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00:11.
00:12Game shot.
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00:25.
00:29Now then, we're back with the second session of our indoor league game.
00:37The heat's on and we're sorting out the quarterfinals in Chuv Apeny, Table Football and Skittles.
00:43We've got a needle match in the darts in just a tick.
00:46But right now, let's see how a couple of the favourites in the bar billiards clinch their places in the semi-finals.
00:52Remember Vera Pobreshek from Bradford?
00:54She kept us all on tenterhooks, right up to the sudden death playoff round the black skittle.
01:04Drop the skittle, she loses. Drop the ball, she wins.
01:14There she goes. Malcolm Ryder, regular in Vera's own pub, wrapped it up much easier against Ernie Boughton of Barnby North.
01:21He took away the last two balls, no trouble, when he was well in the lead.
01:26Down they go.
01:2714.
01:29Not bad.
01:29But that's note to what we've been seeing from Taffy John, the Welsh wizard.
01:33He's the one those two have really got to worry about.
01:35Don't forget, it's billiards with booby traps.
01:38A game lasts 10 minutes. Knock the skittles over and you lose your score.
01:42Best holes to go for are the near end.
01:44And double bubble if the red goes down.
01:45So it's Taffy John, the school headmaster.
01:48And sure enough, he's dishing out a right lesson to Roy Harrison of Gainsbury.
01:5317.
01:53Taffy John, the Pontefract headmaster, is over 1,000 ahead in this game of bar billiards.
02:09Duration, 10 minutes, at which point a bar comes down and there's no more supply of balls.
02:16Seven white balls, one red. They keep coming back.
02:19The pitfalls to avoid.
02:20Taffy John just avoiding one there.
02:23The two white skittles.
02:24If you knock a white skittle down, you lose your break.
02:27And that lethal black skittle, right at the beginning.
02:31If you knock that down, you lose your total.
02:35Taffy John, the master of this, the reigning Yorkshire television champion.
02:41This is Roy Harrison, the lorry driver from Gainsborough.
02:44I think he realises what he's up against.
02:46This is Taffy John.
02:462,130.
02:50Roy Harrison, 1,120.
02:52Well, over 1,000 in it.
02:56Roy Harrison going for the...
02:58One of the two 50 holes.
03:01Now going up to the top of the table.
03:06Getting the red down.
03:07They vary from 10 to 30, the top holes.
03:09The really big ones are nearer the striker.
03:13You can use the red ball as a cue ball.
03:15You can use any ball as cue ball when it comes back.
03:21Well, he was lucky there.
03:22He tried to get the white into the 50,
03:25but instead got the red into the 100, which is pretty good.
03:29Moving up to the top again.
03:31And it's going to drop in.
03:33That's a 10 hole.
03:35So many players prefer to accumulate slowly at the top end,
03:40the 10s to 30s.
03:41Taffy John always going for the big ones.
03:43There again, Taffy makes it look so easy.
03:54In an earlier match, he scored 900 in one break.
03:57And they come so very quickly.
03:59He's not averse to going up to the top end of the table,
04:02particularly when it's getting near the end of the 10 minutes.
04:09110.
04:09Well, with the bar down, Taffy has asked for the nearest ball.
04:14You use the nearest ball as the cue ball.
04:19And down they go.
04:20So easy.
04:21Taffy John the winner.
04:24That's Taffy John through to the final.
04:2710 out of 10 from May in a row.
04:29And it's Malcolm Ryder or Vera Pobreschek.
04:31He'll have to play for big money.
04:33But let's get on to that dirt match I was telling you about.
04:36It's the first leg of the quarterfinal.
04:37Johnny Walker from Hull again.
04:39Keith Naylor, the Lincolnshire champion.
04:41Straight off and finish on a double.
04:45Take it from me.
04:46These lads are like gunfighters.
04:48It's all in the eyes.
04:49Walker, a national star who lives off his nerves.
04:52Keith Naylor, eyes cold from scum.
04:56This is Naylor.
05:0140.
05:02Looks a close one on the 80.
05:05That's good scoring by Keith Naylor.
05:0726.
05:09Married.
05:10But his wife is a bit touchy about that, so I'm told.
05:13Here we go.
05:1440 for Walker.
05:15Walker not in best form.
05:17Walker not showing the sort of form that we can know he's capable of.
