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00:30Now then, I've shown you the world's best table footballers and the north's best bar
00:39billies players here on the indoor league, but now make the stars of a game that matches
00:43the delicateness and dexterity of the miniature portrait painter.
00:47You won't see Shove Apeny played much outside the south of England, but take it from me,
00:51blokes like Buffalo Bill here, who plays regular at his local near Skenthorpe, is straight
00:55out of the top draw.
00:56He's nine chalks down in this first round match against the Durham champion, Alan Brown,
01:01who wants just one chalk to win.
01:02So Bill is trying to slot those five coins into the top four beds of the table.
01:07Remember, he wants three coins in each bed to chalk it off.
01:11One there Bill.
01:12Sorry.
01:13Two.
01:14He gets back the ones that go in, and he replays them.
01:18The winner is the first man to fill all beds, and you need 27 chalks in all to win.
01:23The diagonal chalk mark means that the bed is full.
01:32Commentator Neil Clemenson takes it up as Brown of Durham moves in for the kill, wanting
01:36only one at the top to win.
01:39His bay, the third one from the top, is filled with three chalks.
01:43And now...
01:45Alan going for one in the top bed.
01:47That looks as though that may be Buffalo Bill's swan song.
01:51Alan Brown is moving the coins beautifully up the board.
01:55He's got himself a line at the top, but nose might be setting in a bit now.
01:59I think that's it.
02:00No stuff.
02:01Ah, no.
02:02No.
02:03He'd left it just tight.
02:05It's a very, very difficult job, and the pressure must be beginning to tell on Alan Brown
02:10now, as Buffalo Bill is gradually pegging back his lead.
02:14He's got three in the top.
02:16Three plus two.
02:18Two.
02:19Five.
02:20Seven to get.
02:21Seven plays long, but...
02:22He's got another one there.
02:23So he's down just six to get, but his board is not a very tidy one.
02:32He's got...
02:33Ah, he's just missed that one again.
02:34No.
02:35But surely Alan Brown can't miss this time again.
02:40He's married with one little girl, and that, I think, is it.
02:46And there we are.
02:47Don't stop, Alan.
02:48At long last, he did it, but it's the last one.
02:50At long last, he did it, but a well-deserved...
02:53Exit Buffalo Bill, first victim of the Durham Mafia.
02:57They've had a league up there since the 30s,
02:59and they're pretty fancy with that diagonal shooting.
03:02But now, darts.
03:03The news of the world star, John Walker of Hull,
03:06needing a big finish to beat Keith Naylor of Scunthorpe
03:09and go into our semi-final.
03:14102, he wants, Naylor wants 81.
03:16102 going.
03:18That's 20, that's 82.
03:2032, 32, 32, 36, he scored.
03:2354.
03:2454 scored.
03:26That leaves him.
03:28Can't see on the board.
03:2981 required, Naylor.
03:3081 going, 81.
03:37He's missed a 22.
03:39Oh, unlucky, unlucky, unlucky.
03:411939 scored.
03:4219 double.
03:44Walker requires 48.
03:45He wanted a double, 11 double top, but now...
03:47Now, it's Walker on 16, so he's the double.
03:52Oh, that's the double, it's...
03:54Is it in the same page?
03:55And it's there!
03:55Same shot.
03:56Unbelievable.
03:57And the finishing power, the finishing power of John Walker really is too much to be believed.
04:07There's another blonde bummer, Charlie Elias of Bradford in the deciding leg of his quarterfinal against Les Mills of Hull.
04:13Dave Lunning, you're doing the talking.
04:1620.
04:16Now, what happened to the last one?
04:18The last one he went downstairs and I think he missed, and that is letting Mills back in with a chance to get on terms.
04:2320, 40.
04:25Bang.
04:2560.
04:2660.
04:26There we go.
04:27Now Mills is settling.
04:28Ellis.
04:30A little bit erratic suddenly.
04:31Maybe it's the nerves.
