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| Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson |
11 YEARS AGO
JAN. 10, 2008
Jags
open area play with win: Hillcrest High School’s varsity boys basketball team
whipped area rival T.R. Miller, 62-56, last Thursday night to improve to 1-0 in
the 4A Area 2 standings.
Destin Gross, a junior, led the Jags with 22 points,
including a 15-of-20 showing at the free throw line. Taft Lark, also a junior,
followed with 13 points.
(Other standout Hillcrest players in that game
included Aaron Dees, Lawrence Bennett, DeAndre Lyons, Tony Watson and Zavier
Likely.)
Sparta, ranked No. 4 in the AISA, posted its biggest
win of the season, a 48-point victory, in a 61-13 win over Marion last Thursday
in Evergreen. On Friday night, Sparta improved to 2-0 in area play by beating
2A Area 1 rival, Wilcox, 64-47, in Camden.
(Standout players for Sparta in those games included
Hayden Armuelles, Maddie Black, Christin Booker, Emily Booker, Savannah Brown,
Susan Ann Cook, Camarena Godwin, Morgan Harden, Mallory Kendrick, Erica Palmer,
BreAnna Pate, Ashton Raines and Ashton Talbot.)
Kristen
Booker, age 11, of Belleville, killed her first deer, a spike, on Mon., Dec.
24, 2007 near Belleville. She is the daughter of Chris and Cindy Booker and the
granddaughter of Inez Bartlett and Burns and Alma Blackwell of Brewton.
36 YEARS AGO
JAN. 13, 1983
EHS Football
Banquet is set for Feb. 5: Evergreen High School’s annual football banquet will
be held Saturday night, Feb. 5, at seven o’clock in the school cafeteria.
Tickets are $5 per person and must be purchased by Jan. 28 from any member of
the EHS Quarterback Club or contact Coach Willie Farish at the school.
The guest
speaker will be Coach Johnny Mac Hollinger, assistant head football coach at
Woodham High School in Pensacola. Woodham won the Florida state 4A championship
in 1982.
Warriors win ‘em all from
Greenville Academy: Greenville Academy brought three basketball teams to the
Sparta Academy Gymnatorium on Saturday night, Jan. 8, and the Tornados carried
home three losses.
The Sparta
girls romped 35-18 over the Greenville ladies. The Sparta JVs had little
trouble in handing a 45-26 loss to the Tornado junior varsity, and in the
feature game of the night, the Sparta Warriors waltzed to a 75-40 win.
Cheri Johnson
was the only Warrior woman to score in double figures as she hit 10 points, but
the other Sparta girls contributed rather evenly: Leah Carrier and Raye Gall,
six each; Jan Coker, five; Dudley Melton, three; Tammy Booker and Tracy Holmes,
two each; and Lynn Williams, one.
Chris Blatz
scored 22 points to lead the Warrior varsity blitz of the Tornados. Russ Brown
with 13 and Joe McInvale with 11 were also double-figure scorers for Sparta. Al
Etheridge had eight points; Vince Watts, Joey Johnson and Britt McNeill, four
each; Ed Carrier, three; Dewan Salter and Connery Salter, two each; and Wes
Brown and Russ Raines, one each.
61 YEARS AGO
JAN. 9, 1958
Repton
Places Two On All-Star Team: The Repton High School Bulldogs placed two men on
the 1957 All-Star Football Team for the Pine Belt Conference. The all-star
selections were announced today by conference officials. Grove Hill with five
men and Frisco City with four dominated the selections.
Named from the Repton club were Cleveland Morris,
center, and Franklin Baggett, halfback.
Castleberry
Downs Aggie Cagers 58-43: The Conecuh County High Blue Devils won their second
game of the season from the Evergreen High Aggies by 58 to 43 Friday night. The
game was played in Castleberry. Coach Lee Owen Dees’ cagers have lost but one
game this season.
David Castleberry poured 25 points through the cords
to pace the Blue Devils. Gordon Sims added 14; Charles Heaton, 11; Wilson
McCreary, four; and Frank Weaver and Billy Garner, two each.
Buddy Zukowski topped the Aggie scorers with 15
points. Jimmy Moorer meshed 10; Bill Ivey, nine; Paul Pace and Robert
Ellington, four each; and Don Pate, one.
The Aggie Bees tripped the Blue Devil “B” squad 33 to
21 in the preliminary tilt to give Evergreen a split for the evening.
McKenzie led the Aggie Bees to victory with 11 points.
Others scoring were Tucker, seven; Boykin, six; Eddins and Lewis, four each;
and Rigsby, one.
86 YEARS AGO
JAN. 12, 1933
Mr.
and Mrs. Ellis Shannon Narrowly Avert Tragedy: Fate Sunday at Shanghai
intervened and probably saved the lives of Ellis Shannon, an Evergreen, Ala.
boy who has become an airman, and his bride of three weeks.
A plane crash which brought death to the bride of
young Shannon’s “buddy,” who was wed in a double ceremony with Shannon Dec. 22,
and in which crash the husband of the victim was critically injured, was
averted by Shannon and his wife by a queer turn of the fate brought tragedy to
their friends.
The foursome had planned an airplane trip from
Shanghai to Hangchow.
But just before the departure, according to an
Associated Press dispatch to The Mobile Register Sunday night, Shannon and his
bride decided to go by train and meet their friends in Hangchow.
On the outskirts of Shanghai, before the plane had
risen 50 feet off the ground, according to the Associated Press dispatch, for
reasons unknown, the craft nose-dived and crashed into the bank of the Whangpoo
River, overturning.
The victim was Mrs. Christopher Mathewson Jr., whose
husband is the son of the late renowned New York Giants baseball player. The
bride, whose home was in Philadelphia before her wedding in Shanghai, was
crushed and died half an hour later, the Associated Press dispatch said.
On Dec. 22, Mathewson and Shannon celebrated their
double wedding in Shanghai. The two youths had become fast friends in their
aviation endeavors, and they were instructors in the national government
aviation school at Hangchow.
Young Shannon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Shannon,
the father being a prominent sawmill man of Evergreen. Interested in flying
since his early youth, young Shannon has made rapid progress in aviation since
he entered school of flying, after attending the public schools at Evergreen.
110 YEARS AGO
JAN. 8, 1908
Can’t
Kill Robins: All hunters’ licenses for the year 1907 expired Dec. 31 and those
who hunt after Jan. 1, 1908 must provide themselves with license for the new
calendar year. Whether issued now or next December the price of hunters’
license is just the same. Sportsmen appreciating this fact have begun already
to duly equip themselves for the pursuit of the willy members of the fur and
feathered tribes during the present year.
Robins are protected by the game law and cannot be
killed at any time. These birds migrate to southern climes and temporarily
sojourn here during the winter and spring; they then return to the north, where
they build their nests in orchards and near the habitation of man, and raise
their young. Up north they are valuable to the farmers and destroy tons of
noxious weeds and injurious insects. They are esteemed most highly as
songsters, and are loved on account of their friendliness to man.
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