1976 AMF Pro Classic
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Please be sure to stop by forums.mrbowlin... to discuss this and other great bowling topics!
$100,000 AMF PRO CLASSIC
Garden City Bawl, Garden City, N.Y., Feb 17-21, 1976
Weber A Classic Pro
Describing the victory as "one of my greatest ever," Dick Weber captured first place in the $100,000 AMF Pro Classic.
In a classic struggle between two of pro bowling's giants, Weber edged Earl Anthony, Tacoma, Wash., 216-210, for the $14,000 winner's prize.
The win was important to Weber for a number of reasons. Previously tied with Don Johnson for the lead in total PBA victories at 24, Weber went ahead of Johnson. The $14,000 payoff enabled Weber to become the first pro bowler to surpass career winnings of $500,000 as he scored his first tour victory since 1973.
TELEVISED FINALS
Pos. Name, City/State Total Amount
1 Dick Weber, St. Louis, Mo. 432 (2 games) $14,000
2 Earl Anthony, Tacoma, Wash. 210 (1 game) 8,000
3 Glenn Pierce, Jacksonville, Fla. 369 (2 games) 6,000
4 Fred Conner, Mar Vista, Cal. 393 (2 games) 5,000
5 Ed DiTolla, Maywood, N.J. 217 (1 game) 4,000
PLAYOFF RESULTS-Conner defeated DiTolla, 218-217; Pierce defeated Conner, 198-175;Weber defeated Pierce, 216-171, and in the championship game, Weber defeated Anthony, 216-210.
R.I.P. Dick Weber and Earl Anthony. Two of the greats in bowling. EVER!!!
D.W. E.A. & G.P. He wasn't too bad. Glenn Pierce outlived both of them.
Couldn't agree more. Only fitting that those 2 were battling it out for all the marbles.
Chas S Ed DiTolla for that matter as well. He passed away in 2002. He was the pro shop owner at my local lanes (Bowler City in Hackensack, NJ). He drilled my first bowling ball when I was the tender age of 6 as well.
Earl Anthony and Dick Weber are probably the two greatest bowlers in the history of men's professional bowling.
Finding these Tournaments on TH-cam is Like being a Kid in a Candy Store.
Dick Weber was easily my favorite bowler. The man had class and was humble as can be. Loved his style and it’s how I bowled for most of my years bowling. Outside line, down and in ! 😆
Class interview, humble classy men, no trash talking, sadly a bygone era. Loved watching this!
That's the problem with today's PBA. Almost to a man, all you see are crybaby, excuse making assholes talkin shit and making excuses when they get they're asses handed to them. Plus its almost like the object of the game now is how many revs you can get, not scoring. Constantly blowing single pin spares,ect....I miss a lazy, tension free Saturday afternoon with Schenkel and Burton calling the action. Now its a guy screaming 'skinny jeans' and 'hambone' in my face and some punk boohooing.
Yeah just in AJ Johnson and Anthony Simonsen alone you have enough smug assholeness for 4 generations of bowlers.
I love the style of these older tournaments, I dont have a dramatic backstory or anything like I got up every saturday to watch these, I just genuinely love these old tournaments!
Along with the commercials..😊
This was right about the time as a 14 year old kid I fell in love with bowling and over the next 6 years that's all I ever did. I basically lived at the bowling alley. Wanted to go pro ... my uncle was one and I was on the right track ........ until I went to a pro tour event and met all of the bowlers. Aside from Earl ....... they were the biggest bunch of pricks and losers I'd ever met. They basically solved me of ever wanting to grind out a a living on the PBA Tour. That and the fact there was never any money in that sport of course.
I love watching some of these old telecasts, and the old commercials are nearly as enjoyable as the telecasts.
100%
Dick Weber was one of the originators of Swagger. His star power back then was unmatched.
Had a stupid unprolific approach and release. Looked like a kid first starting to bowl.
I've said this many times...really enjoy watching these old telecasts...and also seeing the bowling balls used back in the day
Me too
I am absolutely loving the old adds. The bowling has been fantastic too. I bowled on timber lanes a few months ago and with today's equipment it was a nightmare. I have a lot of respect and appreciation for these fine bowlers that paved the way.
