Pro Bowlers Tour - 1980 Long Island Open highlights - Part 2 of 2

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  • čas přidán 20. 01. 2009
  • Part two of two. Roth and Anthony exchange strikes right down to the 10th frame. This is classic match play, with the two premiere bowlers of this era, both of them in dead stroke.
    Bowlers are wearing a black patch on their shirts in remembrance of bowling legend Dick Battista.
    Great match. If you've never seen it, I won't spoil it by telling you what happened. Classic.
    Also included here is the post-tournament interview with the winner. Very funny.
    Dave Diles substituting for Chris Schenkel on play-by-play. Nelson Burton, Jr. on color.
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Komentáře • 40

  • @HerculesCoronaBorealis
    @HerculesCoronaBorealis Před rokem +3

    Growing up as a left handed bowler, absolutely idolized the mega legend Earl Anthony.

    • @gunsnrosaries
      @gunsnrosaries Před rokem

      I idolized him after his 299 game in Hawaii in '74....ringing 9 on last ball....and I'm a righty....

  • @gdobie1west988
    @gdobie1west988 Před 3 lety +5

    Can watch video of Earl all day long, so smooth. There is a great book on Earl that came out, the greatest of all time. RIP

  • @GracieGarage
    @GracieGarage Před 2 lety +4

    The greatest bowler ever, Earl Anthony! The second greatest, Mark Roth! God bless their souls! My childhood was about Sat afternoon waiting for Earl and Mark to bowl on ABC.

  • @thinkcivil1627
    @thinkcivil1627 Před 5 lety +4

    One of the best matches in TV bowling. I remember watching this, because his innocent comment at the end was icing on the cake.

  • @sludge8506
    @sludge8506 Před rokem +2

    Roth is quite the fashion bug here, complete with the neck chain.

  • @fiddlefaddle1
    @fiddlefaddle1 Před 8 lety +7

    I knew that he married Suzie Shelly in 1980. That was hilarious comment about staying firm.

  • @kenmullinax7759
    @kenmullinax7759 Před 10 lety +13

    Earl is the greatest ever !

    • @Jointlock
      @Jointlock Před 9 lety +3

      You bet.....greatest of all time, and the most class too!

    • @johngates450
      @johngates450 Před 4 lety +2

      @@Jointlock
      Even Walter Ray agrees. Earl got his Championships in a shorter time span. Yes simply the greatest!

    • @rockvilleraven
      @rockvilleraven Před rokem +1

      @@johngates450 Also was the analyst on NBCs coverage on the PBA Fall Touted

  • @cadirector
    @cadirector Před rokem +1

    A contrast in style by two of the greatest bowlers of all time. Mark Roth aka Mr Cranker and Earl Anthony aka Mr Smooth.

  • @BowlingOldies
    @BowlingOldies  Před 13 lety +2

    @Bradley75062 Read the narrative posted with the video. They were wearing patches in remembrance of bowling legend Dick Battista.

  • @joeambrose3260
    @joeambrose3260 Před 4 lety +2

    I wore a crewcut for 2 yrs because of Earl, my mom kept asking me if I was joining the Marines

  • @jlgvw
    @jlgvw Před 11 měsíci

    They got white dots to hit like a hammer

  • @Dauwis
    @Dauwis Před 4 lety +2

    Roth ! Plastic Bowling balls rule too

  • @1USACitizen192
    @1USACitizen192 Před 3 lety +1

    You could really tell Mock Roth was super pissed at the finish.

  • @scottfoster6463
    @scottfoster6463 Před 11 měsíci

    Earl the pearl

  • @rstp354
    @rstp354 Před 15 lety +1

    Susie said to "stay firm"!!!! LOL!!!

  • @MikeHL78
    @MikeHL78 Před 15 lety

    I was about to ask about the black patches in the first video. Thanks for the info! :)

  • @thinkcivil1627
    @thinkcivil1627 Před 5 lety +2

    I was hoping that they would have showed his wife's face after he accidentally said that about her. You can't plan something that funny. LMAO!

  • @koryclarke1991
    @koryclarke1991 Před 3 lety

    The earliest version of a messenger.

  • @Zoomer30
    @Zoomer30 Před 5 lety +1

    Does anyone else think the 3 bar sweepers just look "old"? I saw a PBA tour show on here from 1962 that had the low narrow Brunswick Model A that looked more "modern".

    • @williampriesterjr.5077
      @williampriesterjr.5077 Před 4 lety

      The 3-bar sweeps were my favorite of all time. I actually have one in my basement, the local mechanic here saved me one as all the AMF places switched to those large opaque plastic ones.

  • @gashousegorillas1
    @gashousegorillas1 Před měsícem

    It took wrw twice as many tournaments to get to EARLs # of titles.....
    Randy never mentions that
    EARL...THE BEST

  • @oldsnwbrdr
    @oldsnwbrdr Před 5 lety

    Don’t see Mark playing the ditch very often.

