Ump Stumper: You picked up a bowl you shouldn't have to avoid a collision, now what?

1/3/2017

(Popular Ump Stumpers column brought back with permission from Conrad Melton, Natl. Umpire In Chief, 2007-2012)

All of a sudden a player notices there’s about to be a collision of a bowl in course and a line bowl at rest. The player runs over, lifts the resting line bowl, and then discovers that it belongs in their game.
What happens next?

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Daniel G

3/6/2017 01:24:23 am

What makes the most sense to me, even though it's a bit counter intuitive, is that the bowl in course would be treated as a bowl displaced by another player and apply Law 37.1.1, and also the line bowl at rest would be treated as a displacement of a bowl in motion and apply Law 37.1.3 to that bowl. My reasoning is that the bowl in course was in a sense displaced by having not collided with the bowl it would have actually collided with, and the bowl at rest would have actually become a bowl in motion had the bowl not been lifted.

Ump Stumper: You picked up a bowl you shouldn't have to avoid a collision, now what?

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