Laws Questions:
There was some discussion late last year around when does a bowl that is leaning and potentially may fall and touch the jack, be considered a toucher. We looked at the law and perhaps considered that until the next bowl comes to rest, the bowl that is leaning and then touches the jack, would become a toucher. Law 14.2.1 says once the next bowl is delivered it can't be marked as a toucher even if it falls at this point:
14 Touchers
14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4
A bowl in its original course which touches the jack, even though it comes to rest in the ditch within the boundaries of the rink of play, is a live bowl and is called a toucher. If a bowl in its original course does not touch the jack, it is called a non-toucher.
14.2 A bowl is also a toucher if, after having come to rest: 14.2.1 it falls and touches the jack before the next bowl is delivered; or 14.2.2 in the case of the last bowl of an end, it falls and touches the jack within the period of 30 seconds that applies under law 23.1.
No bowl will become a toucher if it plays onto, or comes into contact with, the jack when the jack is in the ditch.
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