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01:00That's later. We're going to start with men's darts.
01:03It's reckoned that darts is now a more popular sport than even angling.
01:07Well, with a bade of £150 first pride, we've landed quite a few big'uns,
01:13including two New Year's of the World champs and a dozen internationals.
01:17Here's two of them, Alan Glazier of England and the Scottish champ Tom Brown.
01:21It's one leg apiece and Tom Brown to throw.
01:25So now Tom Brown, Tom Brown looking for a magic turn to get his Scottish nose in front.
01:31He's not going to get it now. That looks like 16.
01:34So he's got out of trouble well there.
01:36Treble 5, 1, only 16 after two darts.
01:39Then the treble 20. Out of bother there.
01:41Glacier.
01:44That's three ones.
01:48That's just under the 60s.
01:49Trying to shimmy across to just find in the gap.
01:52Has he done it? Not quite.
01:54Unlucky, though.
01:55Last 150.
01:56So 150. Three bullseyes and we'll all go home.
02:01And that looks like 80.
02:04100.
02:05100 scores.
02:06So he nannies 50.
02:07And Tom Brown really is in with chances.
02:09132 for Glacier.
02:1060.
02:12Double top.
02:13Double 16.
02:14That's the 60.
02:18Something he could do with 40.
02:21What's he got?
02:22That's 80, I think.
02:23Well, he went for the tonne.
02:27He really and truly, I think, should have gone for 218s, 218s.
02:30But anyway, Tom Brown wants 50.
02:32Will he go for the bull?
02:32Will he go for 18, double 16?
02:34Let's see.
02:35He's gone for 12, at least in two 19s.
02:40That's it.
02:41Tremendous finish.
02:42Tremendous finish.
02:43So Tom Brown's body goes through to the next round.
02:46Now meets Stefan Lord, a young champ from Sweden.
02:49He's playing the experienced Pat Mullins from the hotbed of darts,
02:52Stockport.
02:54League, darts are free with an international flavour.
02:57For the first time, we have a Swedish player in our men's darts,
03:00and here he is now, one of the youngest players in the world,
03:0319-year-old Stefan Lord from Solna in Sweden,
03:05who has won through a special tournament in his home country
03:09to qualify for the right to represent his nation in this tournament.
03:12His opponent is from the Stockport area, Pat Mullins,
03:17who started off straight away with a ton.
03:19So this then is young Stefan, only 19.
03:23He's a student.
03:24And of course, he's looking for a Swedish double,
03:25because his solo country won a game.
03:29Fantastic score, 104.
03:30I was just going to say his solo country when Greta Holdren won the ladies' darts
03:33in this tournament.
03:34Pat Mullins is a friend to Indoor League,
03:37because you may remember in the TV Times Pro-Am darts tournament
03:40shown on ITV last Christmas,
03:42he partnered with Freddie Truman,
03:45made the final, finished runners-up.
03:47100!
03:48So now Stefan Lord, and this game really has gone off at a tremendous gallop,
03:52because Lord has now scored 246 darts, Mullins.
03:57Trails a bit.
03:5881.
03:5981 scored.
04:00So Stefan Lord, winner of the England Cup this year.
04:04Swedish Open Mix and Double Competition champion,
04:07Puter Tankard Cup winner, and gets 41 there.
04:10So this then is Pat Mullins, a very dark horse,
04:13an Irishman by birth.
04:14On Granada television recently, he scored 3,150 minutes,
04:19and he fetched his darts back at the same time.
04:21Good stuff.
04:22Stefan Lord then.
04:24Straight in the 60.
04:25Deadly.
04:26Another one.
04:27And he went for the top one.
04:28There was confidence.
04:30He didn't think he could get the third treble,
04:31so he went up for double top,
04:32but he is playing flamboyantly well.
04:35So Mullins.
04:37His local is the Midland Hotel in Stockport,
04:39well-known for big-time darts in that area.
04:41So now he wants double top.
04:45He's got one, two tens, and that's it.
04:49Skills like that.
04:50Carried Lord through to victory in the second leg as well.
04:52Now our reigning champs in action, Tommy O'Regan.
04:55He's up against England international, Dougie Priestner.
04:58The seventh game,
04:59and a newcomer to indoor league darts tournaments.
05:02This is Dougie Priestner from deep down there in Wiltshire,
05:07where the pork pies and cider come from,
05:09and also some very good dart players.
05:12And this boy is a bit of a stylist, isn't he?
05:14And he starts with 180.
05:18And that is some debut.
05:21That is some debut.
05:22And this man must respond.
05:25And this man is the champion.
05:27This is Tommy O'Regan,
05:29the reigning indoor league champion.
05:31Whatever he does is back to be anticlimactic.
05:34And it almost was another 180.
05:37What a start for Dougie Priestner.
05:39180, 34-year-old from the West Country.
05:46Really puts his heart and soul on it, doesn't he?
05:48100!
05:49100!
05:51And he has taken off like a runaway rocking horse.
