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MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote: > MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM. HE AND HIS WIFE ADOPTED A DAUGHTER,WHO WAS A PACKER SCHOOLMATE OF EVELINA SMYLEY. WHEN HIS WIFE DIED, HE MARRIED EVELINA WHO WAS 42 YEARS YOUNGER.HE WAS 62 YEARS OLD WHEN THEIR FIRST CHILD, JOHN JR. WAS BORN, EVELINA WAS 20 YEARS OLD.
> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote: > MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM. HE AND HIS WIFE ADOPTED A DAUGHTER,WHO WAS A PACKER SCHOOLMATE OF EVELINA SMYLEY. WHEN HIS WIFE DIED, HE MARRIED EVELINA WHO WAS 42 YEARS YOUNGER.HE WAS 62 YEARS OLD WHEN THEIR FIRST CHILD, JOHN JR. WAS BORN, EVELINA WAS 20 YEARS OLD.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
JOHN R SHUTTLEWORTH IS LIVING ON DEAN STREET IN BROOKLYN, NY WITH HIS WIFE EVELINA,THEIR SONS WILLIAM, WALTER AND CHARLES, AND THEIR DAUGHTER IDA. HIS OCCUPATION IS WHOLESALE PAPER DEALER.-----------USA CENSUS 1880
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On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
MY MOTHER LORETTA SHUTTLEWORTH CUSKER, HER FATHER CHARLES HOMER SHUTTLEWORTH, HIS FATHER JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH.
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
JIMMY CUSKER
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
FIRST NEW YORK OUTFIT TO ENTER ELIZABETH JOURNAL HANDICAP BOWLING TOURNAMENT, STARTING APRIL 18, AT ECHO LANES, IS CORA VERMOUTH TEAM OF DYKER LANES OF BROOKLYN.
LOU IACUCCI, JERRY ROSEN, WARREN WARFORD, CLYDE ROBERTSON, FRANK CARLEN, JIMMY CUSKER AND JOHN DAY. TEAM IS LEADING BROOKLYN PROPRIETORS' ASSN. SUNDAY TRAVEL LEAGUE, HAVING RECENTLY ROLLED RECORD 3,063 SERIES.
JIMMY CUSKER, GRANDSON OF CHARLES HOMER SHUTTLEWORTH.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
GOODMAN TOPS ED DI BENEDETTO BUICK CLASSIC
COLLEGE POINT, N Y
AFTER NINE WEEKS OF PLAY, THE ED DI BENEDETTO BUICK DOUBLES CLASSIC IS LIVING UP TO ITS PRE-SEASON FORECAST AS ONE OF THE TOP SCORING LEAGUES IN THE EAST.
BERT GOODMAN, BOWLING FOR LEON'S FURNITURE CO., HAD A THIRD GAME SCORE OF 178 WHICH HELPED BOOST HIS NIGHT'S TOTAL TO 878 FOR FOUR GAMES,
BOBBY MC MILLIN'S 804 SERIES FEATURED A NEAT 266 GAME WHILE DICK BATTISTA AND LEO OTTO ALSO BROKE 800 WITH TWO 816 SERIES.
THE LIST OF 200 PLUS AVERAGE BOWLERS DROPPED ONE THIS WEEK WITH JOHN SLOTA STILL LEADING THE PACK WITH A 207 AVERAGE. RICHIE HORNREICH HOLDS A 204 WHILE DICK BATTISTA WITH 201 IS THIRD HIGH.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
CYO BOWLING NEWS OCTOBER 1961
PAT FORTUNATO-PRESIDENT'S AWARD
HITS 622 AT HODGES LANES
WHILE THE CHAMPS AND THE ALL-STARS WERE BATTLING IT OUT ON SUNDAY, MAY 28TH AT GIL HODGES LANES IN BROOKLYN, 19 OF THE CYO'S TOP BOWLERS WERE HOLDING THEIR OWN PRIVATE BATTLE FOR THE "PRESIDENT'S AWARD", THE EVENT OPEN ONLY TO THE HIGHEST MEN OF EACH SECTION. THE BIG MAN OF THE DAY TURNED OUT TO BE PAT FORTUNATO OF THE NATIVITY "GREENS" IN THE CENTRAL QUEENS SECTION, WHO POSTED A RE-HOT SERIES OF 622.
PAT SAVED HIS BEST GAME (224) FOR LAST, TO PULL AWAY FROM JIMMY CUSKER OF BAY RIDGE AND DAN GENALO OF CENTRAL KINGS. AT THE END OF THE FIRST TWO GAMES, GENALO HAD 406, FORTUNATO 398, AND CUSKER 390. GENALO GOT OFF TO A GREAT START IN THE FINAL GAME, BUT RAN INTO TOUGH LUCK IN HIS FINAL THREE FRAMES, WHILE CUSKER AND FORTUNATO WERE FINISHING IN GREAT FORM.
THESE THREE TOP MEN REALLY OUTRAN THE REST OF THE PACK, NOT ONLY IN THE TOTALS, BUT, OF THE 13 "200" GAMES POSTED BY ALL THE MEN, THEY HAD FIVE OF THEM. ALSO GENALO'S 237, FORTUNATO'S 224 AND CUSKER'S 213 WERE THE THREE TOP GAMES.
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On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Superior Performance
Billy Golembiewski
City: Detroit
State: MI
Inducted: 1979
Sportswriters tagged Golembiewski with the name "Billy G" early in his career, and that was the way he was known to thousands who watched him perform. The 5-foot-8, 135-pounder was a great example of how little men can do big things in the bowling game. He won the USBC Masters title for the first time in 1960, then won it again in 1962. He also won three other USBC titles.
USBC Hall of Fame
MAPLE LANES, BROOKLYN, NY MAY 1961
JIMMY CUSKER 197 211 408
BILLY GOLEMBIEWSKI 206 208 414
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
TEATA SEMIZ, 71, A NATIVE OF RIVER EDGE WHO NOW LIVES IN EAST BRUNSWICK, IS STILL GOING STRONG ON THE PBA SENIOR TOUR. THE ALL-TIME GREAT, A MEMBER OF THE PBA, ABC, NEW JERSEY AND BERGEN HALLS OF FAME, FINISHED 10TH IN THE FINAL SENIOR POINT RANKINGS. MOST OF THE PLAYERS ON THE TOUR ARE KIDS OF 50 OR 60.
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On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
MONACO, VETRONE. COGER, SLOCUM, LERRO PACE N.J. BPA INVITATIONAL MATCH TOURNEY
MOUNTAINSIDE-
THE 32 SURVIVORS OF THE ORIGINAL STARTING FIELD OF 138 ENTRANTS IN THE INDIVIDUAL MATCH GAME CHAMPIONSHIP, WHICH IS SPONSORED AND CONDUCTED BY THE NEW JERSEY BOWLING PROPRIETORS ASSOCIATION, TAKE TO THE LANES THIS WEEKEND IN THE GRUELING TWO-GAME COMPETITION AT ECHO LANES.
THE FIELD OF FINALISTS INCLUDES MANY SEASONED VETERANS AND A SPRINKLING OF NEWCOMERS.
PROBABLY THE BEST KNOWN OF THE FINALISTS IS THE VETERAN AL "LINDY" FARAGALLI OF WAYNE, WHO HAS HELD MANY NATIONAL TITTLES IN HIS MORE THAN THREE DECADES ON THE LANES. FARAGALLI BARELY GAINED THE FINALS, EDGING NEWARK'S JERRY STAFF BY A SCANT TWO PINS FOR THE LAST QUALIFYING BERTH.
THE TOURNEY MARKED THE RETURN TO COMPETITION OF BLOOMFIELD'S DICK DOWNEY, AFTER A TEN MONTH LAYOFF FOLLOWING A NEAER-FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT. DOWNEY HAD TEAMED WITH TEATA SEMIZ OF RIVER EDGE, TO PLACE SECOND IN THE BPAA NATIONAL DOUBLES EVENT . BOTH DOWNEY AND SEMIZ AVERAGED OVER 200 TO QUALIFY FOR THE FINALS.
QUALIFIERS FOR THE FINALS
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1 SAL MONACO, BLOOMFIELD, 1712
2 GENE VETRONE, HANOVER, 1644
3 CARL COGER, NEWARK, 1645
4 LEW SLOCUM, TRENTON AND ROMEO LERRO, MAPLEWOOD 1626
6 JOE LENTINE, STANHOPE,AND RICH ZDZIARSKI, JERSEY CITY, 1624
8 ED BOTTEN, EAST ORANGE, 1617
9 AL STRANICH, WESTFIELD, 1610
10 TEATA SEMIZ, RIVER EDGE, 1607
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On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Some facts about Richie Hornreich, so much talent but being a degenerate gambler was his downfall (horses, casinos, etc, etc, etc). Could have been a great pba bowler.
1. at the age of 16 finished 10TH in the world invitational in chicago against the best around(carter, weber, etc.)
2. averaged 217, unheard of in those days at bedford bowl.
3. first to average 200 (206) at the toughest alley in the east, bowlmor
4. won the vargo one year, 4 lb. wood, with a 1060 or 1080 for 5.
5. destroyed jim godman, pbahof at central in 1967 after he had just won the firestone.
6 etc, etc, etc
Richie was the best, i'm sure jim godman can vouch for that after he lost to richie, just after he won the firestone. or ask any of the n y superstars what their opinion was .guys like ernie, lemon, johnny, marc or joey. i talked at length with lemons brother pete, a couple of years ago at my condo , where he was giving a concert, and he and his brother agree that it was richie was the best. richie also had the top 2 scores in the vargo, i know one was 1068 for 5 and the other was either few pins more or less than that, and the pins were 5 lb magnesium weighted. i dont recall if anyone had beaten it since or even won more than 2 times
the cane
THIS KID FROM BKLYN COMES INTO OUR HOUSE
( LI CITY) LOOKING FOR ACTION. IT JUST SO HAPPENED THAT THE BEST BOWLER IN THE HOUSE HAPPENED TO BE THERE IN THE NAME OF PAT FEELEY. PAT NEVER CARRIED MUCH MONEY WITH HIM BUT WITH ALL THE GUYS THAT WHERE IN THE CENTER AT THE TIME WE SCRAPPED TOGETHER ABOUT $1,000. I NEVER SAW THIS KID FROM BKLYN BEFORE AND NEVER EVEN HEARD OF HIM. NOT UNTIL THAT NIGHT!. U CAN GUESS WHO IM TALKING ABOUT IT WAS THE HORN!!!! RICHIE PICKS LANES 27-28 A PAIR THAT PAT PRACTICES ON MOST OF THE TIME, AND KNEW BETTER THAN ANYONE IN THE HOUSE. LANE 27 WAS A 11 OR 12 BOARD SHOT AND 28 WAS DEAD GUTTER. THAT WAS THE BEST CARRYING TRAJECTORIES. ANYWAY THEY WARM UP FOR AWHILE AND FINALLY THE MATCH STARTS. RICHIE IS PLAYING BOTH LANES THE SAME, 2ND ARROW AND PAT IS PLAYING THEM THE WAY THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYED. THE BETS AREN'T ALL THAT BIG AROUND $250 A GAME AND PAT WINS THE FIRST TWO EASILY AND HAS THE 3RD OUT OF THE WOOD BY THE 9TH. RICHIE ASKS PAT IF HE CAN FINISH HIS GAME AND PAT GIVES THE O.K. RICHIE THROWS THIRD ARROW ON THE LEFT AND THIRD ARROW ON THE RIGHT, TURNS TO HIS BACKER AND TELLS HIM TO UP THE BETS. THE BET GOES TO $400 A GAME AND WHAT HAPPENED NEXT I COULD'T BELIEVE!!! RICHIE TOOK OFF HIS DRESS SHIRT TO REVEAL UNDERNEATH A TEE SHIRT WITH A SUPER MAN LOGO IN THE FRONT. HE STARTS THE GAME ON THE RIGHT LANE PLAYING THE 4TH ARROW AND THE GUTTER ON THE LEFT. BOTH THE OPPOSITE OFWHERE HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PLAYING THE LANES. WHEN WE SAW WHAT HE WAS DOING WE THOUGHT THAT WE HAD A LOCK IN THE MATCH NOW. TO OUR SUPRISE RICHIE DIDN'T MISS THE POCKET FOR THE NEXT 5 GAMES AND DESTROYED THE PAIR, AVERAGING NEAR 250, FROM THAT DAY ON HE BECAME MY ACTION BOWLING IDLE AND WHENEVER I GOT THE CHANCE TO SEE HIM BOWL I WOULD ALWAYS TRY AND GET A BET DOWN ON HIM. HE WAS THE GREATEST. (Twirl )
looking at the web site and it brought back many memiors of how it use to be and is not no more. My pick for one of the great action bowlers of all time would be Richie Hornreich of Brooklyn, u had to be there to watch a bowler without a nerve in his body whenever he needed a strike to win.
Bob Simonelli Sr.
ralph was the smoothest bowler I have ever seen. He was the Fred Astaire of getting to the line. He never ever beat Hornreich. You guys do not remember or were not at central in 1967 to see just how great Richiewas. He beat jim godman the pba hof with about 18 titles including the toc in 1967.he kicked his ass in doubles bowling with ernie against lemon and godman. and destroyed him when godman came back again for singles. in both matches godman averaged close to 240 and could not win. richie had so much talent from 16-21 and threw it away gambling. he's still good, but not even close to what he should have been.
It was the spring of 1967. Forgot how many Richie who was the anchor came up. The scores were super high and bowled on the easiest and highest scoring pair 37 and 38. Godman averaged around 240 and was short. He returned again sometime that year and bowled Richie singles. Again he averaged around 240 and came up short. The horn was that good. Too bad he did not stick to bowling. He had enough talent to be great on tour. What a waste. Another gambling degenerate. It's amazing how we can't remember at times what we did last week, but can remember a match that happened over 35 years ago.
The horn was in Vegas one year in the late sixties on tour and Burton challenged him to a three game total wood for 1g. richie said that he only bet one game at a time and challenged him for 10g. Burton flew the coop.
Daly was a small deuce in the 60s which was tremendous, probably two classes below the best. His doubles partner was Pete Pastor a better bowler and Daly was not a big bettor then.
Comments: Being from the East Coast, and growing up around bowling in the 60s and 70s, I saw my share of action matches. And although I didn't get up to New York as much as I wanted, I managed to see Ernie Schlegel, Richie Hornreich, Ralph Engan, Fred Lening, Joey Berardi, Jack Winters, Jimmy McHugh, Iggy Russo and some of the other top action stars in action. Remember the fake heart attack when someone was betting both sides and found they couldn't afford to win the match?... or lose it? It was a great and colorful era...Jim Dressel (editor, Bowlers Journal)
heres my oppinion
hornet lemengello kitter berardi rudy revs. that would be my a list.
these guys were awsome. the only one i really never saw was lemongello. but there were hundreds of great bowlers. perry, schlagel, pappas, snake, engan,val macari, spallone,viale,neumann, killer, johnny meyers ira katz charlie venable joe s, fats and deacon,buffalo,god the list can go on forever.. i only bowled from 73 to81 and than again from 84 to 89 on and off. but had the pleasure of bowling many of these guys. and beating most. so i will put myself in here . but there are still many many more guys who were awsome not from the ny nj area.
cane mentioned cammillari, tom was a charter member of the pba and an awesome bowler with great knowledge of the game. he invented many parts that are still in use by bowling alleys today. funny thing is everyone would pick some one different ... Lou C
I was around the action scene when Richie was in his prime but never had the pleasure of seeing him in any matches.
Even though he was from Brooklyn did he bowl a lot of action there once he came into his own. I saw a lot of action with most of the big names of the time at Colony, Seaview, and Ave M
I didn't catch the horn until the mid seventies, he was real good then but past his prime, I never saw him go up against Jeff even though they were both at Raceway almost every Saturday night.
One night I saw Richie walk off the lanes against Joe Berardi, they were practicing, Joey buried 10 staight with a monster ball, Richie picks up the his ball and says the match is over, It didn't begin yet, I was amazed...
It was the first time I saw Joey, he was very impressive.
Butch bowled Beeber that night upstairs on the corner pair, it was a real grind, I think they ended up splitting about 16 games, the week before Butch took down Les Sager 4 straight at Kenmore, it was the first time I was rhere, 1976, I really liked the atmosphere , it was a throw back to when bowling alleys were bowling alleys.
My favorite places for atmoshere were Paramus, Fitzimmons, Duvall On Flatbush Ave, Bowlmore, Raceway, Parkway Lanes.
At his peak, Richie or Lemon would have beaten Berardi on any condition. You had to see Hornreich at his best which was prior to 1969. berardi at his best in action not even close to Hornreich. Richie beat Godman on more than one occassion at central where the lanes were dry, with Godman averaging in the 240s. Richie in the vargo on oiled lanes with 4 lb wood shot 1080 for 5, iincredible. The great EARL ANTHONY won that tournament one year with a 1020. Richie played anywhere from the gutter to the fourth diamond in the good old days. In those days, he had a very high backswing. Lemon was just as good, no matter what the conditions.
I have not seen anybody here talk about the late Charlie Faino from Philly who was the best around from 1970 through 1976. He supported a family off the action and beat everybody around. Jeff never beat Faino, although they rarely bowled each other. Urethane lanes came into play in 1976 and the full roller that Faino through was not as effective.
Horn was great i saw him bowl when i was 10 or 12 years old . he was awesome. when i was 18 i bowled him a 5 game freeze out and lost before we started . i was in awe of the man. BUT the next day he tried me again and lost 8 straight. and wouldnt quit till he was broke. after that we became friends and yes he can gamble (poorly) but he could still bowl.
Dear guest you are a man who speaks the truth
richie as I said was the best i started watching him in about 69 he was awesome I know many of the old stories and ritchie never bragged but I was privy to those stories. We hung together for a while when i was in my prime. we were close I am godfather to his son.
there were few that could play anywhere on the lanes like him. Lou Capasso
Horn and myself went to Laguardia the 1st time I was bowling a guy named dirt for about 1g agame fornt and back. I win 4 straight and the horn was shooting dicein the back. after that match is when I bowled behrbaum
he beats me the 1st game for 300 i won the next 2 beating him by 30 each game and he quits we win about 4500 that night 3 way split .next morning we go to bridge lanes and look for action but there was none so he takes my to the track. he is broke by the 7th and we play a $50 late double he picks the 1st race i pick the 2nd I know nothing about horses so i pick the horse nicky santagata is riding we hit the double pay about 65 dollars so he now has about 800 we get home around 7 and says lets go to the meadowlands. we do,he goes broke in 3 races!!! that was just richie.
I never knew berardi to gamble outside of bowling and joe and i hung together for a very short while the first year he got married becouse i got married the same time. Joe was so smooth and threw a great ball. He and I closed more than 1 bar in those days.
AT his peak in '67 and '68 richie was the best action bowler around in the country many felt. To me Lemon and him were equal. I mean how much better than Lemon could you have been. They beat up on everybody and any pro that walked into Central. I can tell you that when Horn was around 18, he averaged 218 at Bedford, unheard of in those days. He won the tough Vargo one year, that four pound wood tournament with a incredible score of 1080. he also was the first to average over 200(206) at that dungeon Bowlmor. he was so talented and through it all away with all his gambling. He had the heart of a lion, if he needed a double in the tenth you ran to the bank and he had no problem betting $1g when a $100 bet was nice in those days.
Cane, I'd like to hear your thoughts on these bowlers in their prime, as pure (action bowlers), nothing else, not PBA bowlers.
Iggy Russo
Lemon
Horn
Don Carter
Dick Weber
WRW
Pete Weber
Earl Anthony
In what order would you put them, add anyone of your own if you feel their better (action Bowlers) then any of the above.
i didnt see the pba guys bowl action, but did see the other three i would rate them richie , lemon and iggy in that order. never bowled richie, did compete in tourneys with richie , one at hodges and one at maple,he won both by more than secretariat won the belmont, mikey asked me to bowl one night at colony, but after watching him beat billy picone there the week before i turned him down, as i usually was interested in winning not just playing anyone like a family member of mine , who would bowl anyone with a backers money, i used my own money. and iggy i bowled with at seaview and leader and against him at leader, he was a genious 30 years ahead of his time when it came to bowling, with weights, psychology using his own 4 lb pins if he couldnt beat you on the light wood, also bowling low score or off the wrong foot, but refused to bowl me thta way at seaview, after i just came off shooting 770 in a match
the cane
PARADISE LANES, formerly cross country. Was this the house known as raceway LANES BACK in the 60s and 70s.
Lc, wondering whom you have mopped lately in the matches you referred to above. I remember AVE M bowl back in late sixties, early seventies. Big big action Sunday night. Billy tops, do you remember leader lanes on Coney Island Ave. where Hornriech was king and beat anybody that walked in-Lemon, Schlegel, etc, etc. Believe the shot was the gutter and in those days when they played the gutter, the ball would hang on the half board for awhile. Hornreich was great at this as well as any other shot.
I'm still surprised that you belittled Kidder. You are definitely entitled to your opinion but I hope you are not putting yourself in Kidder's class. Many today consider him the best action bowler ever.That's because they never saw the horn in his day. I have never heard your name ever mentioned. I may have seen you bowl but I can't remember and I have been around this game 40 years. My ratings of the best amateurs and action bowlers I've seen:
1960s-the horn and lemon in a tie, with schlegel next and dewey blair(he could not play inside)
1970s- faino then kidder
1980s until he moved to florida in 87 or 88- hank behrom-kidder only bowled two years-hank rarely bowled bad and won alot of tournaments. he chewed up the horn at colonial, daly won 10g and then proceeded to get robbed in the parking lot for everything. Rudy was still learning to make spares.
1990-no doubt Rudy-the two best were he and neumann but neumann rarely bowled action.
Today-scianna from the island and fagan when he is off the tour. scianna-this guy bets his own cash and i have seem him double the bet, lets say to $600 when he is stuck.
He fears nobody. I've seen him come down games and always walk out a winner. he is one tough mf in the tenth. he clocked robert smith a few years ago.
If you still plan to come back to the game and practice alot and want good action, scianna's the man. guaranteed to travel to maple.
My opinions again.
Great story about the horn. all the money he blew in ac. His first inheritance as told to me by the count, jerry simonelli whom I'm sure you knew. Richie inherited about 700g. The first week he blows 20g in ac. Six months later he tells the count I knew I blew 20g the first week but I never thought I'D blow another 680g in six months. Heard his father knew that the horn would blow it all, so he left him a second inheritance mainly for Richie's son. As for Berardi he now lives in S.I. and sells MRI equipment. I heard he quit the tour ten years ago, because his wife was blowing it all. Recently, I was told by a good source that it was berardi blowing all the money. I knew him in the early seventies when he first came around and then for a couple of years after. those days never a big gambler. A hof with 9 wins. He was the first bowler I saw about 20 years ago, win a summer stop playing inside of 25. That line was unheard of before resin.
The originator of fruit salad did lose to Richie on more than one occassion. How could you forget? You had maybe 6 tour wins in your career. Lemon had that in less than ten years including two majors in one year. You are smarter because you are still here. You were not a degenerate gambler like lemon and richie. And covering all bets please. $100 was a good bet for you in Central. Richie, Lemon and if you remember RC bet a grand many many many times. for my money you were great because I never went home a loser betting on you in Central. it was tough to get a bet on Richie or lemon because they were the best around and always the favorites. Remember when you and richie chopped up godman and lemon at central. Richie was the anchor.
lou, if you ask joe s who had the most talent from maple it would be the horn. the best was johnny because of his 15 wins on tour. too bad you are not old enough to have seen horn in his heyday in the 60s. gambling was his downfall, track, cards, ac etc. when you knew him he was half the bowler. some stats on horn, in 1963 or 1964, he he averaged 217 at bedford, unheard of in those days. he was the first to average a deuce at that dungeon bowlmor, 1966, 206. he won the vargo one year on that four pound wood and shot 1060 or 1080. at the age of 16 he finished 10th in the world's invitational against the best in the world. the horn probably does not remember these stats because he never gave a shit. he had a super high backswing in his day and could play anywhere on the lane from the ditch to 25. what a waste of talent. he is a nice guy, never bragged how good he was. alot do not remember.
burton challenged him to a three game total wood in vegas one year when richie toured for awhile for 1g. richie said where he came from, one game at a time. richie put 10g on the table and burton pulled the invisible act. this was from the mouth of horn. how can you not believe him when he's probably stuck 1m in ac.
enuf for now.
It was Hornreich a great action bowler of the sixties. What potential. If not for his degenerate gambling problems, he could have been as good as roth.
The best action bowler ever from Long Island is without a doubt M.L. (Lemon)
The best action bowler ever from Brooklyn is without a doubt R.H. (The Horn)
Who was better, Lemon or Horn?
Which was the greatest action house house of all time?
