Tennis Club News

August 24, 2016

 

"How is the club right now? It is peachy."

Peachy? Say what?

"Comes from "peachy keen," I think, sibling to the likes of 'smashing and top notch...'"

-Emmett

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"Those who laugh are always right."

-Coco Chanel

Carol Lee

The entire newsroom staff has been frolicking with the Great White sharks in Truro and so has missed all the action at the club. Correspondents, please check in, please fill us in.

We know that the club has been, and is, unusually busy for August. And we have heard that because the news has been slow, the rumors have been, what? surging. Here are some popular rumors:

• When there is a lot of competition for reserving a court, there is a secret way to get into the reservation system 15 minutes before 8:00;
• The staff, or some members of the staff can be cajoled or brow-beaten into scheduling you a court before 8:00;
• One player, a woman, succumbed to the heat and Marty saved her life by applying mouth to mouth resuscitation;
• The construction across the street from the club will be completed.
• If you need a large loan, you can get it from the pros.

Here are some action shots from Pierce:

Tim



Johanne (She smiles as she runs, smiles when she hits the ball. Geez, it is great to see her again.)



Tom serves



Derek



Kate and Erica

You owe it to yourself to see all of Pierce's amazing photos of CTC players in action. His club pictures, organized by year, can be found at his nifty website: Pierce Harman's CTC photos

Thanks again, Pierce.

Tournaments:

The next, and last, round robing is scheduled for Wednesday, 8-31. There are still some spots open. Come frolic.

The next Table Tennis Social is scheduled for Monday, August 24. Usually, an ecstatic experience. Come play and socialize.

And, finally we have the tournament draws on-line:

• Women's Singles
  
• Men's Singles
  
• Senior Women's Singles
  
• Senior Men's Singles
  

(Photos taken with an iPhone 6 by someone who was, maybe, distraught, or harried. Crude, yet up to date as of now. (The photos, not the photographer.))

The club book, the directory, is here. Get yours at the club. (The website has updates on everything including membership. Click on Member Portal.)

Take a look

at what was happening at this time last year.

 

Men's and Women's Doubles are scheduled for Thursday and Mondays. Sign up on-line under Reserve a Court - Events.

The website has a tradition of blurbing books written by members. Let's try a new feature: club artists with current or upcoming shows.

We invite all club artists to send us info or blurbs on their shows.

Pierce has kindly posted lots and lots of great photos of the tournaments and other club events of last year. You can see, and even download his photos at: Pierce Photos 2014.

A call for contributors: We need some on-the-spot correspondents. Please send us opinions or comments or jokes or observations or pleas. Or stories.

Some links of interest:

Craig Lambert wrote a must-read article for Harvard Magazine about Bruce Wright's take on the 'high set' stance and movement in tennis. Take a look: High Set The article is accompanied by a separate video demonstrating the technique. High Set Video Thanks, Craig, for sending this nifty technical riff along to us.

The book? Membership for the coming year hasn't been settled, so the book will be a while in the making. In the meantime, the website will be updated as data dribbles in.

We are going to try out a new feature on the newspage. Let's call it The Book Blurb. The Blurb will note books not necessarily about tennis, but authored by CTC members. So, if you members have recently, or maybe not so recently, written a book that you'd like blurbed, please let us know.

Let's start with:

"The fundamental question of information philosophy is cosmological and ultimately metaphysical. What is the process that creates information structures in the universe?" Heady stuff, no?Well, the club's own Bob Doyle who works much magic here behind the scenes tackled this little issue in his book, Free Will: The Scandal in Philosophy. And the club's own Craig Lambert wrote a nifty, readable article for Harvard Magazine on Bob and his place in the free will issue. Take a look at Craig's article,

Two Steps to Free Will.

 

In the midst of renovating garages and ruling vast sectors of cyberspace, Bob Doyle wrote a bit of a magnum opus: Free Will: The Scandal in Philosophy by Bob Doyle. "The fundamental question of information philosophy is cosmological and ultimately metaphysical. What is the process that creates information structures in the universe?"

We have a new book by a club member, Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports, by club member, Susan Ware. The book is: A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Sports Book.

We have some new books from club member, Julie Baer:

Love Me Later

Julie Baer presents us with a unique book. Her fantastic artwork depicts nature and people in a special way. -- Bookreviewcafe.com

I Only Like What I Like

"CHILDREN BEWARE –will have you trying the untried, 'cause it's FUN! The collages fill you up to the eyeballs."

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Take a look at: William P. Homans, Jr., A Life in Court, by Mark S. Brodin. Bill Homans was a long time member of the club with "a storied legal career." A lot of folks at the club knew and liked Bill. He could tell a story or two, couldn't he?

We want to mention New Classic American Houses, a book by Dan Cooper about the architecture of Albert, Righter, and our own John Tittmann. "New Classic American Houses is an architectural page-turner brimming with creative interpretations of traditional forms."

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Hot off the presses, a new book by Faith Moore, Celebrating a Life, Planning Memorial Services and Other Creative Remembrances. "Celebrating a Life" provides the ideas, inspiration, and how-to advice needed for creating a meaningful memorial service. Light-hearted but sensitive, this thoughtful guide covers it all."

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While We Were Sleeping by David Hemenway.

"This book powerfully illuminates how public health works with more than sixty success stories drawn from the area of injury and violence prevention."

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The Parents We Mean To Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development by Rick Weissbourd.

The New Yorker review said, "In this ardent and persuasive inquiry, Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist, warns that 'happiness-besotted' parents do children a disservice by emphasizing personal fulfillment over empathy."

Some useful links:

Here's a link to the espn site, with pro ranking.

And a club member (let's call him Sol) suggested a link to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I. The site is rich.

"On the court, tennis players exchange not only ground strokes but lots of information. It's a richly interactive sport, both verbally and non-verbally. If players communicate clearly, simply, and consistently, the game will proceed more quickly, and with less fuss and misunderstanding. Here are a few guidelines that can make the game more fun, friendly, and fair for all...."

We've had some requests to run Craig Lambert's piece, sampled above, on Tennis Communication. (We'd better leave this link up on the newspage permanently.)

The Yearbook link will take you to the last newspage from 2015. From there you can see the whole of the Persistent Archive of last year's news.

Website Note: The time and temperature icon below is a link to a Cambridge weather site.

Click for weather forecast

Joe DeBassio, Webmaster.

Website Note II: The honey-comb icon is also a link. It takes the clicker to an archive of all the past news pages so that said clicker can read the news pages for the whole year (2016). The less-than link (<) next to the honeycomb icon will take clickers to the previous issue of this year's newspage.

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