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combined in one outdoor program of 

 entertainment with square dancing on 

 the lawn in front of tlie university audi- 

 torium. Among tlie speakers during the 

 program were President Charles B. 

 Shuman of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation and Dean H. P. Husk 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 j)laycrs 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 Youthor 



Left: Peoria county PItther-ThIrd Baseman 

 Stephenson Is safe at first during champion- 

 ship baseball game with Will county on 

 fhrow to Will first Baseman Broadrlck. 

 Right: Seehausen, Will second baseman is 

 out at first on throw to first Baseman Slane. 

 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 



Lett: H. f. Zelle, Tazewell, was winner of 

 rhe oM timers' event in the trap shoot. 

 Center: t, H. Regnler of fhe U. of I., Larry 

 McDonald of the WIS farm program staff, 

 and Roy P. Johnson (right), Sftorts festival 

 secretary, lAA, do a broadcast during the 

 festival. Righf: farf Bomke, Sangamon, 

 wins fhe men's horseshoe singles for the 

 third successive year. 



while the nearby siiuffleboard players 

 slid their disks across the shiny 

 hardwood. Darts drew a throng of 

 spectators and tlie clang of the horse- 

 shoes striking the stakes just outside 

 HufT gym could be heard all day long. 



All over the campus could be beard 

 the chatter of the ball players and tiie 

 "Steady calling of the umpires as games 

 progressed from tlie university stadium 

 to mini field about two miles away. 



It was a big day for Karl Bomke. 'Mi- 

 year-old Sangamon countv farmer, as 

 he won the Farm Ihireau horseshoe 

 pitching singles title for the third suc- 

 cessive year. A new woodcbopping 

 champion was named Friday afternoon 

 when Granville Hodson of Shelby 

 county chopped through a 9',4-inrh 

 hickory log in one minute .SO. 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 .\l DeCap. 

 Vi bites ide county, three-time winner, 

 abdicated his title by default. The new 

 cham])ion is Gale Yocum of Adams 

 coiuity who nosed out Mrs. \^ illiam 

 Goff of Sangamon coimty. 



Climaxing a series of tug "o war con- 

 tests held at county fairs throughout 

 the state was the final contest between 

 \^ hiteside and Clark counties which was 

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