Sta,—Your very severe attack upon the cap- tain of the
England cricket team is perhaps based upon the acceptance of 'ina'dequate and tendentious information,' which you so rightly deprecated. Later information tells us that at the end of the game our team was given a tremendous ovation, which scarcely suggests that the spectators thought that we had been guilty of unsporting tactics.
Again, Mr. J. H. Fingleton, who, as a former Australian test, cricketer, knows what he is writing about, compliments Mr. Hutton on his captaincy in the Melbourne match, and with no hint that dubious tactics were employed.
Your estimate that an attack, conducted very largely by Tyson and Statham, could get through an eight-hall over in four minutes is a very big underestimate.
In view of the fact that the heat was in- tense, even for Melbourne, it is understand- able that these bowlers, who take the uttermost out of themselves, would not hurry back to their marks between balls.
Alas, poor Leonard Hutton. A year ago he was being reproached when we were losing in the West Indies. Now he is rated when we are winning in Australia. It's hard lines, especially at a time when, according to Mr. Fingleton, the cares of captaincy arc affecting not only his batting but his health.—Yours faithfully, THOMAS WILSON
71 Marsh Lane, Stan more, Middlesex
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