On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:03 PM, jim gorman <pearlzone16@...> wrote:
> Rule 108a states" When a player is unable to complete a game because of
disability, injury or emergency, and another eligible player is not available,
the team shall count the actual score for the frames bowled plus one-tenth of
the leagues absentee score for each frame missed."
>

But the bowler completed the first game, sat out the second, then
bowled the third. Now if I were captain, I might not be happy with
one of my bowlers doing that. But there's nothing illegal about what
the bowler did.

> As a league secretary, I would question the validity of the injury. Someone
who injures their back probably would not recover fast enough to bowl the 3rd
game. In our league if someone gets injured, we use the above rule, but we take
1/10 of the bowlers average to finish the game, then we deduct 10 pins from his
average for the remaining games(s). So, if he averages 200 he would use 190
Blind score for the remainder of the series.
>

But it's difficult to judge someone *else's* injury. He could have
felt that he would bring the team down, so sat out the 2nd game.
Again, nothing wrong with that, as long as the team still had a legal
line up.

Eldred
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