PBA Televised 300 Game #2: Johnny Guenther

[@jesse75]

Thanks for posting. Brings back good and bad memories. One of my uncles worked as a pinsetter Mechanic for John at G and T lanes. He always snuck me in the back door of the bowling alley where the machines were. So if I had been walking around in the front, and I saw John, I always hid from him. I was just a teenager. My uncle later worked at Robinhood Lanes too. By then I was grown up. But still afraid of John.

[@FranBushardt]

I’m watching this in 2024 and would love to see today’s Bowlers back with These Same Rubber balls and Wooden Lanes!

[@robertfisher6711]

Come by Florence Bowling center in Florence Kentucky and we can make that happen! Love the old wood lanes

[@jamesddubz]

You see the sportsmanship..Everyone is hugging everyone because they are really happy for him..Vintage era's are the best!!!

[@chriswells506]

"When you get that 11th strike the crowd really gets excited because they know that one more means a perfect game." Brilliant analysis.

[@stampdealer]

10 G's in 1969 was no joke.

[@emmbee1906]

And a car as well.

[@stampdealer]

@@emmbee1906 Right! My dad was in his 2nd or 3rd year as a public school teacher in 1969, and I bet it took him two years to earn $10K.

[@derek2007]

like $80,000 roughly

[@jamesddubz]

And in 2022 a 300 gets you 10 G"s..Now thats a joke lol

[@RaymondBCrisp]

@@jamesddubz I know! In the 80s it actually went up to 100k. Why they lowered it I have no idea. It's not like it happens all the time, even now with the better equipment. To date there have only been 34 televised 300s.

[@alansabin7487]

I remember watching this on tv live in Ashland, Or. cool,

[@NEPatriot]

With Keith Jackson on the call...WHOA NELLIE!

[@LaptopLarry330]

Keith Jackson is doing the play-by-play on the program, because Chris Schenkel was off this week, perhaps working on another sports assignment. And to see him get the opportunity to do work on a perfect 300 game, is simply a magical moment for me. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

[@robertblaney5033]

Back in the day when you couldn’t buy “ hook in a box”

[@robertblaney5033]

I saw this live on tv back in the day

[@wecontrolthevideo]

$10,000 then is the same as nearly $100,000 today! Several of Guenther’s strikes, were light hits, that Billy Welu used to say “hit ‘em thin and watch them spin!”

[@johnniec2861]

Hit em light , Hit em Right :) , but when it came to finishing it,, he Hit the 8th thru 12th shots FLUSH !!!!

[@AcessDBpro]

Sam Cooley just did #31 and got 10 grand, no car either.

[@FranBushardt]

Hit-um Lite, Watch the Flight!!

[@KCComstock]

Remember watching this live…..

[@_1ben]

great delivery, form and release, picture perfect

[@VinylToVideo]

Shameful any house ever removed their Brunswick Gold Crown masking units and ball returns. The Brunswick Gold Crown series hardware is classic for all times now.

[@andrewphillips2179]

this is a memorable 300 game from johnny guenther

[@8230PinChaser]

"There's nothing left to say, let's just watch it." Great line.

[@anandguruji83]

R.I.P JOHNNY GUENTHER DON JOHNSON KEITH JACKSON AND BILLY WEIU

[@anandguruji83]

R.I.P JOHNNY GUENTHER DON JOHNSON KEITH JACKSON AND BILLY WEIU

[@georgeferguson3205]

1:56 looked like one of today's hits

[@AcessDBpro]

This has got to be the greatest no-hook, slow-rolled 300 ever bowled. The ball didn't travel over two boards from delivery to pocket hit for most of his strikes.

[@williamdunphy352]

Commentators: Keith Jackson & Billy Welu.

[@craigmetcalfe1749]

I have started from Game #1 and wonder where they all are now!

[@bigknocker2264]

I love that little ten pin tap that you see on JG's second frame.

[@howiecovert122]

I remember this game when I was a kid, my mom and I both watched.

[@evanmuller6847]

Incredible

[@oginaz]

The game looked so easy back in the day when the ball only hooked a few boards!

[@good03boy]

And the next year, Don Johnson nearly had a 300 game on T.V. too. But, Don left the dreaded 10 pin on his final ball. Cheated!

[@spencercox2684]

I saw that one!!!

[@alltehstuffs]

A moment of silence for Robin Hood Lanes, Edmonds Washington. Those who know, know.

[@chrismontreuil2206]

I know. My uncle worked their as a pinseter mechanic.

[@lanceallington9175]

Wasn’t Guenther the owner of RH lanes and sold it to a developer?

[@alltehstuffs]

@@lanceallington9175 He was. I still have never, will never spend a single penny in that Walgreens and Starbucks that now sit in its place. I know it isn’t their fault, they’re just corpos trying to corpo, but I live down the street and principle isn’t dead with me.

[@TheTor]

Why would two people thumb this down? Their mouse must have slipped to the right as they were trying to thumb it up!

[@kjm7plays941]

Spongebob narrator: “Two years later” (4 thumbs down)

[@spitwicked6188]

Thumbs down are from the people who use the bumpers in the gutters.

[@AdubsMMA]

Spoiler alert... There's a perfect game in this matchup. 🤫 I won't tell you who it was tho.

[@tflo75]

After his first strike he probably thought anything was possible.

[@lostasadorespr]

That ball had more rubber than a Jumbo box of condoms.

[@JoeBobTarheel]

$10k in 1969 is like $83k in 2022

[@richardwalker9826]

you have to get lucky before you get good - and john got both

[@anandguruji83]

JOHNNY GUENTHER'S 300 GAME 11:02 11:45 12:32

[@anandguruji83]

JOHNNY GUENTHER'S 300 GAME 11:02 11:45 12:32

[@Mitjitsu]

Rubber balls, wooden lanes, inconsistent oil patterns and less hook.

[@trainroomgary]

🎳 Wow 🎳

[@gashousegorillas1]

When 300 was hard to achieve!!