05:21But Naylor, very steady.
05:23Steady 60.
05:24And at the moment, Naylor leads quite handsomely by something like 70 on the score.
05:29But this is Walker now.
05:30He trails.
05:3240.
05:33That looks like 60.
05:35It is 60.
05:3560.
05:44That is 60 again.
05:48Of course, darts, Britain's most popular indoor sport and probably the most popular participation
05:54sport in the country with something like 5 million players.
05:58And these are among the best in the land.
06:01Keith Naylor.
06:01Bang, bang, bang.
06:04No trouble.
06:0560 again.
06:06This is steady darts.
06:10And Walker does not look comfortable.
06:12Walker, a little nervous.
06:1441.
06:16He's come through his rounds quite comfortably.
06:19Naylor particularly was impressive in his quarterfinal.
06:2340.
06:24He has 40 there.
06:25This is Fred Truman having a look, sizing him up.
06:28Dead eye shots, these boys.
06:32This isn't the sort of stuff we expect from a player of John Walker.
06:35John Walker's class.
06:36He was a little bit unhappy about his distancing in one of his earlier rounds.
06:39But it doesn't seem to be troubling this man Naylor.
06:42That's 40.
06:4445, I think, very close on the wire.
06:46Yes, 45.
06:47Now he's getting down very near his shot.
06:4971 he wants.
06:54Walker struggling.
06:55Walker trailing behind.
06:56That's a better one.
06:57That's a better one.
06:57And that one's outside.
06:5960 and one away.
07:0271 going.
07:03He has 11.
07:0360.
07:04You go for the 20.
07:06It's double 10.
07:07He wants down.
07:07Over there.
07:08And that's very, very close indeed.
07:10Is it there?
07:10It's right on the wire.
07:11Very tight.
07:12Unlucky.
07:13Unlucky for Keith Naylor.
07:15This is left.
07:17Walker back in.
07:19Oh, very close.
07:2138 double 16.
07:22That was close.
07:24And now, double 10.
07:25Over there.
07:25Four o'clock on the board.
07:26Here's Naylor.
07:28Just inside.
07:28Six.
07:29Two sevens.
07:29Two sevens.
07:31Close.
07:34And that's caught.
07:34This is well.
07:35I think it's just inside.
07:36No, it's there.
07:37It's there.
07:37You can see it's hidden.
07:38And that's the first leg to Naylor.
07:41The first leg to Naylor.
07:44So it's Keith Naylor landing the first one on the champ from across the Humber, Johnny Walker.
07:49So that puts him just one game away from the semi-final spot.
07:53Walker will have to pull himself together now.
07:54But we'll follow that in another programme.
07:56Because now it's the last round of the barbillards tussle.
07:59And let me tell you, Taffy Johnny has got oil in his elbow.
08:07100.
08:08See that?
08:09And Vera Pabrasek and Malcolm Ryder are fighting it out to meet him in the final.
08:13Back in a couple of minutes.
08:14And see they then.
08:15Hey, now the question is, who's going to take on the Welsh wizard in the final?
08:42One thing's sure.
08:44Valiant Vera's getting her right clobbering in her final.
08:47But it's not putting her off her bashing and walloping style.
08:50She's still toting that cue like a cutlass.
08:52That's the extent of the gap and down goes the white skittle.
09:00So that's the break invalidated for Vera.
09:02Malcolm Ryder back on the table.
09:04And of course, we're getting close to 10 minute mark, at which point the bar will come down.
09:08No more balls will come back and they'll play off with the balls available.
09:14Malcolm going for the small ones again.
09:16Well, Keith, he goes for the small ones at the top because it's quite easy that if he misses
09:23a shot, one might drop in because there's five holes to go out.
09:26And he keep his score steadily mounting that way.
09:30So Malcolm Ryder, as we get near to the point, the 10 minute point at which the bar drops,
09:33is quite content, as Fred says, to go for the...
09:36One hundred twenty and the bar is down.
09:37And the bar is down.
09:38So Malcolm, if he can avoid knocking down any of the three skittles,
09:43the white ones which would invalidate the break,
09:45or the black one which would wipe out his total score,
09:48if he can keep out of trouble, he's got this big lead.
09:51There again, he drops it into the 30 hole.
09:54But I think at this point, the number that Malcolm is scoring is not important.
