04:45More experienced White goes through. Next is Ray Tilly and Colin Price, both from Kettering.
04:53It's two legs each and Tilly to throw.
04:55It's two legs each and Tilly to throw.
04:56Very casual style, Tilly, but a real dab hander. See him moving across the mock to get better angles.
05:03But that eight in three is not much cop.
05:10Cos Colin Price here, also a catering star, has all the finesse that Tony Locke used to have. Watch his right wrist whip through as he chucks.
05:23Bad shooting.
05:24Bad shooting.
05:25Bad shooting. The idea is to get that cheese spinning much faster and do a bit of damage.
05:30So we take a piece in the final egg. One cheese decides it now.
05:40Colin will go for that middle pin.
05:52But it bounced too high. Only a four.
05:57Surely Tilly can beat that.
06:07He can't. Only three.
06:11Now the fourth quarter final. It's between Melvin Allcourt of Northamptonshire and Allen Castle of Leicestershire. It's one all as Castle throws.
06:17Not a flashy stylish Castle here, but effective. All nine down in two. That's a whack. So he's sure of double figures.
06:38Fourteen scored.
06:39So Melvin Allcourt has a job on. He's another Ketrin band club lad and learned this game as a nipper in his dad's pub.
06:52He doesn't seem to happy about going over 14 with his three cheesers.
07:01A good shot there, but he's left with two tricky ones.
07:06See how he waits for a good lie on the dead pins.
07:10Missed him. Score 2-1.
07:18So now he tries to set a high score for Castle to beat.
07:26Good first shot.
07:27Whack on the second shot.
07:29Going a bit now, Melvin is.
07:39You'll notice very little back lift.
07:43Very little spin.
07:46But that's a very good 15 he's scored, so can Castle do it for Leicester?
08:00Too fast a skimmer.
08:01And another two legs all.
08:16A six.
08:20A two.
08:22Nine in all.
08:23Nine in three as well, so one cheese each.
08:50Highest wins the match.
09:03A fair six to all, Colt.
09:07Six.
09:07Only two to Castle.
09:21We're going to take a break now.
09:23We're doing a couple of flicks, the semi-finals of the cheese skittles,
09:26and the climax of the arm wrestling.
09:28I'll say that.
09:28The scene's set for our cheese skittles semi-finals.
09:44The first between Albert Lewis and Charles White.
09:46Remember, it best of five legs or first to three.
09:49The score's one leg each.
09:50Albert Lewis is a lorry driver and as hard a man as you'll meet on a skittles table.
09:57It's one leg apiece.
10:02Steady stuff.
10:03Nine in three chucks.
10:11Charlie White.
10:12Not so tear-away.
10:13More a slinging action with a nifty bit of wrist work.
10:16Nine apiece.
10:24One cheese decides.
10:38Only a four to Charlie.
10:39Charlie.
10:46And Albert gets no joy.
10:54Only a three.
10:55Two-one to Charlie.
10:59So Albert wants over nine here.
11:05Good shot for eight.
11:08And note, he's electing to have the deadpins removed from the table,
11:10but you can leave them on if you like.
11:16And that last chuck gives him 15.
11:36So 16 wanted.
11:38No good. Nine in two was what he wanted.
11:50And he too wants the pins off for a clear shot.
12:19Nine in three to white, so Lewis wants nine in two.
12:40Could do it.
12:43No, one cheese each decides.
12:49Four to Albert. White needs five.
13:10No trouble at all.
13:23So Charles White of Northampton makes it to the final.
13:26Now the second semi-final.
13:28Between Colin Price of Kettering and Melvin Allcote of Northampton.
13:31Price is leading by one leg.
13:32And looking very determined, nostrils flaring, following through with power.
13:40Nine in two, so double figures assured.
13:42That's classic cheese skittling.
14:01A fast spin.
14:02Picks off two odd pins a couple of feet apart, giving Colin 15.
14:05Steady six to all, Colt.
14:21But no chance of passing nine.
14:24Nine in two, so double figures.
14:27Only a nine in three, so it's two nil to Price, and now he needs nine in two to win.
14:49No, it didn't break inwards.
15:04No, it didn't break inwards.
15:06Again, one cheese to decide.
15:18Colin, extra control, extra pins.
15:26Melville needs eight.
15:36But fails.
15:41So Price makes it look easy.
15:43We'll have the final next time.
15:44But now, it's arm wrestling.
15:46We're down to the last four fellas who'd soon be snapped up by Hercules' recruiting officer.
