17 MARCH 1973, Page 26

Old score

Sir: Benny Green hasn't necessarily caught Evelyn Waugh in an error in Scoop when he describes a game of ping pong in which the method of scoring was as in lawn tennis. When ping pong was revived between the wars and was re-named table tennis I remember seeing a set in a West End store with the table marked like a tennis court and the scoring method in the instruction booklet was as in lawn tennis.

K. I. Wiggs 3 Higham Road, Woodford Green, Essex