If the league recap sheet is lost before the secretary can record the scores, what action is taken?
The secretary cannot record wins and losses without an official record; therefore, when score sheets or recap sheets have been lost or destroyed, the games in question should be re-bowled. We use automatic scoring machines, and one night a team’s scores were accidentally erased in the eighth frame of the first game. A printout was not available, so the league secretary allowed the team to reconstruct the scores. Was this procedure correct? If the official record was not finalized, and the teams in question are able to agree, the scores could be reconstructed and, if necessary, the games continued from the point of interruption. If the official record is mutilated, lost, or defaced, WIBC/ABC/YABA have consistently ruled games in question should be re-bowled since the secretary would not have a basis to substantiate entries in the record books. (See Rules 116a and b.
The secretary cannot record wins and losses without an official record; therefore, when score sheets or recap sheets have been lost or destroyed, the games in question should be re-bowled. We use automatic scoring machines, and one night a team’s scores were accidentally erased in the eighth frame of the first game. A printout was not available, so the league secretary allowed the team to reconstruct the scores. Was this procedure correct? If the official record was not finalized, and the teams in question are able to agree, the scores could be reconstructed and, if necessary, the games continued from the point of interruption. If the official record is mutilated, lost, or defaced, WIBC/ABC/YABA have consistently ruled games in question should be re-bowled since the secretary would not have a basis to substantiate entries in the record books.
