The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
Neville CardusThere ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
Neville CardusSuch reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
Neville Cardus