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00:00The player requires 40.
00:07Yes, sir!
00:09Ho, ho, ho!
00:15Come on, player!
00:30Now then, we're back.
00:37Today we've got ladies' darts,
00:39lightning-fast table football featuring a top lady player
00:42and our first final of the game.
00:44The two best cheese skittlers in the land
00:46will be bowling the pins over for a hundred quid.
00:49But first, to the arm-wrestling arena
00:51where Dave Parry, with tattoos and a tash,
00:53is taking on Buster Whitney from the smoke.
00:55It's the first round in a three-round contest
00:57and there's no score.
00:59Buster is in the red vest,
01:01a study in concentration, dedication and pure cheek.
01:18Whitney's showing confidence with that cheeky grin,
01:21but it's strength that counts.
01:25And notice the way them lads size one another up,
01:28working out just when to pounce and apply their pressure.
01:31Now to cheese skittles in our first semi-final.
01:33It's between two Northampton lads,
01:35George Jones and Leslie Bass,
01:37who've wiped the floor with their Leicester opponents.
01:39It's best out of five legs.
01:41Before Bill Maynard takes up the spiel,
01:43let's get it straight.
01:45Leslie Bass here is not going to be content
01:47with just nine pins down in three chucks.
01:49He's after double figures.
01:51Happen an 18.
01:52He's not doing himself justice.
01:54Ideally, he wanted all nine down in two throws.
01:57Then all the pins would have been up again for the final bash.
02:00Remember, we set the other fellow's score to beat on each leg.
02:04And George Jones here should have no bother topping an eight.
02:08Now it's George Jones.
02:11George Jones, 35, married with two boys.
02:14Plays at the Golden Lion in Northampton.
02:17He's now at the Monk.
02:18He has an eight to beat.
02:20He's virtually beat it in the first ball.
02:23Nine in two.
02:24So, in fact, he takes the first leg.
02:27The first leg.
02:28When it's one, of course, they never bother about throwing the third ball.
02:31That is the end of the game.
02:33One leg to George.
02:35George to set back.
02:37He's a clicker by trade in the boot and shoe it.
02:40He's got an eight.
02:42Again.
02:44So, this is really a very good effort
02:47because a nine and on a whack on the first leg,
02:50a whack on the second leg.
02:52A whack means nine down in one or two chucks.
02:56So, you're in double figures with your last one.
02:58I think it was two fifteens to finish off the game.
03:01A twelve.
03:03Not too difficult.
03:04If Leslie Bass can get himself a whack this time,
03:07give the stackers up something to do in the wood yard.
03:10It's called a wood yard, of course, in the old days
03:12because they use wooden pins.
03:13In Esther Chanel we call it the plastic yard
03:15because they're made of plastic.
03:17However, he's just got a seven.
03:18He doesn't bother, of course, to throw the last one
03:20because he's not on a whack.
03:21George Jones, two legs to nil in.
03:24I'm sorry.
03:26And it's Leslie Bass at the mock.
03:31Actually, Leslie has a very strange action.
03:34He seems to push the ball more than throw it.
03:37There, I think, was a case where he should have had the...
03:39He's got an eye and he should have had the dead cheese off the table
03:42because, in fact, it clipped the dead cheese
03:43and chopped over the remaining pin.
03:46This is where he should have asked.
03:48The stackers up to take it.
03:50George Jones, going to the mock.
03:53He needs a whack to win once again, eh, to the ball.
03:58He needs this pin.
03:59He's got it.
04:01Actually, George tells us that he practices five nights a week
04:08and, quite frankly, it's beginning to show
04:10because he really is terribly consistent.
04:12He just needs to hit one pin.
04:14He has, in fact, hit three.
04:16There's one of the finalists.
04:18And Leslie Bass goes away with his 25 pounds.
04:22George Jones with that lovely, loose, wristy action.
04:25Our first finalist.
04:27Now another needle match from the Maiden Marians of our competition.
04:30The ladies, our aces.
04:32Kay Bradfield of Shipley beat the favourite, Jean Smith, in round one.
04:36But now she's up again a real cool customer in Brenda Simpson,
04:40the Derbyshire champ.
04:41We pick up the action halfway through the second game
04:44with Dave Lanning doing the patter
04:46as Brenda, already one leg in front, puts the screws on.
04:50And she's up again, practically.
04:52Because Brenda Simpson is finding her style
04:54and finding her touch.
04:56It looks like 80 to me.
04:58I think that's a treble.
04:59100!
05:00Indeed, indeed.
05:01And she really is a very stylish little player,
05:03this lady from Derbyshire.
