We are having about the slowest June in history. Last week, for instance, we never had one hour of court time when all the courts were booked. June is usually our busiest month. The prevailing theory is that we've had so much rain that people are discouraged and gave up. Wicked woeful. We recommend that when you see a ray of sun, grab your racquet and run down do the club and play. Oh ya, check that the courts are open and not still under water.

Maybe we can make up for lost play by playing a lot at the club's wonderful Fourth of July Party. Maybe.

On Thursday, July 4th, the club will celebrate our parting ways with perfidious Albion by hosting a barbecue, pot-luck, somewhat organized pick-up doubles tennis jamboree. (We will also feature tennis at Wimbledon on tv to show that we don't hold grudges too long.

The club will provide hot dogs, burgers, barbecue-ables, condiments, chips, and beer and soda.

There is a pot-luck part to the party. A contribution is welcomed but not required.

If your last name begins with the letters A-M, please bring fruit or salad or nibbles;

If your last name begins with the letters N-Z, please bring dessert or nibbles.

If your last name begins with the letters Sch, please bring a child.

The club's parties are usually rockin' affairs, the club at its most sociable. You sign up on the board, you play, you eat, you play some more, you drink, you hang. Disagreeable members(do we have one?) have all gone to the Vineyard.

No sign-up is required. Guests are welcome but a prime-time guest fee will be charged.

Please come.

Having trouble with the new reservation system? Well, here's a couple of helpful hints:

After you've made your reservation, picked a time, and added the players, remember to hit the button marked 'Done.'

Whatever you do, do not use 'tbd' or 'tba' or members' first name only. The system identifies tba, tbd, and first names as guests and charges guest fee. The old system let us do those things and we got used to it, but the new system is a little more, um, rigid.

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

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.

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.

"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 2016. 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.

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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