16 OCTOBER 1964, Page 11

Sticky Wicket One or two newspapers, I see, have sent

their cricket correspondents to Cardiff to make sense of Tod Dexter's political activities there. They have, of course, produced excellent reports, but somehow I am reminded of the story of the news- paper which, in a moment of staff crisis, asked a sports reporter to deputise for the music critic at a concert. It duly received this account of the proceedings : 'The So-and-so Orchestra played Beethoven at the Albert Hall last night. Beet- hoven lost.'

WATCHMAN