My top list of action houses in no particular order was:
Central Lanes
Yonkers Bowl
Whitestone Lanes
Deer Park Bowl
Ave M Bowl
These houses were in a league of their own, any other house would have to go on the B list.
nobody could beat hornet and capasso 1 nite at laguadia lane besides winning 8 staight in 2 different matches hornreich beat jusco and capasso beat burgland and dirt, they were unbeatable they also never got another match in that house
The horn's downfall was gambling.screwed up his game. otherwise who knows how good he could have been on tour? richie would come to Central sat night just to make money to get back to acqueduct on monday, and lose.richie came to fiesta in the seventies, waiting for Bill's dice game sunday morning. never bowled, except with the broom. and he was tremendous. 170, if anyone out there remembers. anyway to cut to the chase, rudy before he settled down and went on tour, could lose a ton at AC, come back and win a big Lustig tournament and get even. just blocked out AC. Amazing. maybe rudy does have a mind...Just Browsing
regarding , the story about richie, blowing 700g in 6 months, is true but thats not the whole story, since i was told by his accountant ronnie, that he was given the smallest part by dad morris, who left close to 15 mil. richie supposedly was left 4 intervels of 500gs to be spread out every 5 years or so , so that he wouldnt blow it . the 1st blowing was the 1st 500gs with a borrow against the balance being 200gs of the 2nd installment to total 700, so the count was partially right from my hearsay. as to what happened to the balance i dont know , and i would guess you wouldnt find out from richie, or his former accountant ronnie c , since they had split , when i had heard that info close to 20 years ago.
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Richie Hornreich at age 12, bowled a doubles match with a 16 year old against 2 guys in the navy, at Leemark lanes Brooklyn with a rubber ball, bowled 8 games with a low game of 258, including back to back games of 289 & 2- 279s with three games in the 260s. What ever happened to Richie, thats even a longer story, but in my opinion he was better than Roth, Lemongello, Petraglia, Schlegel, and the 2 hand cradle of Joe Berardi. the cane
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You also say I choked Dont think so. I won many tournaments and many a match game i was far from a choker . I accomplished many a things in a 6 year period from when I was 16 to 22 when I quit the game. After 1982 the times I bowled were for short periods of time a year here or there and never even got back to my best form. But thank god this is america and you can write what you like But the truth should not be tainted.
If you beat me in a match congradulations . But I guarentee you it was after 1982 becouse the only match i lost befor that was a 5 game freezout to the greatest of them all Richie Hornreich. If you won It was probobly late 80' early 90's and for probobly less than 50 a game. that was all anyone bowled for at maple by that time anyway. That was not action that was killing time. Maple had some great bowlers in its time
Petraglia, Val, Tom Camillari,John Colossi, Bob Spallone the list is long. I have not Disrespected any of the bowlers i have written about so please as my father once told me if you have nothing nice to say dont say it. Calling me a Dreamer hMMMMM. lets see winning your 1st pba tournament as a pba professional thats a dream .OOOOOPS sorry thats a reality I did it.
Bowling back to back 300's in a match against a pba member at 16 years old OOOPS thats a reality (sorry Tusa) Should I go on!!! the only reason I was triple a as you call it is becouse my father died when i was 22
and I had to support myself and made a decision that a job made more sence!!! When you bowled me I was still beating top bowlers and making money in tourny's but it was not my JOB! If you bowled at Maple ask the Master Who where the best 3 ever from maple..The master being Joe s his responce would be
Petraglia Me and Probobly Colossi!!! There were none Better. I remember when I decided to bowl ,John Colossi gave me a ball and showed me how to drill it it was the 1st time i had seen a urethane ball. He had become a great bowler from the last time i had seen him he was about 13 then now he was 18 all grown up and was a solid bowler.
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Lenny, You and Butch, and all the contributors of this sight really opened my eyes and probably the rest of the young audience's eyes about Richie Hornreich. I posted a question to Jim Dressel editor of the Bowlersjournal, as to why Richie Hornreich was not on the list of the greatest 100 bowlers of the century, even though The "Count" Guengler was listed as #25. This was Jim Dressels response: "Bowlers Journal International Discussion Board Re: To Editor JDressel - The Count what about The Horn Posted By: Jim Dressel
Wednesday, 8 December 1999, at 10:15 a.m.
Actually, I heard many stories about Richie Hornreich when I was living back in the east coast, and saw him bowl several times in the old Kegler Bowling Club scratch events when I was involved with that group. He was a helluva bowler, but you wonder how many of the stories are true or not. I do know he found it difficult on at least two occasions to get anyone to bowl him in some meaningful "action"...
Which brings me to the point of this post -- it's probably time we do a story on Richie, if he's willing. If anyone has any contact information, please send it along. In the meantime, this is also a story that could be told through several second party sources, like Roth, Berardi, et al. I don't know if we're going to get the chance to talk to Joey about this one (does anyone know where he is?), but certainly we can follow it up.
And as for why "The Horn" is not in our Top 100 and "The Count" is, let me just say that it may be just as simple as that fact that Gengler got the ink, while Hornreich didn't. Besides, mkano a mano matches were the order of the day in Gengler's day, while the PBA Tour grabbed most of the headlines in Hornreich's day... again, though, let's see what we can do about setting the record straight with a story in BJ... "
I really have no relationship with Richie, but I know you still do. Perhaps you can tell him that Jim Dressel would like to write an article about Richie. If he is the greatest action bowler of all time, he deserves to be recognized as that.
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1 st time i bowled richie he had just come back from vegas and haddent bowled in a few years. came to maple and challenged the house so me being a big shot bowl him. i lost that match before we ever threw a ball. and i was at that time twice the bowler he was. but he still won. he mentally beat me before the match. he taunted me in front of all the maple bowlers. luckily for me he gave me a rematch saturday afternoon. and i beat him 8 straight. that was the day we became friends. and he became the teacher and me the student. like joe s was to him. unfortunatly being a thick headed 18 yr old , i would forget my teachers lessons and end up bowling someone like behrbohm or burgland or kitter in an actyion rich bowling alley and never get an easy match in that house again. hornet was the best, when i was growing up i spent time at bay ridge and all the great stories were about hornet.
i was lucky i got to bowl around the real greats of the game. Petraglia, joe's, hornreich,roth, etc.
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Lou, just for the fun of it why not write a list of all the great action bowlers you bowled and the ones you watched but never had a chance to go against.
Was there ever any big consistant action at Bay Ridge.
Were you there when Larry Hersh had the lunch counter concession at Bay Ridge and later at Park Circle. Joe S knows Larry well, he had the pro shop there at the time.
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ok the best match i saw was the night rags and roth bowled cliff and jeff. but that was not the match that was good. the beeper spallone match was the fun match to watch. beeper would foul by 2 to 3 feet every shot and that really irked spallone, bobby was at the top of his game and beeper didnt belong on the lanes with him, but as usual the beeper got the edge with the fouling and that horrible beeping. anyway beeper is up i think 3 games on spallone and its the 10th frame and bobby needs a mark .leaves a ringing 10 pin. so he walks all the way down the lane and gets on his knees and makes the 10 pin from 5 feet. well this is about the craziest thing you ever saw beeper strats getting loud and whooooooo whoooo ing like a machine gun and spallone is arguing that a foul is a foul. 2 feet or 48 feet. anyhow that was the last game the beeper quit . that was the funniest match i ever saw.
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Louis, that was really funny. I saw exactly the same thing in Central with Iggy Russo.
I posted it about a year ago somewhere on this site.
Some kid was bowling Iggy and fouling by a full step. The big money game was down to Iggy needing a mark. He left a solid ten and took his ball all the way down the lane, laid down in front of the pin and knocked it over. then he came back took the money and in his best falsetto said "you foul, I foul." Nobody said a word.
It was the funniest thing I ever saw.
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There was good action at Bay Ridge lanes in the early seventies Friday nights after 12-Hornreich, Petraglia, Roth, etc etc etc
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hers my list
bowlers i bowled
the horn,kitter,burgland,dirt,keith,doran,snake,perry,
roy garcea,the ferraro brothers,doc iondoli,larry starr,tony attenasio,joe albanese,frank longo,buffalo
bowlers i didnt bowl but would have liked to
johnny meyers,lemon,ira katz,jimmy mack,ditolla,sliker,petraglia,roth,george pappas,wrw.
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You would have only wanted to bowl Lemon if you were way ahead for the night and taking a shot. He would have destroyed you.
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Guys - I was hoping you might all help me out. My dad, Dick Sand, was a junior bowler at Green Acres Lanes in Valley Stream. He tells me that in 1960 he lost the LI junior match championship to Richie Hornreich, at Argo Lanes, in Largo. I just want to know if any of you have heard of these guys: Dick Sand, Duke Longatano, Ricky Hurst, Joe Chizmadia, Jimmie Ruccione, or Richie Del Nunzio. According to story, these guys finished 3rd in the NJBC National Tourney, and turned down the World's, because they were playing for money at the time. I am facinated by the history on this site, and I'm hoping to receive any sort of feedback about this great time in bowling history. As an afterthought, Dad says he looked up to guys like Lemon, Sis, and Graz. He says they were the best guys you could find. Thanks, and my e-mail is posted.
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Back in the days when we were all just starting out in bowling, I'd say we were 14 or 15 and sophomores in high school, Tony and I were pretty evenly matched with Richie and Stanley. More often than not, they beat us in three game matches but not by that much. I think we probably averaged 190-195 while they pushed closer to 200; just a vague memory now...
Here are a couple of pages from my scrapbook of days long since passed. Some of the pictures were taken at Leemark and the others, with striped walls would have been Strand Lanes on DeKalb Ave, downtown Brooklyn.
I have a few shots from Leemark but I'll have to search for them and dig them out. I'll send them along when I locate them.
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Top right picture shows the Xaverian Junior Varsity team with championship trophy. On left is Joe Micali whose father owned Frankie and Johnny"s
Bowling on 86 Street and 115 Ave. It later closed and reopened as Micali Terrace , a schmoltzy catering hall where the dancefloor was actually the former bowling lanes.
You looked down while dancing and could see the spotting arrows and dots which were still intact.
Second from left was Frankie LaMonica of Leemark. As captain, I got to hold the trophy.
In the picture with the girl from Fontbonne Hall, all girls high school, the photo was printed backwards, making us both lefties/
The Xaverian Varsity bowling team at Strand Lanes
The top left picture was taken by Harry Bellman Jr, a pretty good photographer. I remember clearly that it was taken at Leemark upstairs on lane 8.
Funny how you remember certain things.
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Those who remember when the name of PBA Hall of Famer Mike Limongello routinely found its place high up on PBA tournament standings might wonder where he has been since retiring from the tour, but those who knew Mike Limongello will not be surprised to learn where he finds work today: at a poker table in Atlantic City. "If you put Mike and Richie in a room and gave them $10,000 each, they would only be in the room together for five seconds," says Johnny Petraglia, who grew up bowling with Limongello and his fellow action bowling legend, Richie Hornreich, throughout the New York City area. "That is the way both of them were. Great bowlers, and loved to gamble." As Petraglia and any number of other legends will tell you, though, Mike Limongello is as legendary a bowler as he is a gambler, a man who could stuff thirty pins in the pit in the tenth frame for any amount of money just as coolly as he could wager an Everest of hundred-dollar chips on a single roll of the dice. Included among the six PBA titles Limongello won during his Hall of Fame career are two majors - the U.S. Open and the PBA National Championship, both of which he won in the same year (1971). Now the man known affectionately as "Lemon" in action bowling lore is back to share his tales of the famed action bowling scene where his name became legend, as well as memories of some of the mammoths of the sport. In this two-part series, Limongello discusses the day he discovered the greatness of Dick Weber the hard way, the time he won the U.S. Open with a ball he borrowed from the great Harry Smith in the middle of the tournament, his matches for thousands of dollars a game against some of the greatest action bowlers who ever lived, and other great stories. Tell me about Richie Hornreich, the man whom some consider the greatest action bowler that ever lived. ML: I am still very good friends with Richie. I deal poker at Taj Mahal, and Richie comes here once a month or so. He was really great, we started really young. The first time I bowled him he was one of the best bowlers in Brooklyn and I was one of the best on Long Island. He was only 15 and I was 17, and at that young age we were the best around. So they hooked a match up with us at Leemark Lanes in Brooklyn. We had never met before, but I had heard of him and vise versa. So it was a Friday night and we must have bowled all night, we started at midnight and went to four or five in morning. The money that people were betting was unreal. Everyone in Brooklyn was betting on him and all the Long Island people were betting on me. We were bowling for $2,000 or $3,000 a game - a lot of money, especially for the early 1960s. Over the next year or two we would bang heads about once a month or so. There were three or four guys that were the toughest to bowl, and Richie was right there on top. I think he is in the top three best I ever bowled in a match. It always just came down to who didn't get wrapped the most. We both banged the pocket all night, and we were both very good in the clutch. Richie was a great clutch bowler, neither of us would back down. For spectators it was a great thing to watch - two of the best around going after each other. After that we became good friends. Richie loved the action but he loved other action too - the horses and all that. He didn't love the tour, but I loved the tour because there was always action. We played golf for money, cards three or four nights a week. It was just like bowling action. There wasn't a lot of money on tour - the guys on tour now, they are just devoted to bowling. There is no action, they don't play cards. But back then, of the fifty or sixty who toured every stop there were thirty of us that were all action guys. The director used to write out sheets for us, Harry Golden would tell us where the action was. Harry would tell us what hotel rooms the card game would be and we would go right to the action. We'd play card games all night and bowl the next day without sleep. Some people say that Richie, if he wanted to, could have become another Dick Weber. Do you agree? ML: Richie could have been great, but he didn't have the drive. He didn't like the tour. He is a great guy, a really great, close friend of mine. But some guys have tremendous drive, he didn't. He was just great under pressure, you know. We bowled tremendous matches. People would come from all around just to watch us bowl. They were just nail-biting, tough drag-out fights. Neither one of us would back down. There were some guys, I would put so much pressure on them every game that they would fold up. But not Richie. He was good.
I could have been better, too. I think I could have been if I would have devoted more time to practice. But I loved the action too. Sometimes after I bowled qualifying I would play cards all night until 4am instead of getting a good night's sleep. Many tournaments I'd come back the next day and I wasn't fresh and I didn't bowl as good as I could have. I was so addicted to the action that bowling was secondary. When you were young you could do it. When you got older it was tougher.
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Now Dick Ritger, there was a guy that was methodical. He never played cards, always went back to his room. Salvino hung around but wasn't an action guy. Weber wasn't. A lot of the top names weren't. But some like Dave Soutar, Dave Davis, Don Johnson - they were all action guys. They would play cards but they were great too. Johnson had 26 titles and he would play cards all night. Some of us could do it, other guys couldn't. Obviously one of the great characters to come out of the action bowling scene was Iggy Russo. What can you tell me about Iggy? ML: Iggy Russo, he was just one of a million. Unbelievable. He was kind of crazy, he was nuts. He wasn't great, but he was good hustler. Well, he was better than people thought he was and first of all he pulled a lot of dump jobs, a lot of shady matches. He was a good hustler, he would bowl just good enough to win so everyone thought he was a 180 average bowler. He used to bowl a lot of guys that weren't that good, 180, 175 average guys, and he would just bowl good enough to beat them. He would beat them a couple games and then dump a game back and let a guy win a game or two. He got away with murder, he screwed so many people. How he didn't get shot I don't know. He was like a legend dumper and people would still bet on him. He would bowl matches where you'd say 'He can't be dumping this match! It's too easy, he can't lose to this guy.' He would be dumping and you'd never know it. One time at Gil Hodges Lanes he was dumping a match, and he gets up in the tenth frame and needs a mark to win lot of money. But he was betting against himself. So he is sitting in the settee area before he goes up to bowl. I wasn't there, but good friends of mine were there, and some shady mob guy comes up to him and says 'You better get a mark or you're a dead man.' I guess he didn't know what to do, so he gets up in the tenth frame, drops the ball, and fakes a heart attack. He lays out on the approach grabbing his heart and he is acting like he can't breathe and they called an ambulance and they took him away. He knew he would get beat up or killed, so that's what he did. And that's the type of guy he was. He wasn't going to win the match and lose money. Did you find yourself in a lot of dangerous situations back then? ML: Oh we went to some bad places sometimes, but I never really worried about it because I wasn't alone. You know we used to go to some places in Brooklyn that were a little shady. But if I travelled alone, yeah, it might have been scary. But we used to go with guys, friends of mine that were big - two guys that were body guards with me. Back then you know it never happened, you never thought about it. There weren't robberies and all that. Now it could happen more. So many people could have gotten robbed so easily, but like in Central you could have walked out of there with tens of thousands of dollars and you never heard of any robberies. I don't know what it was. Thank goodness the crooks never came to the bowling alley. These days you would be more scared of it happening. Another guy you hear a lot of stories about is Kenny Barber. ML: Kenny Barber! Oh, Kenny was the loudest nut in the world. He was funny, just a crazy guy. You talk about a hustler? He came in one night to bowl me in Sunset Lanes, I had never seen him before or heard about him. So we set up a match, he is going to bowl me. So we start bowling and he is in my home house now, right, and some people were in from Brooklyn or Queens. He was pretty good, threw a big hook, kind of a spinner. Good, tough action bowler. If I bowled him on ten different conditions I would beat him on eight out of ten of them - he threw too big a hook to beat me. Anyway we're bowling and I beat him the first game and I am beating him the second game, and about halfway through the game all of a sudden he starts having trouble with his thumb hole, dropping the ball. But now he is hustling me and I don't know it. He is slowing me down, every other ball he is complaining about the thumbhole, and before you know it he threw me out of whack. He beats me the second game and the third game. I think I beat him the fourth game, so we're even. He beat me one or two games more than that, threw my timing out of whack. I was taking five, ten minutes between every ball. After that I said 'That's it, no more.' And we never bowled each other after that.
He was just a wild nut. After meeting him and hearing stories about him, at first I didn't like him at all. The first time I met him I didn't like the way he acted, but then I said you know, the guy really is a nice guy, but he was crazy. He just wasn't sane. He just did wild things. I don't know what he was involved in and I didn't want to know. He wasn't the kind of guy I wanted to hang around with, he could have been dangerous. You used to bowl as Ernie Schlegel's doubles partner in your action days, right? ML: Yes, Ernie was one of the best. They set up a match with me and him at Whitestone Lanes and we bowled all night long. After the match was over and the smoke cleared we were even, and he says 'We're gonna make a lot of money!' I said 'What do you mean?' I was unknown at the time, it had just started to get out that I was pretty good. So he said 'Listen, we're not ever going to bowl each other again. I am going to take you around. I have some places to take you where they don't know you and we'll bowl doubles." I said 'OK.' So we used to go up to Raceway. Well he took me in there and he says 'Look, I will set up a match.' No one knew me at all in that area, and he set up matches against guys that were really easy matches to start out with, every weekend, every Friday and Saturday night for 6 months we never lost. I am out there trying hard and Ernie is doing nothing, shooting 180, 190 and I am going 'What's wrong with this guy? I am shooting 220, 230 every game and we're going back and forth and more and more people started betting on the other guy, the hometown guy. Now the money is getting big. More and more people are betting, the matches are getting up to $500 a game, $1,000 a game. Now all of a sudden Ernie starts shooting 250s. I still didn't know what was going on. He pulls out another ball and shoots lights out. In those days, it was so different from now. Then guys bowled 'til they were broke. You didn't bowl a few games and quit. In those days guys would bowl until they had no more money in the house. But you started out slow, not the top bowlers right off the bat, and you just kept winning, kept beating guys week after week. Then the matches got harder and harder, but we still won every week. It got to the point when there was nobody left to bowl but there were always places to go. We used to travel to Connecticut. Ernie was famous back then for his antics on the lanes. What was Ernie like back then? ML: When Ernie was bowling against me, he would try to trash talk, and I said 'Ernie, that might have worked on some of the other guys you bowled. But if you want to beat me you're just going to have to beat me. You're not going to rattle me or shake me up, no matter what. It's not going to shake me.' He laughed and said 'Yeah, you're right.' But he would rub it into guys when we used to bowl other teams. He was really bad, he would really rub it in trash-mouthing people. If he got a strike in the tenth, he would get a light hit and he would yell 'Fruit salad!' He would get the whole crowd going. He was a wild man, a showman. I was real quiet. Schlegel sings the praises of an action bowler by the name of Dewey Blair. Did you ever have any matches against him? ML: That's an amazing story. When I used to bowl action in Central I always heard about this guy Dewey Blair. He was the best anybody had ever seen, but I had never seen him and he never went on tour. Finally one night up in Yonkers they set up a match with me and him, and everybody is betting on him. So the first game, he beat me 269-268. The next game we both start out with first six, and I get up in 7th frame and I get the first 7. Now he throws a strike and he has the first 7 too. But on that 7th strike he rips his thumb, a big chunk of skin comes off, and he couldn't finish game so he had to forfeit. It was like the weirdest thing in world. This was going to be an unbelievable match, and now he rips his thumb and couldn't finish. And that was it, I never bowled him again. I was so upset because this guy is the best I have ever seen. He didn't throw much of a ball. He threw a straight ball, but he was deadly accurate. He never came around again. He was like a ghost - a legend, but a ghost.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
The NYC Bowling Association Hall of Fame Dinner was packed
last night with about 200 people. Ernie accepted with a terriffic and funny
speech. His daughter flew up from Florida and his sister and brother in law came
down from upstate NY along with Cathy's family members.<BR><BR>He spoke about
growing up in Upper Manhattan and how he started bowling and the fact that the
action in the 60's was the best time in his life and a time that has never been
equalled. Talked about Gun Post and Central and other action houses like Parkway
and Whitestone. <BR><BR>He spoke of his favorite bowlers, Jake
Charter(originator of "fruit salad"), Ralph Engan(his hero), Joe Santini, Jack
Clemente, Frank Medici, Mike Limongello, John Massero, Teata Semiz, Pete Mylenki
Richie Hornreich, Johnny Petraglia, Dewey Blair and a few others I can't
remember right now.<BR><BR>There were many of his friends there like John and
Nick Kourabas whose father Chris gave Ernie a job at Inwood Lanes which allowed
him to practice free for many hours a week, Teata Semiz, Pete Mylenki, Steve
Harris, Tony Bozzo, Chuck Pezzano and Jack Clemente to name a
few.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
FORT LEE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER NEWS LETTER-- JUL 30, 2015
GEOGHAGEN LEEDS TABLE #1 TO A SWEEP OF TABLE #2
VETERAN KEGLER BILL GEOGHAGEN WITH 205-215-617, AT BOWLER CITY, HACKENSACK LAST NIGHT LED HIS TEAM TO A FIVE POINT SWEEP TO CLINCH FIRST PLACE IN THE FIVE MAN CLASSIC. CONGRATS TO HIM AND HIS TEAM.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
-Hi Jim, just looked at the e-mails. Icould not get the photos except for the one of Billy G. I dont think I have any clippings and only a couple of photos if I can find them. I dont remember the things Bob wrote about. I do remember Richie. Also Robby & Earl, John Z.,John & Jimmy,Jerry Rosen,Carl P.Jerry'''the bowler''-was he McGowan?Artie Rodier,Warren Warford, Walter Wilkinson. Leo,Charlie & Gus at Dyker. I remember one day at Leemark there was Harry Belman,Richie ,me and maybe some others. Richie sai he could shoot 650 for 3 games. Harry-bet -him $5 and got a score sheet.He did well for 2 1\2 games but then couldnt strike and finished with 620. More to come as I remember...Steve----------------------------------------
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
PIN ACTION by GIANMARC MANZIONE
IN MEMORY OF JOHN MAZZIO and KENNY BARBER
WHEN I WAS A STUDENT AT MANHATTAN COLLEGE, I USED TO BOWL MONDAY NIGHT LEAGUES IN BROOKLYN AT MAPLE LANES ON THE CORNER OF 60TH STREET AND 16TH AVE., A PLACE MADE FAMOUS BY LEGENDARY ACTION BOWLERS SUCH AS RICHIE HORNREICH LONG BEFORE I CAME INTO THIS WORLD. AFTER I BOWLED A THREE HUNDRED GAME THERE ON NOVEMBER 13, 2000, SOME OF THE GUYS I BOWLED WITH TOLD ME MAYBE THEY WOULD START READING. LOOK WHAT IT WAS DOING FOR ME!
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MAPLE LANES CLOSED DOWN IN 2003. IN 2006, LEEMARK LANES CLOSED DOWN. LEEMARK WAS A PLACE WHERE MANY WISE OLD MEN TAUGHT ME AS MUCH ABOUT BOWLING AS THEY TAUGHT ME ABOUT LIFE.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
WHEN I WAS 11 YERS OLD I SPENT LONG AFTERNOONS LISTENING TO THE AVUNCULAR AND SALTY-HAIRED REGULARS AT LEEMARK AND MAPLE TALK ABOUT THE OLD DAYS. THE GUYS WOULD TELL ME ABOUT JOHNNY PETRAGLIA TURNING HEADS OF SHARKS AND SHYSTERS WITH HIS TALENT AT AGE 14.
NAMES OTHER THAN PETRAGLIA'S WOULD FIND THEIR WAY INTO THE STORIES I HEARD AT LEEMARK AND MAPLE. NAMES LIKE RICHIE HORNREICH, MIKE LIMONGELLO, ERNIE SCHLEGEL, KENNY BARBER,AND SO MANY OTHERS.
