She's one of the best that I've seen with the down and in game.  But she can swing it if she needs to.  5 US Open titles is 2nd all time.  She bowled the third PWBA televised 300 game.  Then she also has 21 titles to her credit (5 majors, 11 standard, 5 non-PWBA titles).  Lisa Wagner has the most at 32.  Plus, Liz hasn't declined in her bowling either.  She just seems to keep getting better and better and is always in contention.  In either case, she will have had one of the greatest careers ever once the bowling shoes are hung up.

The game has become so much more athletic as the friction factor on the lanes has increased over the years.  This evolution makes it difficult to make comparisons generation to generation, let alone between genders.  There is even a significant difference between Earl and WRW, despite many people who would put them in similar category.  WRW did indeed rely on accuracy as did Earl, but using much more ball speed and power to combat the high friction of the resin era.  The fact that he did no hook the ball a lot says more about his axis rotation than the amount of power supplied at release.  Whether Earl would have developed the same type of power game had he come up in the resin era is problematic and explains the difficulty of making comparisons.

Turning to Liz Johnson, she is more along the lines of the female version of WRW than bowlers of the Anthony era.  However she cannot generate the ball speed or the rev rate of the better players from the modern era.  However her skill level is so high that she can compete against the best men on a narrow range of conditions that matches her game. 

@pinbuster She can only beat who she bowls against. So if there is a greatest man to bowl why can't she be mentioned as the greatest woman in the same breath?