Walter Ray Williams: WHAT A PERFORMANCE:

billhill999 · Feb 14, 2010

I used to bowl comeptitivly back in the day, so I pay attention the PBA.

Walter Ray Williams just won his eigth major tournament, The Masters, 290-217, over world class bowler Chris Barnes.

Walter Ray opened up the first frame with a nine/spare, then threw the next eleven bombs for strikes.
He finished by throwing 18 out of his last 19 frames for strikes.
Anybody who knows bowling knows, the Majors, US Open, Masters, etc. etc. the powers that be oil down the lanes, making conditions extremely difficult.
The man was possesed out there.

Check out these stats from Walter Ray Williams (also a world champion horseshoe pitcher)

Record highest season spare percentage (88.16%, 655/743; 2004–05) and single-pin conversion percentage (100%, 475/475; 2005–06)
Second-best strike (68.21) percentage and match play average (235.23).
Record number of career television appearances (172 through the 2008–09 season), most television appearances in a season (15 in 1993), most consecutive television appearances 5 (2x; 2000, 2001)
Most final match appearances (89, through the 2008-09 season)
Tied for most major titles in a season (two in 2002–03)
Most games bowled in one season (1300 in 1993)
Highest pinfall in a nine game series (2,367; Tucson, AZ, 2004)
Most 300 games in one tournament (4; Mechanicsburg, PA, 1993)
Seven-time winner of the George Young High Average Award and Harry Smith Points Leader Award (most all-time for each award)
First and, so far, only PBA player to convert the 4-6-7-10 split on television

bellyputter · Feb 14, 2010

He won the first "Hammer Open" in Edmond, Oklahoma(1986). I took him over four lefties in the final(inside information). He is probably the greatest horeshoe pitcher ever! By the way, it's amazing what TV lights can do to oil.

GoSooners · Feb 14, 2010

bellyputter said:
He won the first "Hammer Open" in Edmond, Oklahoma(1986).

I was there!

billhill999 · Feb 14, 2010

The guy can throw strikes on the lane in a coma, and throw horseshoe ringers in his sleep.

bellyputter · Feb 14, 2010

GoSooners said:
I was there!

Richard Altman(owner-Boulevard Bowl) was a good buddy of mine.

billhill999 · Feb 14, 2010

I used to bowl with Johnny Petraglia out of Carolier Lanes in NNew Brunswick NJ and Parker Bohn III out of Highway Bowl in Union NJ.

I heard of Altman, got bucks coming out of his butt.

bellyputter · Feb 14, 2010

billhill999 said:
I heard of Altman, got bucks coming out of his butt.

Not anymore! He used to sponsor 10+ bowlers. I actually took a piece of Norm Duke when he was a kid.

billhill999 · Feb 14, 2010

Duke's a class act.

8ate · Feb 14, 2010

My greatest memories of time with my grandmother was watching the pro bowlers in 1960's with Chis Schenchel giving the calls; she thoroughly enjoyed those matches.
:howdy:

billhill999 · Feb 14, 2010

8ate said:
with Chis Schenchel giving the calls:howdy:

One of the greatest there ever was, never thought he was bigger than the event, classiest of class acts.

(His partner Nelson Burton Jr. was great also)

WorldNumberOne · Feb 14, 2010

this guy probably has the greatest hand eye coordination in the history of people...

billhill999 · Feb 14, 2010

Who, Walter Ray?
Incredible.

He doesn't get nearly the rotes (rotation) on the ball as the rest of the pros do, but he's unvelievably dead accurate in the pocket, the greatest there ever was or ever will be.

They don't call him 'dead eye' for nothing.

EasyMoney · Feb 14, 2010

I'm a petty decent bowler. 214 average with a couple of 300 games, but the oil patterns those guys bowl on is retarded compaired to your local leagues. I probably wouldn't average 180 on the conditions they bowl on for TV finals.

billhill999 · Feb 14, 2010

EasyMoney said:
I'm a petty decent bowler. 214 average with a couple of 300 games, but the oil patterns those guys bowl on is retarded compaired to your local leagues. I probably wouldn't average 180 on the conditions they bowl on for TV finals.

