12 AUGUST 1949, Page 16

SIR,—Yes, Puffer is right. After his great bowling feat against

the Australians, a cricketing poet addressed to them some friendly advice in a rhythm made popular by Austin Dobson. So far as I can remember after more than fifty years it ran:—

"If we were you, who would not wish to suffer Any defeat, at most a draw or two, We would not face the hail-removing Pougher, If we were you."

—Yours faithfully. J. M. &smut. Inglemere, ze Smithson Downs Road, Purley, Surrey.