04:32Maybe it's the big one.
04:33Maybe this is what's getting under his skin.
04:3520.
04:3740.
04:3760.
04:4160.
04:42And now the tension is beginning to build up.
04:452-3-3 Mills.
04:475 for Mills.
04:49I don't know what that one looked like.
04:502-1s.
04:5227.
04:5327.
04:53It was 2-1s.
04:55Well, the scores are jumping and bobbing about, and the balance of power seems to be spraying about from one to the other.
05:0521.
05:06Not happy.
05:07Not happy.
05:07Not happy, Mr. Ellis.
05:0940 scored.
05:10Not happy with that one at all.
05:12Now Mills.
05:12206.
05:14That looks like a one as well.
05:16That looks like it's outside.
05:1861.
05:1961.
05:20I was wrong.
05:20Sorry, Mr. Mills.
05:21Look.
05:22Ellis requires 162.
05:23Outside.
05:25162 going.
05:26For Ellis.
05:27Freddie Truman having a quick suss in there.
05:29Having a quick look.
05:30Watching the experts.
05:3220, 40.
05:3360.
05:34And just under the wire.
05:36Just under the wire.
05:37Now Mills on 145.
05:4020 scored.
05:4140 scored.
05:4360 scored.
05:4460 scored.
05:45Now then, the man with the dynamic finish is going to win this one because it's all now.
05:51There's nothing in it.
05:52There's nothing in it.
05:52Excuse me.
05:53Just one good shot.
05:54One good shot.
05:55Could do it.
05:55112 going.
05:59102 going.
06:02Ah, he's outside and he's angry.
06:04He's angry.
06:0540.
06:0540.
06:0640 scored.
06:0740 scored.
06:07Now Mills.
06:09Mills on 85.
06:11That looks like a one.
06:14He doesn't like it.
06:15Downstairs for 18.
06:1735.
06:1835 scored.
06:20That leaves bullseye.
06:22Bullseye for Mills.
06:23And 62.
06:2442 for this man here, Charles Ellis.
06:27He wants another one of those.
06:29Now double 16.
06:30This will be a terrific shot if he gets it.
06:32Oh, there it is.
06:33There it is.
06:34Well, that really was what I was saying.
06:37The man with the finish wins at darts.
06:39And there is the man with the finish, Charles Ellis.
06:43So look out for the sparks flying when Walker and Ellis, both Deadshot finishers, meet in our semi-final.
06:51But now let's stick with Chevy right until the 150 quid prize money is dished out.
06:57We join the first semi-final between Barry Stones of Durham and Gordon Metcalf of Doncaster.
07:02Stones shooting.
07:04Neil Clemenson doing the chat.
07:06I think in there, though the shadow can be a bit misleading.
07:09And this is why the umpire stands at the side.
07:12The referee stands at the side looking across the board.
07:14Now that's in a very, very nice position now.
07:17He's got an extra coin in there.
07:19A very, very good three shot.
07:21And that might just be the most important shot in the game.
07:28Unfortunately, with putting that coin in,
07:31he's filled his third top bay
07:34and has left that bay four down from the top.
07:40We're still none in.
07:42Now, as you may have heard earlier,
07:46One more.
07:47If he gets a coin in that third top bay
07:52and Gordon Metcalf hasn't got any in that bay up to now,
07:55he has to give one away.
07:57One chalk mark goes over to the right-hand side of the board.
08:00There's only one there again for Gordon.
08:13And he's got a risk now
08:15of knocking coins over that last line at the top of the board.
08:20And once a coin, once one of these one-inch discs
08:22has passed that,
08:24the coin is no longer in play
08:27and so the person loses
08:29has to play then only with four coins,
08:32which makes the game, of course,
08:35so much more difficult.
08:36Now, there's a situation where
08:38he is giving one coin away
08:39and has had to knock that up to the top.
08:43He's only got one,
08:44but now he's got again one of those nasty little gates.
