* * * * I am completely at one with
Sir Pelham Warner in his criticism of cricket commentators who insist on referring to every player by his Christian name as well as his surname. It is intended, no doubt, to suggest subtly that the commentator is on terms of intimate familiarity with these great men, and,, if one commentator registers his claims to this distinction the others can hardly afford not to follow suit, though in fact some of the best cricket critics have the sense—and indeed the taste—to eschew this stupid new fashion.
You get this kind of thing in a London evening newspaper: " Hard behind the news today. that Trevor Bailey will not play, and that Eric Hollies, also injured, has been replaced by Roly Jenkins, comes still uncertain tidings about Reggie Simpson."
Sir Pelham calls this mannerism undignified. So do I.
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