05:1041!
05:11And that one went in so hard from Kay Bradfield,
05:13the flight flew off.
05:14Did it give itself up?
05:16With great dignity, she stoops to conquer.
05:19This is Brenda Simpson from Derbyshire.
05:23That looks like 60 again.
05:25She is playing very steadily.
05:27100!
05:28That's another 100.
05:30Very, very steady stuff.
05:33Now, what does Brenda want?
05:35Kay I know needs a miracle.
05:3738, and the player requires 157.
05:43Well, she needs 157.
05:44That's a good shot out.
05:45Treble 19, treble 20, double top.
05:47She hasn't got it.
05:48Unlucky, love.
05:49But she's trying.
05:5111 scored.
05:5211 scored.
05:5311 scored.
05:5411 scored.
05:55Well, after the Lord Mayor's show.
05:56I should shut up.
06:0111 scored.
06:0211 scored.
06:03She wants 146.
06:04And 146, indeed.
06:06She would need a 60 very badly.
06:08She's got 20.
06:09That's 126.
06:10126 she wants.
06:1116.
06:1216.
06:1416.
06:18So now Kay Bradford.
06:19Really need a big score.
06:20And she's going to get it too.
06:21100.
06:22100.
06:2386.
06:25Player requires 86.
06:2786.
06:28She wants treble 18, 216.
06:30She's missed it.
06:31She's got four.
06:32That's 24.
06:3529 scored.
06:36Can't quite see the last.
06:37Player requires 79.
06:3879 now for Kay.
06:40She's come downstairs for the 19.
06:42She wants 76.
06:43She wants 56.
06:44She wants a 16, love.
06:45Come on.
06:46No, she's gone the other way.
06:47Oh, dear.
06:48Too many.
06:49Too many.
06:50I thought she would go for 16 for double top.
06:51But there we go.
06:52She went her own way.
06:53And she made a mess of it.
06:55Now we have Brenda.
06:57And Brenda wants.
06:58Player requires 57.
07:0057.
07:0157.
07:02So she's gone down.
07:04She's got nine.
07:05Leaves her.
07:069 scored.
07:0748 left.
07:0848 going.
07:09Double 16 now.
07:12Yes.
07:13Oh, terrific stuff.
07:14What a finish.
07:15What a terrific finish from Brenda Simpson.
07:18And she's knocked out by it.
07:20Oh, hey.
07:21Her supporters from Derbyshire really giving her the old footballers farewell.
07:26But what a very fine piece of finishing there for Brenda Simpson.
07:29She goes forward into the semifinal.
07:31Ice cold efficiency from Brenda.
07:34But still no falls in the elbow bending from Buster Whitney or Dave Parry.
07:40They're locked midway through round two now.
07:42And I wouldn't chance money on who's going to get it.
07:45Buster's on the left now, looking cool and smiling like a tiger.
07:53Little to choose between these two.
07:55Apart from a dash of technique, Parry with a straight-at-arm style.
07:58Parry on the attack now, but Buster seems quite content right now to just take the straight.
08:16A real well-matched pair them two with only two minutes to go before the tiebreaker.
08:23Now to something a bit more delicate.
08:25The second semifinal of the Cheese Skittles.
08:27It's between our old pal Budgie Crane and Peter Sargent, a cheerful chucker from Northampton.
08:33We take up the match with Budgie two legs to one up and need him more than a nine in three throws to enter the final.
08:39But when the money's on, the big ones are hard to come by.
08:43It's not a good ball, but he might get out a bit.
08:45Not a good...
08:48In fact, he missed the front pin twice.
08:50Well, quite honestly, if you missed the front pin with two cheeses, an experienced player like Budgie Crane,
08:55then you don't deserve to win the leg.
08:57As you may have heard me say, if you win...
08:59There's a seven with one ball.
09:01We'll wait until this is over.
09:02And again, he missed the object pin.
09:07As I may have told you, in the other rounds, if in fact you missed the front pin with three cheeses,
09:12in most pubs, it's a pint all round.
09:16Now Peter Sargent's going on.
09:17He needs, because we're at Wembley, he also needs a whack to win the game.
09:21And it's on.
09:22It's on because the dead pin is lying just behind the centre and...
09:25He missed it!
09:27Well, how that got by, I shall never know.
09:29A dead pin lying on like that is usually...
09:32It's usually a pretty good...
09:35A pretty good, uh...
09:39Sorry, I...
09:41Just a moment.
09:42So we're coming now to Peter Sargent, the game.
09:44He's got one cheese.
09:45And he's got it all.
09:49That should put him through to the real money.
