The greatest ever, pure and simple. So relaxed when he rolled the ball. And a great teacher and ambassador for the game. Earl Anthony had the quiet killer instinct and he never beat himself. Always hung in there until the last ball was rolled. We could really use a guy like him these days instead of this macho, posturing, strutting insane clown posse that is the PBA today. RIP Earl Anthony!
I met him in 1987 at the World FIQ in Helsinki Finland, I was the second youngest bowler in the tourney, I was a few months older than Carol Giannotti from Australia ...
Was awesome to see EE at Olympic Bowel, Rochester NY, in the late 60's. Full network coverage back in the day was a big deal, my dad took me to see the finals, truly one of my fondest memories. He was truly a superstar and signed every autograph. Glad he lives forever on the net.
Enjoyed watching video of Earl Anthony win his last champuonship! Watched him on ABC netwrk bowling on TV Saturdays during the 60's n 70's. He has a smooth approach n delivery. No herky jerky motions ! Text book. We'll miss u lefty Earl Anthony. No one can match ur bowling prowess n classy style. Aloha frm Hawaii
My first inspiration idol. I greatly miss you Earl! I have this video. You and Jack Jurek will always be my inspirations to be the best bowler that I can be!
I had the pleasure to bowl with Jack in 2016 at the Dave Small Championship Lanes Classic in Anderson Indiana. He has a great personality and great technique. I was hoping to see him again this year but, he was called home for personal reasons. I hope everything is okay.
Stryker I met Jack Jurek twice in person. Once in a tournament in my hometown in Columbus. The second time was this year at a ball demo and Jack got to see how I bowl. He was very nice in person. When I was going for a spare and my friend told me to look behind me I saw Jack and got so nervous I threw the ball in the gutter, lol.
Thats a cute story. I was nervous at first but, Jack kept giving me high fives and complemented me on my form. Later that year, I was fortunate to have a two hour lesson with Walter Ray Williams. He was giving bowling lessons to classes with eight in a group but, I and a young girl was the only ones to show up,so we got a lot for our money. Don't let anyone tell you different, Walter Ray is very nice and of course extremely knowledgeable. My average went up 30 pins per game ever since.
Stryker I met Walter Ray twice and both times I had photos taken with him. Yes Walter is a very cool guy. One of the reasons why I love Jack is because when the lane conditions call for softer speed Jack excells in that and I have a hard time with slowing down my ball speed. I also had a photo taken with Jack. That's awesone that you had lessons with Walter Ray you and the young lady got your money's worth and money worth investing in improving your game. I also forgot to mention that I have a personal letter that the late great Earl Anthony had wrote me back in 1998 and I will always cheerish it!
You should cherish it. Earl was the reason that I got into bowling. I emulated his style and did very well on the lanes until I adopted my own but, I will never forget what he did for the sport of bowling.In the last two years the PBA50 has come to our town and I bowled with Jack, Tom Baker, Brian Voss, Norm Duke, and Walter Ray. I have a bowling pin with them and quite a few others that gave me so much pleasure. I will keep that forever. It's been a pleasure chatting with you Mary and I wish you the best in your life and on the lanes. Don't forget the old bowling adage,"strikes are for show but, spares are for dough"!
ahh the good ole days late 70s/early 80s , Plastic and Rubber :) when you only needed one ball for everything , just before the Urethanes,, No Crazy hooking balls of today, the ABC, write in scorers and Set tea areas :) when bowling was king ! By my idol The Lefty King :)
I missed Earl Anthony so much I loved to watch him smooth. unbelievable. I told him he is my favorite PBA He smile at me. I met him in New Orleans But it was not in N.O. It was in Gretna, LA. in 1977. Oh, shooting he lost to Don Johnson
Poor Earl, he said the big hook shot and high revs would not be the shot of the future. He said the stroker shot with a direct line to the pocket is the shot of the future. How sad he was wrong... He was just so good, one of the best ever. How he got the pins to carry with such a slow rolling ball was amazing. A true master.
