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Arthur William Carr Nottinghamshire & England 1910-1934. A large red quarter leather album, covering the period 1923-1935, with initials 'A.W.C.' in gilt to front board, containing one hundred and five pages with printed press cuttings, press caricatures and printed press pictures of Carr and various teams, invitation to play in matches, scorecards, original photographs, printed typed itinerary for the M.C.C. tour of South Africa in 1922/23 (loose), selection to be England Captain, England Test series v Australia 1926, Nottinghamshire 'County Champions' 1929, death and funeral of William Whysall, Bodyline controversy etc. The album begins with cuttings from 1923 and 1925, original sepia photograph of A.W. Carr unveiling the memorial to Alfred Shaw at Gedling, Nottinghamshire, an official invitation to play in the Gentlemen v Players match of 1925 on Lords headed paper, an original photograph of the Gentlemen walking out to field, including Carr, in the match at Lord's 1925, an official scorecard for Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, June 1925, an original photograph of the Yorkshire and The Rest teams at the Oval 1925, an original real photograph postcard of the Nottinghamshire team of 1925 and a candid photograph of Carr on the pavilion balcony with his son, Angus 1925, original photograph of a team at Scarborough 1925 including Carr, good coverage of the England v Australia Test match at Trent Bridge and Lord's 1926 with Carr as England Captain, original invitation card from the Lord Major of Nottingham to Dinner to meet the 'Champion County Cricket Team of 1929' held at the Council House in October 1929, mono press photograph of Voce bowling with details of Nottinghamshire C.C.C. holding a meeting to discuss Bodyline to verso in January 1935 (loose), official scorecards for Surrey v Nottinghamshire 1929, Carr 114 and Northamptonshire v Nottinghamshire 1933, Carr 125, Bakewell 246 (both loose) etc. Some handwritten annotation from Carr. The album with minor wear to boards otherwise in good condition
Carr was named captain of England for the Ashes series against Australia in 1926. In the third Test at Leeds, he controversially put Australia into bat after winning the toss, and dropped Charlie Macartney at slip in the first over of the match. Macartney went on to score a hundred before lunch and England was lucky to avoid defeat. He came down with tonsillitis during the fourth Test of the series, and although he recovered in time for the fifth Test, he was replaced as captain by Percy Chapman. He was bitterly disappointed with this decision, and although he captained England twice more in his final two Tests against South Africa in 1929, henceforth he put most of his effort into captaining Nottinghamshire into a dominant position within the English County cricket competition. He became a test selector during the 1927 season. In 1930 and in the following years, Carr was instrumental in developing the �€œbodyline" bowling tactic together with future England captain Douglas Jardine and the two Nottinghamshire fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce. Carr used the tactic of instructing his bowlers to aim at the bodies of batsmen and placing a close set field on the leg side to take catches fended away from the body with the bat and perfected it as he led Nottinghamshire to success in the county competition. Jardine then used Larwood and Voce in similar fashion on the infamous 1932-33 English tour of Australia, resulting in several injuries to Australian batsmen and the incurring the wrath of the Australian public. After this tour, and the subsequent fallout, Carr was subjected to bodyline bowling by other English county teams, and was severely shaken by several balls that nearly hit him on the head. He later denounced the tactic he had helped develop as unfair. Dissension within the Nottinghamshire club over his role in the bodyline scandal led him being sacked as captain in 1934, and he never played first-class cricket again. In all, he played 11 times for England with a batting average of 19.75. He also wrote a book, 'Cricket with the Lid Off' with a preface by Douglas Jardine which was published in 1935. In his first class career he scored 21,100 runs including 45 centuries at an average of 31.58 and took 318 catches.