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The USBC has cleaners that are approved for use before and after competition, but they also have cleaners approved for use at anytime during play. From the USBC rule book: Commonly Asked Questions – Rule 18. 18/1 When can an acceptable cleaner be used on a bowling ball? Unless otherwise...

It looks to me like you don't think it will ever happen. Indeed they can, such is life. However, some actions are considered as acceptable whilst others are not. Whether an act is seen or not does not change the nature of the act. The question is, should the action I described in my scenario...

As it should. My proposed amendment works in exactly the same way. The only change is that in the scenario that I described, the bowler is considered to be cheating as soon as they knowlingly bowl at the incomplete rack. Surely once you see a missing pin the rules should oblige you to have it...

Just to make it clear - I do not have an issue with how the rule works in real life. I take issue with what it deems as legal and fair play.

Scenario: A person looks at a rack, sees a pin missing and chooses to bowl at the rack. They don't like the outcome and they call attention to the fact that the pin was missing and is allowed to rebowl the shot. This is legal under the rules as they stand now. You have no problem with it. I...

I agreed with you in my previous post. In practice it's fine. The problem lies in the fact that it allows people to do something which clearly should not be allowed. I'm not trying to complicate it, quite the opposite in fact. I proposed a simplification of the rule by deleting the bolded part...

All I'm saying is, with the rules as they are written now, the act of knowingly bowling at an incomplete rack is not against the rules. You yourself agreed with me saying "Common sense and a few ounces of decency stop this" (since the rule itself does not). Yes the rule works fine in reality...

Would you also say that a person not trying to find a way to cheat will NOT knowingly bowl at an off spot rack? (E.g. a 10 pin which is much closer to the gutter than usual).

With the rules as they stand now, a person is well within their rights and within the rules of the game, to choose to bowl at an incomplete rack. Indeed, a person who wants to abide by the rules of the game and who has absolutely no intention of cheating can choose to bowl at an incomplete rack...

I ask you this question then: Do you believe a bowler should have the option to look at a rack, see that a pin is not missing and still be able to choose to bowl at such a setup? (as is the case with off spot pins).

The point of rewording existing rules is not to make them look stupid, it is to elucidate the effect that such wording has on what a rule actually says. In this case, I was trying to show exactly what the phrase "attention is called to" does to a rule. It is quite easy to miss the actual meaning...

I think you may have missed my point of that sentence. I was merely observing that the bowler will definitely be looking at the rack whilst others may not be looking at the rack at all. It is this situation, where there is a possible disparity in information available to players involved, which...

Baz, I have been giving some considerable thought to the issue that you have raised and it is actually more complex than it appears at first glance. As you said, the rule as it stands gives bowlers the opportunity to see the outcome of their shot and then falsely claim that the rack was...

In the end, it comes down to using techniques which match the lane conditions in order to bowl the best scores that you can. 2-handed bowling is simply another technique which you can use to get higher scores. If you haven't mastered it yet and you get lower scores than you usually do then it's...

Substitute "2-handed" bowling with anything else of your choice and see just how silly you sound. For example: So tell me guys, I'm only bowling the one league this year bowling with a back-up ball. My avg atm is around 160. Now that I only bowl that one league this would count as my...