Reading Open



$27,500 READING OPEN
Hiester Lanes, Reading, Pa., Jul 28-31, 1966
Two Straight Wins For Ritger

Dick Ritger became one of the few back-to-back winners in the history of the PBA when he duplicated his Ft. Worth victory in the $27,500 Reading, Pa., Open.

Unlike his previous 200-pin-plus win, Ritger's latest was a hand-wringer. The Hartford, Wisc., pro copped the last game, 177-174, over Jim Stefanich to total 9180 for the 40 games. This was 73 pins better than that posted by Nelson Burton Jr. Burton lost a 224-254 decision in the last game to Billy Golembiewski, otherwise the St. Louis pro would have walked off with the $3,000 first place check.

Weber still held the money winning lead with earnings of $45,460 while Wayne Zahn had $39,850.

40 GAMES

 Name, City/StatePins+TotAmt
1Dick Ritger, Hartford, Wisc. 8680 600 9180 $3,000
2Nelson Burton Jr., St. Louis, Mo. 8667 660 9107 1,500
3Jim Stefanich, Chicago, Ill. 8613 660 9063 1,200
4Billy Golembiewski, Detroit, Mich. 8604 660 9064 1,150
5John Guenther, Seattle. Wash. 8463 660 9013 1,100
6Dick Weber, St. Louis, Mo. 8487 460 8937 1,050
7Jim Godman, Hayward, Calif. 8667 360 8907 1,000
8Jim Dunston, Ft. Worth, Texas 8644 360 8894 950
9Wayne Zahn, Atlanta, Ga. 8463 426 8888 900
10Bobby Jacks, New Orleans, La. 8486 360 8836 850
11Tom Harnisch, Bufalo, N.Y. 8329 376 8704 800
12Joel Decker, Washington, D.C. 8309 360 8669 750
13Ed Bourdase, Fresno, Calif. 8266 300 8666 700
14Darylee Cox, Seattle, Wash. 8312 200 8612 650
15Carmen Salvino, Chicago, Ill. 8211 300 8611 625
16Larry Festa, Astoria, N.Y. 8260 260 8610 600

24 GAMES

Pos.Name, City/StateTotalAmount
17Ray DiSanto, Batavia, N.Y.4998$420
18Bob Strampe, Detroit, Mich.4996360
19Johnny Petraglia, Brooklyn, N.Y.4996350
20Bob Kwolek, Dayton, Ohio4994340
21Bill Tucker, Los Angeles, Calif.4989330
22Earl Johnson, St. Paul, Minn.4981320
23Bill Allen, Orlando, Fla.4979310
24Pete Tountas, Tucson, Ariz.4976300