  • @3443bh
    @3443bh Před 12 lety +1

    When did Earl stop sporting the crew cut?

    • @jayjarnold
      @jayjarnold Před 6 lety +2

      Around 1976, he started letting his hair grow out. In 1978, he started wearing the modernized eyeglasses and nicer attire. The "transformation" was complete by early-1978.

    • @ProdigyBowlersTour
      @ProdigyBowlersTour Před 5 lety +1

      @@jayjarnold And then, after his heart attack in, I wanna say, 1980 or so (I forget exactly when that was), he lost a considerable amount of weight and then the transformation really was complete. And I think that brush with death also loosened him up and he started showing his sense of humor more and more.

  • @koryclarke1991
    @koryclarke1991 Před 5 lety

    How come Chris Schenkel wasn’t announcing?

    • @ProdigyBowlersTour
      @ProdigyBowlersTour Před 5 lety +2

      Throughout his 35-year tenure as the main play-by-play announcer on ABC's Pro Bowlers Tour, Chris Schenkel would occasionally be sent off "on assignment," whether for an Olympics telecast that ABC was doing, or for some other sporting event. There was even a time or two when he got snowed in at an airport somewhere and was unable to get to the destination city from which the bowling telecast was originating. In those cases, ABC had a few different "regular fill-in" announcers they would use. In the mid '60s thru the mid '70s, that man was Bud Palmer, who, frankly, was my favorite (maybe even more so than Schenkel). Then, they severed ties with Palmer and Dave Diles was the go-to guy whenever ABC needed a fill-in for Schenkel. He's the one you hear on this telecast. Once when ABC was in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for the Quaker State Open, they called on WFAA-TV's sports anchor Verne Lundquist, who also moonlighted as one of ABC's college football play-by-play announcers during the Fall. Al Michaels of Monday (and now Sunday) Night Football fame was also in ABC's stable of sports announcers and was called on at least once or twice to fill in for Schenkel when he was unavailable. There was even one occasion (and this telecast is on CZcams, but for the life of me, I can't recall which show it was) that Bo Burton did the show alone, handling both the play-by-play duties AND color commentary. And while I always thought Bo was not the most skilled broadcaster I've ever heard, he not only did a credible job that day, but I thought he sounded great. He really rose to the occasion on that one unusual telecast. Chris Schenkel was the main play-by-play voice of bowling on ABC for so long, it's easy to think that he was on ALL their telecasts. But as you have correctly picked out, there were some telecasts where he wasn't there. Quite a few, actually. I'd say in the 35 years Pro Bowlers Tour was a Saturday afternoon staple in the Winter (and later in the Spring) months, there were usually at least a couple of shows each year (and sometimes more) when Schenkel was "on assignment" or for some other reason, just couldn't be there. But if you count up all those absences, I think Bud Palmer probably took his place in about half of them or more. Dave Diles probably filled in the second most often. Followed by Al Michaels. And I can only recall Verne Lundquist doing it once. Billy Welu was the original color commentator. Upon Welu's death after the 1974 Winter Tour, ABC spent the next year using a variety of different color commentators, ostensibly doing a series of on-air auditions. They decided on Burton to take the role permanently, and he joined Schenkel in the booth regularly starting in '76. Whenever Bo would make the stepladder finals (which always seemed to happen about once a year or so), Dick Weber would fill in. Not a bad back-up guy.

    • @koryclarke1991
      @koryclarke1991 Před 5 lety

      BrownswickBowling Oh ok, I thought it may have been a contract dispute or something. I think Diles and Schenkel sound very similar IMO!

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 Před 4 lety +2

      @@ProdigyBowlersTour Be careful what you ask,the answer might be longer than War and Peace

    • @joeambrose3260
      @joeambrose3260 Před 4 lety +1

      That was meant for diverging,just kidding Brunswick, I appreciate your thoroughness, very informative

    • @wecontrolthevideo
      @wecontrolthevideo Před 3 lety +1

      Chris Schenkel was their main announcer for non heavyweight boxing. There was a lot more boxing on TV in 70’s and 80’s, and many times they would have a live match on Wide World of Sports. Dave Diles also was the sports director at WXYZ-TV Detroit, and would do stuff for ABC on weekends.

  • @sk8r524
    @sk8r524 Před 14 lety

    hey

  • @Bradley75062
    @Bradley75062 Před 13 lety

    they both have black patches on.. maybe someone died that year? or is it the way wireless worked then?

    • @ProdigyBowlersTour
      @ProdigyBowlersTour Před 5 lety

      They all wore the black patches that day because Dick Battista, former PBA player (and the color commentator on some early Championship Bowling episodes) had died that week.

  • @gashousegorillas1
    @gashousegorillas1 Před měsícem

    Roth was pissed
    Lost to Earl in 79 also

  • @dnx112
    @dnx112 Před rokem

    Earl the Pearl no matter what the uptight announcer says.