{"id":19407,"date":"2015-06-29T04:34:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/object-on-the-green-issued-on-29615\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T17:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T09:51:29","slug":"object-on-the-green-issued-on-29615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/object-on-the-green-issued-on-29615\/","title":{"rendered":"Object on the green (Issued on 29\/6\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We receive an inquiry on indication of position by placing a towel on the green.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The jack was in the ditch.\u00a0 Before the skip bowling his wood, his No.3 placed a towel on the green (not on the ditch) but on the lip of the green to signal to the skip the position of the jack in the ditch. This was clearly in breach of law 52 and in the spirit of the game. I did actually try a stop the skip from bowling his wood but failed and he bowled the wood with the offending item still on the green.There was no indication in the Crown Mark rules as to what penalty if any should be imposed we played on. This was clearly in breach of the laws and rather odd for a high division bowler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Clarification from VP Technical<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Law 34 stated that no object should be placed on the bank, the green, in the ditch, on\u00a0the jack, on a bowl or anywhere else to help a player.\u00a0\u00a0 Our common practice is that\u00a0a bowler can put object\u00a0such as a towel on the green to indicate where he\/she want a team member\u2019s bowl to stay but after indication he\/she should lift the towel before the team member bowls.\u00a0\u00a0Hanging a towel on top of a jack or bowl to indicate its position is also acceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In this case the bowler placing the towel on the green has obviously breached Law 34, there are no penalty mentioned in the Law book to govern such situation. The only action the opponent can take is under Law 36 where they can report the case as a \u201cDeliberate non-sporting action\u201d and lodge a formal complaint to HKLBA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Note to Bowlers:<br \/>\nIf you need to use an object such as towel to indicate a position, please make sure you remove it before your bowler deliver his\/her bowl.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We receive an inquiry on indication of position by plac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[632],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notice-technical-zh-hant","article-list-item","animate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}