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Originally posted by rainmaker
Four minutes into the game, the table buzzes at a dead ball, partner (who was the R) goes to the table. A very long delay ensued. Finally, game goes forward with a technical foul. Later, he told me what happened.
Table said that a visiting player had the wrong number in the book. Player had 32 on the jersey, but was 10 in the book. Visiting coach said that the correct number had been provided, but the book-keeper had copied it down wrong. V showed their book, which did show the correct number, and apparently hadn't been altered. Partner felt (although he didn't say to the coach) that the likelihood of the home book person copying a 10 for a 32 seemed highly unlikely. He didn't ask the home book person what had been given to use for copying. He decided he couldn't unravel it and gave the T.
I have several questions. 1) If it seems obvious that the home book just plain copied it wrong, do we give the T? 2) If we were unsure how it got into the book wrong, as above, but v coach claims it was copied wrong, do we give the T? 3) Should I have interjected my self into the situation? I think I would have tried to talk him out of it, would that have been worth my interference?
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1) No
2) No
3) Depends on how well you know your partner.
You can't issue a "T" to a team if they supplied the right numbers to the scorer in a timely fashion. If there's any doubt in my mind, then I'm keeping away from the "T". In this case, you have conflicting stories, and there's no real compelling reason to believe one side over the other. The only facts that you have are (1)the official book with the wrong number written into it and(2) a book supplied by the visitors with a different number in it. I'd just get the coaches together and tell them that I don't have enough info to be 100% sure in either case, so we're just gonna put the right # in the book and play ball.