I would love to see today's bowlers use this equipment and on the old lanes!
Technically, You have. Guys like Johnny Petraglia, have Went from lacquer lanes and Rubber Balls to Reactive Resin balls and synthetic Lanes.
@@LouisCsanko thanks captain obvious....I may be one of those too
They would all Quit!!
Especially 2 handers
Back in a different era of bowling. You had to know HOW to bowl back then. With todays souped up balls, pins and lanes, THROWERS have it easy!
I bowl with these young men in this time frame, enjoying their competitive friendship.
Dick Weber puts a tremendous amount of roll on the ball.
Thanks for reacquainting me with old episodes of PBT. Earl Anthony is badass!
Same AMF lanes we had at the UCLA Bruin Bowl (put in in 1961 IIRC).
Lazy Susan ball returns.
Ed Ditolla sold me a few bowling balls at his pro shop at Bowler City in Hackensack, NJ, when I was bowling in middle school and high school back in the 80’s. Great guy. Never got to see him bowl until this clip popped up! Thanks for posting.
Weber misses the 2 pin then makes the 6-7-10! Go figure!
Dick had a strange interaction with another person in the setae area. Looked over at him a couple more times and then rushed the missed 2 pin. Again, looked over at him after the shot. I think the guy was a bowler.
I used a yellow dot in this time frame, bowling many honor scores. Noticed many bowlers using this bowling ball in this area!
glen pierce?? i thought that was walter ray lol, great videos, thanks , good to see my idol earl anthony again
Mr. Bowling vs.The Doomsday Stroking Machine /G.O.A.T. of the P.B.A. 🎳 Absolutely CLASSIC. God rest Dick and Earl. ✝
Always root for earl, Weber was not much of a bowler any longer. Nice 4 step approach, lousy follow through, off balance and weak ball. His kid was a real garbage human, unlike his father.
Good old North Versailles Bowl in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
This is when bowling was a true sport. Now, bowling is too easy with the new lane conditions and reactive resin balls. Two handed styles and blocked lanes have ruined the game. If you do not average 220, then you suck.
Is that the great Warner Wolf??? Let's go to the video tape!
This is when the bowlers were more dignified. When they started having the bowlers run and jump like pro wrestlers and the crowds yelling like they are at a tractor pull I stopped watching.
I rememberEarl rolling that orange ball back then.
Love watching these old telecasts. The commercials are great.
Outstanding sportsmanship! True gentleman and all time greats of bowling..
США и Россия должны перестать враждовать, надо как то договориться, нельзя так жить
1:04:00 The sequence of events here is unbelievable. Oh, wait - it's Dick Weber. It's totally believable. :)
The plastic ball era.
Earl Anthony was and is the greatest bowler of all time
When etiquette and manner was in sports aside of the great boxer who brought trash to sports entertainment
Longtime DC Sports Anchor Warner Wolf introducing ABC's Saturday Sports offerings, only was with them a year or two before going to WABC where he had long run, he's the sports guy on Imus now.
He was the one of the first broadcaster to do Monday night baseball on abc with bob princz and bob ucker
I was 5, this is great stuff.
I had my first Yellow Dot in '77, and it had been out for a spell.
Before that, though, I threw the AMF Pro Classic! Another great ball.
BillyBeagle my first real ball was a Roto Grip that a professional bowler gave to me that had minimum use
Loved my Pro Classic!
When I was 10 years old. I asked my parents for a AMF Dick Weber 5-Star ball for Christmas. But they didn't have a 14 lbs model in stock, so I ended up getting an Ebonite Don Carter Gyro 2. The following Christmas, I received my 15 lbs AMF ball, but it was the Pro Classic. I just liked how it rolled down the lane when Dick Weber used it to win the 76 AMF Pro Classic. I had for 2 years until it got a bad nick in the track area, and the Pro shop operator left a flat spot in the ball. By this time in 1978, I was a Mark Roth fan at the age of 13 and bought my first non-bleeder Yellow Dot.😂
honestly the best part about being a pro would be bowling 6-8 hours everyday. I'd have the kids on the lane right beside me....bumpers and all;)
Ford commercial was great
Sure is. AMF owns it now. I bowl league there on Thursday nights. Actually started the season off on 21 and 22, and the old characteristics are still there.