09:57He's just keeping the balls in play and keeping Vera off the table.
10:02Well, he was. Vera's back.
10:03But all she can hope for, really, is that Malcolm Ryder will knock down the black skittle.
10:11And a bit of a half-hearted and rather careless effort by Vera.
10:16I think she's conceding defeat.
10:17And Malcolm Ryder, this very careful player, as Fred said,
10:20he's not a spectacular player.
10:22He doesn't go for the big ones.
10:24And he's staying out of trouble, staying out of the way of that black skittle
10:27and just dropping them in the 10 hole.
10:29The holes at the top, ranging between 10 and 30.
10:36Again towards the top.
10:38And again, Fred made the point that if you miss with one,
10:40there's always a chance another one will drop down.
10:41And there's the nearest ball being brought back by the referee as the cue ball.
10:44So, with the bar down, there are no more balls coming through.
10:51Playoff.
10:52110.
10:55And with one ball on the table,
10:57Malcolm must aim for the 200 hole,
10:59which is the one nearest to us,
11:01covered by the black skittle.
11:03When this ball goes down, the game is over.
11:07And, of course, the only danger for Malcolm Ryder
11:09is that he will knock down the black skittle.
11:11Malcolm Ryder, 1,750.
11:13Vera, 420.
11:17The referee making absolutely sure that the players try.
11:19One of the rules is that players must try to drop it down the 200 hole.
11:23They mustn't play safe.
11:24Malcolm Ryder, of course, will want to do that.
11:26And it's dropping in.
11:28200.
11:281,900.
11:33Malcolm Ryder wins 1,950.
11:37Vera, 420.
11:42Well, Vera, he's done yet.
11:45Yes, I know he did.
11:46He was telling me to give him a bendy when he come down here.
11:49Was it a case of letting the customer win?
11:52True, true.
11:53You let him win, you did?
11:54So he's still sharing, so I'm not bothered.
11:56Oh, dear.
11:56Where did you learn to play, like, didn't you?
11:59You've got a lovely break of 400 knob.
12:01No, I learned to play in pub.
12:03You didn't learn to play from your home country, then?
12:05No, no, I didn't play.
12:07Just in a pub for, you know, spare time job.
12:10Well, when I saw you, you were shaking like an asthma leaf.
12:12What's the matter with you?
12:13I am shaking.
12:14What for?
12:15I don't know.
12:15They're like these old cameras.
12:17Well, I think you both did very well, indeed.
12:19Good.
12:20And you're glad that he's there, too, are you?
12:22Yes, I am, yes.
12:23I'm really pleased.
12:24I suppose if he wins, it's 3-0 for the rest of the year, is it?
12:27Oh, no, no.
12:27We're going to spend it tonight, not the rest of the year.
12:29No, he's going to...
12:30Oh, well, like I said, Malcolm Ryder's got a real lad to take on now in this bar billiards final.
12:36Before him and Vera get their hands on that brass, it's Taffy John, the headmaster from Pontefract.
12:42So far, he's crucified everybody that's crossed his path.
12:45Don't forget, it's 100 quid to play for, 50 quid for the runner-up, which can't be bad.
12:50So here we go in the big final, with Malcolm Ryder already on the table, and Keith Macklin talking.
12:56So Malcolm Ryder, under 500 behind against the favourite, Taffy John, the Pontefract schoolmaster in the lead.
13:07This is Malcolm Ryder, acknowledging a little bit of luck in that shot, but he's going for the bigger ones.
13:11Nice up at the top of the table.
13:12That's the 10-hole at the top.
13:15The feeling, of course, that Malcolm Ryder must be more adventurous in this final,
13:19because Taffy John always goes for the big ones, but there's Malcolm up at the top.
13:23200.
13:27He's got no ball down this end of the table, near the big hole.
13:30He's put himself in a position where he's got to go to the top.
13:34240.
13:37Drops it down in the 20-hole.
13:38270.
13:44Malcolm Ryder like this, picking them up in 20s and 30s, which, of course, is fine if you stay on the table.
13:50Because with just over 10 minutes to play, theoretically, one can stay on the table 10 minutes and never give one's opponent a smell.
13:58370.
14:00Well, Malcolm Ryder approaching Taffy John's score now.
14:02His style's different.
14:06There, you see, he's got a chance of going for the bigger holes, but Chews is the top one.
