Note for commentators

Sir,

I deplore those Race-Track Commentators who keep exhorting the spectators to applaud. At the B.R.D.C.’s Silverstone Meeting we were directed to applaud sundry drivers; mechanics, officials and Royal personages, all of whom would have received their due without the interference of a “mike-happy” commentator.

Surely his duty is to report on the progress of the racing and to restore lost children to their owners, not to stimulate something which if not spontaneous is meaningless?

A.E. Drake.
London, N.8.