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00:00The End
00:29Welcome to the last programme in the Indoor League World Championships.
00:33Today we pay homage to all the winners who've emerged during the past three months.
00:37Not just those competitors who captured titles, but also those who captured our hearts and our respect.
00:42A last look at the excitement, the drama, the thrills and spills these exponents of interior intrigue brought to the Dragonaro Hotel here in Leeds.
00:51So just sit back and marvel at the enviable expertise of the likes of bar billiards hustler Stan Pratt.
00:57He'd never come across our 45-second break limit, but he didn't let it worry him, not for one single second.
01:03We go for the final of the Indoor League Champions, bar billiards, and it's Stanley Pratt of Kent, who has gone to the table first.
01:16300.
01:17He's a pretty warm favourite to win this competition, and he has played very well indeed.
01:23450.
01:24He's pretty quick in his shooting.
01:28600.
01:29And pretty deadly as well.
01:34750.
01:35He's already got 750, I'm going for 900.
01:40900.
01:41I'm not messing about.
01:42If he gets this, he goes for the 1,000, and he's into it.
01:46And is it?
01:47There it is.
01:481,050.
01:481,050, and he's shooting again.
01:53Breakover.
01:53Stand Pratt was a newcomer to our cause, but arm wrestler Clive Myers had been before.
01:59He won the arm wrestling title two years ago, relinquished it last year, and returned determined
02:04to get it back, and he was pretty pleased when he did.
02:08Right.
02:09Take the hole.
02:10Last one.
02:11Relaxed hole.
02:11Hold the elbow there in the square.
02:15Just hold it there.
02:16Ready?
02:17Go!
02:17So the second ball, and Myers, once again, it's Graham in terrible trouble.
02:21Graham from Salford Langs, and he's lost.
02:24Myers really won that one with consummate ease.
02:28Tremendous win there.
02:30Clive Myers from London.
02:31He won it in 74.
02:32He's back as champion in 1976.
02:36Just over a couple of years ago, Mike Winch won a silver medal in the Commonwealth Games at
02:41the shot putt.
02:42He couldn't take part in last year's Olympics through injury, but he was determined to get
02:46a gold medal somewhere, somehow.
02:49He did in the left-handed arm wrestling.
02:51Take the hold now.
02:54Relaxed hold.
02:55Relax the hold.
02:57Keep the elbow well in the square.
02:59Hold it there.
03:01Ready?
03:02Go!
03:02Deciding fall.
03:05Winch has not lost a fall in this left-handed competition on Merritt.
03:10Each time he has been disqualified, he was disqualified.
03:13And in the last fall, Jackson's battling again.
03:16Winch applying every bit of power.
03:21Practices shot putting every day.
03:24Three hours at Crystal Palace Sports Centre.
03:26Married 5'11", weighs 16 and a half stone, 46 inch chest, 17 and a half inch biceps.
03:31His ambition is to stay alive, he says, and he's going to stay alive as the winner of this
03:37left-handed section of Indoor League World Championships and Arm Wrestling.
03:41Mike Winch, Olympic standard shot putter, wins the left-handed section of this title chase.
03:47Last year's left-handers tourney was won by the awesome Bill Richardson.
03:52This year, he took part in the right-handed super-everweights for a change.
03:56But he got to grips just the same, even though he was the lightest in the competition.
04:00There's no doubt he's the king of the knotted knucklers.
04:03Relaxed hold.
04:05In the square.
04:07Ready?
04:08Go!
04:08So, Big Bill Richardson there on the left of our picture, just one fall away from a gold
04:13medal in the right-handed section to accompany the one he won in the left-handed section last
04:17year.
04:17He leads this final one fall against his opponent, Don Buster Whitney of Dartford Kent, a great
04:24competitor, aggressive character, nice guy, and the big power of Richardson.
04:30He has got the power.
04:32He's turning it on.
04:33The power really being turned up, Whitney's waffling manfully.
04:38What a big-hearted guy this is.
04:41Tremendous stuff in this second fall.
04:45In-law league really jumping with excitement as Whitney fights back.
04:52I think he's going this time.
04:54The power and the glory is it going to be to Richardson.
04:58It's so close.
04:59Big Bill's biceps bulging magnificently in the foreground.
05:05Poor old Don Whitney hanging off at the rim there.
05:09And it's so close.
05:11It must be a fall.
05:13Referee Bob Sweeney really getting close to the action.
05:16What a climax to this super-heavy tournament.
05:20His hand almost down.
05:21Surely no man can recover from this one.
05:26Whitney shakes his head.
05:28He still just fractures off that green base.
