I never missed watching the pba on the weekend, these 2 guys were my favorite too, Earl made it look easy and Mark made it look hard. I remember Mark having many thumb issues back then, he would be taping bleeding and even applying acrylic to his thumb...lol..and Earl always looked like he was taking a leisurely stroll through the park.
Earl was my favorite bowler, so smooth and a lefty like me. Just bought a book about Earl just the other day--Earl The Greatest Bowler Of All Time. Looking forward to it. RIP Earl.
My brother and I were 18 when our dad and we drove to Vegas 1979. He gambled, my brother and I watched the qualifying matches at this very tournament. We chatted with several of the pros. Mark Roth was totally cool with us, a real gentleman. Earl Anthony was like royalty; we were afraid to go up and talk to him. The best was Dave Davis. He spent about 15 minutes chatting with us about life as a professional bowler. Unforgettable!!
I miss the Showboat Las Vegas terribly. It was a wonderful place to go in my youth. Before Las Vegas became "family friendly" The 'Boat' had bowling, arcade games, a decent pool, good food, and a killer ice cream shop that sat in between the low side and high side of the bowling alley.
I loved watching these two compete against each other. Such contrast in style. I was always an Earl Anthony fan, because he reminded me of my Grandfather, who introduced me to bowling when I was 8 years old.
I got to see earl Anthony in one of the earlier rounds when the US open came to Chicago in the 80s. Of course he was my favorite bowler and loved watching him. So effortless but so powerful. My brother and I never missed watching PBA on Saturday.
Earl Anthony, the epitome of technical bowling. No one else in the current PBA lineup bowels like this. Classic technical vs the original cranker. Its awesome to watch
Nelson Burton Jr. Was the smoothest ever. I could watch his delivery all day! Earl always had the bent elbow which they tell u not to do. His arm was always slightly bent in his swing and you couldn't coach that and still expect the results earl got. It worked for him. A right hander could never have gotten away with throwing that slow with that many revs on the right hand side of the lanes. It would've hooked off the lanes!
The left-handed Earl Anthony was winning tournaments when no other lefty could even qualify on the righty bias lanes of the time. His accuracy and speed control was and is unparalleled. Earl, the greatest bowler ever. Walter Ray Williams Jr.'s accuracy is a solid second place.
As a lefty and (sometimes) scratch bowler, I agree. Earl Anthony's rock solid fundamentals and sheer accuracy made difficult lane conditions much less of a factor than for other flashier bowlers who threw "more ball" than he did.
@@steveelbert6996There are more right-handers than left-handers and thus more play on the right side. The right side would wear a little more than the left on wood/lacquer lanes giving the right side slightly more friction in the track (normally around the second arrow). And yes, I use to bowl on lacquer lanes that used spray bottles and mops. BTW I'm right-handed. Just my opinion, but of course not all lanes were the same.
LMAO! What an abrupt end. I remember being a kid loving to watch Earl Anthony play! My dad and I and sometimes my uncle would watch all kinds of sports together. Thanks for the memory!
The Great Earl Anthony. Daaaang, he was so efficient! No wasted effort, no wasted motion. I loved watching him bowl when I was a kid back then. My friends and I would never utter his name without prefacing it with "The Great." It was never just "Earl Anthony" with us. It was always " _The Great_ Earl Anthony."
I always admired his accuracy and composure..Back then reactive resin balls were not even on the market. Though I had 2 perfect games I know you truly had to hit your mark to strike. A perfect game, a 700 series in league and you were worshipped..
@@deborahchesser7375 I had my first opportunity in 1994 in a Tourney..Strung my first 11 and I choked..297 game..Got a plaque from the American Bowling Congress...Redemption came in 1999..Bowled 1st 300 in Sept my 2nd in April of 99...I just loved to compete...Such fond memories!
Working at a golf course saw Earl Anthony hit 10 large buckets of balls he then came inside and bought some new golf shoes. I said do you normally hit that many balls a day and he said only way to be good is to practice. He died about a week later from his accident. He was a gentlemen .
After his short-lived “retirement” from pro bowling, Earl set the course record while playing in his club championship at home. He was a helluva golfer.
Watching the PBA was a ritual back then and I'm sure I watched this on Saturday 1/13/79 because the high school league in town started shortly after it was over.
Earl Anthony, one of the greatest if not the greatest. He was a pure stroker. Notice how he never muscled the ball. It's all technique and it's all in the arm swing.
