* * * * VILLAGE CRICKETERS.
In spite of more ambitious and more widely advertised endeavours, the best form of leadership and co-operation
comes, as it seems to me, from Kent, and concerns not a craft or an art or a science, but a game. The Kent organizer collects at a dinner in the autumn (the date is important) the secretaries of the village cricket teams. They " bear their lot and pay their scot " in the carouse with delight ; and get through a great deal of business. The programmes of village matches are made out with true thoroughness in a way scarcely possible in the past, even when secretaries were keen ; and in practice many village secretaries did not begin to arrange matches till the summer was upon them, and they were forced .to play anyone they could get. Even if we are too serious to regard the game as of real social importance, this example of leadership is beyond cavil. The organizer appointed by the Community Council has brought together people who found it difficult to get into touch without this leadership. What was anybody's job was nobody's job.
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