05:31Remember, it's a two-minute round.
05:33And if the round goes, referee Sweeney can still educate on aggression points.
05:39And now, go back upright.
05:42While Whitney did a cold hit there, okay.
05:45Whitney really escapes from tremendous pressure.
05:49And here goes Richardson again.
05:52Oh, a tremendous battle.
05:53What a great final this has been.
05:55Again, Whitney is in terrible trouble.
05:57Again, he holds on.
05:59I've got to keep going, lads.
06:07Whitney is refusing to buckle under her.
06:11And there it is.
06:14After the most fantastic piece of muscular power,
06:18Big Bill Richardson wins the right-handed super-heavy title.
06:23A gold medal on the right-hand to accompany the one he won for the left-handed title.
06:28Last year.
06:29One of the biggest men in Britain and a super-armed wrestler.
06:33From an Adonis to a Venus.
06:35Blonde Maureen Flowers didn't win the Ladies' Darts Championship,
06:39but she did win the hearts and respect of everyone here.
06:42At last, the myth that Ladies' Darts isn't a lady-like game was exposed.
06:46And no doubt we'll see a lot more of her because she's a fine player, too.
06:50Loveday King to start.
06:52So it's Mrs. Loveday King from Cornwall
06:55who starts this third and decisive play.
06:57Getting 63.
06:59Match on, please. Come along.
07:01Maureen Flowers.
07:02This lady hits these 20s.
07:05Absolutely beautiful regularity.
07:08Poetry in motion.
07:0960.
07:1060 scored.
07:13Loveday King.
07:1921.
07:2021.
07:20Very steady lady, though, Mrs. King.
07:24Doesn't get ruffled, doesn't get flat.
07:27Another 20.
07:28She's Maureen Flowers.
07:3260.
07:32Another 60.
07:35My word, she plays and throws like a man.
07:37She's ice cool.
07:38She knows her shots.
07:41Maybe
07:42one floor, perhaps.
07:44Just a little bit shaky when getting near those magic doubles.
07:47But
07:47what a beautiful player
07:49in every sense of the word.
07:52That's 60.
07:53100.
07:58It's a turn there.
07:59Very near 140.
08:01Doesn't miss these 20s.
08:0260, 60, 100.
08:04Loveday King struggling, but by no means...
08:07Oh, there's another one on the deck.
08:0923.
08:09By no means finished.
08:11Loveday's not getting much luck with the wire this time.
08:12That's two that's bounced out.
08:14Maureen Flowers.
08:15Hasn't missed 20 yet.
08:17That's treble five.
08:19That's a single five.
08:2221.
08:23Only
08:2421.
08:26Well, that's her lowest score in a long while.
08:27And the first time she's missed 20 that I can recall in this game.
08:3241.
08:3341.
08:34Quick look at the scores there.
08:35You can see 260 required by Maureen Flowers against 312.
08:39And Maureen Flowers has the board to herself for three darts.
08:43And she's got 40.
08:4560.
08:45And she's got 60.
08:49She wants two-ton.
08:50And Loveday King needs 312.
08:52So, 112 behind.
08:54Taking off.
08:5526.
08:5626.
08:58Maureen now stretches away.
09:00She wants 200.
09:02There's 60.
09:05That looks like 120.
09:07140.
09:08That's 140.
09:09And she really is.
09:12Just different class.
09:13Different class.
09:14She wants 60.
09:15Loveday King.
09:16A super little player.
09:17Doesn't really know what's hit with this leg.
09:19Let's just watch Maureen's one floor.
09:21Seems to be this double shot out.
09:24That's 20.
09:25She wants double top.
09:26Game time.
09:27That is it.
09:31That is it.
09:31That is a superlip.
09:3336, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 darts.
09:38Another dainty damsel, reigning champion Gene Dickinson, became the first ever indoor league winner to retain a title.
09:44Leighton Reese, the men's darts champion two years back, regained his title.
09:49Find out how in part two in just a couple of takes.
09:52I'll see the...
09:53Last year, Gene Dickinson became the first ladies darts player to achieve the coveted double.
10:18The National Ladies' Championship plus the Ladies' Championship of Indoor League.
10:22This year, she managed against all odds to retain the league title.
10:26She was cool and accurate, especially under pressure.
10:2920.
10:29So she'll go upstairs, she wants now 83, come down for a 51.
10:36She's got a 57, is it?
10:37Yeah, 58 score.
10:3926.
10:40And that leaves 26, two 13ths.
10:44Two 13ths, two 13ths.
10:48So over there at 2 o'clock on the board.
