 

 and Will. 



Four to Represent 

 Illinois at 4-H 

 National Club Camp 



FOUR Illinois 4-H Qub members ha^ c 

 been selected to represent the state 

 at the National 4-H Club Camp to bt 

 held in Washington, D. C, in June. 



They are Dorothy Giese, 19, La Salle 

 county; Pauline McMillan, 18, Sanga- 

 mon; Robert W. Builta, 19, McLean; and 

 Lyle P. Schertz, 19, Woodford. 



The Illinois delegation was selected on 

 a basis of demonstrated qualities in 

 leadership, 4-H achievement, and partid- 

 pation in project and community activi- 

 ties. 



Pauline McMillan lyle Schertz 



In 1797 a patent was granted to Charles 



Newbold, New Jersey, for the first cast-iron 

 plow in America. Farmers had an idea 

 that the cast-iron plow poisoned the land 

 and promoted the growth of rocks. 



APRIL 1949 



