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00:30Now then, today the fellas take a back seat as the lasses take the stage for the final of the Indoor League Ladies' Darts competition.
00:44And what an international test of talent and temperament a promise is to be.
00:48In at the Quill are Greta Orgel of Sweden, Moody and Mean and Millie Bergeson of North Wales, cool and casual.
01:00One hundred!
01:08This is Greta Orgel showing us the form that took her to the final.
01:12Greta's from Ludvika in Sweden and she's her country's top female flighter, though she plays with her fellas most of the time.
01:18Greta's been playing for now on five years and in that time has collected more cups than the Ming Dynasty.
01:23She's a slow starter, but look out for her finishing power.
01:27Come out there with a card.
01:33Game's up!
01:36Game's up!
01:45Game's up!
01:47Millie Bergeson is the complete opposite to Greta.
01:50Nothing seems to flummox her.
01:51She scores tons with regular monotony and she's deadly on the double out.
01:56She's from Flintshire and was last year's runner-up in the National Ladies' Darts Championship.
02:00An interesting form note.
02:01Millie was beaten in that final by Barry Smith, who lost to Greta earlier in Indoor League.
02:09That promising climax between the Queen of the Quills we'll see later.
02:13But first, a look at the bards of the bar billiards.
02:15Remember, snook away bunkers.
02:17Score as many as you can in 45 seconds, but don't knock a skittle down or you're bust, as Pete Wells found out to his disgust.
02:27But Peter Wells is put cracking on.
02:31There, he doesn't mess it out, but I don't know what's...
02:33And he's lost everything.
02:34The blank skittle has gone over.
02:35Peter Wells, tons ahead, loses the lot, but he's still time to come back.
02:39Peter's 560, 1,100, Peter Wells 420, 110.
02:50But this summer, as he's shown already, Peter Wells has shown us already.
02:55If he gets that red weaving on these big scores, and he's crashing it, he's crashing them in.
03:00150, and the bar is now down.
03:02And the bar has just gone down.
03:05The bar...
03:06He didn't want that red down.
03:11230.
03:14He didn't want that red down.
03:16And he's belting the ball for some unknown reason.
03:18And he's lost everything for the second time in the game.
03:21More ace, less speed, and Wells still in deep water.
03:24He looks to be all over.
03:27The pressure's back on Peter's cause he wants it in.
03:29120.
03:29Oh, and the length and strength was dead right, but just slightly off the line.
03:39Now, Peter Wells doesn't want this in.
03:40He wants to put all the pressure.
03:43And he's knocked over the skittle for the third time.
03:45That's a hat-trick.
03:47Peter Wells, zero.
03:48One he doesn't want.
03:49John Peters, 1,120.
03:50Well, he's missed easy.
03:55But knowing Peter Wells, I think he'll just going to bang this in.
03:59And there he goes.
04:00No trouble at all.
04:01Very sporting.
04:03And Peter Wells, unfortunately, goes out.
04:05And John Peters of Surrey, who must have thought he had no chance of winning that game at all,
04:09goes through to our semi-finals.
04:12Sir Wells, our losing finalist last year, sportingly concedes the game with only himself to blame.
04:18Now, another interesting clash in the next quarter-final between Albert Ramsley and Cliff Dighton.
04:23There's only 30 points in it, so it's all on this ball.
04:28There's only 30 points in it.
04:30It's all on this ball.
04:31And over goes the blank skittles, so Ramsley wins anyway.
04:34What's the score?
04:38No, I'm wrong there.
04:39There's still a chance that if Ramsley knocks the black skittle over, puts Dighton back in the game as well.
04:48And they're both frightened to death.
04:56Ramsley must be favourite now, and that won't reach anywhere.
05:00Far too slow.
05:06That's the side I would have gone.
05:07Don't ask me why, but I would.
05:10And it's there now.
05:11And that's it.
05:13Now what happens here?
05:13Both players have lost their score.
05:15Even I got mixed up.
05:16Dighton knocks the skittle over, but Ramsley still had to pocket the ball to win.
05:21But he knocked it over as well.
05:22This is all for 150 quid.
05:25This is all for 150 quid, and the start of it anyway.
05:29And here's the tension.
05:29And he's got it.
05:34What a shot straight in.
05:35And Dighton goes through after making a draw.
05:39Ramsley balls a skittle over to cancel out Dighton's error.
05:43And Dighton eventually wins by pocketing the ball, just to prove it's never lost till it's won.
05:47Now our reigning champion, John Baker, is in action against Mike Abbott, and he's tons ahead.
05:52Already another 100 in the bag, you see.