Great comments Husker. You pretty much summed up how a game can evolve from a game of finesse and shot making into a game of brute force. The same thing happened to tennis when they brought in modern power rackets, players became powerful hitters with powerful weapons and the days of building a shot, stroke by stroke, and looking for the opening on a play, like a fencing match is gone. The same is happening to bowling with two handers and modern reactive balls. If you check out my youtube channel, I am even more of a throwback than you. I am a 1930's style full roller! Yet with my ancient way of bowling I am right in there with my peers who use modern balls and big releases. It is important to understand that the greatest and most winning bowlers in history were strokers, Walter, Norm, Parker, Pete, Liz. And many are 50 and over and still competing with the top players. Only time will tell if the two handers ever achieve the same level of success and if they can sustain their style into their 40's and 50's and still compete.
" I'd have absolutely no problem if we went back to rubber and plastic" Agreed! My best game ever, a 259, was bowled with my Hardwick Rubber ball. Had the back 9 and the first in the next game. That's game I can be proud of since modern tech did not do it. And the decision to take balance holes away actually helps the high rev players be more dominant since they don't need them anyway and the low rev players that benefited from them now can't use them! Very unfair. Eliminate reactive balls and cores. Go back to rubber, or plastic, or just urethane with pancake weight blocks. If you watch my Gladiator video that ball jumped so much I could not control it. Full Roller layouts on reactive balls just don't work right and are too jumpy. Would love to see you post some videos on youtube too. Or if you can do some high quality videos similar to what I do, I would post one on my channel for you as a fellow full roller.
The game has to evolve to remain relevant. I don't believe two-handed bowling will become the norm, because it's not sustainable long-term. I also don't have a problem with the ball manufacturers becoming creative with the cover stocks and core, because the level of competition will always need to be sustained despite the "advances". For example, when reactive resin and specialty cores became the norm, the response was sport bowling and variance in the oil patterns. With the increased "acceptance" of the two-handed bowling style, the response was the phasing out of balance holes and the reduced difference in top/side weight to one ounce, instead of three. Change is not the enemy...complacency and stagnancy are. I've been bowling for 37 years. I've bowled with plastic, rubber, reactive resin, symmetrical, asymmetrical, inserts, no inserts in a lot of different houses under many different conditions. I view the "high-rev excitement" as marketing material--foster interest through curiosity. Eventually, Belmo and bowlers like him are going to have to adopt (or reacquire) a more traditional bowling style due to the massive stress on his back and knees if he chooses to remain competitive. Bowling was, is, and always will be a game of skill, even if the equipment manufacturers and bowling proprietors need to "sexy" up the game in order to appeal to a crowd who still view bowling incorrectly as "not a real sport". This sport is one of the few that is approachable to people of all ages, both from a recreational and competitive arena. Earl was the bowler I most wanted to emulate in my younger days. I eventually evolved into my own style and approach, but whenever I get a compliment from someone describing my bowling as "smooth", I think to myself, "Thank you, Earl". The only place you really see two-handed bowlers are in the youth leagues and on TV. I've got one right-handed senior in one of my leagues who will bowl two-handed, but he always goes back to the traditional when he's got a 10-pin or a difficult leave. As the adage goes, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." It's always been about the scoring, and that will never change. People can bowl one-handed, two-handed, plastic, reactive, symmetric, asymmetric, house oil, sport, challenge...I don't care what other people do or how they choose to do it. As long as I can bowl, I'm going to continue to do what works for me.
@Husker Max My Personal opinion is that you should have two fingers and a thumb in the bowling ball. No offense to the two handers but it gives them an advantage due to the rev rate and their thumb never gets hung up. It gives them an advantage. I think they are some great bowlers but I think it should be a rule to have two fingers and a thumb in the ball.
I think it is good that the video ended with him not bowling a strike to show us that even the professionals are not perfect 100% of the time as to not discourage people from trying.
