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00:30Now then, and welcome once again to the Indoor League World Championships.
00:34We'll have a bit of a cold this week, but let's hope our actions speak louder than words.
00:38With two men's darts matches, four female flighters, the first round of the left-handed arm wrestlers,
00:43and the remaining bar-billed squad of finals.
00:45But we're starting with men's darts, and the first game as champion for American Conor Daniels.
00:50So confident that Yank of retaining his title, he's already invited me to his celebration party.
00:54Well, let's see if his skill can match his confidence.
00:56He's up against Lincolnshire's top player, John Stanton, as we join Dave Lanning during the first leg.
01:02It's Daniels at the hockey.
01:03Daniels. That's the treble he was looking for.
01:09That's 80 scored.
01:10137.
01:15Comes downstairs with devastating effect.
01:17Didn't leave himself a lot of room for the treble upstairs on the 20s.
01:20Comes down for the 958 then for John Stanton.
01:24There was a shot here, but he can't get it now.
01:2741.
01:27He needed an early 60.
01:28Conrad, you know, requires 70.
01:3370, so perhaps he'll go for three 10s double top.
01:36That would be the classic shot, although Conrad has been known to do somewhat unpredictable things to get out.
01:42Let's see which way he will go for 70.
01:48He wants two 8s.
01:49He's got 54.
01:50Two 8s.
01:52Well, he said he might do unpredictable things.
01:53Unpredictable.
01:58Very, very effective.
02:00So Daniels shows us he's not lost his finishing power.
02:03We join the second leg with him needing 262 for the match.
02:09Daniels needs 2.62, so he's now 23 ahead.
02:14Stanton needs 2.85.
02:17Daniels.
02:19Gets 20.
02:20Oh, that's a single.
02:24It's run on the wire.
02:25I think he's going to move downstairs.
02:26Not a lot of room up the top now.
02:28Yes, he has.
02:2859.
02:29Come on, John.
02:30Come on, John.
02:34Stanton.
02:3860.
02:3980 scored.
02:40100.
02:42What was the time?
02:43Daniels needs 2.03, so looking for a large odd score to leave him a shot out with his next three darts.
02:5720.
02:58Remember, he has the first leg safely tucked up.
03:0280 scored.
03:03I think he'll come down again.
03:04Will he know he won't?
03:05100.
03:05That's a ton.
03:06Leaves himself 103, so there's plenty of shots for that.
03:10Stanton now wants 185, so the pressure is very, very much on him at the moment.
03:1722.
03:1822.
03:19103 going.
03:21So let's have a look at which way Daniels will go.
03:23Well, I think he's going to go for 57, treble 19 for a start.
03:26After that, there's a variety of ways of getting it.
03:28Never can tell with Conrad.
03:31Case in point.
03:32Goes upstairs and gets one.
03:35102 he wants.
03:36No finish on that.
03:39He wants 51.
03:42There you go for 19 now.
03:44Well.
03:4587 score.
03:46He got 87.
03:47I think perhaps even his calculating system went wrong there.
03:53Leaves 2.8.
03:55No, indeed.
03:55He's left his...
03:5660.
03:56...a very favourite double.
03:58Even we can't keep up with him.
03:59He wants 2.8 now.
04:01On that now requires 16.
04:02Incredible shooting.
04:03This man really goes all over the place.
04:06He knows what he's doing.
04:08And he usually gets what he wants.
04:102.8.
04:13That is very close.
04:152.4's up there.
04:162 o'clock on the board.
04:19That is very close, too.
04:22Daniels.
04:22Getting it together.
04:24Last start.
04:27That's a super shot.
04:28That's a super shot.
04:31Daniels overcomes the first hurdle in the race to retain his title.
04:34Now we've two newcomers to Indoor League.
04:36Charlie Alex, the national singles champion in 75-76.
04:39And Willie Scott, Scotland's top player.
04:42We join the first leg with Alex needing 191.
04:46191 then, Charlie Alex.
04:47And this is his television debut.
04:50He comes down looking for an odd number.