I've anyways marveled at Earl Anthony's right hand almost stationary from where that hand leaves the ball on his swing... he never stuck his arm out to the side... nobody has ever looked so casual throwing strike after strike
His right hand was his key to where his left threw the ball. If you look through enough of his videos, you will see him at times carrying it in different positions based on how he played the lanes. It was basically keep his shoulders lined up and at the right angle to throw his shots consistently. Best Ever at it!!!
I had the pleasure of bowling against Earl in a Pro-Am when the True Value Open was in Peoria, IL. The other 2 pro bowlers that I bowled against were Joe Berardi & Jeff Valentine. I beat both Earl & Jeff and lost to Joe by 30 pins.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but when you bowl in a pro am, you don’t bowl AGAINST your pros, you bowl WITH them. Their scores get added to yours.
17 Years Later i watched Earl( RIP ) Win The 1997 Senior Showboat Invitational [ Amazing Man. Earl was using a Reactive Resin Zone and was Just as Focused as He was in 1979 When He Won in 1997👍👍
Lets see..life in Socal in 1979 for me on a Saturday aged 10....get up early and usually had a youth baseball or soccer game where I would crank a couple of homers or score a couple of goals while my sisters friends all wanted to talk to me...in the offseasons it was youth bowling where i beat Earl Anthony and have the patch to prove it....come home and usually a battle between Roth v Anthony would be on TV or maybe an NASL match with Johan Cruyff or Rodney Marsh or even a nice Saturday MLB game of the week. Little did I know life would be pretty much downhill from there...idyllic time to be a kid
REAL BOWLERS - notice one was a power/spinner player - the other a pure stroker - yet both knew what to do - and it the late 70s they won just about everything together........and they picked up their spares. Also note - each one used ONE ball. There were a total of 2 balls in that rack. That is real bowling.
You'll forgive me if I pooh-pooh the notion that "That is real bowling." It reminds me of the old codgers pooh-poohing golfers of the modern era using the modern golf ball and graphite shafts in their oversize metal-head drivers. "I used to play with hickory shafts and balata golf balls. And the greens weren't smooth like the felt on a pool table. That was REAL golf." Time marches on. Regardless of the era, regardless of the technology, you still have to execute better than the other guy...or you lose. It's that simple. As a Silver Certified Coach who came up in the '60s and '70s, I can say that while the sport of bowling has changed, an argument could be made that it takes more talent today than it did back then to be successful. You might be able to carry a much higher league average today than you could back then (that's only one way to measure it), but to compete at the highest level, as the competition has all the same technology, you have to know so much more today than you did back then just to stay up with the other guys. The game may be different, but I reject the notion that it's worse. In many ways, I think it's better. And one thing I'll say for sure: When I was a kid, bowling made me a promise: that it was a sport I could play from the time I'm 8 'til I'm 88. I don't know how competitive I'll still be when I'm 88 (if I'm lucky enough to still be around), but the modern bowling ball is more likely to give me a chance to still have fun with the game when I'm 88 than I would if I was still throwing a Brunswick Black Beauty. (BTW, although I'm posting under my BrownswickBowling channel name, I'm also the BowlingOldies guy. This is my channel, too.)
@@ProdigyBowlersTour I appreciate your reply - I agree with somw things - and yes technology may give an older person a chance to have fun today more than yesterday but I still believe bowling today is going the wrong direction. The PBA Tour back in the 70s, 80s, and some 90s before the ridiculous gold pin era, was the recruitment tool for bowling. The tournaments were consistent and it had very high television ratings, especially with ABC. You had high mega-bucks tournaments like the High Roller. The enjoyment of good bowling brought in many good tournaments, leagues like California's Whitlock Vending league, and great scratch and travel leagues throughout the country. Today many scratch and top leagues have lost members or completely folded. Some centers are also closing. Take Miami for example, they lost a number of centers within the past decade with only ONE center remaining (Bird Bowl). The PBA today is a total joke. 1. Blue oil. 2. crap trophies (so tiny they look like deodorant bar containers with most of them), 3 taped telecasts like the WSOB (Tune in next week to see who advences to the semi finals), 4. Tournaments where you only need a few games to qualify for the finals (not 42 or 56 games from the past). 5. Stupid tournaments like the one in Maine where half the crowd is drunk and 6. These tournaments with professional athletes who make a mockery of the game - and I don't care if it is for a charity or not and 7 - the stupid coaching. I know some are good coaches like Tim Mack and Mark Baker, both highly experienced players but it looks more like Nascar with pits for each bowler, and if they miss they get chastised live on TV. The bowling balls today change daily, last only 10 games, then you can throw them away after resurfacing them each night. I used old Yellow Dots, Blue Dots, Edges, LT-48s, and even Angles, Hammers, etc for an entire season, cleaning them etc without them braking up. As a bowler who bowled across the country in many states and averaging over 200+ in all leagues in the past, bowling today is not what it used to be. The scores today are so inflated that I have been in places where 3 or 4 300 games were shot in one night and no one clapped any longer. In the past, a 300 meant something - it would stop league play to have everyone watch the final shots and cheer the bowler. The PBA is no longer a successful recruiting tool other than for those young people who want to be two handed Belmos. Good leagues are folding. TV ratings are down the tubes. The Senior PBA tour is basically the only remaining entity that resembles the older style and very enjoyable to watch and even then I feel their future is very dim. The PBA needs to revert to the schedules of the 1970s and 80s with the same structure and a good TV contract to be successful again but I think that is not likely.
