Pro Bowlers Tour - 1979 PBA Doubles Championship

Just the final frames of the 1979 PBA Doubles Championship, pitting Mark Roth and Marshall Holman against Palmer Fallgren and Larry Laub. Begins with Roth throwing what may have been the only DOA ball he ever threw on national TV. Great camera work by NBC on this. Lots of tight shots. I loved the look of these old 1950s Brunswick single lane masking units. NBC SportsWorld. Jim Simpson on the call. Steve Neff on color.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• pba
• pro bowling
• bowling
• mark roth
• marshall holman
• palmer fallgren
• larry laub
• classic bowling
• classic tv

[htc6600]

I agree with you about the Brunswick machines-there's a lot of charm with these old single-lane machines. Wouldn't it be cool to combine a GSX pinsetter with one of these old facades? Larry Laub bears a striking resemblance to Gordon Lightfoot of "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" fame.

[brian1969a]

@brgvt97 He had the 8-10 up for a second, and the six kicked the ten out. It was an odd pin reaction, esp. for reactives and the hook he was throwing, thus the "oil carrydown" remark from Bo. I think it is on here (I think he's bowling Voss). I think it was fairly common in the early-reactive days...anytime you hit a patch of oil, the ball just slid. I nearly left a few myself back then, lol.

[brgvt97]

@brian1969a I'm going strictly from memory. I don't have the '95 Toronto show on videotape. I watched it live in April 1995. I remember Bo Burton saying oil carrydown was the reason why he left what he left. I'll watch it on YouTube (I'm assuming it's here on YouTube). I have the '87 Buffalo show on videotape. Roth left the 4-9, then converted it. That was his 33rd title. He had a 299 vs. George Branham III in his first of three matches.

[brian1969a]

@brgvt97 I'm thinking of the wrong title (I'm thinking of his 33rd, where he left the 4-9 and then converted it). Even so, he didn't actually leave the 8-10 in his 34th title series. He came close, but he didn't actually leave it. I suggest you watch it again.

[brgvt97]

@brian1969a Wrong. It was an 8-10. The ball hit weak, and Bo Burton, in defense of Roth's power, said that oil carrydown was the reason. It could have been, but the bottom line is that he left an 8-10 split.

[brian1969a]

@brgvt97 That was a 4-9 he left for #34.

[brgvt97]

Roth left an 8-10 split in 1995 in Toronto. He won that title (#34).

[3443bh]

@Jiltedin2007 mad, huh?

[Jiltedin2007]

I agree with you 20alphabet. Fans like those Losers who do follow those they worship no matter how big of an Ass he may be, is enough to make anyone sick.

Yes, the World will end soon they way things are going now, and especially how those who do get pampered for any reason, treat people like you and me like dirt. And that's not fair! That's why I don't read magazines like People. Or Tabloids like the National Enquirer. Since these people don't care for us. Why should I care for them?

[20alphabet]

@Jiltedin2007

You'd think so, but Pete Weber and Marshall Holman have amazingly stupid followings. It's almost like the worse you are the more gravitational pull you have. Truly, the world will end soon at this rate.