09:52Because once again, this is a semi-final.
09:54Both players are on money anyway.
09:57And that's a throw, unfortunately.
09:59So that is Peter Sargent, who goes through to the final.
10:03And Budget Crane, the slimmed down version of Budget Crane, down to 22 stone, goes to collect his 25 pounds.
10:13So it's spinning Peter Sargent to take on the super cool George Jones in the final.
10:18We'll be seeing all the match in part two, plus top draw table football, more arm wrestling, and a new game.
10:25It rhymes with cool, and we've got it right here in Irish Centre City.
10:28I'll sit here in a tick.
10:30Heyo, let's go straight over to the arm wrestling rostrum, where Buster Whitney and tattoo Dave Parry are in the third round of their muscle match, and there's still no fall either way.
10:57And it's still a muscle-bound stalemate.
11:19Harry has been doing all the pressing up to now, so look out for some sudden tough tactics from Buster in the red vest.
11:26Definitely a very even match.
11:32One fall does it now in the tiebreaker. What a contest.
11:36Now more table football.
11:38The game that makes the grass version look like a tortoise derby.
11:42This game features Val Bryce, our only lady footballer, but a sorceress in defence, and her partner Dave Thorne.
11:50They're taking on Harwood and Thompson of Nuneaton.
11:52And just look out for Thompson's crack shots from the centre-forward position.
11:56First combination to slot six goals is the winner.
12:00So this match features the only girl in the competition.
12:04She's Valerie Bryce.
12:06There she is, playing with David Thorne.
12:08Valerie Bryce, the sister of Jeff Bryce, who's already featured in the earlier rounds of this competition.
12:14She's the Bristol Ladies Champion and mixed doubles champion.
12:17Their opponents, Harwood and Thompson of Nuneaton.
12:20Barry Harwood and Robert Thompson.
12:24Robert Thompson nearest to us, Barry Harwood furthest away on defence.
12:27And it's, at the moment, Harwood on defence for the red striped jerseys, Harwood and Thompson of Nuneaton.
12:32Against David Thorne and Valerie Bryce.
12:37Valerie Bryce, there she is, nearest to us.
12:42A slow, tortuous feeling out of the opposition one feels here.
12:49The movement, the lateral movement.
12:52So far no clear shots, but it's in the front.
12:55The ball almost creeping in then from Thorne and Val Bryce.
13:01Back he comes.
13:04None of the whiplash shots yet.
13:06There was something more like it.
13:08This is the front line of Harwood and Thompson.
13:10And they've scored.
13:121-0 to Red and White.
13:14Barry Harwood in the stripes.
13:16Robert Thompson, the attack man, who's just made it 1-0 for the Nuneaton pair.
13:20Best of 11, first to six.
13:24In the defence line of Thorne and Valerie Bryce.
13:29We saw a good one.
13:30A good one for the girls.
13:31Val Bryce hitting that one.
13:32Look, she looks pleased about it and well she might.
13:34That's 1-1.
13:36Again, it's Valerie Bryce pushing it up to the middle rank.
13:44Now to the front.
13:45But it's in the defence of Robert Thompson and Barry Harwood from Nuneaton.
13:50And Harwood and Thompson among the favourites for this event.
13:55Now Val Bryce playing with David Thorne.
14:02In the back line.
14:03And a beautiful long shot by Barry Harwood in the striped jersey there.
14:08Makes it 2-1.
14:09Now in the front rank of Thompson and Harwood.
14:13Valerie Bryce retrieving the situation.
14:18She tries to find a way through.
14:19Gets no further than the nearest white striped jersey.
14:21And it's a goal.
14:22He costs her nearly then.
14:23That's 3-1.
14:243-1 to Thompson and Harwood.
14:31Thompson and Harwood in possession pushing it up.
14:33But it's the Thorne-Val Bryce partnership.
14:35We had it in defence.
14:36Trying a long shot.
14:38A bit more action now.
14:40Almost creeping through.
14:41Harwood and Thompson in possession leading 3-1.
14:45There's Val using that right wrist to push the ball up.
14:50Both wrists have to be used in this game.
14:53Continuously moving back and forward.
14:55Moving from side to side.
14:56Occasionally the quick flick of the wrist for the shot.
14:58This is Harwood and Thompson.
14:59Their front bank.
15:01And they lost control of it.
15:03Now they've made a gift of it too.
15:04And it's rolled away again.
15:06Possession easily lost as this ball rolls about.
15:08It's certainly not easy to control.
15:10There was a long shot from Val Bryce.
15:13Now Harwood and Thompson in possession.
15:15In the front rank of Val Bryce and David Thorne.