Muscle memory is a great thing like Earl said. I started bowling at around 9 years old on an instructional league at Blue Crystal lanes on Bank st about a half mile from my house that was on poplar Pl off Stockbridge rd in Kalamazoo MI. Stockbridge rd crossed Bank St where Blue Crystal lanes bowling ally was. I was born on 6-19-1958 so when I was 9 yrs old it was 1967 in the summer on a summer league. I have always been in top physical condition even today 9-29-21. I enjoy bowling 30 games within 3 hours for the workout & to keep in shape. I'm like Earl said muscle memory. my high game is a 299. I KNOW I need to practice a lot more to get 300 games more often I hope oh wait at lest once any how heheheHA! I have bowled 33 games within 3 hours of Glow Ball that my highest amount of games within 3 hours. I have bowled 150 straight non stop games. I know of a few good bowlers in Kalamazoo MI: Charly Tapp, wes Gibson/dr hook & the guy with the most 300's in Kalamazoo & the surrounding area Dean Cardella he bowled a 300 when his team bowled my team at Hapo's lanes its the first live 300 I ever saw bowled oh yeah Randy Rawlson & his son Adam. Adam & Dave Clinginpeel bowled on my summer league or I mean we bowled on Clinginpeels team hes a 230 or 240 avg bowler. any how I like to bowl at continental lanes in the summer because all open bowling is FREE so in the summer I bowl 30 games daily I am 63 years old & enjoy it. I was sorry to hear Dr Hook died of lug cancer about 3 years ago, DAM! he use to drill my bowling balls I had 63 balls at that time then I sold them all & this year 2021 I did really good in the stock market & bought 30 new bowling balls heheheha! & got back into bowling again after a long streak of not bowling from 2007 to April of this year 2021. I am so glad Im still in top physicals condition even today 9-29-21 YEAH! I've had the front 8 so far, the back 7, back 5 a couple times with a high game of 249 on leauge & a high game of 256 on open. I probably bowled a thousand games this summer. when you bowl 30 games like that its your legs that you feel the most. I never feel it in my arms or hands, its your legs & I went 20 miles EVERY day on my peddle bike since 2014 because that's all I had & I slept outside every single day in a sleeping bag before I bought my truck on March 6th this year 2021. I slept outside & had to get up at 2am 7 days a week to go 2 miles to FedEx until I retired on 10-17-20. I'm am retired now & for the rest of my life. if you need a bowler: right now I'm about a 160 avg bowler. I bowled 570 this TU so it will go up a little. before I stopped bowling in 2007 I was a 180 to 190 bowler. if you need a bowler I can bowl any day or time I'm retired just let me know when & were. I live in my truck it wired with everything I need to live. its a 2002, Ford with a V10, black 4 wheel drive with 8' bed that has a box on the back with a door in the back. I'm 150lbs & 5'3.75 tall so I made the box on the 8' bed of my truck 5'5" tall so I can stand up & walk around without touching the ceiling . its nice with a 35 gallon gas tank. let me know when & were I'll come bowl. I made some nice money in the stock market the most I ever made in one year of working EVER by the end of April this year 2021 YEAH! let me know when & were to bowl on a team FULL time only I don't do subbing! I ONLY do every week league bowling. I will be there EVERY week with the cash! I DO NOT MISS days or nights. just respond to this comment thanks oh another guy I know because he use to bowl right next to me during the summer this year is Tom Youngblood in Kalamazoo MI. I think he said hes like 56 years old & wants to bowl on the senior tour. I'm a vary YOUNG 63 & in shape! my Name is Dann Watts I graduated a couple years ago in 1977 from Loy Norrix on Kilgore rd that was the HAPPEST day of my life getting out of school but then since I got paid to go I went to KVCC for 2.5 more years. school aint that bad when your paid to go.
The greatest ever, pure and simple. So relaxed when he rolled the ball. And a great teacher and ambassador for the game. Earl Anthony had the quiet killer instinct and he never beat himself. Always hung in there until the last ball was rolled. We could really use a guy like him these days instead of this macho, posturing, strutting insane clown posse that is the PBA today. RIP Earl Anthony!
I met him in 1987 at the World FIQ in Helsinki Finland, I was the second youngest bowler in the tourney, I was a few months older than Carol Giannotti from Australia ...
A true master of the game. It is amazing how he can demonstrate 3 different styles all with ease. It is too bad that he is not around today.
i met earl anthony during the 1996 columbia 300 open in austin tx at highland lanes where i worked, great man will be missed
Was awesome to see EE at Olympic Bowel, Rochester NY, in the late 60's. Full network coverage back in the day was a big deal, my dad took me to see the finals, truly one of my fondest memories. He was truly a superstar and signed every autograph. Glad he lives forever on the net.