08:47And that gap,
08:48the gap between two filled bays
08:50and those two bays,
08:53if he leaves them in at the end of his break.
08:55One more.
08:56Now, he's only got six to fill,
08:58but it isn't a tiny board.
09:02He would have liked to have got that.
09:03And has he given one away?
09:04One away.
09:05The referee, he's given one away there.
09:08Giving chokes away doesn't upset Mafia, lads, though.
09:11Just watch Stone finish it off.
09:13Harry Stone's now.
09:14Again, good length.
09:15Again, good length.
09:16And that's it.
09:17Yes, thank you, Dr. Barron.
09:18He's got it.
09:26Great win there for the Durham lad.
09:28And he was feeling champing
09:29when I spoke to him
09:30after the semi-final.
09:31Well, you never know, you know what I mean?
09:33It should be,
09:33but it's just one of those things.
09:34If the coins are dropping for you,
09:36that's it, you know.
09:37How do you think you're going to go in the final?
09:39Well, I think I have a good chance anyway.
09:41Well, who's he going to meet in the final?
09:43Will his pal, Alan Brown, from Durham, do it?
09:45Or will the Yorkshire champ, Alan Thornton,
09:47from Huddersfield Way,
09:48clubber the Durham Mafia?
09:50We scoured five counties in the north
09:52to find these lads
09:52the cream of the nation's apenny pushes.
09:55And take it from me,
09:56Thornton,
09:57who you're going to see now,
09:58is a cracker.
09:59Though he's looking a bit sick at the moment
10:00against bearded Alan Brown,
10:02who's filled all the bottom bays.
10:04Thornton, coming to the board now,
10:06he's the champ at his local,
10:07at Lepton, near Huddersfield.
10:09He has just missed that.
10:11But Alan Brown,
10:12who has been playing for 12 years now,
10:15with only,
10:17only two required
10:19in that second top bay.
10:21Now, Alan Thornton,
10:23the Yorkshire champion,
10:26has really got his work cut out now.
10:28He's got still
10:29no chalk marks
10:30in the top two bays.
10:33And I'm afraid
10:34is finding the pressure
10:36just a bit too much.
10:39Even the coins,
10:40even the coins that he's got in there,
10:42if you look at his board,
10:43you'll see that he's still got
10:44unfilled bays
10:45right down at the bottom of the board.
10:48This is a rather untidy board,
10:49and you find that people
10:50waste coins
10:51trying to fill these in.
10:53Alan Brown,
10:55the Durham player,
10:56in contrast,
10:57has maintained
10:58a very steady progress.
11:01Very steady indeed
11:02going up the board.
11:03And can concentrate
11:05just gently
11:06by moving coins
11:08further up the board.
11:09One score.
11:12Now, we're still on
11:13Alan Thornton.
11:16Knocks off that chalk
11:17in the bay,
11:19but still, as you see,
11:20has two still required
11:21in the first bay.
11:23So this means that now
11:24he has six to get in the top
11:26and two in the bottom.
11:27Eight left,
11:29now seven.
11:30So it's seven chalks
11:31to still required,
11:3320 chalks already in,
11:35seven to get,
11:36and the break ends.
11:38Good fight back there
11:39by Thornton.
11:40But before we take a break,
11:42just watch how deadly
11:43this Durham lad is
11:44where it counts
11:45on the last chalk.
11:46The games may well
11:47have been finished
11:48by now.
11:49Alan Brown here.
11:50That's it.
11:51And he's got it.
11:53The game starts.
11:53Alan Brown.