04:52Gets it.
04:53Goes back up.
04:53Gets the 60.
04:55Could do with another one.
04:5699.
04:5799.
04:57Good darts.
05:01Willie Scott needs to find some big scores.
05:05And he is this time.
05:05He's got...
05:0695.
05:0795.
05:0892 going for Charlie Alex.
05:11Well, 62-16.
05:13That's a 20.
05:15That's now 72.
05:18Now, what's that?
05:18That's 40.
05:20Is it?
05:2086 scored.
05:23Now, it was a 60.
05:25It looked like a single so close on the wire.
05:27Difficult to tell there.
05:29But Charlie knew what he wanted.
05:30And now he wants...
05:3111 scored.
05:32I'm lying to you.
05:32Hopefully, Scott scored alone.
05:34Charlie, I'm lying to you.
05:34Six.
05:35Two threes for Charlie Alex.
05:36Give him a push leg.
05:37Good job, Alex.
05:40Impressive form from Alex.
05:42Can Scott overcome his nerves, or will it be a whitewash?
05:45Let's join Dave Lanning for the second leg.
05:47Yes, occasionally.
05:47But I think on that occasion, he was blocked on his 60.
05:50So he'd got to try for the empty...
05:53140!
05:55Well, not blocked that time.
05:57140 scored.
05:58He's down at 118.
05:59After only 12 darts, he's down to a shot.
06:01And Charlie Alex really galloping along quite beautifully.
06:04Scott just cannot catch him.
06:07118.
06:08118.
06:09That's looking for 54.
06:12Is that a one?
06:13It is a 117.
06:15Looking down for the 57.
06:16Doesn't get it right on the wire.
06:18Back up top.
06:1835 scored.
06:19Treble 20 next door.
06:21Treble 5.
06:22Bad luck.
06:23226.
06:23Willie Scott.
06:2612.
06:27He's got two of them.
06:28140!
06:29And just missed the third.
06:32So he's back in within striking distance.
06:3583 going.
06:3683.
06:3751 is his shot.
06:38He gets it.
06:39He now wants two 16s.
06:41That's just inside the wire.
06:43Two 8s he wants.
06:45And he's missed.
06:45Ever scored.
06:46Half-hide starting.
06:48Willie now requires 86.
06:50So Willie Scott in with a chance.
06:5286.
06:52He wants 54.
06:54He's missed it.
06:54He's got it this time.
06:55He wants two 16s.
06:57And just missed it.
06:58Oh, tremendous finishing power.
07:022 8s for Charlie Ellix to wrap up this prelim round.
07:062 8s he wants.
07:092 4s just inside the wire.
07:122 2s.
07:135 o'clock on the board.
07:1512 scored.
07:16Half-hide.
07:17Hasn't done it.
07:18It only requires 32.
07:2032.
07:212 16s for Willie Scott then.
07:232 8s now.
07:25No.
07:252 4s up there.
07:262 o'clock on the board.
07:2728 score.
07:28Please, Mr.
07:29Now, surprise registers on the indoor league.
07:332 2s apiece and Charlie Ellix has the hockey.
07:362 1s.
07:40Well, they did knock around a bit on the double, but Charlie Ellix goes through.
07:45So, Ellix wins through to the quarterfinals.
07:48Now it's time for ladies' darts.
07:50Perhaps the main difference between men and women, throwing darts, that is, is that the females
07:54do tend to have trouble finishing.
07:56Take the lovely Maureen Flowers.
07:57And who wouldn't?
07:58She needs just 70 to clinch her first-round game against Cathy Wardle of Cleveland.
08:035.
08:0345 this, but still...
08:05Maureen requires 102.
08:06...those magic tons.
08:07102, 60, 10, double, 16.
08:10There's the 60.
08:11She would now...
08:11Now she'd come over for 10.
08:13She's got it.
08:14She wants 2 16s.
08:15Shimmeries across.
08:16Shimmeries across.
08:16Down there.
08:18Oh, what lucky.
08:19Good try, though.
08:21Knows her shots, this girl.