10:50And she's got shot out.
10:52Wow.
10:53A typical piece of darts ad-libbing.
10:55But Gene was also the most consistent when it came to notching up big scores.
11:00Certain aspects of her game fluctuated from round to round.
11:03But when it came to the big one, she illustrated why she turned professional.
11:07Loose leg.
11:07Match on.
11:09Truly great darts in the 76-77 series.
11:12Ladies' Indoor League.
11:14And this is the climax of them.
11:16The final between Margaret Lally scoring 45 and the reigning champion, Gene Dickinson.
11:21Straight into the groove with 60.
11:23And it's an...
11:24100.
11:25Interesting points with a ton per first row.
11:28No reigning champion on Indoor League has yet retained the title at darts.
11:36So Gene looking for her second title, 150 quid, and a little slice of darting history.
11:46100.
11:47Another ton.
11:48She really is playing superlatively well.
11:50Barry Tromlow, really, this lady is going terrific guns, isn't she, Gene?
11:53Yes, she's been...
11:54In fact, she's got more consistent as the game goes on.
11:57100.
12:00Also very consistent.
12:02I mean, but you've played in big-time finals, Barry.
12:05Do the nerves get worse as you get towards the end of the game, or do you, in fact, get into the groove once you've played a couple of matches and have a couple of wins under your belt?
12:12Yes, well, I think because these two are, they've got into the groove now.
12:16I think the situation's not bothering them.
12:1981.
12:19So the whirlwind, Margaret Lally, from Lee.
12:23Banging them home.
12:24230.
12:25She needs Gene Dickinson.
12:26Once, 2, 4, 6, less these.
12:28501, of course, subtract these scores.
12:3160.
12:3260.
12:32Well, Gene Dickinson does it all in hundreds and 60s.
12:35It's quite easy to subtract them as well.
12:371, 8, 6, she needs.
12:38Margaret Lally needs 230.
12:4060.
12:41Really and truly, the lady successful of this dynamic duo can claim to be the best in the world, because these truly are outstanding Maid Marians of March.
12:53140.
12:57Truly superb.
12:59Margaret Lally, who's swept all before her, just overwhelmed at the moment.
13:0446.
13:0618 darts so far, she wants 46.
13:09That is 10.
13:10She wants two 18s.
13:12She's bucked it up.
13:13She's got a 1.
13:13Needs an odd one downstairs somewhere.
13:1614 scored.
13:1714 scored.
13:18So now Margaret Lally, although Gene Dickinson has really come hurtling down, wants 110.
13:23She wants the ball.
13:24She's got 60.
13:25She's 110.
13:26She wanted.
13:27She has 60.
13:28She wants 50.
13:29Will she go for it?
13:30No.
13:30She went for 18 and two 16s and missed it.
13:3478 scored.
13:35That last one in agony.
13:3732.
13:38So Gene Dickinson wants two 12s, two 6s over the 3 o'clock, and she's missed.
13:48So Margaret Lally with colossal support from Lancashire, just across the county border.
13:52She wants two 16s for this first leg.
13:54That's a single.
13:55She wants two 8s, and she's missed that.
13:5616 scored.
13:58Gene now requires 12.
14:00Two 6s.
14:013 o'clock on the board.
14:02Game on top.
14:02Game on top.
14:03Game on top.
14:03Game on top.
14:03Game on top.
14:04Game on top.
14:04Game on top.
14:04Game on top.
14:05Game on top.
14:05The Indoor League men's darts title is a prestigious one.
14:08That's why we only invite the best.
14:10Everyone who took part in this series was a champion.
14:13Everyone an international.
14:14Everyone with more cups and trophies than Liverpool and Leeds players put together.
14:18The skills and arrows were of outrageous proportions.
14:21Just look how former News of the World champion Peter Chapman came back from the dead.
14:25That is 160.
14:30He wants another one.
14:31That is the second one.
14:32He wants double top.
14:34Yes!
14:39We've had our fair share of spectacular finishes like that before, but Charlie Elex achieved the
14:44distinction of becoming the first to get out on Shanghai on the 20s.
14:48It was a crucial game, too.
14:50He's got the treble.
14:53He's got the single.
14:54Can he get out?
14:56Can he get out on double top?
14:57This is a dart.
14:58Yeah!
15:00Great finish.
15:02Undoubtedly, the unluckiest player in the competition was England international Cliff Lazarenko.
15:07He was in brilliant form in the quarterfinals, but alas for him, so was Leighton Rees.
15:11First leg, Leighton Rees to start.
15:14Last quarterfinal of the Indoor League World Championship.