05:57And he wanted both balls in again, so he could get back down to those big numbers on the bottom.
06:05But he's not there.
06:06140 scored.
06:08John Baker, 1,860.
06:10Cruising along with his steady 140 regs.
06:14Never been behind.
06:15There's no doubt about it.
06:22Young Abbott's got a big task on his hands now.
06:2780.
06:28But he's cracking on.
06:30Still trying.
06:35160.
06:37160 now.
06:44180.
06:45If he's got any chance to win this game at all, he's got to get the balls back down the table where the big scores are.
06:53It is 45 seconds that he's allowed.
06:58230.
06:58Break over.
06:59Rely on Baker, knocking over the black skittle.
07:01Mike Abbott, 770.
07:04If he comes to it.
07:0530.
07:06John Baker, 1,860.
07:13He's still going.
07:1440.
07:14110.
07:19110.
07:27170.
07:28This Baker just flooding on.
07:31No trouble at all.
07:32Just flooding on.
07:35210.
07:37The bar is now down.
07:37200 again already.
07:38And the bar has just gone down.
07:41210 scored.
07:43The bar has just gone down.
07:44John Baker, 2,070.
07:46Mike Abbott, 770.
07:48And there he is.
07:492,070 again.
07:5070.
07:51700.
07:51So anything that goes down now, doesn't come back.
07:57The bar's gone down.
07:5880.
08:00Not even money can save you on this once the bar's down.
08:06200.
08:07200.
08:07200 scored.
08:16Now the nearest ball will be brought back, you see.
08:19By the referee.
08:20970.
08:21John Baker.
08:22And what he's got to do here is try to get both balls down at once.
08:25And he's missed.
08:27He's got one down.
08:28Because he didn't want to play on the black skittle, you see.
08:32He tried to get both balls down at once.
08:34Now if the black skittle goes over, it could be all over.
08:36But what a beautiful shot by Baker, proving he's a worthy champion.
08:41So John Baker, looking every ninja champ, goes through to the semifinals.
08:44Now it's the turn of our first ever bar billiards kingpin.
08:48Taffy John of Pontefract, who's against youngster Rod Tarrant.
08:52And Taffy John's just looking at something.
08:54Don't know what it is.
08:57But he's picked up 100 bonus anyway.
09:04That's 200.
09:06200.
09:06I don't know whether the bar's gone down or not yet, but he's got to move.
09:12That's 300 he's picked up.
09:13300.
09:15He can...
09:15He's just got a chance of getting back into this game.
09:19Oh, dear.
09:20300 score.
09:20Nothing going right for him at all.
09:24Taffy John, 1,390.
09:27Rothschild at 2,110.
09:3050.
09:31Just about 700 in it.
09:33And if the bar's gone down, as I think it has,
09:36Taffy John could go out in the first round of the family.
09:4150 score.
09:42Oh, did you see that, eh?
09:45Just a little bit of nothing.
09:46Roth Tarrant, 2,160.
09:47Taffy John, 1,390.
09:5030.
09:51Yeah.
09:51The last thing Taffy John here wants here is the red down.
10:01He wanted the white down, but he didn't want the red down.
10:0430 score.
10:04And, of course, young Tarrant wants rid of his bowl as quick as possible now to put him through
10:09to the semi-final.
10:1020.
10:11And he's got rid of the red, so that's the only chance of making double scores.
10:15Roth Tarrant, 2,110.
10:15And we're on the last bowl anyway, so it could all be on the black skittle now.
10:20It could all be on the black skittle.
10:21What a beautiful shot by young Tarrant.
10:24He deserved it.
10:25He deservedly won that game and put him through into the semi-finals for the first time.
10:29Sadly, Taffy John goes out.
10:32Next time, we'll have the two semi-finals, but stick around.
10:35In just a couple of ticks, the ladies' darts final between Greta Holgren of Sweden and
10:40Millie Bergeson of Wales.
10:41I'll see there.
10:42Now the ladies' darts final between Greta Holgren and Millie Bergeson.
11:02If I could have hit the stumps as consistently as these birds of the feather can find treble
11:06twenty, I'd have taken a thousand test with you.
11:09The prize is prestige and 150 quid.
11:11We join Dave Lanning in the first leg.
11:20Who is going to make the first crucial big score?
11:27That's 60.
11:28This could be it.
11:3184 scored for Greta.
11:33So let's have a look.
11:34What does the scoreboard say now?
11:35She is 44 in front.
11:37And Millie has the darts.
11:39So that's not so many now.
11:40Only 24.
11:42And almost level nine.
11:4680 scored.
11:47So 145 going for Greta Holgren.
11:51Treble 20.
