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00:00Clare requires 40.
00:30Now then, if Maid Marian and Annie Oakley were alive today, there's no doubt where they'd be.
00:42Here, cos today the best two ladies' darts players in the country will be battling it out for a first prize of 150 quid and a gold medal.
00:50We've seen some upsets in the competition, but nobody could argue the toss over two lasses' rights to being at the kill.
00:56Love Day King, a Cornwall on your left, who impressed everybody with a deadly finishing.
01:03And Jessie Catrick, tight-lipped from Teesside, who started out as a rank outsider.
01:08They'll start chucking in a tick, but first, let's have another look at Poole, the game we nicked off the Yanks.
01:13On the table, Ray Edmonds, the current World Amateur Snooker Champion, and Bob Jacobs, a young Yank from the American Air Force.
01:21Remember, each player has to pocket seven balls and then the black eight ball to win a game, and it's the best of three frames.
01:29Ektro Medes takes up the patter as Edmonds goes well ahead, potting the solids, the balls without the white strike.
01:37The score is Edmonds five, Jacobs two.
01:40Edmonds has one, but he's trailing by four.
01:55Long shot, strike 14, stuck in the corner.
02:00Back comes Edmonds on the solids.
02:05Leading five, two.
02:06Six-two, try to double.
02:14Oh, what a lucky shot that was.
02:17Edmonds will be the first to admit that that was a very lucky shot.
02:20He's now playing on the black, but what pocket is he nominated?
02:24He'll go for a double, I'm sure, which he has done and went close.
02:30Back comes Jacobs, trailing skips is just not, they're just not going down for Jacobs.
02:35Now we've got that easy shot for Edmonds into the end pocket, and the first game should be over, which of course it is.
02:42Edmonds an easy winner of the first, with the Americans still looking for their first win.
02:47One up to Edmonds, but it's still not over yet.
02:50Remember, seven solid colors in that diamond and seven strike.
02:55Put any sort and you've got to keep on them.
02:57When all seven are down, you get a shot at the black.
03:00One up.
03:03Didn't score, and he turns away in disappointment.
03:06Here comes Jacobs, he looks cool, and he's opened the score.
03:12He's on the stripes, his right.
03:13And here goes, oh, he shouldn't have missed that.
03:17There's no doubt about it.
03:18He's not going to win against the man of Edmonds' class with a shot like that.
03:23So that means he's minus one, Edmonds' minus one, which means that Jacobs is two ahead.
03:38A re-spot of the ball, as you will notice.
03:41Still on the stripes, Jacobs trying for a further lead.
03:46Long shot down the side, putting him 3-0 with one in hand.
03:52Now, remember, Edmonds has to sink a ball before he starts his score.
03:58He is minus one.
04:01I don't think that worries Edmonds.
04:03Apparently it did.
04:05That should have been an easy shot for Edmonds.
04:08Jacobs sizing things up, going for the end pocket.
04:11And he's made it 4-0 with one in hand.
04:16Jacobs making a comeback here.
04:18Changed his mind.
04:23He's going into the side pocket.
04:27Now, not a very good cut there.
04:30Still, he leads 4-0, and Edmonds still owes the ball.
04:36Which he's made.
04:38So now the score is 4-0.
04:40Edmonds has made up his deficit.
04:44Cutting into...
04:46He's missed that.
04:47The blue into the side.
04:49Jacobs still leads 4-0.
04:52He's coming down the table.
04:53No, he's doubled.
04:55A very good try, which just didn't quite come off.
05:06Score.
05:07It's gone in again.
05:09It's gone in again.
05:10By Edmonds.
05:12That foul stroke in off in the middle pocket means Edmonds has to pocket one ball before he can start scoring and get back into this game.
05:23Jacobs back on the table.
05:26And leading Edmonds.
05:31Leading Edmonds.
05:33That's 4-0.
05:34He now leads Edmonds 4-0.
05:36Jacobs playing with quite a lot of calm and confidence, making it 5-0.
05:45Edmonds has made a few very surprising errors in this game.
