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'No Reference To Carr
A few minutes later, votes of thanks were being passed lavishly including one to the Duke of Port- land, the late president, who had refused to have anything more të do with the club since the January decision, But none wont to A, W Carr for his services as captain, in Tapito of the promise in the report that: "At the annual meeting the committee and members will have an opportunity of recording their appreciation,"
Someone rose in the body of the hall to remind the chairman of this, but Alderman Huntsman cut him short with: The meeting is now closed."
Mr. Carr's nama is included among the 14 nominations by the opposition. another being that of Sir Harold "Bowden. There is, however, little prospect of Carr's | return to the captaincy,
To-night Mr. Carr said to me: "The welfare of Notts cricket is above all personal considerations. I only hope I may be allowed to do my bit in one way or other."
"Notts Have Owned Up"
The decision of the Nottingham- Bahire members has met with much
satisfaction in cricket ericles.
Mr. H. J. Enthoven, joint captain
of Middlesex last season, said last
night:
The world's first crude oil and gasoline futures market, operat ing similarly to the Chicago Grain market, is now in operation in New York sa shown here, Thousands of barrels of oil and gas will be dealt in by men who will never go near the derricks shown here suggestively in the rackground:
DROUGHT
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Page 9).
He
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"I know our committee will be Joe maintained a calm, unruffled bleat of thirsty; 'hungry sheep, was extraordinarily pleased. This is demeanour, as he had done when over in his ears; sound most pitiful. the first time that Nottinghamshire Mary died. None knew the strug He drove them slowly in the have owned up that they have been gle he had had with himself, and evening from pond to pond. at fault. A reassuring statement was still having. For now the die watched their strength and such as this is what everybody was cast the wrench hurt cruelly, stance fall away as pond after pond wants. If they stick to their word, But he was not the man to turn back gave out. Each morning he scan- which they will undoubtedly do once he had set hand to the plough. ned the cloudless heaven: blue and everything should be all right"
Each day So the stock was sold. Buttergill, beautiful, but pitilesa. Notts Quite Wrong
too, with its sheep rights on the fells, ho tramped acrcas his land, hearing Sir Francis Lacey, a member of And the furniture wert South, and the dried bents rustle and crackle the M.C.C. Committee and for 25 Joe with it, to a farm in a fold of underfoot, realising there was longer any "feed" for his flock. years accretary of M.C.C., said:
It was terrible to see the poor
that
I think the whole cricket world
the Downs.
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no
will overlook the past and trust to The bank manager to whom he creatures as they lay in the hollows the future. It is my own opinion earried a letter of introduction from of the hills, mere shadows of what the Nottinghamshire Club his brother manager up North re-they had been. Joe worked dog- were quite wrong and made a mls-ceived him with deference, Joe gedly and made his men work with take, and they are now trying to do Gainsford was a man of substance. moved the sheep. They carted food
him.
From place to place they
the right thing. They can do no
That was not enough. He wanted
and water, buying where they could, more than that. They are taking to be more. He wanted to be as big paying extortionate prices.
But the honourable course."
The Rev. J. H. Parsons, the well-a man in the world of "real" sheep there was no more resilience in the cricketer as he had been among the little farmer's banking account than in known Warwickshire
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they would still talk about him up his eyes and the bank manager, still there as the best breeder and judge deferential, regretted he could not of Herdwicks for generations. And grant an overdraft without he was going to see to it that all security.
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"I am frightfully pleased it has England-and all the world where happened. Let us hope the grand sheep were bred and sold-knew of old game of cricket will come into Joe Gainsford and his flock, his Jou sacked his men.
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The action of the
To save a remnant, as he hoped,,
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Nottinghamshire Club was in itself rams and his breeding ewes."
So he bought both well and freely. gaunt creatures left to him. He magniscent. If it is all settled I
It was a different life from that was as haggard as they, worn to a feel that cricket will benefit tre-
to which be had been accustomed shadow by the long, incessant,” mendously.
A seemingly endless struggle. Unless "There are, however, doubts But he adopted himself. my mind as to whether the ques- Where there had been red, blue the drought broke soon the end was tion is really finished. It had gain- and yellow prize cards at Buttergill inevitable. ed such a firm hold on cricket and there were now rosettes and gilver through people belittling the ques-cups. tion the game was done a lot of more. harm.".
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The drought did not break. · Day}| For he was showing once succeeded day with the sky clear And winning. And never and pitiless Clouds of filles roso satisfied. Where he had paid into the hot, dry air from time to "Bowling of that type appealed pounds for a tup in the North, he time as they were disturbed by to the basest things in human now paid hundreds for a ram he de-feasting crow or rat, and the stench
The ram was worth the of death rose with: thảm...... nature and not to the fine feelings, sired.
From pond to pond the farmer 6th May and it was completely ruining the money, too, as defeated bidders rue-
fully admitted. But they had other trudged, seeking but the muddy 7th Maygame.
interests besides sheep and other drega for the remnant of his flock. {drains" on their resources. Joe had Far across the Down, in a dip, he none. He could afford to spend found an inch or so of water in a lavishly, for he spent his all on long-forgotten dew pond. He hur- sheep, and sheep only.
ried home. Six of the sheep still lived. Once they had been his He had been ten years down pride: champions each one of them. Their silver trophies no longer South when there came the summer of the great drought.. Days and raved his sideboard: they had been weeks went by with never a drop of sold to buy the needed "keep."A rain, never any respite from the ram there was for which a record wasting, drying heat that shrivelled price had been paid--a price that up the herbage and caused great brought Joe Geinsford's name into Consignees of Cargo are hereby In-cracks in the heavier land of the the daily papers, that added to his former that all Goods are being landed valley. What breeze there was up pride. With that ram and the re- growing fame and satisfied his at their zirk into the hazardous and/or on the rounded summit of the Down extra hazardous: Godowns of The Hong
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