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00:00Clare requires 40.
00:30Now then, today we're paying homage to the champions of the indoor league.
00:41Nine lads and lads who came here with high hopes and left with gold medals and cash.
00:45We're going to recapture the tensions, the highlights, the skills and the excitement of the past few weeks.
00:50The first champion to be crowned was George Jones of Northamptonshire,
00:54who won the first ever televised cheese skittles championship with skill like this.
01:00Cheese skittles competition, both Northampton players, all the Leicestershire players,
01:03having been eliminated at the mock is George Jones, and George seems to have put a nine in one.
01:14Now he is on a maximum, the maximum at this game is 27.
01:17I personally have never seen it done, the most I've ever seen is 25.
01:23Oh, what bad luck, we were on.
01:26That is 18. That is the usual maximum.
01:28Cheese skittles, one of the three new games we introduced in this series.
01:32Another was arm wrestling.
01:3316 muscle-bound grapplers got to grips, but the final was the most gripping contest of all.
01:39Blood, sweat and tears flowed as Buster Whitney of London and King Ben Boothman of Keithley
01:44went into a special make-or-break tiebreaker to decide the contest,
01:48and Whitney proved just the stronger.
01:51Put a fast one.
01:52No excuse for slip-ups now.
01:59A lady in white behind Whitney screaming for his opponent.
02:03I think...
02:04Halfway there, but it's not enough.
02:08King Ben comes back from...
02:10Oh, kind of trouble is there!
02:11And King Ben, yes, sportingly congratulates his opponent.
02:15So the winner of this arm wrestling tournament, here at the Irish Central League,
02:22the winner by one fold a mil in the final tie-breaking round,
02:27Donald Whitney of Eltham SE9.
02:31The third new game was American Pool.
02:34We invited four Yanks and four top English snooker players.
02:37In the end, John Ashcroft, the Yorkshire champion,
02:39and Ray Edmonds, the 73, world amateur snooker champion,
02:43were left to fight it out.
02:44Oh, no.
02:45He knows this.
02:46Playing low, hard, into the end proper.
02:50A training, a training side.
02:52Those boys are using plenty of side, plenty of spin, and plenty of...
02:56Beautiful shot!
02:58Beautiful shot!
02:59...to tie it all up.
03:05He couldn't...
03:06He couldn't score.
03:08Now it leaves us all with Ashcroft.
03:11If you get this ball down, he can play on the black.
03:14It'll be a regular pop-black face.
03:17He's moved the ball, but he's left right over the side pocket.
03:22Obviously, he'll go for the side pocket, and it could be victory for Yorkshire.
03:27It could be victory.
03:28How close can you get?
03:35The duplicate of the last time.
03:36Only this time, he hasn't left it right over the pocket.
03:39Now Edmonds has his four ball to go.
03:41Purple.
03:41Ashcroft gets another bite at the apple.
03:53He gets another bite at the apple.
03:55First champion of this qualified pool tournament is John Ashcroft from first corner of Roderum, and a worthy champion indeed.
04:07He beat the world champion, Ray Edmonds.
04:10The first real upset was in bar billiards when Tuffy John, the 1972 champ, went out in the first round.
04:21His victor, John Baker of Kent, went on to win the final against another favourite, Peter Wells of Oxford.
04:2730.
04:28And Pete Wells, with very little he can do, but hope for luck and a continuing sequence of scores.
04:3545 seconds to pull back at least 400, and oh, he was lucky it went in, but it did go in, and that's conveniently placed over the 20 hole.
04:45He can keep on scoring, he can keep on scoring with using the, oh, he was unlucky, he was desperately unlucky.
04:51That could have been the final nail in Peter Wells' cover, and he's left it, the balls, comfortably for John Baker.
04:59So John Baker with the cent of 100 pounds in his nostrils.
05:0460 score.
05:05Which he will take back to Tunbridge Wells.
05:1070.
05:11This final isn't over yet, but this is a really impenetrable lead from John.
05:15John Baker.
05:17And Pete Wells ruin the second half of this game, because he played so well in the first.
05:25190.
05:25John Baker's confidence growing with every shot.
05:29Pretty slow soundover, he's a crushing finish.
05:33Making the most of this, 45 seconds.
05:35240.
05:39250, the end of the break.
05:42He's trying to finish the game now, the bar is down, he'll try and finish the game by dropping.
05:45He'll pick it in the 200, he's done it straight away.