05:49Jacobs has taken advantage.
05:51He's doubled, and again he goes 6-0.
05:54He's one off the black now.
05:56Should be just one from the black.
05:58Long.
05:58He was snookered, and he's made it.
06:04The most amazing shot.
06:06The most amazing shot.
06:07He's brought the house down.
06:09He's on the black, and he's made it.
06:11What an exhibition from this young player.
06:16Truly brilliant pool shooting by young Jacobs.
06:21And here he goes on the deciding leg.
06:24There's a ball down in the middle.
06:29And oh, the eight ball's gone down.
06:32Two.
06:33Game to Mr. Edmonds.
06:34And that's curtains.
06:37You've got to wait till you've potted your seven-covered balls before you can drop the black.
06:42So yet another English lad goes through to the semi-finals of the pool.
06:45Now from pockets to beds.
06:48Bryn Turner of Durham is being given a right hammering at Chevapey by Mike Wilson of London.
06:53But Bryn's a battler.
06:54So I'm thinking now, and I'm going to be starting to play very careful coins to keep up, keep up in the reckoning.
07:04Turning Turner of Durham, remember, is scoring on the right-hand side of the board.
07:12Wilson scoring on the left, Turner scoring on the right.
07:15Turner.
07:16One score.
07:18About four or five shots behind.
07:21One score.
07:22And he's got one scored, and he's got a nice line on the top bay to get his first coin possibly in the top.
07:26And he's not quite hard enough.
07:28One score.
07:28But he does succeed in finishing the second top bay.
07:33And he gets one in the top.
07:34One score.
07:37So we're trying desperately now to...
07:39No score.
07:42And he's a bit disappointed there.
07:43Am I going now?
07:44He feels a bit disappointed that that last one wasn't quite strong enough to go into the bay.
07:49So how was Mike Wilson going to get on with the five slots?
07:52Because he wants to win the game.
07:53No.
07:53He needs four of them in the top two beds and one in the middle.
07:59Doesn't play all that much, but certainly he looks to have natural flair.
08:05And he's got one scored.
08:06One scored.
08:07And he has a good chance now of getting at least one in the second.
08:10One scored.
08:12No score.
08:13No score.
08:15So a very tense situation at the moment.
08:18Both players trying for the top bays.
08:22Turner must finish these bottom...
08:24The fourth and...
08:25The third and fourth bay now.
08:26To concentrate on the top bay.
08:30He just doesn't know where to play the next coin.
08:32He's wondering about it.
08:33Trying to float to one there.
08:41Trying to soft shot, but he's got one back.
08:42One score.
08:45Maybe trying now.
08:48No.
08:48Only one score.
08:49No score.
08:51No score for Rinton.
08:52So Wilson now looking quite at ease.
08:56Rubbing the coins there to give them a...
08:58Get the feel of the board.
08:59And he could push one through there to get...
09:05Yes, he's pushed one through there.
09:07And he's got a max car on the top bay as well.
09:09But...
09:10So with the coin he gets back, he could...
09:13One score.
09:14He could finish the second bay off and get one on the top,
09:16which he's trying to do there, but...
09:18No score.
09:22Wilson with about a couple of shots to get.
09:25Three shots Wilson needs.
09:28And Bryn Turner now.
09:29With two in.
09:32Trying for one on the top.
09:34So it's Turner now needing one.
09:37Game shot.
09:38Oh, that's game shot, the Turner.
09:42Deadly finishing from the school teacher from Durham.
09:45It's them top beds that sorts out the chance.
09:47Reigning champ, Alan Brown.
09:48Also Durham, a better look out for that Turner touch.
09:51Don't you touch the off button.
09:53We'll be back in a tick with Jesse Catrick versus Luvday King
09:56for the title, Best Ladies Arrows Player in Britain.
10:00I'll see this.
10:0052 score.
10:01Hey-up.
10:19And it's brass time once again on the Indoor League.
10:22We bet a lot of you fellas thought you could took a steady dart
10:25till you saw our lasses slotting them in.
