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01:30Fitton, well, he was an amazing 21 stone when he won this title last year.
01:35He's lost a bit of weight.
01:36Down to 16 stones on a diet.
01:38Only two inches off that chest, though, which is 54 inches, but he's lost that first fall.
01:43So Fitton, who didn't concede a fall last year, goes one down.
01:47Are we going to have a new champion?
01:48Go!
01:49Go!
01:50So Tony Fitton on the left, he conceded the first ever fall we've seen on television.
01:55Won last year's title without losing one fall.
01:58One down now against Roger Jones from Sheffield.
02:01There's Jones.
02:02From Sheffield, Miller by trade, likes to play chess.
02:08But certainly, brawn rather than pawn today.
02:11Tony Fitton, of course, from Littleborough in Lincolnshire.
02:14Winner.
02:15His elbow.
02:16Winner.
02:17Well, he's won that one by default.
02:19Jones must have lifted his elbow, so that's one apiece.
02:22So Tony Fitton gets the equaliser through referee Bob Sweeney disqualifying Jones.
02:27Here's the deciding round.
02:29Deciding fourth.
02:30Jones on the left.
02:31Fitton on the right.
02:32There they are.
02:33Engaging clutch.
02:36Fitton, of course, the reigning champion.
02:38And he seems to be holding on this time.
02:41He's lost five stones since last year.
02:44Says he doesn't fancy his chances.
02:46One apiece.
02:47He falls.
02:48Remember, it's a two-minute round.
02:50And it looks like Jones, he's the one on the left there.
02:55Jones seems to be establishing a bit of command here.
03:00Referee Bob Sweeney, assistant referee Frank Goddard.
03:02They're making sure the rules are applied.
03:04Remember, you mustn't raise that elbow.
03:06They really are locked together this time.
03:12Tony Fitton on the right.
03:15There he is.
03:15Are we going to hear that yell?
03:17Well, he's lost by default.
03:20He raised his elbow.
03:21Jones has won.
03:22That's a surprise.
03:22Out goes the reigning champion we're going to have.
03:24And you can champion under the super heavyweight division.
03:27So Fitton goes out, as Dave Running said.
03:29And we'll have a new champion.
03:31Will it be Buster Whitney, our first ever champion,
03:33or Peter McDermott, the Northern Counties arm wrestling champion?
03:37It's the best of three falls, remember.
03:40Go.
03:40So it's Whitney on the left.
03:42There he is, the first ever arm wrestling champion of the indoor league in 1973.
03:46A very cool customer.
03:47His opponent, Peter McDermott, from Bolton and Lancashire.
03:50New boy in this competition.
03:52Security officer.
03:53So, a compelling looking battle.
03:57Donald Francis Buster Whitney on the left.
04:00He's the man who seems to have got a bit grayer since the last time we saw him in indoor league.
04:03Well, maybe Samson lost his strength when he had drastic things done to his hairstyle.
04:09I wonder what's going to happen with Buster Whitney.
04:10From Dartford and Kent, arm wrestling four years.
04:13Started by taking part in the Courage Brewery competition.
04:15His opponent, Peter McDermott from Bolton, weightlifter, won the Northern Counties heavyweight championships in powerlifting.
04:21It's also won the Northern Counties arm wrestling championship in Manchester earlier this year.
04:24Under pressure now, though, two-minute rounds, remember.
04:27There's referee Bob Sweeney, who has refereed this sort of thing at the World Championship level in the States,
04:33getting right down, making sure the rules are applied.
04:35Remember, those elbows must stay on that table.
04:37And it looks like Buster very much in command.
04:43McDermott trains six times, so eight, weighs over 19 stone.
04:46Has a 56-inch chest and a 21-inch neck.
04:49That's McDermott.
04:5021 inches that neck, girls.
04:51That's about three inches bigger than Scarlett O'Hara's waist measurement.
04:59So, this round now, really locked in a gripping encounter.
05:06Whitney's been on top, but McDermott's held him just that fraction off the green bays.
05:14Great drama.
05:20Buster Whitney.
05:20Hoppy is drinking.
05:23Cheers to that.
05:24He wins the first four.
05:26If McDermott was fooled by Whitney's grey hair, he should have learned his lesson.
05:30Here's round two.
05:32Go!
05:33So, round two between, on the right, Whitney.
05:36On the left, there's Whitney.
05:37Almost down.
05:38The first-ever champion.
05:39Giving away something like four stones here to his opponent, Peter McDermott.
05:43And he's got him on the go.
05:45Just goes to show it just isn't pure muscle power.