15:18And the shot came back off the goalkeeper.
15:21Good defensive work by Barry Harwood.
15:24There you see the Thorn-Val Bryce partnership.
15:28They're behind at the moment.
15:30They need a goal.
15:31That one was wide.
15:33Hit by David Thorne.
15:34There's a long shot from the back.
15:39Always a surprise shot.
15:40That's Harwood and Thompson trying to make it four.
15:45They're still in possession in their front line.
15:47A quick movement from side to side.
15:49The defence.
15:50And it rolled in.
15:51The defence left a gap.
15:52And it's 4-1.
15:53So it's Barry Harwood and Robert Thompson now moving into a comfortable 4-1 lead.
15:57Against David Thorne.
15:58And the only girl in the competition.
15:59Valerie Bryce.
16:00So it's a long road ahead.
16:03And it's in possession is Harwood and Thompson making it 5-1.
16:07So Harwood and Thompson are within one of game and a place in the semi-finals.
16:11Valerie Bryce in possession.
16:13There she has it.
16:15There she's moving the ball.
16:20Trying to get in position for a long shot from the back.
16:23Harwood and Thompson need one more for game.
16:26They'll try them presumably from all areas.
16:32They're trying a shot from the back.
16:34Didn't find its way through.
16:35Now they've got it in their front line.
16:36This could be the clincher.
16:37They'll move across from side to side.
16:39The shot there didn't connect.
16:41So it's a reprieve for Val Bright who has it in defence.
16:44Tries to get it away.
16:45Just get it past the front three.
16:47Trying again.
16:48She can't get away from her own defence area.
16:50But she's fought bravely.
16:51And she hit a beautiful only goal for her side earlier on.
16:54Now is it going to be...
16:55Yes it is.
16:56So Barry Harwood and Robert Thompson move into the semi-final.
16:596-1 against David Thorne and Valerie Bryce.
17:03Vintage attacking play by the Nuneaton lads.
17:05Did you notice the shot most favoured?
17:07It's to the right of the goalkeeper.
17:09Because that means the defender has to pull the rod to cover.
17:13So there's less precise control than when you're pushing the rod.
17:17Let's see how the pushing and pulling, toing and throwing,
17:20is making out with Buster and Dave in the tiebreaker.
17:23One fall does it now, remember?
17:25Who's going to be first to crack?
17:36Buster never loses his cool.
17:38But Parry's proved he's no slouch.
17:41Both chatting, psychological gamesmanship at work out there.
17:48Hormones.
17:49Hormones in this round.
17:50Hormones.
17:51Hormones!
17:52Hormones!
17:53Oh, boy.
18:02Come on, now.
18:06Two minutes ago, guys.
18:08Two minutes ago.
18:10Come on.
18:13Come on, boy.
18:15Let's go.
18:17Come on, boy.
18:19Come on, boy.
18:21Come on, boys.
18:25Come on, boys.
18:27Hey, watch the red line as well.
18:29Come on, boys.
18:31Stop pushing the red line.
18:33Watch that red line.
18:37Come on, boys.
18:41Come on, boys.
18:43Come on, boys.
18:45Come on, boys.
18:47Come on, boys.
18:49Come on, boys.
18:51Come on, boys.
18:53Come on, boys.
18:55Come on, boys.
18:57Come on, boys.
18:59Come on, boys.
19:01Buster wins a grappling marathon.
19:03Now, let's really get down to brass tags.
19:05And I mean brass.
19:07The Cheese Skittles final brings the best two players in the country together.
19:11We're expecting scores of 18, maybe even 20, from Peter Sargent and George Jones of Northampton.
19:17Remember, it's 100 quid to the winner.
19:19Best of five legs.
19:21And Bill Maynard's got his expert eye on them.
19:23And so we come to the final of the Cheese Skittles competition.
19:29Both Northampton players, all the Leicestershire players, having been eliminated.
19:33At the mark...
19:35At the mark is George Jones.
19:39And George seems to have got a nine in one.
19:41Now, he is on a maximum.
19:43The maximum at this game is 27.
19:45I personally have never seen it done.
19:47The most I've ever seen is 25.
19:51Oh, what bad luck.
19:53That is 18.
19:55That is the usual maximum.
19:57For a second there, we were on the chance of a full maximum.
19:59These two players are playing for a prize of 150 pounds.
20:03The winner takes 100.
20:05The losing finalist takes 50 pounds of second prize.
20:10That's what they're on the win.
20:12We now have Pete Sargent at the mark.
20:14Pete, from Northampton.
20:16Plays for the King William IV.
20:18Good ball!
