Alan Greenwood

AUGUST 20, 1947 – “Rental of Holman Stadium by Nashua High School during the football season will be based pm a fixed percentage of the gate receipts, Elmer F. Blakey, chairman of the Park-Recreation Commission said this noon.

“While the commission chairman did not reveal today what the school’s ante will be toward the upkeep and operating expenses of the stadium during the season, but a member of the school board’s subcommittee on athletics stated it would be 15 percent of the gate, a figure which might run between $2,000 and $2,500 for the season.”

For perspective, $2,500 in 1947 would come to a bit over $33,000 today. Of course, maintaining the stadium today involves more than cutting the grass and a few minor paint jobs.

And they had to have run this past Nashua High athletic director/football coach/baseball coach Charles W. Harvey.

AUGUST 21, 1952 – “Paul Dionne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dionne of 5 Morgan Street, has become one of the brighter diamond stars in the Down East League in Maine.

“Dionne, who plays for the first-place Waterville team, is leading the league in runs batted in, in bases on balls and stolen bases. He is leading his team with a strong .333 batting average.

“… Dionne will be a senior at Colby College this year and is best remembered in Nashua for his sharp play at second base for the high school nine and the James E. Coffey Post American Legion team. He was also a manager of the football team.”

AUGUST 22, 1967 – “First-round action gets underway this afternoon at noon at the North Common tennis courts on Sargent Ave.

“Twenty-two entries are listed in the run for the city title currently owned by George ‘Gig’ Marineau. The defending champion has won the singles title for the past four years. He is seeded first with last year’s runner-up Mike Lesieur seeded second. Arnie Foster and Don Chartier seeded third and fourth.”

AUGUST 23, 1977 – “Jill Monahan ran away with the Ladies Club championship at Whip-Poor-Will Golf Club with an overpowering 17-stroke victory over Claire Marcoux. Monahan fired a 36-hole total of 170 to best the field.”

AUGUST 24, 1962 – “Watch will be kept on Class A events at the Brookline Speedway tomorrow night to prevent repetition of the temper display that marked the mid-season championship finals last weekend.

“Spirited competition between Fred Borden of Concord and Pete Salvatore of Worcester reached a peak when both drivers scuffled following the feature race Joe Cast of Somerville won the gold trophy with Borden second and Homer Eggleston of Fitchburg third.”