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Sunday, April 18, 2004

Same old same old:

4-14-04 Flooded again.
(Wildlife conservationist have taken an interest in the property.)

But...

4-17-04
The crew actually got on the courts on Saturday.

And scraped mud off the surface.

Mud?

When there's a pond at the club and we have heavy rains (heavy rains), mud washes down onto the courts and it has to be removed. Because:

mud prevents the clay from binding. If we put new clay down on the mud, we'd have new clay, mud, then courts, in layers;
mud isn't as permeable as clay. The courts would stay wet longer.

The mud is scraped off the courts into piles and then shoveled into wheelbarrows and trucked up the hill behind court 3 and dumped, later to be taken away by the same bobcat (Eldco) that brought the new clay. All cyclical, like. Mudding is arduous and messy and everyone hates to do it. Especially on a sunny Saturday. (On Saturday the crew's conversation was about whether people in coal mines were having more fun? or people in hell? Rocky opined that we may never know, or we won't know for a while.) We have two and a half courts still to be mudded.

Membership information: Waiting list information can be found in the FAQ section of the website. After folks have been accepted, we will update. We are expecting the update soon.

Take a look

at what was happening at this time last year.

We are leaving the tournament draws up. And again we'll offer our thanks to our Anonymous Friend, the Java Kid, for posting them and keeping them up to date.

Tournaments

And here's the saga of last year's tournaments (so's we can compare and contrast):

And the saga of the year before (we're mighty fancy here, and mighty grateful to the Java Kid for doing all this work):

Phew.

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

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

The information in the CTC book may also be found here on the website. The information is current. The waiting list for membership, as well as a list of new members is up to date. That information can be found through the 'FAQ' page. The 'Governors and Committees' page, and the 'Rules' page are also up to date.

'Members', and' Reservation Requests' are not active parts of the site nowadays. 'Timelines' is for adepts.

The Yearbook link will take you to the last newspage from 2003. From there you can see the whole of the Persistant Archive of last year's news.

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

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 you can read the news pages for the whole year (2001). The less-than link (<) next to the honeycomb icon will take you to the last issue of the newspage.

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