IS CRICKET DECLINING ?
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To think that I should catch Mr. Neville Cardus out on a cricket date! Yet did not a schoolboy once bowl W. G. and have the same kind of rare satisfaction ? No,. Mr. Cardus, it was not 1899 but 1902 when .Jessop made 105 in the final Test match at the Oval in seventy-five, minutes. And of the end of that match I read as I stood in the street in Banbury, with the headlines of the old Daily Chronicle turned back and my hand glued over all that came lower than the 'particular line that I was reading, that I might not be baulked of the joy of not knowing what the end had been till I came to it. So I came to that epic finish when Wilfred Rhodes played Trumble for , the winning run, and the immortal words of George Hirst were' justified, "
get them by singles."-4 am, Sir, yours faithfully,
3 Amen Court, St: Paul's, E.G. 4. J. K. MozLny-,
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