ABC's Pro Bowlers Tour - 1981 Quaker State Open - final match

[rudedawg675]

Ummm.....did "Richard Martinez" later change his identity and start using the name "Steve Cook"?!?!!? I honestly thought that ABC had the graphic wrong when they put up Richard Martinez.

[bccarl88]

Woah! 1:27, did anyone else see the deck come down on the second shot loike a strike detection?

[BowlingOldies]

@bccarl88 Yes, that's the way these Brunswick machines worked. It was an early iteration of electronic scoring. Before the laser scanners came along, the machine's pinchers would detect how many pins were left standing. So it had to drop after the second ball to count 'em. The next iteration of Brunswick machines had the laser scanners, mitigating the need for this second drop.

[20alphabet]

It's a Bonanza white dot. Marshall preferred the Bonanza which was actually a Columbia with a blemish. Rather than scrap an otherwise good ball Columbia resurfaced and stamped it with the Bonanza label. The resurfacing was what made the ball desirable to Marshall. The smaller ball hit the pin below the large area getting the pin sideways upon impact, thus increasing pin-carry. Don Johnson used the same ball in Columbia form and moved the UPRIGHT 8 to the 4 position against Asher. Asher won.

[spiked200]

holman looks 46 rather than the 26 on the graphic

[Polarcupcheck]

BLUE DOT!

[topdawg1020]

sure looks like a blue dot

[patsfanatic]

Blue dot???

[topdawg1020]

@patsfanatic might have been the hardest ball ever made, designed not to hook