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00:00Clare requires 40.
00:07Yes, sir!
00:30Now then, today the niftiest nudgers in the nation
00:38take the stage for the final of the Indoor League at Shevapenny Championship.
00:42We've also got bar billiards and table football.
00:45But first, men's darts in a quarter-final match
00:47between Colin Minton of Yorkshire, the 1972 Indoor League champ,
00:51and Tony Riddler, a 20-year-old wonder from Wales.
00:54Minton won the first game, but Riddler's no mug.
00:56From Wales to come back into this one.
01:01Very unlucky in the first horse.
01:03Really did play well once he found his mark.
01:05One hundred and thirty!
01:07One hundred and forty.
01:07Now, Riddler's coming back into the blue.
01:12This is Minton with one horse up.
01:15And it's defending his Indoor League time.
01:18Sixty scores.
01:20So Riddler, a hundred and forty last time.
01:21He must win this horse to stay in the championship.
01:24That's unlucky.
01:26Very, very close to the sixty.
01:28Oh, he's got the sixty this time.
01:30Oh, tremendous.
01:32Tremendous.
01:34So that's two hundred and seventy-five and six stars.
01:37And if you compete that, then come to Indoor League and we'll feature you.
01:41Eighty-three!
01:43Eighty-three.
01:44And Minton has scored well, but already he's over a hundred behind.
01:48And he really can't compete.
01:49There's sixty again.
01:51And that's very close for another one.
01:54He moves across.
01:55Does a tango across.
01:57Eighty-one!
01:58Oh, too far over, Tony.
02:00Eighty-one.
02:02And an eighty-one to this boy is a bad score.
02:07He wants a hundred and forty-five.
02:08Ninety-five!
02:09He wants a hundred and forty-five.
02:11Treble twenty.
02:11There requires one four five.
02:13Treble fifteen, double sixteen's his shot.
02:15There's one twenty.
02:18Oh, the flight's come out.
02:20What's he got?
02:20Can't see it.
02:21One hundred and thirty score.
02:23One hundred and thirty score.
02:24He went for twenty-five and got a ball there, I'm sure.
02:26It's tremendous stuff.
02:28He's had twelve darts and he's down to fifteen.
02:33Forty.
02:34So unlucky.
02:35He went for twenty-five with his last dart and got fifty.
02:38He wants fifteen.
02:39Now, which way?
02:40What a terrific horse this has been for this boy.
02:41Seven, he wants two fours.
02:43And Luxor.
02:45Right next door.
02:46But you've got time.
02:47He's got time because Minton, although he hasn't been playing badly, still wants two hundred and twenty-three.
02:51Colin Minton, defending champion, struggling a bit here against the sheer brilliance of this Welsh kid.
02:56Sixty.
02:58Fifty in the player.
02:59Fifty in the player.
03:00So he now needs a seven again, I think he'll go for.
03:03He's got it.
03:04Now two fours again.
03:06Two twos.
03:07Down there at four o'clock.
03:09Eleven score.
03:09And so Minton at one hundred and sixty-three comes back into the wrecking.
03:15Remember, he's one leg up.
03:16That's sixty.
03:17One hundred and three.
03:18Eighty-three.
03:20One hundred.
03:21Well, why did he stay there?
03:22He really ought to have come downstairs.
03:23But he's the man that's playing.
03:25Double twos for Bidler and he must get them this time.
03:28One would think he must get them this time.
03:31And he's got one more go.
03:32Two score.
03:33Two score.
03:34He wants two one.
03:35Sixty-three.
03:35Sixty-three he wants.
03:37Sixty-three.
03:41That's twenty.
03:42He wants forty-three.
03:43Double top now.
03:45Twenty-three score.
03:46Riddler in.
03:47Riddler now back with a reprieve.
03:49It's last chance up in the manhouse.
03:51Two ones.
03:55Shallow's.
03:55She's busted it.
03:57The player requires forty.
03:58Absolutely tremendous starts.
04:00Tony Riddler now facing defeat.
04:02Absolutely in the face.
