1954 Championship Bowling - Kawolics vs. Salvino

A summary of a 1954 Championship Bowling match between Ed Kawolics and a young Carmen Salvino.

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Sports

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• championship
• bowling
• ed
• kawolics
• carmen
• salvino
• 1954

[stitchergary]

I'd like to see today's hotshots averaging 220+ give up their new technology bowling balls and pins and go back to the oiling of lanes in that era. It would be a very humbling experience and they'd complain to high heaven. I remember in late 60's and 70's when getting a 600 series was something to be proud of. A 700 was almost unheard of. Now they get multiple 700's every week. Do you think today's bowlers are any better than back then. I DON'T Think So!!!!!

[holiholiho]

Thank god no hambones.

[mailmankp]

729 with rubber. That's amazing.

[CRPULSE300]

You'll notice the pin boys climbing into the pit to reset after each shot.

[wiiman0001]

Rubber ball, real wood, everyone playing the same line and to average between 225 and 240 for 3 games back then is amazing. Pros back then did not average over 200 for a season. 190 back then was VERY good, now you have to average between 220-240 on sport patterns to even have a shot at being a successful pro bowler. Game has gotten a lot easier since then. My dad and grandfather tell me about it all the time.

[bowlingmaniacs]

I love the feet that pop out of the back after every ball. Gotta love the ol' days.

[Starcastle2009]

BTW: Eddie Kowalics bowled with a two finger grip. Try that sometime!

[Starcastle2009]

Okay, I started bowling in 1956. It was a totally different game, but Carmen with his exaggerated wristing was really the first power player, long before Mark Roth. Incidentally, for many years he held the high series title for broadcast television with an 846 on Bowling Stars (1960). That with a rubber ball.

[LeakyWicks]

wow carmen salvino has a real high backswing

[20alphabet]

Btw, in the GEICO Mark Roth Plastic Ball tournaments they alter the cover by sanding it, which was not legal in the 70's, and the drill patterns utilized allow the "pancake-weight" in the plastic ball to act as a flip-block, which also wasn't legal in the 70's.

[20alphabet]

@MusicMindAssault They wouldn't because they couldn't. Many of these comments are from people that didn't bowl prior to urethane. The move to "synthetic" lanes (to cut costs for proprietors) made changing ball material necessary just to stay close... which it didn't. Then the USBC began approving balls that were illegal only two years before. Now oil is used to compensate for the juiced balls on so-called sports conditions, but just furthers the error.