
Originally Posted by
Mike White
Just being you and your partner on the pair isn't the reason. If it was the other team doing the make up, on league night you and your partner would have been the only two on the pair, and those scores would have counted.
The pre/post bowling rule came about because of Robert Mushtare.
While bowling in the junior program, he submitted having shot 900 3 times.
The first time it was rejected because the league hadn't been properly registered.
The other two after a lot of debate were accepted, but the pre/post unopposed rule was created.
All 3 of Robert's "900" came during pre-bowling while he was not only bowling unopposed, he was the only person bowling.
So the issue is, did he really do it?
Based on some of the other scores he has shot before, and since, I'd say it's quite likely, but it does leave the situation open to abuse.
The rule doesn't completely eliminate the possibility of abuse, but it does require more people be in on any fraud.
I ran into kind of an odd twist on the pre/post bowl recently. The team I was bowling on had to do a post bowl, and another team in the same league was going to do a pre bowl.
We scheduled both together so we bowled on the same pair to even out the pace, just not competing against each other. Oddly enough we are both competing against the same third team.
Technically we satisfied the intent of the rule, but not the exact wording. I don't know if any honor score there would have been recognized.
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