08:22And Cathy Wardle looking for a fairy godmother.
08:26Now, 2-2, 1 she wants.
08:30Barry Tromlow very quickly.
08:31It's not often you see a lady...
08:3383, unlucky, Cap.
08:35...who knows her shots like Barbara Maureen Flowers.
08:37No, it was 32.
08:39Well, she wants 2 16s to wrap up this qualifying round.
08:44Bang.
08:44Right on the wire.
08:47Bang.
08:47Another one on the wire.
08:48Third dart coming.
08:49Deathly hush.
08:50Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
08:52Goes in the 7.
08:5425 left.
08:56So Cathy Wardle breathes again, lives again.
09:00138 she's looking for.
09:0260, 54, 212.
09:0360, 42, 218s.
09:06We wonder if Cathy has heard.
09:08138.
09:09So she's looking for that 60 for a start.
09:11Gets 20.
09:11118.
09:1360 would still be useful.
09:14Stays where she is.
09:15Gets a single 20.
09:16Stay there, girl.
09:1745 scored.
09:1945, so now we have...
09:20Green now requires 25.
09:2225.
09:23Well, she'll come over.
09:25That's a 2.
09:2623.
09:27That's a 3.
09:28She wants two 10s over there.
09:294 o'clock.
09:30And goes...
09:3017 scored.
09:31Unlucky.
09:32Sorry, Ron.
09:33In the wrong bed again.
09:3493.
09:3493.
09:3493.
09:3493.
09:3493.
09:3493.
09:3493.
09:34So 93 is a shot here.
09:4157, 218s is the shot.
09:43She has got 19.
09:4474.
09:44She wants...
09:45She goes across.
09:46She wants 60.
09:46She's looking for a single 20 this time.
09:48Gets it.
09:4853 scored.
09:50And Mourinho required 8.
09:522-4s now for Maureen.
09:53A little bit uncomfortable on her doubles.
09:57She's come down well, but just lacks that killer touch.
10:00And we wonder if it's going to pay.
10:034 scored.
10:03Only gets 4.
10:05So Cathy now is back from the dead.
10:07Double top.
10:08She wants to level this one.
10:10After Maureen Flowers has made all the winning.
10:11Double top.
10:12Composes herself.
10:13Gets a single.
10:142 10s.
10:144 o'clock.
10:19Great tension again.
10:20Misses it.
10:22So, Maureen.
10:23Well, 2 2s.
10:26Cannot afford to miss again.
10:28One rather suspects.
10:31Game shot.
10:31Unlucky to Maureen Flowers.
10:33That final double, too, means Flowers lifts to bloom again in the quarterfinals.
10:39But she isn't the only one to have trouble finishing.
10:41Now we join Sweden's Eva Johansson and Loveday King, our first ladies champion in the third
10:46and deciding leg.
10:48Ding dong.
10:48Backwards and forwards.
10:49Now Eva Johansson looking for a 9 to rip.
10:53Too many.
10:53And has ripped it.
10:55Looking for a 5 or a 1.
10:572 2s again for Loveday King.
10:59We have double trouble.
11:00Too many hard lines.
11:04Very close, though.
11:06Crowd lovely, this one.
11:07Once again, you require 9.
11:08Terrific drama.
11:09Eva Johansson seems to be feeling it a bit.
11:12Looks a bit nervy.
11:12Looks a bit jumpy.
11:13Showing a bit.
11:14She wants a 5 or a 1 and gets a 20.
11:17And Loveday requires 4.
11:19Oh, still 2 2s for Loveday King.
11:232 1s.
11:24Close.
11:25Close.
11:27It's outside.
11:29Too many again.
11:30Next door again.
11:33Same order then.
11:34Eva requires 9.
11:359 then for Eva Johansson.
11:37That's the 1 she was looking for, the odd 1.
11:40She wants double 4 up there.
11:412 o'clock on the board.
11:43That is terribly close.
11:451 score.
11:46Well, getting a bit like a Hitchcock script.
11:502 2s for Loveday King's.
11:53That's a shot.
