Ball bash
From Captain Duncan Neil DevAll„ Sir: My late father began b" readership of The Spectator befor the Boer Wars when, as Heed master of the Marist Brother School, Johannesburg, he receive! editions in batches sent out by b,„`I. brother in England. He continiE purchasing The Spectator until_,P died at the age of eighty-seven. how he would (as I do) have 0; plored the sub-normal standard journalism displayed today in yo' once esteemed magazine! Mark Goulden's letter ' Shini the ball' (June 24 edition wasi typical example of the closeness Pi character The Spectator has coil to Private Eye. Like my father, I have watche! bowlers in and from every cricicet, playing country in the world oyec long period of time who rubbed u" ball against their groin and never entered our minds (or th., of cricket lovers in other countrle: to misconstrue this habit of cricl° ball burnishing.
What typically permissive4 ded persons Mr Mark Goulden his Yankie pal must be!
Duncan Neil De.,,04 2 Fernwood Avenue London SW
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