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00:30Now then, and welcome to semi-final time in the Indoor League World Championships.
00:35With the semi-finals of the Bar Billets competition and the semi-finals of two of our three arm wrestling contests,
00:41we're going to start with another first round of men's dart match.
00:44It features England international Ken Brown and Sweden's top flighter Stefan Lord.
00:49Good way in front. He's a ton up already. And these.
00:54100.
00:55As far as a ton young Stefan is. Going nicely.
00:59180 he wants.
01:00Barry Tromlow, Ken Brown is a really calculating player, isn't he?
01:03Let's just watch him. Let's talk him through this throw.
01:05He really does get it down to a fine art.
01:08Yes.
01:09Ken really enjoys this game too.
01:11And he studies. I think he's studied this stunt.
01:13From his injury, of course, he had difficulty with this stunt.
01:16But now his body is...
01:17140.
01:18140.
01:20Well, beautiful darts there. 140.
01:22Stefan Lord, though, is still a long way in front. He wants 180.
01:26And he is playing well, this youngster.
01:29100.
01:30Scores a ton. He wants 80.
01:31So that's Stefan down to a really good shot out in just 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 darts.
01:38Ken Brown struggling despite some good throws. 140 last time.
01:4341.
01:5141.
01:5141. Well, 80.
01:53Steffan requires 80.
01:53Going for Steffan Lord.
01:55All the 16s, treble and double.
01:57But he's gone for tops.
01:59He has got two of them when he wants double top.
02:0140 score.
02:02Very, very quick indeed.
02:03Well, there are lots of ways, of course, of going for 80.
02:06Many British players prefer the treble, double 16.
02:11Steffan going for 20s.
02:15Ken Brown, such bad luck there.
02:19Hammered the wire of the treble.
02:2220.
02:23Bounced out.
02:2580.
02:26Still recovers beautifully.
02:2884.
02:28Steffan requires 40.
02:30But Steffan Lord now leads double top for this first.
02:32AIM and plus length to Steffan Lord.
02:33So, Steffan takes the first leg in comfort.
02:37Now, Ken Brown's at the hockey.
02:4033.
02:4133.
02:42Well, there's lots of ways of going for this.
02:46Which way will he go?
02:47For the 60 or for the 57?
02:54That is 60.
02:55He now wants 57 two-eighths.
02:59Has he got it?
03:00He's got 79 scored.
03:0293 scored.
03:05He's got 93 left himself.
03:06Tops knew exactly what he was going for.
03:09Double tops he wants.
03:10Steffan Lord wants 2-5-1.
03:12So...
03:1260.
03:15Ken has got a little bit of breathing space.
03:1740.
03:18Wants 40.
03:24Double top for Ken Brown can level this one up.
03:27Two tens.
03:28Four o'clock on the board.
03:29Got a single 20 there.
03:3020 score.
03:35Very close.
03:37Steffan Lord, then.
03:40191 he needs.
03:41No shot out, of course, with three darts for this first.
03:45The big score would be useful to his calls, and he's going to get a pretty big one.
03:4885.
03:50Scores 85.
03:51So Ken Brown really cannot afford to waste much more time on his double shot out.
03:57He wants two tens now, and Steffan wants 106.
04:00So that's dangerous.
04:01He's breathing down his neck.
04:02Two tens for Ken Brown.
04:03Game on second round for Ken Brown.
04:11Couldn't play around any longer.
04:15One apiece, all to play for, then, as we join Ken Brown at the hockey.
04:19On 340.
04:20Ken Brown looking for a big score now.
04:22He's on 398, so a big ton now would nose him into the lead.
04:28Noticing, Barry, there that Ken seems to be wearing a sweatband on his throwing arm.
04:31Is this a new trend in darts?
04:33Yes, I think it is rather.
04:34I suppose it's due to the weather we've had these last two summers, too.
04:42100.
04:43Well, Ken gets a ton there with no sweat at all.
04:48This is Steffan Lord.
04:5160.
04:52That's 60.
04:53Still very even, this horse.
04:56280 for Steffan Lord.
04:57He requires.
04:58Ken Brown wants 298.
05:00Just see the chalk in the background there.
05:02298.