15:18Leighton Rees on the hockey and straight into the big scoring groove.
15:23Ninety-five.
15:25Ninety-five.
15:25Ninety-five.
15:26His opponent, another big bulky lad, Cliff Lazarenko from Hampshire in his first indoor
15:33league, but very impressive winner over Brian Vaux in the preliminary round.
15:38One hundred and forty.
15:39One hundred and forty.
15:40One hundred and forty.
15:41He starts.
15:42So he obviously isn't overawed by the presence of this Mr. Darts.
15:45Leighton Rees.
15:46Gets sixty.
15:47There's another one.
15:49Can he get three?
15:50One hundred and twenty-three.
15:51Very close.
15:52One hundred and twenty-three.
15:53One hundred and twenty-three.
15:54It was in the treble one instead of the treble twenty.
15:57It's still pretty spectacular, though.
15:59Lazarenko.
16:00Bang.
16:01Sixty.
16:02Now we are really going to town on indoor league.
16:04There's two more.
16:05There's two more.
16:06One hundred and forty.
16:08One hundred and forty.
16:10He leads.
16:11He leads.
16:12Lazarenko leads.
16:13Two, two, one, two, eight, three.
16:15Leighton Rees at sixty.
16:16Is getting thrashed to death.
16:21One hundred and forty.
16:23One hundred and forty.
16:24Great starts.
16:26Lazarenko.
16:27And he scored a hundred and forty in his first two throws.
16:30So that's two hundred and eighty and six starts.
16:33That's another sixty.
16:34It's going to be a ton, I think.
16:35One hundred and forty.
16:37Another hundred and forty.
16:39Leighton Rees wants a hundred and forty-three.
16:43This is Supersonic.
16:45Is that sixty?
16:46No, it's twenty.
16:47He wants a hundred and twenty-three.
16:48He's got eighty there.
16:50He wants an odd one.
16:52Ninety-seven scored.
16:55Ninety-seven scored.
16:56Ninety-seven scored.
16:58Cliff requires eighty-one.
16:59Fifty-one.
17:00Well, forty-five.
17:01Two eighteen's.
17:02Fifty-seven two twelves.
17:03He's gone across.
17:04He's got a two.
17:05He now wants seventy-nine.
17:07Can't see what that scores in the tournament, is it?
17:10Leighton now requires forty-six.
17:12Forty-six then.
17:13After only twelve darts.
17:15That's ten.
17:16Two eighteen's.
17:17He wants.
17:18There it is.
17:19Fourteen darts.
17:20Fourteen darts.
17:21Fourteen darts.
17:22It's unbelievable.
17:23You wouldn't think they both could put it together in the second leg, but they did.
17:30So, Lazarenko comes back onto the hockey, and he must be wondering what he has got to
17:35do to win.
17:36Played superbly well, but Leighton Rhys played just that bit better.
17:40Fabulous first leg.
17:4185.
17:42And Lazarenko straight into the groove with 85.
17:43Rees, what can we say about him?
17:44Well, hasn't won the News of the World title, but that is about the only one that has eluded
17:48him.
17:49Former title holder here.
17:50One hundred and forty!
17:51One hundred and forty!
17:52One hundred and forty!
17:53One hundred and forty!
17:54One hundred and forty!
17:55One hundred and forty!
17:56Leighton, Barry Tromlow.
17:57Leighton in this mood really is quite unbeatable, isn't he?
17:59He really is.
18:00That was a most fantastic game.
18:01Breathtaking.
18:02Nasarenko.
18:03One hundred and forty!
18:04By no means overall, gets won't he?
18:05Rees.
18:06One hundred and forty!
18:08One hundred and forty!
18:09One hundred and forty!
18:10One hundred and forty!
18:25Absolute artist way!
18:26One hundred and forty!
18:27Thank you!
18:28Now, Kevin, with the construction, it is good for yourself.
18:30This is Lazarenko, and Lazarenko hasn't played at all badly, but he's still a long way back.
18:41100.
18:43Scores a ton, but Cliff Lazarenko must be thinking running into this man is like running into a bus.
18:50Leighton Reese.
18:5240 scored.
18:5460.
18:5560.
18:56Good darts by normal pub and club standard, but Leighton Reese registers just a mild disappointment there.
19:02So Cliff Lazarenko, 2-1-6 he needs.
19:06Still battling.
19:07What a gallant fight he's made.
19:08100.
19:09Gets another turn.
19:10161 going for Leighton Reese.
19:1260.
19:1351 ball.
19:14There's a shot here.
19:15There's the 60.
