dated August 8, 1951: As Vijay succeeds Vijay

From the Editorials: ``With most of the decisions taken by the Indian Board of Cricket Control in Delhi there will be agreement. The move to keep the Ranji Trophy in abeyance has been countered effectively. A special committee is to investigate if the Schools tournament too cannot be continued. ... The Board must be congratulated on selecting Vijay Hazare to lead India against England. It is a most felicitous choice: Hazare richly deserves the honour, as our most consistent batsman, quite a useful man with the ball, a leader who inspires confidence in his men, and one who has already led India to victory against a visiting team. Vijay Merchant, stepping down from the position has, in a characteristically generous statement, pledged full loyalty and support to his successor. We are sure that Hazare can at any time count on Merchant's great skill and experience. It is a matter for regret, however, that the selection of the captain should have been by the Board itself, and by ballot. Whoever was responsible for releasing the actual figures of the voting did no service to the game. Happily for us, both Hazare and Merchant are good sportsmen. ... The practice in other countries is to constitute a strong Selection Committee of men well-versed in the game, who will choose the captain, considering calmly the relative merits, ruling out extraneous considerations, and going in for unanimous choice.``The new president of the Board of Control succeeds Mr. A. S. De Mello, who has been actively connected with the Board from its very foundation..''

Incomparable low

In the tradition of TheHindu's bringing to its readers the best of features, reproduction of David Low's cartoons had been enabled by arrangement with LENS. Today, David Low's skilful picture entitled ``Holiday Notes'', showed Mr. Aneurin Bevan in Yugoslavia telling Tito how to hold off Stalin, Emmanuel Shinwell in Washington trying to tell Gen. Bradley not to put all European armies in one uniform, Dick Stokes packing a four-poster bed and 12 pairs of pajamas as requisites for a visit to hold talks with Premier Mossadeq in Persia, and many British Tory front-benchers leaving for Paris, as they had heard that in France, ``practically anybody could be asked to form a new Government.''

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