Jimmy Carr (footballer)

James Edward Charles Carr was a Scottish footballer, born in Maryhill, Glasgow on 19 December 1893, who played at outside left for Reading and Southampton in the 1920s and who also competed at the Commonwealth Games as a bowls player. He began with Watford Orient and Watford, played for West Ham United in 1914 and 1915, and joined Reading in 1919. He moved to Southampton in June 1923, helped the club reach the 1925 FA Cup semi-final, and was released in 1926 after injury problems. He later ran the Red Lion Hotel in Southall and took part in the fours at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, finishing eighth.