@@mr.aerial1885 I started watching the PBA on ABC as a kid with my dad back in the 1960s. I think I missed a few seasons when it went to ESPN and neither my parents or I had cable. I’m not sure I agree with Brownswick that it takes more skill to make it as a pro today but it takes different skills and If almost any of today’s pros were to take on the best league bowler at your local center in a three game set the pro is going to win most of the time. You just can’t compare athletes from different eras, the changes no matter what sport you choose to talk about make it a different game. As for going back to the old schedules and getting a better TV deal, well those days are gone. Advertising money has dried up. It’s all about “marketing” now. $10,000 on UA-cam probably reaches more eyeballs than $100,000 on network TV.
I love watching Earl Anthony Bowl, so smooth and he never stresses out! Greatest Bowler of all time! Mark Roth, well I met him in Dallas in 2000-2001 at the Pro-am at Don Carter's, I went up and said hi to him and he was a FU*&ing A$$Hole and said "Leave me the f*&^ alone"!
People, the gentleman said this was at the PRO-AM. The pro-am is ALL about the amateurs. They PAID a good chunk of money to participate. So, any “professional” who doesn’t understand this obviously needs an attitude adjustment.
My brother and I were 18 when our dad and we drove to Vegas 1979. He gambled, my brother and I watched the qualifying matches at this very tournament. We chatted with several of the pros. Mark Roth was totally cool with us, a real gentleman. The best was Dave Davis. He spent about 15 minutes chatting with us about life as a professional bowler. Unforgettable!!
When I started out bowling, I read Earl Anthony's book. Was a bit too young to see him when he was bowling, so I'm a bit surprised to see how relatively slow he bowls compared to some bowlers.
Love Earl, As a lefty remember watching him back in the day! Not sure if people know he started on the tour the 1st year didn’t make it, then came back and became “Earl the pearl “
Noticed that each bowler had only one ball. Not the arsenal that everyone carries today. PBA really has changed over the years. It seems bowlers today rely on the ball just as much as skill where as in the past it was mostly skill.
Agree completely. About twenty years ago, while waiting for my evening bowling league to begin, I saw another bowler roll his arsenal of bowling balls into the bowling alley. He had NINE bowling balls in his three-shelf bowling case, three balls per shelf. Incredible! I do not know whether all of those bowling balls helped that bowler achieve higher scores, but they definitely helped the bowling ball manufacturer!
At the time I uploaded this, the time limit I was working with was 10 minutes. UA-cam has expanded it to 15. I see some people putting up videos in excess of 15 minutes, but I'm not sure how they get permission to do so. Enlighten me.
Casual Observer yes it’s an interesting point you make, but now days they can make the lane condition very tough for these reactive resin Hot rod balls Bowling back then the toughest guy in the house was about 200 average I miss those days
As a lefty I was a big fan of Dave Davis. When earl came along I resented him for kinda taking over the left side of the from Davis. Also as a long haired teen I didn't like Earl's crew cut. Well as I got older I changed my tune. Earl is the greatest.