11:54Remember, this is a deciding leg.
11:55King!
11:56Yes.
11:57Loveday King.
11:58So King's still in with the chance of regaining her throne.
12:01She lost to another Swede, Greta Algren, a couple of years ago.
12:05Ironically, Loveday goes on to meet Maureen Flowers in the next round.
12:09We're taking a break, but back in a couple of takes with arm wrestling and bar billiards.
12:13I'll say they.
12:13Hey up.
12:31Over the last couple of weeks, we've seen two arm wrestling competitions.
12:34The right-handed, under 14 stones and the super heavyweight.
12:37Well, now it's the turn of the left-handers.
12:39Our first bout brings together Granville White of Wales and Northumberland's John Citroni.
12:44At 5 foot 5 inches, the shortest man in the competition, but it's strength and not height that counts.
12:49Ready?
12:50Go!
12:51So the cat-handed classmen take over.
12:53The left-handed arm wrestling.
12:55On the right there, we have John Citroni from Whitley Bay in Northumberland.
13:00On the right of Pitcher of Italian Parentage.
13:04He's the one on the right.
13:05And on the left, we have Granville White of Blackwood, South Wales.
13:08He is indeed the champion of the South Wales, Iles and Valleys, and a great dartsman as well.
13:15His first time in indoor league.
13:17And it looks like a disqualification, this time straight away for John Citroni.
13:22Citroni lifts his elbow, so he loses the first fall.
13:25Let's join Bob Sweeney for the second.
13:26Okay, take hold.
13:31Elbows in the square.
13:32Relaxed hold.
13:35Elbows down and well in the square.
13:38Ready?
13:40Go!
13:40So John Citroni from Whitley Bay, Northumberland, of Italian descent.
13:45Runs a fish and chip shop in Whitley Bay.
13:46One fall down on a disqualification.
13:49Only 5 foot 5, 48 inch chest, 18 inch biceps.
13:52Has been Mr. Junior of Great Britain, Mr. Great Britain, and Mr. Universe in the 5 foot 6 class.
13:57Four times, though.
13:58He's a real body, beautiful merchant.
14:00Opponent, Granville White, Blackwood, South Wales.
14:03Says he's never been beaten at the left-handed classmanship.
14:06When he's wrestled sometimes 18 a night, he says then he gets a bit tired.
14:10A sort of disarming experience.
14:15So it's getting very tight, this one.
14:17Citroni there on the left.
14:19White, one fall up on a disqualification.
14:23Citroni battling back, though.
14:26Train to the gym several nights a week.
14:29He's a judo expert, too, Citroni.
14:31Has four cars and two suns.
14:35Hero is Mohamed Ali.
14:36This is nice stuff now.
14:37Citroni beginning to apply pressure, and he's won the second fall.
14:42That surge of strength makes it all square.
14:44Can Citroni prove that good things come in little parcels?
14:47Ready?
14:48Go.
14:50Deciding for them.
14:51Citroni on the right.
14:52White on the left.
14:54This World Championship Series, remember, it's two-minute rounds, but in order to cut out any
14:59gamesmanship, referee Bob Sweeney can judge the winner if, indeed, it runs to the two minutes
15:04to cut out the negative tactics.
15:05This is quite a game of psychology, as well as sheer muscle power.
15:09So it's a good contest, this one.
15:11White on the left.
15:13Citroni now being able to get the upper hand and wrist and arm and shoulder.
15:20And it looks like White's going.
15:21He's never been beaten at left-handed arm wrestling in the hills and valleys, but he's out this time.
15:25Citroni goes through.
15:27Now we've Wales' Alan Jackson, all 20 stone of him, and Yorkshire's Don McIntosh at the rostrum.
15:34Just a reminder, it's the best of three falls, and if any wrestler lifts his elbow, referees
15:38Bob Sweeney and Frank Goddard will disqualify them.
15:41Ready?
15:42Go!
15:43It's Alan Jackson, newcomer on the left, against another newcomer.
15:46There's Jackson, his opponent, Don McIntosh of Sheffield.
