[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1
SIR,—A request has lately been made to the members of the Surrey County Cricket Club, asking them to help the Com- mittee to find employment for the large number of young professionals and ground-men at the Oval during the winter, and doubtless the other county cricket clubs are in a similar position of difficulty. Here, then, is an opportunity, as your correspondent Mr. R. Stratton in your issue of the 25th inst. so ably points out, for the War Office to initiate a training for the idle, and enable them for three or four months during the winter to earn a livelihood. There must be several hundred professional cricketers who would gladly attend this training, sufficient to form a whole regiment. Besides, it would help them to keep in condition during the
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