10:28Let's relive the magic moments of our two finalists' cavalry charge
10:32through the field of the best 16 in Britain.
10:35Moments of drama.
10:37Moments of tension.
10:39Moments that have made commentator Dave Lennon go lyrical
10:42and their opponents go off home sobbing.
10:45Elsie Francis here had much more match play experience
10:48than Jesse Catrick, but when it came to finishing,
10:51Jesse showed her the road home.
10:53No messing.
10:5560 to play.
10:56Five to rip.
10:57And now 60 going for Jesse Catrick.
10:59She's been nice and steady.
11:00She's come down very carefully.
11:02That's outside.
11:03Is it?
11:06Cave shot.
11:06Oh, that's a good shot.
11:08Well.
11:08So now Jesse Catrick, the steady of the two,
11:10wants two eights now to make sure of a place
11:12in the semi-final.
11:13Two fours she wants.
11:15Ah, that's 18, I think.
11:17Yes, it is.
11:1832, the player.
11:19So now Elsie to get back into this championship.
11:23Unlucky, on the wire.
11:24Two eights next door.
11:25Two fours over there at two o'clock.
11:28Oh, just inside again.
11:30The girls are really turning it on.
11:31They're really trying so hard.
11:33They are playing with a lot of skill
11:47and a lot of ability.
11:5260.
11:53She's scored 60.
11:54Jesse Catrick really playing quite well now.
11:56And Mrs. Dickinson would love to score
11:59a very large total, I think, here,
12:01because she trails by over 100 now.
12:03In the second leg.
12:04She's already got one leg up.
12:0531 has 84.
12:0684.
12:0784 she has.
12:11Control is the key to Jesse's game.
12:13She measures.
12:14Cave shot.
12:15You've got high arm action.
12:17It's all calculated at the last sixteenth of an inch
12:19and it pays off.
12:20This competition.
12:21The dart is in the other hand,
12:23as you could say.
12:25100.
12:25And that's 100 from Jesse Catrick.
12:28And she now goes into a very slight lead.
12:30The scores are coming down.
12:32They're both made down in the hundreds.
12:33So we're going to get a decision pretty soon now.
12:36That's 81 now for Mrs. Dickinson.
12:40That's unlucky for Mrs. Catrick.
12:42Just under the 60.
12:46100.
12:47That's another good score.
12:48She only wants 88 now.
12:51Player requires 12.
12:5312 now for Mrs. Jesse Catrick.
12:55A rank outsider at the start of this competition,
12:57needing two sixes for a place in the final
12:59and a lot of bread on the end of it.
13:03Oh.
13:04No, it's gone.
13:04Yes.
13:05So close.
13:06Two ones now.
13:07Mrs. Dickinson with everybody in Stockport
13:09rooting for her.
13:10Just outside.
13:11So close.
13:13Oh, bad luck, girl.
13:15Just next door in double 20.
13:1712 of the player.
13:17So, again, the spotlight on Jesse from Middlesbrough.
13:22Two threes, bottom of the house.
13:25Game shot and luck.
13:27Mrs. Catrick.
13:30Well, that's one finalist.
13:32But today, Jesse has a job on her hands.
13:35And little lady who throughout this tournament
13:37has hit tons with alarming regularity.
13:40Demure, love day king of Cornwall.
13:43And she's no mug on doubles either.
13:45That's a bit low.
13:46That'll do.
13:48And that really is the motion
13:51to beat this lovely little lady from Cornwall.
13:55Oh, that's good job.
13:58That's five, 79.
13:59She wants 79.
14:00I think she'll go for a 19.
14:02She's missed it.
14:0376 she wants.
14:05That's 56.
14:06She now needs.
14:0739 score.
14:0839 score.
14:09She wants double top.
14:10And now we have Mrs. Westwood needing 56.
14:14That's an unusual top.
14:15She needs double top.
14:16Now she's busted it.
14:17She wants 35 pounds.
14:18There's 32 she wants.
14:20216.
14:2039, 40.
14:21So now Mrs. King on double top.