Silky-smooth machine. The GOAT in my opinion.
Enjoyed watching video of Earl Anthony win his last champuonship! Watched him on ABC netwrk bowling on TV Saturdays during the 60's n 70's. He has a smooth approach n delivery. No herky jerky motions !
Text book. We'll miss u lefty Earl Anthony. No one can match ur bowling prowess n classy style.
Aloha frm Hawaii
Amazing how this guy is speaking about bowling future 40 years from now
My first inspiration idol. I greatly miss you Earl! I have this video. You and Jack Jurek will always be my inspirations to be the best bowler that I can be!
I had the pleasure to bowl with Jack in 2016 at the Dave Small Championship Lanes Classic in Anderson Indiana. He has a great personality and great technique. I was hoping to see him again this year but, he was called home for personal reasons. I hope everything is okay.
Stryker I met Jack Jurek twice in person. Once in a tournament in my hometown in Columbus. The second time was this year at a ball demo and Jack got to see how I bowl. He was very nice in person. When I was going for a spare and my friend told me to look behind me I saw Jack and got so nervous I threw the ball in the gutter, lol.
Thats a cute story. I was nervous at first but, Jack kept giving me high fives and complemented me on my form. Later that year, I was fortunate to have a two hour lesson with Walter Ray Williams. He was giving bowling lessons to classes with eight in a group but, I and a young girl was the only ones to show up,so we got a lot for our money. Don't let anyone tell you different, Walter Ray is very nice and of course extremely knowledgeable. My average went up 30 pins per game ever since.
Stryker I met Walter Ray twice and both times I had photos taken with him. Yes Walter is a very cool guy. One of the reasons why I love Jack is because when the lane conditions call for softer speed Jack excells in that and I have a hard time with slowing down my ball speed. I also had a photo taken with Jack. That's awesone that you had lessons with Walter Ray you and the young lady got your money's worth and money worth investing in improving your game. I also forgot to mention that I have a personal letter that the late great Earl Anthony had wrote me back in 1998 and I will always cheerish it!
You should cherish it. Earl was the reason that I got into bowling. I emulated his style and did very well on the lanes until I adopted my own but, I will never forget what he did for the sport of bowling.In the last two years the PBA50 has come to our town and I bowled with Jack, Tom Baker, Brian Voss, Norm Duke, and Walter Ray. I have a bowling pin with them and quite a few others that gave me so much pleasure. I will keep that forever. It's been a pleasure chatting with you Mary and I wish you the best in your life and on the lanes. Don't forget the old bowling adage,"strikes are for show but, spares are for dough"!
Love this video. Also love that the copyright warning is included.
Earl was the best in his day
I’m getting back into bowling after about 20 some years. It’s nice having advice from one south paw to another.
Best ever! RIP
22:56 - guy is like "Holy cow is that really Earl Anthony?"
Greatest ever!
ahh the good ole days late 70s/early 80s , Plastic and Rubber :) when you only needed one ball for everything ,
just before the Urethanes,, No Crazy hooking balls of today, the ABC, write in scorers and Set tea areas :) when bowling was king ! By my idol The Lefty King :)
And it was cheap. Depending on bowling specials, $4 a game ?! Na, I quit due to that.
You are correct!
I missed Earl Anthony so much I loved to watch him smooth. unbelievable. I told him he is my favorite PBA He smile at me. I met him in New Orleans But it was not in N.O. It was in Gretna, LA. in 1977. Oh, shooting he lost to Don Johnson
Poor Earl, he said the big hook shot and high revs would not be the shot of the future.
He said the stroker shot with a direct line to the pocket is the shot of the future.
How sad he was wrong...
He was just so good, one of the best ever.
How he got the pins to carry with such a slow rolling ball was amazing.
A true master.
Great comments Husker.
You pretty much summed up how a game can evolve from a game of finesse and shot making into a game of brute force.
