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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@brettunderwood72913 жыл бұрын
Those ball returns are cool
@mazerguru38913 жыл бұрын
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.
@lsmftymf6 жыл бұрын
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.
@MrHmg555 жыл бұрын
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.
@rockaway2k5 жыл бұрын
lsmftymf That is great trivia. Drees also called Super Bowls 1 & 2 on CBS radio.
@mjhammer114 жыл бұрын
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.
@pauldhartley5 жыл бұрын
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.
@casualobserver23053 жыл бұрын
Dick Weber was a classy guy. We lived in the same neighborhood as the Weber’s. They owned the local bowling alley.
@Jiltedin20073 жыл бұрын
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.
@robertbeacham43144 жыл бұрын
First time I seen automatic scoring on this show. Used to seeing someone handwriting the score very meticulously.
@rockaway2k11 ай бұрын
Bill Bunetta used to have that great penmanship you saw. Very precise writing.
@oregonpatriot1570 Жыл бұрын
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.
@MrChristopherHaas6 ай бұрын
they were amazing. Cigarettes and beer. Yep, that was bowling😉
@gregtowle88306 ай бұрын
same here , What month were you born ? I was in 8./16. /57
@oregonpatriot15706 ай бұрын
1/2/57
@GK-ev5rd3 жыл бұрын
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!
@paulhinson80305 жыл бұрын
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.
@NowhereFast124 жыл бұрын
The scoreboard is so cool!
@Brickbuilder1284 жыл бұрын
NowhereFast12 I agree. Stuff was better and cooler when it was all mechanical, and no software involved.
@mikewhite7354 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of how they presented vote totals on election night.
@oldiesgeek4543 жыл бұрын
When I clicked on, I thought it was going to be an ABC Saturday afternoon broadcast.
@user-cq1ty1xe8u3 жыл бұрын
昨晩はすすいじゃなく、
@user-cq1ty1xe8u3 жыл бұрын
ささす
@pebmets2 жыл бұрын
Interesting Ball Return. I have never seen one like that.
@ringing75 жыл бұрын
Such great memories ... Thx SO much for adding the color footage of two of the classiest pros in the history of our sport 🎳
@MasterGunz844 жыл бұрын
Thanks 🙏🏼 for the upload... great match...
@AK-fe4sq4 жыл бұрын
Those old commercials were awesome.
@JMRSplatt4 жыл бұрын
Wow.. that Beech-nut commercial.. crazy wild.
@Brickbuilder1284 жыл бұрын
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.
@20alphabet Жыл бұрын
A class act you're not.
@robertbeacham4314 Жыл бұрын
A mouth you have! Real class! NOT!
@rockaway2k11 ай бұрын
Mine too. You are not alone!
@multicaruana6 жыл бұрын
Thank you! A classic from my childhood!
@kevinjohnson45992 жыл бұрын
Same here pal because this is when bowling was bowling.
@kenr9545 Жыл бұрын
Great post! The commercials were a treat as well. I just now found this, so accept my considerably delayed thanks. 👍
@nordattack5 жыл бұрын
Wow, makes me want to run out and get some Newport Menthols and I don't even smoke!
@armorybrunotjr.32044 жыл бұрын
The announcer in the Newport spot is Claude Kirchner.
@bobg46573 жыл бұрын
@@armorybrunotjr.3204 The starting guitar riff in the Ballantine commercial sounds like Suite Judy Blues Eyes.
@yankeedoodle19635 ай бұрын
@@bobg4657I noticed that too. CSN probably ripped it off, it’s catchy
@bobg46575 ай бұрын
Stills,You Bastard! LOL@@yankeedoodle1963
@altfactor2 жыл бұрын
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.
@Jay-rf5rh Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for posting this. I can remember watching this as a 5 year old on WGAL channel 8 in Lancaster, PA.
@murraymall51168 ай бұрын
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.
@FrankLPizza7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting Tim
@MrDorbel4 жыл бұрын
Great stuff, thanks for posting
@gordonbeattie4864 Жыл бұрын
48:33 LOVE IT!!! I could watch that scoreboard all day and night! Probably LONG since demolished. 😪
@MrChristopherHaas5 ай бұрын
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
@russellgilbert34534 жыл бұрын
That 8 was brutal!
@daveluttinen25476 жыл бұрын
RIP Johnny.
@zappatx2 жыл бұрын
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.
@20alphabet Жыл бұрын
Those trap door ball returns always seemed distractingly noisy and abrupt.
@garlinmiller58086 жыл бұрын
yes thanks for shareing Tim Romano.
@curtoliver85846 жыл бұрын
Now that is a weird ball return!
@riversarcadereview3852 жыл бұрын
love that trap door on the ball rack
@onemoremisfit6 ай бұрын
That Jack Drees was a giant. The 2 bowlers look like they're standing in a ditch next to him.
@williamdunphy3523 жыл бұрын
That 3rd game was remarkable.
@yankeedoodle19635 ай бұрын
The Ballantine beer ad was exquisite
@rockaway2k6 жыл бұрын
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!!
@rockaway2k6 жыл бұрын
BTW, the Fred Wolf b/w broadcasts are great, too.
@rockaway2k5 жыл бұрын
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.