Holy telestrator @ 11:06... I didn't think Bo had that 'til the 80s. Neat!
And some things never change... the track on lane 21 at Garden City is still about 2 boards tighter than it is on 22.
Funny how you think differently when you're young.
I was 18 in 1976. Dick Weber a favorite pro bowler.
After his son Pete started bowling and acting the brat punk, I started to question his dad. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree ?
Now I'm older. Not afraid to go along with status quo.
Weber and son remind me of Biden and Hunter.
Rotten apples don't fall far from a rotten tree.
Were the Columbia Yellow Dots out by this time? Looks like Connor might be using one?
Yes. I had two of them as a high school sophomore in 1976. They were weighted a bit different. Great memories of my pre - bleeder Yellow Dots.
@@mikemullikin8942 had a 5y Yellow Dot, that was a "bleeder," Had it in the closet for a while. Then in 1979, pulled it out, forgetting it was there, decided to try it out in league that night and shot my first 700 series, and finished with a 956 for 4 games. Later, went on to bowl my first 300. That was a great ball. Great times!
Yes this was the Time frame for this Columbia ball.
This was the introduction of the new AMF Pro Classic, an orange/brown swirl bleeder. I think Columbia made them for AMF, my favorite ball for a decade. Used it to bowl my first 300+ 800 the same night.
Great to see and hear Dave Diles. Dave was a Detroit sports broadcasting legend and stellar national talent.
I like Diles and thought he did a credible job here. But did he really have to interrupt Weber’s commentary on Anthony with a lame joke about taking the check from Weber because it was too heavy?
Ohio Bobcat!
@@beeemm2578 Ohio blows!!!
Earl's shirt-ahead of its time
14:20 a hit man to the right of Steve Neff here...lmao. if you look at all the bowling shows from the 70s-early 80s, there are usually some sketchy lookin dudes in the front. Lol
70s drag racing was the tits, man. Loved it.....That ad for drag racing on WWofS looked sicko..oh and Ohio Bobcat Dave Diles filling in for Chris Schenkel with Bo!
I was, 9 years old and had a 201 average!! The pro bowlers Tour denied me a shot at this event!!! Just kidding 😂😂
sounds like you are Pete Weber who was about 9 at the time.
@@toscodav Actually young Weber was 14 then!! I love stats!!
Bo Burton Jr. 77 and still kicking
He was always into fitness. He will be around a long time.
@@toscodav he sure was.. fitness fist into Greg Shelds mouth for not paying his debts
There's a mention of Palmer Fallgren, voted Sacramento's Athlete of the Year for 1975. I'm gonna have to do some research
Thank u Mr. 300! This brings back so many memories of sat afternoons after my sat. Jr league. I feel young everytime I watch these old classics!
So great to see these old commercials, I actually thought it was Gary Cole in that Johnson's Baby Shampoo commercial - he would have been 20 in 1976, but I'm not sure. Anyway, fun to watch them.
Firestone 500 commercial at 12:40. One of the most dangerous, disastrous tires in the history of black rubber donuts!
The Ford Pinto!
59:54: 1975 Monte Carlo ! Tee, Hee.
detroitjc what a fire hazard
Where’s Chris Schenkel?
7:07 Is that Michael Tucci from "Grease" on the left in that Alka-Seltzer Commercial?
Yep
Out of this whole telecast the only two still left are Fred Connor and Nelson Burton Jr. Time marches on.
I saw Dick Weber in person in Denver in 1985 - walked right past him at one point.
I love to time we live in to be able to watch 50 year old videos.
February 21st, 1976 was the second-to-last day of that year's Winter Olympics, and Chris Schnekel was in Innsbruck to help cover the Games.
In fact, that day's PBA telecast began right after a live broadcast of the Olympic men's hockey championship game.
That evening, ABC showed other Olympic events that took place that day at Innsbruck.
Today, weekend Olympic coverage would pretty much wipe-out everything (except early-and-late-evening local news) on affiliates of the network showing them.