14:11I don't know why, but he has.
14:12He doesn't seem to have any confidence when he goes for the bigger holes.
14:15He doesn't seem to get them.
14:18Well, I think he was trying there, but it was rather a bad miss.
14:21And he's left Taffy on, of course.
14:22Taffy loves them.
14:24Now, the big holes are all on for Taffy.
14:29That's a red into the 50-hole, and he's got the red as the cue ball.
14:35What a beautiful shot, Fred.
14:36Oh, that's absolutely beautiful.
14:38That's somebody that knows what he's doing and how it's out of play.
14:41He's not messing about with the 20s or 30s.
14:44He's extending that lead through pure skill.
14:48Well, there, you see, he's shot over the pocket.
14:51And even then, he's trying to get the ball back down the table to where the big ones are.
14:55And 500 nod there in just three or four shots at the table puts him miles in front again.
15:02Well, down goes the red for Malcolm Wright.
15:04That's made Malcolm more adventurous.
15:07He dropped the red ball into the 100-hole, which, of course, counts 200.
15:11That's Taffy John giving his advice and comments on the side there, acknowledging his opponent.
15:16Malcolm Wright, I think, realising he's got to be more adventurous.
15:19But there's done it again, Keith.
15:21He's got a chance of going for the big, and he's gone right up to the top to the small holes,
15:24playing safe all the time, not using the adventure that he should be doing.
15:28And he's gone for the smaller one there.
15:30Again, I just can't understand it.
15:32Malcolm Ryder, skilful as he is, as the point has been made.
15:39Now, he's having to go off the course.
15:40This is not an easy one.
15:42Well, this is about positional play.
15:43He should never leave himself in this position in his midst.
15:46So, Taffy John, very much in the saddle, this favourite, thinks about every shot, but there
16:03you see a bit of anti-climax, though.
16:04Yes, but once again, he's obviously played snooker or billiards before.
16:08He used the angle beautifully to hit that ball, and only just missed going in one of the big
16:13holes again for another big score.
16:14He was very close to it.
16:16Malcolm Ryder, having to play that solitary white ball up at the top of the table, just
16:21missing the black skittle by a whisker, and again the red ball right at the top.
16:27He can't go for the big scores, the 200s.
16:29Now he's bringing the red ball back, but of course, he's in trouble.
16:36So, Taffy John is back on the table.
16:40Now, here we'll see Taffy John go for the bigger hole.
16:43And he drops it, and left the white in a beautiful position so he can go in off with
16:49the red again.
16:54Just wiped its feet and dropped it.
16:57Dropping in the 50 hole, the red dropping in the 50 hole, worth 100, and he's got his
17:01white ball ready for an in off.
17:05And down goes the white skittle, a rare mistake for Taffy, but of course, even when he's a long
17:09way ahead, he can only play one way, that's adventurously, and down goes the white skittle.
17:14Brake cancelled, Malcolm Ryder on again.
17:17No score.
17:18Taffy John's, 1,210.
17:21Malcolm Ryder, 560.
17:23Taffy John, the favourite, accumulating, putting two white balls down there, not getting much
17:29in the way of a score, but of course, he's looking for position all the time.
17:32There, puts both the red and the white down.
17:3590.
17:35The ball's still coming back, the bar will drop at 10 minutes, and then all the balls
17:41available in the draw will be played off.
17:42150.
17:45Even there, Keith, he tried to bring the white ball, even though he's got one to play with,
17:50he tried to bring the big ball back, and there again, he played over the pocket, and even
17:54tried to bring the red back into the 100 hole.
17:56And he's left the red ball at the right end of the table, of course, but he's going up to
18:00the top, it wasn't an easy one, so he settles himself for splitting the 20 and the 10.
18:05But there, you see, he's putted both balls, so he's got them both back down on the short
18:10one, and he'll go for the big holes again.
18:11This is beautiful, skilful play.
18:14Beautiful to watch.
18:16The white ball comfortably placed, using the red as the cue ball, and in off.
18:20450.
18:21The red down in the 50 hole, counting 100.
18:25Red ball as cue ball again.
18:26White ball comfortably placed once more.
18:30Down they come.
18:31700.
18:32Makes it look so easy, Taffy, John, this Pontefract headmaster.
18:37And the red ball again, dropping down the 50 hole.