05:03But he has the board to himself for three darts.
05:06What can bearded Ken Brown do about getting into the lead?
05:10Looks like he's going to.
05:1260.
05:13Beautiful.
05:13Deliberate 60.
05:14320s.
05:16So this is one that could go either way.
05:2160.
05:2560, 43, 160.
05:27Those are Ken Brown's darts in this decisive leg.
05:29And he is 18 adrift of Steffan Lord.
05:35Lesties.
05:4360.
05:45Well, that's pretty steady.
05:48Lord.
05:48100.
05:53That's a ton.
05:58So Ken Brown wants 178 now.
06:01So no three dart finish.
06:05Not finishing on a double, of course, which we need to.
06:08And it's a good point to remember that in the indoor league, the ball counts as double 25-8.
06:14Because these sort of players often do just that.
06:1724, unlucky Ken.
06:17Finish on the ball.
06:18Steffan requires 120.
06:20120.
06:21Then going for Steffan Lord.
06:22The classic Shanghai on 20s.
06:24It's unlucky.
06:25He's missed a treble.
06:26100 scored.
06:27Gets a ton.
06:27Needs two 10s.
06:28Ken Brown wants 154.
06:30So that's 60-54.
06:32Double top is his shot.
06:33Treble 18.
06:34Treble 20.
06:35Double 20.
06:36That would be his shot.
06:37And this Ken Brown, this man, is capable of doing just that.
06:40Let's see.
06:43Ah, not now.
06:44153.
06:44He'll need to come down for an odd one.
06:47We feel.
06:47No, he stays there.
06:48But he's got to get an odd one.
06:52118 scored.
06:52Well, he gets 118.
06:54Beautiful darts.
06:55What a pity that first dart went into one.
06:56Steffan, you require 20.
06:58So two 10s for Steffan Lord.
07:00Two fives.
07:01Top of the board.
07:01Game shot.
07:03Tremendous darts.
07:04Really.
07:05Sweden's Steffan Lord goes through to the quarterfinals.
07:08Now with the ladies' darts match.
07:09Between Derbysh's Brenda Simpson and Kynwen Potter from Wales.
07:13Each player has won a fairly poor leg.
07:15Here's the third.
07:23Brenda Simpson now is some 30 in the lead here.
07:25She wants two, one, seven, less these.
07:28So she is gradually putting the pressure on here.
07:32She wants one, five, seven.
07:33Kynwen Potter now on the line.
07:35Wants two, four, five.
07:3635.
07:37One on the deck.
07:38That's bad luck.
07:38157.
07:40It looks like there's some sort of question about that last score.
07:50A little bit of controversy.
07:54177, in fact, from the score as well.
07:58Yes, indeed.
08:04It's 177 that Brenda took too many.
08:07That's 57.
08:08120.
08:09She wants looking around for that treble 20.
08:12Good darts, though.
08:13Well, not often we get a scoring clangor and didn't seem to upset Brenda too much.
08:19210, Kynwen Potter.
08:21She needs a big score.
08:22105.
08:24105.
08:25That's the first time we've seen her all gone.
08:27One over two.
08:2896 going.
08:29Well, she'll go for 60.
08:31She has 76.
08:33She'll stay there.
08:34She wants 56.
08:34She'll look for a 16, perhaps.
08:3560 score.
08:3660 score.
08:37Kynwen requires 105.
08:39105 going.
08:41So over four.
08:4245.
08:43No, she hasn't.
08:44She's gone down for 19s.
08:4543 score.
08:47And she's gone a little around.
08:48Brenda now requires 36.
08:5036 for Brenda Simpson.
08:51Two 18s for this match.
08:53Third leg.
08:54Remember, decisive one.
08:56In fact, thank you.
08:57So, Brenda Simpson overcomes her nerves and reaches the next round.
09:03Now it's time the first of our semi-finals in the bar billiards competition.
09:08At the table is Gerry Lambert and the Oxford champ, Tony Scully.
09:11We join it with just over 400 in it.
09:15170 scored.
09:18Tony Scully, 2,700.
09:22So.
09:2430.
09:26Gerry Lambert.
09:263,240.