@IveGotYourChange Good point.Earl connected on that 6-8 split as well as the 3-10 split. Walter Ray has similar style that Roth has but I don't think WRW was as accurate as Earl on spare shots although got more strikes than Earl. WRW has more PBA titles but bowled twice as long as Earl. Earl still has the most US titles at 10.
eaglesyz, sorry but, Walter Ray does not have anywhere near Roths style. Roth just muscles the ball up 2nd or 3rd arrow. Walter Ray is a stroker with a more dynamic delivery than others and his A game is around the 1st to 2nd arrow. Earl is the reason that I started bowling over 50 years ago and I have the utmost respect for him.Earl didn't start bowling until his 20's after playing baseball and yes, his career didn't last as long as Walter Ray and Earl didn't benefit from all the modern bowling balls that they have now.
Earl was just ice cold. Did you see, though, on Roth's last ball the look on Earl's face. He looked to be more disgusted at that leave than Mark was, LOL!
It ends when the match is "effectively" over. Did you not hear Bo Burton say "Roth MUST STRIKE" in the 10th? Did he strike? UA-cam only allows videos up to 10 minutes. I cut out parts that seemed meaningless to get it to fit.
Mark definitely would have benefited from a reactive resin ball here, given how oily the lanes appeared. But alas, those wouldn't come out for over a decade.
Is Earl Anthony’s style really one that a bowler would want to emulate? I bet no one looked at Don Carter bowling and said “I want to bowl like that.” :)
I never missed watching the pba on the weekend, these 2 guys were my favorite too, Earl made it look easy and Mark made it look hard. I remember Mark having many thumb issues back then, he would be taping bleeding and even applying acrylic to his thumb...lol..and Earl always looked like he was taking a leisurely stroll through the park.
Earl was my favorite bowler, so smooth and a lefty like me. Just bought a book about Earl just the other day--Earl The Greatest Bowler Of All Time. Looking forward to it. RIP Earl.
My favorite, too, and I'm a lefty.🙌🙌🙌
G.O.A.T.
Earl Anthony...wow. Never realized how smooth he was...who needs speed and revs. Accuracy, consistency and simplicity exemplified
Andrew Lang pins still exploded when Earl threw the ball. . These two are the Goats 🐐
Also was a good analyst when NBC covered part of the PBA tour.
Earl the.Goat
Earl was like a machine. Shot after shot his mechanics were top notch.
I was a huge Mark Roth fan but Earl Anthony was a friggin machine
My brother and I were 18 when our dad and we drove to Vegas 1979. He gambled, my brother and I watched the qualifying matches at this very tournament. We chatted with several of the pros. Mark Roth was totally cool with us, a real gentleman. Earl Anthony was like royalty; we were afraid to go up and talk to him. The best was Dave Davis. He spent about 15 minutes chatting with us about life as a professional bowler. Unforgettable!!
2 of Bowlings Classiest Performers!!
Chris and Bo Great Bowling Broadcasters!!
Bo ... the best! Chris ... the worst - 20 years broadcasting and had NO clue about our sport.
I miss the Showboat Las Vegas terribly. It was a wonderful place to go in my youth. Before Las Vegas became "family friendly" The 'Boat' had bowling, arcade games, a decent pool, good food, and a killer ice cream shop that sat in between the low side and high side of the bowling alley.
Earl Anthony - pure poetry of motion and technique. Pure class as well.
...so great to see this footage...I recall all those Saturdays after junior bowling in the morning, then the televised Tour and its legends...
***** Right there with ya !! ;D
Amen! Bowled Saturday junior league and Dad would pick me up from the lanes and we'd go home and watch the PBA tour!
I remember watching at my grandparents' house. The bowlers made it look so easy. Still want to try to bowl 200 one day.
Same here. 2PM on ABC I believe.
Zoomer30 I thought it was 3pm east coast time but i didnt start watching until I was around 6 years old.
Absolutely the best, Earl Anthony. I mean, over 30 2nd place finishes to go with over 40 tour victories? No doubt, the best ever.
Two of the G.O.A.T. 🙏(RIP) Earl Anthony & Get Well Mark Roth🙏
RIP Roth :(
Earl...just as smooth as can be. Never overthrew and always let the ball do the work. He's just the best ever!
Only time I ever watched bowling and enjoyed it. Both of these men were the best. Just different styles that make watching this so awesome
I loved watching these two compete against each other. Such contrast in style. I was always an Earl Anthony fan, because he reminded me of my Grandfather, who introduced me to bowling when I was 8 years old.
I got to see earl Anthony in one of the earlier rounds when the US open came to Chicago in the 80s. Of course he was my favorite bowler and loved watching him. So effortless but so powerful. My brother and I never missed watching PBA on Saturday.