05:47A great win and a great way to finish the winner of the Barbillians indoor games tournament, John Baker of the Bristol Arms, Calvair Road.
05:55John Baker.
05:56In the table skittles, the Barnsley boys were up against the swingers from Staffordshire.
06:00It was a pair of punters from the Potteries who made the final.
06:03John Shell and William Woolridge.
06:05And it was close.
06:06So now, really, we come to the climax of the indoor league table skittle final.
06:12Eight he needs, and it's on level throws.
06:15If he gets them in one, it means that his young opponent will have to get nine in one.
06:18Let's see William Woolridge.
06:19There he goes.
06:20He has got five and an awkward...
06:23He's got to get three of these now.
06:25He needs three.
06:26He's got two.
06:27He must finish.
06:29But that still leaves his young opponent to get nine.
06:33Well, now, his young opponent has got to get nine in three balls.
06:39If he draws level, we have a sudden death, dramatic payoff for the money.
06:43John Shell, 92, needing nine.
06:45If he gets nine in two balls, which is very much on the cards, he wins it.
06:48So let's watch this.
06:49This is what it's all about.
06:51The final.
06:52John Shell, the gundest man in the competition.
06:55The nervous boy.
06:56He needs this one badly.
06:58Well, he's on now.
06:59He's got to get these two to win it.
07:00Let's see.
07:03He's got a good final and he's stopped at it.
07:08Look at the way he's gone.
07:09What a terrific finish.
07:10What a terrific finish.
07:12It couldn't be closer.
07:13A hundred quid in his back pocket and he's delighted.
07:17What a very good loser as well.
07:19A terrific final.
07:20A terrific final.
07:21The winner, the youngest man in the competition.
07:23John Shell, the winner of the indoor league skittle stifled and a hundred quid better off.
07:28One happy champion.
07:29In the Shev Apenny, two members of the Durham Mafia, Bryn Turner and Alan Brown, the 72 champion, met in the final.
07:36And it was Turner's enterprise that won the day.
07:40Tremendous needle match here between these two players.
07:43Both friends, of course.
07:44Both players of the same team, the same pub.
07:47But I'm sure that Bryn Turner is looking for his first ever win over Alan Brown and to carry off a hundred pounds into the bargain.
07:54It's all stopped.
08:01Certainly the cards look stacked in Bintana's favor at the moment.
08:05But it'll have to be...
08:06He pulled the coin back there.
08:10Put a little spin on it and brought that bottom coin, brought it back.
08:13But he's got...
08:14You could have given one away there.
08:16You have to watch that because you could give one away to Alan Brown.
08:18Oh, but it looks tight.
08:23Yes.
08:24That's it.
08:25One on the top.
08:25One set off.
08:27An incredibly lucky shot there.
08:28But Bryn Turner's tactic seemed to be playing off.
08:31And that looks it.
08:33Could that be it?
08:34Directly back in a close look.
08:36Never only one.
08:37That's it.
08:37Absolutely fantastic.
08:39For the second time running, Bryn Turner carries off the game to become the current indoor league champion.
08:44His first ever win over Alan Brown, the reigning champion.
08:47And he finishes it in a dazzling three-point finish.
08:49When John Cropatch and Frank Bolkett won the 1972 table football championship, we thought we'd found the best in the world.
08:56That is until Speedy Campbell and Berries Hall of London breezed in.
09:00They trailed 3-0 to the reigning champs in the final.
09:03And then they struck gold.
09:04Berries Hall of the back.
09:06There they are.
09:06Looking worried for the first time in this tournament.
09:08They've sailed through the opening round.
09:10Now in the front line, Speedy Campbell.
09:11Now can he do it?
09:12One in one.
09:13Yes, he does it.
09:133-1.
09:14So Speedy Campbell back in business.
09:16His first shot.
09:17John Cropax has got three and three.
09:19Now Speedy Campbell one in one.
09:21A great exhibition of attacking play.
09:22Getting ready for the shot.
09:23Moving in and then bang.
09:24So 3-1 and this final really living up to expectations.
09:31The London pair make it 3-2.
09:34Speedy Campbell hammering it in.
09:36The light jerseys, Yorkshire.
09:39Strike jerseys, London.
09:403-2.
09:40Equalised.
09:41They got in just as quickly as Yorkshire did.
09:43And wearing crowns on the Yorkshire supporters.
09:453-3.
09:46Six goals.
09:47We haven't had six goals as quick as this in any other game in the tournament.