14:24Oh, I think that's next door.
14:25She wants 219.
14:26Follow the board, girl.
14:28There we go.
14:29Terrific stuff.
14:30Terrific stuff.
14:31And look at the support she's got.
14:34So once more, we are really among the hot shot heroines.
14:36Because these are the two anti-post favourites in the ladies championship.
14:42And that is just case in point, Mrs. Loveday King from Cornwall.
14:46Just straight off with a ton.
14:47This is Mrs. Brenda Simpson.
14:49And she's a pretty cool little lady as well.
14:51Who has replied with 85.
14:55And really and truly, I'm sure the other ladies will forgive me when I say that these two in this second semi-final have really looked like...
15:01One hundred!
15:02Looked like...
15:03The player requires 83.
15:05It was tons on the trot like that that disposed of Derbyshire ace Brenda Simpson.
15:1167 scored.
15:1267 scored.
15:13And the player requires 99.
15:1599 now for Mrs. Simpson.
15:17They really have come flashing through this one.
15:19She wants 70.
15:2279.
15:23Is that a 48?
15:24I think it is.
15:25It's 316s.
15:26I can't quite see.
15:27I think it is...
15:2859 scores.
15:3059 scored anyway.
15:31So now we have...
15:32The player requires 16.
15:33Mrs. King on two-eighths.
15:34Game!
15:35Oh, terrific stuff.
15:36It's now for Mrs. King.
15:37That's 20.
15:38116 left.
15:39That looks like 60.
15:4298 scored.
15:4398 scored.
15:44That's a good one.
15:44She's really ambitious.
15:45The player requires 139.
15:47139.
15:48There's absolutely nothing in this one.
15:51But Mrs. Simpson needs a good score.
15:5236 scored.
15:53She hasn't got it.
15:54And the player requires 38.
15:55So 38 now for Mrs. King in a place in the final.
15:58219s.
15:59So close on the wire.
16:00Game!
16:01What a lovely shot.
16:02And that.
16:02Oh, very beautiful shot.
16:04And Cornwall erupts.
16:0660.
16:07Well, take your pick.
16:08Is your money on Middlesbrough or Cornwall?
16:11I'm saying very little.
16:12Except I, for one, did not credit the expertise and the sheer dedication these girls put into
16:17their sport.
16:18Whoever wins this final, I reckon nobody will ever again scoff at the Lasses' Darts team
16:23unless they fancy an arrow in their logo.
16:25Clubland and Publand.
16:27Mrs. Jessie Catrick from Middlesbrough.
16:2926.
16:30Flaring first with 26.
16:32And her opponent from down there in the West Country Cornwall, Mrs. Loveday King.
16:3826.
16:3826.
16:3826.
16:39And a very satisfactory, nervous start from both ladies.
16:43This is Mrs. Catrick.
16:45She's from the Easter Side Estate in Middlesbrough.
16:47She's only been playing for a couple of years.
16:49She's been the shop merchant of this competition.
16:51She's reached the final against all the odds.
16:54Most of the favourites have fallen by the wayside.
16:56This lady has shown terrific form right through.
16:5841.
16:59Straight through in the semi-final.
17:01But now going hell for leather after the 150 quid.
17:07So Mrs. Catrick has ideas about 120 quid of her own.
17:12And at the moment, this is hardly final darts play.
17:15But remember, both these ladies have barely ever faced pressures and tension like this before.
17:22Mrs. Catrick from Middlesbrough.
17:24She has five children.
17:25They're all watching here.
17:26Her family is here.
17:28They're all biting their nails.
17:2926.
17:30Swilling their brown ale.
17:32Mrs. Loveday King also has her family.
17:35Mrs. King has three children.
17:37Her husband's here, I know.
17:3845.
17:39Sweating gently because the ladies, it's their day.
17:43It's their night and a lot of money at stake.
17:46This is Mrs. Catrick.
17:4858 scored.
17:4958 scored.
17:54Mrs. King.
17:55That looks like 61.
17:5741.
17:58No, it wasn't a 60.