04:05Double top he wants.
04:06Now he's missed it as well.
04:09Oh dear.
04:10Game on please.
04:12So Riddler back again.
04:13Double one he wants.
04:14Settles dives.
04:17Just too high.
04:18Game on.
04:23Four finishing by both players.
04:25But Riddler manages to make it one apiece.
04:27Now for the decider.
04:28With Riddler about to throw.
04:30And notice his smooth action as the dart leaves his hand.
04:33He resembles the statue of Eros.
04:34He's really got the big scores in that last leg, didn't he?
04:39Starts with a five.
04:42Sixty-five.
04:45Down stairs.
04:45One hundred and twenty-two.
04:47And just like Cupid, his arrows find their mark.
04:50Minton now must go some.
04:54Minton's got twenty-one.
04:56Twenty-eight.
04:56Colin Minton the reigning champion now.
04:59Really has a battle on his hand.
05:00This young man can really play a bit.
05:03That's twenty.
05:05Five.
05:07Doesn't like it.
05:08Forty-five.
05:13Colin Minton has won an awful lot of trophies.
05:15And that's how he does it, with sixties like that.
05:18Apart from indoor league.
05:18One hundred.
05:19Smith individual championship.
05:21The bus, Charrington individual championship.
05:23Lots of trophies.
05:24But this young man also is a great dart player.
05:27Tony Riddler.
05:28Ron Wells.
05:28Ron Newport.
05:32Forty-five.
05:33Forty-five.
05:33So now Minton has a chance to snatch the lead.
05:39Remember, you subtract their totals.
05:40They must finish on a double.
05:42Forty-five.
05:43Colin seems to get a little bit restless and a little bit angry with himself on the last
05:48start.
05:48He seems to just throw it away.
05:50Or maybe I'm mistaken.
05:52This young man has tremendous style.
05:53He came down with devastating effect there.
05:56Oh, dear.
05:56Eighty-six score.
05:58They really are brave players.
05:59He came down, got his fifty-seven and went for the treble, took the seventeen as well.
06:04That takes courage.
06:07Fifty-five.
06:08Fifty-five for Minton.
06:09So Riddler now stretched into quite a nice lead.
06:12He's got seventy up and these.
06:15And that makes it a lot more because that's sixty.
06:17And that's right next door in the treble five.
06:20Ninety-four.
06:21Ninety-four.
06:23Minton, defending champion.
06:26His crown a little tarnished at the moment.
06:28He needs to come back with a big score.
06:31Sixty.
06:31Sixty.
06:32Well, it's steady enough, but he could have done with a few more.
06:34There requires one hundred and nine.
06:35A hundred and nine going.
06:36And he can get a shot out here.
06:38Is that a sixty?
06:39I can't see.
06:40That looks like...
06:41What is it?
06:42I can't see.
06:43My goodness.
06:44Ninety-three scored.
06:45Ninety-three scored.
06:46He knew what he wanted, but we just couldn't see.
06:48Our angle just was a little bit phony.
06:50Sixty-nine.
06:51Oh, dear.
06:52The pressure really is tremendous now.
06:54Oh, it's terrific stuff.
06:55Eighty-five.
06:55Eighty-five.
06:56Riddler wants double eight.
06:57There requires sixteen.
06:58Riddler came back from the second leg.
07:01He needs this one to go forward into the semis.
07:04Just inside.
07:05He wants two fours.
07:06Eight score.
07:08There requires one, two, eight.
07:10Just outside.
07:10Just outside.
07:11So, 128 now for a minute if he's going to stay in.
07:15108.
07:17Eighty-eight needs...
07:18Sixty.
07:19He stayed up there.
07:20I would have thought he might have come down to three sixteens, but there we go.
07:23So, two fours.
07:24Tony Riddler doesn't use the muckaback.
07:26Game on!
07:28The Welsh fans are up.
07:31Tony Riddler really made hard work of that one.
07:33But the champion goes out, and the real class players go forward.
07:38Bad luck for Colin Mintz.
