Barry Edwards.

Evans, David Allan

Barry Edwards

   Three times a week he comes home
   from his racquetball match at the club,
   gets out his notebook and records a
   W either in the Me column on the left
   (hundreds of geese winging down the page
   in single file) or in the Opp column on
   the right (a few lone geese) along with the
   opp's initials. Always, before any party he's
   invited to (especially if he thinks an opp or
   two will be there) he studies his notebook
   like a scholar. At the party, he waits for
   someone to ask if he plays so and so at
   the club, and if so, who wins? Even if the
   question is rare (especially if so and so is in
   the room), he needs to be ready with an
   honest answer, just as (helping himself to
   some chip dip or another beer) when an opp's
   ball comes off the back wall for an easy back--
   hand setup, he can simply step into it and
   kill it, cleanly, low in the left corner.