19 YEARS AGO
APRIL 27, 2000
Jackie Gorum, President of the
Evergreen Babe Ruth League, threw the first pitch this past Saturday to start
the 2000 season of the Babe Ruth League. Games are played every Tuesday and Saturday
at the Evergreen Municipal Park. Everyone is encouraged to come out and support
these young people.
44 YEARS AGO
APRIL 24, 1975
Crane to speak Sparta banquet
Thursday, May 8: Featured speaker at the annual Sparta Quarterback Club’s All
Sports Awards Banquet will be Paul Crane, it is announced today by James
Ansley, president.
Crane is currently
serving as an assistant coach for Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s University of
Alabama Crimson Tide. He was an All-American center for Alabama and went on to star
as a linebacker for the New York Jets, one of the smallest men to play that
position in the pros. Crane was a member of the Jets’ Super Bowl championship
team.
Letters and awards
for players of all varsity sports will be presented at the banquet which will
be held Thursday night, May 8, at 7:30 in the gymnatorium at Sparta Academy.
Tickets are $6 and may be purchased at the school or The Evergreen Courant.
All Sparta sports
supporters, men, women and children, will be welcomed, but a limited number of tickets
are available.
Pre-season tourney set by
softballers: The softball season will get a send off here in Evergreen on
Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, as Evergreen City League hosts a pre-season
tournament. The first two games to be played on Friday starting at 7 p.m. with
the remainder of the double elimination tournament on Saturday beginning at 8
a.m.
Trophies for the
first three places in this tournament sponsored by the following businesses:
first place, Cope Funeral Home; second place, Carter Hardware & Supply Co.;
third place, Miller Trading Co.
On Tuesday, April
29, the Evergreen City League of Men’s Softball will open regular season play
with a 24 game schedule. Games to played on Tuesday and Thursday nights with
starting times of 7:00 and 8:30 p.m.
Trooper Sgt. J.T. Smelley, commander
of the Evergreen Post, bagged this trophy turkey over the weekend. The Tom
weighed 18 pounds and had a 9-1/2 inch beard. Young Jason Scott, 18 months old,
son of the sergeant, points at the big bird.
Young Jeff Kast is justly proud of this five-pound bass he
caught over the weekend. He is the son of Mrs. Janice Kast and Donnie Kast.
69 YEARS AGO
APRIL 27, 1950
Evergreen Greenies Open In Bay
Minette Sunday: The Evergreen Greenies will open a 30-game Dixie Amateur League
schedule with an afternoon game in Bay Minette Sunday. The game was originally
scheduled to be played here, but due to conflict with a concert already set for
the stadium Sunday has been moved to Bay Minette, according to Manager Warren Bolton.
Bolton says that Bay Minette has swapped dates with Evergreen and will return
this game May 28.
Bolton and Edsel
Johnson have not determined their starting line-up and state that no final
decision will be made until the final practice session tomorrow afternoon. Both
managers say that the team has shown definite improvement in all departments in
recent practice sessions and should be able to hold its own in Bay Minette
Sunday.
The Greenies will
meet Uriah-Booneville here next Thursday afternoon in Brooks Stadium in their
first home appearance. Probable game time is 2:30.
Evergreen Aggie 9 Wins And Loses
During Week: The Evergreen High Aggies notched their first victory of the 1950
campaign last Friday defeating Castleberry in Castleberry 9-0 behind the
near-perfect, one-hit pitching of Bertie Hassel. Hassel had the Blue Devil
batters under control all the way as the Aggies evened up their series with
Castleberry.
Tuesday the Aggies
ran into some torrid pitching themselves and lost to Greenville 12-1. Ernest
Moseley hurled a two-hitter for Greenville. John Greel Ralls counted
Evergreen’s only run. Ralls hit a triple to put himself in scoring position.
Evergreen High Golfers Lose To
Greenville: The Evergreen High School Golf Team, first in the history of the school,
dropped its second match of the season to Butler County High School on the
Greenville Country Club links last Saturday afternoon. Greenville also defeated
the Evergreen golfers here several weeks ago.
Bonnie King, holder
of the Evergreen course record, is the No. 1 player on the Evergreen High
Squad. Junior White, Dickey Bozeman and Charles Williams complete the foursome.
The group is coached by Coach John Lockwood.
The Evergreen
golfers will meet Murphy High’s foursome in two matches, here and in Mobile,
soon.
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