Damned by faint praise; VIEWPOINTS.

I WOULD like to thank your correspondent Allen Jones (Viewpoints, August 4) for stating that my previous letter regarding the late Bleddyn Williams was "mostly correct" and immediately followed that by setting out three paragraphs dealing with three errors he attributed to me.

Damned by faint praise indeed.

I'm afraid Mr Jones has a lot of his own facts wrong and, bearing in mind that I was giving my own tribute to Bleddyn and also his family, I leave it to others to decide if Mr Jones was indeed rather immature in his choice of items to criticise.

I correctly referred to Flight Lieutenant Austin Matthews as being the officer who accompanied Bleddyn to Gloucester for his first international against England, and I also stated that he was the Glamorgan fast bowler who played for England during the Thirties.

I don't believe, however, that it was a point worth mentioning by Mr Jones.

Mr Jones should also have ignored the incorrect reference to the MBE awarded to Bleddyn in 2005 as being the BEM - again the transposition of one letter which should not have disturbed the sleep pattern of Mr Jones, I would have thought.

He might have one small point, however, with me referring to 1942 as being the year that Bleddyn first played for Wales.

My concern, as I believe Mr Jones was made aware, was that I corrected the belief that Bleddyn played some five years later.

The other information contained in his letter referred to Billy Liddell's disappointment in not being allowed to turn out for the Scottish football team, and Mr Jones' belief that this decision was typical of the RAF snobbery at the time. As far as I am aware Billy Liddell was not at St John's College.

VJ Stollery Torrens Drive, Lakeside, Cardiff