I WNTED TO KNOW WHAT THINGS WERE LIKE BACK BEFORE THE 802 CLUB BECAME A MEDICAL BUILDING AND THE NEW YORK WHER MELODY LANES WAS NOT THE ONLY PLACE WHERE YOU COULD BRING THE KIDS FOR A FEW GAMES OF BOWLING ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
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THE GAMBLER WAS DEAD SERIOUS. JOHNNY LAUGHED HARD ENOUGH TO KEEP LAUGHING FOR ABOUT A WEEK.
BUT SOMETIMES THE REAL NAMES WERE JUST AS INIMITABLE, NAMES THAT EVOKE VISIONS OF MURDERERS CONVENING IN ALLEY-WAYS TO DETERMINE WHOSE BED WOULD RECEIVE THE NEXT SEVERED HORSEHEAD. TWO OF THE ERA'S GREATEST CHARACTERS COMPRISED A FEARSOME DOUBLES TEAM KNOWN AS FATS AND DEACON. THEY WERE FATS CAROZA AND DEACON DECONZA, THE ONES WHO BOWLED ERNIE SCHLEGEL AND JOHNNY CAMPBELL TO A BLOODY DRAW IN A MATCH THAT BEGAN AT DUSK AND ENDED AT DAWN.
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RUSSO CONTRIVED THE APPEARANCE OF A NO-TALENT NOODLE BEGGING TO BE FLEECED OF HIS LUNCH MONEY.
HE DRESSED LIKE A CLOWN, ROLLING THE LEGS OF HIS PANTS UP TO HIS KNEES TO EXPOSE A PAIR OF PLAID SOCKS. HE WORE HIS BLACK HAIR CLOSELY CROPED, AND SPORTED A THICK PAIR OF GLASSES AND OCCASIONALLY A DUCKBILL CAP. HE SPOKE IN SQUAEKY FALSETTO MANY WOULD REMEMBER AS HIS MOST BIZARRE IDIOSYNRACY. RUSSO DROVE UP WITH A TRUNK FULL OF BALLS AND PINS LOADED WITH LEAD THAT MADE THEM HARDER TO KNOCK DOWN. IF YOU WANTED TO BOWL RUSSO FOR ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY, YOU ACCEPTED HIS PROPS AS PART OF THE DEAL. YOU PLAYED BY RUSSO'S RULES.
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RUSSO HAD MADE A LOT OF MISTAKES OVER THE YEARS, BUT LEAVING A MAKEABLE SPARE STANDING IN THE TENTH FRAME WOULD SOON PROVE TO BE THE BIGGEST MISTAKES OF THEM ALL.
JUST BEFORE RUSSO PICKED UP HIS BALL TO THROW THE SHOT, HE FELT THE GUN OF FEELY'S NUDGED IN HIS BELLY AND RESEIVED HIS ORDERS: "MISS THIS SPARE AND YOU'RE A DEAD MAN."
RUSSO GRABBED HIS BALL AND STOOD ON THE APPROACH, FACING THE SPARE THAT WAS ABOUT TO BRING HIS DEMISE. THN HE DROPPES HIS BALL TO THE FLOOR, CLUTCHED HIS CHEST, AND COLLAPSED.
AT HIS AGE, THE PROBABILITY OF A HEART ATTACK AT LEAST SEAMED LIKELY ENOUGH TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. SOMEONE CALLED AN AMBULANCE AND PARAMEDICS CARTED HIM OFF ON A STRETCHER.
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SOME WHO WITNESSED WHAT HAPPENED NEXT WOULD REMEMBER GUN SHOTS FIRED THROUGH THE CEILING. NO MATTER WHO TOLD THE STORY, THOUGH, THE DETAILS MADE IT CLEAR THAT MC GRATH HAD SEEN ENOUGH THAT NIGHT -BOTH BEFORE HE WALKED INTO AVENUE M BOWL AND, CERTAINLY, LONG AFTER HE LEFT THE PLACE ALIVE.
JOHNNY GOT HIS FIRST OF ACTION IN 1961 AT A PLACE IN THE DYKER HEIGHTS SECTION OF BROOKLYN CALLED FORTWAY LANES. JOHNNY WAS NOT A GREAT BOWLER YET ON THE ROAD, BUT WAS GREAT AT FORTWAY. FORTWAY WAS JOHNNY'S HOME HOUSE, AND THE SHYLOCKS KNEW IT.
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JOHNNY WAS FOURTEEN YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, BUT HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS TWELVE. TWO WEEKS AFTER JOHNNY GOT HIS ORDERS AT FORTWAY, THE SHYLOCK'S BODYGUARD PULLED UP IN HIS CADILLAC AS JOHNNY HUNG OUT ON THE CORNER WITH SOME OF HIS BUDDIES. IT WAS TIME FOR THE MATCH. THE BODYGUARD CARTED JOHNNY OFF TO FORTWAY, WHERE HE ENCOUNTERED A GROUP OF GROWN MEN TWICE HIS AGE WITH BOWLING BALLS IN TOW.
"THIS IS WHO YOU WANT ME TO BOWL>?" ONE OF THEM SAID.
"YEAH, LETS GO," THE SHYLOCK GRUNTED. "NOW"
THE FIRST MATCH HE BOWLED THAT DAY WAS FOR $1,000. HE LOST THE FIRST GAME. "RELAX," THE SHYLOCK SAID. THERE WILL BE A LOT MORE GAMES." JOHNNY WON THE SECOND GAME. THEN HE LOST THE TIRD, BUT WON THE FOURTH. BY THEN JOHNNY STARTED FELING IN , AND HE WON THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GAMES. "YA DID REAL GOOD, KID," THE SHYLOCK SAID. THEN HE PEELED OFF A COUPKLE OF THOSE $100 BILLS, HANDED THEM TO JOHNNY, AND HAD HIS BODYGUARD TAKE HIM HOME.
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HE FOUND THAT TAKING $500,000 INHERITANCE FROM HIS FATHER'S TRUCKING BUSINESS AND BLOWING IT IN VEGAS IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS. HE ONCE TOLD FOLLOW ACTION BOWLER NAMED PETE MYLENKI THAT HE FOUND MONEY IN HIS PANTS WHEN HE TOOK THEM OFF AT NIGHT, HE COULD NOT SLEEP." I GOTTA GO EMPTY THOSE POCKETS BEFORE I CAN SLEEP" HE SAID.
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BY AGE SIXTEEN, RICHIE GOT INVITED TO THE WORLD INVITATIONAL, DOMINATED BY THE BIGGEST SPORT STARS AT THE TIME--LIKE DON CARTER, DICK WEBER AND CARMEN SALVINO. BUT HE DID ONE BETTER THAN MERELY EARN AN INVITATION: HE ADVANCED TO THE FINALS.
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"WHAT IS THAT GOING TO PROVE?" SCHLEGEL SAID "THAT I'M GOING TO RAISE MY BET SO I CAN TAKE ALL YOUR MONEY?"
RICHIE FINALLY CALLED IT QUITS.
ONE NIGHT SCHLEGEL BOWLED RICHIE AT A PLACE CALLED RIDGEWOOD LANES IN BROOKLYN WITH AN EVEREST OF CASH PILED ON THE SCORE TABLE. RICHIE NEEDED AT LEAST A SPARE ON HIS FIRST SHOT IN THE TENTH FRAME TO THE MONEY HIS. BUT ON HIS FIRST SHOT, HE LEFT THE 7-10 SPLIT. SCHLEGEL, FIGURING HE HAD THE GAME WON AFTER HE SAW RICHIE'S LEAVE, HE BEGAN PICKING UP HIS MONEY AND COUNTING IT. THEN RICHIE BLASTED THE 10 PIN OUT OF THE PIT AND WATCHED IT TOMAHAWK THE 7 PIN TO CONVERT THE SPLIT. SCHLEGEL LOST.
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"NOBODY LEAVES THIS BUILDING UNTIL THAT GUY BOWLS ONE MORE GAME," HE SAID, THE BOWLING BALL CLUTCHED IN ONE HAND BY HIS SIDE.
"TAKE IT EASY, TAKE IT EASY," SOMEONE FROM THE LOAN SHARK'S POSSE ADVISED. THE SHARK DROPPED THE BALL AND RAISED A GUN. THE KIDS BOWLED A COUPLE MORE GAMES, BLACK SAM'S BODYGUARD GRABS THE GUN FROM THE SHARK AND AFTER THREATENING HIM, REMOVES HIM FROM THE BUILDING
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HOLY TRINITY PARISH
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
PASTOR'S COLUMN
FAREWELL TO JIM CUSKER
CAN YOU IMAGINE COMING TO HOLY TRINITY AND NOT SEEING JIM CUSKER AROUND ANYMORE?
JIM CUSKER HAS MOVED UPSTATE NEW YORK TO BE CLOSER TO HIS SISTER WHERE HE CAN OFFER HIS ASSISTANCE.
JIM CUSKER HAS BEEN A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS - -MORE THAN I KNOW. HE IS A ONE OF A KIND!
IF YOU WERE TO LOOK UP "FAITHFUL STEWARD", YOU COULD EASILY FIND JIM CUSKER'S NAME NEXT TO IT.
HE HAS SERVED IN MANY ASPECTS OF THE PARISH LIFE OF THIS COMMUNITY. JUST TO MENTION SOME: HEAD USHER, GRAND KNIGHT OF UNITY COUNCIL 8103 K OF C, THE HOLY TRINITY SENIORS, MONEY COUNTER, AND SO MANY OTHER WAYS HE SERVED AS A VOLUNTEER HERE IN THIS FAITH COMMUNITY.
YOU COULD ALWAYS FIND HIM HELPING TO SET UP FOR ANY AND ALL SPECIAL EVENTS; AS WELL AS BEING THERE TO HELP WITH THE CLEAN-UP.
JIM HAS BEEN COMMITTED FOR COUNTLESS HOURS, DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS AND YEARS. HIS DEDICATION, COMMITMENT AND PERSEVERANCE REPRESENTS THE TRUE MEANING OF STEWARDSHIP.
HE HAS DEMONSTRATED THE MANIFOLD WAYS THAT GOD'S SPIRIT IS EVER-AT-WORK IN OUR MIDST.
JIM HAS BEEN AN ABUNDANT SOURCE OF STRENGTH AND ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ME PERSONALLY. HIS SPIRITUALITY, HIS TOTAL DEMEANOR.
ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE STAFF AND PARISH MEMBERS OF HOLY TRINITY, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK JIM FOR HIS MANY YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE TO HOLY TRINITY COMMUNITY--HIS FAITHFUL SERVICE HAS BEEN A GREAT EXAMPLE TO ALL OF US, AND GIVES US COURAGE TO CONTINUE IN THAT SAME SPIRIT. HIS EXAMPLE REFLECTS SCRIPTURE TO US IN A VERY VIVID WAY-A MAN OF INTEGRITY, AND HARD WORK. HE HAS DEMONSTRATED THOSE CHARACTERISTICS CONSISTENTLY OVER THE YEARS.
NOW AS YOU ENTER THIS NEW STAGE OF YOUR LIFE, WE PRAY THAT GOD WOULD BLESS AND GUIDE YOU EACH STEP OF THE WAY. YOU MAY BE LIVING UP-STATE NEW YORK, BUT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A PARISHIONER OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH. THE DOORS WILL ALWAYS BE OPEN FOR YOU!
WITH WARM REGARDS AND GOD'S BLESSING,
REV. STEVEN CONNER, PASTOR
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When Thugs and Hustlers Ruled Dark Alleys
By GIANMARC MANZIONENOV. 8, 2012
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Many bowling alleys today are places where the martinis cost you at least as much as the bowling and a mirror ball twirls over neon lanes while a D.J. shouts in the booming dark. But those who roamed them between dusk and dawn in 1960s New York City recall places where kids too young to shave made more money in a night than their parents made in a year, con men faked heart attacks to evade the gangsters they swindled, and no one went home before sunrise.
It was a time "when America had a prince for a president and they called it Camelot, when Arnold Palmer was reinventing the golf tour and an arrogant kid from New York's West Side was becoming bowling's equivalent of 'Fast Eddie' Felson," the bowling writer Dennis Bergendorf wrote in 1980 for Bowlers Journal, a monthly magazine founded in 1913.
That arrogant kid from the West Side, Ernie Schlegel, is now 69. A Professional Bowlers Association Hall of Famer, Schlegel was one of the most notorious practitioners of "action bowling," a high-stakes form of gambling in which bowlers faced off for thousands of dollars.
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Larry Lichstein, a former "action bowler," went on to a Hall of Fame career in the Professional Bowlers Association. Credit Luby Publishing
"You'd go at 1 in the morning, and there were 50 lanes and the place was packed," Schlegel said in a telephone interview. "The action was huge back then, like poker is today."
The carpet soaked up the reek of gamblers' cigars as handlers penciled their debts on the score table.
"Back then there was a lot of street money," the action bowling great Richie Hornreich of Brooklyn said by telephone in 2009. "And if you didn't have it, there were shylocks to make sure you did."
If you did have it but preferred to keep to yourself, well, a good hustler found a way to change your mind.
"Before I bowled, I had one drink and threw a shot of bourbon on my head or down my neck," Schlegel told Herm Weiskopf for a 1982 article in Sports Illustrated. "That way, when I got to the bowling alley, I smelled real good. Then I'd bowl guys who were sure I was drunk. I crushed 'em."
In a 2002 article about Schlegel, Tom Clark, then a sports editor with USA Today and now the P.B.A. Tour commissioner, wrote: "It was in the dark bowling alleys nestled in the boroughs of 1960s New York City where Ernie Schlegel built his legend as an 'action' bowler, perfecting the art of the hustle."
Action bowling lore rode Schlegel's coattails into other mainstream publications over the years. One 1976 article John S. Radosta wrote for The New York Times, with the headline "Gimmicks Brighten Pro Bowling Image," hailed Schlegel as the eccentric who brought the action to the P.B.A. Tour. That year, Schlegel toured the nation as the Bicentennial Kid, sporting patriotic regalia that included a white jumpsuit decked with blue sequins, red-white-and-blue shoes and aviator sunglasses. Weiskopf's Sports Illustrated article described the night Schlegel entered Skytop Lanes in Hartsdale, N.Y., looking for action, and left hours later with $7,800 in cash.
That sum may seem large for an era when Schlegel took home about $42 a week working at a watch store. But for those who were there, it was not.
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"If you could beat any of the top guys in their home alley, you could leave the place with your pockets stuffed with hundred-dollar bills," the P.B.A. Hall of Famer Larry Lichstein said in 2009 at his pro shop in Cape Coral, Fla. "We had 900 bucks one night, my friends and I, and my friend said to Kenny Barber, one of the best around back then, 'Would you like to bowl Larry?' Kenny asked, 'How much?' My friend said, 'Two hundred dollars a game.' "
Barber, Lichstein said, laughed and said, "I don't pick up a ball for less than a grand a game."
"Now Max, a bookmaker, saw me beat someone else, and he put up the money for me to bowl Kenny," Lichstein added. "We bet $1,000 and we won, then $2,000 and we won, then $4,000 and we won that game. We kept winning, and Kenny and his guys quit. I had just turned 17; I was 145 pounds. That night we left with six grand between us; I had $2,000 in my pocket, and I knew that was how I would make my living for the rest of my life."
The dark bowling alleys Clark recalled bred their share of con men and clowns with nicknames like Goldfinger, Tony Side Weight and One Finger Benny. And if the tales of the former action bowler Jim Byrnes are to be believed, the names might have been funny, but some of the situations they faced were not.
Byrnes, a Connecticut native who retired to Port St. Lucie, Fla., before his death at 76 in 2010, described Goldfinger as a "good bowler, but a little on the shaky side."
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Kenny Barber was one of the best "action bowlers" in New York in the 1960s. Credit Photo courtesy of Gianmarc Manzione
Like Tony Side Weight, Goldfinger earned a reputation for lodging lead in his bowling ball to give it more "side weight." According to the crooks whose livelihoods depended on the extent of their mastery over various measures of deception, extra side weight turned the ball so sharply toward the headpin that it obliterated the pocket with an authority no ordinary ball could muster.
Steve Harris, a former pro shop owner from Neshanic Station, N.J., said he would drill a hole in a ball, pour mercury into it, then plug the hole with a liquid that hardened overnight.
"As the ball rolled, the mercury would shift in the ball and it would go sideways and kill the pins," Harris, 71, said. "I would also get lead sinkers from the fishing store and do that. But you could not control them. You just played with them."
Somebody forgot to tell that to Goldfinger, who won four consecutive matches with his loaded ball before the gangsters got a clue.
"He's throwin' a loaded ball," one of the gangsters growled behind Goldfinger's lane as he pulled a five-foot cigar out of his face.
Byrnes recalled: "One of the guys took it to the pro shop to weigh it, and the ball had 9 ounces of extra side weight. So they took him out on the approach, laid him down, held the bowling ball up over their heads, and smashed his hand in a million pieces with it. I don't think he ever bowled again."
Tales of smashing hands and luring suckers with a stench of bourbon invite their share of skeptics. But if corroboration counts, then Harris, Byrnes and many other graduates of this male-dominated underworld have that much going for them. The stories they tell, and the details with which they tell them, are the same.
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That is particularly true of the story of the infamous hustler Iggy Russo. If you wanted to bowl Iggy for any amount of money, you played by Iggy's rules.
"He was another big con guy," Dewey Blair, a former action bowler who now lives in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., said by telephone in 2009. "He couldn't beat most bowlers with regular wood pins, so he had his own heavier pins in his car. If you could average a 190 on Iggy's pins, you were doing pretty good."
Harris said: "Iggy was older than us. We were in our teens, but he was 40-something. The guys who were older had two lives. But we were all kids; none of us had established families or lifelong pursuits."
Those who witnessed the most spectacular incident in Iggy's life as bowling's pre-eminent escape artist would talk about it for the rest of their lives.
"I was there when he faked a heart attack," Byrnes said. "He was in the 10th frame of a match against a guy named Stoop."
Each man had bet on himself to lose, Byrnes said, "so they were dumping, bowling bad on purpose." He continued, "Iggy didn't know the other guy had bet against himself, too, and there were these big guys with guns betting on the match."
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Ernie Schlegel, now 69, described alleys packed with gamblers at 1 a.m. "The action was huge back then, like poker is today," he said. Credit Luby Publishing
The "big guys with guns" were known in the action as backers, humorless troglodytes who financed bowlers in big-money matches. Iggy had his backer just as Stoop had his.
"Dewey used to come in with a backer named Dobber who looked like he had sausage for fingers," Schlegel said. "And there was this other shylock everybody called Max who would come in with a wad of cash that could choke two horses."
Schlegel was no big fan of Iggy's.
"Iggy was one of those guys who made the action bad," he said. "He was the kind of guy who wanted to bet on one horse when there was only one horse in the race. He would rather bet the other way than win."
Iggy liked to think his deliberately unremarkable appearance -- glasses, crew cut, plain clothes and average height and weight -- cut the image of a no-talent noodle begging to be fleeced of his lunch money. But those in the action knew he was one of the most accurate bowlers in the city.
"We would play a game called low ball," Schlegel said. "You bowled to see who could end up with the lowest score, but you had to hit at least one pin every shot. So the lowest score you could get was 20, one pin on every shot with two shots per frame. Iggy Russo almost always shot a 20. He would take out the corner pins one at a time without hitting any other pin on the deck. He was phenomenal."
If only Iggy had not blown his cover on a few games of low ball. But he had; and now, stepping up in the final frame to face a spare that almost everyone in the house had seen him make many times before, Iggy assessed the situation with the cunning acuity of a born thief. He could make the spare for a win and be shot by his own backer, or miss the spare for a loss and be shot by his opponent's backer.
"Iggy heard he had some unsavory characters betting on him, and he couldn't take the chance of losing because he didn't know what would happen to him," Mike Limongello, a Long Island action bowling star and P.B.A. Hall of Famer, said in a 2009 telephone interview. "So he got up to throw the next ball, and he just dropped the ball and grabbed his chest and faked that he was having a heart attack. They called the ambulance and everything."
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Byrnes said Iggy had good reason to take the possibility of death that night so seriously as to escape by pretending to be dying.
"We went down to Long Island one night with Bill Spigner and this guy Brian Hayes," Byrnes said. "We bowled Tom Delutz Sr. We won a match and lost one, lost one and won one, etc. So Brian says, 'All right, we'll go for $700 this game.' I say O.K. So now in the second frame I'm sitting at the score table. Billy comes up to me and says: 'If ya lose the match, run to the lot! We don't have money to pay them.' "
"So of course I am down the whole game," Byrnes continued, adding: "There were about 50 or 60 huge guys in the back, and they were all betting on Tom. If I lose and can't pay up, I'm a dead man. These guys will kill you. So I get up in the 10th and I need 29 pins to tie, 30 to win.
"Now, as nervous as I was, there was no way the ball would come off my hand smooth, so I move into the second arrow and fire it at the pins. Bill said it took two revs down the lane. It went rump, rump into pocket for a strike. Same thing for the second ball. And on the last shot I am saying, 'Please, God, give me nine! Let us tie so I can get the hell out of here!' I throw a strike, and Bill says, 'Those were the three greatest shots you ever threw!' I say: 'Yeah, $700 and our lives? That ain't bad!' "
For all the times they might have gone out looking to bowl for money and instead found themselves bowling for their lives, most veterans of the action bowling scene remember the glory more vividly than they remember the guns.
"It was good days," said Limongello, 68, who now deals cards in Atlantic City but escaped the worst of Hurricane Sandy. "Good times. I wouldn't give those days back for nothing."
The former action bowlers agree on another point: those times would be impossible to replicate today. But everyone seems to have his own explanation.
Red Bassett, 71, a former action bowler now living in the Houston area, put
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> RIDGEWOOD, N.Y.- BEN MC NEVICH REALLY STRETCHED OUT IN THE THE GLENWOOD FIVE MAN OPEN ROLLING AT GLENWOOD BOWL WITH A 759 SERIES. ROLLING FOR STEVENS STRETCH FABRICS, HE TOOK OVER THE LEAGUE HIGH SERIES CATEGORY WITH GAMES OF 245, 257 AND 257,
> TONY SPARANDO 232 682, AL VERITY 224 620 AND JACK HORN 232 606 ON STEVENS WHILE BERT GOODMAN 244-716, HIS SERIES SECOND 700 OF SESSION.
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> LA FRES FORD HAD A LEADER IN VINCE PANTUSO 249-665 AND ACCOMODATING 221-608 BY LEO MOREL BUT NOT ENOUGH AS IT SLID TO FOURTH.
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WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER WORKING AS A PINBOY AT BLUE DANUBE LANES IN CAIRO, NY, I WOULD CHOOSE A HOUSE BALL FROM THE RACK AND ROLL IT DOWN THE LANES, TO KILL TIME WHILE WAITING FOR BOWLERS TO ARRIVE. I WOULD HAVE TO WALK TO THE PIT AND RE-SET THE PINS.
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
ONE DAY ARTIE THE PROPRIETOR ARRANGED A MATCH WITH THE PIN BOYS FROM A NEIGHBORING TOWN CALLED ATHENS LANES IN ATHENS, NY. WE TRAVELED TO ATHENS FOR THE MATCH. WHEN WE GOT THERE WE BOWLED TWO GAMES. ONE GAME WE SET UP THE PINS AND MISSED THE MATCH. ONE OF THE PIN BOYS FROM ATHENS WAS A VERY GOOD BOWLER AS A TEENAGER WHO WENT ON TO PITCH FOR THE NY YANKEES. HIS NAME WAS BILLY STAFFORD. WHEN HIS BASEBALL CARREER ENDED, HE CONTINUED TO BOWL AT A HIGH LEVEL (AT LEAST ONE PERFECT GAME, MAYBE MORE). I HEAR HE DIED QUITE YOUNG.
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I REMEMBER JOINING A TEAM BOWLING IN A LEAGUE IN PARADISE LANES, BROOKLYN. I HAD HIGH GAME FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER AND RECEIVED A SMALL PLAQUE FROM SEAGRAMS. AT THE END OF THE BOWLING YEAR THERE A ROLL-OFF FOR THE OVER-ALL TROPHY, WHICH I WON, ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT I HAD TO BOWL ANOTHER GAME AGAINST ANOTHER HOUSE BOWLER WHO WAS NOT ABLE TO BOWL IN THE ORIGINAL. FORTUNATELY I WAS ABLE TO BEAT HIM AND AWARDED THE TROPHY.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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Schlegel joined the PBA in 1967 and gained a reputation as an animated performer and a fan favorite.He gained the nickname "The Bicentennial Kid" because of his colorful red, white and blue outfits and sunglasses he wore when he appeared on telecasts in the mid-1970's.He captured his first title in Overland Park, Kan., in 1980, and added another title later that year in Portland, Ore.He would wait four more years before winning his third title in Garden City, N.Y. and backed that up with a win the following year in North Olmsted, Ohio.His next win came in 1989 in Pinole, Calif., in a telecast that will always be remembered as the day the lights went out.Schlegel, who was fifth seeded, won his first two matches and was battling Ron Williams in the semifinal match when an electrical short caused the lights to go out.
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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Schlegel began bowling as a professional in 1968. He is a member of both the PBA and ABC Halls of Fame, and is the only person to be inducted into both Halls in the same year (1997). He won the first of his six titles in 1980. His last Tour title was the 1995 Touring Players Championship in Pittsburgh. He also won an ABC Masters title at Salt Lake City in 1996. Schlegel owns the PBA record for most career tournaments, and served as PBA President in 1987-88. Along with his six Tour victories, Schlegel has nine Regional Tour titles.