15:50The first semi-final is between our reigning champion, Don Buster Whitney, and Clive Myers, a pro all-in wrestler.
15:56Referee Ian Campbell has warned the grapplers that he won't stand any nonsense.
16:00And so the semi-final stage of the battle of the bulging biceps between, on the left, the reigning champion, Dom Buster Whitney, from south-east London, down there in the Dartford area, and his opponent, the coloured character here, Clive Myers, from the other side of the river, Wandsworth.
16:20And Myers really has looked tremendous in this competition, and Whitney, for the first time, is in trouble.
16:28And that's the first fall he's ever conceded in indoor league arm wrestling.
16:31The reigning champion, beaten there quite conclusively by this little man, 5'10", only 12 and a half stone, that's almost midget-like compared to the he-men we have in this competition.
16:42And Clive Myers, from Wandsworth, says he wants to win because the little men in life get pushed around, he wants to prove a point.
16:49And he really has been tremendous, and this really is a battle of psychology, because Buster Whitney, going again, is he?
16:59Yes, he is.
17:00And that is a surprise.
17:01Buster Whitney is out, Clive Myers goes into the final, and the little men of the universe are rejoicing.
17:08Buster Whitney's reign as the strongest right arm in Britain comes to an end.
17:12Now an old Yorkshire battle between King Ben Boothman of Keithley and Tony Lees, the blonde boy from Halifax.
17:19And so the second semi-final of the 1974 Indoor League Arm Wrestling Championship, and this certainly is going to decide who's got the strongest right arm in Yorkshire,
17:29because we have two Yorkshiremen playing just silly boys at the moment, can't quite get it together.
17:35Come on, lads, you must engage Clutch.
17:38And that's on the left-hand side, we have King Ben, Philip Boothman, that's him there in the sexy vest.
17:42His opponent is Anthony Lees, Anthony Lees of Halifax.
17:46And the battle's all in King Ben's from the first fall.
17:49What a character!
17:53Again, another express strain, and straight in business for King Ben.
17:58King Ben from Keithley, we come on to the second fall, remember it's three two-minute rounds,
18:04but these boys haven't been in anything like two minutes to press their claim to fame.
18:08King Ben then, one up, getting settled in.
18:11Re-engaging Clutch.
18:13In he goes.
18:14And what's happened there?
18:19And he's disqualified, and referee Ian Campbell, who is not a man to argue with,
18:23has disqualified Philip Booth and King Ben there.
18:26He's disqualified for raising his elbow.
18:28So it's 1-1.
18:33And now the controversy starts.
18:38And that is not throwing in the towel, that's just getting rid of the sweat.
18:44That's Sweat and Lovely.
18:46And so we come on to the deciding fall between Lees and Bootham.
18:51King Ben on the left, Lees on the right.
18:54And just look at his face.
18:56That is strained pain.
19:01Ian Campbell, the referee, watching every point there.
19:04This is what your right arm is for, and what's happened?
19:09He has been disqualified.
19:11Lees is the winner on a disqualification.
19:14Ian Campbell has disqualified King Ben.
19:17His brother John there came into the pitch and lifted him up.
19:19So there is Bootham, not the happiest man in the world.
19:22And there is the man enforcing the law of the strong arm.
19:27Ian Campbell, not a man to argue with,
19:30and he will not count it as any fuss and bother.
19:33So Lees goes through, despite King Ben's angry appeals.
19:37The wrestlers must keep their elbows on the table.
19:40And Ian Campbell stands no gamesmanship.
19:42Now the final.
19:43Clive Myers, the coloured wrestler from London,
19:45or Tony Lees, the blonde from Halifax?
19:47Between Britain's two greatest goliaths of grips,
19:50the maestros of army manoeuvres,
19:51on the left-hand side, the sensational coloured man from London,
19:55Clive Myers from Wanderth.
19:57He really has been the sensation of this competition,
19:59perhaps the smallest man in it,
20:01and here he is in the final,
20:03going as strong as ever.
20:04His opponent is the local favourite here,
20:07Tony Lees from Halifax.
20:09So we have Myers from London on the left,
20:10Ian Campbell the referee there,
20:12the big man with the beard is the referee.
20:14We have an additional judge, Bob Sweeney,
20:16to judge this final.
20:18Do keep quiet, please.
20:20And trouble already.
20:22Ian Campbell asserting authority.
20:24Myers then on the left,
20:25Tony Lees, who claims he's never been beaten,
