Mar 2001 Volume 82 Number 3 "serving the protectors"
BOWLS
By Peter Baehnk

Holdfast Bay club pairs

Twenty-eight SA Police Bowling Club members took part in the club pairs contest for the 2000-01 season at the Holdfast Bay Bowling Club in early February. Member and Holdfast Bay Men’s Bowling Club president, Graham Boyer, handed facilities over to the SAPBC.

The contestants were matched up by ballot – each of nine associates was teamed with full members who skippered. One newer SAPBC member, Karen Grandfield, was paired with Frank Holden. The pairs played three games of 12 ends.

The weather was fine but, at times, overcast. Contestants felt a few spots of rain toward the end of the day.

In a close competition, Allan Martin and Frank Atkinson – on two wins and a draw – didn’t make it to the winning post, nor did Nick Zuvich and Neil Marriott on three wins with 16 shots up. Danny Fitzgerald and Ron Crossley – who collected three wins and 23 shots up – eventually won.

National Carnival – St John’s Park, Sydney

Team and other members and their wives gathered at Fort Largs in late January to discuss final arrangements for the SAPBC team at the 2001 National Police Bowling Carnival at St John’s Park, Sydney.

Member Ian Young was elected as team manager. Although still made up of the same members, the team (which appeared in the , February 2001) has slightly changed. It may well change again before it takes to the greens in Sydney on April 1.

The rules

A bowl is driven from the mat end at the jack. The jack is hit but then collides with a bowl in the head and bounces into the air. A player at the head end, standing close by the head, catches the jack.

Roy Howcroft asks: “What should happen as a result?”

Consider the answer in light of law 34B (iii) and 37 of the Law Book.

Law 34B (iii) – Displacement by a participating player of a jack in motion

If a jack in motion is displaced by a player, the opposing director has the option of:

a) placing the jack where it would have come to rest and replacing any part of the head disturbed by the displaced jack, or

b) having the end replayed.

Law 37 – position of players

Players of each team not in the act of playing, or controlling play, shall stand a minimum of two metres behind the head or the mat or on the bank.

The law requires that players must stand at least two metres behind the bowl, furthest from the mat, at the “head” end, or two metres behind the mat, or on the bank. A slightly different rule applies to directors at the head end. Players should not be in a position to interfere with the jack.

The most practical solution would be to pronounce the jack as “dead” and replay the end. It is impossible to establish where the jack would have come to rest.

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