| Show Now Simon-Pure Simon Just Like Any Other Sport S i S' S fr fr'S S 'S SS Pros Get Cold Shoulder In Purified Bang- Bang Board Contest Youre You're invited to compete in the national contest at Sioux Falls S. S D. D November 3 but be sure of your amateur status Professionalism long the bogus of ot golfers tennis players and football stars has at last raised its ugly head on the farm making husking quite a 3 simon pure business To be be eligible for this years year's con con- contest contest test says a resolution of ot the Nation Nation- National al Contest association for tor you must not have participated money or other awards or gifts in any contest sponsored or approved by an organization or group other than the organizations which are members of this tion The new ruling was made public Just j st in time to save William Rose 1937 Illinois champion from selling his soul for pieces of silver Rose who can cin shuck bushels of corn com corna coma a day if he sets his bis heart to it no o sooner entered a free for contest at Barry Ill III then the state con con- conlest conlest lest st sponsor sponsor stepped a warn warn- ing When Then this years year's strictly amateur step into the field n neu Sioux Falls they will have an audi audience ence of probably fans tans Con- Con Contestants will come from every state in the corn com heft belt chosen by elimina tion husking bees So popular has the sport become that it pushes foot foot- football football ball off oft the sports page for one day each autumn and attracts national network broadcasts S Contest fields are chosen in earl early summer and tilled carefully to in in- insure insure sure a good stand of corn com Shuck Shuck- ers who have trained like athletes for the 80 minute grind line up in sprint formation between rows o ol of corn Each wears a palm paInt hook with which he tears off ofT the ears rip ping off oft the husks and throwing them at an accompanying wagon The wagon carries a bang board which rebounds the ears into the bin The husker who gets the most mos corn in his wagon during the 80 SO ute run is usually the winner but judges trail each contestant in search of abandoned ears cars Every ear that's been left behind counts as an error so the scales dont don't al always always ways give the final verdict v Unlike some sissy sports a acorn acorn acorn corn husking contest Is never called off ofT on account of bad weather Last Lasi years year's event was run oil oft In a driving ing rain with huskers wallowing In Jn slippery mud between the rows This year it may be with dry dusk whipping up from the parched corn stalks Seasoned huskers buskers look on football players as softies During the n en entire en entire tire minute 80 race nee they never take talc time out for rest reat occasionally gulp gulp- trig log a drink of water on the run O 0 Western Newspaper pcr Union |