12:24hundred quid have a look at two of the favorites in our table skittles tournament they're cousins
12:29from darton little village near barnesley and they really are artists the idea is to swing
12:34the ball and knock down as many skittles as you can there's nine on the board so theoretically
12:39dennis jones here could drop them in one but usually you see four or five gold you get three
12:44swings each time so again if you were brilliant you could tot up 27 each time at the board winner
12:51his first month 201 commentator gave money 355 jones leads denton now needing a spare with some
13:03urgency with some urgency and he still can't find that fronter correctly because that time he got
13:08the middle three which leaves him the nastiest six on the board and he damn nearly got them too
13:14unlucky a very very well measured cross shot and again we now have denton not finding his first
13:19throw very well but getting out of trouble but that's not good enough because his cousin dennis
13:24jones is leading and is not easing up he's not making mistakes
13:33here's jones
13:37oh a nice shot and the skittle just wouldn't kick for him for his flopper his nine
13:41but i don't think he'll miss this one not at all another spare for jones jones now galloping jones at full gallop
13:54here he comes for his spare nice wide inside ball there just a little bit too heavy-handed another four making 13
14:03so it's 67 to 52 still to look dennis jones 67 52 and now stan denton has really got to do something
14:14spectacular let's see still can't find that first shot still can't bang the first one in
14:22looks worried looks worried these will come with a nicely measured cross shot and that was unlucky
14:29now again the pattern continues genton getting out of bother but not catching his cousin
14:39playing some very clever second and third shots but it's the first one that's letting him down and
14:43that's where this man jones seems to be scoring because jones is banging these first ones in
14:47and that makes life a lot easier for a table skittle player here he goes now
14:53you see what i mean case in point it's a lot easier with one left up than was five or six
14:59bang there it goes another spare another spare for jones who looks well set unless he plays ducks
15:07and breaks getting eight now then let's see this first shot again a very very wide
15:14inside shot on the front he's done it again another seven this is good stuff
15:19well them's the experts we see the end of that semi-final and the finals of the basket was next week
15:24but now to the final of what's probably the oldest pub game in england i hear henry the eighth used to
15:30knock the old shove apenys about a bit when he went bashing missus well i don't know how barry
15:35stones or alan brown of durham treat their missus but they certainly can nudge a crafty apenny we pick
15:40up our shove apenny final with brown leading by 16 chalk to eight remember you need 27 chalk to win that's
15:47three in each bet you get back the coins that go in and you replay them neil clemenson is doing the talking
15:53as stones is in play is barry stones trying to come back there now but as he doesn't use that
16:01that right hand spinning shot from the right hand side of the bay there is rather limited in the type
16:06of shots he can adopt he's playing there straight up but finds that shot a bit awkward i think he
16:14plays on a board which is rather faster than this boards themselves vary in speed and grain
16:21if the board is cut on a cross grain it tends to be less smooth but you can see there that the grain
16:28is very straight on the board running up and down and there we are barry barry stones keeping on there
16:38taking his lie again but has in fact still got himself a rather difficult situation because he's not
16:50filling his bays the way his derham playing colleague alan brown is now that's very nice length he's he's he's
17:00really getting into a groove now thinking about his game just dropping it up tickling the coins in
17:07very very nicely there for a beautiful shot and he'll get another one further up
17:13now all he has to do now oh there's three beautiful shot now he's got a shot there on the left hand side
17:19coin and he'll probably try and hit that yes on this third the three o'clock on the coin but a bit too hard
17:24that but now he's got a lie to take misses it and ends his break oh no he just flicked that in a bit
17:31of a lucky shot there not really quite intentional that but the all count and he's still got this other
17:38lie but well he's not going to take it and that really was quite a shot because the coin on the left
17:44hand side there if he played straight up behind it would have given him an almost certain bay
17:48but this game of new market where you get your coins back uh that are judged in by the referee at
17:56the end of each five coins is one that the derham players don't play normally in their league and then
18:02maybe perhaps just a little bit aware um or not aware of the intricacies of the development of this
18:11particular game you're playing not just for five coins you're playing for to get coins back to leave