09:28Gerry Lambert playing for the first time ever in indoor league.
09:3140.
09:32As is Tony Scully.
09:37Could go through to the final.
09:41And it is something he wants to win.
09:44140.
09:50160.
09:51He's got the white.
09:53Enough with the red.
09:54Another 200 goes on.
09:57390.
09:57390.
10:02I bet Tony Scully was hoping that skittle went down there.
10:10Gerry Lambert, 3,630.
10:14Short.
10:15200.
10:17Tony Scully, 2,700.
10:20There's not going to be a lot in the way things are going because Scully has got the balls back down the bottom of the table where the big score holds are.
10:28And there it goes, another 150.
10:32It can be 1,000 in front to get the balls in the right position and these lads can cut it down in 45 seconds.
10:37I won't be very pleased with that.
10:43590.
10:46He tried to go in off with a wide, I think.
10:48No, he didn't.
10:50590 scored.
10:51Tony Scully, 3,290.
10:56Gerry Lambert, 3,630.
10:58He's cut it down from over 1,000 in front to nearly 1,000.
11:00Yes, 1,000 in front he was.
11:01He's cut it down to something like 300 now before this break started.
11:06And he's missed again.
11:07Gerry Lambert, 3,690.
11:10The bar's down.
11:12The bar is down.
11:133,290.
11:15The bar is down.
11:1860.
11:1960.
11:21So this could be close.
11:2490.
11:26Although the red's gone now.
11:29So the scores will just be single.
11:31120.
11:32They will not double up.
11:36180.
11:38The last thing he wants here, I suppose, is both balls down.
11:42200.
11:43He's got to go for the 200 mark.
11:48Off.
11:51In fact, if he gets this, I think we could have a tie on our hands.
11:55And now he's going to knock the black skittle down.
11:56And lost his whole complete score.
11:59What he's done is let Gerry Lambert 3,690 ahead.
12:07And it's a bit of a shot by Gerry Lambert.
12:11And he wins it easy in the finish.
12:13But if Tony Scully would have got that ball in, that last ball in, it would have been something like a tie, I think.
12:22So Gerry Lambert finishes the winner of a disappointing low-scoring game.
12:26In just a couple of minutes, we'll have the second semi-final featuring Stan Pratt and Brian Paul and four arm wrestling bouts.
12:33I'll say they.
12:34Hey up, and welcome to part two of the Indoor League.
12:53And time now for the second semi-final in bar billiards.
12:56At the table, former England champions Stan Pratt and Brian Paul of Northamptonshire.
13:01Both players made impressive starts.
13:03Oh!
13:04850 scored.
13:05Stan Pratt, 930.
13:08Brian Paul, 850.
13:1350.
13:18100.
13:19Just watch how quick he gets the balls out of this Stanley Pratt.
13:21150.
13:22Balls on the table before the other one goes down.
13:24Look, he's there again.
13:26He really does move when he's cracking on.
13:29250.
13:32300.
13:33And he just keeps dubbing it down there.
13:36350.
13:39400.
13:44450.
13:45I thought he might have taken the red line now, but he hasn't.
13:48500.
13:49Still hasn't taken the red because the red count's doubling.
13:52550.
13:53He seems quite happy to just keep it.
13:55Look at this.
13:55He's...
13:56650.
13:57650 break over.
14:02That last ball doesn't count.
14:04You see, the tie had to go out.
14:05650.
14:08So that's not bad.
14:08930 and 650.
14:10930.
14:1020.
14:14He's gone off like a firecracker, as this Stanley Pratt.
14:1970.
14:20A bit of luck there for Brian Paul.
14:23And he'll be the first to admit it.
14:25But he's got them back where he wants them.
14:27150.
14:28He's 1,000 on the board already.
14:32That's 1,150.
14:331,150.
14:351,150.
14:351,150 first time on the table.
14:371,300 already.
14:39450.
14:40So casual.
14:411,600.
14:47This really is a good game.
14:50You can't afford to take the time like he's doing now.
14:521,750.
14:531,750, you see.
14:55Stand flat, 1,580.
15:011,150.
15:04Brian Paul, 1,600.
15:0620 ahead was Brian Paul before this break started.
15:091,300.