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PBA Senior Tour member Ernie Schlegel, Vancouver, Wash., is 23rd with 2,512 while 70-year-old Hall of Famer Carmen Salvino, Schaumburg, Ill., dropped to 225th place with 2,200.
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Ernie Schlegel, Thread Started on Jun 13, 2004, 4:58pm ,
Since I spent alot of time with Ernie in the early to late sixties, I thought it might be interesting to post a few of the great times we shared.
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I'm half asleep in the back and Ernie is totally asleep.
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Benny gets on to the Major Deegan and says " Ernie, we're going to Central, we've got $160 to play with".
I say " did you just hold up that place"?They answered, "what do you care".I tell Ernie, " these guys just held up a deli".We were both really crazed and told them to stop the car right on the roadway and we got out and walked back to our neighborhood.
I often think what could have happened to two innocent people if we had been caught by the police.
I was around 25, Ernie was about 22.
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Harry, I'm looking forward to reading many stories about Ernie, one of the greatest action bowlers of all time ... he was a true classic ...
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Anyway, I bowled in a "major" league in the Hub in Spring Valley with Ernie.
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So, Ernie and I get out and push the car through the toll to the side of the road.
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I see that Ernie was inducted into NYBA Hall of Fame this year.Will he show up for the ceremony?
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When Ernie started bowling action he used to yell" "Scrambled eggs" on very light hits that carried.
"Fruit salad" was used when he threw a terrible ball right on the nose and the pins just collapsed.
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Awhile back Mineralite asked me if Ernie would show up for his induction into the NY Bowling Hall of Fame.
The answer is yes.He called me on Friday to say he was in York, Pa. in a PBA regional and said the Hall Dinner is October 2nd in Queens.
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Ernie is in the B block that starts at 3 PM Saturday.
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Another interesting bit of trivia: I mentioned to Ernie that I had posted about "Fruit Salad".
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Ernie did pretty well in a tough old house with wood lanes and so much oil in the back end that nobody had big scores.I never saw so many splits and washouts.
There were 115 entries and he finished +53.Needed about +105 to make the finals.He cashed as usual.
Ernie and Cathy are coming out for his induction into the New York Bowlers Hall of Fame on October 2nd.
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Ernie and his wife Cathy will be there for his honors. hope to see old friends there.
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Ernie accepted with a terriffic and funny speech.His daughter flew up from Florida and his sister and brother in law came down from upstate NY along with Cathy's family members.
He spoke about growing up in Upper Manhattan and how he started bowling and the fact that the action in the 60's was the best time in his life and a time that has never been equalled.Talked about Gun Post and Central and other action houses like Parkway and Whitestone.
He spoke of his favorite bowlers, Jake Charter(originator of "fruit salad"), Ralph Engan(his hero), Joe Santini, Jack Clemente, Frank Medici, Mike Limongello, John Massero, Teata Semiz, Pete Mylenki Richie Hornreich, Johnny Petraglia, Dewey Blair and a few others I can't remember right now.
There were many of his friends there like John and Nick Kourabas whose father Chris gave Ernie a job at Inwood Lanes which allowed him to practice free for many hours a week, Teata Semiz, Pete Mylenki, Steve Harris, Tony Bozzo, Chuck Pezzano and Jack Clemente to name a few.
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One of them is a shot of Ernie, Teata Semiz and Pete Mylenki.
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Ernie is the oldest bowler in the whole tournament.He shot 1026 for five games.
He's tied for 88th out of 432.Not a bad start.
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Schlegel joined the PBA in 1967 and gained a reputation as an animated performer and a fan favorite. He gained the nickname "The Bicentennial Kid" because of his colorful red, white and blue outfits and sunglasses he wore when he appeared on telecasts in the mid-1970's. He captured his first title in Overland Park, Kan., in 1980, and added another title later that year in Portland, Ore. He would wait four more years before winning his third title in Garden City, N.Y. and backed that up with a win the following year in North Olmsted, Ohio. His next win came in 1989 in Pinole, Calif., in a telecast that will always be remembered as the day the lights went out. Schlegel, who was fifth seeded, won his first two matches and was battling Ron Williams in the semifinal match when an electrical short caused the lights to go out.
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Ernie Schlegel was one of the top, most famous, most successful action bowlers of all time...
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I would have to say that the biggest success story of a guy who was just a hustler has to be Ernie Schlegel. He really never worked except here and there for a bowling alley and only so he could practice for free. He's come a long way from his modest beginnings as a janitor's son.
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About two years ago Ernie was in Jersey for the Petraglia PBA stop. We were meeting for dinner and he asked me if I still had my old ball. Anyway, I brought it and gave it to him. He wanted to plug and redrill it to fool around with.
Berardi did better in the pro's but Ernie is by far the better action bowler.
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Remember there is quite a bit of oil on the pro tour and Ernie never threw a lot of ball so it was much tougher for him to carry. There aren't many guys around who are as accurate as Ernie and if he could carry like some of the others he would have been SUPER TOUGH on tour. I'm ready DEGEN...................just let me know when.
also i was very close friends with the horn and joe s and both also agree ernie was a tough match now in my opinion ernie had the heart of a lion. i never saw him in the sixties but the seventy's he was still tough. the man could go down and in better than anyone . plus he had charisma. when i went on tour I had red white and blue linds made for me just like ernies in 1976. the problem with most posts on this site is the newcomers have little or no respect for the oldtimers.
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I just spoke to quite a few of my colleagues who was there with me when Ernie was shooting action at Gun Post Lanes with his red ball. We all agree something was up with his bowling ball.
Ernie was very accurate, I agree there with you.
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Anyone who ever saw Ernie knows his whole game was being accurate. You couldn't be accurate with a loaded ball in the 60's because we used to put lead or mercury in and had no idea of what would happen when we threw it. It was more for fun than serious bowliing.
Ernie is bowling Mike Chuchillo from Patchogue one night at central.
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Nothing less than 240 for Ernie the first six and wins them all. the next game, he needs a mark in the tenth. he missed the head pin, left the 124 and then missed it to the left. Ernie came back laughing. The next game 240 plus, match over. he never went into his pocket for the game he lost.
ExAlleyRat, come on, Ernie was smart not a crook. He would bet only 20 and lose, then freeze out the back, bet big and win. That's different that taking the money and not betting it. Most of it was just feeling out the pair and his opponent until he was confident.
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Ernie was the smartest especially when he was dumping. How many times he collected from the back, never bet a dime, did not put all in the middle and threw the game.
I was in Central throughout the mid-late 60's and at GunPost before that. Ernie was the smartest action bowler period. Most guys were all ego, swagger and talk. It was a show. Ernie was always thinking.
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this thread brings back some great memories I'm 59 years old now and Iget chills reading all these stories one of the best matches I ever saw was Jack Clemente and Ernie Schlegel against Ralph Engan and John Juni at the hub in Nyack,NY jack and ernie cleaned them out I remember the last game the owner of theHub took the money from all the registers in the house , the front desk,the bar and the snack bar Jack and Ernie put the game out of the wood in the ninth frame.
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this thread brings back some great memories I'm 59 years old now and Iget chills reading all these stories one of the best matches I ever saw was Jack Clemente and Ernie Schlegel against Ralph Engan and John Juni at the hub in Nyack,NY jack and ernie cleaned them out I remember the last game the owner of theHub took the money from all the registers in the house , the front desk,the bar and the snack bar Jack and Ernie put the game out of the wood in the ninth frame.
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You were obviously there at Central etc. So was I. You posted the same insulting comment about Ernie last year. He is and was a friend of mine.
He has turned 180 degrees into a really fine adult and family man. He is also a good businessman, teacher and still able at 60 to compete on the tour with guys in their 20's and 30's. He is a member of three different HOF's and you sir, are still calling him names from 40 years ago. As you said most of the action bowlers were looking for an edge and shaved corners to do it. I agree that Ralph was in a class by himself and by the way so does Ernie.
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I was a friend of both JK and Ernie. Still see him when he comes to the East Coast. He is now past 60 and still on the regional PBA tour. He won one last year and looks great. Check out some pics I took a few months ago in Wilkes Barre, PA. Just click on his picture on the first page.
You will see that I mentioned the night Sy cleaned us out in Boston Road and that Sy had driven us home because we were flat busted.
Ernie never threw a strong ball, his whole game was being consistant and always thinking about winning not being macho. So if he was down a game or two and not confident, he'd quit.
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Schlegel was a great action bowler as most know and absolutely better than Ralph in action.
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Ernie accepted with a terriffic and funny speech. His daughter flew up from Florida and his sister and brother in law came down from upstate NY along with Cathy's family members.
He spoke about growing up in Upper Manhattan and how he started bowling and the fact that the action in the 60's was the best time in his life and a time that has never been equalled. Talked about Gun Post and Central and other action houses like Parkway and Whitestone.
He spoke of his favorite bowlers, Jake Charter(originator of "fruit salad"), Ralph Engan(his hero), Joe Santini, Jack Clemente, Frank Medici, Mike Limongello, John Massero, Teata Semiz, Pete Mylenki Richie Hornreich, Johnny Petraglia, Dewey Blair and a few others I can't remember right now.
There were many of his friends there like John and Nick Kourabas whose father Chris gave Ernie a job at Inwood Lanes which allowed him to practice free for many hours a week, Teata Semiz, Pete Mylenki, Steve Harris, Tony Bozzo, Chuck Pezzano and Jack Clemente to name a few.
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Ernie, not many guys have the great action stories you have, your nic should be Mr. Action.
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You are wrong about Ernie. He often bet way more than $100. Especially when he was "sure" he'd win.
He'd start with a small $40 bet and let the back have most of the bets. But, when he felt it, he'd freeze them out and cover most of it himself. I saw him bet $500 or more a game plenty of times.
Probably not. However, if the bets had been as big, as when the horn and lemon were at their best, I'm sure they would have each bet 1000s. These guys would at times bet 1g out of the box when 100 was a nice bet. Schlegel, doc, etc. rarely bet more than 100. The horn was in Vegas one year in the late sixties on tour and Burton challenged him to a three game total wood for 1g. richie said that he only bet one game at a time and challenged him for 10g.
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Ernie did pretty well in a tough old house with wood lanes and so much oil in the back end that nobody had big scores. I never saw so many splits and washouts.
There were 115 entries and he finished +53. Needed about +105 to make the finals. He cashed as usual.
Ernie and Cathy are coming out for his induction into the New York Bowlers Hall of Fame on October 2nd. Dinner is at Anton's in Queens.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
I've been going thru old photos and came upon one I thought you'd appreciate. Before we moved to Arizona, I was going thru old stuff and trying to decide what was worth keeping and what should be discarded. I came across a box of clothes in the attic and there were my old bowling shirts, as bright and good as new, if a bit wrinkled. I photographed them and decided to keep them for nostalgic reasons; actually thought my son, Chris might be interested in wearing them since young people seem to wear a lot of weird stuff.
Anyway, do you remember that most bowling shirts in those days were made by King Louie? You can actually see the label inside the collar of the bright blue and yellow shirt. That shirt had "Young Fellahs" written on the back. You may remember that Young Fellahs was a clothing shop on 86 Street between 4th and 5th Avenues and sold clothes to teens and young adults. A group of us got them to sponsor us in a junior league at Leemark.
I don't remember why I had a Strand Lanes shirt and not a Xaverian High School shirt since we competed against other schools there. I think the school shirts were lent to us and we had to return them at the end of the season. The Strand Shirt may have been for a traveling team, possibly including Richie Hornreich, which Strand sponsored; not sure.
Engan's Bowlmart, located on 7th or 8th Avenue in the 50'd I'm guessing (I'm sure you remember John Engan and his son Ralph)must have sponsored a team I was on, probably in Leemark or maybe Melody Lanes. The Leemark shirt would have been for the junior traveling team they sponsored; it included me, Tony Izzi, Frankie Lamonica, Richie Hornreich and possibly Tommy Wedlock. As mentioned before, we traveled all over Brooklyn on Saturday mornings competing against any other house that had a traveling team. And finally, the St. John's shirt was for the varsity team I was on where we competed at the dreaded Bowlmor Lanes in lower Manhattan.
Just a bunch of fond memories but the shirts look as they did when new; amazing how being stored in a sealed box for fifty years can preserve clothing; not one moth hole!
Bob
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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State: NY
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Impaired vision failed to keep Sparando from becoming one of the East's all-time great stars. Tony was one of the few remaining top stars who pin bowled rather than spot bowled. Among famous Eastern teams he bowled with were Ronson Lighters and Faber Cement Block. Teammates on the Fabers included fellow Hall of Famers Lou Campi, Lindy Faragalli, Chuck Pezzano and Graz Castellano.
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Graa Castellano, a onetime boy wonder of bowling, died here yesterday after a heart attack. He was 47 years old.
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Mr. Castellano, who was rated as one of the nation's top bowlers when he was only 17, was the first to bowl a 300 game on live television. That happened eight years ago.
He began bowling as a pin boy at the Pratt Institute alleys in Brooklyn.
“I used to practice by myself,” he recalled in 1960. “I would roll oil two alleys.‐ After knocking down the pins I would walk to the pits, set up the pins and start all over again. It was a lot of work but it was worth it.”
He joined a league when he was 15 and averaged 180 his first season. Since then he had rolled at least six 300 games, four of them in events sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress.
Mr. Castellano owned a bowling supply concern with branches in Flushing, Glendale and Sunnyside.
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Chuck Pezzano, USBC Hall of Famer, dies at age 86
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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ARLINGTON, Texas - Chuck Pezzano of Clifton, New Jersey, a United States Bowling Congress and Professional Bowlers Association Hall of Fame member, died Friday at St. Mary's Hospital in Passaic, New Jersey. He was 86.
PezzanoServicePezzano, who began writing about bowling for a local newspaper while an English major at Rutgers University, would go on to become one of bowling's most prolific authors. He would write articles for more than 100 publications, authored more than a dozen books and wrote thousands of newspaper columns about the sport.
Pezzano150xBorn in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1929, Pezzano started bowling at age 14 and became one of the top bowlers in his area by the time he was 17. After a short stint in the Army, he attended Rutgers and continued to bowl, posting the first certified 800 series (824) by a collegiate bowler. He also started writing a bowling column three times a week for the Paterson Morning Call, then added a golf column and would later become the paper's lead sports columnist.
He eventually joined The Record newspaper in Hackensack, New Jersey, and continued a writing career that would last more than 60 years.
While Pezzano was a competitive bowler - he averaged more than 200 for 23 years - he became more involved in the sport including serving as commissioner of the Eastern Professional Bowling League. He was a charter member of the PBA and, in the 1960s, he and future PBA Hall of Famer Frank Esposito started the PBA Regional program.
In addition to running the PBA East Region, Pezzano would serve as PBA secretary for 20 years and become its historian. He was a member of the PBA's inaugural hall of fame class in 1975, inducted for meritorious service, and the PBA named its pressroom in his honor in 2011.
Pezzano also was involved in the early productions of bowling on television, starting with his work with legendary announcer Mel Allen on Jackpot Bowling. He would later work with hall of fame broadcasters such as Chris Schenkel, Jack Buck and Brent Musberger, and did work as a consultant on TV shows, movies and instructional bowling videos.
He served as president of the Bowling Writers Association of America and was the first American selected to serve as president of the World Bowling Writers. He also served on several hall of fame boards, including the PBA, American Bowling Congress (ABC) and Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC).
He was inducted into the USBC Hall of Fame for meritorious service in 1982.
Pezzano is survived by his brothers Russell and Arnold Pezzano, sons Charles Jr., Craig, Curt and Clay, and grandchildren Amanda Rose Pezzano and Jarod Charles Pezzano. He was preceded in death by his wife Lila, brother William, and sister Joan.
A wake will be held Wednesday from 4 p.m.-8 p.m., with the funeral service scheduled for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Both the wake and service will be held at Bizub-Quinlan Funeral Home, 1313 Van Houten Avenue, Clifton, N.J. 07013.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
PBA Charter Member Chuck Pezzano Dies at 86
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
by Bill Vint January 23, 2015 13:14
CHICAGO - Chuck Pezzano of Clifton, N.J., a charter member of the Professional Bowlers Association Hall of Fame and widely recognized as the dean of bowling journalists, died Friday of cardiac arrest while undergoing a stent procedure at St. Mary's Hospital in Passaic, N.J. He turned 86 on Jan. 14.
Since the formation of the PBA in 1958, no one has contributed more to the organization in so many different ways than Pezzano, a founding member of the organization.
Born in Paterson, N.J., in 1929, Pezzano lived his entire life in New Jersey. After graduating from Rutgers University, he started his writing career with the Paterson Morning Call in 1952 and continued writing for The Record in Bergen County until his death, more than 60 years later. Over the years, he contributed to more than 100 publications round the world and authored or co-authorized more than a dozen books about bowling.
Pezzano first became involved with the PBA as a top-flight competitor. He was the first collegiate bowler in the United States to bowl an 800 series. One of his proudest accomplishments as a bowler was joining his four sons - Charles Jr., Craig, Curt and Clay - as the first father and four sons to bowl 300 games.
But his legacy off the lanes far surpassed his credentials as a player as he evolved into the most prolific bowling writer in history.
In the 1960s, Pezzano and fellow New Jersey entrepreneur/PBA Hall of Famer Frank Esposito created the PBA Regional program, creating a close-to-home, affordable competition arena for thousands of would-be professional bowlers to develop their skills.
He was the first Meritorious Service inductee in the inaugural PBA Hall of Fame class in 1975, and later inducted into the United States Bowling Congress and Bowling Writers Association of America Halls of Fame, among his 12 halls of fames.
In addition to his prolific writing contributions, Pezzano was a television pioneer, working with hall of fame broadcasters Mel Allen, Chris Schenkel, Jack Buck, Brent Musberger, Al Trautwig and others. He worked as a consultant on television, movie and instructional videos, and traveled the country serving as an emcee and guest speaker at hundreds of bowling functions.
Pezzano also was heavily involved in PBA business affairs, running the PBA East Region for 20 years. He was secretary of the PBA Hall of Fame for nearly 20 years, and served as the organization's official historian for longer than that. He helped open the door for women bowling writers to join the previously all-male Bowling Writers Association of America (which later named its scholarship program in his honor) and he was a lifelong advocate for high school and collegiate bowling. He was actively involved in charitable fundraisers, and worked closely with curator Bruce Pluckhahn in planning exhibits for the "new" International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame in St. Louis.
When the PBA dedicated its pressroom in his honor in 2011, Pezzano said, "It was Will Rogers who noted that he never met a man he didn't like. I won't go that far but I will say that I never met someone in bowling that I didn't like something about.
"Through bowling I have traveled more than three million miles, visited every state, and places such as Las Vegas and Reno more than 150 times, delved into the history of the sport, learning about the roles of women, minorities, bowling communications and halls of fame. Writing, broadcasting, speaking, serving on special committees (18 hall of fame committees) being involved in major innovations to and for the sport that provide endless fodder for all bowling involvements. The goal always is to just do
everything a little better than it has been done."
Failing health had limited his travel in recent years, but Pezzano never stopped wanting to help.
"Chuck called me a week ago, still trying to help the PBA," PBA Commissioner Tom Clark said Friday. "He's an icon, prolific and multi-talented. There will never be another like him. He'll be greatly missed."
Pezzano is survived by his four sons, grandchildren Amanda Rose Pezzano and Jarod Charles Pezzano, and brothers Russell and Arnold Pezzano. He was preceded in death by his wife Lila (nee Grosser) in 1983, brother William and sister Joan.
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Memory Lane: Back in the Action with Legend Jeff Kitter
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
By Gianmarc Manzione Bowling News Manager BOWL.com
Kitter -
Long before the World Series of Poker attracted legions of fans to their television sets to watch gamblers crowd a casino card table with millions of dollars in prize money on the line, a place called Central Lanes just a short drive north of New York City swarmed with money and matches whose legends no main event in Vegas will ever outlive, a place where Jeff Kitter bowled future Hall of Famer Johnny Petraglia for $2,000 a game equipped with nothing but a 10-pound ball and two fingers as Johnny used only his thumb, a place where you always knew you could find a black jack game out back whenever you had no match inside.
"You still weren't there at 5:30 in the morning with your date," Kitter explains. "This was gambling."
Welcome to Jeff Kitter's 1960s, a time warp in which Richie Hornreich gathers friends by a rainy window in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge Lanes and places bets on which rain drop will make it down the window the fastest, where a young Mike Limongello borrows enough from Max the Shylock to make it through one more match as long as he agrees to let Max bet on him, and the action at Central Lanes in Yonkers is far too real to be outdone by the manufactured thrill of jackpot sirens and neon lights thousands of miles away.
"There were very few avenues to gamble back then," action bowling legend Jeff Kitter explains. "There was no sports betting to speak of, the Meadowlands race track hadn't even been built, Atlantic City wouldn't become a gambling venue for another fifteen years, there were no lotteries, people didn't even talk about going to Las Vegas because it was so far away. Just as the place to gamble was the pool hall in the '30s and '40s, the bowling alley became the place to go and gamble in the '50s and '60s."
In the time warp of Jeff Kitter's memory the pharmacies close at five, cell phones are the stuff of sci-fi jokes and the neighborhood turns desolate after dark. But if you're looking for action after hours, you can find it any night of the week at places like Leemark Lanes in Brooklyn where Richie Hornreich is battling Mike Limongello for enough money to pay the rent for several years, or Central Lanes where Larry Lichstein glimpses Ernie Schlegel for the first time in his life and finds him "pounding his chest like a gorilla, saying he is the greatest bowler in the world."
"Everything was closed on Sunday, so when you went to Central Lanes on Saturday night or early Sunday morning, the town was desolate. You would drive up Central Avenue-the bowling alley would be on it-nothing was open. There wasn't a delicatessen open, there were no supermarkets. You were living in an era where there were four or five TV stations and only a handful of people had color TVs and cars didn't have air conditioning," Kitter recalls. "But the first time I went to Central Lanes it was five o'clock on a Sunday morning, I took the first bus up Central Avenue and the whole town was desolate, but I got off the bus and the whole parking lot of Central Lanes was packed, and right away I had this strange feeling, like 'What are all these people doing at five o'clock in the morning at a bowling alley?'"
Now that a parking garage stands on the plot of land in Brooklyn where Leemark Lanes once stood and the 42nd anniversary of the day two tricksters started a fire in a utility closet of Central Lanes and inadvertently burned it to the ground is upon us, many of the bowling alleys Jeff Kitter speaks of endure only in the memories of those who were there. They are the places that Kitter describes as "theaters" in which names like Dirty Bruce, The Hawk and Billy the Kid were as common as names like Joe and John and even "Benny Cigar" the beer delivery man and his 160 average could find a match for hundreds of dollars a game.
"What made the atmosphere almost carnival-like was that you could find a match between two 165 bowlers for a lot of money. Benny Cigar bowled Joe Bera the bookmaker I don't know how many times, and it wasn't unusual for them to bowl for four or five-hundred a game, and they were horrible."
It was a carnival in which Kitter happily indulged, where Iggy Russo, perhaps the most mythical character to emerge from the action bowling scene of the 1960s, drove up to every match with a collection of loaded balls and lead pins which, if you wanted to bowl Iggy for any amount of money, you accepted as part of the deal. It was a carnival in which you bowled for as much money blindfolded as you did throwing the ball between your legs, a carnival in which anything-from the rain in the window to black jack out back-was a chance at getting a taste of the action.
"One of the things I never see written about are novelty games, but there was a lot of gambling done on bowling in all sorts of different manners-low ball which involved trying to pick off the corner pins but if you threw it in the gutter you got 10 plus whatever you got on the next ball, then there were matches bowling palm ball, blindfolded, house ball, between your legs, between chairs, with the other guy's ball, I'm not even thinking of them all."
But as Jeff Kitter says, a place like Central Lanes was as much a theater as it was a bowling alley, a theater whose audience arrived from "as far south as Philadelphia and as far north as Boston," a theater whose participants-however far removed from "the action" as they may be these days-tell their stories as vividly now as they did the day after they happened.
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Jeff Kitter and Cliffy Burgland bowled some off the biggest doubles matches in the history of action bowling, this was the elite of the elite doubles teams.
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Charlie Faino absolutely right. The best around from 70 until 75 when Urethane lanes came in and the full roller was not as effective. Kidder took over in '76. Jeff was second best when Faino was the best. Saw George Pappas walk off the lanes agaist Faino after practice. He had come in the house with his backer looking for Faino. Faino got up on the front desk and told Pappas how he sucked as he was walking out with his backer.Faino was a character but a great bowler.
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Jeff Kitter got really good when urethane lanes came in 1976. Jeff retired from gambling a few years ago, lives in Hilton head and plays the market for a few clients as told to me by his former partner Bill Daly. Daly also kept a diary of all the matches they were involved in. To say kidder was the second best, you probably never saw much of Hornreich. He beat up on better bowlers. kidder did not have alot of tough competition, although he did crush Roth at Rainbow in a doubles match. And he never went on tour, because he gave up the game to become a professional gambler. he was one of the biggest around, betting 10g a game and up.
