Pro Bowlers Tour - 1979 Long Island Open highlights
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- Top seed Earl Anthony meets Cliff McNealy in the final match of the 1979 Long Island Open. It would be Anthony's first title since his heart attack on June 20th, 1978. Earlier in the telecast (not seen here), Tom Baker makes his first national TV appearance, defeating Joe Berardi, before falling to 3 seed Cliff McNeely, who goes on to defeat 2 seed Mark Roth to advance to the final. This telecast also came days after Nelson Burton, Jr. and Dave Soutar had been voted into the PBA Hall of Fame. Chris Schenkel on play-by-play. Nelson Burton, Jr. on color. Garden City Bowl, Garden City, NY. March 31, 1979
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This was really the golden age of bowling. Keep it up, BowlingOldies!
Earl was smooth, under control and consistent. He was the best.
I am making the one hour drive to Dublin, Ca. tomorrow to watch the Earl Anthony memorial tournament at the bowling center he owned.
RIP Earl.
Saratoga, Ca.
Earl as confident as ever, backswing a little higher than before the heart attack. Earl always bowled well at Budy Russell's lanes.
A Classic From 1979!! Nobody underestimated Earl Anthony in bowling under any circumstances. A Solid 6!!
Earl was 41-43 in championship matches.
Earl Anthony = The Terminator. Anyone who ever saw him who didn't think it was exciting to watch him doesn't really like the sport that much from where I sit.
Slightly over .500 at the time in championship matches.
Earl was 41-43 in championship matches.
@@sludge4125 43-43 if you count his Masters Victories.
@tvtimetravel : "That jazzy song at :30" is "Breezin'" by George Benson.
The other great jazzy snippet at 8:26 is Silvetti's "Spring Rain," 1977.
Earl Anthony [ RIP] G.O.A.T.🙏
The GOAT
The tornado was Earl's ball going through the pins!
241 for the tournament? Under those conditions? Yikes!
I don't understand Cliff's angle to the pocket ?
Coming into this tournament, Earl was 31-28 in championship games.
Although Nelson Burton, Jr. was on the PBA tour for years, he got into the PBA Hall Of Fame (as noted at the start of this clip) for his broadcasting.
Chris Schenekel is also in the PBA Hall of Fame, and very deservingly so.
You are *full* of shit.
Burton made the hall of fame in the performance category.
It was Springtime in North Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth), so I'm sure it was some kind of crazy thunderstorms or tornados moving through the areas. That area was (and is) prone to severe weather every Spring.
What u talkin' bout
This was NY😂
I tend to agree with you both. That said, there are hopeful signs. For instance, there were no high school bowling teams when I was growing up in the '60s. There are today (and college teams, too). Just like Apple did when they put Mac computers in schools, you grow it with the youth. Then when they grow up, they expect it to be there. The problem for the PBA reached critical mass when ABC-TV cancelled Pro Bowlers Tour. The PBA has been scrambling to gain visibility (and viability) ever since.
What was the "Weather Bulletin" slide at 3:05 of this clip about??
"Bowling Pins Rapidly Falling On Long Island! Stay Clear!"
Classic Earl. Whatever happened to Cliff McNealy?
He was a master of playing deep inside shots and seemed to always mske shows playing near the left gutter.
I was in the East Bay 900 Travel league in the bay area in 1970-72 and i remember Cliff quite well. One Sunday were were Bowling 8 team shifts at diamond lanes and McNealy was on 1-2 and punching the wall, bloodying his knuckles! He was a great bowler!
back in 1979, msrp for a fully load Z28 was under 7k
Was there a special weather bulletin on 3:06 about a tornado warning for the following counties and what abc affiliate call letters is on channel 8?
Texas.
What's the name of that soft jazzy song at :30?
I agree. However, I really believe, unfortunately, that it's more than that. Demographics change, certainly, but society has changed, too, and not necessarily for the better. Is it the PBA or the WWF?
As if the "crotch chop" wasn't bad enough, now we have "celebrity" team owners (what a joke) hurling themselves down the lane after a victory. Well, pardon me if I sound a little too buttoned-shirt establishment here (lol), but that kind of crap belongs ... let's just say somewhere else.
They very well could be; AMF owns Garden City Lanes now and the place could use some TLC. It's one of the last AMF properties on Long Island that hasn't.
It's hard to argue with the points Costas makes there. But the problem is, whenever someone over 40 or 50 makes such an argument, it sounds a little too much like, "The world was better in my day." I heard that crap from my dad, and I know he heard it from his dad. I always swore I wouldn't go there, and for the most part I haven't. Things evolve. In some ways better; others, not so much. But one thing is constant - you either march with time or get swept away by it. I choose the former.
I refuse to be a grumpy old man.
And I absolutely dislike being around grumpy old men.
@carbon4me RIP Chris Schenkel too.
How did these guys avg 240 a week with the balls they used those days??? My point is everyone says you need to have the right equipment and meaning the top stockcover, dual cores blah blah and yet the plastic and rubber balls in the 70's brought high scores
Thomas Drake like golf the equipment has made mediocre players better.
Yeah, you had to be good to score high playing with a Black Beauty.
Bowling is too easy these days. I had a 180 avg, at 13 years old bowling in the 1960's on Long Island. My 1st ball was a dick weber classic rubber ball. then I got a plastic columbia . then a Johnny Petraglia LT. Then a Hammer urethane which I still use 40+ years later. I just started after over 40 years off. ,I drilled a Hammer RAW juicy & throwing 230's almost every game . I'm not a great bowler to have a 230 avg. just the game is to easy now.
Earl won $8000, the equivalent of about $28,300 today.
Despite Nelson Burton’s enthusiasm for Earl’s “new” game, Earl would not win again for almost a year (350 days).
Dont' know if it's so much AMF pin action - McNeely was playing pretty deep, so that would dull some of the pin action.
Garden City is kind of odd - they have sort of shallow flat gutters, and you can pop the corner pins well. The sideboards are not terribly lively, so you really have to be throwing it well to sling pins around.
$70,000 prize fund with only $8000 for 1st??? El Cheapo Open!
241 average for the week. THE best bowler of all time. Not that Walter Ray guy.
The best ever!!!
Even Walter Ray has said that Earl was the best ever, because he accomplished what he did in a much more condensed time. Earl didn't join the tour until he was 30 years old and bowled in a lot less tournaments than Walter Ray.