18:17lies at the end of your first five coins so that you can keep moving the board the coins gently up
18:24the board as barry stones is being successful in doing at the moment now he needs very badly here
18:32and a good run
18:35he's tidied his board up now and has got a very nice one another second from the right and now has got
18:41uh the game is getting really very very very close indeed and that's another good coin in there
18:50so there is only those two top boys top bays to fill for barry stones that's six chalks so nine in all
18:59nine in all on the left hand side of the board only eight now the referee's looking tightly seven now
19:06seven for barry stones now on the other side of the board there are three at the top three five six
19:12eight so it's seven plays eight and at the moment barry stones is still in there and i think has just
19:20missed and a bad miss because that top bay would have been a very vital coin to a god
19:26so up comes alan brandon's made himself two lovely lies takes one misses the other but has got a chance
19:35there of getting that first coin back takes it back and now desperately he wants to make something
19:43here and has just butting him to remind you that this match is for the big money 100 quid to the winner
19:4950 foot second so we're in a situation he needs five just five coins and he's got one to go and a
19:56possible lie at the top but just it spun round if he'd hit it at six o'clock it was round about half past
20:03so that coin went over the top and was judged tight by the referee so it's seven plays five a very tight game
20:12battle of the durham city giants
20:14now this needs a split shot a hard shot up the middle to try but he's not going to try it he's
20:23got already one coin in and how's he going to do it he has tried it but not hard enough and as i think
20:29doesn't give that coin away it it's in a position to give a coin away so he must knock this out this
20:34time has done and has he scored it or has it just gone tight no it's just gone tight so it's back to
20:41alan brown who i think now must be favorite it's a very nice length beautiful beautiful
20:47hitting the coin hitting the coin very nicely beautiful again beautiful again he's got the
20:54that nearest coin in he'll get that coin back and are those in the second top are they in
21:02yes indeed he's got three there vital shots that one went over the top line now now this is what he
21:09needs he's still got he's still got two coins to go now a touch a touch at three o'clock this is for
21:15a hundred pounds his shot oh and he's just missed it and gone over the top
21:2050 pounds on that shot if he just hit that at three o'clock at the right length he would have had a
21:25chance there a chance there to be the winner by seven coins seven chalk marks so barry stones really
21:34must pull something out the bag now he's playing very nicely he's got the length of the board these
21:38derram lance have adapted very very quickly and very well to this board he's got one there and he's got
21:46coins more importantly now he's got coins in a position that he can get more and he's done it but
21:51he's he's just missed it and the break's over so here we are for the for the championship for the
22:00championship shot 100 pounds of steak beautiful shot now at three o'clock again that's what is that
22:06one in the shadow is a bit confusing there is the referee's in tight i think i can see wood yes he's
22:14given it so this is game shot this is game shot for 100 pounds and the championship and he's done it
22:19he's done it a beautiful shot a beautiful finish alan brown's 30 year old hair and hounds derram city
22:26wins they shove head in the championship
22:31how do you feel i thought you played well you you set off quite quickly
22:38oh yeah it's uh no i'm playing against but i've never played buddy before it's the first time i've
22:44played him and uh he's a good guy sorry he came back very well because he was seven behind at one
22:50time was he i wasn't counting who counts who counts he'll be counting down to hundred quid on the bus back
22:57to durham there he'll be flowing up there now i'll bet champs of five counties that shove ain't me now
23:03we've shown you a bit of nifty skittles playing this time but it's note to what you'll see next week
23:07because skittles players come in all ages and all have individual styles jim porter of donkester is 75
23:13and learnt to play in the trenches during the first world war whereas a young whippersnapper called
23:18philip senior is 21 hardly out of his nappies but cool as a cucumber and we've got two cousins from
23:24barnesley way in the final rounds stan denton the reigning yorkshire champ he's a lightning finisher
23:29and dennis jones who owns a fish shop he crouches like this to bowl them over i'll see you next week
23:40the table skittle stars are fighting it out for a hundred and fifty quid
23:59the table skittle stars are fighting it out for a hundred and fifty quid
24:14the table skittle stars are fighting it out for a hundred and fifty quid
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