Kitter and Burglund against Roth and Petraglia in '76.
The match you referred to happened at rainbow. Jeff and burglund clocked roth and rags in mark's own house. Rags was never that good in action because he needed oil. And roth never bowled kidder that night as I was told. did spallone really bowl the beeper. hard to believe beeper got on the same pair with him. so so so much better. spallone terrific action bowler. would rather go to ac.
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Schlegel and rags had bowled kitter and johnny bell in white plains bowl about a year before the roth match. kidder and bell destoyed them. they were one of the best doubles team I ever saw back in the day or even today. no matter where they bowled doubles, they were usually good for about 480. Johnny bell was a real good bowler, at that time better than kidder in my book. the only deuce bowler I ever knew that looked at the pins. Bell won alot, especially in singles but he never bet. He'd bet $5 or $10 on himself, but at the track I saw him generally bet $100 on a horse.
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This old dog was also at the great match at Rainbow Lanes. It was like a TV show, they bowled upstairs on the left side. All the lanes were closed down except the center pair where they bowled the match, the house was full of on lookers, the air was thick with electricity.
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I was at the great roth petraglia vs kitter and burgland match. there was more excitement watching the beeper and spallone. Kitter was good so was roth but my opinion is roth was not a good action bowler. funny thing is bowl him in the finals on tour he was tough but have him take some cash out of his pocket well that was a different story. I believe he did not even have a bet on the match that night. I could be wrong but I sat right there and I even had a bet on the match. and I was just a kid then. cliff and petraglia did not break 180 any game taht night . kitter was bowling low 200's to 220 and mark was 200 to 210 . I truly enjoyed the beeper - spallone match more.
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Jeff Kitter: Question: As good as these great sixties action bowlers were, how do they stack up against Jeff Kidder, I could be wrong but I think Jeff bowled in more big action matches than anyone else and stayed on top longer than the rest. Why didn't Jeff ever turn pro. Answer: To me Jeff was second to Dewey who only bowled for a year or so and Jeff bowled forever so hard to say. As far as why Jeff never turned pro is very simple. He made a lot more money betting basketball and football then he could ever have made on tour. Most of you don't know this but Jeff is a genius. He had bookies in many states and would bet both teams in their home town and catch middles for BIG money. I used to play golf with Jeff, Joey B. and Teata every Wed. in Paramus. We played partners and switched every week. Teata is about a 4 handicap and the rest of us were about 12's so whoever had Teata got strokes. Jeff had ice in his veins I swear. If he needed to make a putt for the $ he made it....period. Last I heard he owned a couple of restaurants and would use his plane to back and forth....yes he is a pilot. Till next time.....
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Lemon was better than all mentioned. Schlegel second best. How could you forget about the best, Richie Hornreich? Kitter was the best in the late seventies when all mentioned were on tour, except Lemon who did not bowl much then. kitter did crush Roth in a doubles match at rainbow in 1976.
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Answers for some questions: The other real big backer was the guy that came with Dewey Blair....Steve do you remember his name? The match at Skytop ended at about 6am not 8am and he didn't destroy Ralph I think he came up 2 games. But your right he did destroy Mike L. and Ernie and everyone else he bowled during that short period of time. For my money the best I ever saw and I would put Jeff Kidder 2nd. See you Friday Steve.
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As good as these great sixties action bowlers were, how do they stack up against Jeff Kitter I could be wrong but I think Jeff bowled in more big action matches than anyone else and stayed on top longer than the rest.
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Why didn't Jeff ever turn pro.
Steve, what did you think of Jeff Kidda, I thought he had ice water in his veins, the best I ever saw. Do you know of any bigger backer than Bill Daley.
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Action bowlers, before & after 1980 How do the pre 1980 action bowlers rank against the post 1980 action bowlers...Bernie There were more action shooters prior to the 1980s. rudy revs probably the best in the last twenty years. Richie Hornreich, Mike Limongello, charlie Faino, Jeff Kitter would have beaten Rudy if he had been around then...Old Timer I believe you cannot compare athletes of different eras...that includes bowling....Equipment, conditions and the athletes themselves are unlike they were years ago...The question might be if todays players were put into the 1960-1970 senario and reverse how would they all do... Would they be as dominent as they were in their time.. I do think however that the many of the action bowlers years ago were bigger gamblers than now. Some bowler who would take out of his pocket $ 200 to bet on a bowling match and only earned $ 275 at his job is a much bigger bettor than a guy today who bets $ 200 a game out of his pocket, but earns $ 950 at his job. Action years ago pitted bowlers of equal quality in many matches. How often can we say that happens today.... For the most part today we have a bunch of committee betting locksmiths who in many cases would never bowl a player of equal quality. Many action bowlers today won't bowl a singles or doubles match if there is a lefty involved, or the lanes must be conditioned a certain way or no match, or if he got out of the wrong side of the bed that morning...no match... Then you have the rarest breed of action bowler of all.....the guy who bowls a guy who he knows is better than him but loves the tough competition, and wants to take a shot at making some real money..Knowing all of his be...Anonymous
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A Question For Bill Daley Was Jeff Kitter the best action bowler you were associated with, I don't know if back would be the correct phrase. If not, who was the best one you partnered with and who do you consider the best of all time. Who was the best in the 50s - 60s - 70s - 80s - 90s And last but not least, what was the best doubles team, meaning two guys that really bowled a lot of doubles matches together, ala (Mac & Stoop)(Fats & Deacon)(Jeff & Cliffie) Your the man Dollar Bill, The real Mr. Action... I hope you reply to this post. Thanks... Kevin jeff and cliff in doubles, 50s iggy, 60s richie, 70s lemon, 80s mark, 90s rudy...lennyd cane was not around in the seventies. so he does not know. lemon was gone in the seventies. faino was the best from 1970-1975 and jeff kidder took over when urethane came in 1976. jeff quit in 1981 to become a professonal gambler who now resides in hilton head and plays the market for three big clients. jeff no longer a gambler. just info. anyone want to contact jeff, check with daly, i'm sure he has his E-MAIL address. as to the 80s, mark was on tour and do not remember him bowling action. hank berhbom may have been the best after jeff retired. hank moved to florida late eighties, maybe 1987. rudy took over. but then duke was still bowling action. so when he came here, he may have been the best, but he could not beat Hank. they split twice at Pequa...Just Browsing
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To me Jeff was second to Dewey. Again Dewey only bowled for a year or so and Jeff bowled forever so hard to say. As far as why Jeff never turned pro is very simple. He made a lot more money betting basketball and football then he could ever have made on tour. Most of you don't know this but Jeff is a genius. He had bookies in many states and would bet both teams in their home town and catch middles for BIG money. I used to play golf with Jeff,Joey B. and Teata every Wed. in Paramus. We played partners and switched every week. Teata is about a 4 handicap and the rest of us were about 12's so whoever had Teata got strokes. Jeff had ice in his veins I swear. If he needed to make a putt for the $ he made it....period. Last I heard he owned a couple of restaurants and would use his plane to back and forth....yes he is a pilot. Till next time.....
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Jeff was making big gambling bets before he started to bowl action. He quit the action because it was hard to find big money matches.
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jk, that is not true. I first met Jeff when Charlie tuna brought him to Raceway when he was about 15 in 1969 or 1970. Jeff started making those big bets on sports after 1975-I knew him from 1969-1975. We used to call him Young Jeffrey. HE bowled alot of doubles with JOhnny Bell during the early seventies. They rarely if ever lost. He quit the game in 1981 to focus on being a professional gambler. These are facts. I came back to the game in 1982 and he was gone.
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More on Jeff. You should locate his partner, Bill Daly. He has a diary of all the matches they were involved in. Heard, again only heard that he carried his own pins. He did challenge Earl Anthony at Garden City. Earl told him to come to Seattle. He did. For reasons unknown, the match never took off. He did not always win the big ones. In 1978, he traveled to Baltimore and either bowled Pete Couture or george Pappas. Jeff lost around 5g.
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Great stories Butch. one correction, however. Jeff was in his early 20s(maybe 21) when Daly started backing him. Where did Daly get all his money. A ton was from gambling. You can figure out the rest. About a year ago, he avoided doing hard time.Again, somebody would have to get a hold of Daly and he could give you Jeff's e-mail address in Hilton Head. ALOT do not know, but Jeff is a college graduate with a degree in accounting. Guess being a numbers man, helped him make all that moolah betting sports. Daly made a ton himself. They always did their homework. From what Daly had told me, they kept statistics on all the games, like hundreds of sheets. They may have also had inside dope on who was hurting which gave them a big edge in making their selections. Daly also told me that he kept a diary of all the matches they were involved in.
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great action bowlers, here are a few of the best and any time they bowled with or againest each other was like a great game in any sport you loved to watch. joe s,frank medici ralph engan(the most feared), jake charter, dewey blair, lemongello,ritchie hornriech,jack clemente,rich pizzutti, jeff kitter,john massaro,ernie schlegel,doc iandolli,jimmy mChugh, pete mylenki,mike derose,and many more that i'm probably other people can add to this great list. each one of these bowlers had alot of talentand when they bowled each other it was beautiful to watch no matter who one the clutch strikes the jibeing was worth the price of admission
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Kitter beat em all including Roth in his own house. Robert Smith is the best Scianna ever beat and he won three straight. So it's no. Rudy was the best around until he hit the tour. And Scianna was there. One thought is that he will bet it up even when he's behind. He's the best now since rudy is on tour but there is not much around to beat.
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Green acres closed before Scianna was bowling action. Lemon was the best ever from the island and in all houses. Mchugh was never better than him in any L.I. house. Kitter was great after Lemon was out of the game, otherwise Lemon would have kicked his ass also.
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Rudy lives in Mississippi now. For whatever reason, Scianna rarely bowls in tournaments.He bowled in the regional in Florida last weekend. Mack was probably bowling some easier competition in Singapore. Ya hoss, believe me these guys never saw Kitter bowl. Is Woodmere the place where the action is Saturday? Expensive weekend for Smith. He travels 3,000 miles to see his girlfriend and then gets waxed on the lanes. Action is just a whole new ballgame. Now Scianna is real good and the best around these days. I'm sure if he keeps bowling Smith, he will go down in the long run. And kitter feared nobody. He challenged Earl at GC one year. Earl said come to Seattle. Kitter and DALY went. For whatever reason(s), the match never took place. Remember, when Rudy was here, Joe was second best. And Rudy beat Pete Weber on three different occassions. Twice here and once in Texas. Kitter, Lemon and hornreich were better. You had to be there to believe. Rudy never bet alot. the three bet thousands.
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I never said I was better than kitter just said I won a match . I beat alot of great bowlers but usually never bowled them again. I always thought if I beat them why bowl them again! Geno was a friend of mine. Ask geno about san antonio. doran was a nothing who was pissed i put him 3rd in the line up or some thing. after that match he wanted to bowl me at plainview I was all for it I won a regional there. never happened though.what is your name You can e mail me at lcapa...@hotmail.com I bowled the newsday only once I think it was syosset I did not make the finals I think 3/4 of the field made the cut off 1 day, i thought that strange and never bowled again in that tournement. I did bowl me 1st pba 300 at garden city it was the year after i led the ptq squad there. I always loved bowling there. There were alot of tough bowlers men and women that bowled there. and about jeff he was a great bowler no doubt. I mean no disrespect towards any bowler named in these posts they are all truly great bowlers .
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Iggy at his best when he was trying was better than Santini. The horn at his best would have beaten pete weber (why not, rudy beat him three times). Jeff at his best a little better than ralph. Lemon would have beaten holman for money. Roth crushes rags. and the best mentioned so far WRW sends berardi packing. Berardi lost to snake who was tough 20 years ago but no berardi. Now the horn and lemon at their best against wrw. My pick WRW the best I have ever seen... Lou C
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Billy Red, how do you rate yourself against Bill Daly as a big time better/backer (gambler) Have you ever gone against him in any capacity. How do you rate Rudy vs Jeff I believe Bill has also backed Rudy, if so, who backed him in bigger matches. One last question, how do you rate yourself as a bowler vs Joe Scianna
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daly was a much bigger backer than me. i am not in the backing business, except when rudy revs bowls. when rudy became the best, jeff was gone already. jeff was great but rudy started something in this game that the best bowlers are all doing today, cupped wrist with a lot of rotation. he changed the game. i also think rudy traveled more for matches and became a legend across the country. the megabucks also helped get his name across the country. jeff didnt have that luxury. they were both great in their own right. i will say though that rudy has been great thru 3 era's-rubber, urethane and resin. he adapted to all the changes. not like somepeople on this board that just complain about the equipment changes. i have gone up against daly many times in the action both with me bowling some of his boys at deer park and also with me betting on rudy against some of his guys. those were the good times. now a days you have kids that don't even have jobs taking shots at the money. there is nothing there to win anymore. they quit 1 or 2 down at the most. you are lucky a to get a $300 bet.
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i am in agreement, jeff was abetter action bowler NO DOUBT. the man had ice in his veins. and about Doran I guess you were there after i finished beating him on and off the lanes he wanted to bowl me again and I told him to bowl my wife at the time and if and i mean't if he could beat her i would give him a rematch. but he refused, he probobly would have lost that match too.my ex Debbie could bowl. she thru more ball than he did too.
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roth and rags match against kitter and burgland was not a great match. rags bowled horrible and burgland was worse. i dont think either of them broke 180 that night. i enjoyed the spallone beeper match spallone went berzerk, beeper was beeping and fouling buy a foot and a half drove spallone crazy. last game spallone needs to make a 10 pin goes down to the front of the masking unit on 1 knee and makes the spare the beeper beeped for an hour after that. spallone quit 1 up or so. but funniest thing i ever saw. beeper going wha wha wha wha what was tttttttthat wooop wooooop woooop. spallone telling him 1 ft over the foul line or 55 ft over samething. they are both fouls.
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Do you have any idea why Roth wouldn't bowl Kitter singles after the doubles match was over? I remember Daily saying he would cover the house and Mark turned it down.
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there were alot of great bowlers in the 60's to 80's and maybe even early 90's but the game has changed so much. can we really call this the same game when you shoot 275 and finish 3rd in a pot game with 6 bowlers. every week there was a 300 or 2 in every league (major) there is. i remember there wasnt a 200 avg in my home house for 12 years. and there were great bowlers there. i bowled with or against most of the greats of the game in the 70's and early 80's and a solid 220 could win 99 percent of the time. thats including kitter perry hornreich the whale doc iondoli burgland behrbaum so on and so on today everyone is a 230 avg big deal i came back and bowled for 6 weeks after a 10 yr layoff and avg 230 bowling once a week 3 games. well anyway i am not trying to belittle anyones talent today i am not. but its golf season want action call me FORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIG LOU
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My top pick is Jeff Kitter because he bowled many pros and beat them, had ice water in his veins, beat all the top action bowlers of his time and was a big better. He also traveled all over and bowled in any house.
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1 st time i bowled richie he had just come back from vegas and haddent bowled in a few years. came to maple and challenged the house so me being a big shot bowl him. i lost that match before we ever threw a ball. and i was at that time twice the bowler he was. but he still won. he mentally beat me before the match. he taunted me in front of all the maple bowlers. luckily for me he gave me a rematch saturday afternoon. and i beat him 8 straight. that was the day we became friends. and he became the teacher and me the student. like joe s was to him. unfortunatly being a thick headed 18 yr old , i would forget my teachers lessons and end up bowling someone like behrbohm or burgland or kitter in an actyion rich bowling alley and never get an easy match in that house again. hornet was the best, when i was growing up i spent time at bay ridge and all the great stories were about hornet. i was lucky i got to bowl around the real greats of the game. Petraglia, joe's, hornreich,roth, etc.
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heres my oppinion hornet lemengello kitter berardi rudy revs. that would be my a list. these guys were awsome. the only one i really never saw was lemongello. but there were hundreds of great bowlers. perry, schlagel, pappas, snake, engan,val macari, spallone,viale,neumann, killer, johnny meyers ira katz charlie venable joe s, fats and deacon,buffalo,god the list can go on forever.. i only bowled from 73 to81 and than again from 84 to 89 on and off. but had the pleasure of bowling many of these guys. and beating most. so i will put myself in here . but there are still many many more guys who were awsome not from the ny nj area. cane mentioned cammillari, tom was a charter member of the pba and an awesome bowler with great knowledge of the game. he invented many parts that are still in use by bowling alleys today. funny thing is everyone would pick some one different... Lou C
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Joey was a great bowler but I don't remember him being a great action bowler. I was one year younger than Joe when he bowled for Mt. St. Michaels in the CHSAA league at Stadium Lanes accross from Yankee Stadium. In addition we both bowled in the same small house Steele Lanes. When he made the Pro's his bio said he bowled at Parkway as he grew up but that is not the case. His family lived across the street from Stelle Lanes and he bowled their all the time. I don't remember him bowling much action. Only leagues and constantly practicing. His dad was really devoted to his becoming a pro and worked a side job as a bartender I believe so he could practice. Early in his pro career he was spnsored by Max from Kusky's on the tour receiving a weekly salary, expenses and a percentage of the purse's he won. The biggest match I saw him bowl was at Kusky's when Max backed him against Jeff Kidder. Jeff beat Joey that night pretty easily. Max also backed Petraglia and Butch Soper among others on the tour and would bring them in to bowl against Jeff but very rearly did they win. The story about Max is that Petraglia introduced Mark Roth to Max early in his carrier when Roth wanted sponsorship but Max did not like his style. I don't know if that story is true maybe someone can verify if it was or not.
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Tony I remember Jeff doing a real job on Butch Soper, wiped him out. How old was Joey in 1975, that's the year I saw the horn walk off the lanes at Raceway against Joey before the match began. Joet buried 10 straight in practice and Richie put his ball away. Obviously this wasn't the horn of the sixties.
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I was there old dog when Jeff beat beat Soper. In the space of a few weeks he beat Joey, Soper, Tom Baker from Buffalo all who were sponsored on the tour by Max and backed by him in action. The worst beating was one the night Jeff beat Petraglia 7 out of 8 games. Jeff was the best I ever saw my father alway's talked about Lemongello being the greatest but I never really saw him in action. The best match I witnessed actually was at Bridge Lanes in Queens between Jeff bowled Doc Iandoli. I had the pleasure of keeping score and they both played a real gutter shot. They were both lined in but Doc seemed to have a little edge because the gutter was not Jeff's natural shot. I remember Doc going up two games and it came down to the tenth frame of the next game with Jeff needing a strike. He moved back inside to the fourth arrow for that shot and got the strike. He won the next two games and the match was over. It was a great match to watch up close. Those were the good old day's.
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At his peak, Richie or Lemon would have beaten Berardi on any condition. You had to see Hornreich at his best which was prior to 1969. berardi at his best in action not even close to Hornreich. Richie beat Godman on more than one occassion at central where the lanes were dry, with Godman averaging in the 240s. Richie in the vargo on oiled lanes with 4 lb wood shot 1080 for 5, iincredible. The great EARL ANTHONY won that tournament one year with a 1020. Richie played anywhere from the gutter to the fourth diamond in the good old days. In those days, he had a very high backswing. Lemon was just as good, no matter what the conditions. I have not seen anybody here talk about the late Charlie Faino from Philly who was the best around from 1970 through 1976. He supported a family off the action and beat everybody around. Jeff never beat Faino, although they rarely bowled each other. Urethane lanes came into play in 1976 and the full roller that Faino through was not as effective.
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hers my list bowlers i bowled the horn,kitter,burgland,dirt,keith,doran,snake,perry, roy garcea,the ferraro brothers,doc iondoli,larry starr,tony attenasio,joe albanese,frank longo,buffalo bowlers i didnt bowl but would have liked to johnny meyers,lemon,ira katz,jimmy mack,ditolla,sliker,petraglia,roth,george pappas,wrw.
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All I can say is Jeff Kitter was the best I ever saw I was an action bowler in the old days I one time sent schlaegel packing after throwing 10 in a row on two seperate lanes. Anyway I am a has been but I know that if Jeff decided to bowl instead of make real money figuring out gambling odds and real estate he would have been a legend in the tri state area. Just ask Bill Daley he was Bill's horse since Jeff was about 15 years old I have seen the two of them make wads of money in a bunch of house's ranging from Pel Park lanes to van nuys to MSG to stadium etc. etc. etc.
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rags bowled kangarroo at fortway one night after kangaroo beat him rags threw all his equiptment down the lanes bag,shoes, everything. kangaroo was a friend of joe s and was a solid 170 bowler. rags was an average action bowler at best, but then again he was young when he bowled action. remeber he went on tour at about 19 or so. to win on tour you bowled 24 match games and no matter how well you bowled, without winning at least 70 % of those matches you werent going to make a show. big lou bowled action at about 14 yrs old and he was co*ky and loud, but he was just a kid, in my opinion he was superior than rags in action. at the roth-rags vs kitter-burgland match i think he actually wanted to bowl any of them after the match. his father had to stop him. he had balls, and game.
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I agree in their prime Horn and Lemon were the best doubles action bowlers in the world, but in 1975 or so Lou and Jeff were better... In 1975 the Horn and Lemon were still young, not old men yet but wouldn't have beaten Lou and Jeff over any period of time...
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Nominate The Greatest Action Bowler Of All Time and then we'll vote the top 5 nominations. My nomination is Jeff Kitter, he had nerves steel and didn't back down to anyone for big $$$ of his own, along with Bill Daly of course... He also beat the best around...
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I was their with Butch, the sixties for sure were the heydays of action, the only thing that brought the seventies in it were the likes of Jeff and the whole Bill daly crew, Joe Breardi, etc, plus Max the backer of course, but it still doesn't come near the 60s, not even close, the Horn was in there but had already seen his better days go by him... Nothing can compare to Central lanes and Ave M Bowl plus many other great action houses from the 60s, almost to many to remember...
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Saturday afternoon and evening at Falcaro's in Lawrence was the premier action house during the mid 70's and early 80's. Guys came from all over to challenge the house bowlers. The true house action bowlers at Falcaro's were as follows and not necessarily in order of the best. Tommy "Triple" Yadanza Bruce "The Dipper" Pastor Gibby ("The matchmaker") Pastor Sr. Gibby Pastor Jr. Barry Clare Phil Caporusso Jr. Al ("Ironman") Pinola John The Pollack Joe Viverito Big Al Julio Curra John Dugan Maury Berger Steve Weiss Steve Gowa Paul Katz Ira Katz ("The Whale") John Kurkemelis Steve Reiss Aaron Goldfedder Louis Rothman Michael ("The Sailor") Sperber Dino Star Freddy ("The Silver Fox") Mayo Freddy ("The Ox") Arbolino Andrew Castardi Mike Kilgannon Mike Lemingello Ray Shell Anyone who remebers more .....please let me know.. Action Bowlers who came down to Falcaro's during this era to bowl either house bowlers or other bowlers from the region were as follows: Jeff Kitter Bill Dailey Tavie Joe Cologna Cliffy Berglund Tony Devito Ricky Papandrea Gino Papandrea Louis Prisco Big Earl Bobby Simonelli Jr. Hank Behrbom Snake Les Shirwindt Jimmy McCue
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Bill Stafford
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
This article was written by Dan McHale.
“You automatically go all out, regardless of pain or what.”1 This was the guiding principle of New York Yankees pitcher Bill Stafford’s baseball career. Never had his philosophy been more tested than on the afternoon of October 7, 1962. After a screaming liner off the bat of San Francisco Giants outfielder Felipe Alou smashed into Stafford’s shin in the top of the eighth inning, the right-hander instinctively grabbed the ball and flung it to first, throwing the runner out. Only then did he react to the searing pain. Stafford, however, did not leave the field. Despite his injury the New York hurler finished the contest, leading his team to a 3-2 victory over San Francisco in Game Three of the 1962 World Series. It was a gutsy performance borne out of Stafford’s blue-collar background, and proved to be his magnum opus on the mound.
William Charles Stafford was born on August 13, 1938, in the small Upstate New York town of Catskill, on the west bank of the Hudson River about 120 miles north of Manhattan.2 The only child of William L. Stafford, a brickyard worker, and his wife, Jane, Bill grew up a few miles north of Catskill in the village of Athens. His father, a onetime semipro pitcher, encouraged Bill’s pursuit of athletics. When Bill was in middle school, William the elder painted a target on canvas and set it up in the family’s backyard. Bill would spend his summers firing baseballs from a regulation mound at the bull’s-eye, building his arm strength and perfecting his control.
At Coxsackie-Athens High School, Stafford was a two-sport star. On the basketball court he became the first player in the school’s history to score 1,000 points.3 On the baseball diamond, his statistics were even more impressive. He batted over .400 in all but his freshman season. During his initial year on Coach Doug Erickson’s squad, Bill, then a shortstop, added pitching to his résumé. “I needed a relief pitcher so I thought I’d try Stafford,” said Erickson. “This is where it all started – he struck out all 15 men he faced.”4 In his first start, the young twirler K’d an astounding 31 batters in a 17-inning, 2-1 Coxsackie-Athens triumph over rival Ravena. He finished his varsity career with a 19-2 record, which included two no-hitters his senior season. Spurning basketball scholarship offers to Duke, Syracuse, and Holy Cross, Stafford opted instead for baseball.5 On the day he graduated from high school in June 1957, there were 15 big-league scouts in Athens making their sales pitches in the Stafford home. Ultimately, Bill signed on June 28 with Tom Kane and Harry Hesse of the New York Yankees for $4,000.6
The teenager was shipped south to St. Petersburg of the Class D Florida State League. He went 5-3 in nine starts for the Saints, but posted a stellar 0.88 earned-run average.7 His promotion to Class A Binghamton for the 1958 season was therefore no surprise, but Triplets manager Steve Souckock’s decision to start the Hudson Valley native in the team’s season opener was indeed unexpected. Stafford would live up to his top-prospect billing, leading the club in wins with 11 and topping the Eastern League with a 2.25 ERA.8 On the strength of his performance, Bill was asked back to St. Petersburg the following February – but this time as a spring-training invitee of the Yankees.
