15 JULY 1972, Page 25

Tennis balls

Sir: In his letter " Shining the Ball" (June 24), later most com

pendiously depreciated by Captain Duncan Neil Dewar's pithy reply Ball Bash' (July 1), Mr Mark Goulden visualised the action by bowlers of polishing cricket balls against their groins being alarmingly misconstrued by certain viewers.

During the past fortnight I wonder what his permissively fertile mind has conjured up as he watched that old ritual by Wimbledon's male competitors of popping tennis balls in and out of their groin-situated pockets? . David J. McIntosh 13 Station Parade, London SW12