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combined in one outdoor program of 

 entertainment with square dancing on 

 the lawn in front of the university audi- 

 torium. Among the speakers during the 

 program were President Charles B. 

 Shuman of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation and Dean H. P. Rusk of the 

 University of Illinois College of Ag- 

 riculture, representing two of the spon- 

 sors of the Sports Festival. 



Although the two days of blazing heat 

 and high humidity could easily have 

 made players irritable, no displays of 

 poor sportsmanship were reported. On 

 the contrary, it was observed that vir- 

 tually all of the losing teams were the 

 first to congratulate their opponents at 

 the end of the games. This was the 

 hope of the men who started the Sports 

 Festival — to get as many farmers as 

 possible to take part in competitive 

 sport, to lose with a smile and with a 

 determination to do better next year. 



Symbolic of this fine sportsmanship 

 and the colorful pageantry of the games 

 was the crowning of the Queen of Sport 

 by Ray Eliot, University of Illinois 

 football coach. Eighteen-year-old Bea- 

 trice Mayer of Millstadt in St. Clair 

 county was chosen queen from a group 

 of outstanding girl contestants. 



Miss Mayer was born and reared on 

 a farm in Madison county, joined the 

 Millstadt Rural Youth group a year 

 ago, served as vice president, and has 

 been active in the club's recreational 

 activities. The queen was a member of 

 the St. Clair square dance team and a 

 first-time participant in the Sports Festi- 

 val. She is engaged to a Rural Youther 



leff: Peoria county Pitcher-Third Baseman 

 Stephenson is ttria at first during chompion- 

 ship baseball gama with IVIII county on 

 throw to Will first Bataman Broadrlck. 

 Right: Seahautan, Will second baseman I* 

 out at first on throw to First Bataman Slana. 

 Will won, 13 to 4. 



and is looking forward to becoming a 

 farmer's wife in November. 



This year's Sports Festival covered 

 considerably less than the 10 square 

 miles of events of last year. Both golf 

 and archery were cancelled this year 

 because of too few participants last 

 year. Besides both bowling and volley- 

 ball were held last March and the trap 

 and skeet shoot events were held Aug. 

 12. All were held in Springfield. Points 

 for these events counted in the total 

 scores of the contestants. 



Over at the Y.M.C.A. interest in the 

 checker tournament was at fever heat 

 brought about by a larger roster of 

 entrants and a finalist deadlock which 

 kept them playing until 5:30 p.m. Fri- 

 day. Up in the loft of the Huff gym 

 the clack-clack of the ping pong balls 

 could be heard nearly all day Thursday 



left: N. r, Zalla, Tarowatt, was winnar of 

 the ehf tbnan' avant In tha trap shoot. 

 Center: I. H. Kagnlar of the If. of I., Larry 

 McOonaW of the WIS form program staff, 

 and Roy P. Johnson (right), Sportt festival 

 secretary/ lAA, do a broadcast during tha 

 faathral. Right: larl Bemka, Sangamon, 

 win* tha man'* horseshoe *lngla* tor the 

 third successive year. 



while the nearby shuffleboard players 

 slid their disks across the shiny 

 hardwood. Darts drew a throng of 

 spectators and the clang of the horse- 

 shoes striking the stakes just outside 

 Huff gym could be heard all day long. 



All over the campus could be heard 

 the chatter of the ball players and the 

 steady calling of the umpires as games 

 progressed from the university stadium 

 to lUini field about two miles away. 



It was a big day for Earl Bomke, 36- 

 year-old Sangamon county farmer, as 

 he won the Farm Bureau horseshoe 

 pitching singles title for the third suc- 

 cessive year. A new woodchopping 

 champion was named Friday afternoon 

 when Granville Hodson of Shelby 

 county chopped through a 954-inch 

 hickory log in one minute 50.3 seconds. 

 Turner Mayfield, Adams county, three- 

 times champion, was not eligible to 

 compete because he now makes his home 

 in Missouri. 



There were many entertaining events 

 in the folk festival which made it rather 

 difficult to pick the best. All were the 

 cream of district competition in which 

 more than 2.000 participated. 



King of the hog callers Al DeCap, 

 Whiteside county, three-time winner, 

 abdicated his title by default. The new 

 champion is Gale Yocum of Adams 

 county who nosed out Mrs. William 

 Goff of Sangamon county. 



Climaxing a series of tug 'o war con- 

 tests held at county fairs throughout 

 the state was the final contest between 

 X^Tiiteside and Clark counties which was 

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