15:49Next, Mr. Sheffield in the National Bodybuilding Championships.
15:53And the first of all this, straight away, Alan Jackson from Cushion, Granville.
15:56Auckland.
15:57Jackson makes it look easy, but can the Yorkshireman hit back?
16:03Ready?
16:04Go!
16:04Jackson on the right, then one fall-up.
16:07His opponent, Don McIntosh of Sheffield, National Odd Lifting Championship, and that doesn't
16:12mean he's been lifting bookmakers, it means odd weightlifting outside the normal Olympian
16:17categories, and now Jackson really getting on top, and Jackson's going to win it.
16:22Now we've a real mysterious bout.
16:24You'll have no difficulty recognising Lancashire's Stuart Jones.
16:27He's got more tattoos than Edinburgh Castle's seen, but his opponent is called the Liquidator,
16:32and even I don't know who he is.
16:35Go!
16:35And so, colour and mystery come to the Indoor League World Championship of Armed Wrestling
16:39with the Liquidator.
16:41That was in there, in the hood, and lost that first fall to Stuart Jones in next to no time.
16:47The wrestler looking all in.
16:49Can the Liquidator stage a solid comeback?
16:53Ready?
16:55Go!
16:55So, can Stuart Jones from Rochdale, the tattooed terror, liquidate the Liquidator.
17:00He's one fall-up.
17:01There's the Liquidator.
17:02We don't know who he is.
17:03We have colour, and he's going to go out in the first round, is he?
17:08Elbow is out of the square.
17:09Elbow is out of the square.
17:10And he's been disqualified.
17:12The referee, Bob Sweeney, has disqualified him.
17:14The Liquidator is not at all happy.
17:16So, Jones liquidates the Liquidator.
17:19Now, with an athlete versus an academic, Mike Winch, the British international short-footer,
17:24takes on Bob Spalick, British University's powerlifting champion, and a science tutor.
17:29Mike Lynch, Mike Winch on the left of picture against the man with the name right at the top
17:35of an optician's chart.
17:37That's Bob Spalick on the right who loses a fall straightaway.
17:40Mike Lynch wins the first fall.
17:42I think Winch will lynch Dave Lennon if he gets his name wrong again.
17:47Here's the second round.
17:48Take a relaxed hold.
17:50Take hold.
17:51Elbow in the square.
17:52In.
17:53Relax hold.
17:54Ready?
17:55Go!
17:56Bob Spalick there, on the left, goes straight out.
18:02Well, what happens?
18:04It didn't think it was a four for Spalick.
18:07It was Winch who lays his elbow.
18:10So, we gather breath and wonder what can happen next in the indoor league left-handed arm-wrestling
18:16championships.
18:171-1.
18:18Winch is too keen and his elbow lifts.
18:20Here's the decider.
18:22Right, this is the decider.
18:25Take hold.
18:26Steady hold.
18:27And elbows.
18:28Good.
18:29That's good.
18:30Just hold it there.
18:31Ready?
18:32Elbows down and go!
18:33Well, the first two fours lasted every bit of about two seconds each.
18:37And this one, oh, Guinness Book of Records arm-wrestling.
18:40Mike wins, wins it.
18:41And here comes Bob Spalick.
18:43And that contest must have lasted about ten seconds in total.
18:47So, in that case, the sword is mightier than the pen.
18:50Now it's time for bar billiards in the remaining three quarter-finals.
18:53Gerry Lambert is already through.
18:55But to join him in the second quarter-final, Tony Scully, the Oxford champion, meets Alan
18:59Ignatowski, a former Reading champion.
19:02Alan Ignatowski, 1,280.
19:04600 ahead before this break started.
19:07And the bar is down.
19:10And the bar has just gone down, so...
19:13190.
19:15He'll like that a bit of luck there.
19:18He can't quite make up his mind what they'd do, but I should have thought he'd have wanted
19:26to try to get as many as he possibly could to give him a chance on the last ball.
19:30200.
19:31But he seems quite happy to have looked around in this 45-second break.