Despite his achievements, Stafford’s tenure with the Triplets was also marred by the first in a series of serious injuries that bedeviled the pitcher throughout his professional career. A fall down a flight of stairs in Binghamton led to chronic back issues. Lingering lumbar problems help explain the young hurler’s regression in 1959, when he played for the Richmond Virginians of the International League. Stafford’s statistics – including his 1-8 record and 6.17 ERA –justified his late-season demotion back to Binghamton. Stafford undoubtedly fared better off than on the field that year: In October, he married Janice Maher, his high-school sweetheart and the eventual mother of his first two children, Billy and Susan.
Stafford rebounded in 1960 with a dominating season in Richmond. He tossed 58 more innings and allowed 26 fewer runs than he did in his previous stint with the V’s. He was, upon his late-summer call-up to the majors, among the International League leaders in wins, shutouts, and ERA. When several Yankee scouts recommended that Stafford was ready for the Bronx, club brass listened.9
Stafford was a fresh-faced 22-year-old when he made his American League debut on August 17, 1960. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound righty featured four pitches: fastball, curveball, changeup, and slider. His fastball, when effective, had a devastating sink to it.10 “Stafford had this really nasty heavy sinker that he threw. He ate hitters up with it,” said Johnny Blanchard, the Yanks’ backup backstop.11 That summer Blanchard and his New York teammates were battling Chicago and Baltimore in a three-team AL pennant race. The Yankee offense, led by Mickey Mantle and MVP-to-be Roger Maris, had been carrying the squad, as manager Casey Stengel’s pitching staff was inconsistent at best. Throughout the season, the Old Perfessor used starters as relievers and vice versa, hoping to find the right elixir to cure his team’s pitching ills. Thus, when Stafford was brought up from Richmond on August 15, Stengel started him two days later in an effort to jumpstart the team. Debuting at Fenway Park against Ted Williams and the Red Sox, Stafford held Boston to two runs and eight hits in 6⅓ innings. New York would go 7-1 in Stafford’s starts, and Bill won some key games for the Yankees down the stretch, including a six-hit, complete-game triumph at Detroit on September 9, that cut the Orioles’ league lead to a half-game. The two clubs were tied as late as September 15, when the Bombers ripped off a year-ending 15-game winning streak, leaving the O’s and White Sox in the dust.
Awaiting the 97-win Yankees in the 1960 World Series were the National League’s 95-win Pittsburgh Pirates. Stengel’s mismanagement of the pitching staff during this fall classic was a major factor in the legendary manager’s termination after the season. Following Art Ditmar’s disastrous start in Game One, Casey seriously considered starting Stafford for Game Five. Instead, he changed his mind and went with Ditmar, who was battered by the Bucs for three runs in an inning and a third. In relief, Stafford threw five scoreless frames, leading critics to question why the septuagenarian Stengel had started the veteran and not the rookie sensation. In Game Seven the Yankee manager once again was going to pitch Stafford. The night before the game, he informed Bill that he would be the starter.12 Stengel, though, pulled another switch and decided to pitch Bob Turley, who had won the second contest of the Series. However, Turley struggled and was replaced by Stafford in the second inning, but neither Bill nor the other three Yankee relievers used by Stengel that day in Pittsburgh were effective. The Yanks’ season would end in agony on a Ralph Terry hanging slider to Bill Mazeroski.
Shortly after the Series, Stafford entered the US Army under its six-month program. Discharged in March 1961, he missed six weeks of spring training. When he arrived at the Yankees’ camp in St. Petersburg, Bill was not in playing condition, and he struggled throughout the preseason. He also suffered from a sore shoulder. “It takes about a month to get in shape,” said Stafford. “I only had two weeks before the season began.”13 Beginning the year in the bullpen, Stafford found his way into new manager Ralph Houk’s rotation by June. The hurler rewarded the Yanks with a trio of complete-game victories in his first three regularly scheduled starts. In July Stafford recovered from another shoulder injury by twirling two shutouts.
The Yankees were in full swing, too, rattling off a record of 42-18 for July and August. The team had solved its early-season pitching problems, as Stafford and Rollie Sheldon became the young guns in a Pinstripe staff anchored by Whitey Ford and Ralph Terry and a bullpen dominated by Luis Arroyo. The Bronx was abuzz in the summer of ’61 with both the pennant race with the Tigers and with Mantle and Maris’s chase of Babe Ruth’s home-run record. Stafford won 14 contests that season, but his last victory was the most memorable of all. On Sunday, October 1, with the Yankees having already wrapped up their 26th American League title, all eyes turned to Maris, who was stuck on 60 homers, just one short of breaking the Bambino’s iconic mark. In the bottom of the fourth inning of his club’s final game, Maris deposited a Tracy Stallard pitch into the right-field seats, setting the record. “I don’t think I ever pitched a harder game in my life. … Everyone was pulling for Roger that day,” said Stafford, the winning pitcher in New York’s 1-0 victory over Boston. “That’s just the kind of team we were, one that pulled for each other all the time.”14
Stafford finished his sophomore season with a 14-9 record, including three shutouts, and a sparkling 2.68 ERA, good for second place in the AL. In the World Series against Cincinnati, Houk handed the ball to Stafford in Game Three, and the budding star came through for his manager. Although Bill exited the game trailing by a run, he pitched effectively, yielding two runs on seven hits in 6⅔ innings while striking out five Reds. The 109-win Bombers, meanwhile, used solo homers by Blanchard and Maris in the final two innings to steal the game and capture momentum in the Series, which they won in five games. Stafford’s contributions to the Yankees’ triumph did not go unnoticed by his skipper. “I want to give special tribute to pitchers Luis Arroyo and Billy Stafford,” said Houk. “I don’t think that we could have done it without them.”15
In 1962 New York returned its top three starters from the previous year: Ford, Terry, and Stafford. The upstate New York native had cemented himself into the number 3 slot in the rotation. Stafford certainly had reason for optimism: This season, he had no obligations to Uncle Sam; he would be with the Yanks the entire spring. Meanwhile, he was gaining repute in the New York media for being highly confident – arrogant, almost. This reputation was nothing new for Stafford. “Cocky? He even walked cocky,” recalled Coach Doug Erickson, commenting on the pitcher from his high-school days. “When you are that good, people don’t like you.”16 The Yankees beat writers took notice of the self-assured way Stafford strolled to the mound, which they described in great detail. “Bill had a lumbar curve and when he walked some could have judged it as being ‘cocky.’ As a teammate you knew differently,” said Sheldon.17
Stafford pitched poorly in April, but returned to form thereafter, winning four of his next five decisions, including a two-hit blanking of the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium on June 7. The Yankees were, as expected, in contention once again for the pennant in the summer and fall of 1962. By the end of August, however, the Bronx Bombers’ once-comfortable lead over the upstart Minnesota Twins had shrunk to two games. A September surge by the Yanks helped extend the lead to four games, but the team lost the first two contests in a late-September series in Chicago. With the pennant almost within reach, it was Stafford’s responsibility to stop the team’s slump. On September 23, more than 30,000 fans watched as he outdueled Early Wynn of the White Sox in a ten-inning contest in which both pitchers went the distance. The Yankees clinched the pennant two days later.18
The Yankees’ opponent in the 1962 World Series was the San Francisco Giants, who had just won a dramatic three-game playoff with New York’s other former National League team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. After splitting the first two games at Candlestick Park, the Series moved to the Bronx, where Stafford squared off against the Giants’ Billy Pierce. Although he labored through a 24-pitch first inning, the Yankee starter settled down nicely. Provided by his teammates with a 3-0 lead, Stafford returned to the mound in the top of the eighth. After giving up a leadoff single to José Pagán, Stafford induced pinch-hitter Matty Alou to ground into a fielder’s choice. The next batter up was Matty’s older brother, Felipe. The elder Alou rocketed a ball right up the middle, and squarely into Stafford’s shin. “Suddenly I got woozy,” said the pitcher, who despite the intense pain recorded the out.19 Yankees trainer Joe Soares sprayed Stafford’s injured leg with ethyl chloride and provided him with smelling salts. After seeing a few warm-up pitches, Houk decided to leave his hurler in the game. It was a bold move by the Major which ultimately paid dividends. Stafford escaped the eighth, getting second baseman Chuck Hiller to ground out to second. Although he gave up a two-run homer in the ninth, Stafford was allowed to finish what he started, as he retired Jim Davenport to end the game. The Yankees’ Number 22 had given his squad a two-games-to-one Series lead. His skipper was impressed. “Usually when a pitcher gets hit like that, he starts pitching up high because he won’t put weight down on that bad leg,” said Houk. “Stafford put more weight down on it after he was hurt. He really fired.”20
When he woke up the next morning, Stafford’s shin and knee were badly bruised and swollen. With a chance to close out San Francisco in Game Six, Houk decided to go with Whitey Ford on short rest instead of a gimpy Stafford. This Series, however, was destined to go seven games. The Yankees came out on top in an epic Game Seven. When second baseman Bobby Richardson secured Willie McCovey’s liner, Ralph Terry’s 1-0 masterpiece was preserved. It was not the bats of 1962 MVP Mickey Mantle and the hitters that had won the fall classic; it was the pitching of the Yanks’ “Big Three.”
Stafford began the 1963 season with a new home address – in Yonkers – and with great confidence. The press had even taken to calling him the “Cool Cookie from the Catskills” following his World Series heroics.21 On April 10 the weather in Kansas City was cooler than cool – frigid, in fact – when Stafford made his first start of the year. “The temperature was about 20 and I was wearing an electric jacket while I was on the bench,” he remembered.22 Stafford was shutting out the Athletics’s 3-0 when, with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, he threw a fateful 1-and-2 fastball to Billy Bryan. He felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder and heard a frightening sound. “It was like a twig snapping,” he said.23 The injury, according to the Yankees’ team physician, Dr. Sydney Gaynor, did not appear to be serious. Doctors at the time “didn’t know the difference between a rotator cuff and a Dixie Cup,” declared Stafford.24 He was never the same pitcher that season, or for that matter for the rest of his career. Through July 14, he had a 3-6 record with a dismal 5.75 ERA in 16 appearances, 13 of which were starts. In his first game after being removed from the rotation, Stafford hit a batter with a pitch and doled out free passes to three more. When reporters questioned him after the game about issuing the walk-off walk, an angered Stafford threatened to punch one of them in the face.25
More frustrations were to follow. In addition to pitching with an undiagnosed rotator-cuff injury, Stafford hurt his groin sliding into a base and was afflicted by a mysterious body rash that season.26 His irregular pitching schedule and periods of inactivity contributed to his overeating, as he ballooned to 215 pounds. Stafford’s final stat line for the year included a 4-8 record, a 6.02 ERA and an especially abysmal 1.628 WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched). The Yankees again won the pennant in 1963. Stafford, however, was not utilized in the team’s four-game World Series sweep at the hands of the Dodgers.
Looking to bounce back in 1964, Stafford came to spring training 29 pounds lighter. His plan was to regain his place on the Yanks’ starting staff. However, the emergence of young twirlers Jim Bouton and Al Downing meant that Bill would be consigned to the bullpen for the season. On paper his numbers looked good: a 5-0 record, 2.67 ERA and 5.83 strikeouts per nine innings. Yet stamina issues and tendinitis limited Stafford to 60⅔ innings pitched. The New York Times declared him to be “one of the most unsuccessful undefeated pitchers in history.”27 For the fifth time in his five big-league seasons, Bill was part of a pennant-winning Yankee team. But for the second consecutive year, New York lost the fall classic, this time to the Cardinals. It was also the second straight year that Stafford did not pitch in the postseason. Once again in 1965, Stafford took aim at a spot in the Bombers’ rotation. The season was, however, not a good one, neither for Stafford nor the Yankees. Although the right-hander secured a starting role, he was available only on a part-time basis. Flare-ups of tendinitis in his pitching shoulder kept Stafford out of action for parts of May and September and landed him on the disabled list for the entire month of July. He finished the year 3-8 for a sixth-place New York team. The Yankee dynasty was over. So too was Stafford’s career in the Bronx.
Stafford was in camp with the Yanks to start the 1966 season, but was optioned to the club’s Triple-A affiliate in Toledo. He was called up on June 9, but was instead immediately traded to the Athletics. Stafford, pitcher Gil Blanco, and outfielder Roger Repoz were sent to Kansas City in exchange for pitcher Fred Talbot and catcher Billy Bryan. The A’s put Stafford in their rotation, with unsatisfactory results. He was sent down to the Birmingham Barons of the Southern League. In 1967, after spending most of the season with the Double-A Barons, Stafford was brought back to Kansas City at the end of July. He was used in a limited role out of the bullpen, and pitched in his final major-league game on September 19, against the Twins. “I was just hanging around,” said Stafford of his time with the A’s. “When your shoulder hurts, you can’t do anything.”28 In his final two seasons in Organized Baseball, he bounced around the Pacific Coast League, moving from Seattle to Phoenix to Tucson. His last attempt to resurrect his major-league career came in 1969, when he attended spring training with the Seattle Pilots, but he was released just before the season began.
After retiring from the game, Stafford gained employment in various sales and promotions jobs, working for companies including the Waterman-Bic Pen Corporation, Grolier Enterprises, and the Shechter Association.29 At one point he owned a country bar in Michigan called JR’s Place.30 His love of sport, however, never subsided. Even before he retired as a player, he became a coach, serving for two years as an assistant pitching coach at Southern Connecticut State College in New Haven. “I really enjoy the coaching of clinics and would probably consider going into coaching full time with a major college team if the opportunity ever came up,” Stafford told a reporter.31 He went on to coach high-school baseball, in addition to serving as an instructor in numerous youth and fantasy camps.
As an athlete, Stafford’s prowess was not limited to baseball and basketball. He was a great bowler and pool player, and was especially proficient in golf. He shot a one-under-par 69 at the 1965 Montauk-Gurney’s Inn Invitational Amateur Championship, a performance that led golf pro Harry Obitz to promise his support if Stafford ever wanted to join the PGA tour.32 “We played a lot of golf together,” said Ralph Terry, a terrific golfer himself. “He was an excellent player.”33 The day before Game Three of the 1962 World Series, Bill was nervous about his coming start and asked Rollie Sheldon to go golfing with him. “It started to rain, but we played on,” recalled Sheldon. Rollie was unprepared for this impromptu day on the greens, so he did not have a chance to change out of his new alligator shoes, which were ruined in the rainfall. “But it was worth it to help Bill relax,” he said.34 The 1960s Yankees were on the links frequently, both on off days and in the offseason. In addition to Terry and Sheldon, Stafford often golfed with teammates Mickey Mantle, Jack Reed, and Hector Lopez.35
Life after the major leagues brought changes to Stafford’s family life. After a divorce from Janice, Bill remarried, tying the knot with Sharon Beedell in October 1972.36 They settled down in Canton, Michigan, where they raised two children, Kimberly and Michael. Mike carried on his father’s baseball legacy, pitching at Ohio State University before being selected in the 1998 June Amateur Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays. The younger Stafford, a lefty reliever, played four minor-league seasons in the Blue Jays, Yankees, and Milwaukee Brewers organizations before finding his true calling in the game: coaching. Returning to his alma mater in 2011 as an assistant coach, Mike credited his father with teaching him the art of pitching: “Dad always told me the most important thing was to know that you were better than the guy in the batter’s box.”37
Just eight days after the shocking national tragedy of 9/11, the Stafford family endured an unexpected personal tragedy when Bill suffered a heart attack and died in his Canton home. He was 63 years old. Although his life came to a premature end, Stafford’s Yankee legacy will live on. He will forever be remembered by fans in the Bronx for his heroics in the 1962 World Series and his role in Maris’s 61st-home-run game. Though injuries cut his career short, Stafford compiled a respectable 43-40 record and a 3.52 ERA in eight big-league seasons. A member of five pennant and two World Series winners, Bill Stafford gave the game everything he had. “My father always told me to do the best you can,” Bill said. “That’s what I live by.”38
Notes
1 New York Times, May 4, 1962.
2 There is some confusion as to whether Stafford was born in 1938 or 1939. His player file in the Giamatti Library at the National Baseball Hall of Fame records 1938 as his birth year, while Baseball-Reference.com states that Stafford was born in 1939. Of further interest, his 1961 Topps baseball card goes with 1939, but 1938 is printed on all of his subsequent Topps cards. The Social Security Death Index, accessed through Ancestry.com, records that Stafford was born on August 13, 1938, and died on September 19, 2001 at age 63. This data is undoubtedly accurate.
3 Knickerbocker News (Albany, New York), January 26, 1957; Schenectady Gazette, August 26, 1960.
4 Schenectady (New York) Gazette, August 26, 1960.
5 Schenectady Gazette, August 26, 1960; Stafford Hall of Fame file.
6 Stafford Hall of Fame File; Times Union (Albany), June 14, 1988. Years later, Stafford lamented the fact that Major League Baseball’s $4,000 signing bonus limit was eliminated that September. He estimated that this cost him between $150,000 and $250,000.
7 All minor- and major-league statistics were obtained from baseball-reference.com.
8 Stafford was the Eastern League ERA leader in 1958 for pitchers who started more than ten games.
9 Knickerbocker News, August 17, 1960.
10 Newsday (Long Island, New York), March 14, 1962.
11 Quoted in Sonny Fulks, “Mike Stafford’s (Very) Special Baseball Story,” Press Pros Magazine, April 24, 2013, pressprosmagazine.com/mike-staffords-very-special-baseball-story/.
12 William J. Ryczek, The Yankees in the Early 1960s (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2008), 38.
13 Newsday, March 14, 1962.
14 Quoted in Randy Schultz, “Bill Stafford and Hector Lopez: Where Are They Now…?,” Baseball Digest, June 1991, 68.
15 Quoted in Ryczek, 68.
16 Times Union, June 14, 1988.
17 Rollie Sheldon, letter to the author, July 23, 2013.
18 Bill Morales, New York Versus New York, 1962: The Birth of the Yankees-Mets Rivalry (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2012), 169.
19 Herald Statesman (Yonkers, New York), October 8, 1962.
20 Newsday, October 8, 1962.
21 Binghamton (New York) Press, July 18, 1963.
22 Times Union, June 14, 1988.
23 Times Union, June 14, 1988.
24 Times Union, June 14, 1988.
25 Newsday, July 16, 1963.
26 Ryczek, 137.
27 Quoted in Ryczek, 202.
28 Times Union, June 14, 1988.
29 Stafford Hall of Fame File; Schultz, 67.
30 Mike Stafford, email to the author, August 7, 2013.
31 Times Record (Troy, New York), July 14, 1973.
32 Stafford Hall of Fame File.
33 Ralph Terry, letter to the author, July 13, 2013.
34 Rollie Sheldon, letter to the author.
35 Thomas Van Hyning, “Jack Reed,” SABR Baseball Biography Project, sabr.org/bioproj/person/13225d55; Hector Lopez, letter to the author, July 23, 2013.
36 Mike Stafford, email to the author.
37 Quoted in Fulks.
38 Newsday, July 11, 1964.
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Las Vegas PBA Open
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Tournament Details
$25,000 LAS VEGAS PBA OPEN
Showboat Lanes, Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct 16-18, 1963
Weber Wins At Vegas
After losing the tournament by one pin the week before in Salt Lake City, Dick Weber won the $25,000 Las Vegas Open.
It was the 12th PBA tournament victory overall for the 125-pounder from St. Louis. It was his second win in 1963. Earlier he had taken the New Jersey Open.
Weber bowled consistently throughout the Las Vegas test. After finishing seventh in the 24-game qualifier, the slim Weber moved up steadily to take over the lead after four rounds in match game play.
Dick lost the lead momentarily but regained it in the eighth round and was never headed. At the end he was 15 pins better than Bill Johnson of Kansas City.
40 GAMES
Name, City/State Pins + Tot Amt
1 Dick Weber, St. Louis, Mo. 8396 550 8945 3000.00
2 Bill Johnson, Kansas City, Mo. 8430 500 8930 1500.00
*3 Billy Welu, St. Louis, Mo. 8390 500 8890 1500.00
4 Larry Laub, San Francisco, Calif. 8322 550 8872 1300.00
5 Sheldon Hippo, Van Nuys, Calif. 8201 600 8801 1200.00
6 Ed Bourdase, Fresno, Calif. 8249 500 8749 1100.00
7 J. B. Solomon, Dallas, Tex. 8290 450 8740 1000.00
8 Jim St. John, San Jose, Calif. 8293 425 8718 950.00
9 Glenn Allison, St. Louis, Mo. 8239 450 8689 900.00
10 Harry Smith, Baltimore, Md. 8276 300 8576 850.00
11 Billy Hardwick, San Mateo, Calif. 8112 450 8562 800.00
12 Harry 0'Neale, Charleston, S.C. 8242 225 8467 750.00
13 Tom Parrish, Salt Lake City, Utah 8262 200 8462 700.00
14 Buzz Fazio, Detroit. Mich. 8100 200 8300 675.00
15 Bob Kwolek, Detroit, Mich. 7996 250 8246 650.00
16 Kotaro Miyasato, Honolulu, Hawaii 7846 250 8095 615.00
24 GAMES
Pos. Name, City/State Total Amount
17 John Meyer 4866 $470.00
18 Jack Henry 4869 365.00
19 Bill Bunetta 4836 360.00
20 John Guenther 4817 355.00
21 Bill Tucker 4815 350.00
22 Don Carter 4799 345.00
23 Jim Carman 4783 337.50
Ralph Brunt 4783 337.50
25 Bob Ramirez 4773 330.00
26 Fred D'Ercole 4769 325.00
27 Steve Nagy 4768 320.00
28 Morrie Manalli 4767 315.00
29 Monroe Moore 4764 310.00
30 Foy Belcher 4756 305.00
31 Ray Bluth 4755 300.00
32 Don Ellis 4752 295.00
33 Max Turner 4750 290.00
34 Dick Stoeffler 4748 285.00
35 Ron Winter 4745 280.00
36 Glenn Carlson 4742 275.00
*Includes $100.00 for a 300 game.
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Bergen County USBC Bowling Association
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Hall of Fame 1959-2015
1959 * James "Junie" McMahon
1960 * Louis "Lou" Campi
1961 * Alfred "Lindy" Faragalli
1962 Frank Esposito
1965 * Edward "Eddie" Botten
1966 * Stanley "Stan" Niemiec
1967 * Louis "Lou" Foxie
1970 * Fred E. Christie
1970 Teata "Teeter" Semiz
1971 * Cecil "Ces" Hart
1971 * Edward H. Madama
1971 * Frank "Slim" Okular
1972 * William "Chick" DeAndrea
1972 * Al DelGreco
1972 * Ralph Engan
1972 * Charles "Chuck" Pezzano, Sr.
1973 * Garret "Gary" Faber
1973 * Henry J. Schaffhauser
1973 * Gene Vetrone
1974 * James "Jim" Lago
1974 * Anthony "Tony" Lakawicz
1974 * John "Johnny" Nashmy
1974 * James Santoro
1975 Alfred "Al" Fuscarino
1975 * Michael "Mickey" Mariani
1975 * Joseph "Joe" Siderts
1975 * William S. Webber
1976 * Joseph "Joe" Gazal
1976 * John "Jimmy" Hogan
1976 * Stanley "Stan" Marchut
1976 * Samual Scholes
1977 * Peter A. Garofalo
1977 * Stephan "Steve" Karabinos
1977 Nicholas "Stixie" Mulick
1978 * Peter "Pete" Kavalski
1978 Ben McNevich
1978 * Balillo "Sal" Salvatore
1979 * Gordy Coletti, Sr.
1979 Jules Okonowsky
1979 Angelo Vicari
1979 Sam Vitola
1980 * Edward "Eddie" Gass
1980 * Patrick J. Lynch
1980 Jack Muhlenbruch
1981 Peter Bonafide
1981 * Eugene "Gene" Minatelli
1981 * Frank Ross
* Denotes Deceased
Click here to download induction form.