05:48You've got to have a bit of psychology.
05:51Elbow up.
05:51Confidence.
05:52Elbow left there.
05:52And it looks like his elbow's up indeed.
05:53Elbow.
05:54Elbow.
05:54Elbow is disqualified.
05:56So, Whitney enters the semi-finals.
05:58Now it's time for Tony Lees of Halifax to go to the rostrum.
06:02Lees has been runner-up the past two years.
06:04Can he reach the final again?
06:05Or will Eddie Kershaw, a super-heavyweight lifting champion, stop him?
06:11Go!
06:12So, it's Tony Lees from right near Bradford.
06:14Right.
06:15Straight into action.
06:17First fall.
06:19Lees with ease.
06:21But remember, it's the best of three falls.
06:23Kershaw hasn't been British powerlifting champion five times for nothing.
06:27Well, James Edward Kershaw.
06:28There he is on the right last this time.
06:30He was flattened in the first fall by Tony Lees' opponent there.
06:34He's the one in the blue jump.
06:35It looks like he's on top again this time.
06:37Kershaw on the right.
06:39Lees on the left of picture.
06:40Tony Lees, twice runner-up in this competition.
06:44It's at world level this year.
06:45Is it going to be third time lucky for Tony Lees, the local boy,
06:49Northern Counties and British junior powerlifting champion, keep fit fanatic.
06:54Kershaw is doing better this time.
06:56Well out of the square.
06:57Winner of this round.
06:58And he's won it by default indeed.
07:01Lees loses the second on a disqualification.
07:03You don't mess around with these referees, Bob Sweeney and Frank Goddard.
07:07Here's the decider.
07:08One apiece then.
07:09Lees now on the right.
07:10Opponent Kershaw on the left.
07:12It's one fall each.
07:16Remember, it's two-minute rounds.
07:18And James Edward Kershaw, after a disastrous first round, really is recovering well.
07:23He's got Tony Lees twice runner-up in this competition.
07:25Very experienced, very cool, calm, collecting sort of customer.
07:28Doesn't flap.
07:29Now he's putting on the pressure, though.
07:31Watch the Lees go.
07:33A real knuckle-buckler this time.
07:36Kershaw, known as Eddie, British powerlifting champion five times.
07:41Ambition is to win it once more before he retires.
07:43He's in trouble this time.
07:45Lees, three, running the hole straight on.
07:47And that's it.
07:50So Lees wins through.
07:51Now it's time to meet again Bill Richardson.
07:53Last year, he won the left-handed competition.
07:56This time, he's in the super heavyweight right-handed.
07:58Can he achieve a unique double?
08:00Here he is against John Alderson, the British super heavyweight powerlifting champion in 1976.
08:05He's the colour boy in the blue vest there, the reigning left-handed champion and a big lad, 19-inch biceps, and the sort of guy that I'd like to have next to be in the trenches.
08:18His opponent is John Alderson, and no, honestly, it isn't the star of so many lightweight ITV comedy series.
08:25This is John Alderson of Marshal, Cleveland, a newcomer to indoor league, making a brave old battle against the absolutely fearsome power of Big Bill Richardson.
08:35Reigning left-handed champion wins the first four.
08:38Colossal support for him.
08:41First four to Big Bill.
08:42Can John Alderson stop him, or will it be, Richardson with that fearsome stare to go through?
08:48Go!
08:48One fall up then, and now it's Richardson on the right of picture.
08:52There he is, incredibly.
08:53He's the lightest of our super heavyweights at 14 stone, 7 pounds.
08:585 foot 10 high, magnificent specimen, 20 and a half inch biceps, 52 inch chest.
09:03And his opponent, though, John Alderson, putting up a tremendous battle against Richardson.
09:08Hot favourite, this is Alderson, 5'11 weighs 18 and a half stone, 50 inch chest, 19 inch neck.
09:13He's a power lifter, in fact, he is the British super heavy champion in 1976.
09:19Richardson, of course, more of a body builder, a body beautiful, and a beautiful winner there.
09:24So there we have the first round of the super heavyweights.
09:27Next week, more arm wrestling.
09:29This time, the first round left-handed matches.
09:31Time for us to take a breather.
09:33Back in a couple of takes with three darts matches and bar billiards.
09:36I'll say they.
09:36Hey-up, and welcome back to part two of Indoor League.
09:55We're going to kick off with another first round ladies' darts match.
09:58It features Pat Piper, Kent's leading female flighter, and Pam Langridge,
10:03who was runner-up in the National Ladies' Championships in 1975.
10:06It was Pat Piper, who won a close first leg,
10:09and she had the advantage of starting first in the second.