15:09Stanley Pratt's got the bones down at the bottom of the table where he wants them.
15:14And he's so quick as this one is waiting for the red.
15:19And it's there again by the look of it.
15:21And it is.
15:21600.
15:28650.
15:29It's already 650.
15:31If that goes, it's 750.
15:32750.
15:35800.
15:38800.
15:39800.
15:39And you see, he's still had the bone.
15:41Stand flat, 2,380.
15:43Brian Paul, 1,600.
15:4550.
15:50Oh, he knocked the white skittle down.
15:52So what looked like being a good break, he lost all the break straight away.
15:58Come on, the champion.
15:59So there has a gap opened up now of nearly 800 to the gentleman on the table now, Stanley Pratt.
16:1030 scored.
16:10Stand flat, 2,410.
16:131,610.
16:131,610.
16:13Brian Paul, 1,600.
16:1760.
16:20And the bar's gone down.
16:22The bar has already gone down.
16:2560 scored.
16:271,660 to Brian Paul.
16:29Stand flat, 2,410.
16:31Stand flat, 2,410.
16:3230.
16:3230.
16:32The bar has already gone down.
16:47So this...
16:48makes the game very interesting now.
16:54Stand flat, 2,440.
16:5930.
17:00830 behind was the...
17:06...brown full when this break started.
17:12And all of these balls on the table.
17:1690.
17:18Here he goes for the double on the 200.
17:24And if he gets that, he makes his break.
17:26290.
17:27Just to the black skittle go.
17:28And Stanley Pratt runs out the winner into the year.
17:33Stand flat, 2,440.
17:37So Stanley Pratt meets Jerry Lambert in the final,
17:40which you'll be able to see next week.
17:41Now it's time for the arm wrestling semifinals.
17:44And first, the turn of the right-handed under-14 stoners.
17:47At the rostrum are Clive Myers, a former indoor league champion,
17:50and American Fred Carpen.
17:53So it's Clive Myers, the 1974 champion,
17:56the coloured man on the right of picture,
17:58against Fred Carpen from Pennsylvania, USA,
18:01and the little man from London.
18:04Professional wrestler.
18:05Myers wins that first fall, looking very, very powerful indeed.
18:08Myers makes it look ridiculously easy.
18:11Anyway, here's the second of the scheduled three rounds.
18:13Fred Carpen from Pennsylvania, USA.
18:15One fall down against Clive Myers.
18:20He's a keen powerlifter, won many championships,
18:22Maryland state champion, eastern states champion at arm wrestling.
18:25Currently working for the United States civil service in Harrogate,
18:29just up the road from Leeds and indoor league.
18:31But he's in terrible trouble against Clive Myers of London.
18:35Kid chocolate, professional wrestler.
18:36One fall up, and he has won the semi.
18:39So a 2-0 victory to Clive Myers.
18:41Who will he meet in the final?
18:43Will it be Joe Graham, or that real scream of a wrestler, Eamon Toll?
18:47Eamon Toll, representing here on the right of picture,
18:49against Joe Graham of Salford Blanks.
18:51That is Graham, arm wrestling in Lancashire.
18:54Very big, great training.
18:56And there is Toll's rebel yell.
18:58What a fabulous picture.
18:59Yay!
19:01But it hasn't worked.
19:03Graham is a cool customer.
19:04He's holding on.
19:05First of all, remember, it's two-minute rounds.
19:08Here's Toll again.
19:09Well, the pitchers tell the whole stories, really.
19:14Another roar, but it looks like Graham's going to take the first one,
19:18and he does.
19:19Despite the screams, Toll loses the first fall.
19:22Can he get the equaliser?
19:24Let's find out.
19:25Hold it there.
19:26Elbow in the sperm.
19:27Hold it there.
19:28Ready?
19:29Go!
19:29Joe Graham from Salford Blanks.
19:31He's been a bit of a surprise packet in this light heavyweight division,
19:34under 14 stones, remember.
19:36Supervisor at Salford University's floor center.
19:38There's Toll summoning it all, can you?
19:43But Graham is refusing to be pressured,
19:46or if he was choosing to be shouted down.
19:51And Graham begins to get on top.
