The infamous Del Ballard Jr. Gutterball

[Rowey the li'l lefty]

This is a clip from a match between Pete Weber and Del Ballard Jr.

http://media.putfile.com/ballard-gutterball

From winning the tournament, to losing in devastating fashion, this is what can and does happen.

All I can say to Del Ballard Jr. is...OUCH!

Bubye

Rowey

 

[Easy Tiger]

He didn't look happy did he.

$100 to anyone game enough to walk up to him and go "that's life mate".

I'm not sure that it would cover a face reconstruction though.

 

[KnuckleHead]

Thats gotta suck big time. i wouldn't be happpy either when he only had to throw a 7 and throws a gutter. As Rowey said Ouch.

 

[Grumpy gills]

You know it is so nice to know that the professionals can stuff things up big time too!!! He is human after all!!!!!

 

[aphelion]

That vid is always good for a laugh.

Karma for celebrating too early in my opinion.

 

[Tiger]

That'd be equally, if not more shattering than the scenario which saw Don Genalo losing to Jimmy Pritts Jnr in the Southern California Open in the early 80's.

Genalo left the greek church (4-6-7-9-10) in the tenth frame, and thought he'd lost the final, but had miscalculated the scores and fired the ball down the lane, into the gutter on purpose: 5s -

He didn't realise that he needed to get two of them and he would've won the tournament - BIG OUCH

As an aside to Ballard Jnrs loss there in the clip above, I believe he came out and won the following week's tournament.

 

[emmtee83]

Dang. He gotta be spewin....

 

[jhk67]

I believe they played that frank sinatra song in the background "that's life" immediately after the tournament