Are You 



This is the Month of Illinois' Great Rural 

 SPORTS FESTIVAL 



B 

 PI 

 SI 



A favo 

 ket cor 



The an 

 to a gr 



ARE you all set folks! You know 

 this is the month of the 10th 

 annual Illinois Farm Sports 

 Festival. . . . Thursday and Fri- 

 day, August 25 and 26, to be 

 exact. Again it will be held on the 

 campus of the University of Illinois at 

 Urbana-Champaign. 



Make plans now to attend this great 

 rural sports and music pageant. Load 

 up the family in the old car. Bring a 

 picnic basket if you like. Better still, 

 why not plan on taking part in some 

 event? You say your joints creak? 

 Well, how about checkers, hog-calling, 

 or shuflFleboard ? 



There's something for every member 

 of the family, including grandma, and 

 you don't have to strain a ligament. 

 Stop in at the Farm Bureau office the 

 first chance you get and tell them what 

 you want to do. 



Every person who enters an event 

 piles up points for his county. Partici- 

 pation points are awarded all entrants. 



Then if you win, take second, or third 

 place you get additional points. It's 

 that easy. Get in there now and fight 

 for your county. 



The Sports Festival was set up as a 

 two-day period of fun, sportsmanship, 

 and good clean play for Illinois farmers 

 and their families. So let's make it 

 the biggest and best festival on record. 

 Join the fun. 



On hand to greet and entertain you 

 during the fun-packed two-day event 

 will be radio stars, orchestras for the 

 big swing and barn dance jamborees, 

 the Illinois Rural Chorus with 300 



mixed voices, plus 4,500 rural athletes 

 competing in baseball, Softball, track, 

 tug o'war, shuffleboard, swimming, 

 woodchopping, hog-calling, tennis, ping 

 pong, shuffleboard, dart throwing, 

 checkers, 4-H tumbling. 4-H physical 

 fitness, clock golf, chair quoits, dart 

 throwing, and horseshoe pitching. WLS 

 will broadcast the Dinner Bell Hour 

 from the Sports Festival. 



Added to this is a dazzling folk festi- 

 val which will find hundreds competing 

 in such classes as barber shop quartets, 

 song leaders, county choruses, family 

 singers, 4-H choruses, adult singers, 

 junior singers, instrumental groups, 

 novelty and rhythm bands, square 

 dance bands, acrobatic and tap dancers, 

 dialogues, skits and stunts, and folk and 

 square dancers. 



This may be the last year that the 

 folk festival will be held in conjunction 

 with the Sports Festival. Starting late 

 next winter it will possibly be held in 

 connection with Farm and Home Week 

 at the University. This move if made 

 will be because it is difficult to perform 

 when the weather is hot. 



The big Thursday night program of 

 music, dancing, and entertainment 

 promises to be the best yet according to 

 I. E. Parett of the lAA and Mary Mc- 

 Kee of the University, who are in 

 charge of the program. The three-ring 

 event will be held as usual with modern 

 dancing for those who like it that way, 

 square and folk dancing for those who 

 like the graceful dances of years ago. 

 and the program of music and dancing 

 in front of the Auditorium for those 



who want to sit and watch. 



Roy P. Johnson, lAA director of 

 special services, estimates that close to 

 650 Softball teams have been playing 

 preliminary to the Sports Festival 

 finals. Of the 650 teams about 155 

 will survive district play to compete 

 in the Sports Festival finals. 



All of last year's winners will be back 

 to defend their titles this year. They 

 are: St. Clair, Adult county league; De- 

 Kalb. all county; Coles, Rural Youth; 

 Vermilion, age 35 and over; Livings- 

 ton, boys' 4-H; Winnebago, girls' 4-H; 

 and DeKalb, girls' open. Twenty base- 

 ball teams will play in district tourna- 

 ments to earn the right to play at Cham- 

 paign. The champion Will county team 

 will be on hand to defend their title. 



This year 15 of the 16 district tug- 

 o'war finals are being held in connec- 

 tion with county fairs. The 16 winners 

 will compete at Champaign. Following 

 are the districts, county fairs, towns, 

 and dates when they will be or have 

 been held: (1) Winnebago, Rockford. 

 Aug. 11; (2) Kane, Elgin. Aug. 4; 

 (3) Bureau, Princeton, Aug. 4; (4) 

 Henderson, Stronghurst, Aug. 4; (5) 

 Livingston, Pontiac, Aug. 10; (6) Kan- 

 kakee, Kankakee Aug. 9; (7) Adams. 

 Mendon, Aug. 8; (8) Logan, Lincoln. 

 Aug. 11; (9) Champaign, Urbana, Julv 

 25; (10) Madison, Highland, Aug. 6; 



(11) Fayette, Brownstown. Aug. 5; 



(12) Edgar, Paris, July 27; (13) 

 Randolph, Sparta, Aug. 4; (14) Wayne. 

 Fairfield, Aug. 9; (15) McLeansboro in 



{Continued on page 24) 



Carries 

 sources 

 The ou 



1. T 



o 



2. T 



3. T 



fi 



4. T 



((K 



•A\so ov 



10 



L A. A. RECORD 



AUGUS 