17:59Very close on the wire.
18:01It's so difficult to see.
18:0745.
18:11Mrs. King.
18:1220.
18:13Bang.
18:1440.
18:14Bang.
18:1560.
18:1660.
18:16Bang, bang, bang.
18:17You can't get much steadier and any man would be proud to have her as a partner or a wife.
18:26Cha, cha, cha.
18:2741.
18:2941 now for Mrs. Catrick.
18:31And how are the scores going now?
18:32I think Mrs. King just in front.
18:3626.
18:3626.
18:37And really the ladies haven't found their true touch in this one, but the tension here
18:41at the moment, you could cut with a butter knife.
18:4895.
18:4995 for Mrs. Catrick.
18:51That's going to make a difference to the scores.
18:52It puts her in front.
18:55Remember, you subtract their totals from 501.
18:57It's the best of three.
18:58They must finish on a double.
19:00And now Mrs. Catrick on 166.
19:03So they're coming down quite swiftly now.
19:04They're getting near the finishing stage of this first leg.
19:07That looks like 65.
19:0884 score.
19:0984 score.
19:10That's a good score.
19:11Mrs. Catrick producing the bursts of form just when it matters in this competition.
19:15Mrs. King now, that looks like 40 or 80.
19:1757.
19:18It's 57 score.
19:19And the player requires 82.
19:2082 she wants.
19:21So she'll go for three 14s.
19:23No, she hasn't.
19:23She wants 62.
19:26What's that?
19:27I think that's three 10s.
19:28She wants double 16.
19:2966 score.
19:30That's a terrific try.
19:33She really had a terrific try.
19:34The player requires 104.
19:36104 now.
19:36That's just a three, I think.
19:39So I think that's 101.
19:40She's come down for 51.
19:41She's missed it.
19:42She's back upstairs.
19:4340.
19:43And the player requires...
19:44So double eight for Mrs. Catrick.
19:46And it's all important first leg.
19:48That's 11.
19:49She wants five to rip.
19:52She's missed it.
19:53She's missed it.
19:54The player requires 64.
19:5564 for Mrs. King.
19:57She's got a terrific finisher.
19:59She wants another 16.
20:00She wants two of them now.
20:02Oh, dear.
20:02The player just showed.
20:03She's got 40.
20:04And the player requires 16.
20:05No, two eights for Mrs. Catrick.
20:08Too many.
20:08And that's right in double 16 next door.
20:11The player requires 24.
20:11Two 12s.
20:12Two 12s up there at 10 o'clock on the board for Mrs. King from Cornwall.
20:16Just inside the wire.
20:17Yes!
20:17First game for Mrs. King.
20:19Well, I said to you, she finishes like Lester Pickett in the derby and she's really pulled
20:25it out there, no mucking about at all.
20:28Mrs. King now with one horse in the stable, wiping the beads and sweat away.
20:33Now with a lot of money to play for it.
20:34Game on, please, then.
20:35Mrs. Catrick.
20:35Mrs. Catrick having a nervous drag.
20:39And now, really, the tension is on because Mrs. Catrick must win this one to stay in with
20:45the chance of the big money.
20:4785!
20:4885.
20:49The money is by no means in this lady's bank account yet.
20:53Mrs. King from Cornwall.
20:5432 scored.
20:5633 scored.
20:5833 scored.
21:00Mrs. Catrick now really wants to dominate this leg.
21:03She must pull this one back.
21:0511.
21:10Well, now Mrs. King can really come back into this one with a big score and really start
21:14to dominate this leg herself now.
21:16If she really gets a big score.
21:1741.
21:1741.
21:18That's not really big enough.
21:19So there's absolutely nothing in this one at all at the moment.
21:26That's 21, I think.
21:2981!
21:30And then 60 with the last start.
21:31Out of trouble for Mrs. Catrick.
21:33Now, Mrs. King will need an abrupt, sharp reply.
21:3721.
21:3841!
21:3941 scored.
21:43So Mrs. Catrick from the Middlesbrough Crest, captain of the Crest Hotel, Middlesbrough,
21:47indeed.