Earl Anthony, the epitome of technical bowling. No one else in the current PBA lineup bowels like this. Classic technical vs the original cranker. Its awesome to watch
Nelson Burton Jr. Was the smoothest ever. I could watch his delivery all day! Earl always had the bent elbow which they tell u not to do. His arm was always slightly bent in his swing and you couldn't coach that and still expect the results earl got. It worked for him. A right hander could never have gotten away with throwing that slow with that many revs on the right hand side of the lanes. It would've hooked off the lanes!
@@tynosille6747 don't forget Don Carter . He also had a bend elbow and rolled the ball straight as an arrow
Two of the best ever to do it!
loved watching the pba i would come home from being in the best boowling league and watch this with chris annd nelson. loved both these guys.
R.I.P. showboat lanes in Las Vegas, NV.
The left-handed Earl Anthony was winning tournaments when no other lefty could even qualify on the righty bias lanes of the time. His accuracy and speed control was and is unparalleled. Earl, the greatest bowler ever. Walter Ray Williams Jr.'s accuracy is a solid second place.
I am a left handed bowler and Earl was my hero back in the day. I even wrote a paper on him in high school.
As a lefty and (sometimes) scratch bowler, I agree. Earl Anthony's rock solid fundamentals and sheer accuracy made difficult lane conditions much less of a factor than for other flashier bowlers who threw "more ball" than he did.
There was no bias.Ever watch them dress the lanes?Oil on top of lacquer.😊
@@steveelbert6996There are more right-handers than left-handers and thus more play on the right side. The right side would wear a little more than the left on wood/lacquer lanes giving the right side slightly more friction in the track (normally around the second arrow). And yes, I use to bowl on lacquer lanes that used spray bottles and mops. BTW I'm right-handed. Just my opinion, but of course not all lanes were the same.
LMAO! What an abrupt end. I remember being a kid loving to watch Earl Anthony play! My dad and I and sometimes my uncle would watch all kinds of sports together. Thanks for the memory!
The Great Earl Anthony. Daaaang, he was so efficient! No wasted effort, no wasted motion. I loved watching him bowl when I was a kid back then. My friends and I would never utter his name without prefacing it with "The Great." It was never just "Earl Anthony" with us. It was always " _The Great_ Earl Anthony."
Always enjoyed watching Earl Anthony bowl. Being a lefty myself, always tried to emulate his technique when I was bowling.
I always admired his accuracy and composure..Back then reactive resin balls were not even on the market. Though I had 2 perfect games I know you truly had to hit your mark to strike. A perfect game, a 700 series in league and you were worshipped..
@@johngates450 I missed a 300 game by 2 strikes, by the 10th my knees were knocking
@@deborahchesser7375
I had my first opportunity in 1994 in a Tourney..Strung my first 11 and I choked..297 game..Got a plaque from the American Bowling Congress...Redemption came in 1999..Bowled 1st 300 in Sept my 2nd in April of 99...I just loved to compete...Such fond memories!
The 6-8 conversion by Anthony. First, that leave. Second, converting that so easily? Amazing
My 2 favorite bowlers of all time.
Two of the all time greats. Class bowlers, no clowns.
Working at a golf course saw Earl Anthony hit 10 large buckets of balls he then came inside and bought some new golf shoes. I said do you normally hit that many balls a day and he said only way to be good is to practice. He died about a week later from his accident. He was a gentlemen .
After his short-lived “retirement” from pro bowling, Earl set the course record while playing in his club championship at home. He was a helluva golfer.
Watching the PBA was a ritual back then and I'm sure I watched this on Saturday 1/13/79 because the high school league in town started shortly after it was over.
Earl Anthony, one of the greatest if not the greatest. He was a pure stroker. Notice how he never muscled the ball. It's all technique and it's all in the arm swing.
Loved how he just picked up the ball, looked down the lane, and threw it
Earl Anthony was cold like the Empire in Star Wars.
I've anyways marveled at Earl Anthony's right hand almost stationary from where that hand leaves the ball on his swing... he never stuck his arm out to the side... nobody has ever looked so casual throwing strike after strike
His right hand was his key to where his left threw the ball. If you look through enough of his videos, you will see him at times carrying it in different positions based on how he played the lanes. It was basically keep his shoulders lined up and at the right angle to throw his shots consistently. Best Ever at it!!!
