25 MAY 1956, Page 8

THE EAGLE-EYED Mr. Kennard Davis has pointed out to me

the following strange passage from the Sunday Times report of the Lancashire and Yorkshire match at Leeds: Warner . . . struck the last [ball] so firmly back at the bowler that it took him squarely in the chest before he could get a hand to it. Had the ball travelled a foot higher, a most unusual situation might have arisen.' He adds his own supposition 'that the reporter was a Lancastrian, and one felt that he could not conscientiously write "deplorable" or even "regrettable" '!