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I come now to George Parr, a great Nottingham batsman. The very name Nottingham strikes an old cricketer of my age with wonder, respect, and awe. I am often thinking to myself, when I see ignorant critics and journalists inclined to jeer at Nottingham cricket, how little do those people remember of cricket history. I say that if not another cricketer was ever born in Nottingham, it would still take years for any other country to come up to Notts. Yorkshire and Surrey are the two nearest; the first, however, is the only real rival. Surrey has a fine record, but so many of her latest cricketers are, and have been, importations, that it is doubtful how they would have stood since Jupp left off play with only genuine natives. Surrey's great lights in the days when only natives represented counties, that is, between the years 1858 and 1870, were a grand lot. Caffyn, Caesar, Mortlock, Humphrey, Jupp, Stephenson, Lockyer, Griffith, Sewell, Pooley, Southerton, and, in later days, Maurice