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13 YEARS AGO
JULY 19, 2007
Bateman captures top honors
in golf: Brian Bateman, 34, of Monroe, La. captured first place in the Buick
Open pro golf tournament on July 1 in Warwick Hill, Mich.
Bateman is the son of Dr. Bill
Bateman, a 1961 graduate of Evergreen High School, and the grandson of Scotty
and Bill Bateman, formerly of Evergreen. He is the great nephew of Virginia Key
and the late Judge Robert E.L. Key of Evergreen.
Bateman, who began his
professional golfing career after graduating from Louisiana State University in
1996, took home $882,000 and a brand new Buick for his win in the Buick Open.
The tournament’s total purse amounted to $4.9 million.
With his win at the Buick
Open, Bateman became the first player to capture his first PGA TOUR win at the
Buick Open since Tom Pernice Jr. in 1999. At age 34, Bateman has already had a
long and successful golfing career.
Cassie Gomes, nine, of
Bossier City, La. won this year’s Bayou State 3-D Archery State Championship.
Gomes, a fourth-grader at Benton (La.) Elementary School, captured top honors
in the Pee Wee Division at the event, which was held on June 9 at the Fort
Buhlow Recreation Area in Pineville, La. Gomes is the daughter of Heath Gomes
and Summer Coleman. She is also the granddaughter of Ivon and Mary Gomes of
Andalusia and the great-granddaughter of Bob and Lillie Gaskin of Evergreen.
38 YEARS AGO
JULY 15, 1982
Conecohi sets practice for
‘little’ teams: The CCHS Tiny Mite and Pee Wee football teams will begin fall
practice Mon., Aug. 2, at 5 p.m. Age groups are: Tiny Mites, 8-10, and Pee
Wees, 11-13. All eight and 11-year-olds please bring your birth certificates.
Anyone wishing to participate this year is urged to sign up. For additional
information, contact Gary Darby or Eddie Garner.
Girls tryout for BB at Jeff
Davis: Jefferson Davis State Junior College in Brewton will be holding tryouts
for girls interested in playing basketball for this coming season on Tues.,
July 20, from 1-3 p.m. Tryouts will be held at the college gym. Interested
girls need only to bring basketball attire.
Length limit is lifted on
bass at Monroe Lake: State Lake Supervisor Bill Reeves of the Game & Fish
Division of the Alabama Conservation Dept. announces today that the 16-inch minimum
length limit on largemouth bass at Monroe County Lake was removed as of Wed.,
July 14.
Reeves said that the bass
population in the lake has improved dramatically and the balance between bass
and bream is excellent. Reinstatement of the length limit may be necessary next
year if the bass harvest becomes excessive, he warns.
Reeves said that the creel
limit for bass will remain at 6 per day, per fisherman.
63 YEARS AGO
JULY 18, 1957
Garland Takes Twin Bill From
Lyeffion Sunday: Garland took both ends of a doubleheader Sunday from Lyeffion
in Conecuh County Amateur League play.
Wesley won the first game for
Garland, 3-2, and Beverly and Capps pitched for Garland in the second game,
winning 4-2. Stuckey pitched both games for Lyeffion, proving to be a real
workhorse. In the 14 innings Stuckey pitched, he allowed seven runs and struck
out 14.
Garland now has a four-won,
five-lost record for the season.
EVERGREEN JUNIOR BASEBALL
LEAGUE – Reporters: Oz Hansen and Rooster Croft:
Chicks Check Orioles 13-6: The
Chicks picked up 13 runs off two hits as the Orioles issued 13 free tickets to
first base Tuesday night. Oriole Glen Bolton got the only hit off winning
pitcher Joe Glass.
Giants Rock Red Sox 5-1: The
Giants rallied behind the steady pitching of Ronnie Byrd to check the Red Sox
Tuesday night. The Giants were never in trouble scoring a run every inning off
Johnny Snowden, making his second appearance on the mound for the Sox. In the
last inning, Johnson and Fountain hit successive singles for the Sox and
collided on second base. After some wild base running that confused the fans
and Giants both were tagged for a double play. Byrd struck out the last man to
end the game.
Chicks Peck Pels 10-3: The
league-leading Chicks met the Pelicans Thursday night and with one hit, a
triple by Faulkner, ran the score to 10 in five innings. Baggett, Rue and
Patten, Pelican pitchers, failed to find the plate and walked a total of 16
men. Allison Gaston Pel keystoner belted a single and a double in three tries
for the losers.
88 YEARS AGO
JULY 21, 1932
Evergreen To Play Greenville
Today: In a very one-sided contest played at Gantt Field last Thursday
afternoon, the local baseball team defeated the McKenzie outfit, 12-5. This
victory gave Evergreen two wins out of three games played with the McKenzie
team.
Today, Evergreen meets
Greenville in Greenville in the third contest this season. Each team has a game
to its credit and the game today will be a battle to the finish for the odd
game. A large number of fans are expected to accompany the members of the team
to Greenville to witness what is believed will be one of the best games to be
played this summer.
Thus far this season
Evergreen has played five games and of the five has won three. The local team
is recognized as one of the strongest and most successful amateur outfits in
this section of the state.
Castleberry Plans Checker
Tournament: Castleberry, July 20 – Plans for a countywide checker tournament
have been laid here for the first two weeks of August.
Any checker player in the
county is invited to enter the tournament. No admission will be charged, the
only stipulation being that the name of the would-be entrant must be filed with
the Castleberry Checker Club not later than Aug. 1.
Present plans call for the tourney
to begin Aug. 1 and be concluded Aug. 15.
SWIMMING – Every Evening At
STEVEN’S POND – Thomas G. Stevens
113 YEARS AGO
JULY 17, 1907
OWASSA: Dear Editor – Please
allow me space in your paper to reply to the article in last week’s issue from Garland.
It might appear to those who were not there and witnessed the games that
Garland won both games from the way it was reported. But I am sure it didn’t to
those present. It is true that Garland got away with the first game to the tune
of 15 to 7, but it wasn’t the Garland team that turned the trick by any means.
They saw fit to play only one of their regular men. The others were the picked
from Georgiana and McKenzie teams.
King clearly out-pitched
Walton, the crack pitcher from Pollard, in the morning game, that accounts for
the walk-over.
The afternoon game was quite
interesting from start to finish. King started in to duplicate the morning
feat, but he didn’t have Mr. Walton as his opponent this time, and there was a
different tale to tell. However, he held his own with Mr. Guice until the
latter part of the game, when he weakened and our boys touched him up with
several hard bingles, including a homer which nearly took the breath out of his
backers. He soon realized that he was no Mathewson or Maxwell, and couldn’t win
a doubleheader in one day, so he quit the game in the ninth inning, the score a
tie, 10 to 10. His successor was easy. The final score was 15 to 10 in favor of
Owassa. Garland failed to do anything in their half of the tenth, Guice
finishing strong.
L.C. Gaston, F.D. and Herbert
Moorer went fox hunting a few mornings ago. They had a fine race, saw the fox
at a shooting distance, but being three of the tenderest hearted boys they let
him go for another race and returned home tired and hungry. Lee is a fine young
man but not much to carry a gun on a fox hunt.
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