09:51So after a three-goal lead for Yorkshire, it's now 3-3.
09:54London level pegging.
09:55Moving up now.
09:55Frank Bowkett in defence as that failed to find Speedy Campbell in front.
09:59A shot from the back by Bowkett.
10:00There is four at the back.
10:01He tries a hammer one.
10:02Good defence.
10:04Both defencemen hitting it hard.
10:05Trying to get it up to the front men now.
10:08Both these front men, 100% record so far.
10:10Both three goals in three shots.
10:12That's great stuff.
10:14Look at the speed coming back and forward.
10:17A shot from the back by Bowkett.
10:18Verriss Hall trying to get it away to Speedy Campbell.
10:23All flying back and forward.
10:25Needs cooling down a bit.
10:26Now it's John Crowe.
10:27Can he make it four in four?
10:29Moving rather more quickly than usual.
10:30Just rolling the ball about a half an inch, three-quarters of an inch.
10:34Waiting for Verriss Hall's defencemen to move out of the way.
10:36But they don't.
10:36Verriss Hall gets it.
10:37Verriss Hall pushing it up to Speedy Campbell.
10:39Now Speedy Campbell three in three.
10:41Strikes.
10:42Terror in the hearts of defenders.
10:43No wonder.
10:444-3.
10:44So after being three down, this is how Speedy Campbell makes it 4-3 for the London pair.
10:50Just a gentle movement, getting the defence out of position.
10:54Then moving to the right.
10:56The right winger moves into the centre forward.
10:58And then suddenly those wrists will cut loose.
11:00And pow.
11:00So 4-3 for the London pair.
11:05You can tell which of the London supporters and which of the Rotherham supporters by their expressions.
11:09What a comeback by London.
11:10This could well be five because Speedy Campbell is missing them.
11:12At the moment, Frank Valkett with relief.
11:14So it's not only five.
11:16He just needs an opening.
11:17Rory Brands from Yorkshire.
11:18Delight from London.
11:205-3.
11:21So just one to go for the London pair.
11:28Is this it?
11:29A nerve-wracking moment for Rotherham and for Yorkshire.
11:31For Frank Valkett and for John Kropax.
11:34Speedy Campbell hasn't missed one yet.
11:35And Frank Valkett's a great defender.
11:37Take nothing away from him.
11:39He hasn't come up against an attacker like this.
11:40And he saved that one.
11:42The back line of defence got in the way of that one, which is credit to Valkett.
11:45But it still isn't away.
11:46Can Valkett push it up the table?
11:47It's the only hope for the Yorkshire pair.
11:49If he can get it up in attack, they have it in their middle line.
11:53John Kropax got three in two minutes early on, but hasn't had a look at the goal since.
11:59Now, Speedy Campbell, is this the winner?
12:01Every time he gets up in that front line, Speedy Campbell is setting himself up for the winner.
12:04And 150 pounds and new title holders of the indoor league.
12:08But it isn't in the net yet.
12:09It's fine.
12:10Yes, it is.
12:10It's there.
12:11The London player win the title.
12:12Take it from Yorkshire.
12:13And 150 pounds.
12:19What a pair.
12:36Time for a breather now.
12:37Back in just a couple of ticks with darts.
12:39I'll see there.
12:40There's a lot of good darts players in Britain.
13:05We brought 16 of the best to compete in a treble board.
13:09They included the reigning news of the world champion and a dozen internationals.
13:12In the final was Alan Evans of Wales and Tommy O'Regan, a former Irish jockey, now living in London.
13:18We make no excuse for showing the whole match again.
13:21Alan Evans from Wales.
13:22We saw him in the semifinal.
13:24Fantastic stuff.
13:25Not an empty seat in the house.
13:26And he's straight into his style.
13:31100.
13:32100 to start.
13:33Here's a pose to Tommy O'Regan from the London area, from Walthamstow, the Irishman ex-jockey.
13:41And really this has all the portents of being an absolute darting player.
13:4523.
13:4623.
13:51This is Evans.
13:53What a player.
13:54There's a crowd, I would say, marginally on his side.
13:57Slightly the favourite.
13:58Slightly the favourite.
14:00They've met once before in Bristol.
14:0245.
14:03I'm told a few weeks ago in a friendly match when Evans won it.
14:06But this is indoor league.
14:07There's 150 quid at stake.
14:09And anything can happen.
14:11And after the darts we've had, that looks like 260s to me.
14:14100.
14:15No, it wasn't.
