12 SEPTEMBER 1952, Page 4

Gremlins played some havoc with this column last week, and

a little of the damage must be here repaired. By noting that P. B. H. May has now displaced his captain, David Sheppard, at the head of the batting averages I hope to divert attention from the fact that I first called him P. R. May Secondly, the village in whose church death-watch beetles and the Rev. Noel Mellish, V.C., are in conflict, with odds (I hope) on the latter, is Baltonsborough, Somerset, not Beltonshaugh. That, no doubt, is due to my handwriting, on which opinions differ (my own being on one side and everyone else's on the other). Finally a hypercritical Peer objects that the Judges who drew up the McNaghten Rules in 1843 were not His Majesty's Judges. Very well. Then let them be just Judges.