1982 * Ed DiTolla
1982 * Arthur Hillman
1982 * Pat McDonough
1982 Michael Potanik
1984 Michael "Mike" Brady
1984 * Martin "Spuds" Catalioto
1984 * Louis "Lou" Feibel
1984 Pasquale "Pat" Russo
1985 Bill Dacosta
1985 * Harry Gerber
1985 * Herb Johnson
1985 John Kerwien
1986 William Butler
1986 * Anthony Porro
1986 Joseph "Joe" Tolvay, Sr.
1989 Tom DiTrani
1989 * Mickey Miskiv
1989 George Shelley
1989 * Robert "Bob" Stockdale
1992 * George Astrella
1992 Sam Conzo
1992 James "Jim" Jagt
1992 Ed Kerautus
1992 James "Jim" Zimmerman
1995 Dick Downey
1995 Joseph "Joe" Shaftic
1995 * Arthur Snyder
1998 Paul Keppel
1998 Vince "Vinny" Pantuso
1998 * John Petrides
1998 Charles "Chuck" Pezzano, Jr.
1998 Bob "Perry" Purzycki
2001 Nick Andriola
2001 Jim Hosier
2001 * Robert "Bob" Lubertazzo
2001 * Harold Mishkin
2004 John Alessandrello
2004 Ray Sisco
2004 Scott Deliantis
2008 Paul J. Stuart
2008 Frank Malinowski
2008 Dan McDonough
2012 George Almodovar
2012 Charles Anderson
2012 Robert Mockenhaupt
2012 David Mutch
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BOWLING CONGRESS LEADERS UNCHANGED
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
THE AMERICAN BOWLING CONGRESS IS LOOKING TO THREE TOP NEW YORK TEAMS TO CHANGE STANDINGS AMONG THE IO TEAM LEADERS TOMORROW. ONE TEAM IS HEADED BY TONY SPARANDO, ANOTHER HAS JUNNIE MC MANN AND EDDIE BOTTEN, THE THIRD IS HEINEMANS LED BY ED HEINEMAN.
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Brooklyn NY, King of Action
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
The NY tri state area had many great action houses in the heydays of action bowling, tAve M Bowl - Seaview Lanes - Colony Bowl - Kings Lanes - Sid Gordons - Bay Ridge Lanes - Fortway Lanes - Ovington Lanes - Maple Lanes - Mill Basin Lanes - Freddie Fitzimmons - Diplomate - Kenmore Lanes - Strand Lanes - Bedford Bowl - Leader Lanes - Windsor Lanes - Frankie & Johnnys - Nostrand Bowl - Gil Hodgers - Old Parkway - New Parkway - Melody Lanes - Leemark - Rainbow LanesQuenton Lanes - Jamar Lanes - Shell Lanes - Kingsway Elmwood Lanes and a few that I missed...he 1960s, but Brooklyn was in a league of it's own when it came to the amount of different action houses all having their own house bowlers. Here's a list of those action houses.
Brooklyn is the greatest.
Snake was an excellent action bowler in the 80's just ask Lenny the Cane. John Colossi was an excellent bowler. He won some Lustig's including the Bellerose Winter Challenge for $10,000. He also finished second in the Buddy Russel or Varipapa, forgot which one, I think he won a regional or two as well. He also bowled a lot of action in the early 90's. Simo Jr. was a great bowler but lost the battle to gambling and drugs. Simo Sr. was a great bowler. Saba was an excellent bowler. These people won tournaments and acheived things in bowling. I don't know what your talking about. Don't mention Petraglia, the man is a legend. Roth is the greatest bowler to come out of NY Metro area ever and he spent many a days in Maple. Brooklyn has the best bowling history in our area so respect it and the players that are from there. Long Island and Jersey have nothing in the history of our sport compared to Brooklyn. Brooklyn is where legends are made. Brooklyn is the greatest.. Anonymous
To Anonymous , of course there's dozens of other great Brooklyn bowlers you didn't mention but how could you possibly of left Richie Hornrreich off your list...
Greatest Action Houses in the Tri State Area
Central Lanes - Gun Post Lanes - Bowlmor - Skytop Lanes - Homefield - Falcaros - Inwood - Green Acres - Deer Park Lanes - Paramus Lanes - Lyons Lanes - Highway Bowl - Raceway Lanes - Kuskies - Pequa Bowl - Farmingdale - Whitestone Lanes - Woodhaven Lanes - Thirty Fourth Ave Bowl - Fiesta Bowl - Country Lanes - Van Nest Lanes - Tremont Lanes - All-Star Lanes - Mid Island Bowl
Big Time Action Houses
The modern day action bowler doesn't have a clue to what real action was like 30 to 40 years ago.
Central Lanes If any of todays action bowlers could go back in time and walk into Central Lanes in the mid sixties on a Saturday night they would think they died and went to action heaven. You would have found all the alleys on both sides of the house going with with action, featuring some of the best bowlers in the Country. There were literally hundreds of guys watching the matches and betting big money on on the side. Lemon and the Horn were unbelievable. A PBA event doesn't even come close to matching for pure excitment any Saturday nite there when all the greats walked through the door to go head to head against the best around.
What house had the longest run of big time action, who was second & third. How long, and what where the years...Herbie
Homefield
Oldest action house is probably Homefield in the yonkers area. Daily afternoon action house for probably around forty years. woodhaven lanes in queens maybe number two. action constantly there sat nights from early eighties until early or mid nineties. central lanes in yonkers around from early sixties until it burned down in 1968 biggest of all times, saturday night until sometimes sunday evening. most weekends at least 40 out of the 50 lanes had action. it was incredible, like continuous casino action. bowlers came from all over, as far as Florida looking for action. They might have thought they had a sports advantage over the northeastern bowlers. if you were looking for action no matter how bad you were or how good it was there. once in a lifetime. never again...OldTimer
Gun Post
Gun Post had as much or more action than Central but because it got raided all the action moved to Central. There were nights at Gun Post that you couldn't get to the snack bar because it was too crowded. Action on just about every pair and all the big names. Jake Charter, Joel Meyers, Frankie Medici, Ernie, Mike Limengello, Fats and Deacon, RALPH, Howie Polefski, (my favorite) Jack Clemente, Iggy Russo, Chicago Bill, Billy The Kid, Doc Iandoli etc. etc. etc. If you remember Gun Post, here is a trivia question: What was the name of the manager? JK...
Gun Post in the Bronx. Just read some of the posts on this web site by the bowlers who used to bowl there and remember what it was like. Action all night, every lane, and ALL the great shooters - Lemon, Ralph, Ernie, Medici, Harry the Horse, Howie Palefski, Pyscho Dave, Joel Meyers - all of them on your list of nominees for the action bowlers HOF. And all for big bucks. You just had to be there to really know what it was like, but ask anybody who was there in the sixties. I was, and I can tell you that those other houses you list may have been great, but there is no way that any house was a bigger or greater action house than Gun Post in the sixties. Lefty Mike
As any Bronx action bowler from those days could tell you, Central never had anything even close to the action at Gun Post. It was only when Gun Post was raided by the cops that the action moved to Central, and even then it never quite had the kind of unbelievable action that there used to be at Gun Post. Kenny Goodman
Gun Post in the sixties was the greatest action house anywhere ever. Non-stop action, all night long, all the top bowlers, they came from everywhere to bowl, watch, and bet. I've never seen anything like it since. Bronx old timer
Ave M Bowl
Howie Noble the owner of Ave M who was a real piece of work within his right, very few people liked him, turned his bowling lanes into the biggest action house for a period of about 3 years, It all started in the early 60s when he told Mac & Stoop two of the best action bowlers from the Brooklyn area that he would back them against any and all bowlers they could bring into Ave M to bowl against. The word went out and lots of guys came to take a shot at Howies money. The rest is history, Ave M some of the biggest and best action bowlers coming their 7 nights a week starting at about 1am each day and going to sunlight or later. Howie became a rich guy from all the added income from a time period the lanes would usually be shut down.
I was part of the action scene at Ave M Bowl in Brooklyn in the sixties, there was a 3 year run that Ave M had big time action 7 nights a week, all the biggest name action bowlers came from all over the tri state area, the house had all it's lanes going with action many a night until the wee hours of the morning. Saturday night was actually the slowest night when the really big action was at Central Lanes. Butch
This skinny kid that was callecd Lemon came in from Long Island with his backers one wednesday moring about 2am, he looked like he was about 13 years old (actually he was 16) and not strong enough to throw a sixteen pound ball, which he did. He went on to beating all the top bowlers that came to Ave M for the next 4 weeks straight, he was totally unreal... Butch
Falcaro's
Saturday afternoon and evening at Falcaro's in Lawrence was the premier action house during the mid 70's and early 80's. Guys came from all over to challenge the house bowlers. The true house action bowlers at Falcaro's were as follows and not necessarily in order of the best. Tommy "Triple" Yadanza Bruce "The Dipper" Pastor Gibby ("The matchmaker") Pastor Sr. Gibby Pastor Jr. Barry Clare Phil Caporusso Jr. Al ("Ironman") Pinola John The Pollack Joe Viverito Big Al Julio Curra John Dugan Maury Berger Steve Weiss Steve Gowa Paul Katz Ira Katz ("The Whale") John Kurkemelis Steve Reiss Aaron Goldfedder Louis Rothman Michael ("The Sailor") Sperber Dino Star Freddy ("The Silver Fox") Mayo Freddy ("The Ox") Arbolino Andrew Castardi Mike Kilgannon Mike Lemingello Ray Shell
Action Bowlers who came down to Falcaro's during this era to bowl either house bowlers or other bowlers from the region were as follows: Jeff Kidder Bill Dailey Tavie Joe Cologna Cliffy Berglund Tony Devito Ricky Papandrea Gino Papandrea Louis Prisco Big Earl Bobby Simonelli Jr. Hank Behrbom Snake Les Shirwindt Jimmy McCue The Beeper
Bowlmor 1938 Bowlmor Lanes is built in New York City's Greenwich Village. In addition to becoming one of the longest continuously running bowling establishments in the U.S., Bowlmor will host the prestigious Landgraf Tournament and the first televised bowling shows in the 1950s. It will be patronized and revered long after the end of bowling's "golden age," and will go on to be featured in the 1987 Jodie Foster movie "Five Corners," several short films, music videos, a Guess Jeans print ad series, Cosmopolitan magazine, the J. Crew Fall 1997 catalog and two VH-1 specials. 1950s With the advent of the automatic pinsetting machine, bowling starts to pick up mass appeal. 1961 The number of alleys in the U.S. jumps from 6,500 to more than 10,000. The neck size of bowling pins increases, adding 7/10 oz. to their total average weight. 1963 Americans spend $43.6 million on bowling balls. 1997 Tom Shannon buys Bowlmor Lanes and spends millions of dollars in renovations. Bowlmor's new look and sexy ad campaign attracts NYC's young and affluent professionals. The modern bowling experience is born. 2001 Bowlmor Lanes is the world's highest-grossing bowling alley. Tom Shannon is awarded Bowling Proprietor of the Year by Bowler's Journal International.
Some of the house bowlers
sid gordens buffalo and the cane bobby meyers windsor louie spadaro and the gutadaro bros elmwood mousie bonsignori - Sal Polizzi - Sal the Plumber park circle tom ermolovich don begola john greco dan glass bob esposito sal mistretta the snake diplomat ray goffio mario gullinello gil hodges george stillman willie panzarino paradise billy picone joey barra new parkway fats and deacon joey pergola tom camilleri strand ronnie skully melody little bobby smith billy picone regal sonny king tom ermolovich kings lanes jimmy allen ave m Mac & Stoop - Butch - jamsie and josie and cookie (bob petrany) mill basin frank curcio the snake bedford freddie chin freddie fitzsimmons val macari seaview joe c the butcher
Maple Lanes - Joe Santini - Lou Cappaso - Val Macari , to many to mention...
neptune lanes bert goodman freddie the ox strand freddie the ox bob sinmonelli sr hale rec harry the hose joe o little less burklands al itzkowits colony bernie rosengarten hal farber
few more houses shell richie and tony farina richie grossman phil chin davol johnny and louie moon joey, billy and walter palase nostrand dwoskin brothers bob peck red salvi midwood sal profaci
Lenny the Cane
And now for the Bronx and Manhattan action legends: Manhattan Lanes - Ernie Schlegel Woodlawn Lanes- Richie Pizzuti Boston Road Lanes-Joe Cirillo and Bob Materasso Fiesta Lanes (still open)-Jeff Kitter Tremont Lanes-Ralph Engan, Marv Applebaum,Eddie Seco, Andy Carnasie Pel Park Lanes-The Great Howie Palefski Steeles Lanes-Jackie Sturtz Webster Lanes-Two guys named "Pencil" and "Gramps" Gun Post Lanes(still open)-Frankie Medici Van Nest Lanes(still open)- Charlie "Phantom" Gun Hill Lanes- Vinny and Ronnie Pizzo Fieldston Lanes-Joey Berardi
Lou capasso
The Action Was Great
Even though i'm not a bowler, I had the honor of being a teenager in the late 50s and hanging out at Windsor lanes. Jameses mother Josie had the food counter there and backed a group of young bowlers in action, on Saturday afternoons they would bowl against the kids from Ave M. The best of which was the owner of this website, Butch. He was really very good and the Windsor kids would never bowl him at Ave M at that time. A few years later I got into all the great night action at Leemark, Melody, Bay Ridge lanes, Maple, Shell, Diplomat, Kings lanes, Seaview, Leader lanes, Elmwood, Sid Gordons, Gil Hodges, Strand, Kenmore, Colony, And of course the big one, Ave M bowl. It was a time period that was very special. A motion picture would be great, but could never do it true justice, The bowlers were real characters with character. Try Iggy Russo, Mac & Stoop, Ernie Schlegal, the Horn, and the list goes on and on. The backers were Damon Runyon type characters. What a time, I'm so lucky to have lived through it. I've been around some of the action in the 90s, a total joke, what a let down....Spider
Saturday afternoon and evening at Falcaro's in Lawrence was the premier action house during the mid 70's and early 80's. Guys came from all over to challenge the house bowlers. The true house action bowlers at Falcaro's were as follows and not necessarily in order of the best. Tommy "Triple" Yadanza Bruce "The Dipper" Pastor Gibby ("The matchmaker") Pastor Sr. Gibby Pastor Jr. Barry Clare Phil Caporusso Jr. Al ("Ironman") Pinola John The Pollack Joe Viverito Big Al Julio Curra John Dugan Maury Berger Steve Weiss Steve Gowa Paul Katz Ira Katz ("The Whale") John Kurkemelis Steve Reiss Aaron Goldfedder Louis Rothman Michael ("The Sailor") Sperber Dino Star Freddy ("The Silver Fox") Mayo Freddy ("The Ox") Arbolino Andrew Castardi Mike Kilgannon Mike Lemingello Ray Shell Anyone who remebers more .....please let me know.. Action Bowlers who came down to Falcaro's during this era to bowl either house bowlers or other bowlers from the region were as follows: Jeff Kidder Bill Dailey Tavie Joe Cologna Cliffy Berglund Tony Devito Ricky Papandrea Gino Papandrea Louis Prisco Big Earl Bobby Simonelli Jr. Hank Behrbom Snake Les Shirwindt Jimmy McCue
The Beeper
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Alfred (Lindy) Faragalli
City: Wayne
State: NJ
Inducted: 1968
Faragalli starred with leading Eastern teams, particularly the high-scoring Faber Cement Blocks. He often was a teammate of fellow Hall of Famers such as Lou Campi, Chuck Pezzano, Tony Sparando and Graz Castellano. He hit a television jackpot on June 18, 1957 when he rolled a 300 game worth $10,000 on a film series in Chicago. He had an 835 series on that show and had total earnings of $17,000. One year later he won his only USBC Open Championships title.
USBC Hall of Fame
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New Jersey State USBC
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Bowling Association
Hall of Fame
* Joseph Albanese 1984 * Lipman Duckat 1979 Joseph G. Krajkovich PH.D. 1996 Chuck Pezzano Jr. 1998
Hall of Fame
Ron Alberti 2008 Emil A. Dudas 2012 Scott Kurtz 2004 # Chuck Pezzano, Sr. 1978
* Edward J. Bahr, Sr. 1976 * Ralph Engan 1973 * Thomas Lagonia 1980 Oscar Pickenheim 1989
* George A. Bancroft 1971 *# Frank Esposito 1986 * Tony Lakawicz 1979 Peter Pirrello 1994
* Richard Bandics 1989 Joseph Fabian 2008 * H. Fred Lening 1977 Philip "Dutch" Prasch 2006
* Robert M. Blyth 1981 *# Lindy Faragalli 1986 Frank Leo 2002 Michael Reasoner 2007
* H. Wesley Bogle 1974 Armand Federici 2002 Anthony"Duke" Leone 2010 Richard Regan 2004
# Parker Bohn III 2006 * Joseph Fiore 1990 * Romeo Lerro, Sr. 2004 * Warren W. Rhodes 1990
* Edward Botten 1974 E. Luke Forrest 1986 * Allen Levins 1984 * Donald M. Roberts 1977
Michael Brady 2003 * Lou Foxie 1975 Lee Livingston 1997 * Charles Rogerson 1992
* Clifford H. Braun 1993 Paul Fulmer 1996 *# Vince Lucci, Sr. 1975 * James Santoro 1997
Raymond Broeder 1985 Al Fuscarino 1985 * Bernard Luethy 1974 Eric Seislove 2005
* Joseph Brown 1973 Roger Gardner 2010 * Robert G. Lynch 1996 # Teata Semiz 1972
Chris Brugnola 1993 * John F. Giles 1996 William T. Luzzo 2005 Robert Serbe 1987
Charles Bruno 2013 Albert Gonsiska, Jr. 1997 Sam Maccarone 2003 George Shelly 1993
Dennis Calpin 1994 John Gualtieri 1988 Jimmy Mack 1981 * Robert Sholtis 1978
*# Lou Campi 1970 * Donald Gerard 1990 * Edward Madama 1986 Michael "Mickey" Simoncelli 2009
Robert Caruso 2001 * Henry "Jack" Gonter Jr 2006 * Stan Marchut 1982 * Walter Skopak 1987
*# Marty Cassio 1971 * Hervey A. Grinsted 1971 * M."Mickey" Mariani 2001 * Walter Sloan 1974
Anthony Cerrato 1989 * George R. Halliday 1983 * Frank Matzer 1985 * Lloyd L. Smith 1982
Pete Chapman 1986 * John A. Hamilton 1982 Dan McDonough 2004 Robert J. Sobon 1994
* Fred E. Christie 1980 Jay Hanenberg 1998 * Pat McDonough 1987 Darryl Sorber 1996
Gordy Coletti, Jr. 1998 * Cecil A. Hart 1976 *# James "Junie" McMahon Jr. 1969 * Len Spanjersberg 1986
* Gordy Coletti, Sr. 1974 * Emil Hensle 1999 * John J. McManus 1970 * Carl R. Sterling 1991
John R. Colgate, Jr. 1984 * Victor Hesse 1975 Jules Miknyoczki 2012 * Preston W. Thomas 1983
* Robert F Cottrill 1994 Jim Hosier 2008 * Gene Minatelli 1995 * William Thornton 1976
Robert Cummins 2001 Wright House 2000 Robert Mockenhaupt 2013 Joseph G. Tolvay, Sr. 1987
* Harry Crognale 1988 Rocky Iacone 2005 * John Morey 2000 Peter Tomaro 2000
*# Thomas Curtis 1993 James I. Jagt 2012 * James Mosselle 1999 Frank Veglatte 2002
* Angelo D'Ambolo 1986 * William "Bucky" Jones 1987 Jerry Mulford 2007 * Gene Vetrone 1982
* John Dayon 1976 Thomas Jordan 2011 * John Nashmy 1985 * Angelo Vicari 1983
Charles Del Plato 1995 * Charles June Jr. 1988 * Stan Niemiec 1972 * Danny Whitehurst 1981
Frank Dickinson 2009 * William J. Keller 1972 James "O.J." Olchaskey 1992 Raymond Yates 2007
* Frank DiMaria 1992 * Edwin J. Kenney 1979 * Ray Orlando 1984 John York 2011
* Ed DiTolla 1988 Preston Kirk 2000 Steve Pancoast 2005 * Edward J. Woods 1977
* Steve Dobrosky 1984 * Carl E. Kollmar 1974 John J Paris 1990 Calvin Wynn 2011
Richard "Dick" Downey 2010 Robert Kontra 1990 # John Petraglia Sr. 2011 James Zimmerman 1991
* John Petrides 2002
*Deceased Last
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Mark Roth
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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Mark Roth
Personal information
Born
April 10, 1951 (age 64)
Brooklyn, New York
Occupation
professional bowler
Updated on 4 November 2013.
Mark Roth (born April 10, 1951) is a retired professional bowler. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a youth he resided in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay.[1]
Contents
[hide] 1 Bowling career 1.1 Awards and recognition
2 Post-career
3 Personal life
4 In the media
5 See also
6 Notes
7 External links
Bowling career[edit]
Roth is a member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Hall of Fame (inducted 1987) and the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Hall of Fame (inducted 2009).[2] His 34 PBA titles place him sixth on the all-time PBA Tour winners list, behind Walter Ray Williams, Earl Anthony, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Parker Bohn III. He was the second professional bowler to surpass $1,000,000 in career winnings, with Anthony being the first. His eight titles won in 1978 are still the PBA record for a single season, topping the previous mark of seven titles held by Dick Weber (1961) and Billy Hardwick (1969). Roth won another six titles in the 1979 season while collecting his third consecutive PBA Player of the Year award. He won two major titles, in the U.S. Open and Touring Players Championship, both in 1984, while winning his fourth PBA Player of the Year award that season.
Originally from Brooklyn, N.Y., Roth attacked the Tour in 1970 with a cranking, hard-throwing style that created a generation of imitators now prevalent throughout the sport. After finishing 2nd to Don Johnson in the 1972 Brunswick World Open, Mark's first televised appearance, he followed that up with a fifth-place finish in the PBA National Championship. It was then that Roth decided to bowl on the Tour full-time. Roth shot a 299 during the televised finals to win his first PBA title at the 1975 King Louie Open in Overland Park, Kansas. Roth repeated the feat, shooting a 299 during the televised finals of the 1987 Greater Buffalo Open in Cheektowaga, New York. Never one to rest on his laurels, Roth not only surpassed the great Earl Anthony's all-time PBA earnings record on the 1987 Fall Tour, but also added his 33rd PBA title in the Greater Buffalo Open and won the No. 7 PBA Invitational (not counted as an official PBA title) in Toronto a week later. Roth won PBA Player of the Year honors in 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1984. He won the George Young Memorial Award for the highest average on Tour in six different seasons, including a then-record 221.699 in '79. That same year Mark also won the "Great and Greatest" tournament paired with Don Ellis (also not counted as an official PBA title). Mark finished his career with 34 Tour titles and $1,619,136 in earnings.
He also owns two PBA50 Tour titles. On October 6, 2006, Roth won the very first Generations Bowling Tour event, defeating Dale Eagle in the final, 237-234, and averaging 241 over the three-game stepladder final. Despite the power he generated, Roth was also one of the best spare shooters of all time. He is notable for being the first bowler to pick up the 7-10 Split on television on January 5, 1980 at the ARC Alameda Open at Mel's Southshore Bowl in Alameda, California.[3] In addition, Roth utilized a unique delivery, primarily five steps, but sometimes six or seven steps.
Awards and recognition[edit]
Four-time PBA Player of the Year (1977, 1978, 1979, 1984)
Six-time winner of the PBA High Average Award
PBA recordholder for most titles (8) in a single season (1978)
Inducted into PBA Hall of Fame, 1987
Inducted into International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1992
Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 2014.[4][5]
Ranked 5th on the PBA's 2008 list of "50 Greatest Players of the Last 50 Years"
Mark Roth is the first and one of only 3 bowlers to make the 7-10 "bed post" split on television, along with John Mazza and Jess Stayrook. Roth is the only right hander to make the 7-10; Mazza and Stayrook are lefties.
Post-career[edit]
On June 4, 2009, Mark Roth suffered a stroke which has left him partially paralyzed on his left side.[1] His rehabilitation is ongoing, but Roth was seen in late March 2010 on his feet and moving around at the Geico Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship, a PBA Tournament named in his honor.[6] Mark also made a special guest appearance at the "2nd Annual Upstate University Hospital - Strikes Against Stroke" at Flamingo Bowl in Liverpool, NY in May 2010. On March 6, 2011, as part of the 2011 Mark Roth Plastic Ball Championship, he rolled the honorary first ball for the televised finals and downed seven pins.
Personal life[edit]
Roth and his wife Denise[7] reside in Fulton, New York.[1] He is Jewish.[4][5] Mark is an avid model railroader. He also enjoys the New York Rangers, Mets, Jets, and Knicks.
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Pezzano: Four elected to State bowling association hall of fame
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
February 7, 2011
By Pezzano, Chuck
The Record
New Jersey long has been a powerhouse when it comes to outstanding male bowlers, and that makes it difficult each year to elect the newest members of the New Jersey State Bowling Association Hall of Fame.
Mark Roome, president of the Passaic County United States Bowling Congress, also serves as the chairman of the State's men's hall of fame committee, made up of veteran bowlers, officials and hall of famers.
The newest honorees are Tom Jordan of Wayne and John York of New Egypt in the bowling achievement category, John Petraglia Sr. of Jackson in special achievement and Calvin Wynn of Manville for meritorious service.
Jordan is probably best remembered for the years he held the national sanctioned three-game record of 899 and the four-game set of 1,198, both registered in 1989. There have been perfect trios of 900 rolled since, but the lefty ruled the highest roost.
Jordan, a star for more than 30 years, has won league, county and state titles and regional pro wins with an exciting style and flair. He also has developed into one of the leading coaches in the sport and an expert in equipment, plus a deep interest in the sport's administration.
