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Arthur William Carr Nottinghamshire & England 1910-1934. A green boarded 'Newspaper Cuttings' album, covering the period 1903-1920, containing approximately 100 pages of press cuttings and printed press pictures of Carr and various teams, original photographs, printed school magazine entries, invitations from Lord's to play in matches, scorecards, team postcards, letter etc including Arthur Carr's schools days at Hazelwood School, Oxted, Surrey 1903-1906, Sherborne School in Dorset and his short stay at Eton, war-time service and early days at Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club up to 1920. The album begins with cuttings from the 'The Nutshell' magazine at Hazelwood School with references to Carr's sporting prowess in cricket, rugby, choir etc, and it includes an original photograph of Carr as a schoolboy in front of the scoreboard having apparently scored 167. The album continues with cuttings from Sherborne School including matches v M.C.C. Club & Ground, Radley College, Tonbridge School etc, original programme naming Carr in the Sherborne Rugby team to play the Royal Naval College in 1909, an original photograph of the Sherborne School team (?), further cuttings from 1909 playing for Nottinghamshire 2nd XI, two handwritten invitations from Edward George Wynyard [Hampshire & England 1894-1912] on Lord's Cricket Ground postcards, dated May 1910 inviting Carr to represent the Public Schools team at Lord's, an original broadsheet for Leicester Rugby Football Club with rugby fixtures for December 1912, with three matches marked 'Arty (Carr) played', an original postcard/postcard size photograph of Arthur Carr sitting in a chair with John Gunn standing, signed in ink by Gunn, coverage of Carr putting on 333 runs with Garnet Lee v Leicestershire 1913 with original scorecard, original photograph of a group of two teams of cricketers and umpires including Carr marked below in ink 'Arty as Captain', a Foster Series real photograph postcard of the Nottingham XI of c1913 featuring Carr, an excellent original photograph of Sir Arthur Priestley's XI of 1913, again, featuring Carr, page 59 is inscribed 'War Declared 1914', handwritten 'Bill of Fare' marked Flanders 20th March 1915 with humourous handwritten menu with images, Carr mentioned in despatches, handwritten letter from Charles William Wright (Nottinghamshire & England 1882-1899), dated 30th April 1919, inviting Carr to be the new Nottinghamshire C.C.C. Captain 'My Dear Artie, I am very pleased to tell you that you were unanimously appointed Captain of Notts for the ensuing season and wish you every luck and success', scorecard for Nottinghamshire v Sussex 1919, Carr 101no etc. The album contains around 103 used pages. Good condition. An interesting insight into the early cricketing and sporting life of an inspiring but often controversial cricketer
Arthur William Carr was born at Mickleham in Surrey in 1893. He was educated at Hazelwood, Eton and Sherborne Schools. The Sherborne school magazine wrote the following of his cricketing abilities in 1904 'Very good all round for his size, but too small to be much use yet' and in 1905 'For his inches would be quite in the 1st class; with a little more head, but at present is addicted to strokes that mean certain death. Is too small yet to do justice to his undoubted bowling talent. A fine field anywhere' and in 1906 'As Captain, keen and energetic in the field, but should learn to discriminate between slackness and un-skilfulness in others. As a batsman, has had no superior here, possessing every stroke a boy of his age ought to have, his driving being perhaps his strongest point. His bowling hardly increased as much in accuracy as in pace. A beautiful field anywhere, from wicket keeper outwards'. On leaving the school the magazine wrote of him: - '...has also been suddenly called to Eton. In him Hazelwood loses a sportsman second to none, and his future will be looked upon with eager interest' He went on to Eton College where he was in Mr. J.H.M. Hare's House from September 1906 to July 1907 when he was asked to leave so went instead to Sherbourne School from September 1907 to July 1911. He was a member of the Cricket XI from 1909 to 1911, scoring over 1,000 runs in the 1909 season alone. He also played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club 2nd XI in 1909. The Sherborne School magazine wrote the following of his 1910 cricket season 'Very good bat, with any number of good shots, his best being his drive, which is very powerful. His fault is his great recklessness, getting himself out by treating full tosses and long hops too carelessly. A good field anywhere, at his best in the slips. A useful fast bowler, but cannot last long'. In 1910 he represented the Public Schools XI in the match against the MCC at Lords. On leaving school he made his first class debut for Nottinghamshire against Derbyshire at the age of 17, in the same season, scoring 1,800 runs but did not score his first century for the club until 1913 and he played football for Leicester City [Rugby] Football Club in 1912. His war-time service saw him involved at Mons as a 2nd Lieutenant and his regiment were involved in the long retreat from Mons where they acted as a rearguard to the retreating British Expeditionary Force. He was wounded and invalided home for four months during 1915, returning to the front at the end of the year and was mentioned in despatches. He was still serving with his regiment at the armistice in November 1918.