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Ends--Arthur Bauman, Peter Garland, William J. Hornbeck, and Donald W. Richard...
...Stephen B. Smart, Don W. Richards, George B. Post, Hugh McCaffey, John H. Hewitt, Bradley D. Harris, Howard Hodgson, William J. Hornbeck, James W. Hubbell, Jr., Peter Garland, Ed French, George P. Early, Philip Drake, Victor J. Dowling, John P.E. Dempsey, George N. Casey, Clarence J. Clark, Arthur Bauman, Frank D. Bixler, Sherwood Bain and Thomas R. Ayres...
Next day, 21 local champions from eleven States lined up in the Keppy cornfield to wait the starting bomb in the husking contest. Favored by fence-row experts to win were Marion Link, Iowa State champion, Ecas Vaughan, Illinois State champion, Irving Bauman, also from Illinois, runner-up in the nationals in 1935 and 1938. The contestants, some of them stripped to the waist, sweated up & down the corn rows, snatching off the dried ears, husking them with a hook strapped to the wrist, flinging them against the "bang-boards" of tractor-drawn wagons...
Eighty minutes later time was called. The contestants were panting, splotched with blood from cutting themselves on stiff corn leaves. Judges pawed over the wagonloads, deducted gleanings, weighed the results, announced that Irving Bauman had set a new record of 46.71 bushels, had won the 1940 national championship. Second: Marion Link, whose 46.36 bushels also topped the old record...
...families listened to songs by Indian children from the Sac and Fox reservations, with a slow, critical eye looked over farm implements on display at the Keppy farm, grinned at a map of Iowa made of over a million corn kernels. But what they really liked best were Irving Bauman's 46.71 bushels of husked corn. Plowman Timbers' neat turns and straight rows...