As a junior bowler, i saw Johnny Guenther's 300 on TV. I looked at my parents & said i will do that before I'm 30. I made it by 6 months. My ring & an autographed picture of Mr. Guenther were stolen in a break in at my appartment.😢. Mr. Guenther was the alternate in this show.
REAL bowling with REAL bowlers using LEGITIMATE equipment on REAL wood! Considering the state of bowling today, with more than half of all bowling establishments that were open in 1974 now gone, how can ANYONE say that returning the game to it's authenticity is going backwards? Wouldn't fewer leagues and abandoned bowling centers be going backwards?
Plus the way some of these "entertainment centers" are all about profit and not about quality, if they had wooden lanes you could just imagine the shit state most of them would be in!
You don't hear it on this video because they probably didn't want to pay for the music rights, but this was the first episode of the Pro Bowler's Tour with the iconic Edd Kalehoff theme music used for most of the 70's.
So the championship pair is 29&30, but 30 broke down, so they bowled the first two games on 29&31. Then they bowled the last two games on 29&28. Did 31 break down after the 2nd game? Can anybody EVER remember another tournament where the championship pair suffered such a mechanical failure???
At 1:27 when Jim got switched to lane 31 because there was a typical malfunction on lane 30 at Mel’s Bowl in Alameda, California. No wonder you see nothing named on the “ABC SPORTS” nameplate back in 1974.
Turned out to be the start of Billy Welu's final season as analyst. Died of a heart attack following the '74 winter tour season. Nelson Burton Jr. took over the following year (1975).
Earl the Pearl did'nt show much class at the end of the game he was destroyed in by grabbing his ball off the rack before his turn and standing there like a cryazz. 😮 Never seen him act this classless. 😮
