1980 Miller High Life Open
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$125,000 MILLER HIGH LIFE OPEN
Red Carpet Celebrity Lanes, Milwaukee, Wis., Apr 1-5, 1980
Good Guy Nails Miller Title
Smiling Alvin Lou, awarded the week before with the PBA Steve Nagy Sportsmanship award, showed that nice guys don't necessarily have mercy on the bowling lanes when he became the first bowler to win two tournaments on the 1980 tour in the $125,000 Miller High Life Open.
Lou stunned challenging Mark Roth, 259-203, in the championship game after starting the match with a spare and seven strikes in a row. Roth started the finals in fourth place and ousted Paul Moser, Tom Baker and Dave Frame in building momentum for what he hoped would amount to his first championship of the year after two previous title match losses.
Tour sophomore Lou, winner of the Rolaids Open earlier in 1980, pocketed $21,000 at Red Carpet CelebrityLanes in Milwaukee.
TELEVISED FINALS
Pos. Name, City/State Total Amount
1 Alvin Lou, EI Cajon. Calif. 259 (1 game) $21,000
2 Mark Roth, N. Arlington, N.J. 849 (4 games) 11,000
3 Dave Frame, Baldwin Park, Calif. 214 (1 game) 7,500
4 Tom Baker, Buffalo 192 (1 game) 6,000
5 Paul Moser, Somerset, Mass 192 (1 game) 5,000
PLAYOFF RESULTS - Roth defeated Moser, 196-192; Roth defeated Baker, 216-192; Roth defeated Frame, 234-214; and in the championship game, Lou defeated Roth, 259-203.
Пікірлер: 45
As I re-watch these tournaments from the 70s and early 80s I am struck by how well Nelson Burton, Jr. did the color commentary. He and Schenkel were truly the Madden-Summerall of bowling.
@retroeddie
8 жыл бұрын
+Mark Bowron Schenkel and Burton were an excellent team!
@Airsoftcleaner
8 жыл бұрын
+Mark Bowron They were also in the Movie Dreamer
@johnseal56
3 жыл бұрын
And for some reason only Schenkel was in Kingpin, with Burton replaced with a look-alike.
I can barely stand to watch any other bowler than Mark Roth! God bless him with his current health issues.
Alvin Lou....what a unique guy. He was the hot bowler there for an extremely short time, then disappeared. Seemed like a super nice guy.
When bowling wasn't ashamed of what it was. I hate what the product has become.
I'm a big fan of mark Roth
and that was the last time any professional bowler ever left the 1-2-4-7 on national television. :)
I miss that the Professional Bowlers Tour would be on every Saturday then following would be ABC Wild World of Sports
@beeemm2578
2 жыл бұрын
Just a ritual and institution in the late 70s-early 80s in my household
Alvin Lou was in the driver's seat to win the Miller High Life Open
@douglasharris5216
4 жыл бұрын
Andrew Phillips nice spoiler asshat
It is not easy to try to win 3 games against your fellow pros. Thanks for posting this. There was nothing like Chirs and Nelson with the bowling on Saturdays and then going right to WWOS with the legend Jim McKay.
Roth bowled out of at least four different locations in his career.
Sadly this house is long gone :(
never heard of Mr. Lou. Which is strange since hes bowling on my home lanes lol and he had already won a title
Nelson Burton Jr. is so knowledgeable and has great skills. Why didn't he win more tournaments than Anthony or Roth?
@KeithFroehlich07
2 жыл бұрын
Because of Anthony and Roth.
@1USACitizen192
2 жыл бұрын
He liked to rope the ball. He came from an era in which they didn't develop their hooking power.
@beeemm2578
Жыл бұрын
@@KeithFroehlich07 💯 absolutely.
This would be Lou’s last championship match ever. He only made two more telecasts in his career.
@beeemm2578
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, really? As a kid, it seemed that he was on quite a bit...thats crazy
Mark Roth !!!
I really want that sweep signage. How can I go about getting it
I just can’t watch any telecast that includes Tom Baker. That incessant finger tapping drives me insane!
the first match was exciting and very close
@douglasharris5216
4 жыл бұрын
Andrew Phillips Mark Roth and Earl Anthony have bowled some exciting matches George N. Pappas and Ernie Schlegel have bowled some awesome matches
First match...Roth vs Danny Partridge
Plastic balls on long oil...gotta love it
Did Alvin Lou ever make the top 24 again?
@sludge4125
4 жыл бұрын
He made two more telecasts in his career.
@Igloo3471
3 жыл бұрын
He did but was making way more money running a pro shop business and dropped off the Tour.
Make that 4 games.
Poor Moser...misses spare and loses match. Wifey not happy at all.
As a Junior and young adult, Alvin Lou always seemed to have a gorgeous girlfriend. As a grown man, things seem to have taken a very ugly turn.
@sludge4125
4 жыл бұрын
That was his mom, you idiot.
Are you nuts Mark Bowron. Burton was the worst. He said the most stupid stuff.His tips were ridiculous.
@1USACitizen192
6 жыл бұрын
You never had a bowling tips show.
@Roodog106
6 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a 144 avg wanna be
@paulberthold932
4 жыл бұрын
I loved the telecasts back then , but now looking back, Burton did talk WAY too much about insignificant stuff.
@davidrivera9743
Жыл бұрын
@@paulberthold932 The same way Phil Rizzuto would?
@beeemm2578
11 ай бұрын
@@paulberthold932 they have to talk to the lowest common denominator, as in, act like people know nothing about bowling. Thats how they're taught to broadcast
Paul Moser had no luck at all on alleys 63&64.