20:20And he's on a whack too.
20:22This is a marvellous start to the final.
20:25Remember that the good average...
20:27The good average at this game is eight pins.
20:29The first one's got 18.
20:3318 to tie.
20:34He cannot do more than tie.
20:37Unfortunately, he got about five pins.
20:40But he lost anyway.
20:46Probably noticed the way that ball, as it hit the table, span around.
20:49This is the spin you get.
20:51Again!
20:52Oh!
20:54He's got nine and two.
20:55This is a marvellous final.
20:57This scoring is really unbelievable.
20:59Especially with wooden pins that they play with in the Northampton League.
21:03In the Leicester League, they play with plastic pins.
21:05These are a little bit wider and they roll around a little more.
21:09These don't.
21:10These chop through.
21:11Good point!
21:12And a good 16.
21:13A good 16.
21:14This should be one all by the look of it.
21:17This is a marvellous final.
21:19It really is.
21:20Good play.
21:21George Jones, 35-year-old George Jones.
21:27Clipper by trade.
21:28Bruton Shill industry.
21:30He said, this must be a ball to the absolute right.
21:34Where he...
21:35Oh!
21:36That really was bad luck.
21:38In fact, in my opinion, he went the wrong side of the pin.
21:41He went to the left of the pin.
21:42He went to the left of it and nearly got it.
21:44I personally would have gone to the right-hand side to have chopped it across the table.
21:49It's now one-one-leg-all.
21:50It's now one-one-leg-all.
21:51George Jones at the mark.
21:52Oh!
21:53Oh!
21:54Oh!
21:55Oh!
21:56Oh!
21:57Oh!
21:58Oh!
21:59Oh!
22:00Oh!
22:01Oh!
22:02Oh!
22:03Oh!
22:04Oh!
22:05Oh!
22:06Oh!
22:07Oh!
22:08Oh!
22:09Oh!
22:10Oh!
22:11Oh!
22:12Oh!
22:13Oh!
22:14Oh!
22:15Oh!
22:16Oh!
22:17Oh!
22:18Oh!
22:19Oh!
22:20Oh!
22:21Oh!
22:22Oh!
22:2318, 8 and 16. This is really a very good try.
22:27Pete Sargent needs a 17 to win.
22:30Needs a whack.
22:36The only chance here he has is to clip the bottom of the dead pin on the right.
22:41Nearly did it. Nearly did it. Span across.
22:44Taking it across to spin the other skittle to take the other two out.
22:47Sorry. What's the top one?
22:49It certainly looks as if George Jones is going to be the indoor league champion of the skittles.
22:58The first time ever on television.
23:00The first time ever seen by many people in this country.
23:03If he misses the front pin, it's a pint all round. He's got it.
23:06But he's left two at the back, unfortunately.
23:09George Jones now, throwing for the championship, only needs an eight.
23:22Not a good first ball.
23:25In fact, he has to put two to win.
23:28And he's done it. He's got all three.
23:29And George Jones has won the first ever televised version of Cheese Skittles.
23:35A game only played in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and one or two villages around about.
23:40Good skittle in there.
23:45Ladies and gentlemen, George Jones from Northampton,
23:48who threw a nifty cheese in the cheese skittles
23:51and showed Bill Maynard and myself how this was done.
23:55George.
24:04Well, you're a lot younger rather than some of the competitors you played against, George.
24:08What made you better?
24:10Perhaps I practice a bit more than I do.
24:12How many nights a week do you practice?
24:14Four nights and one dinner time.
24:16What's the wife's say to that?
24:17She moans a bit, but she's pretty considerate, really.
24:20So do you think, really, you get a few deaf and dumb breakfasts before the end of the year, do you?
24:24No, she ain't too bad, really, yeah.
24:25But you keep on practicing to get perfection.
24:28Yeah.
24:28What's your highest score at it?
24:3026.
24:3126 is the highest?
24:32Yeah.
24:32That's pretty good going.
24:33Yeah.
24:34The check here for you, George.
24:36It's all yours.
24:37Congratulations, and thank you very much indeed.
24:46Our first indoor league champ, George Jones.
24:49We bet cheese skittles opened your eyes to a new skill.
24:52And we've got another bit of wizardry up our sleeves.
24:55A game you've probably only ever seen in the movies.
24:58American pool.
24:59We've invited four top amateur snooker players to take on four crack Americans at it
25:04and reduce the size of the pockets to add a bit more skill.
25:08Just watch a young young careman called Luis Alves clear the table.
25:12I'll sit it.
25:13I'll be right back.
25:40Always taking the balls with a bite.
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