I had the pleasure of bowling against Earl in a Pro-Am when the True Value Open was in Peoria, IL. The other 2 pro bowlers that I bowled against were Joe Berardi & Jeff Valentine. I beat both Earl & Jeff and lost to Joe by 30 pins.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but when you bowl in a pro am, you don’t bowl AGAINST your pros, you bowl WITH them. Their scores get added to yours.
17 Years Later i watched Earl( RIP ) Win The 1997 Senior Showboat Invitational [ Amazing Man. Earl was using a Reactive Resin Zone and was Just as Focused as He was in 1979 When He Won in 1997👍👍
If I remember, this was the one he won where in the interview afterward, he said "I didn't feel well all week, I had a bad cold"
2 of bowling s greatest Rivals squaring off
Rip mark he was a really nice guy. I met him in high school when I was working at a bowling alley in philadelphia
Lets see..life in Socal in 1979 for me on a Saturday aged 10....get up early and usually had a youth baseball or soccer game where I would crank a couple of homers or score a couple of goals while my sisters friends all wanted to talk to me...in the offseasons it was youth bowling where i beat Earl Anthony and have the patch to prove it....come home and usually a battle between Roth v Anthony would be on TV or maybe an NASL match with Johan Cruyff or Rodney Marsh or even a nice Saturday MLB game of the week. Little did I know life would be pretty much downhill from there...idyllic time to be a kid
So you are saying you were the Al Bundy, before there was a Al Bundy. You peaked in High School or before.
REAL BOWLERS - notice one was a power/spinner player - the other a pure stroker - yet both knew what to do - and it the late 70s they won just about everything together........and they picked up their spares. Also note - each one used ONE ball. There were a total of 2 balls in that rack. That is real bowling.
You'll forgive me if I pooh-pooh the notion that "That is real bowling." It reminds me of the old codgers pooh-poohing golfers of the modern era using the modern golf ball and graphite shafts in their oversize metal-head drivers. "I used to play with hickory shafts and balata golf balls. And the greens weren't smooth like the felt on a pool table. That was REAL golf." Time marches on. Regardless of the era, regardless of the technology, you still have to execute better than the other guy...or you lose. It's that simple. As a Silver Certified Coach who came up in the '60s and '70s, I can say that while the sport of bowling has changed, an argument could be made that it takes more talent today than it did back then to be successful. You might be able to carry a much higher league average today than you could back then (that's only one way to measure it), but to compete at the highest level, as the competition has all the same technology, you have to know so much more today than you did back then just to stay up with the other guys. The game may be different, but I reject the notion that it's worse. In many ways, I think it's better. And one thing I'll say for sure: When I was a kid, bowling made me a promise: that it was a sport I could play from the time I'm 8 'til I'm 88. I don't know how competitive I'll still be when I'm 88 (if I'm lucky enough to still be around), but the modern bowling ball is more likely to give me a chance to still have fun with the game when I'm 88 than I would if I was still throwing a Brunswick Black Beauty. (BTW, although I'm posting under my BrownswickBowling channel name, I'm also the BowlingOldies guy. This is my channel, too.)
@@ProdigyBowlersTour I appreciate your reply - I agree with somw things - and yes technology may give an older person a chance to have fun today more than yesterday but I still believe bowling today is going the wrong direction. The PBA Tour back in the 70s, 80s, and some 90s before the ridiculous gold pin era, was the recruitment tool for bowling. The tournaments were consistent and it had very high television ratings, especially with ABC. You had high mega-bucks tournaments like the High Roller. The enjoyment of good bowling brought in many good tournaments, leagues like California's Whitlock Vending league, and great scratch and travel leagues throughout the country. Today many scratch and top leagues have lost members or completely folded. Some centers are also closing. Take Miami for example, they lost a number of centers within the past decade with only ONE center remaining (Bird Bowl). The PBA today is a total joke. 1. Blue oil. 2. crap trophies (so tiny they look like deodorant bar containers with most of them), 3 taped telecasts like the WSOB (Tune in next week to see who advences to the semi finals), 4. Tournaments where you only need a few games to qualify for the finals (not 42 or 56 games from the past). 5. Stupid tournaments like the one in Maine where half the crowd is drunk and 6. These tournaments with professional athletes who make a mockery of the game - and I don't care if it is for a charity or not and 7 - the stupid coaching. I know some are good coaches like Tim Mack and Mark Baker, both highly experienced players but it looks more like Nascar with pits for each bowler, and if they miss they get chastised live on TV. The bowling balls today change daily, last only 10 games, then you can throw them away after resurfacing them each night. I used old Yellow Dots, Blue Dots, Edges, LT-48s, and even Angles, Hammers, etc for an entire season, cleaning them etc without them braking up.