21:48She enjoys dressmaking, walking, and gardening.
21:51And she also enjoys...
21:5183!
21:52...getting 60s, several 20s, and she got one there.
21:56Mrs. King from the Wadebridge area.
22:01100!
22:01...replies beautifully with a ton.
22:04100.
22:08This is Mrs. Catrick, needing this leg.
22:1260!
22:1360 scored.
22:15So, again, very, very close to the second leg.
22:18Mrs. King seemed to jerk that one a little bit.
22:21A little bit of tension.
22:2281!
22:23Creeping in.
22:23Everybody now, here at the Indoor League, is concentrating on this final.
22:28Mrs. Catrick seems absolutely nerveless.
22:31She's got 79 there.
22:3480 scored.
22:3580.
22:35That was bad luck.
22:37She needed...
22:38She wants 101 anyway.
22:40Mrs. King now struggling, now trading, unlike her.
22:4330.
22:44She's got 30.
22:45The player requires 101.
22:46She wants 101, and she can get out of here in three darts with some good ones.
22:50That looks to me like a 7 or is at a 19.
22:52Very close.
22:54I can't see.
22:55She wants another even number.
22:5687 scored!
22:5787 scored.
23:00So, she...
23:02175 going.
23:03Mrs. Catrick now down to a double, so Mrs. King wants to pull a big one out.
23:0647, and the player requires 14.
23:08And now Mrs. Catrick, two 7s to level it up.
23:11And the silence...
23:12Too many.
23:13Player requires 128.
23:15Almost unbearable, and she missed it.
23:18128 going.
23:19She went for the 60, she missed it.
23:21She has got 20.
23:22108.
23:2364 scored!
23:25Player requires 14.
23:27Two 7s now for Mrs. Catrick with everything to go for.
23:307 to rip.
23:30What will she go?
23:31She can go for 3.
23:32Double 2 she wants.
23:3310 scored!
23:37And the player requires 64.
23:3864 for Mrs. Loveday King for 150 quid.
23:41She's got 116.
23:43She needs another one now.
23:43She's missed it.
23:4742 scored!
23:4842 scored!
23:50Player requires 4.
23:52Now she wants two 2s, Mrs. Catrick.
23:53She's missed it.
23:55And really, now Mrs. Loveday King, who's shown all the steadiness in the competition,
23:59needs two 11s to win the prize.
24:01Yes!
24:01There it is!
24:03There he is!
24:03There he is!
24:03There he is!
24:03There he is!
24:04There he is!
24:04There he is!
24:05There he is!
24:06The pin-up of the public bars!
24:08The choice of Clubland and Clubland, the indoor league ladies champion, with a 150 quid
24:15upper cassock!
24:16And really, now you won it by doing them in the final.
24:20Now you won it by doing them in the final.
24:34Now you won it by doing them in the final.
24:46What do you feel like?
24:47Great.
24:48Have you won anything else before?
24:49Oh, in Cornwall, two competitions, you know, and I've just reached the last aid of England.
24:56Well, now, I must ask you something.
24:59Where did you get this name, Loveday?
25:02I've never heard of it in my life, wherever I've travelled in the world.
25:04I think my mum sort of ran over names when she got to me, you know, and she just sort
25:08of...
25:09How many children was there?
25:10Oh, there's nine of us.
25:11Seven sisters, two brothers.
25:14Must be pretty proud of what you've done here, aren't they?
25:15Yes, I think so.
25:16Congratulations.
25:18There's your check, love.
25:20Well done.
25:26So look out for Loveday next time you fancy your chances at match play.
25:29Are us lads?
25:30Now arm wrestling, and a lad who could be the dark horse of the competition.
25:35He's as big as Buster Whitney, or as flash as Mark Sinclair Scott.
25:38But Bill Brownlee of Leeds, on your left, has a reputation for lightning-fast grappling.
25:44It's best of three falls, and I'll say there.
25:48One fall.
25:52Look out, look out.
25:54Thank you, Chris.
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