Gary and Valerie Jorgensen won door prizes
Kathleen Ripley Leo
And a pair makes 6! The women and men of the PebbleCreek Cribbage Club have been pegging their points playing cribbage since 2010, and celebrated its 15th year anniversary at its yearly Cribbage Dinner. More than 10 door prizes were awarded to members and their guests during dinner at Haymaker’s on Litchfield Road in Goodyear. The club meets every week on Thursdays from 1 to 3:30 p.m. or so in the Sienna Room. We play four games, awarding nominal prizes.
President Gregg Herriford is the fifth president of the club. The recent past president was Gary Lind who passed away in January of this year, and a special minute of remembrance was devoted to Gary Lind.
What is cribbage? It’s a card game played with a deck of playing cards, with two opponents, or up to four, and a cribbage board is necessary to score points. The game was actually created in the early 1600s by the English poet Sir John Suckling, who was known for his cavalier gaiety and wit. The object of the game is to be the first player to score 121 points. These points are awarded to a player for counting the hand they play, and a player pegs those points on a cribbage board. Cribbage boards come in many different forms: old ones have been found carved on whalebone, or a slab of wood, any surface that 120 little holes can be drilled into. Cribbage was popular among prospectors in our American West, and the small mining town of Nelson, Montana, to this day displays a sign proclaiming it the Cribbage Capital of the World.
Cribbage is also played by American submariners as a common pastime. The wardroom of the oldest active submarine in the U.S. Pacific Fleet proudly displays the personal cribbage board of WWII submarine commander and Medal of Honor recipient Rear Admiral Dick O’Kane, and upon the boat’s decommissioning, the board will be transferred to the next oldest submarine.
The men and women of the PebbleCreek Cribbage Club meet every Thursday 1 to 3:30 p.m. for friendly games of cribbage where we don’t play mulligans and we help each other with the counts. Each month the top four weekly winners are posted in the PebbleCreek Post.
Cribbage anyone?