In This Clip, From 2:44 To 5:18, It Was ABC Sports' Pro Bowlers Tour: The $100,000 AMF Pro Classic Video Open From Late Saturday Afternoon, February 21, 1976.
Texas A&M and Arkansas are now rivals in the SEC!!!
Awesome! Weber at the final match vs Earl Anthony. Skoal tobacco commercial is awesome before the final match.
back in the day, Chris would have other assignments, and Dave Diles would sub for him, in the mid to late 70s. Chris missed the first 3 perfect games bowled on TV.
Keith Jackson made a rare appearance in 1969 when he filled in for Chris when Johnny Guenther rolled the second 300 game on national TV.
In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:14, It Was ABC Sports' Network Of The Olympics Video ID From 1976.
amazing that the righty beat the lefty.... Garden City has always been a lefty haven
Lefties won at least 8 of the 13 PBA tournaments in Garbage City.
I love to watch the Earl Anthony Show. I love it.
When abc stopped this series, it had lost about 75% of its viewers from its peak.
And, instead of abc paying the pba $200,000 for each show, the pba had to pay abc money.
Yet, geezers keep whining that bowling should return to this. smh.
The great Earl Anthony R.I.P.
Want to know why Weber was so great? Just watch his footwork.
You're kidding right? I have rarely seen Weber post his shot. He was always hopping and skipping at the slide. I know that he won all those titles but, I could never figure out how. Don't get me wrong. I had a lot of respect for him and even had one of his Dick Weber Classic balls. His bad slide just drove me crazy and Bo says he had great footwork. No, he had a great swing but, except for the crossover step,his slide was terrible.
Agree that Weber seems to defy logic with that wimpy delivery, but clearly he was an accurate, highly repeatable son of a bitch. :)
Earl was such a machine and brought a little more in terms of "stuff" on the ball. Turns out his glasses in '76 were MUCH cooler than anything he wore in the 80's! lol
Never missed on Saturday
“Without a doubt”
Those lanes look dry as fk
Miss you Uncle Ed! Wish you were here.
Can you imagine the impression a bowler like Jason Belmonte would make here?
No impression whatsoever. They didn't have cheater balls in the 70's and therefore he would not be able to bowl the way he bowls. He would have to learn to bowl correctly.
Yes... Belmonte would give such a manly impression having to bowl the ball with two hands. Belmonte is not even fit to shine the shoes of guys like Weber, Anthony, and Roth. I love watching these old tournaments but I cannot stand what modern PBA has devolved into.
Actually, he uses old school urethane and plastic balls a lot, because it's the only way he can control the huge spin he gets. Besides, a lot of sports evolve. A long time ago, the only way people did high jump was a scissor kick. Now it's all the flop. Archers use compound bows. Golf balls used to be made of leather and filled with feathers. Wooden tennis rackets. etc.
PointyTailofSatan Sports evolving is one thing. Breaking the rules for your own benefit is quite another thing.
Ya, the PBA lets them "break the rules". lol
Not much pin action back than.
Hell no...they were just short of logs...lol
Glenn Pierce was only 40 here? Looks 58 LOL!!
he would be 80 now!
Glenn Pierce kicked butt!
Glenn Pierce died in 2008 at 79 in Jacksonville, FL.
My dad bowled in leagues with Glenn Pierce in Jacksonville FL when I was a 7 year old kid in the early 60s.
Is Garden City Bowl still around??
Yes it is...unfortunately AMF Bowlmore may sell it off...they have eliminated some bowling centers here in Long Island...and Garden City could be next...sad when consider the history of the building...
@@jerryneubauer1484 i honestly hated the old wood lanes!! They could hook so damn much!!
Where is Chris?
On a different assignment, as it was clearly stated.
the 1st and title matches of the AMF Pro Classic did provided amazing finishes
Your comments provide no useful information ever.
Love to see tournaments held at AMF centers. Classic
Mrbowling300, Do You have the 1983 Southern California Open
I’m sure you ruined the ending of that one too. Douche.
Too bad the pearl earl turned into a fall down drunk. 😢 Drunkin fall kills the pearl. 😢