Championship Bowling - Gunther vs Weber - 1967 Color
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- This is a rare COLOR print of an episode of Championship Bowling from 1967. Hosted by Jack Drees. Sorry for the poor color but this print was completely faded to red. But I was able to bring some of the colors back.
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Normally I would be 'ticked' that commercials were included, but seeing these old commercials reminds me of my childhood. I was ten in 1967. Thanks for this upload Tim.
they were amazing. Cigarettes and beer. Yep, that was bowling😉
same here , What month were you born ? I was in 8./16. /57
1/2/57
I was born in the spring of 1967, and this is so amazing to see!!!@
Takes me back to my childhood days. Thank you so much for uploading this on You Tube. If you only knew for how long I have been looking for at least one of these episodes. I remember watching these episodes plenty as a Little Boy In 1970.
You did a fantastic job of restoration Tim. Excellent work, and it was a viewing pleasure. I was 10 years old when this happened. Great memories.
The opening theme has been stuck in my mind for many years and I didn't know where it came from...that is, until I watched this. At the time, Jack Drees was the TV play-by-play voice of St. Louis football Cardinals matches on CBS and was one year away from a similar capacity with the Chicago White Sox which moved its telecasts to WFLD starting in 1968.
Same thing with the theme, except I always knew where it came from and it's great to hear it again. This show used to air on Sundays in Boston and was the only sports program of any kind on in its time slot, so of course I watched every week.
lsmftymf That is great trivia. Drees also called Super Bowls 1 & 2 on CBS radio.
Jack also did the radio calls of the thoroughbred Triple Crown races
Wonderful. The coverage of every ball, no 'while you were away' and stopping the game to wait for advertising mid-game. Better production than subsequent TV coverage in my opinion. Great bowling too.
I bowled 1 year of league with johnny when i was 18yo back in 1984, he was old but still very good bowler. He almost NEVER had an open frame, all season long. Amazing to watch and learn from.
Wow, makes me want to run out and get some Newport Menthols and I don't even smoke!
The announcer in the Newport spot is Claude Kirchner.
@@armorybrunotjr.3204 The starting guitar riff in the Ballantine commercial sounds like Suite Judy Blues Eyes.
@@bobg4657I noticed that too. CSN probably ripped it off, it’s catchy
Stills,You Bastard! LOL@@yankeedoodle1963
Those ball returns are cool
First time I seen automatic scoring on this show. Used to seeing someone handwriting the score very meticulously.
Bill Bunetta used to have that great penmanship you saw. Very precise writing.
I was not even alive during these times, but i have to say I love these times. All of the commercials, TV broadcasts, the music, and all of the old culture. My whole man cave is all 1960's-1970's.
A class act you're not.
A mouth you have! Real class! NOT!
Mine too. You are not alone!
Such great memories ... Thx SO much for adding the color footage of two of the classiest pros in the history of our sport 🎳
Great job! 1967 is when I first became aware of bowling. I strolled into a local bowling alley at age 7 one day and marveled at how bowlers made their shots with ball rotation and movement from right to left or left to right.
Dick Weber was a classy guy. We lived in the same neighborhood as the Weber’s. They owned the local bowling alley.
Thank you! A classic from my childhood!
Same here pal because this is when bowling was bowling.
That Jack Drees was a giant. The 2 bowlers look like they're standing in a ditch next to him.
The Ballantine beer ad was exquisite
Love the AMF ball return. Like all AMF gear motors are triggered by micro-switches. It's a seleniod to open that trap door. The pinsetteres work in a similar fashion where several motors are triggered by switched - where as Brunswick uses cams off of a big transmission that actuates all the functions. One motor operated a number of belts and that transmission.
Those trap door ball returns always seemed distractingly noisy and abrupt.
Jack Drees did a very nice job, a true broadcasting pro. For many years Fred Wolf was the commentator. He was a Detroit broadcaster who for years had a popular DJ morning show at WXYZ Radio. HE would get a leave from the radio station when he had to go and tape the shows...Wolf was the first ever broadcaster to have a "Mobile Studio" built so that he could be in a trailer and broadcast at sponsor who wanted him on their property for what is commonly known as a remote. He called it the "Wandering Wigloo" and it was built by Massey Ferguson. This was in the mid 50s and radio executives from across the nation would come to Detroit to see the studio on wheels and before you knew it, many more were built across the nation for radio stations large, medium and small!