14:16It must have been pretty close though.
14:18That's 100 scored.
14:19This is Evans.
14:20Already he's had the maximum 360s in this competition.
14:23Can he do it again?
14:24Not this time anyway, but it still looks like 20.
14:29100.
14:30It's got a ton anyway.
14:35This is O'Regan.
14:36Plays in the Walthamstow and District League.
14:38He's won virtually every title there's going in London.
14:41140.
14:41That's 140.
14:42That's 140.
14:43That's very nearly.
14:44You can see by yourself very nearly 180.
14:46O'Regan really is the quiet man of this competition.
14:49But my goodness, he can throw darts.
14:51So can this boy.
14:52Alan Evans.
14:53Oh, a five.
14:53Disaster.
14:56Out of trouble.
14:56Looks like 65.
14:57Is he coming downstairs?
14:5870.
14:5970 scored.
15:01So now the scores are coming down.
15:03Remember they must score 501.
15:04They must get a double to finish.
15:06O'Regan has shown that he is absolutely dynamite on the finish.
15:11140.
15:11That's another 140 for O'Regan.
15:13He really is coming down like a steam engine.
15:1698 he needs.
15:17Now Evans needs 186.
15:21So O'Regan has scored 389 darts at the moment.
15:27Champagne stuff.
15:29And this boy is surprising.
15:31140.
15:32He's struggling.
15:32140.
15:34I was thinking he was saying he's struggling.
15:35He needs 46.
15:36He needs 98.
15:3760 double 19.
15:39Now he's gone down for 48.
15:41He's got 16.
15:41He needed three.
15:42Remember the inner ring is the treble ring.
15:44Oh dear.
15:4525.
15:45O'Regan's struggling.
15:4644 scored.
15:46The player requires 46.
15:4846 now for Evans for this vital first leg.
15:51Which way will he go?
15:5210 or a 6 is a classic shot.
15:55But then again he might go for 14.
15:56And 6.
15:58He needs double top.
16:00So close.
16:02Oh he's missed it.
16:04The player requires 54.
16:05He can't afford to do this.
16:06We have seen O'Regan.
16:07It's a tremendous finisher.
16:08He wants 54.
16:09Which way would he go?
16:1014 double top or 18?
16:12No he wins the ball now.
16:13He needs the ball.
16:14He wanted 18 double 18.
16:15Will he go for the ball?
16:17No he hasn't.
16:18He's gone for 18 double 16.
16:20Yes.
16:21Game time!
16:22Well this man really does finish.
16:25Really.
16:26Whenever he gets within slipping distance of a double it's goodnight Vienna.
16:32Well Evans surprisingly there is now struggling.
16:35He did play well.
16:36He had a shot at double top.
16:37He missed it.
16:37You can't afford to miss it at this level.
16:39Mr. Evans to throw first.
16:43So Evans a leg behind.
16:45The young Welsh whiz kid really has got a pilot on now.
16:48Is that 40?
16:52I think it is.
16:5445.
16:5545 scored.
16:56O'Regan.
16:58The man with the finishing touch.
17:01Very steady.
17:03Has shown his absolute darting pedigree right through the competition.
17:07100.
17:08That's a chance.
17:08That's a chance.
17:10O'Regan from London.
17:12Really going along merrily.
17:14But Evans we have known is a Welsh fighter.
17:18That's a five.
17:21Downstairs for this 19.
