Show AMERICAN FARM BUREAU owl 0 A 2 11 as T ed heskett and joe Torti tat avii or iddoo a I 1 its ts it ringer why h sure mill the twelve tche I 1 lit formers of the hundred thousand lie ile longing to tile the illinois agricultural association who mho anade their way ny fain every aei county in the hante to tilt alio state farmers picnic lost full fall vill anke oath flint their horseshoe hoise shoe pitching chain joe torbert 1 oi belt and lil Il eshett n never throw anything ani tiling but ringers these two t fa funner for two straight years the winners of the illinois championship lit at barnyard solf golf liue have isgut d a challenge ta to tile entire american ainar farin federation nod tire nit chi lining the ali of that organization taking in lots lot of territory well down don in dewitt county aunt ou nt illinois the houtie of torbert and leikett lle kett their admirers dont think the world Is 1 tiny too enuch territory tirl tor for tin the challenge the farm fann burvan in illinois Is it a ahrin be believer llever in the old adage that sill work and no play makes lack not only alil a dull boy bov a floor ioor form bureau meni ber tim tile illinois agricultural asso elation aind each of the ninety live five county forin borealis bu ijuro realis aus belonging to it ling hns its hig du lay of play the annual picnic every munt mer tile the occasion Is looked forward to for months runners farmers come coine front from miles allies around in every sort of clelle vehicle front from tile imported limousine to the one hobs stilly tit county finn farin briean annual picnics average crowds of if front from live le to un ten thousand the title picnic nev nier r draws less than ten tholand thou and and often ns as many us its fifteen thousand ali and its golf thell tell you in illinois that draws crowd the bond lita the baseball game tile races the speaking none of them tire attractions that can compete with the he iron ron shoes anti the steel pegs r thirty two counties sent tennis teams lust last year it to play in tin tile competitive bourna igent for thy the state farin bureau championship the county tennis were war selected select cil nt tho county farini bureau picnics in ellmina elimination tion tournaments of 0 township teanis tea nii torbert Tor lert and tin II Il eskett lind had won m war cr twenty nine telling ruins the year before the other counties were till nil out to bent beat thein ihil tile the old alil champions prevailed they won their first batile 1 their second to the tune of 50 13 1 their next two by scores us as decisive and the lie ie de elding kanie game 50 OTO O TO 39 and they played tit alie pick of thirty two counties tile ringers thrown by the champions cham in ap live five unities gaines to 85 of these ile katt ackett tossed toed 54 before it a movie camera while worming up ill for the lie gaites Il eskett thren twenty one consecutive ringers then shook ills his belld lly because sO the twenty second throw ans only a leaner during darlne the tit past two years rs teams from nil lilt over tile lie corn helt hove journeyed to clinton to play piny II fl eskett tind torbert Tor hert but never once have tile the chininis cli ninis lost 11 it was that twelve sand farm liti reau mern liers sun saw tit the finals of tile lie barnyard rolf golf tournament in it specialty specially constructed wooden luin tit fit tile the state santo farmers picnic tit nt dixon last fall fd ed IT eskett says Is 1 ii I real american kume game it takes skill strength and nerve it la 19 it sport that lint Is deservedly growing in alry every year |