As a bowler who bowled across the country in many states and averaging over 200+ in all leagues in the past, bowling today is not what it used to be. The scores today are so inflated that I have been in places where 3 or 4 300 games were shot in one night and no one clapped any longer. In the past, a 300 meant something - it would stop league play to have everyone watch the final shots and cheer the bowler. The PBA is no longer a successful recruiting tool other than for those young people who want to be two handed Belmos. Good leagues are folding. TV ratings are down the tubes. The Senior PBA tour is basically the only remaining entity that resembles the older style and very enjoyable to watch and even then I feel their future is very dim. The PBA needs to revert to the schedules of the 1970s and 80s with the same structure and a good TV contract to be successful again but I think that is not likely.
@@mr.aerial1885 I started watching the PBA on ABC as a kid with my dad back in the 1960s. I think I missed a few seasons when it went to ESPN and neither my parents or I had cable. I’m not sure I agree with Brownswick that it takes more skill to make it as a pro today but it takes different skills and If almost any of today’s pros were to take on the best league bowler at your local center in a three game set the pro is going to win most of the time. You just can’t compare athletes from different eras, the changes no matter what sport you choose to talk about make it a different game.
As for going back to the old schedules and getting a better TV deal, well those days are gone. Advertising money has dried up. It’s all about “marketing” now. $10,000 on UA-cam probably reaches more eyeballs than $100,000 on network TV.
I love watching Earl Anthony Bowl, so smooth and he never stresses out! Greatest Bowler of all time! Mark Roth, well I met him in Dallas in 2000-2001 at the Pro-am at Don Carter's, I went up and said hi to him and he was a FU*&ing A$$Hole and said "Leave me the f*&^ alone"!
People, the gentleman said this was at the PRO-AM.
The pro-am is ALL about the amateurs. They PAID a good chunk of money to participate.
So, any “professional” who doesn’t understand this obviously needs an attitude adjustment.
I TRIED to talk to Mark a couple times when there was a stop I could drive to. He was ALWAYS the classic yankee ASSHOLE
@@sludge4125
You and exfighter are a couple of pussified pantywaisted pathetic pissant punks.
My brother and I were 18 when our dad and we drove to Vegas 1979. He gambled, my brother and I watched the qualifying matches at this very tournament. We chatted with several of the pros. Mark Roth was totally cool with us, a real gentleman. The best was Dave Davis. He spent about 15 minutes chatting with us about life as a professional bowler. Unforgettable!!
Earl Anthony so smooth.
Saw Mark Roth at Hoe Bowl lanes in Poughkeepsie, NY. About 22 years ago.
When I started out bowling, I read Earl Anthony's book. Was a bit too young to see him when he was bowling, so I'm a bit surprised to see how relatively slow he bowls compared to some bowlers.
Earl....so smooth 😎!
i was childish in my youth and was bitter and disliked Earl Anthony , but as i got older i realized i was pure GREATNESS
Love Earl, As a lefty remember watching him back in the day! Not sure if people know he started on the tour the 1st year didn’t make it, then came back and became “Earl the pearl “
A true classic match with both Hall Of Famers.. Earl by many considered still the best ever!
I am in agreeance with that statement..
R.I.P to two legends
Earl Anthony. G.O.A.T.
Noticed that each bowler had only one ball. Not the arsenal that everyone carries today. PBA really has changed over the years. It seems bowlers today rely on the ball just as much as skill where as in the past it was mostly skill.
Have you not noticed the number of manufacturers/sponsors? Somebody's making money, but it's not the bottom 3/4s of the PBA.
Agree completely.
About twenty years ago, while waiting for my evening bowling league to begin, I saw another bowler roll his arsenal of bowling balls into the bowling alley. He had NINE bowling balls in his three-shelf bowling case, three balls per shelf. Incredible! I do not know whether all of those bowling balls helped that bowler achieve higher scores, but they definitely helped the bowling ball manufacturer!
Todays bowlers just whine and cry about lane conditions.
what a huge bowling house - can barely see the end of it.
but it only takes 2 lanes for the 2 best bowlers to show us what bowling is all about.