The same thing happened to tennis when they brought in modern power rackets, players became powerful hitters with powerful weapons and the days of building a shot, stroke by stroke, and looking for the opening on a play, like a fencing match is gone.
The same is happening to bowling with two handers and modern reactive balls.
If you check out my youtube channel, I am even more of a throwback than you.
I am a 1930's style full roller!
Yet with my ancient way of bowling I am right in there with my peers who use modern balls and big releases.
It is important to understand that the greatest and most winning bowlers in history were strokers, Walter, Norm, Parker, Pete, Liz.
And many are 50 and over and still competing with the top players.
Only time will tell if the two handers ever achieve the same level of success and if they can sustain their style into their 40's and 50's and still compete.
" I'd have absolutely no problem if we went back to rubber and plastic"
Agreed! My best game ever, a 259, was bowled with my Hardwick Rubber ball.
Had the back 9 and the first in the next game.
That's game I can be proud of since modern tech did not do it.
And the decision to take balance holes away actually helps the high rev players be more dominant since they don't need them anyway and the low rev players that benefited from them now can't use them!
Very unfair.
Eliminate reactive balls and cores.
Go back to rubber, or plastic, or just urethane with pancake weight blocks.
If you watch my Gladiator video that ball jumped so much I could not control it.
Full Roller layouts on reactive balls just don't work right and are too jumpy.
Would love to see you post some videos on youtube too.
Or if you can do some high quality videos similar to what I do, I would post one on my channel for you as a fellow full roller.
Excellent, do it! I am behind you brother full roller.
The game has to evolve to remain relevant. I don't believe two-handed bowling will become the norm, because it's not sustainable long-term. I also don't have a problem with the ball manufacturers becoming creative with the cover stocks and core, because the level of competition will always need to be sustained despite the "advances". For example, when reactive resin and specialty cores became the norm, the response was sport bowling and variance in the oil patterns. With the increased "acceptance" of the two-handed bowling style, the response was the phasing out of balance holes and the reduced difference in top/side weight to one ounce, instead of three. Change is not the enemy...complacency and stagnancy are.
I've been bowling for 37 years. I've bowled with plastic, rubber, reactive resin, symmetrical, asymmetrical, inserts, no inserts in a lot of different houses under many different conditions. I view the "high-rev excitement" as marketing material--foster interest through curiosity. Eventually, Belmo and bowlers like him are going to have to adopt (or reacquire) a more traditional bowling style due to the massive stress on his back and knees if he chooses to remain competitive. Bowling was, is, and always will be a game of skill, even if the equipment manufacturers and bowling proprietors need to "sexy" up the game in order to appeal to a crowd who still view bowling incorrectly as "not a real sport". This sport is one of the few that is approachable to people of all ages, both from a recreational and competitive arena.
Earl was the bowler I most wanted to emulate in my younger days. I eventually evolved into my own style and approach, but whenever I get a compliment from someone describing my bowling as "smooth", I think to myself, "Thank you, Earl". The only place you really see two-handed bowlers are in the youth leagues and on TV. I've got one right-handed senior in one of my leagues who will bowl two-handed, but he always goes back to the traditional when he's got a 10-pin or a difficult leave. As the adage goes, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." It's always been about the scoring, and that will never change. People can bowl one-handed, two-handed, plastic, reactive, symmetric, asymmetric, house oil, sport, challenge...I don't care what other people do or how they choose to do it. As long as I can bowl, I'm going to continue to do what works for me.
@Husker Max My Personal opinion is that you should have two fingers and a thumb in the bowling ball. No offense to the two handers but it gives them an advantage due to the rev rate and their thumb never gets hung up. It gives them an advantage. I think they are some great bowlers but I think it should be a rule to have two fingers and a thumb in the ball.
One of the Best ever
Wow. A real technician.
Earl was ahead of his time and this video is proof
No question about that. The depth of detail was incredible.
Is incredible.
The GOAT
met him once, classy gentleman.
My all time favourite!
those bowling basics are usefull todays bowli g
I met him in 1984 at a pro am very nice man
I think it is good that the video ended with him not bowling a strike to show us that even the professionals are not perfect 100% of the time as to not discourage people from trying.