10:12Here's Dave Lanning.
10:13Pat Piper on the hockey.
10:14Barry Tromlow, you're a New Zealand world champion, 69.
10:17Odd stance, this girl seems to lean forward.
10:19100.
10:19Yes, I think she's using...
10:23I think she's a bit smaller than the other girl,
10:24but she's still really leaning and pushing that down straight in.
10:27Pam Langridge, apparently a lot more balance,
10:30but let's just have a look at Pat again.
10:33She seems to lean forward.
10:34She keeps her body still.
10:37You can just see how I'm doing the work.
10:40Very good group.
10:4155.
10:42She's scoring well.
10:43Pat Piper in her big telly bow, really, going like a steam engine.
10:48Pam Langridge, one of the favourites, very steady player.
10:53So this is Pat Piper, leg up.
10:55You see the way she leans forward,
10:57not the purest's stance by any stretch,
11:01but very effective nonetheless.
11:05Pam Langridge.
11:06Pam Langridge, of course, is...
11:08Well, she's getting a bit ragged now.
11:0933.
11:10Well, 33, but she's going to say
11:12that Pam has achieved the ultimate
11:14Captains of Man's team in Shoreham,
11:16down there in Sussex by the sea.
11:20Pat Piper across the county border in Kent.
11:2222.
11:23Yes, 22, and suddenly the rot set into leg two.
11:26Pam, of course, one up.
11:27Remember, it's the best of three.
11:28Can Pam Langridge get her game together?
11:31What over the top?
11:3125.
11:3225, not really.
11:3360, 60, 33, 25.
11:36Pam Langridge, and Pat Piper, 100, 55, 60, 22.
11:39Those are the scores in the second leg.
11:41So a little bit of a lull.
11:4441.
11:4541 score.
11:46Pam Langridge, she reached
11:51the National Ladies' Championship semifinals last year.
11:5455.
11:54Jean Dickinson, of course,
11:55the reigning Indoor League champion
11:57and already through the preliminary rounds
11:59of this year's series,
12:00was the eventual winner of that title.
12:02So we've got the real bells of the board
12:05on parade in Indoor League.
12:0685.
12:07Yes!
12:08Good darts from Pat Piper.
12:1085.
12:11She needs 138.
12:12So Pat Piper looking very cool.
12:1440.
12:15Well, I hate that.
12:16Pat Piper, 138.
12:18138.
12:19Well, 60, 54, to 12 is her shot.
12:22That's one.
12:24She wants 137.
12:25She wanted a 57.
12:26She got it.
12:27Not quite.
12:2878 score.
12:28Yes, she has.
12:30Well, it's good darts there, really.
12:31Rat-a-ta-ta.
12:3178.
12:32That leaves her 60.
12:33And Pam Langridge,
12:34one of the anti-post favourites,
12:36now beginning to look for a miracle.
12:38Well, that's 66.
12:38Pat Piper requires 60.
12:40A bit towards them.
12:41Can Pat Piper finish with such spectacular ease
12:44as she did in the last leg.
12:45She's got a single 20.
12:46She wants double top.
12:47She's got one over the top,
12:48one over the top of the board.
12:49One too low.
12:51210.
12:51She wants 162 going for Pam Langridge.
12:56And there isn't a three-yard conventional shot out
12:58for 162.
12:59But she gets 60.
13:00Past you now require 20.
13:01And Pat Piper now needs 210.
13:04Stand there at 4 o'clock on the board
13:05to wrap up this qualifying round.
13:06He's got it.
13:09So Pat Piper calls the tune
13:11and goes through to the quarterfinals.
13:13Now it's the turn of the men
13:14and two England stars are at the hockey.
13:16Billy Leonard, the 76-77 News of the World Champion
13:19and Cyril Hayes, the gentle giant of English darts.
13:22Leonard won the first leg
13:23and he needs 191 to win the match.
13:26Both wrong troubles.
13:27191, Bill Leonard needs.
13:31This has been quite a long leg
13:33by Indoor League standards.
13:3460.
13:36Cyril requires 128.
13:39128.
13:40Let's see.
13:41He gets a single 20.
13:45He's got...
13:46He wants 48 now.
13:48He come down.
13:48He needs now two 16s.
13:5096 scored.
13:51Bill Leonard.
13:52Bill requires 131.
13:54141, 160, 39.
13:55He's come down.
13:57He's got a 51.
13:58Now it's a single 17.
14:01That's 114.
14:02Looks across for the 54.
14:04Treble 18.
14:04Misses it.
14:0541 scored.