@johncritch6812 Жыл бұрын
Luv the commercials
@blockcl7 жыл бұрын
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.
@vitaphonedisc7 жыл бұрын
I agree. I've never seen ball returns like that. I wonder if those were prototypes
@tw55696 жыл бұрын
Me either. Very different.
@rivierarick6 жыл бұрын
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.
@jim82306 жыл бұрын
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).
@mrb436056 жыл бұрын
AMF Streamlane 21 ! I think! Nice !
@russellgilbert34534 жыл бұрын
Mr. Guenther's swing looks modern day, but the chicken wing finish position may have did him in.
@tonyvincent97533 ай бұрын
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.
@mrb436053 жыл бұрын
Greatest ball returns ever!
@paulb2488 Жыл бұрын
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.
@akirasolo575 ай бұрын
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
@Rickshaw8815 ай бұрын
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.
@ryankane7177 Жыл бұрын
Man, now I want to go bowling
@garlinmiller58086 жыл бұрын
great bowilng from 1967
@drummachine4345 жыл бұрын
What kind of ball return is that? Never seen that before. 8:52
@nicholasschroeder36782 жыл бұрын
That Newport commercial....wow
@miiigoreng8 ай бұрын
old school bowling is beautiful.. All they have is 1 ball each
Ай бұрын
Man, I feel like a cigarette, but all I have is a joint. Dam!
@waltergoraj52384 ай бұрын
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.
@mr.aerial18855 ай бұрын
"Probably the all time leader with 15 300 games". Today they throw 15 300 games in just one league night!!!
@charlesmeadows62856 жыл бұрын
I don’t know why the video froze.
@8avexp5 жыл бұрын
I remember when cigarette commercials still aired.
@nicholasschroeder36782 жыл бұрын
"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should'🎶🎶🎶
@20alphabet Жыл бұрын
@@nicholasschroeder3678 Lol, "I'd rather fight than switch"
@mathematrucker8 ай бұрын
"I'd walk a mile..."
@8avexp8 ай бұрын
@@mathematrucker "You can take Salem out of the country, BUT - you can't take the country out of Salem."
@MrChristopherHaas6 ай бұрын
the ads on here, oh my.
@irishpogi7 жыл бұрын
wow! I thought this televised series was discontinued after 1966!
@vitaphonedisc6 жыл бұрын
irishpogi I thought so too until I found a bunch of these. It must have been very limited release.
@christopherdunne78486 жыл бұрын
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.
@armorybrunotjr.32044 жыл бұрын
"Championship Bowling" (aka "All-Star Bowling") aired In syndication from 1953-1970 and was mostly a Saturday afternoon staple.
@oldiesgeek4544 жыл бұрын
@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.
@rockaway2k Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@GUNUFofficial Жыл бұрын
Wow.
@TonysMusic19744 жыл бұрын
The best part is the commercials!
@tirmyta6 жыл бұрын
Could the bowlers hear the announcers?
@20alphabet Жыл бұрын
Yes
@andynorvell49534 ай бұрын
Kool ball return..
@ajankowski25 жыл бұрын
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 .......
@mukskinkinakter60572 жыл бұрын
Where can I get a shirt like that? Classic.
@20alphabet Жыл бұрын
I like it too.
@lawdog43494 Жыл бұрын
Weber always had an awkward follow through.
@Jiltedin20073 жыл бұрын
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.
@markrichmond2168 Жыл бұрын
A little different demeanor to say the least.
@20alphabet Жыл бұрын
Not even close, much less a "chip off the old block".
@robertbeacham4314 Жыл бұрын
Pete couldn’t carry his Father’s bowling ball! Pete was and still is a jerk
@williamdunphy3523 жыл бұрын
Commentators: Jack Drees & Bill Bunetta
@2pugman Жыл бұрын
Trap door ball returns !
@oregonpatriot1570 Жыл бұрын
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.)
@andyr13134 жыл бұрын
Is it me, or does the guy in the Kent commercial at 36:40 look like Vince McMahon?
@christopherangel66907 жыл бұрын
I bowled against Dick Weber in a pro am. Had him on the ropes but he beat me by 12 pins
@christophermelendez44827 жыл бұрын
Christopher Angel ok sure
@nicholasschroeder36782 жыл бұрын
Bowling is maybe the only game where an amateur can occasionally beat a pro. Good on you keeping up with him.
@markrichmond2168 Жыл бұрын
It's my better half and I out to the slopes with our pack of smokes!!!
@jimhresko91023 жыл бұрын
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.
@20alphabet Жыл бұрын
Subscribed the other day and find KZbin UNSUBSCRIBED me.
@Rynryn994 жыл бұрын
Pete Weber talks just like his father.
@20alphabet Жыл бұрын
Lol, hardly.
@papabeaunernow5 жыл бұрын
No comments on the cigarette ads . Lol
@fromthesidelines4 жыл бұрын
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.
@joeambrose32603 жыл бұрын
57:44 Isn't anyone outraged that Weber called Guenther "boy" ?
@nicholasschroeder36782 жыл бұрын
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.
@20alphabet Жыл бұрын
People in the USA were vastly more mature and cordial prior to the foreign invasion.
@mathematrucker8 ай бұрын
"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.
@davidschuld79395 жыл бұрын
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