Thursday, March 17, 2016

Tournament Thursday: 3rd PBA Tournament. Dayton Open, Sep 10-13, 1959

The third and final tournament of the inaugural 1959 PBA tournament season was the Dayton Open, with a prize fund of $16,000.

George Howard, 2nd place winner in the 1959 Dayton Open
It took place at the Bar-Jan Bowl in Dayton, Ohio from Thursday September 10 to Sunday, September 13, 1959, and Dick Weber won his second tournament in a row.

George Howard was second and Ray Bluth was third.


Top 10
1   Dick Weber, from St. Louis, MO won $2,600
2  George Howard, from Detroit, MI won $1,887
3   Ray Bluth, from St. Louis, MO won $1,300
4  Therm Gibson, from Detroit, MI won $850
5   Bob Strampe, from Detroit, MI won $775
6   Harry Smith, from Baltimore, MD won $700
7  John Nickell, from Dayton, OH won $600
8  Bob Chase, from Kansas City, KS won $550
9  Bill Bunetta, from Fresno, CA won $537
10  Billy Golembiewski, from Detroit, MI won $470

Top 20  
11  Dick Hoover, from Akron, OH won $485
12  Vincent Lucci, from Morrisville, PA won $407
13  Steve Nagy, from Birmingham, MI won $465
14   Carmen Salvino, from Chicago, IL won $340
15  Morrie Oppenheim,from Chicago, IL won $315
16  Bill Pace, from Kansas City, MO won $290
17  Pat Patterson, from St. Louis, MO won $280
18  Ed Lubanski, from Detroit, MI won $270
19  Tom Hennessey, from St. Louis, MO won $260
20  Joe Ostroski, from Philadelphia, PA won $250

Rest of field
21   Don Ellis, from Houston, TX won $265
22  Chuck O'Donnell, from St. Louis, MO won $230
23  Clyde Hobbs, from Cleveland, OH won $220
24  Norman Meyers, from Los Angeles, CA won $210
25  Jim Carman, from Dallas, TX won $205
26   Charlie Wilkinson, from Salinas, CA won $200
27  Robert Crawford, from Detroit. MI won $195
28  Monroe Moore, from Pontiac, MI won $190
29   Sam Coleman, from Fairfield, OH won $185

30  Carl Richard from Joplin, Mo won $180

31  Art Schreier, city unlisted, won $175

32  Tom Harnisch from Detroit, MI won $170
33  Len Mal, Phoenix, AZ won $165
34  Willard Taylor from S. Charleston, WV won 160
35  Earl Johnson  from Minneapolis, MNwon $155
36  Joe Joseph from Lansing. MI won $150
 

Webography
http://www.lifestorynet.com/obituaries/george-howard.44797
 http://www.pba.com/Tournaments/Details/136