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20 YEARS AGO
MAY 7, 1998
Horse Show: The Appleton
Saddle Club is sponsoring a horse show on Sat., May 9, at 6 p.m. at the Circle
X Arena in Appleton. Free admission, concessions available, no alcohol.
Wendell Hart Scholarship
applications now available: The Evergreen Rotary Club, administrators of the
Wendell Hart Scholarship Fund, announces that applications for the $2,500
scholarship are now available.
The scholarship is dedicated
to the memory of the late Coach Wendell Hart, who deeply cared for his students
and desired that all deserving young men and women be able to advance their
education.
Men’s Softball Tournament:
There will be a men’s softball tournament on Sat., May 16, at the Evergreen
Municipal Park.
Jermaine Watkins Fund:
Jermaine Watkins, a junior basketball player at Hillcrest High School, was
selected to compete in the Hawaii Junior Summer Camp tournament for basketball
players. Jermaine is in need of help and support financially. If you can help, please
send donations to the Jermaine Watkins Fund at the following locations:
Colonial Bank, Bank of Evergreen, Regions Bank or Jermaine Watkins,
Castleberry, Ala.
45 YEARS AGO
MAY 3, 1973
Sparta QB Club awards banquet
is Monday night: The Sparta Academy Quarterback Club will hold its second
annual Awards Banquet at 7:30 Monday night at the Holiday Inn. Academic and
athletic awards will be presented and letters will be awarded in all sports.
Featured speaker will be
Cliff Harper, assistant commissioner of the Southeastern Conference. Harper was
principal of Evergreen High School right after World War II and left that
position to serve as executive secretary of the Alabama High School Athletic
Association.
Under Harper’s leadership the
AHSAA developed into one of the strongest in the nation and he won national
recognition serving as chairman of the national rules committee on several
occasions. A recognized authority on basketball rules, he conducts clinics all
over the United States.
Tickets at $5 each are still
available in limited quantity. To purchase, contact the school or James Ansley.
Beth Little, Queen of the
Andalusia Lions Club’s second annual Covington County Fresh Water Fishing
Rodeo, is shown with the more than $2,000 in prizes that will be awarded in the
event scheduled May 12 through May 27. Fish entered in the contest must be
caught in Covington County. Information and registration tickets may be
obtained at Stokes Bait & Tackle Shop and Cannon’s Market in Andalusia,
Presley & Claire Gro. & Market in Opp, the Sports Center in Florala,
Andy’s Bait Shop at River Falls, Blue Lake Grocery, Sleepy’s Place at Gantt and
Peoples Hardware in Red Level.
Linda Lawrence, wife of
forester Barry Lawrence, is shown accepting the first place prize in the halter
class in the Greater Brewton Jaycee Horse Show last Saturday. She also won
first place in the lead line class and three third places in Western pleasure
classes.
Atmore Horse Show is set
Saturday: A horse show will be held in the Atmore Saddle Club Arena next to the
Atmore Airport starting at five o’clock Saturday afternoon. Trophies will be
given in the judged, timed and roping events (five places in all events except
roping). All timed events will be electrically timed.
For further information,
contact Emmett Hildreth, Horse Show Chairman.
70 YEARS AGO
MAY 6, 1948
The Evergreen Greenies will
open play in the Tri-County Baseball League here Sunday afternoon at three
o’clock p.m. Brewton will furnish the opposition. Let’s all start this season
by backing the Greenies. Be there Sunday afternoon at Brooks Stadium.
Softball League To Be
Organized Next Tuesday: It was decided at a meeting last night to formally
organize the men’s softball league next Tuesday night. The organizational
meeting will be held at Evergreen High School at seven o’clock Tuesday night,
May 11.
Persons and firms interested
in sponsoring teams in the league this summer are now being contacted. Anyone
interested in sponsoring a team is requested to contact Percy Johnson, B.E.
Carpenter or R.G. Bozeman Jr. before the meeting next Tuesday.
It is planned to have an
eight-team league. Rules, by-laws, schedules, etc. will be decided on at the
meeting, so it is important that those interested in the league be present.
Locals To Play Brewton Here
Sunday At 3 P.M.: Manager Zell Murphy will pit his local nine against a
much-improved Brewton aggregation in the Tri-County League opener Sunday at 3
p.m. Big Wendell Hart will probably get the nod from Manager Murphy while
slow-working Bob McClellan will probably handle the mound chores for the
visitors.
Sunday afternoon the Greenies
finished a successful exhibition slate by downing the Brewton squad 9-7 after
stopping a late rally. The Greenies lost only one exhibition game and that to
the professional Brewton Millers.
The locals packed plenty of
punch at the plate and cut off a ninth inning Brewton rally as they downed the
visitors, 9-7. “Check” Ellis opened on the mound, but had to give up the duties
to Hart in the fifth inning when some costly errors by his teammates got him in
a hole.
The Greenies opened their
heavy artillery in the first inning when Big Wade Nobles slashed out a
three-run homer to right field.
The visitors tallied once in
the first and added another in the second to get back in the ball game. Then in
the fourth they added two more runs to take a lead of 4 to 3.
Joe McDonald started things
off in the fifth by reaching first on an error. With two outs, Ottis Johnson
singled McDonald home and scored on Nobles’ single. Tolbert then blasted out a
homer to deep center, pushing Nobles across ahead of him.
95 YEARS AGO
MAY 2, 1923
Evergreen’s baseball team won
the third of a series of games from Brewton on the local diamond last Thursday
in a close and hotly contested game. The Brewton boys are a fine bunch and they
give promise to play good ball if they continue to let our boys teach them.
Belleville: The Baseball
Association received a new outfit last week and are now prepared to play in
earnest. It is hoped they will have a successful season. A very interesting
game was played on the local diamond Friday afternoon between Belleville and
Repton. The game was called in the seventh inning on account of darkness, in
favor of Belleville, score 8 to 6. Batteries: Belleville, Bradley and Lindsey;
Repton, Kelly and Bradford.
135 YEARS AGO
MAY 3, 1883
CONECUH-ESCAMBIA STAR
A party, anxious to make war
on the finny tribes, repaired last Saturday to the ponds near Sparta. The boys
came back, however, with the usual fisherman’s luck.
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