BOWLS South Africa (BSA) said on Thursday it had banned Neil Carroll until August 31 next year for an anti-Semitic slur, overturning a lighter sentence handed down by the Central Gauteng Bowls Association. Carroll, who allegedly joked that he did not want to “play with that Jewish boy”, was suspended for two years by the provincial body but that was reduced to six months after he publicly apologised. BSA intervened to investigate following an outcry about the lightened sentence. The BSA executive, which met in Cape Town on Wednesday night, said the remark had brought the game of bowls into disrepute.