Last night in my USBC Sanctioned bowling league a bowler in the league was using his Motiv Jackal. I politely told him that the ball was banned and he risked losing his scores if he kept using it. He politely told me that those rules don't pertain to this league. That kind of bothered me because he has been a President of a league before and he knows the rules. I then talked it over with our current league secretary who also happens to be President of our local USBC Association and he said the same exact thing! I said how can you use a ball in a USBC sanctioned league that has been banned? He just kind of grumbled and walked away. Then another guy in our league, who happens to hold his PBA card, notice the bowler using the Jackal as well. He went right up to the Secretary and said the same thing I did. The Secretary said responded by saying that he knew and that he had taken care of it. Really? Because I watched the guy use it all night long and the Secretary never said a word to him. This angered a few teams and mind boggled me that the Secretary and President of our Association turned a blind eye to an obvious rules infraction. I'm not trying to be a big baby about this, but how can you let a bowler use a banned ball? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Gene

Very well said.

Nobody is trying to clean up an industry...just trying to get through peoples head that it is not ok to disregard the rules, especially a blatant disregard Jman had in his league. Regardless of the reason, regardless of what anyone thinks, its the rule.