17:2231 31 oh dear so a region now beginning to exert a bit of authority on this game beginning to
17:33dominate absolutely nerveless what a lovely 100 100 that's two times on the trot poetry in motion
17:44Evans really must find those 60 60 60 scored well Regan has hit a hundred both his first throws
17:59that's another 20 that looks like another time coming up folks 100 there we go so consistent
18:08so beautifully an economical style that Watson scores that's 169 for Evans oh pulled it pulled
18:1785 85 but now Regan needs 201 now he's got three tons in nine dots he's gonna get another one
18:24that's 20 oh looks to me to be in the five 140
18:31well tremendous from this angle it looked like it was in the five he now needs 61 and he's going
18:37on merrily towards the indoor league championship and 150 quid he only needs 61
18:42Evans now looking for the miracle man 31 but unbelievably who would have thought this player
18:51could have been beaten after his 75 but O'Regan has been absolutely brilliant 61 is that a 17
18:5746 12 is that a shot out I thought he wanted 216 was it yes it was he got 45 he just missed it so
19:09Evans now on 249 really needs a magic wand from somewhere I can't see O'Regan missing I cannot
19:17see O'Regan missing this two eight 81 he hasn't missed a shot out yet so 150 quid it's all coming
19:23up now everything to play for O'Regan on two eight oh two fours with 150 quid with one dart left in his
19:36hand he's missed it that's the first time he's missed a double shot out so 168 for Evans
19:42he'll need a brilliant shot out to do it 20 148 is that a 60 85 85 it's not good enough well
19:58Tommy O'Regan now with a championship one would think in his pocket two twos
20:03oh he can't see it now surely he can't squeeze one in there he's moving around what I thought this
20:11was going to be yes oh tremendous fantastic O'Regan wins how he did it I don't know there wasn't
20:21British with a visiting card in there but he did it with a dart O'Regan wins the indoor league
20:26darts championship 150 quid a gold medal presented by two three times and the applause of this
20:32tremendous crowd a fantastic dance competition comes to a fantastic climax real darty we're going
20:38to finish with another look at the little lady called Loveday King she came all the way from
20:42Cornwall and astounded us all with her accuracy in the final she met a cool customer called Jesse
20:47Catrick of Middlesbrough Loveday broke the ice to win the first game now we pick the match up with
20:52the second game just starting 11 well now Mrs King can really come back into this one with a big
21:02score and really start to dominate this leg herself now she really gets a big score 41 that's not
21:07really big enough so there's absolutely nothing in this one at all at the moment that's 21 I think
21:1681 and that's 60 with the last start out of trouble for Mrs Catrick now Mrs King will need an abrupt sharp reply 21
21:2641 41 scored
21:29so Mrs Catrick from the Middlesbrough Crest captain of the Crest Hotel Middlesbrough indeed
21:36she enjoys dress making walking and gardening and she also enjoys getting 60s double 20s and she got
21:43one there this is King from the Wadebridge area
21:48100 replies beautifully with a ton 100
21:55this is Mrs Catrick meeting this leg 60 60 scored so again very very close this second leg Mrs King seemed to jerk that one a little bit a little bit of tension
22:1181 creeping in everybody now here at the indoor league is concentrating on this final Mrs Catrick seems absolutely nerveless she's got 79 there
22:2380 scored 80 that was bad luck she needed she wants 101 anyway Mrs King now struggling now
22:30they're trading unlike her 30 she's got 30 now she wants 101 and she can get out here in three darts with some good ones that looks to me like a 7 or is at a 19 very close
22:42I can't see she wants another even number 87 scored 87 scored
22:49so she 175 going Mrs Catrick now down to a double so Mrs King wants to pull a big one out 47 and now Mrs Catrick two sevens to level it up
22:59and the silence too many and the silence too many requires 128 almost unbearable and she missed it 128 going
23:08she went for the 60 she missed it she has got 20 108
23:1264 scored
23:14player requires 14. Two sevens now for Mrs Catrick with everything to go for seven to rip what will she go she
23:20can go for three double two she wants
23:22oh ten scored and the player requires 64. 64 for Mrs Loveday King for 150 quid she's got 116 she needs another one now she's missed it
23:3642 scored 42 scored
23:39player requires four now she wants two twos Mrs Catrick she's missed it
23:43and really now Mrs Loveday King who's shown all the steadiness in the competition needs two 11s to win the prize
23:50yes there it is
23:51there it is Mrs King
23:53Mrs King there she is the pinup of the public bars the toast of clubland in clubland the indoor league ladies champion
24:03with 150 quid upper classic and really looking so pleased with herself
24:08ladies and gentlemen Mrs Loveday King who came along and showed them all the way home at ladies darts
24:32now you won it by doing them in the final what do you feel like
24:36great have you won anything else before
24:41in Cornwall two competitions you know and i've just reached the last eight of England
24:45well now now i must ask you something
24:48where did you get this name Loveday i've never heard of you in my life wherever i've traveled in the world
24:53i think my mum sort of ran out of names when she got to me you know and she just sort of
24:57why how many children was there oh there's nine there's seven sisters two brothers
25:02must be pretty proud of what you've done here aren't they yes i think so
25:05congratulations there's your check love
25:16isn't she sweet whoever said a woman's place was in the kitchen should have been
25:20here with Loveday king and he'd soon have volunteered to do the washing up it's about
25:23time we were drying up we'll leave you with a look at all our champions together
25:2710 super sports stars in their own right i'll sit it
25:40so
25:48we'll be right back
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