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| Red Sox pitcher Ed Morris |
24 YEARS AGO
MARCH 19, 1992
The Hillcrest High School
Jaguars are on a record-setting pace with an early 5-2 record and three
consecutive wins. The Jags will play in Excel today and try to avenge an
earlier loss against Andalusia Friday in Evergreen.
The Sparta Warriors return
eight starters from last year’s 12-8 record club. Coach Mike Bledsoe is hoping
more consistent play will better the school’s 1-3 early season record.
Members of the county
championship Lyeffion Junior High School girls basketball team were Kanesche
Nevlous, Jeanette Northern, Lachell Dailey, Keynetta Knight, Shantelle Hunter,
Nicole Mitchell, Coach John Jenkins, Azure Salter (bookkeeper), Shakira Darden
and Tiesha Mobley.
Members of the Lyeffion Junior
High School basketball team are Coach John Jenkins, Donald Ray Mixon, Robert
Quinn, Timothy Thompson, Adrian Joyner, Anthony Taylor, Venson Lett, Selanmin
Gross and Coach James Riley.
Players from Lyeffion Junior
High School who were named to the All-County Tournament Team were Adrian
Joyner, Christy Maxwell, Keynetta Knight, Tiesha Mobley, Shantelle Hunter and
Kanesche Nevlous.
39 YEARS AGO
MARCH 17, 1977
Sparta spins two shutouts:
The Sparta Academy Warriors were outstanding on defense, but never could get
their offense untracked as they closed out spring drills in a jamboree at
Greenville Academy Saturday night. Coach Mike Bledsoe’s Warriors played to 0-0
ties with South Butler and Greenville.
Ronny McKenzie topped the
Warrior attack as he netted 58 yards rushing on 18 attempts. Johnny Ralls
picked up 15 on just two carries.
Sparta had the worst of it in
the accumulated statistics for the two, one-quarter games, according to Sports
Information Director Byron Warren Jr.
Sparta Juniors win one, lose
one: The Sparta Academy Junior Team won and lost in its two quarters in a
jamboree at South Butler Academy last Thursday night. The jamboree climaxed
spring football practice for Coach Darwin Cook’s Junior Warriors.
Sparta lost to South Butler,
8-0, and then defeated Fort Dale by the same score, 8-0. Bobby Mason scored
Sparta’s lone touchdown on a nifty 35-yard run. Robert Owens plunged over for
the extra two points, according to Byron Warren Jr., Sparta Sports Information
Director.
Mason, Owens and Trip Hendrix
were outstanding for the Junior Warriors.
Arlton Hudson left the woods
to the turkey hunters Tuesday and landed this fine bass. The fish weighed 7-1/2
pounds and Arlton said he caught him “in the mouth of Sandy Creek.”
54 YEARS AGO
MARCH 15, 1962
Aggie Footballers Play
Practice Game Saturday Night: With 13 senior lettermen graduating, the
Evergreen Aggies have 56 returnees and rookies out for spring football
practice, Coach John Law Robinson said today.
Robinson and Assistant Coach
Lewis Ramsey began working with the boys March 5 and will continue through
March 31, getting ready for an Aggie winning streak in the Fall.
Only six seniors are out for
the 1962 season. They are Winston Pugh, end; Ronnie Jones, end; Donnie Jones,
tackle; Pete Tharpe, tackle; Bobby Lynch, guard; and James Ward, guard.
Coach said today two games
are set for spring practice season, one Saturday night at 7:30 and the final on
March 31.
(Other players going through
spring practice that year included Claude Aaron, Leon Adams, Steve Baggett,
Ronnie Barlow, Mike Borders, John Brock, Stan Coker, Scott Cook, Paul Deason,
Alvin Dees, Jimmy Ellis, Mike Fields, Bobby Hammonds, Ken Harper, Tommy
Hartley, Ronnie Hayes, Jerry Horton, Johnny Huggins, Bob Ivey, Billy Kendall,
Sid Lambert, John Lowrey, Roney Mitchell, Mike Minninger, Mike Moorer, Joe
Morris, William Patten, Arlie Phillips, Charles Pierce, John Pierce, Robert
Rigsby, William Sessions, Ronnie Shaver, Calvin Smith, James Taylor, Brent
Thornley, Eddie Thornley, Wayne Tolbert, Jimmy Warren and Billy Wilkins.)
The Evergreen Quarterback
Club will give special recognition to all outstanding athletes and all phases
of sports at EHS at a banquet March 23, the Rev. Tom Tidwell, president,
announced today.
The D.T. Stuart Sportsmanship
Trophy will also be presented. An annual affair, the banquet will be at the
Evergreen High School cafeteria. Guest speaker will be Richmond Flowers,
candidate for attorney general of Alabama.
69 YEARS AGO
MARCH 20, 1947
Turkey Season Open Beginning
Monday: MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Come Thurs., March 20, and the turkey hunters will
be in their glory – that’s when Alabama’s annual spring turkey hunting, or
gobbling, season opens. These hunters are in a class unto themselves. Fanatical
about their sport as the best girl is about her hair-do, they will leave home
long before daylight, sit quiet as a church mouse for hours on end in the
wildest kind of woods while they turn female impersonators and try to lure the
wily old gobbler within shooting distance with allegedly seductive turkey hen
calls on box, leaf, turkey bone and mouth callers.
Only one gobbler a day may be
killed and bag limit of five four the season must include those killed in both
the fall and spring seasons. Hunters will have until April 15 to prove their
ability to outwit the suspicious old gobblers.
84 YEARS AGO
MARCH 17, 1932
White Indicted In Death of
Pitcher: Brewton, Ala., March 12 – An indictment charging second degree murder
was returned Friday afternoon by the Escambia County Grand Jury against Joe
White of Brewton, who has been held without bond since the death March 3 of Ed
Morris, Boston Red Sox pitcher, from knife wounds received during a fight at a
fish fry here.
White is charged in the
indictment with killing Morris by cutting him with a knife and the grand jury
returned the charge after being in regular session since Monday.
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