19:37230.
19:38He can't afford to be studying because there's only 45 seconds, which he is doing.
19:49Take over.
19:50He'll have a shouting break, and there it is.
19:54In the 45-second break, you have no time for looking around, you have to play.
19:57Alan Ignatowski, 1,510.
19:59So...
20:01He slipped up a bit there, didn't there?
20:0230.
20:03Ignatowski, he should have kept playing.
20:04Forgot about that ball down the table.
20:0550.
20:06And this is the last ball, so he's going for the...
20:07Off the cushion, for the 200.
20:08And he gets this without knocking the black skittle down.
20:09He's won the game.
20:1010.
20:1110.
20:12So...
20:13He slipped up a bit there, didn't there?
20:1430.
20:1550.
20:16And this is the last ball, so he's going for the...
20:20Off the cushion, for the 200.
20:22And if he gets this without knocking the black skittle down, he's won the game.
20:28That's a bit too wide.
20:29And it is.
20:30Tony Scully, 1,940.
20:31Alan Ignatowski, 1,510.
20:32And there is Sporting.
20:33Alan Ignatowski put it in, knowing that he couldn't win if he did.
20:35Ignatowski pockets the last ball, but Scully goes through.
20:37Now it's the turn of the former England champion, Stan Pratt of Kent, and Berkshire's Charles Hastie.
20:42Is that Pratt of Chancer going in off into that bag there to get a double hundred?
20:47Yes.
20:48And he did.
20:49230.
20:50Go on, son.
20:51Go on, son.
20:52Go on, son.
20:53Go on, son.
20:54Go on, son.
20:55Go on, son.
20:56Go on, son.
20:57Go on, son.
20:58Go on, son.
20:59Go on, son.
21:00Go on, son.
21:01Go on, son.
21:02Go on, son.
21:03And of course, he got the white atbold.
21:06380.
21:08The balls back down.
21:11Go on, son.
21:12Go on, son.
21:13He's now starting to make it pay off.
21:18680.
21:19He really is a busy fella, Stan Pratt, when he gets on this table.
21:23830.
21:24He got the white back on the table again, before the ball got dropped there.
21:27And he's reaching already again.
21:29880.
21:31And is he going to get a 1,000 break?
21:35Is he going to get a 1,000 break?
21:36No, he's missed it.
21:37980 score.
21:38He won't be very pleased about that.
21:41Devastating player like that took Pratt into the semifinals.
21:44Can our only remaining female player,
21:46former ladies champion Vivian Shepherd,
21:48do women's labour favour and beat Brian Paul of Northamptonshire?
21:51Can't afford to leave this fella because he's there.
21:54200.
21:54No, it's all 200.
22:01230.
22:07300.
22:13370.
22:16The scorer's got a difficult job trying to keep up with these people at this pace.
22:20520.
22:21He's got to add up very quickly and write down three figures each time.
22:27670.
22:27Not an easy job.
22:31720.
22:37820.
22:38Break over.
22:39820 break.
22:40Brian Paul, 4,040.
22:42Vivian Shepherd, 2,120.
22:45Nearly 2,000 behind now,
22:47before this break started.
22:49200.
22:51And the bar is down.
22:52And the bar is down with Vivian 2,000 behind
22:56when this break started.
22:58300.
22:59So it doesn't give her a great deal of chance
23:01unless we see the black skittle knock down,
23:04which we have seen before.
23:05400.
23:11450.
23:16So she goes for the double
23:18off the cushion.
23:20And that will be nowhere near.
23:23Vivian Shepherd, 2,570.
23:29That's bang on target.
23:30Is it fast enough?
23:30It's just there.
23:32Lovely.
23:32And what a great penny.
23:34So Paul goes through to make it an all-male final.
23:37Next week, it's semi-final time,
23:39where the semi-finals of the under-14 stone,
23:42right-handed arm wrestling,
23:43and the left-handers.
23:44And we've darts, of course.
23:45That's all in Indoor League next week.
23:48I'll see thee.
23:48I'll see you next week.
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