11:52Treble 15.
11:52Double top.
11:53I think that's treble five.
11:59So that would be 55.
12:01She's scored.
12:01She wants 90.
12:0254.
12:03Treble 18.
12:03Double 18 is her shot.
12:05And she's missed it completely.
12:07Her mathematics do not seem to be too spectacular.
12:10So 109 going.
12:12109 going for Millie Bergeson.
12:13This vital first leg.
12:15I'm quite sure that once one of these ladies gets their nose in front, they'll settle down.
12:21They haven't really played their true game so far.
12:24So 109 going again.
12:26109 for Greta from Viking Country.
12:31That is a 19.
12:34She wants 90.
12:34She wants 54.
12:37No, she's gone.
12:38She wants 70.
12:39And she's looking across at her helper there.
12:43Looking across at her coach across the North Sea who's come with her.
12:50So Millie Bergeson wants 60 now.
12:53And this is a golden opportunity to get this first leg under her belt.
12:58That's the 20.
12:58Double top.
12:59Will this be it?
13:01Taking her time as we zoom in.
13:04That's just too low.
13:05210 she wants down there at 4 o'clock.
13:07Now she's missed it.
13:08Two fives.
13:10So 78 going.
13:12Treble 18, double 12.
13:13Treble 14, double 18.
13:14Take your choice, Greta.
13:19She keeps on these 20s and she's got a 5.
13:21That is a 73.
13:23She wanted a treble 19 there.
13:25She's got 24 scored.
13:27That leaves for 54.
13:28She wants an 18.
13:29No, she doesn't.
13:29She went for 14 and she's missed that as well.
13:34Unpredictable continental play.
13:35Leaving commentators out of breath.
13:39But Millie Bergeson, in the meantime, wants two fives.
13:44Two fives for this first leg.
13:45And that one's just a trifle too high.
13:47That's too many.
13:49So, Greta Hallgren with a golden chance.
13:51Now 45.
13:5745.
13:58Now there's so many ways she can go for this.
14:00I will keep quiet and let the lady make up her own mind.
14:1019.
14:11She needs two 13s.
14:14Up there at 2 o'clock on the board.
14:18Colossal drama.
14:19Yes.
14:24Well, Greta for once takes the lead, but they look nervous.
14:27Will it be a whitewash?
14:34So, that's 60.
14:35She wants 105.
14:37She's come down.
14:38She's got a 19.
14:40These are 86.
14:4154s have shot.
14:4229 score.
14:4317.
14:4516.
14:4516.
14:4786.
14:47And she's counting away.
14:49Look at the nerves building up on this little lady.
14:5395 score.
14:5495 score.
14:55That's very, very useful.
14:56So, 125 for Millie Bergeson to keep the indoor league title in Britain.
15:01She's come down.
15:0439 scored.
15:08So, 70 going.
15:1170 going for Greta Holgren.
15:14She can finish on this.
15:18Which way will she attempt to get out?
15:21She needs 50, the bullseye.
15:23Will she go for it?
15:24I wouldn't be surprised.
15:26No.
15:27She went across for 10 and she got a 60.
15:29What's 44 now?
15:31So, an even number to leave her a double.
15:3512 is her shot for a double 16, which is what most players would prefer.
15:42Was it?
15:44Yes, it was.
15:4532 she wants.
15:462.16.
15:47So, 85 going for Millie Bergeson.
15:48She wanted a treble 15.
15:50She wants 70.
15:51She went for 3.10s and it's just wide.
15:55Now, trying very hard.
15:58Greta Holgren.
15:59Double 16.
16:00They'll wrap it all up.
16:00Will the title go across the North Sea?
16:07Here we go.
16:08Double 16 to wrap it up.
16:10And this lady loves to take her time to settle herself in.
16:14And absolute drama here.
16:17She really looks to be a little bit overwrought.
16:19Let's see if she can settle down and hit this double 16.
16:21Oh, so close.
16:28That's just a bit too high.
16:31Absolutely unbearable, the tension.
16:35Oh, so close again.
16:37Did you hear the cry?
16:38So, Millie Bergeson, everybody breathes again.
16:44It's like the all clear going.
16:46Millie Bergeson, in the meantime, has 55.
16:48She wants double top now.
16:49She has a 15.
16:52Once again, the tension builds up.
16:54And that's next door.
16:55She wants two 15s.
16:56She's got two 5s, 10s scored.
16:57She wants two 15s and she's missed it.
16:59Greta Hulgren has the title in her grasp.
17:07Two 16s, her second chance at them.
17:14And really and truly now.
17:20Bang!
17:20You can hear the dart going in so clearly.