Great match between Earl Anthony and Mark Roth. It ends though, before the match is over!
RIP Showboat
RIP Earl Anthony
I was getting nervous for Earl around the ninth and 10th frames and this game is 45 years old!!!
At the time I uploaded this, the time limit I was working with was 10 minutes. UA-cam has expanded it to 15. I see some people putting up videos in excess of 15 minutes, but I'm not sure how they get permission to do so. Enlighten me.
Earl never be another smooth and see precise bowler like we be him
So Smooth Earl.
The thumbnail showed someone diving on the lane. I feel baited because I can't find that in the video.
and he made it look easy! Incredible
Before bowling ball technology made bowling a joke
Casual Observer
yes it’s an interesting point you make, but now days they can make the lane condition very tough for these reactive resin Hot rod balls
Bowling back then the toughest guy in the house was about 200 average I miss those days
Earl was and still is my favorite.
Great shot by Earl at 3:25!!!!
As a lefty I was a big fan of Dave Davis. When earl came along I resented him for kinda taking over the left side of the from Davis. Also as a long haired teen I didn't like Earl's crew cut. Well as I got older I changed my tune. Earl is the greatest.
What the hell did you cut it off for?
If only I could bowl as good as that, not some 128 average junk
+Tom Farmer Get some quality instruction and practice, practice and more practice!!
Notice how they both only use ONE ball the whole game.
It was easy back then. The lanes were just lacquered and break point wasn't much of a factor.
Michael Corleone: It was Roth. I knew it was him all along.
Mark Roth smile at 2:40 !!!!!!
Anthony to me and to many others is the greatest. He IS way better than Walter Ray Williams Jr. Rest in peace sir.
Actually Earl was throwing a bigger hook than Roth , Roth throwing straight up little hook at end
@IveGotYourChange Good point.Earl connected on that 6-8 split as well as the 3-10 split. Walter Ray has similar
style that Roth has but I don't think WRW was as accurate as Earl on spare shots although got more strikes than Earl. WRW has more PBA titles but bowled twice as long as Earl. Earl still has the most US titles at 10.
eaglesyz, sorry but, Walter Ray does not have anywhere near Roths style. Roth just muscles the ball up 2nd or 3rd arrow. Walter Ray is a stroker with a more dynamic delivery than others and his A game is around the 1st to 2nd arrow. Earl is the reason that I started bowling over 50 years ago and I have the utmost respect for him.Earl didn't start bowling until his 20's after playing baseball and yes, his career didn't last as long as Walter Ray and Earl didn't benefit from all the modern bowling balls that they have now.
Earl was just ice cold. Did you see, though, on Roth's last ball the look on Earl's face. He looked to be more disgusted at that leave than Mark was, LOL!
THE 4/9!!!!! Whoever Thinks Bowling is Not Stressful?? Think again!!!!
Missed Earl Anthony aka The Machine
It ends when the match is "effectively" over. Did you not hear Bo Burton say "Roth MUST STRIKE" in the 10th? Did he strike? UA-cam only allows videos up to 10 minutes. I cut out parts that seemed meaningless to get it to fit.
Two of the best for sure, but it felt unprofessional to me that Earl would get up and get his ball ready before Mark had finished his shot.
This was the year Mark Roth rolled a 279 to win a tournament. IDK of was this one though.
I'm not providing my cell number to UA-cam/Google. I get enough spam on my cellphone as it is. I don't want to open the flood gates.
Thanks for providing this memory. This was a great time for bowling. The 2 best men here. I'm sure I seen this when I was younger on TV.
Roth had his days back then as well. Just my opinion though.
Mark definitely would have benefited from a reactive resin ball here, given how oily the lanes appeared. But alas, those wouldn't come out for over a decade.
Earl was always my favorite as a kid in the 70s. Even though he was a southpaw 😉 so his approach did not translate well-being for me.
Earl Anthony G.O.A.T
Even when picking. Splits
Tom Hudson missed the show by 119 pins.
style and,control vs Power and,speed
Earl the pearl, best in the world.
EARL ALL TIME BEST
Is Earl Anthony’s style really one that a bowler would want to emulate?
I bet no one looked at Don Carter bowling and said “I want to bowl like that.”
:)
Owie.
Fast 8 to lose
I farted.
Anthony was minor league pitcher before he took up pro bowling.
It took wrw twice as many tournaments to get to EARLs # of titles!!!...
This is when bowling was bowling