19:16He'll come down looking for 51.
19:18He's got it.
19:19He wants the ball.
19:19What a finish this could be.
19:21And it's dismissed.
19:22117.
19:23Wow.
19:23That would have been in 12 darts, and he only just missed it.
19:29116 going there for Lazarenko.
19:31Has he got 16 now?
19:34It's a single.
19:35And that one's...
19:36He wants two 18s.
19:38He's got 80.
19:39He wants two 18s for a shot.
19:40I did.
19:40Dismissed it.
19:44Well, superlatives have run dry.
19:48This really is unbelievable darts.
19:5044 for Leighton Reese.
19:51I think he'll go down for eight.
19:55He wants two 18s.
19:56And he's got...
19:57When do we see darts like this?
20:02Leighton Reese in absolutely tearless mood.
20:06Fantastic darts there.
20:15Indoor league is on its feet saluting a truly great player.
20:21Leighton Reese, the winner, and the lad who must be just about the unluckiest loser of all time in darts,
20:27Cliff Lazarenko, who played quite hitterly right through eight and lost 2-0.
20:32What a game of hours.
20:34Well, after that performance by Reese, no one could say he didn't deserve to reach the final.
20:40It was the best of five legs, and in the end, it was the experience of Reese that did it.
20:45But we now must win this leg and the next one to stay in with a shout at the indoor league title with its 150-pound first prize.
20:5460.
20:55Starts with 60.
20:57Leighton Reese.
20:59One thinks it's going to take something very special to stop him now, Barry Tromlo.
21:03Oh, yes.
21:03Leighton has had a terrific start there, winning that first leg.
21:08100.
21:10Starts with a ton.
21:12Alex, back to the wall.
21:14Game little fighter, though.
21:14He won't give up.
21:16Why, they quite a struggle.
21:18It's just into the five.
21:20It looks like.
21:2085.
21:2185 score and deal at once.
21:24Now, just even in the tension of the final, Dave, their arm action exactly the same.
21:28Beautiful.
21:29I see Leighton sweating a bit, but he's a big lad and prone to sweat under the lights of television.
21:33Barry.
21:3460.
21:3460.
21:34One last season.
21:37Only 60, so Alex has the opportunity to grab the lead here.
21:42Remember, it's a straight start.
21:445-0-1.
21:45Must finish on a double.
21:4660.
21:4760 score.
21:48Good, Charlie.
21:492-9-6.
21:51And Alex, 3-4-1, Reese.
21:53But he's got the darts.
21:54That familiar first dart in the large part of the 20s.
21:57Leaving room in the trebles, just like that.
21:59140.
22:01140.
22:03Reese rampant.
22:05Charlie's got it all to do now, Dave.
22:09And he's trying very, very hard.
22:11100.
22:12Responds with a ton.
22:15196 he wants.
22:16Reese wants 201.
22:18And another magic.
22:20Treble 20.
22:21And another one.
22:22I think he's going to go downstairs.
22:24135.
22:24So calculated.
22:28135 score.
22:2966 he wants.
22:31Alex wants 196.
22:33Plugging along gamely.
22:34Like hanging on to a hurricane, though, with Reese's in this sort of form.
22:3966.
22:4066.
22:41So three tens, double 18, perhaps he'll go for.
22:44Yes, he does.
22:45Two 18s to wrap it up.
22:47Two nines.
22:51Yes!
22:53Nathan Reese has done it.
22:55Three nil in the final.
22:56Reese, so often the bridesmaid in the big tournaments, has got the indoor league title for 60.
23:0376 and 77.
23:06A prestigious win and a very, very worthy one from Leighton Reese from the Rhonda Valley.
23:12Mr. Dart has done it here at indoor league.
23:17Brilliant stuff.
23:18Isn't it amazing when one looks back to when we first started five years ago?
23:22Leighton Reese then was just a name known to a few in big-time dart circles.
23:26Now he's a household name practically throughout the world,
23:29earning more money than some of our first division footballers.
23:32Makes me think I wish I'd been niftier with a dart than a cricket ball when I was no but a lad.
23:37We introduced arm wrestling as a bit of a novelty.
23:39Nowadays, if you can't make up your mind of who's round it is, you can always bend your elbow.
23:44Bar billiards?
23:45Well, many of the pubs I go to use our 45-second break limit rule.
23:49Can't be bad being a bit of an institution.
23:51Anyway, as I say, that's all from this series of indoor league.
23:55Whatever your game is, abide by the rules, but always play to win.
23:59I'll say they.
24:00I'll say they.
24:00I'll say they.
24:00I'll say they.
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