Semi-pro bowlers given green light
NZPA-Reuter Edinburgh Semi-professional bowls players will be allowed to compete at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, the International Bowling Board announced yesterday. The ruling follows criticism by some of the game’s top players who were prevented from taking part in the current games because they had accepted cash prizes in the past Full time professionals such as New Zealand’s world champion, Peter BeHiss, and England's DaSid Bryant will remain'
barred from future Commonwealth Games, the board announcement said. But players such as Scotland’s Willie Wood, who was unable to defend his Commonwealth title because he had accepted prize money, will be able to return to games action In 1990. Australia’s Garnet Putland, the bowls board’s newly-appointed president said: “The old law was too restrictive in deciding who was able to play. If Sebastian Coe and other athletes can have liberal conditions of entiy ~ W not bowlers?” ©
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Press, 30 July 1986, Page 48
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