The scoreboard is so cool!
NowhereFast12 I agree. Stuff was better and cooler when it was all mechanical, and no software involved.
Reminds me of how they presented vote totals on election night.
When I clicked on, I thought it was going to be an ABC Saturday afternoon broadcast.
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Interesting Ball Return. I have never seen one like that.
Man, this takes me back!! I remember watching these color editions on an indy channel in Los Angeles during the early 70's. Jack Drees was the announcer w/ Bill Bunetta. Saturday mornings at 7am. Then I would watch The Pro Bowlers Tour at 3:30 with Chris Schenkel. Great memories! If you have anymore episodes with Jack Drees, could you please upload them? Thanks again for this!!
BTW, the Fred Wolf b/w broadcasts are great, too.
Actually, they are, too. But I did not know of host Fred Wolf until the you tube uploads. I only saw the color editions with Jack Drees back in 1974. It featured bowlers such as Tommy Tuttle, Jim Stefanich, Dave Soutar, Weber, Salvino, Ritger, Guenther, etc. Great memories.
Great post! The commercials were a treat as well. I just now found this, so accept my considerably delayed thanks. 👍
Those old commercials were awesome.
Thanks 🙏🏼 for the upload... great match...
Wow.. that Beech-nut commercial.. crazy wild.
I believe "Championship Bowling" began in 1954, shot on black-and-white film, switched to color film in 1966, then went to color tape around 1968.
I believe the show ran through the early seventies.
Thanks so much for the post! Curious thing though...in 40-odd years of competitive bowling ( I've been through a lot of houses) I don't believe I've ever seen a ball return like that one.
I agree. I've never seen ball returns like that. I wonder if those were prototypes
Me either. Very different.
The AMF Trap Door. Introduced in 1967. Recalled and removed from the market in 1968. Poorly designed, notorious for upfront underground ball return calls. Replaced by the Streamlane 21 and the Sur-Pik.
And I thought only Chris Schenkel used analogies for the sport of bowling. This color guy mentioned Weber looking like (Arturo) Toscanini conducting. (He was the conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra for many years).
AMF Streamlane 21 ! I think! Nice !
Thanks so much for posting this. I can remember watching this as a 5 year old on WGAL channel 8 in Lancaster, PA.
I'm from Lancaster! My Dad, ohev shalom, & I watched on WGAL! Today is his birthday. He was 93, when he died. This was a wonderful way to relive memories.
Great stuff, thanks for posting
48:33 LOVE IT!!! I could watch that scoreboard all day and night! Probably LONG since demolished. 😪
Ooooooh for ONE MORE GAME. they left me wanting MORE. one of them, if not both, were about to bowl a 300. WHAT A MATCH
love that trap door on the ball rack
Great Video Quality
Thanks!
yes thanks for shareing Tim Romano.
Thanks for posting Tim
Man, I feel like a cigarette, but all I have is a joint. Dam!
That Newport commercial....wow
Now that is a weird ball return!
RIP Johnny.
That 8 was brutal!
I'm lucky to have grown up in the 60's. Everyone had so much class, they dressed and behaved with dignity. It was nothing like today, where spectator's ass cracks are showing and they start screaming before the bowler gets to the foul line.
Mr. Guenther's swing looks modern day, but the chicken wing finish position may have did him in.
Luv the commercials
That 3rd game was remarkable.
I worked at a bowling alley back in the late 70s i was cranking the ball without a thumb in the ball carrying a 190 avg
in the 70s I would finger palm an 8 pound house ball.
Wow, the game sure has changed. No real spin on those balls at all. And guys have an unusual delivery - five or six steps or more.
Greatest ball returns ever!
They used to have those ball returns at two centers in the Capital Region, Bowler's Club in Latham and Bowlero Lanes in Mechanicville, New York. Liked them alot.
great bowilng from 1967
old school bowling is beautiful.. All they have is 1 ball each
I remember when cigarette commercials still aired.