14:0641 scored.
14:07So now Cyril Hayes.
14:08And Cyril now requires 32.
14:09White power of the referee.
14:11Just puts him straight to two 16s.
14:12He wants to level up this first game.
14:17He was there.
14:18He was there.
14:19Very, very top and it's there.
14:22Cyril Hayes, Bill Leonard.
14:24What a pick.
14:24So Hayes makes it one apiece.
14:27All to play for as we join MC Mike Palmer.
14:30Ladies and gentlemen, one leg all.
14:32Bill Leonard has won the toss and we'll start our third leg.
14:34Match on, please.
14:36So Bill Leonard starts the third and deciding leg in this preliminary round.
14:4243.
14:4343.
14:45Cyril Hayes has levelled it up.
14:47He's the man on the hockey now.
14:49Cyril Hayes, numerous titles.
14:50West of England champion.
14:51West of England world masters champion.
14:53Darts rep.
14:5443.
14:55Lives and breathes darts.
14:56First time in indoor league.
14:58Billy Leonard.
14:58Now a full-time pro.
14:59Was a track driver.
15:01At last he's found that treble 20.
15:05He's been banging the fives.
15:06140.
15:06140.
15:085, 6, 1.
15:09There he tried it.
15:10140 scored.
15:12Bill beginning to turn on the heat.
15:16Cyril Leonard.
15:16How will he respond?
15:17Cyril Hayes, rather.
15:20That's 80.
15:2283.
15:23Bad luck.
15:23That's a treble one.
15:27Leonard.
15:2895.
15:38Hayes.
15:38Come on.
15:40From the worstful country of the West.
15:46Slipped a bit.
15:47That's a one.
15:4741.
15:48Thanks, I'm in hard enough.
15:50Billy Leonard.
15:51Well, a marked man at the moment being the 1976 News of the World champion.
15:58Lots of players have refused to play him.
16:01One well-known player, in fact, said he wouldn't play Billy because his socks were too tight.
16:09Cyril Hayes of Taunton.
16:12Well, Cyril, what's a big score?
16:14He's 150 back.
16:15100.
16:17It's a ton.
16:18Still a long way behind.
16:19Bill Leonard, what's 180?
16:20180, so he wants to keep it deep and crisp and even.
16:2840.
16:2940.
16:33234.
16:33Cyril Hayes.
16:35Not so many now.
16:3660 scored.
16:39That's two.
16:40Can he get the third one?
16:42130.
16:44140.
16:45Really super nuts.
16:47Bill Leonard, what's 140?
16:50Well.
16:51Lots of ways to get this.
16:5220.
16:53You know what?
16:53It's 120.
16:57He wants 60.
16:58He could have done with that travel first time.
17:00100 scored.
17:01That's a ton.
17:01Lays himself double top.
17:03And Cyril, you require 94.
17:0494, so three 18s, double top.
17:08That's 12.
17:10Yes.
17:1182.
17:11He wanted three 14s.
17:13He just missed it.
17:1446.
17:15Playing so well and trying so hard.
17:18Double top for Billy Leonard.
17:19You require 14.
17:21To wrap up this first game.
17:24Two 10s he wants now.
17:26Just inside.
17:27Two fives.
17:2835.
17:29He missed it.
17:30And Bill Leonard, that is a surprise.
17:32Cyril Hayes.
17:3348.
17:34Wants 48.
17:36And a real chance for the first surprise of this tournament.
17:40Double top he wants.
17:41And that's just next door.
17:432 1s and 2 19s.
17:44He wants to be missed that.
17:4529 score.
17:46The half lines.
17:46And Bill requires five.
17:51Five.
17:52Bill Leonard.
17:53Too many, Bill.
17:54And he has busted.
17:54And that is a great surprise.
17:56Cyril Hayes.
17:5719.
17:5719 to rip.
17:58He will probably go three and two eights, I would think.
18:02He has three.
18:03He wants two eights.
18:04Are we in for a sensation?
18:06Game.
18:12So the first big upset as Leonard goes out.
18:14We have another game coming up now.
18:16And this features a former News of the World champion, Peter Chapman, and John Lowe, who
18:20recently won the World Masters crown.
18:22Lowe won the first leg.
18:23We joined the second with Chapman at the hockey.
18:27Pete Chapman.
18:28The man with the carpet on his chest.
18:3560.
18:36Let's get 60.
18:37So looking at the scores now, Peter Chapman has edged ahead by 90s odd.
18:43Lowe has the hockey.
18:44Very, very, very close, this one, then.
18:46That's a single 20.
18:5341.