07:39He didn't play badly at all.
07:40But Riddler is the man who makes the semis.
07:42So, Tony Riddler, a new-to-the-world finalist while still in his teens, goes through to the semifinals.
07:48His finishing wasn't too hot, but what about his scoring?
07:51Now, barb billiards.
07:52The game with the numbered holes guarded by wooden mushrooms.
07:55With a semifinal coming up right soon.
07:57And this is the standard you can expect.
07:59900, Chris Sandys.
08:01Speedway to Wells.
08:021,300.
08:0350.
08:04Going for 100 beautifully.
08:13Picking up a 20 on the way.
08:15170.
08:17Pete Wells playing with confidence now.
08:19200.
08:20The confidence of the man who's pulling away from his opponent all the time as he moves towards the 10-minute mark.
08:26220.
08:27When the bar drops and no more balls come out.
08:28Pete Wells, 46-year-old printing machine operator from Oxford.
08:37270.
08:39I don't say that he's stamping his personality on this game.
08:44350.
08:48Playing with much more...
08:50That was Peter Wells, notching up a 350 break.
08:53He's now up against Cliff Dayton of Lancashire in the semifinals.
08:56Remember, when each player's on the table, he has 45 seconds to score as many as he can.
09:01But knock down any of those mushrooms and the break's lost.
09:04Pocket the red ball and that counts double.
09:06Dayton's about to shoot and he's trailing by 130.
09:1450.
09:15Great clutch of balls at the top of the table in the low scoring holes.
09:1945 seconds maximum break.
09:20No score.
09:22Bad shot, Dad.
09:22He wipes out his break by knocking down the white skittle.
09:28So Pete Wells is back on the table.
09:30Going for the 100 hole.
09:31Makes it.
09:31130.
09:37Pete Wells of Oxford.
09:39130 scored.
09:40Just the one scoring score for 130 and we're still waiting in this 10 minute game for one of these players to really find his form.
09:47160.
09:48Fill is 45 seconds with scoring.
09:5030.
09:52Now it's Cliff Dayton, Goosena, Preston.
09:56Plays three times a week.
09:57Says this is his only hobby, Barbell is.
10:0090.
10:02His wife watches him play a couple of times a week.
10:03She says she doesn't have to be played Barbell is rather than propped up at the bar.
10:07Nice compromise.
10:08Oh, he's bad shot.
10:10He wipes out his score.
10:11Peter Wells, 420.
10:14Cliff Dayton, 160.
10:2030.
10:21That's Pete Wells.
10:27Oh, he was lucky.
10:2830 scored.
10:28450.
10:29Peter Wells.
10:31160.
10:32Cliff Dayton.
10:33So, no big scores as yet.
10:36No really big score, but surely there's a 50 on there.
10:4050.
10:42That's Cliff Dayton.
10:44Badly needing to get a good run over his 45 seconds.
10:47He hasn't really put together a break yet.
10:48110.
10:50He white balls all there in a cluster at the top of the table.
10:55Dayton getting really low down.
10:56His eye line quite low down on the table.
10:58Well, as you'll notice, stands very upright.
11:00A very upright stance at the table, Peter Wells.
11:02270, Cliff Dayton.
11:02Peter Wells, 450.
11:07Quite a gentle action.
11:1020.
11:11There's that stance.
11:13Pretty upright stance compared to some of the others.
11:1660.
11:17Going for the small scoring holes at the top of the table.
11:20I'm picking up bits and pieces.
11:23100.
11:24Of course, speed is of the essence here, because in 45 seconds, you can get a lot if you're consistent.
11:29130.
11:30A lot of scoring shots in that 130.
11:33Really scoring low.
11:35But, of course, the red ball counts.
11:37180.
11:38Now, he's using the red as a cue ball.
11:46Nice shot.
11:47Worth 50.
11:48230.
11:49So, it's not a big break, but it's a comfortable one for Peter Wells.
11:54Hold it.
11:54That's 45 seconds.
11:56It's over.
11:57It's 680.
11:58680, Peter Wells.
