BOWLING ... 



Macoupin. 215: Eaton, Schuyler, 203- 

 2i'i; Jones, Cliristian, 223; Frobisli, 

 Christian. 201; lialcs. Schuyler. 202; 

 Olson, DeKalh. 211; Speichin^er. St. 

 Clair. 206-211. 



Men's Singles — Taton, Schuyler, 213- 

 22'>: Blunier, W'oodtorcl, 208; Hanson, 

 Grundy. 201; Hopkins. I.ee, 202; Fisch- 

 er, Monroe, 202; Kaney, Oijic. 212; 

 Rcpcher. Christian, 202. 



NX'omen s Singles — Handrich. St. C lair. 

 201. 



Two rolled series ot over 600 in men's 

 team classihcation: Smith. Macoupin, 

 622; and Deets. Oi;le, 60.S. 



Homer Blunier, Woodford CountY, jokes 



with fve/yn Boyer, Woodford, after he 



won Rural Youtft boys' singles title. 



at the Sports Festival, August 25-26. 



The committee set the deadhne for 

 Softball entries at July 1. 1949 with 

 which must he included a S5 entry fee. 

 Counties have been recjuested to give 

 early consideration to the possibility 

 of cntermg teams in various sottball 

 divisions because early entries will 

 case the handling of the district play- 

 offs and the making of arrangements 

 for the finals. 



District Softball chairmen will be 

 named not later than June I. 19i9. 

 Chairmen will make arrangements 

 with oth^r counties for play-offs. 

 Siludiiles for the final plav-otfs will 

 he drawn in the lAA offices August 

 h). I 9 IV, 



TRAPSHOOT . . . 



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airport on route -\. The I.inn Bureau 

 Traj- ..nd Skeet Shoot is part of tlie 

 Illinois Farm Sports Festival and is 

 being held in advance of the Sports I'esti- 

 val as It was last year because the dates 

 of the Sports Festival conflict with the 

 All American Trap Shoot. 



Jim Holderman of Grundy county, a 

 Farm Bureau singles cliampion and 

 former winner of the All-American. will 

 serve as chairman of the state trap shoot. 

 Glen Ciicnoweth of Livingston county 

 will be in charge of the skeet shoot, 

 barm peoj-'le planning to enter the shoot 

 should register with tlieir countv larin 

 Bure.uis. 



f OL/C FESTIVAL . . . 



CHAN'GFS ha\e been made in the 

 folk festival plans for the Illinois 

 Farm Sports Festival Aug. 25-26 

 according to announcement by Roy P. 

 Johnson, lAA secretary of special serv- 

 ices and festival secretary. 



A few months ago it was announced 

 that the folk and dance festival fea- 

 tures would be postponed until Farm 

 and Home Week in 19'iO. This was 

 the recommendation of tiie Sports Fes- 

 ti\ 'I Fxecutive Committee. 



Some counties already had made plans 

 for August, 19 ty so the following 

 modifications have been provided for 

 this year: (1") 4-H folk or sc^uare 

 dance team — one entry per county; 

 (2) Rural Youth square or folk dance 

 team — one entry per county; (3) 

 Open class folk or square dance team 

 — one entry per county; (4) Time 

 limit on dance features — five ininutes: 

 (5) Scjuare dance bands v^ill be judged 



as thev accomj\my daiue groups; (6) 

 Folk dance and scjuare dance teams 

 will be judged separately; (~) Folk 

 song and ballad singers and countv 

 bands — dropped this vear; (S) No 

 change from 19iS tor other music, 

 dance, and drama features; and (9) 

 district com|setition will not be re- 

 el ui red. 



SOFTBALL 



To promote greater participation in 

 the Softball divisions of the Illinois 

 I'arm Sports Festival, the e.\ecutive 

 Softball committee has set the follow- 

 ing goals for 19^9: (1) A boys' 4-H 

 team from every county in district com- 

 petition; (2) At least two Rural '\'outli 

 teams in every district; (3) A girls' 

 4-H team from every district; and ( i) 

 encouragement ot as many entries as 

 possible in the other divisions: county 

 league, all county, 35'ers. and girls' 

 open class 



The Softball committee meeting in 

 Chicago April l-i set the rule that a 

 player may participate in only one divi- 

 sion of the final softball tournaments 



F. D. Laible Named 

 Outstanding Senior 

 Of Farm House 



FDAI.i; I.AIBLF, 21 -year-old son of 

 Frank H. Laible. a director of the 

 • Marshall-Putnam County Farm Bu- 

 reau, has received an award made annu- 

 ally bv Farm House fraternity on the Fni- 

 \ersitv iif Illinois campus to the out- 

 standing senior of the traternity. 



A l-H member for 10 years and a 

 I'FA member for four years. Laible will 

 I e Lrradualed this spring. VX'hile at- 

 tending the university he worked two 

 years at the beef barn and showed the 

 iiniversitv cattle at the Internationil 

 for two years. He is president of the 

 Hoof and Horn club, a member of 

 the livestock and meat judging teams 

 and ser\ed as chairman for the 19lS 

 Little International. He also is a 

 memlKT of Alpha Zeta, iiation.d agn- 

 cultcire honorary fraternitv. 



Laible received the Doane award 

 at the Farm House fraternity s found- 

 ers' day banquet in April. It was the 

 fraternitv s -i )th anniversary. Principal 

 speakers were Dean H. P. Rusk. U of 

 1. College of Agriculture, and Fred H. 

 Turner, dean of students. 



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F. Date Laible, right, 

 Marshall county, re- 

 ceives farm House 

 fraternity atvard to 

 top senior from Cecil 

 D. Smith, administra- 

 tive assistant, U. of I. 

 College of Agricul- 

 ture. Center is Olyn- 

 don Stuff, fraternity 

 presidant. 



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MAY, 1949 



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