LEGEND……
very good
Is that an Ebonite Gyro Resin he's using? Looks like it, and if so, it's just like the one I have.
I found an identical one at Goodwill the other day. Can't wait to try it out!
Muscle memory. Just as long as it's not an ingrained bad habit.
Days when players made their equipments work for them.
Now's the opposite
first strike was a cranker
rip Earl Anthony
Muscle memory is a great thing like Earl said. I started bowling at around 9 years old on an instructional league at Blue Crystal lanes on Bank st about a half mile from my house that was on poplar Pl off Stockbridge rd in Kalamazoo MI. Stockbridge rd crossed Bank St where Blue Crystal lanes bowling ally was. I was born on 6-19-1958 so when I was 9 yrs old it was 1967 in the summer on a summer league. I have always been in top physical condition even today 9-29-21. I enjoy bowling 30 games within 3 hours for the workout & to keep in shape. I'm like Earl said muscle memory. my high game is a 299. I KNOW I need to practice a lot more to get 300 games more often I hope oh wait at lest once any how heheheHA! I have bowled 33 games within 3 hours of Glow Ball that my highest amount of games within 3 hours. I have bowled 150 straight non stop games. I know of a few good bowlers in Kalamazoo MI: Charly Tapp, wes Gibson/dr hook & the guy with the most 300's in Kalamazoo & the surrounding area Dean Cardella he bowled a 300 when his team bowled my team at Hapo's lanes its the first live 300 I ever saw bowled oh yeah Randy Rawlson & his son Adam. Adam & Dave Clinginpeel bowled on my summer league or I mean we bowled on Clinginpeels team hes a 230 or 240 avg bowler. any how I like to bowl at continental lanes in the summer because all open bowling is FREE so in the summer I bowl 30 games daily I am 63 years old & enjoy it. I was sorry to hear Dr Hook died of lug cancer about 3 years ago, DAM! he use to drill my bowling balls I had 63 balls at that time then I sold them all & this year 2021 I did really good in the stock market & bought 30 new bowling balls heheheha! & got back into bowling again after a long streak of not bowling from 2007 to April of this year 2021. I am so glad Im still in top physicals condition even today 9-29-21 YEAH! I've had the front 8 so far, the back 7, back 5 a couple times with a high game of 249 on leauge & a high game of 256 on open. I probably bowled a thousand games this summer. when you bowl 30 games like that its your legs that you feel the most. I never feel it in my arms or hands, its your legs & I went 20 miles EVERY day on my peddle bike since 2014 because that's all I had & I slept outside every single day in a sleeping bag before I bought my truck on March 6th this year 2021. I slept outside & had to get up at 2am 7 days a week to go 2 miles to FedEx until I retired on 10-17-20. I'm am retired now & for the rest of my life. if you need a bowler: right now I'm about a 160 avg bowler. I bowled 570 this TU so it will go up a little. before I stopped bowling in 2007 I was a 180 to 190 bowler. if you need a bowler I can bowl any day or time I'm retired just let me know when & were. I live in my truck it wired with everything I need to live. its a 2002, Ford with a V10, black 4 wheel drive with 8' bed that has a box on the back with a door in the back. I'm 150lbs & 5'3.75 tall so I made the box on the 8' bed of my truck 5'5" tall so I can stand up & walk around without touching the ceiling . its nice with a 35 gallon gas tank. let me know when & were I'll come bowl. I made some nice money in the stock market the most I ever made in one year of working EVER by the end of April this year 2021 YEAH! let me know when & were to bowl on a team FULL time only I don't do subbing! I ONLY do every week league bowling. I will be there EVERY week with the cash! I DO NOT MISS days or nights. just respond to this comment thanks oh another guy I know because he use to bowl right next to me during the summer this year is Tom Youngblood in Kalamazoo MI. I think he said hes like 56 years old & wants to bowl on the senior tour. I'm a vary YOUNG 63 & in shape! my Name is Dann Watts I graduated a couple years ago in 1977 from Loy Norrix on Kilgore rd that was the HAPPEST day of my life getting out of school but then since I got paid to go I went to KVCC for 2.5 more years. school aint that bad when your paid to go.
The GOAT