"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should'🎶🎶🎶
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Lol, "I'd rather fight than switch"
"I'd walk a mile..."
@@mathematrucker "You can take Salem out of the country, BUT - you can't take the country out of Salem."
Needless to say with those lane conditions they were hardly any 200 average bowlers back then. I'm kind of stuck in the early urethane era on wood lanes. Great pin action but you had to work for it still.
Man, now I want to go bowling
Wow.
What kind of ball return is that? Never seen that before. 8:52
"Probably the all time leader with 15 300 games". Today they throw 15 300 games in just one league night!!!
Yeah,not too much skill anymore.
the ads on here, oh my.
It's my better half and I out to the slopes with our pack of smokes!!!
wow! I thought this televised series was discontinued after 1966!
irishpogi I thought so too until I found a bunch of these. It must have been very limited release.
It continued in 1968, but only a half hour, and on videotape, with 2 teams of 2 in a best-ball format, of which Celebrity Bowling seemed to imitate 4 years later.
"Championship Bowling" (aka "All-Star Bowling") aired In syndication from 1953-1970 and was mostly a Saturday afternoon staple.
@Christopher I used to watch a local Los Angeles show called Bowling For Dollars in the early 70s. It was for amateurs, and was hosted by Lakers announcer Chick Hearn.
@@vitaphonediscKCOP channel 13, Los Angeles, used to show these episodes twice on Saturday afternoons in 1974. They were broadcast for about a year before disappearing. I HOPE those episodes can be found and uploaded one day soon.
The best part is the commercials!
Kool ball return..
Even though I saw very little of Dick Weber, I saw very much of his son Pete Weber who was very much “A Chip Off the Old Block” in the Game of Bowling.
A little different demeanor to say the least.
Not even close, much less a "chip off the old block".
Pete couldn’t carry his Father’s bowling ball! Pete was and still is a jerk
Could the bowlers hear the announcers?
Yes
Spoiler Alert: I posted too quickly! I hadn't watched the whole show. But, as it got into the third game, I remembered - I saw this episode when it first aired! As Guenther started striking, I was thinking to myself - is this the show he strings a bunch of strikes and gets stopped by a Stone 8-pin???? Sure enough .......
Where can I get a shirt like that? Classic.
I like it too.
Weber always had an awkward follow through.
Commentators:
Jack Drees & Bill Bunetta
Trap door ball returns !
Nothing says …healthy…active….lifestyle like a minty fresh Newport filtered cigarette!
the commercials and the funky automatic scoring machine - awesome.
48:57 Is that Pete Weber when he was a baby? Maybe his sister 'Paula' (because it looks like a fluffy girls dress top... but I can't find her birth date.)
I don’t know why the video froze.
I bowled against Dick Weber in a pro am. Had him on the ropes but he beat me by 12 pins
Christopher Angel ok sure
Bowling is maybe the only game where an amateur can occasionally beat a pro. Good on you keeping up with him.
Great match, and I have never seen that ball return before. not surprising to hear that it had mechanical problems. That said, Jack Drees makes an absolutely terrible bowling announcer. he has very little knowledge of the sport and it shows. Bill Bunetta had to bail him out constantly.
Is it me, or does the guy in the Kent commercial at 36:40 look like Vince McMahon?
Pete Weber talks just like his father.
Lol, hardly.
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No comments on the cigarette ads . Lol
When this series was originally syndicated, cigarette advertisers were among the majority of those who bought commercial time, followed by breweries and other "male-oriented" products.
57:44 Isn't anyone outraged that Weber called Guenther "boy" ?
I dont think there was any hostility behind it. I think it's a turn of phrase that's dropped out of the culture--"one of the boys", "going out with the boys". I can remember men referring to each as boys when they were among friends.
People in the USA were vastly more mature and cordial prior to the foreign invasion.
"boy" and "girl" were both commonly used to refer to adults during the 60s without any connotation. "girl" was low-hanging fruit for 70s feminists to pull down, and "boy" fell off with it.
I am the only person to dislike this only because my dad made a comment saying “Hey look this has 74 likes and 0 dislike” so I pulled up the video on my phone and disliked it just to spite him
You should try to love your father.