I was about the same, never shot a 300, my highest game was 286, but my *best* game was 279, I started out strike, strike, solid ten pin, covered, then threw 9 consecutive strikes for that 279, but every shot was buried.
That 286 I shot was just stupid luck, lanes were like juiced to the max, with what they call a reverse block oil pattern, nobody could get to the pocket, but I digress, 3 strikes were though the nose, 3 strikes were crossovers. I was all over the map.

EasyMoney · Feb 14, 2010

billhill999 said:
I was about the same, never shot a 300, my highest game was 286, but my *best* game was 279, I started out strike, strike, solid ten pin, covered, then threw 9 consecutive strikes for that 279, but every shot was buried.
That 286 I shot was just stupid luck, lanes were like juiced to the max, with what they call a reverse block oil pattern, nobody could get to the pocket, but I digress, 3 strikes were though the nose, 3 strikes were crossovers. I was all over the map.

300's are honestly somewhat lucky anyways. I've had alot of games that I threw the ball far better than my 300's but always left a 7 (I'm left handed) or something. I had a 279 two thursdays ago where I left a 8 pin in the 6th frame. Even if you throw 12 balls in the pocket the chances of getting a strike all 12 times is kind of lucky. What I really want to have is a 800 series. I had a 796 last year and that shit pissed me off. I knew I needed the first two strikes in the 10th frame of the last game and after throwing the 1st one I left a 7 pin on the 2nd one.

D2bets · Feb 14, 2010

EasyMoney said:
300's are honestly somewhat lucky anyways. I've had alot of games that I threw the ball far better than my 300's but always left a 7 (I'm left handed) or something. I had a 279 two thursdays ago where I left a 8 pin in the 6th frame. Even if you throw 12 balls in the pocket the chances of getting a strike all 12 times is kind of lucky. What I really want to have is a 800 series. I had a 796 last year and that shit pissed me off. I knew I needed the first two strikes in the 10th frame of the last game and after throwing the 1st one I left a 7 pin on the 2nd one.

800 series? That's pretty sick. Way harder than a single 300.

festeringZit · Feb 14, 2010

My first cousin was top 10 on the PBA tour one year in the 1970's
and bowled against Roth, Anthony... He won two PBA titles
and then hurt his back, and faded.

That was back when there was no money in bowling.

I carried a 197 average at my peak, and grew bored with the game
in my 20's, and maybe have bowled once a year at an average since then.

EasyMoney · Feb 14, 2010

D2bets said:
800 series? That's pretty sick. Way harder than a single 300.

Oh no doubt. I mean you have to average 267 for 3 games. I've seen people with an average in the 170's throw a 300 game but if you get an 800 series your a damm good bowler imo. its basically 31 or 32 strikes or more out of 36 balls. And I know the way I bowl that 796 was likely my best shot at it. I have a tendancy to throw a ton of strikes but I'll miss some easy spares, and you simply can't miss many spares and get an 800.

I bowl in a league with a guy that had a 300,279,279 for a 858 series last year. That was the sickest thing I've ever seen.

billhill999 · Feb 15, 2010

I gave up bowling a few years back.
I averaged 200 plus when 200 plus meant something, my father bowled in the late 50's and averaged 180 plus on conditions that todays snot nosed kids couldn't break 160, but I digress, I quit because the majority on lane owners know that scoring brings in business, so they groove the lanes where anybody who misses their target to the right (for righties) will hook back into the pocket, and any half ass decent righty that misses left will catch oil and not crossover.
I read a story about a Texas bowler who shot his 23rd 300 game, the ABC sent him his 23rd '300' pin, he put it in an envelope and sent it back, then quit the game.

Game today is too easy, geared for the average bowler to score big numbers, with grooved oil patterns that virtually guarantee any schmuck to get to the pocket, and with polyurethane balls that hit the pins like freight trains, before I was born my father was averaging 180's on deplorable condition with a bowling ball made of nothing but rubber.

Like my buddy said in a previous post in this thread, put these so called hotshots on the lane conditions of yestedays Masters, they don't shoot 165.

What Walter Ray Williams did yesterday in the championship final match of the Masters was a peformance for the ages, on impossible conditions to begin with, componded by 2 hours of impossible oil being broken down by hot TV lights, to throw 12 balls buried in the pocket for a 290 game, is, well, beyond incredible.

8ate · Feb 15, 2010

You guys should try a real sport: Duckpin bowling;can't even get 10 down with 3 balls..

lol

gl

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