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The next Pizza Night will be on September 23. Bowling will commence at 5 p.m. and will follow the usual informal draw game format. Pizza will be served following the game ($5.00 per person). For those who are willing and able, the club will have a light duty work party starting at 3:30 p.m.

The 2010 “season” is almost over but we don’t stop our lawn bowling just because winter is around the corner. The grass gets greener and the days get shorter but the bowling will go on all year! If you’re visiting our site and have had thoughts about giving it a try…it’s not too late. If it isn’t raining, we’ll be there on Wednesday and Saturday mornings between 10 and 12 for lessons. All you need to bring is a desire to have some fun.

If those times don’t work, contact the club – perhaps we can arrange a special time for a small group lesson. Why don’t you gather up a few friends and TRY IT, YOU’LL LIKE IT!

Our annual intra-club triples tournament was held on Saturday, 8/28. We donned our “whites” and gathered at the club for a noon start. We played a full round-robin with each team playing all of the other teams. In the end, the winner emerged with skip Howard Mackey’s team out in front. His vice was Millard Long (our former club president). Novice Andrew Stapleton filled the lead position.

For decades, the Berkeley and Palo Alto bowling clubs have played an annual match for possession of the Meat Axe trophy. This year, five teams of three from each club met on the Berkeley green to decide the trophy’s home for the coming year. We played four short games for a total of twenty. Sadly, the Palo Alto club won 11 with Berkeley winning 9…close, but no banana! So, the Meat Axe went back to Palo Alto this year.

The event will be at Palo Alto next year.

On August 18, the Palo Alto club will visit Berkeley for the annual meat axe tournament. Palo Alto has held the trophy for several years and Berkeley hopes to return it to our clubhouse this year.

Please contact Howard Mackey if you’re interested in participating!

On Saturday, July 24, the Berkeley club will host a PIMD Mixed Fours tournament (2 men, 2 women). Teams from around the Northern California division will play in the event. Spectators welcome!

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Jim Corr recently attended a coaching session offered by Tony Scott, one of Australia’s top coaches, was in Northern CA recently giving lessons to those of us who feel we could do with some improvement.

Jim is offering a group coaching session to try to pass on, as best he can, the key points from Tony’s lessons and to run through some of the practice routines he (and other coaches like Larry Murphy and Larry Collaco) suggest.

The session would be short, in line with Tony’s philosophy that you don’t practice for more than an hour at a time (you’ll get bored and lose concentration), and what I’m proposing is to do it next Tuesday, July 20 at 5:00 pm at the Club. We would have maybe 15 minutes of talk in the clubhouse and then one hour of practice on the green.

If you’re interested, please let Jim Know by email

The next Pizza Night will be held on Thursday, July 15. As usual, there will be a voluntary work crew at 3, bowling at 5 and dinner at approximately 7. The charge for the pizza is $5. Those of you who cannot come to our regular 12:30 draw games may find this time more suitable.

I want to acknowledge and thank the following members for their work on the ditches and surrounds at the May Pizza Night:Cathy Dinnean, Dave Rockhold, David Sals, Gary Knox, Dave Schmalenberger, June Browne, Sherrill Reeves, Susan Jamart.

Geoff Chandler, President

p.s. Geoff Chandler also deserves the acknowledgement and thanks of the members for his tireless work in maintaining the green and surrounds.

but only by the hair of their collective chinny-chin-chin. The day consisted of four 8-end games with two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Berkeley did loan one of our expert bowlers to LT because one of theirs couldn’t make it. After the morning round, Berkeley was down 2 games to 6! But then there was the afternoon round that Berkeley took 6 to 2. It isn’t higher math to figure out that that amounts to a tie. So, after calculating all the plus points, Leisure Town squeaked by with an ever-so-small margin of victory.

What a hoot! Great weather, good company; just plain fun. If you’re not a lawn bowler, you should give it a try!