11:59With 270, Cliff Dayton.
12:02So, there's a 400 lead for Peter Wells, which can very easily be wiped out by a good run.
12:0840.
12:09The red ball will come down as cue ball.
12:1150.
12:16Cliff Dayton, using a few seconds, as he ruminates over his shot.
12:2160.
12:27Compared to Wells, he leans right down over his shot.
12:30100.
12:31Only 100 so far.
12:32He's 400 behind at the start of this break, and it's only 45 seconds.
12:36He's really having to go for the low one.
12:37There's not much he can do with the ball's range as they are.
12:39And at the end of it, so, Cliff Brighton's still waiting for the big break.
12:43Cliff Brighton of Lancashire is Pete Wells of Oxford, who is in the lead at the moment,
12:47in what has so far been a pretty low-scoring game.
12:5340.
12:54The red ball coming through and down.
13:01Peter Wells picking them up.
13:03110.
13:03Steadily and consistently.
13:04Pete Wells, the 46-year-old Oxford Bachelor, only 110.
13:12790, Peter Wells.
13:16370, Cliff Dighton.
13:18So it's still 400 in it, and still Cliff Dighton.
13:20One feels if he really got to work and built up a score for all Peter Wells.
13:24But it has to be done in 45 seconds.
13:30It's pretty cool.
13:31No score.
13:32Took that a little too hard, blasted away at it, and put down the white skiddle.
13:37Peter Wells, 790.
13:38So he wipes out his break, and on comes Peter Wells back to the table.
13:45That's a beautiful shot.
13:46100.
13:46Beautifully delicately done.
13:47Worth 100 as the red ball goes down and counts double.
13:50Red ball comes back as a cue ball.
13:51And it dropped to the 50.
13:59The red ball dropped to the 50.
14:04So a useful read building up in this 10 minutes minimum game of 45-second breaks.
14:12The second semifinal.
14:17208, Jay.
14:18Extremely well.
14:19Now, Pete Wells, I think, very, very well indeed, using this red ball, Wells.
14:24280 scored.
14:27Another big break.
14:28Peter Wells puts him in an unassailable lead.
14:30Wells, in fact, goes on to win by over 900 to earn a place in the final.
14:34We'll take our own break now, but join us in a couple of takes for the experts of nudging and grudging.
14:39I'll see you then.
14:40We'll take our own break now.
15:10It wasn't wife-swapping.
15:11It's survived in only certain parts of the country, but nowhere is it more popular than Durham.
15:16Not surprisingly, it looks as though we'll have two Durham nudges in the final.
15:19One of them's Alan Brown, the reigning Indoor League champ, who's playing his semifinal match against Tony Wheaton of Bournemouth.
15:25Now, I'm playing nice and easy, steady shots.
15:32One start.
15:33Brown, not looking to get any in with floaters.
15:36He's playing coin-off-coin, using lies.
15:38And getting one there, moving his way slowly at the board.
15:47No score.
15:47And no score there.
15:49So Tony Wheaton comes back on the board.
15:52There we go.
15:55Tony, a player in the Limington League at Bournemouth.
15:58Where he's met with quite a bit of success.
16:00He's playing well here, and coming back on terms now with Alan Brown, the reigning champion.
16:11One more.
16:12Filling the base with meta now, filling the base of meta, and not leaving himself with any awkward shots.
16:21Except it looks as if he's created a bit of a gait for himself in the fourth day up.
16:28Trying to get one in there, but not quite succeeding.
16:31Nevertheless, he gets one, finding out the bottom of the board.
16:34And pushing one up there, and probably just hoping for the best of that shot, I think.
16:41One start.
16:45And another one scored.
16:46One more.
16:47So Tony Wheaton now, Bournemouth.
16:50Enjoying, until then, having quite a good break.
16:54And really coming back on the terms with the reigning champion, Alan Brown, of Durham.
16:57Brown, using a bit of follow-through there to make the Coynes travel smartly.
17:13Two scored.
17:14Brown, the reigning champion, scoring on the right-hand side of the board.
