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| World famous turkey caller, Eddie Salter, of Conecuh County, Ala. |
20 YEARS AGO
APRIL 2, 1998
Hillcrest High School honored its top 1997-98 football team
with a banquet in the school’s cafetorium. Best Lineman Award was given to
Sedrick Johnson, and Jermaine Watkins was awarded for the Best Wide Receiver.
Hillcrest High School recognized its outstanding football
players for the 1997-98 season. Cleonte Moore was recognized for being the Most
Improved Player. Will Lanier for Best Hustler, Wayman Tullis was given the Scholastic
Award and Sam Fountain was recognized for being the best B-team player.
Hillcrest High School recently recognized the outstanding
captains for the 1997-98 football season. They were Bennie Nevlous, Ashley
Coleman and Sedrick Johnson.
Mallory Salter, daughter of Eddie and Julie Salter of
Evergreen, killed her first turkey on Tues., March 31, 1998. The gobbler
weighed 18 pounds, had an 11-inch beard and 1-1/4-inch spurs. Mallory’s father,
who is a World Champion Turkey Caller, used a H.S. Strut mouth call to call the
turkey for Mallory. Mallory recently won her first turkey calling contest and
now that she has killed her first turkey, we can honestly say she is following
in her father’s footsteps.
35 YEARS AGO
APRIL 7, 1983
Sparta edges Fort Deposit, 7-6: The Sparta Academy Warriors
defeated Fort Deposit Academy, 7-6, in a game played March 29 at the Murphy
Club. Winning pitcher was Russ Raines. Leading the Warriors were Al Etheridge
with three hits (two doubles); Joe McInvale, two hits (double and triple); and
Joey Johnson, two hits (double and single).
Old Timers game set at Castleberry: There will be an old
timers football game at M.C. Thomasson Stadium at Conecuh County High School in
Castleberry this Friday night. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. A team from the
Repton area will be playing a team from the Castleberry area. The concession
stand will be open. The public is invited to attend.
Cancer Society to sponsor softball tourney in May: There
will be a Men’s Class C Softball tournament Sat., May 7, at the Evergreen
Municipal Park sponsored by the American Cancer Society. This will be a double
elimination tournament and trophies will be awarded to first, second, third and
fourth place with individual first place trophies. Entry fee is $65 and hit
your own ball, no hot dogs allowed. To enter or for more information, contact
Mike Kline. Remember, all proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society.
50 YEARS AGO
APRIL 4, 1968
"Fore" is the word for next Thurs., April 11, when the
Evergreen Golf Club stages its annual Invitational Golf Tournament. Golfers
will enjoy the beauty of the course as well as the play. Here Bill McGehee tees
off on the water hole, No. 8, as pretty a golf hole as there is in all the
world. Bill will join Hugh Ellington in competing for the championship. The
other golfer is Henry Kinzer whose ‘banana ball’ has earned him fame all over
South Alabama.
Coach Wendell Hart’s Evergreen Aggies left their supporters
with high hopes for a successful 1968 season after winning and losing in the
jamboree at T.R. Miller High School Stadium Friday night.
The Aggies lost in the first quarter to Miller, 7-0, but it
could have gone either way.
The Evergreens scored a touchdown themselves on a beautiful
punt return by Hollis Tranum behind superb blocking, but the men in the striped
shirts called it back on a clipping charge.
The Aggies charged back in the third frame and completely
outclassed Greenville in racking up a 7-0 win. Leon (Hoss) Hinson got the score
on a toss from Jimmy Hart, but the stars of the evening were those hard
charging Aggie linemen led by Roger (Big Red) Waller, Eddie Ralls, Jimmie
Hamiter, Ernest Shipp, Forrest Simpson and Elliott (Buck) Quarles.
65 YEARS AGO
APRIL 2, 1953
Aggie Baseballers Play First Game Friday P.M.: With only
four days practice under their belts, and one of those days hampered by rain,
the Evergreen High School baseball team opens a 10-game schedule with Lyeffion
on the Lyeffion diamond Friday afternoon at 1 p.m.
Both Lyeffion and Evergreen concluded spring football
practice last week and got in their first baseball practice last Monday.
Coach Hart will be using several boys who will be playing
their first game as varsity performers, but expects to field a strong team.
He lists his tentative lineup as:
Pitchers; Lavon ‘Cotton’ Quinley, Marvin Garvin, Cullen
Edson and Hugh Ellington. Quinley and Ellington will alternate at first base
when they are not pitching. Edson will play infield when he’s not pitching.
Second base, Robert King; shortstop, Billy Lewis; third base, Charles King;
left field, Ronnie Edson; center field, Homer Riley; right field, James Ansley;
and catcher, Robert Mason. Reserves: Richard Taylor, utility and Donald
Cunningham and Murry Johnson, outfielders. Ward Alexander and Shirley Frazier,
both veterans of the last two years, will miss the first game because of
illness and injury.
Evergreen High School’s varsity baseball schedule that
season was as follows: April 3, at Lyeffion; April 7, v. Lyeffion; April 10, v.
Repton; April 14, v. Castleberry; April 17, at Repton; April 21, at
Castleberry; April 28, at Monroeville; May 5, v. T.R. Miller; May 8, v.
Monroeville; and May 12, at T.R. Miller.
80 YEARS AGO
APRIL 7, 1938
Work Starts Tuesday On New Athletic Stadium: Actual work
began Tuesday morning on the new athletic stadium at the Evergreen High School,
according to Mayor J.R. Brooks.
Approximately 25 workmen are engaged in grading the site. A
number of trucks and other pieces of grading machinery are being used to move
the dirt and with favorable weather the project should move forward rapidly.
The stadium is being constructed as a WPA project with the
city cooperating. It will involve an expenditure of more than $6,000 and when
finished will be one of the most modern athletic stadiums to be found in a city
the size of Evergreen. It can be used for baseball, football and other athletic
events. It is hoped that it can be completed in time for the local baseball
team to play a portion of its games this year there.
News from Evergreen High School, written by Rubye Darby:
Baseball claimed our attention Friday afternoon when we had two very
interesting games. The Senior II and Senior III girls won over the Senior I
girls by a score of 14 to 2. The Senior III boys won over the Senior II boys by
a score of 7 to 1.
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