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| Evergreen's Wayne Frazier |
43 YEARS AGO
MARCH 11, 1971
From “Front Page, Upper Left Corner” by Bob Bozeman – “Bob
Kendall brought me an interesting article from a recent issue of The Tuscaloosa
News. It was written by Bill Plott, Sunday editor of the paper, and is self
explanatory.
“’Strangely enough, though, there have been two instances
where participants in the state (basketball) tournament drew byes in the first
round.
‘The first occurred during the 1928-29 meet when Mortimer
Jordan got a free ride in the opening round and advanced to the quarterfinals
unchallenged. The Jefferson County school was to have played Evergreen,
representing the Second District.
‘Unfortunately for the South Alabama team, the tournament
came during an unprecedented rainy season that had created flood conditions
throughout much of the state. Evergreen was unable to secure transportation to
Tuscaloosa because of the floods and had to withdraw.”
“Knowing that Bob would want the record kept straight, I
rechecked the 1929 editions of The Courant and found that the real reason the
team didn’t go to Tuscaloosa was that the Evergreen High girls had won their
district tournament and arrangements (probably financial) couldn’t be made to
send both teams.
“Quoting from the March 7, 1929 edition of The Evergreen
Courant: ‘By finishing second, the Aggies, for the second successive year, won
the right, along with Murphy High, to represent the First District in the state
tourney, but had to forego the trip to Tuscaloosa as arrangements could not be
made to send both boys and girls teams to the state meet this year.
“A year later Evergreen again won the right to go to the
state meet and declined. Here is Coach ‘Abe’ Robinson’s explanation of that in
the Feb. 27, 1930 Courant: ‘Coach Robinson states that due to financial reasons
and to the fact that no team in this district, in his opinion, can hope to win
in the state tournament, he waived his team’s right to Murphy High.’”
58
YEARS AGO
MARCH 8, 1956
“EHS Aggies Off To State Tournament; Battle Kinston In First
Game Today: The Evergreen High School Aggies became the first basketball team
in the history of the school and the first team in Conecuh County to win a
place in the State Basketball Tournament in Tuscaloosa by virtue of their
winning second place honors in the First District Tournament in Mobile last
week.
“The Aggies meet Kinston High in the fourth game of the
opening round of the State Class AA Basketball Tournament which gets underway
this morning. The Evergreen-Kinston game is slated for 3:30 p.m.
“The Aggies will be paced by Big Randy White who is the
highest scorer in the history of the school with a total of 833 points in 28
games this year for a neat 30 point per game average.
“Wayne Frazier, Eddie Kelly, Mickey Joyner and Robert King
make up the rest of the starting team for Evergreen. The capable substitutes
are Ronnie Edson, Harry Pugh, Wendell Tolbert, Walter Carrier and Timmie
Boykin.”
73
YEARS AGO
MARCH 13, 1941
“Aggies End Season 13 Wins, 7 Losses: By defeating
Monroeville 47-28 last week the Evergreen High School Aggies ended their 1941
cage season with 13 wins against seven losses, including the three games played
in the bi-county tournament.
“The Aggies outscored their opponents 512 to 410, with
victories ranging from 75-14 to 26-8. The five leading scorers on the squad and
their points are Derrill Moorer, 158 points; Fred Owens, 101; Randy Moorer, 73;
Judson Murphy, 73; and Knud Nielsen, 35.
“Coach James Smith produced a better than average team this
year, experiencing occasional set-backs as even the best do. When the squad
really began to click, however, it was a credit to the colors it wore.”
“HIGH SCHOOL: Basketball games are over. Some tournaments
are over – others nearing the finish. Our local boys had hard luck at Uriah.
Better luck next time, boys. We have organized our softball teams and are
enjoying the games very much.
“At last, the football stadium is getting started. Perhaps
in the distant future we may have one of the best in the district. We are very
much in need of it. We will have an opportunity to show what we can really do.”
“Closed Season For Game Fish Called Off In Alabama: The
regulation providing closed season on freshwater game fish for the month of
April was rescinded by the State Conservation Advisory Board in semi-annual
meeting Tuesday of this week.”
88
YEARS AGO
MARCH 10, 1926
“HOLLY GROVE NEWS: We are very sorry that the Gum Tree
basketball teams got disappointed when they came to play Kirkland Jr. High last
Wednesday afternoon and found everybody sick. The game was postponed.”
“MT. ZION DEFEATS LOREE: Mt. Zion girls walked away with an
easy victory Friday when they defeated Loree girls 55 to 22.
“An error was made last week as the score was 46 to 6 in
place of 4 to 6 this being in favor of Mt. Zion girls.
“The Loree boys won by a score of 9 to 2.”
103
YEARS AGO
MARCH 9, 1911
“Wyoming Bars Prize Fights: Cheyenne, Wyo. – Governor Cary
vetoed the Umshler bill legalizing prize fights of 25 rounds in Wyoming.”
“Biggest Cock Fight Since War: Augusta, Ga. – The biggest
cock fight pulled off in this section since the Civil War was had about two
miles from Augusta, when a main for the championship between North Carolina and
Mississippi was fought for a side purse of $1,000 on the main and $100 on each
fight. The championship was won by North Carolina. There were nine fights, the
first five alternating between the contesting factions. There were 1,500 sports
in attendance, representing fanciers in about a dozen states.”
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