The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for June 1, 2020

21 YEARS AGO

JUNE 3, 1999

The members of Boy Scout Troop 40 went on a campout recently to St. Andrews State Park. The group enjoyed a campout, walked along the beaches and had the thrill of riding on a 35-foot sailboat. Pictured on the boat are Chris Tindol, Travis Cobb, Eric Howell, Ricky Prine, Nick Klaetsch, adult helper Tom Nielsen and Kevin McNeil. The last white animal to the left of the boat is either a great white whale or Cub Scout leader Richard Jenkins.

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.

The deadline for submitting applications is July 1, 1999.

Mack Salter, 95, of Evergreen killed this big rattlesnake last Thursday on the Brown-Hawkins Road. The rattler was over five feet long and had nine rattles and a button.

46 YEARS AGO

JUNE 6, 1974

MEN’S SOFTBALL: Earl Windham reports the following results in the Men’s Softball League through May 30: May 21, Jerry’s 21, Cotton-Hutcheson 5; Flexible Southern 9, Lyeffion 8; May 23, Jerry’s 11, Lyeffion 9; May 28, Flexible 11, Jerry’s 32; Lyeffion 4, Cotton-Hutcheson 5; May 30, Jerry’s 15, Cotton-Hutcheson 2; Flexible 11, Lyeffion 13.

Petty Officer in Charge E-5 Jim Hamby of the U.S. Navy unit at Middleton Field presents a trophy to Col. Lee F. Smith, president of Evergreen Aviation, Inc. The presentation Friday night was in appreciation for Evergreen Aviation sponsoring the Navy unit’s team in the Thursday night Mixed Bowling League at Brewton Bowl.

The U.S. Navy’s Middleton Airport fire-fighting unit recently won for the third straight year the championship of the Thursday night Mixed Bowling League at Brewton Bowl. They present Col. Lee F. Smith, president of Evergreen Aviation, Inc., a plaque in appreciation for his firm’s sponsorship of the team. Shown are team members Jim Hamby and his wife, Becky, Col. Smith, Barbara Bell and her husband, David. Hamby and Bell recently finished 24^th in a state bowling tournament.

71 YEARS AGO

JUNE 2, 1949

“Check” Ellis To Play With Brewton Millers: Chester “Check” Ellis Jr. was to begin working out with the Brewton Millers of the Alabama State League tonight and expects to sign with the Class D club in a few days. “Check,” a 22-year-old right-handed pitcher, talked with Miller manager Norman Veazy Monday and was told to report for practice today.

“Check” has been attending Troy State Teachers College, and for the past two months has pitched for Colquitt in a very fast semi-pro loop in South Georgia. He was a star athlete at Evergreen High School, where he received his diploma, and played with the Evergreen Greenies last year after completing a hitch in the Navy.

Evergreen Handicap Golf Tournament Starts Today: Thirty-four men and four ladies are scheduled to tee off this afternoon at the Evergreen Country Club golf course in the Evergreen Golf Club’s Handicap Tournament. The golfers will start play at 1:30 this afternoon (Thursday).

In the men’s division, three trophies await the winners. Four ladies will vie for two prizes in the ladies division.

The trophies are exhibited in the window of Canterbury Hardware, Inc. A score card giving an account of the results of the tournament and showing the next matches will also be kept in the window. The public is invited to come out and watch the matches at the golf course six miles north on Highway 31 at the Evergreen Country Club.

(Men in the tourney included Truman Hyde, Jack Newman, Horace Deer, C.T. Ivey, Temple Millsap, Dr. Bill Turk, Waynard Price, Sam Cope, Henry Sessions, Roy Pace, Ray Canterbury, Lawton Kamplain, Bayne Petrey, Frank Johnson, Bob Bozeman, Bonnie King, Sam Granade, Bill Cardwell, C.A. Jones, Dr. Joe Hagood, Alfred Long, Harry Monroe, Byron Warren, Willard Williams, Edwin Page, Knud Nielsen, Zell Murphy, L.K. Wiggins, Hub Robinson, Bob Kendall Jr., Billy Carleton, Vernon Millsap, Sonny Price and Herman Bolden. Women in the tourney included Helen Kamplain, Velma Cope, Mary Nielsen and Katie Newman.)