26 DECEMBER 1952, Page 6

MR. MALLALIEU ON SPORT

For many years J. P. W. Mallalieu's Spectator articles on sport, whether football of either code, cricket or tennis or the Boat Race, have been widely appreciated and widely quoted. From next week's issue, the first of 1953, they will be regular instead 'of occasional. There is no nation in whose life sport of one kind and another plays a larger or more salutary part than in Britain, and there is no writer who treats of sport more entertainingly than Mr. Mallalieu (who, incidentally, is an Oxford Rugby Blue). In the page he' will have at his disposal each week he will be able to cover a wide field—from test matches to table tennis if he chooses—treating each topic in his own characteristic way. What is essentially a new departure will, it is believed, be generally welcomed.