SELECTORS' CHOICE
SIR,—I cannot claim to have read all the criticisms of the Selection Committee which has recently chosen seventeen players to rep- resent us in Australia. Those which I have read—about a dozen or so—have been, on the whole, favourable to the committee. Some critics would have preferred Trueman to Tyson, others would have liked a left-hand batsman to have been included, and one would have chosen Sheppard as captain rather than Hutton, but the comments are mild, and most people seemed to think that the selectors had done a good job. It was surprising therefore to read that, according to Mr. C. B. Fry, the selectors ' have been pasted with all sorts of sinfulness by the critical pachyderms: favouritism, snobbery, old-school-tie mania, obtuseness to merit, anti-Huttonitis, pro-Tysonism and other imbecilities.' May I ask where Mr. Fry read anything which would justify his statement ? —Yours faithfully,
W. JOHN TRISTRAM Rhos. Abbey Hotel, Rhos on Sea, Colwyn Bay
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