Chip "Checker" Brings Fairness To Cow Chip Competitions

Chip "Checker" Brings Fairness To Cow Chip Competitions FARM HOME Novelty Items 23-5-24 Cow chip chucking contests are a great way to draw a crowd. Although contests have been held all over North America, a group of Illinois chip chuckers has taken the "sport" to a new level. The Chatham Jaycees run the Illinois Championship Cow Chip Toss every year during the Sweet Corn Festival. The group has brought fairness to the sport by inventing a new "Cow Chip Checker" that ensure all chips are of a certain minimal size. They've also written a book about the "history" of tossing cow chips. The Cow Chip Checker consists of a toilet seat. All chips used in the contest must be bigger than the opening in the seat. The group's tongue-in-cheek history book traces the sport of cow chip tossing back to prehistoric times when cave men supposedly used them as a weapon for self defense. The book also explains how the cow chip tossing was one of the first games in the early Greek Olympics and claims that Napoleon used cow chips in many of his battles. The winner of this year's chip-tossing contest at the Chatham Sweet Corn Festival won with a toss of 141 ft. The man had been tossing cow chips since he was 12 years old but noted that he used to be able to make tosses of 200 ft. or more when he could use smaller chips. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Chatham Jaycees, P.O. Box 313, Chatham, Ill. 62629.

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