18:42He's got the white ball at the other side of the table with the 50 hole.
18:47And he missed it.
18:48800.
18:49A bad miss for Taffy, really, Fred.
18:51A bit unlucky there.
18:53He was trying to just do it a bit too narrow, so he's going to leave himself the white ball
18:57over the big hole again, you see.
19:00But, see, Malcolm has missed the big one again.
19:02He was going for the big one and had to be content with the small one up at the top.
19:05In fact, he was...
19:07That was a good shot.
19:09160.
19:13Malcolm Ryder, trailing a long, long way behind.
19:15And he's wobbled the white skittle.
19:20At the end of his break, but he doesn't wipe it out.
19:22If he knocked down the white skittle, the break would have been wiped out.
19:2510.
19:28Taffy getting only 10, but, of course, bringing the red ball in a beautiful position for the 100 hole.
19:35And dropping the red for good measure and bringing it back.
19:38Taffy John, the...
19:46Oh, he was lucky there.
19:48170 break.
19:49Again, unsettle the white skittle without knocking it over.
19:51Taffy Johns, 2,180.
19:54Malcolm Ryder, 720.
19:57So it's a huge gap for Malcolm Ryder.
19:59And, of course, with this style of play coming up in 10s and 20s, it's going to take an awful long time to catch up.
20:05Nice shot.
20:06Dropped it down the 100 hole.
20:07230.
20:08The red ball down the 100 hole, worth 200.
20:15320.
20:16This is a nice play by Malcolm Ryder.
20:18Of course, he has to.
20:19He's got to build up the big ones.
20:22That's the 100 hole again.
20:24420.
20:32End of break.
20:33Once again, you see, he's trying to be a little bit adventurous.
20:36He's knocked him off and he's left Taffy back in again.
20:41Taffy going in off.
20:42100.
20:43He's always looking to play two ways, his Taffy.
20:47If he's missing one of the big holes, he's finding another one.
20:51That happened just there.
20:54It was one of the smaller holes at the top.
20:57But, of course, it keeps him in play.
20:59He's only got the top.
21:00Now, he's bringing the red ball down.
21:01150.
21:02So, he takes his cue ball.
21:08Going for the 100 hole.
21:11250.
21:11And the red ball is so beautifully placed.
21:17No trouble about that.
21:18Drops the red ball for good measure.
21:20410.
21:22See, every time he goes to the table, he's coming away with 300.
21:26400.
21:27And it just keeps mounting up.
21:28And he's putting the pressure on Malcolm Ryder the whole of the time.
21:32And this is what he's playing.
21:33And he's got such beautiful position and sense as well.
21:37Well, Taffy, a 420 break.
21:40It's typical of the man that he's disappointed at the end of a 420 break with that shot.
21:45Malcolm Ryder not left with a great deal at the top of the table.
21:50But the balls are still coming as we move towards the 10-minute mark.
21:54That was a nice shot.
21:55260.
22:00The red ball floating down.
22:03210.
22:04Perhaps not far enough, but there's a chance.
22:10Both will come back.
22:11280.
22:12And the bar is now down.
22:14That means that no more balls will come through into the draw.
22:16They will play off the balls remaining in the draw and on the table.
22:20Obviously, once again, you see, he's trying to play safe.
22:23And he's gone for the top holes.
22:24When he could have gone for the near ones.
22:27Even though he's so many behind.
22:29And once more, you see, he's left Taffy John in again.
22:32Yes, Taffy has a easy shot on the 50 hole.
22:40Beautiful position.
22:41That was 100 hole keys.
22:43Just over the top of the 100 hole for a gentle in-off.
22:48150.
22:48150.
22:54Now, since the bar is down, the cue ball is the nearest ball to you on the table.
23:07A beautiful double finishes the game.
23:09And 220.
23:13Taffy the winner.
23:15Taffy John wins the 100 quid.
23:18Best I've seen.
23:19But I'm all whistling to hear from any lad who reckons he's better.
23:21But one thing I defy you to beat our champs at is this year.
23:26Table football.
23:27Because next week, we've got the cockiest pair in the land.
23:30Crane and Kelly from Leeds University.
23:33Trying to get their hands on 100 quid.
23:35I'll sit there then.
23:36I'll sit there for a second.
23:59Okay.
24:00You
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