Ballard Gets No. 1 Bowling Seeding in Final Game

CHICAGO —  Del Ballard Jr. surprised Walter Ray Williams Jr., 194-161, in the final game of the seventh round to earn the No. 1 seeding in the $200,000 Brunswick Memorial World Open bowling tournament Friday night.

Ballard, who earned $100,000 when he won this year’s U.S. Open, has to win only one game in today’s nationally televised championship round to earn the $33,000 top prize and an expense-paid trip to the 1988 Olympic Games at Seoul, South Korea.

Williams, the reigning PBA Player of the Year, is seeded second and is trying to become the first bowler to win three events on the 1987 tour.

Third-seeded Jeff Bellinger will await the winner of the first match before he sees action. Bellinger won his only PBA title last year.

No. 4-seeded Brad Bohling and fifth-seeded Paul Renteria will meet in the opening match.