18:5441.
18:56John Lowe.
18:57Not on peak form.
18:592-4-1, Peter Chapman.
19:05That's a 60.
19:0681.
19:0781.
19:0881.
19:09Chapman gradually edging ahead.
19:11He wants 169.
19:12So he has got a shot with his next three darts.
19:16John Lowe wants 2-9-4, less thieves.
19:20There's two singles.
19:2260.
19:2360 scored.
19:24Peter requires 160.
19:25160.
19:2660-60, double top.
19:27Let's see what he can do.
19:29That is 160.
19:33He wants another one.
19:34That is the second one.
19:36He wants double top.
19:37Yes!
19:37Yes!
19:42Shot out.
19:44Hey!
19:46160.
19:47Two doubles and a double.
19:48Oh, I love the boys.
19:52Peter Chapman giving thanks, but that really was super nice.
19:57So, that brilliant finish makes it one apiece.
19:59We join the decider with Chapman at the hockey again.
20:03After that sensational finish, straight in again in the deciding leg with a 60.
20:07He finished on 160.
20:09100.
20:10Comes back with a tug.
20:12Well, psychologically, that must be a blow for John Lowe.
20:14Let's see how he will respond.
20:18Okay.
20:2485.
20:24Well, he had a trouble with his last start.
20:26Travel there.
20:28Peter Chapman.
20:30Remember, a 501.
20:31Subtract.
20:32Must finish on a double.
20:35That's another one.
20:36Travel 20.
20:37100.
20:38Another turn.
20:38That's two tons there for Pete Chapman.
20:41John Lowe now.
20:42Back to the wall.
20:48Dramatic atmosphere here already.
20:5280 scored.
20:52100.
20:53Scores a turn.
20:54Perfect job.
20:58This is Chapman.
21:00Hasn't missed a turn yet.
21:02Going to this time unless he does something pretty spectacular.
21:0525 scored.
21:0726.
21:0726.
21:10Will that let low in?
21:12He's on 3-1-6, so he ought to really creep into the lead here.
21:1620 scored.
21:2260.
21:23Scores 60, though.
21:24That takes him into a lead by just about 20.
21:2819 ahead, but Chapman has the errors.
21:3120 scored.
21:3340.
21:3560.
21:3660 scored.
21:3640.
21:39John Lowe.
21:40Absolutely poised this preliminary round.
21:43One leg apiece, and really absolutely neck and neck in this deciding leg.
21:47This is Lowe.
21:4821.
21:50Looking for the treble.
21:5122.
21:52Hard lines, John.
21:54So now Peter Chapman in the lead, and beginning to emphasize authority in this one.
22:0020 scored.
22:01That tremendous finish in the second leg.
22:03Really seems to have...
22:0540.
22:05Unlucky people.
22:06No luck like that won't knock Peter Chapman.
22:0840 scored.
22:10So John Lowe.
22:11Yes.
22:1360 adrift.
22:16And needs a big score to get back as we come to the final rundown of this preliminary round.
22:22100.
22:23100.
22:23That's a ton.
22:24That's useful.
22:26175 going for Chapman.
22:29175.
22:30So there's no shot out here to leave a double anyway with these three darts.
22:36But he'll want it big and odd to leave him a reasonable shot.
22:39John Unicor.
22:40John Unicor, 134.
22:4234 then for John Lowe.
22:44Let's see which way he goes.
22:46Go for a 60 for a start.
22:48One would think.
22:48And he...
22:49No, it's a single 20.
22:50It's a single 20.
22:51It looked like a treble.
22:53That's...
22:54He wants 54.
22:56He's scored 80.
22:5794 scored.
22:58These tops.
23:00So now the points are on a big tap.
23:02He wants 115.
23:04John Lowe wants double top.
23:05115 going.
23:08He's come down.
23:10He's got three twos.
23:11He was looking for three 15s.
23:1245.
23:13So he can't finish.
23:15He's got 57.
23:17Six.
23:20He's got...
23:2152.
23:2452 he wants.
23:2575 scored.
23:26I love it.
23:27He's got 12.
23:28So now it's all on the double tops.
23:30John Lowe wants double tops for this first preliminary game.
23:36Leg and leg.
23:37This could sort it out.
23:39Third dart.
23:42Game!
23:45So Chapman joins Phil O'Bard and Billy Leonard as spectators.
23:52Next week we'll be featuring the quarterfinals of Bar Billiard's Done It.
23:56And in the last eight, would you believe, is a woman.
23:58She's Vivienne Shepard, All-England Ladies Champion in 1975.
24:03I'll see thee.
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