19:54Graham, there he is.
19:57Tremendous effort.
19:58You could almost light a new time with the power they're generating.
20:01He's going to win it.
20:02It looks like amen to Amon, and it is a win for Joe Graham.
20:10He moves into the final and looks very impressive.
20:13Cool, calm, collects a silver medal at the very least.
20:17Joe Graham meets Clive Myers in the final.
20:20Now it's a turn of the left-handers to get a grip.
20:22Engaging clutch first are John Cetroni, all five feet, five inches of him,
20:27and 20-stone Alan Jackson makes the best of three falls.
20:31Ready?
20:32Go!
20:33The sizzling south falls in semi-final action.
20:35On the left, a considerable figure of Alan Jackson from Fish of Auckland there,
20:40the bald head, winning the first fall there with no trouble at all.
20:45So the chips are down for the fish and chip shop owner, Cetroni.
20:48Can he battered Jackson in the next round?
20:50In the hole, ready, go!
20:54So the strain relatively on John Cetroni of Whitley Bay.
20:57Keeps a fish and chip shop there of Italian parentage.
21:01Lost the first leg.
21:02It looks like he's had his chips this time.
21:05Alan Jackson does it.
21:07Well, two most impressive falls to Alan Jackson,
21:11a big newcomer to indoor league from Evenwood's Bishop Auckland.
21:14He looks very good among these cack-handed class merchants.
21:17Bravery isn't enough for the brute strength of Jackson.
21:21Who will they meet in the final?
21:22Tattooed Stuart Jones or British international shot-putter Mike Winch?
21:26Hold it there, steady.
21:27Ready?
21:29Go!
21:29So Mike Winch on Crescent London on the right-hand side,
21:32this tremendous athlete, British international shot-putter and discus thrower
21:36since 1973 faces Stuart Jones from Rochdale Action.
21:40That's him with the sweatband around his head,
21:42conqueror of the liquidator, the man of mystery
21:44in the first round of this left-handed arm wrestling championship.
21:47And he's in trouble against Winch.
21:51Winch won the silver medal for the shot-putter in the Commonwealth Games,
21:55which was in New Zealand, of course, in 1974,
21:58and he wins that first fall there.
22:00Winch wins the first in just 28 seconds.
22:03Will it be down and out for Jones?
22:05Here's the second.
22:06Hold it.
22:07Ready?
22:09Go!
22:09So Mike Winch, Commonwealth Games, silver medalist,
22:12one fall up, looks like he's going to get the second one.
22:15Would have been in the Olympics.
22:17Out of the square, so he's the winner of that round.
22:19Oh, and he's lost that one on G4.
22:22Winch once again loses a round under disqualification.
22:25He's supposed to bend the elbow, not the rules.
22:28Ready?
22:29Go!
22:30One fall in between.
22:31On the left, Stuart Jones of Rochdale with the headband,
22:34and Mike Winch at the Dark Recovery Fest,
22:37the Commonwealth Games, silver medalist.
22:39Naturally, a right-hander.
22:41Mike would have been in the right-handed side of this competition
22:44apart from a wrist injury.
22:45Kept him out of the Olympics in 76,
22:47but he's taken pretty well in the left-handed division
22:49of this arm-wrestling championship.
22:53Jones, the tattooed terror,
22:5520 tattoos on his arms and hands,
22:57and it looks like his wrist might be beating a tattoo on the vase.
23:01He's not establishing any kind of command here.
23:04It's all Mike Winch.
23:05He's got to keep his elbow in that square.
23:07He's been disqualified twice before in this competition
23:09for allowing it to just wander out.
23:12There's referee Bob Sweeney
23:13and associate referee Frank Gunnard
23:15making sure there are no infringements.
23:17What a super shot that is.
23:18Yes!
23:19Hold it.
23:20Keep going, keep going.
23:22One more.
23:22What a forearm combat.
23:25And it's Winch who's done it.
23:27Winch goes into the final.
23:28No mistake this time,
23:30and Winch will meet the awesome Alan Jacks in the final.
23:33Next week, the semifinals of the Super Heavies,
23:36plus the Barbelliards final and more darts.
23:38Until then, I'll see thee.
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