agree...

Him or Earl Anthony ?

If he was young today he would dominate.

He really was. Rest in peace

12th shot was a little high, but an awesome bowler that young kids everywhere aspired to.. RIP.

he also bowled a 299 in the buffalo open in 1987 with the same format winning the tournament

This aged well. It's now the Johnson county museum.

Mark Roth made it look easy with those old rubber balls.

Roth always used to kick that left-hand ball return on his release. You'd hear TWO bangs when he threw the ball.

Wesley Stafford it does look a lot earlier than 75’

I agree. It was higher on the head pin than the rest of the shots.

I agree, he came in high which usually leaves the solid 4 pin.

They had plastic balls back then, the Columbia 300 was popular. I remember a pro in 1975 who showed me his Columbia, it had a small shallow hole drilled near the fingers, this was to test for cover hardness both outside and in the hole. This was to catch the players who dipped their ball in solvent to soften the cover, which at the time was illegal.

II watched this in "75. It was not B & W

They had color TV 100% by 1975, this must a b+w copy of the tape.

great!~ i've been trying for 11 damn years! i got a 279

Yay! My high is a 259 with a rubber ball. Maybe someday. What ball did you use for the 300?

Whoop dee doo ! Just kidding, congrats

Who the phuck is that ?

Who? Wut tha pfuck?

Gee, why do you think?

A great bowler once told me: "The 10th strike is easy, the 11th is super hard and the 12th is pure luck."

RufusLeakin mental

Fleaflicker 34 Some American sources say that the color television sets could cost a major fortune.

We bought our first color set on March 4, 1970. I still remember that day.@@MrRemark21

You could watch it in color. But they didn't always record it in color.

Rosanne Casella it doesn't look like much by today's standards, but if you compare the backend reaction of Mark Roth' s bowling ball compared to the average PBA bowler back in the 70's, you definitely see a difference. It was rare for Mark to leave a flat 10.

Rosanne Casella urethane balls on wood lanes....that ball is hooking about as much as that ball can.

Joseph Gibbons I don’t think that was urethane in ‘75. Hard plastic most likely and very hard to hook on wood lanes of the old days

That was lacquer finishes on those lanes, my friends. Two-tone rubber balls were the standard. Polyester and plastic balls followed (remember the "soaker" controversy of the 1970s?), with Ebonite leading the charge into urethane by 1980. However, Ebonite did not project consumers paying almost $100 for a bowling ball. Ebonite manufactured AMF equipment at the time and subsequently sold the rights for urethane marketing. That led to AMF's revolutionary Angle series, which caused a seismic shift in the sport. The 1980s saw an explosion of high-performance equipment hit the market as Ebonite would eventually follow suit with its Firebolt family of products, Columbia 300 with its U-Dot series and Faball with the venerable Hammer line. My first urethane ball was a Gold Angle, then I graduated to the Purple, which became my favorite. The last ball I ever bought was a Blue Hammer. The Hammer was great, but boy, I miss my Purple Angle. To David Moore's point, Mark Roth was power personified; he was the original cranker. When Dick Weber said Roth was practically ripping the cover off the ball, that was not mere hyperbole. Nobody injected more raw horsepower consistently into every shot than Roth. Believe you me, if you've seen closeups of his right hand, you'd understand. Part of that was the fact that Roth had his fingerholes and thumbhole drilled a half-size smaller. He would quite literally screw his fingers and thumb into the ball. This gave him, as he put it, "a handful of ball," so the feel was consistent and he didn't squeeze it under pressure. Roth was also incredibly instinctive. He'd take five, six, sometimes seven steps to the foul line. He could make dizzying adjustments on the fly, sometimes in mid-match, and his ability to just flat-out overpower an uncooperative lane condition is the stuff of legend. Years of pot bowling, or "action" bowling, in alleys along the eastern seaboard was his proving ground for the pro tour, and the kid from Brooklyn made good. Sorry to drone on. I could take about PBA history all day.

@@rosewoodfretboard No need to apologize for a solid worthwhile comment.

Lead announcer is Bud Palmer--socialite, former New York Knick, Glamour magazine columnist, New York City government official and sportscaster. Color commentator is Hall of Fame bowler Billy Welu.

@@daveconleyportfolio5192 No, the color man is Dick Weber.

Dick Weber was helping fill in as analyst in 1975 after Billy Welu passed away following the 1974 season from a heart attack.

I was thinking the same thing. I've seen footage from the 60's that look way better than this.

Not the original feed

I remember watching this live and it was in color. I’m guessing this is an uplink or another type of feed. Possibly Armed Forces TV?

20alphabet what do you mean, things change later in existence. It's not 1975 anymore.

With your apparent disdain for cultural preservation, you'll undoubtedly enjoy your new bathroom privileges.

Back when bowling a 300 meant something. I've bowled twenty 300 games and I suck at bowling.

Got 5 year olds bowling 300's these days...smh

+Mike Harkins Undoubtedly.

Yes. I've seen 60's footage that looked better than this.

It's a kinescope