York, a solid league and tournament player for more than 40 years, has a pair of State titles, including being a member of a team that set a record 3,607 in a five-person event.
One of the rare performance feats on his record is rolling back-to-back 300 games in tournament play.
Petraglia, a legend in the sport, started winning titles at 16 and hasn't stopped yet at 63. He and the late Dick Weber are the only pros to have scored wins in six different decades. He has won bowling's triple crown: Tournament of Champions, U.S. Open and PBA National; among his 14 national titles, he added 13 regional pro titles and served as president of the PBA. Petraglia has been active in the sport, including TV announcing, instruction clinic leader, and developer of new products and innovations such as new scoring formats.
The Brooklyn native has lived most of his life in the Garden State.
Wynn has headed the Somerset-Hunterdon Association as manager, been named state director of the year and started thousands of youngsters in their bowling careers in his many youth programs. He also has chaired dozens of regional and state tournaments.
The new members will be inducted later in the year at the State's annual bowling jamboree and meeting.
BRIEF: New Tournament of Champions titlist Mika Koivuniemi, at 6 feet 4 inches, is one of the tallest players on tour, but he's far from the tallest ever, PBA hall member Steve Cook, who is very close to 6-8.
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I'll never forget the first time I saw Bert bowling action, it was a thing of beauty to behold. He totally destroyed his opponent while doing it with the grace and presence of a super star, all eyes were on Bert, that's for sure... Bernie
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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Bert delivered one of the strongest full rollers, I watched him week after week trying to copy his release but to no avail, in his prime years not too many bowlers would challenge him on the lanes and those who did lost.
He will always be my favorite of all times, I bowled in my first major league with him.
Bob Simonelli
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Today, on the internet radio program the Lets go bowling show, a must listen. Gianmarc Marcione was talking about his new bowling action stories book Pin Action, and he mentioned action bowlers such as Kenny Barber, and Iggy Russo. Then at the tail end of the show, their guest was the great Bert Goodman. Only had 12 minutes or so, not enough time for sure but he talked about himself, George Stillman, his match against Joe Joseph at Neptune and made mention of Roth and Petraglia as well as many other bowlers who were way before my time. As a sidebar, I actually bowled with him in 1994, and he is definitely the most accomplished bowler I ever bowled with. I will put up the link to the archived show when it is available.
Steven Friedfertig
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Because I'm old enough I had the pleasure to see Bert Goodman bowl action in his prime years, the 1950s, his winning percentage against the best bowlers around around was off the charts. He didn't just win, he usually destroyed the competition. Bert never looked for easy matches, he actually would try and discourage many lesser bowlers from challenging him, he only wanted the best but most of them didn't want anything to do with him. He would go to their home alleys and break the house...
Brooklyn Butch
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Emil Viola - Bert, you were the only guy I knew who was able to throw a full roller and get it to act on oil. Tightest roll I ever saw.
Bert Goodman - Emil the secret, it was the way I held the ball drilled by Emil Denardo
Emil Viola - It was a little more than that; you had quite a bit of talent going with it
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I love characters, I love attitude, I love guys that truly believe their the best and can back it up.
One such guy was the 1950s Bert Goodman, Bert basically would tell a great bowler you can't beat me, and yea know what, they didn't.
I presume Bert must of lost some heads up action matches back then but I personally never saw him loose one, and I saw and bet on him many times. Bert only bowled the best around, legends like Ralph Engan, Johnny Myers, Sis Montavano, Phil Marino, Joe Santini, etc. etc. plus he bowled action all over, not just in one house, usually in the other guys house. He wouldn't just beat them, most of the time he destroyed them.
In doubles he teamed with some of the best, I believe Bert and Vince Pantuso never lost an action doubles match.
It's a shame most of the guys in this group never saw Bert bowl in his prime which was the 50s. He was very good for many years after that in the 60s and 70s, even the 80s, but not as dominant. Cubby Greene
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bert goodman had big time attitude in his young days and could sure back it up - bert left a big impression on me from the first time I saw him - he was the type of guy who would have all eyes on him from the moment of his grand entrance - it's like his head had a magnetic force field built in pulling all eyes to him - very few people have that quality - it can't be explained
Paul Leonard
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Yeah - Bert could have taught Mohamed Ali a thing or 2 - I always got a laugh with the one liner "Someday I want to be as good as Bert Goodman thinks he is" - But don't get me wrong- he was certainly UpperEchelon and a champion many times over.
Ray Recco
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When Bert arrived to bowl action it was like the grand entrance of a super star, all eyes on him, he was bigger than life, that was the magic, the draw, the charisma of Bert Goodman.
Brian Shapiro, a guy that new Bert was the best around.
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Bert, I remember you from Seaview bowling alley, not only were you good but you were by far the best around. I made money betting on you bowling with Pantuso, you guys could beat anyone. - Frankie L.
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Bert when i was 17 i met you at 9w in fort lee nj. my father was with me. why im saying is this. You told me at 17 yrs old i"m getting terriffic and he said Bert Goodman is still there competing at the highest level. In my eyes your a great bowler and your legacy is great - Bob "Perry" Purzycki
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Bert you were a great bowler, your mark is all over the action trail and I do love your stories. Stay healthy and happy my friend enjoy - Steven Rudolph
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Bert may remember me a bit. He'd come over to anyone ( AND EVERYONE ) who was practicing and offer his expertise. I could have been more friendly to him but I kind'a thought of him as the guy who beat up on my father Guido ( Guy Recco ) and the bunch he bowled with (Tony & Joe Baldanza , Pete Grillo , Lou Klots, etc ) at Farragut Lanes and Kenmore etc . He might not remember any of them either as he was a cut or so above. Anyway, - I enjoy humor , and one line that I've used many times - AND it STILL CRACKS EVERYONE UP- goes like this " Some day I'm gonna be as good as Bert Goodman thinks he is ". Now that's a joke - but trying to out shoot Bert ain't . *If he wasn't the champion that he is , the joke would never work - Ray Recco
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I'm gonna say something about bert. i was kid n lots of times in tournament. i crossed with him, he doesn't know im Bob Perry. i went back to my real name when i got sober. Well i was always interested to see what makes people tick, he was n still is alot older, he shared some of his skills, i was always sharp until my demons took over. bert always found the way to bowl that 200 or 210. he deserves his respect. he harmed nobody. - Bob Burzycki aka Bob Perry
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I had the pleasure of bowling on Berts team that year, he was unbeatable there in neptune he had what you call the magic touch that year, he bowled 300, had a couple of 800s, he was tops there.
Posted by Lou Spadaro Sr.
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I'm from Brooklyn and remember Bert from various bowling lanes such as Seaview, Parkway, and Colony. I followed the action back in the 60s and liked to bet a few here and there.
Whenever Bert was in a match I always bet on him and always won, what a great, great, bowler he was. Thank you for bringing back these fantastic memories, you made my day, I'm going to let my all buddies know about this site.
Larry Hersh
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Let me jump on the band wagon before it gets to crowded. I also remember Bert Goodman very well, when he walked in the door it was like royalty making it's grand entrance, you new something big was about to happen. He had a style and class all of his own, no one else was even close, and on top of it, one of the best bowlers I ever saw.
Matty
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Like Bert Goodman said he through a full roller and turned the hell out of the ball. He had some great matches
Steven Rudolph / Pro Bowler
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Hey Bert, last time I saw you, you shot 300 against me in Country lanes with a black U dot......it was quite a long time ago....around 93, 94. Good to see you here....
Joe Marrone
Bert - REMEBER ON MY KNEES TWO LANES DOWN I HAVE MY OWN WEBSITE STAY WELL
Joe Marrone - Yea I do remember that!! I remember the lanes were kinda tight, you were throwing the ball well. I will check the website, thanks. Stay well also Bert!!
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bert, you could tell your stories for a year straight.. i remember them well.. we bowled together for a few years in the met majors and in maple.... please tell your son i said hello, he and i had some great times when we hung out together way back when....plus he could bowl pretty good himself....stay well Bert
Lou Capasso
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Action Stories
Bert Goodman - I got a call from my doubles partner gil egget, we had a match at colony bowl against phil marino and mgr geo debenevento, we took them for 12,000, later we found out geo took the money from the safe and he was arrested and sent to jail, how's that for a story
Brooklyn Butch - Bert, that's a story I'm sure you'll never forget, love it...
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Bert Goodman at Neptune Lanes bowling the Legend Joe Joseph on national TV...
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
ROBERTSON, Nicolette L. 71, of Spring Hill, died July 10, 2011. A Memorial gathering from 6-7 pm and service at 7 pm will be held July 12 at Turner Funeral Homes, 14360 Spring Hill Dr. 352-796-9661
Published in the Tampa Bay Times on July 12, 2011
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lyde C. Robertson, 84, of Spring Hill, Florida, passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2011 while in the care of HPH Hospice. He was born in Francestown, New Hampshire and was a systems analyst before he retired. He is survived by his wife, Nicolette; 3 daughters, Karen (Gerard) DePace, Christine Jacobson and Laura Rippe; 8 grandchildren, Anthony, Nicole, Keri, Joe, Amanda, Greg, Megan and Kristen; 4 great- grandchildren, Jacob, Mackenzie, Madison and Derek.
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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I grew up with Richie Hornreich. Richie is one of the best action bowlers of all-time, and could have been one of the best bowlers of all-time. His major problem was, he hated motels and traveling. He also hated the pace of a PBA event. He would always tell me, “At home I’m bowling for $1,000 a game. Out here I have to bowl for three days to win $1,000.” After only three weeks on tour, he packed it in and went home. To give you an idea of how great he was, Richie won everything there was to win as a junior bowler. He accomplished so much by the age of 16, he was invited as an amateur to compete in the World’s Invitational. It was one of the biggest tournaments around at that time. Nearly 200 entrants competed and only 16 made the finals. This was the year that Jim St. John won and introduced the bowling world to the “gutter shot.” Richie had never played outside the 2nd arrow. So here he was playing the gutter for the first time in his life, and at the age of 16, he made the finals (the top 16). By Richie choosing not to bowl on tour, the bowling world missed watching one of the games greats. Therefore, it’s my privilege to tell a story about Richie off the lanes.
When I got back from Vietnam, Richie met a girl and they fell in love. It was a turbulent relationship, but you could see how much they cared for each other. So they decided to get married. I was the best man and a good friend of ours, Red Bassett, was in the bridal party. In the church at the alter, instead of repeating after the priest, they decided to read a card that the priest was holding. The final sentence that Richie had to read was, “I will respect my marriage vows.” Maybe Richie was nervous because when he got to the last word, instead of pronouncing vows (like the word cows), he pronounced it like a bow from a bow and arrow set. This could have passed with a chuckle, but Angela kneeling at the alter turned to him and said, “The word’s vows Richie.” Richie responded, “Vows (like cows)…vows (like the bow and arrow)….what’s the difference.” The priest’s eyes looked at the ceiling. I turned and looked at Red, and I asked him “What’s the over, under?”. Red said, “2 years.” That night at the reception when it came to the part when the bride cuts the cake, Angela cut a piece too big for Richie’s mouth, and smeared it all over his face. Richie then cut a piece the same size. He held Angela’s head and tried to put the piece of cake in her mouth. Angela knocked the piece of cake off the fork onto the floor. I looked at Red. He said, “One year!”. They actually lasted 2 1/2 years.
I see Richie a couple of times a year. Once every year we have a reunion with all of the guys from the lanes that grew up together. Every time we do, it’s like being in the Bruce Springsteen song “Glory Days.” When we feel like crying, we start laughing, talking about “Glory Days.” This year remembering Richie’s wedding was one of the best of all. As I said, I see Richie a couple of times a year. Red moved to Houston and is doing well, but I want all of them to know….Richie, Red, Bubbles, Frankie, Pickles, Bobby, Vinny and Mikey and all the rest… those days were GLORIOUS!!
cento anni’…Johnny Petraglia
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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HI JIM,
I'M 94 YEARS OLD AND STILL BOWLING 150 IN 2 LEAGUES.
MERRY CHRISTMAS,
BILL AZAR---FORMALLY FORT BOWL O DROME , BROOKLYN
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> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
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> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> > MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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> JIMMY CUSKER
Hello all, I'm not sure if you're still all in this thread. My father was John Andrew Shuttleworth, son of Walter E. Shuttleworth who was the son of John Richmand Hayward Shuttleworth. I have an old family bible that goes back to Captain William Horton Smyley, who would be my great great grandfather. I believe, this is us.
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> On Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 9:08:26 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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> Hello all, I'm not sure if you're still all in this thread. My father was John Andrew Shuttleworth, son of Walter E. Shuttleworth who was the son of John Richmond Hayward Shuttleworth. I have an old family bible that goes back to Captain William Horton Smyley, who would be my great great grandfather. I believe, this is us.
> On Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 9:08:26 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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9/29/17 - Hello again. I'm hoping at some point this reaches you all, I believe we're family. Jimmy, your Grandfather Charles Homer Shuttleworth, is my great uncle, brother to my Grandfather, Walter Eilbeck Shuttleworth. John Richmond Hayward Shuttleworth is all our Great Grandfather, and his wife Evelina Jane Smyley our Great Grandmother. I too am anxious to learn about our ancestry. Perhaps at some point we can connect.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
John R Shuttleworth
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
VIEW U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
Name: John R Shuttleworth
Gender: Male
Birth Place: England
Residence Place: Deceased
Child: Charles Homer Shuttleworth
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the 1880 United States Federal Census
VIEW 1880 United States Federal Census
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Name: John R . Shuttleworth
Age: 56
Birth Date: Abt 1824
Birthplace: England
Home in 1880: Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA
Street: Pacific Street
House Number: 1285
Dwelling Number: 24
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Eveline J. Shuttleworth
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
Occupation: Wholesale Paper Dealer
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Household Members:
Name Age
John R. Shuttleworth 56
Eveline J. Shuttleworth 28
William H. Shuttleworth 6
Ida M. Shuttleworth 4
Walter A. Shuttleworth 3
Charles W. Shuttleworth 9/12
Source Citation
Year: 1880; Census Place: Brooklyn, Kings, New York; Roll: 856; Family History Film: 1254856; Page: 443D; Enumeration District: 240
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
John R Shuttleworth
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931
New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931 No Image
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Name: John R Shuttleworth
Gender: Male
Spouse: Evelyn Smiley
Gender: Male
Child: Charles Shuttleworth
FHL Film Number: 1468658
Source Information
Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data:
"New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1931." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Name: C V Shuttleworth
Residence Year: 1915
Residence Place: Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
Occupation: Employee
Publication Title: Hackensack, New Jersey, City Directory, 1915
Household Members:
Name Age
C V Shuttleworth
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original Data: Original sources vary according to directory. The title of the specific directory being viewed is listed at the top of the image viewer page. Check the directory title page image for full title and publication information.
Description:
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Charles Homer Shuttleworth
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
VIEW U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
Name: Charles Homer Shuttleworth
VIEW U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
Age: 44
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1879
Birth Place: Norton Hill, Greene, New York
Residence Place: Jersey City, New Jersey
Passport Issue Date: 25 Jan 1924
Father: John R Shuttleworth
Has Photo: Yes
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Charles Homer Shuttleworth
in the U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Charles Homer Shuttleworth
VIEW U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Charles Homer Shuttleworth
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence Age: 63
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1879
Birth Place: North Hills, New York, USA
Residence Date: 1942
Residence Place: New York, New York, USA
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Charles Homer Shuttleworth
in the New Jersey, Episcopal Diocese of Newark Church Records, 1809-1816, 1825-1970
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Charles Homer Shuttleworth
VIEW New Jersey, Episcopal Diocese of Newark Church Records, 1809-1816, 1825-1970
Name: Charles Homer Shuttleworth
Event Type: Baptism
Birth Date: 24 Aug 1879
Birth Place: Catskill
Baptism Date: Easter Eve 1889
Baptism Place: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Father: John R Shuttleworth
Mother: Eveline Smiley
Source Citation
Episcopal Diocese of Newark; Newark, New Jersey; New Jersey, Episcopal Diocese of Newark Church Records, 1800 - 1970; Reference Number: 2
Source Information
Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Episcopal Diocese of Newark Church Records, 1809-1816, 1825-1970 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Charles H Shuttleworth
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the 1910 United States Federal Census
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Name: Charles H Shuttleworth
Age in 1910: 41
Birth Year: abt 1869
Birthplace: Rhode Island
Home in 1910: Brooklyn Ward 32, Kings, New York
Street: Amerofort Place
House Number: 119
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Grace M Shuttleworth
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's name: Sarah A Shuttleworth
Mother's Birthplace: New Jersey
Native Tongue: English
Occupation: Optician
Industry: Store
Employer, Employee or Other: Own Account
Home Owned or Rented: Rent
Farm or House: House
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Years Married: 16
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles H Shuttleworth 41
Household Members:
Name Age
Grace M Shuttleworth 34
Sarah A Shuttleworth 71
Source Citation
Year: 1910; Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 32, Kings, New York; Roll: T624_985; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 1011; FHL microfilm: 1374998
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Sarah A Shuttleworth
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the 1910 United States Federal Census
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Name: Sarah A Shuttleworth
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Age in 1910: 71
Birth Year: abt 1839
Birthplace: New Jersey
Home in 1910: Brooklyn Ward 32, Kings, New York
Street: Amerofort Place
Race: White
Street: Amerofort Place
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Mother
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
Native Tongue: English
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Number of Children Born: 1
Able to Write: Yes
Number of Children Living: 1
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Grace M Shuttleworth
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the 1920 United States Federal Census
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Name: Grace M Shuttleworth
[Grace M . Shuttleworth]
Age: 38
Birth Year: abt 1882
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1920: Brooklyn Assembly District 17, Kings, New York
Street: Holsey Street
Residence Date: 1920
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Boarder
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace: Vermont
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Able to Speak English: Yes
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph H Holmes 53
Household Members:
Name Age
Jalia A Holmes 43
Charles B Holmes 19
Chas H Shuttleworth 50
Grace M Shuttleworth 38
Source Citation
Year: 1920; Census Place: Brooklyn Assembly District 17, Kings, New York; Roll: T625_1171; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 1066
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
1910 United States Federal Census
Name:
James F Casker
Age in 1910:
7
Birth Year:
1903
Birthplace:
New Jersey
Home in 1910:
Street:
Kearney Avenue
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Relation to Head of House:
Father's Name:
Patrick Casker
Father's Birthplace:
Ireland
Mother's Name:
Mary Casker
Mother's Birthplace:
Ireland
Attended School:
Yes
Household Members:
Name
Age
Mary Casker 43
Patrick Casker 40
Mary T Casker 11
Lorrete R Casker 9
James F Casker 7
Anna V Casker 2
Thomas J Casker 0
Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Jersey City Ward 8, Hudson, New Jersey; Roll: T624_891; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0162; FHL microfilm: 1374904
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Loretta R Cusker
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
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Name: Loretta R Cusker
Residence Year: 1925
Street address: 276 Fulton av I I
Residence Place: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Occupation: Clerk
Publication Title: Jersey City, New Jersey, City Directory, 1925
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Original sources vary according to directory. The title of the specific directory being viewed is listed at the top of the image viewer page. Check the directory title page image for full title and publication information.
Description
This database is a collection of city directories for various years and cities in the U.S. Generally a city directory will contain an alphabetical list of its citizens, listing the names of the heads of households, their addresses, and occupational information. Learn more...
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Loretta Catherine Cusker
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 No Image
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Name: Loretta Catherine Cusker
[Loretta C Cusker]
[Loretta Catherine Shuttleworth]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1904
Birth Place: Jersey City, New Jersey
Death Date: 28 Nov 1995
Father: Chas H Shuttleworth
Mother: Ellen Sullivan
SSN: 063223172
Notes: Feb 1944: Name listed as LORETTA CATHERINE CUSKER; 12 Dec 1995: Name listed as LORETTA C CUSKER
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Ellen Sullivan
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the 1940 United States Federal Census
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Name: Ellen Sullivan
Respondent: Yes
Age: 57
Estimated birth year: abt 1883
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Irish Free State
Marital Status: Widowed
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Lembeck
House Number: 213
Farm: No
Inferred Residence in 1935: Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey
Residence in 1935: Same House
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Citizenship: Naturalized
Sheet Number: 7A
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 127
House Owned or Rented: Owned
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 4000
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 8th grade
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Ellen Sullivan 57
Household Members:
Name Age
Daniel Sullivan 20
Source Citation
Year: 1940; Census Place: Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey; Roll: T627_2405; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 24-162
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Ellen M Sullivan
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the 1940 United States Federal Census
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Name: Ellen M Sullivan
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Age: 3
Estimated birth year: abt 1937
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: New Jersey
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1940: Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Jackson Avenue
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
House Number: 261
Sheet Number: 13B
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: None
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Harry J Sullivan 30
Household Members:
Name Age
Cecelia Sullivan 24
Ellen M Sullivan 3
Source Citation
Year: 1940; Census Place: Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey; Roll: T627_2404; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 24-117
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Mae Shuttleworth
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the 1940 United States Federal Census
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Name: Mae Shuttleworth
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Respondent: Yes
Age: 48
Estimated birth year: abt 1892
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: New York, Kings, New York
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: E 37
House Number: 658
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Kings, New York
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 4B
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 1st year
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
John C Shuttleworth 51
Household Members:
Name Age
Mae Shuttleworth 48
Matilda A Owens 37
Source Citation
Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: T627_2605; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 24-2252A
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Loretta C. Cusker
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
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Name: Loretta C. Cusker
SSN: 063-22-3172
Last Residence:
07024 Fort Lee, Bergen, New Jersey, USA
BORN: 26 Dec 1904
Died: 28 Nov 1995
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)
Source Citation
Number: 063-22-3172; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: Before 1951
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.
Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.
Description
The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence. Learn more...
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Loretta C Cusker
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
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Name: Loretta C Cusker
Address: RR 9w, Coxsackie, NY, 12051 (1991)
[Diedericks Tr Pk, West Coxsackie, NY, 12192]
[RR 1 POB 98g, Coxsackie, NY, 12192 (1996)]
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings.
Description
The U.S. Public Records Index is a compilation of various public records spanning all 50 states in the United States from 1950 to 1993. Entries in this index may contain the following information: name, street or mailing address, telephone number, birth date or birth year. Learn more...
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
James F Cusker
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931
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Name: James F Cusker
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 29 Dec 1902
Birth Place: Saint Patrick-catholic, Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey
Christening Date: 4 Jan 1903
Christening Place: Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey
Father: Patrick
Mother: Mary Clarkin
FHL Film Number: 1403369
Source Information
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
Mary Clarkin
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the 1920 United States Federal Census
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Name: Mary Clarkin
Age: 20
Birth Year: abt 1900
Birthplace: Ireland
Home in 1920: Jersey City Ward 2, Hudson, New Jersey
Street: Ninth Street
Residence Date: 1920
Race: White
Gender: Female
Immigration Year: 1903
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: William Clarkin
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Native Tongue: Irish
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: None
Naturalization Status: Naturalized
Attended School: No
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
William Clarkin 25
Household Members:
Name Age
Mary Clarkin 20
Shirley Clarkin 0
Source Citation
Year: 1920; Census Place: Jersey City Ward 2, Hudson, New Jersey; Roll: T625_1043; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 120
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> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
James F Cusker
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
in the New York, New York, Births, 1910-1965
VIEW New York, New York, Births, 1910-1965
Name: James F Cusker
Birth Date: 21 Jun 1935
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Certificate Number: 20530
Source Information
Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Births, 1910-1965 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.
Original data: New York City Department of Health, courtesy of www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com. Digital Images.
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This collection includes birth records from New York, New York that took place between the years of 1910 and 1965. Learn more...
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On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
James F Cusker
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
James F Cusker
in the U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 No Image
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Name: James F Cusker
U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 No Image
Text-only collection
Birth Date: 15 Jun 1935
Phone Number: 947-5850
Address: 575 W 172nd St, New York, NY, 10032-2034 (1978)
[2215 N Central Rd Apt 3d, Fort Lee, NJ, 07024-7520 (1993)]
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On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
Name: Joshua Zinner
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1965
Address: 711 Laverock Ln, Bethesda, 20817 (1992), MD
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On Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:39:34 PM UTC-4, maple300b...@gmail.com wrote:
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
> MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, JOHN RICHMOND HAYWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, WAS BORN JANUARY 11, 1811 AND DIED NOVEMBER 5, 1897. I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM.
1940 United States Federal Census
Name:
Bryan Mulholland
Age:
3
Estimated Birth Year:
1937
Gender:
Male
Race:
White
Birthplace:
New York
Marital Status:
Relation to Head of House:
Home in 1940:
New York, Kings, New York
Map of Home in 1940:
New York, Kings, New York
80th Street
House Number:
354
Sheet Number:
2B
Father's Birthplace:
Scotland
Mother's Birthplace:
Scotland
Attended School or College:
No
Highest Grade Completed:
Household Members:
Name
Age
William Mulholland 38
Janet Mulholland 32
William Mulholland 9
Henry Mulholland 8
Patrick Mulholland 5
Bryan Mulholland 3
Joseph Mulholland 1/12
Gerald Mulholland 1
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02574; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 24-1082
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
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