17:24Yes, two 9s, two 9s.
17:27She wants them.
17:27It was just next door.
17:28Two 9s up there at 2 o'clock.
17:3110 o'clock, rather.
17:33Nerves affecting the commentator as well.
17:36The drama, unbelievable.
17:37Come on, girl.
17:38Let the thing go.
17:42Oh, she's missed it.
17:48So, double 15 now for Millie Bergeson.
17:51Double 15 for Millie to level it up.
17:54That's a 15.
17:55She wants 15 to rip.
17:57She wants, she's got the 3.
17:59She wants two 6s.
18:00Two 6s.
18:02No, she's missed it.
18:07Two 9s now for Greta Hulgren.
18:09At the third time of asking for a double 8.
18:11She wants 9 to rip.
18:12She's missed the 1.
18:13She's missed the 1.
18:17That's too many.
18:19Anti-climax.
18:20So, 2 2-3s for Millie Bergeson to level it up in this final.
18:26She's just edging nearer.
18:34Yes!
18:34So close, so tight, so dramatic, that Millie Bergeson is back in with a chance.
18:45Millie, back on level 10.
18:47Sweden or Wales, here we go for the deciding leg.
18:50The climax of the 1974 ladies' darts on indoor league.
18:57The third and decisive leg in the ladies' final between Greta Hulgren from Sweden.
19:0243.
19:0343 scored.
19:05And Millie Bergstrom, there she is.
19:10From Flincher.
19:1745.
19:18Really, an absolute seesaw struggle with incredible drama.
19:27Maybe the darts haven't been of the high score caliber we've seen during the competition.
19:33But the drama has made up for everything.
19:36Millie Bergeson.
19:38That's a 60.
19:4285.
19:4485 scored.
19:48So, what's in it?
20:14About 30.
20:1625-30 in it.
20:17Oh, and that's bad luck for Greta.
20:2240.
20:2340 scored.
20:27So, there's the state of the parties.
20:29Just 13 in it.
20:32This is Millie.
20:3639.
20:3739 scored.
20:40Once again.
20:43And Greta from Sweden banging those 60s.
20:46Look at her go.
20:48Another 100.
20:57Millie Bergstrom now is slipping behind.
21:00She needs a big score.
21:04And she has the bad luck to see one bounce back at her feet.
21:07So, 177 going now for Greta Hallgrim for the championship.
21:1885.
21:1885.
21:19She wants 92.
21:24Only in Millie Bergeson now.
21:26She's slipped behind.
21:26Ridley has slipped behind.
21:33So, is the volcano about to erupt.
21:3792 she wants.
21:38Triple 20.
21:39Two 16s is the shot.
21:42Let's watch her.
21:44It's just 120.
21:45She wants 72.
21:47She's going to stay there, I think, on the 20s.
21:52Oh, she's going to screw her way over to the left there.
21:56So, 162 going for Millie Bergeson to get back into this game.
22:00And when she's got 60, she wants 102.
22:0420 right on the wire, I believe.
22:06100.
22:07100.
22:07So, 47 going now for Greta Hallgrim.
22:14So, I think she'll go 15, two 16s.
22:17Yes, she will.
22:1815, two 16s for the title.
22:20Two 16s for the championship.
22:24That's very close.
22:26Can't see what it is.
22:27Is it an 8?
22:28I think it's an 8.
22:29It is.
22:30And it's 212.
22:31And she's won it.
22:32It was an 8.
22:33She won it 24.
22:35She needed 212.
22:36She did it.
22:37Crack open the snaps.
22:39We have a Swedish champion of the Ladies League.
22:42The Ladies Championship of Darts and Indoor League.
22:46Well, after that brilliant win,
22:47Greta had a charge off to catch a plane back to Sweden.
22:49But to accept her check and medal
22:51is Carl Cush, the president of the Swedish Darts Association.
23:01You'll give that, Greta, with our luck, will you, Carl?
23:03Carl, how big is the Darts Association in Sweden now?
23:08Oh, it's growing all the time.
23:10And we have played just for 10 years about.
23:11And we've got about some thousands of players.
23:16You've got as many players as that.
23:18Well, all I can do is wish you and your association the best of luck.
23:21And would you please take the check as well, Carl?
23:23Thank you very much indeed.
23:30Well, it's always sad when our losses lose out.
23:33But nobody can begrudge Greta her victory.
23:35And that's it for this week.
23:36Next time, bar billiards, table football
23:39and a brown cocktail of the Indoor League.
23:43I'm wrestling.
23:44I'll say that.
23:44Yes!
23:49Yes!
23:49Well, it's always sad when our losses lose out.
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