20 MAY 1949, Page 22

A RECORD SHUNNED

Sta,—Record-hunting is a curse of modern sport, and it is "startling and discomforting," to use his own adjectives, to find Janus suggesting that Messrs. Dewes and Doggart should have preferred the chance of a world record to the interests of their side. That in fact they made the opposite choice seems to me, and I hope to many others, one of the best things that has recently happened in English cricket.—Yours faithfully, GORDON CROSSE. Oxford & Cambridge University Club, Pall Mall, S.W.i.