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Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes and newspaper cuttings relating to the MCC County Pitches Committee, compiled by D B Carr, MCC Assistant Secretary. Includes newspaper articles relating to the decision to no longer play cricket at Dartford in Kent due to the state of the pitch, minutes of the Pitches Sub-Committee meeting in February 1967, letters inviting Cyril Goodway, H C Lock, M J K Smith, A V Bedser, M C Cowdrey, M J Stewart, D C Morgan, M G Crawford and J E C Clarke to serve on the County Pitches Committee, letter to Raman Subba Row thanking him for accepting the position of Vice Chairman of the Committee [F R Brown was Chairman], reports on county pitches in 1966, arrangements for Surrey groundsman H C Lock to inspect pitches on MCC's behalf, reports on inspections carried out by Lock during the 1967 and 1968 seasons, copies of the pitches table of merit for 1967 and 1968, copy of the report of the 1967 County Pitches Committee, correspondence relating to the agreement by MCC for Watneys to sponsor the 'Groundsman of the Year' and the decision to give the award to Lancashire's Bert Flack in 1967 and jointly to Norman Hever of Northamptonshire and Frank Dalling of Nottinghamshire in 1968, copy of a report from V I Stewart and W A Adams of the Soil Science Unit at Aberystwyth University [University of Wales] titled 'Further report on cricket wicket research' discussing the impact of soil and worms on cricket wickets and squares, paper by the National Association of Groundsmen on recommended wage scales.

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