17:17And Tony Wheaton on the left.
17:22This is the first semi-final.
17:25And, uh...
17:27The game already developing into quite an interesting affair.
17:31With the relative newcomer Tony Wheaton now on the board.
17:35Pressing the champion, Alan Brown.
17:38And, uh...
17:39Certainly not, uh...
17:41Not giving Brown any room.
17:43Brown won quite easily last year.
17:45He beat, uh, to get the...
17:46To get the title.
17:51He beat, uh...
17:52Beat another derraman to get the title in the last, uh, contest.
17:55And, uh, took the title quite comfortably.
17:57But he's finding Tony Wheaton, despite his relatively, uh, short experience, finding Tony Wheaton, uh...
18:02Certainly no walk-over.
18:03Uh, certainly no walk-over.
18:04Close stop.
18:14So, Alan Brown scoring on the right.
18:17Leaving himself with a very tidy board.
18:20Very tidy board.
18:21Very methodical player.
18:23Working his way steadily at the board.
18:25And, uh, taking advantage of most chances that, uh, appear on the board.
18:32A close game.
18:33But Alan Brown went on to win.
18:35Now in the final, he's up against a canny coiner called Bryn Turner.
18:39A Geordie by adoption.
18:40Who plays in the same team as Brown in the Durham League.
18:43Turner's never beaten Brown, so there's a lot more at stake than the 100 quid first prize and gold medal.
18:48Remember, the idea is to score 27 chokes, or three coins, in each of the nine beds.
18:53As we pick up the game, it's as close as you'd expect.
18:56Turner's on the table, and Fraser Davie is doing the commentator.
18:59...all champion on the right.
19:03Alan Brown there, back on the board.
19:0531-year-old Van Salesman.
19:08His local is the Heronhams in Durham.
19:12Of course, that's Bryn Turner's local as well.
19:14But although the, uh, the two play in the same place, they very rarely meet.
19:18In fact, I understand they've only met on two occasions.
19:21And, uh, although they've played for the same team,
19:26Bryn Turner's never won.
19:28Alan Brown's always beaten them.
19:29But they've only met on two occasions.
19:32Although they've played for the same team.
19:35So it's, uh, Brown on the board now.
19:38Left himself a bit of a gate in the middle of the board, but those two coins seem to have, uh, right to left.
19:44But he's still got a gate.
19:45Still got a gate.
19:47But, uh, shouldn't prove too much of a problem for a man of Brown's calendar.
19:56I think that, uh, because these two players are, uh, very similar style, very similar class of player,
20:02you'll probably find that the game finishes in a quick rush.
20:05It'll finish very suddenly.
20:06It'll come up even before he notices it.
20:09It's, uh, it's quite a pleasure to watch two players of this caliber playing together.
20:20Turner, they're playing at an angle shot to try and get past that, uh, the middle coin, of course, if he wants.
20:29But they're just trying to coax the coin that there's two good ones there for Bintana.
20:32I think Bintana may be changing his, uh, style of play now.
20:41He's had a bit of luck at the bottom.
20:42He may be going through the top of the board now, trying to find out,
20:45trying possibly just to gauge the distance for later on in the game.
20:48But, uh, he may be just changing his tactics now and playing through the top of the board.
20:53I think that, uh, Turner may be gambling on, on, on filling out the top bays and working his way down.
21:07Certainly, that looks one on the top bays.
21:09This, this seems to be his pattern of play now.
21:10He's building up the top of the board and he'll probably be building up the, uh,
21:14building up the coins to the top to work his way down,
21:17hitting the top coins and playing the lower bays.
21:20Alan's go.
21:23There's, uh, Ben Turner's really gambling on his skill in the top bays now.
21:28And his skill, obviously, is played off.
21:30But, but, uh, Brown on the board now, marking off on the right,
21:33is playing a slow, methodical game.
21:35And it just goes to show that, uh, he's picked up very quickly
21:38and that points can mount up without you even noticing.
21:42Very tidy board now.
21:44But, uh, Turner, and, Turner in a promising position.
21:51One start.
21:53The game now is developing to a real battle of widths now.
21:59Ben Turner building up at the top and working down
22:01and the current reigning champion, Alan Brown,
22:04going up from the bottom,
22:06leaving the top two bays empty,
22:08leaving them to last.
22:11Ben Turner now is trying to fill in the empty gaps.
22:14Trying to fill in the empty gaps.
22:15He's got...
22:16But, uh,
22:19it's quite a one there.
22:20Filled one empty gap.
22:21I think he'll be playing for the middle of the board now.
22:24So stop.
22:25Brown there, looking a bit worried.
22:32Remembering, of course, that Alan Brown, the current champion,
22:34is deadly on the top bays.
22:35Real accuracy.
22:42Tremendous needle match here between these two, uh,
22:45two players.
22:45Both friends, of course.
22:46Both players of the same team, the same pub.
22:49But, uh,
22:50I'm sure that Ben Turner is looking for his first ever winner, Alan Brown,
22:53and to carry off
22:55a hundred pounds into the bargain.
22:59So stop.
23:04Certainly, the, uh,
23:04the cards look stacked in Ben Turner's favour at the moment.
23:07But it'll have to be...
23:08He pulled a coin back there.
23:12Put a bit of spin on it and brought that...
23:14Bottom coin, brought it back.
23:15But he's got...
23:16He could have given one away there.
23:18You'd have to watch that,
23:19because he could give one away to Alan Brown.
23:20Ah, but it looks tight.
23:25Yes.
23:26That's it.
23:27One on the top.
23:28One, two on.
23:29An incredibly lucky shot, right?
23:31But Ben Turner's tactic seemed to be playing off.
23:33And, look, that looks it.
23:35Could have yet.
23:36Directly, they're having a close look.
23:38Never only one.
23:39That's it.
23:40Absolutely fantastic.
23:42For the second time,
23:43Ben Turner carries off the game
23:44to become the current indoor league champion,
23:47his first ever winner,
23:48Alan Brown, the Armaidian champion,
23:49and finishes it in a down-to-down.
23:50Translating free court permission.
23:52Ladies and gentlemen,
23:53the winner of the Shabatny Indoor League Championship,
23:57Bryn Turner from Durham Nodgin Mafia.
24:01APPLAUSE
24:02What's all this Durham Mafia business,
24:17coming down here and printing all our brass offers?
24:20Well, I think, basically, Fred,
24:21it's just constant play against good players, you know.
24:24And that's the secret of success.
24:26Do you have to practise a lot to get this delicate touch?
24:28More or less seven days a week.
24:30Not all night, of course,
24:32but I'm not married either.
24:34Seven nights a week?
24:35You haven't got time to get married, have you?
24:36Well, it's not too bad, you know.
24:39I'll spread around a bit.
24:40Have you won anything else besides this championship?
24:43I won the Durham and District League Championship,
24:47which is quite a good league, you know,
24:48and it's probably as hard to win that
24:51as it is to win the Yorkshire Championship,
24:53I would think.
24:54Well, I'll have to congratulate you, Bryn,
24:55on winning and beating last year's championship,
24:58Alan Brown, I think it was,
24:59and here's a cheque to go along with that lovely medal.
25:01Thank you very much indeed for being great.
25:08So Alan Brown loses his crown to team-mate Bryn Turner.
25:12Bryn discovered Shire Apey when he was at Durham University.
25:14He got his degree and went back to teaching the city.
25:17Obviously a good move.
25:18Now we've got to move.
25:19Next time, the final of the table football,
25:21already through our John Crowpack
25:23and Frank Borkett of Doncaster, the reigning champs,
25:26they beat Cretan Ambos and Hamir Marafi in the semi-finals
25:29with football like this.
25:31Crowpack and Borkett are on the right.
25:33I'll say this.
25:33Good morning.
25:34Oh, my goodness.
25:36Way to go.
25:37God bless you.
25:38Let's go.
26:08Let's go.
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