05:54So, Tommy O'Regan, calm, cool, the champion.
05:59Defending his title.
06:00Superb player.
06:01Takes a lot to run this way.
06:02100!
06:03100 scores.
06:05So, incredibly, Dougie Priestner,
06:07after only six darts,
06:09only needs 221.
06:11He must score, as you know, 501.
06:14And he's got another treble, 20.
06:1885!
06:1985.
06:21And Tommy O'Regan, a long way back,
06:23hasn't really had a chance to settle.
06:25Super Sonic start by Priestner.
06:27180.
06:28First one of the tournament.
06:30But the first of many, I'm quite sure.
06:32Quiet start below Regan.
06:35So, 136 going.
06:3760, 62, eights perhaps.
06:39There's one.
06:4060.
06:42That's...
06:43He scored 80.
06:4496 scores.
06:45And he says 43, 16.
06:47So, he's got 96.
06:49And he only needs double top now,
06:51after only 12 darts.
06:54And Regan, for the first time,
06:57really, completely overshadowed in this first leg.
07:00So, double top.
07:01Double top for Dougie Priestner.
07:04That's just too low.
07:05Two tens.
07:06That's it.
07:07So, that is 14 darts.
07:13Absolutely breathtaking.
07:15What a debut by Priestner.
07:17Now the second leg with O'Regan to throw.
07:20First one.
07:20So, while we gather our breaths,
07:22I'm quite sure this man will be trying to find his form,
07:24because Tommy O'Regan just never had a look in there.
07:26The reigning champion.
07:27And really has got to come back strongly.
07:29100.
07:30100.
07:31So, this is the current sensation of the tournament.
07:36Dougie Priestner.
07:36Only 14 darts.
07:38And he originally was just the second reserve for this competition.
07:42Here he is in.
07:43100.
07:44Going really.
07:46Tearing away.
07:47Fantastic.
07:48So, now O'Regan must settle.
07:50Mustn't allow him to have to be racket.
07:52Must show his championship start.
07:54What happened there?
07:55Hit the wire, bounced out.
07:5624.
07:5725.
07:59So, Priestner.
08:02Really grimaces and contorts himself when he throws.
08:06His eyeballs bulge, his nostrils flare, but the scores pile up.
08:11100.
08:11Another time.
08:13Really.
08:16The Guinness Book of Records will soon be in tatters.
08:2360.
08:2460.
08:24Tommy O'Regan, steady as ever.
08:26Cool as ever.
08:27But he's getting left behind.
08:28He's 16 adrift down these.
08:32Priestner.
08:33Won every title in sight in Wiltshire and it's little wonder.
08:3560.
08:3660 score.
08:37Tommy O'Regan, national individual champion three times.
08:40Greater London Super League individual champion.
08:42Walthamstow individual champion.
08:43Indoor league champion.
08:45And really struggling there to keep in the hunt for this title.
08:48100.
08:49100.
08:51So, Doug Priestner.
08:52He's a carpenter.
08:53Plays at the Herbury Social Club.
08:55Good footballer too.
08:58As I say, won everything in sight, down inside the country.
09:0141.
09:0241.
09:02That's his lowest score so far.
09:04So, Tommy O'Regan coming back in, asserting his authority.
09:10Refusing to allow this runaway opponent of his to get the upper hand.
09:1460 score.
09:1560 score.
09:15Beautiful grouping.
09:16Beautiful economical style.
09:19So, Priestner.
09:21A Swedish Open semi-finalist last year.
09:23So, he's been around a bit.
09:26Just 60 score.
09:28Let's have a look at the scores.
09:30156.
09:31Two treble twenties, two eighteens.
09:32And that's a one.
09:37So, he's keeping up there.
09:39Bold play by O'Regan.
09:4181.
09:4281.
09:42Terrific third dart there.
09:44Got out of trouble.
09:45So, 140 for Priestley.
09:49That's 139.
09:51He's come downstairs.
09:5240 score.
09:5440 score.
09:56So, O'Regan.
09:5775.
09:57So, 75 for O'Regan.
10:00O'Regan.
10:04He wanted the three thirteens.
10:07And he has got 25.
10:09He wants the ball.
10:10He's got it.
10:11What a shot out.
10:12What a shot out.
10:15O'Regan draws level.
10:16Now, the final leg.
10:17As we join Dave Lanning, O'Regan needs 179.
10:22O'Regan.
10:23That's 60.
10:24That's 119 he wants.
10:27That looks like another 20.
10:29It's 80.
10:29It's coming down.
10:30It's got the 57 as well.
10:31Is it?
10:32No.
10:33No.
10:33It's a treble three.
10:34Bad luck.
10:35He wants 90.
10:37And Doug Priestner wants 200.
10:40But not so many now.
10:4160.
10:4290.
10:44Treble 18.
10:45Double 18.
10:46One feels he'll probably go for.
10:48That's 118.
10:52That's two.
10:54That's three.
10:56Did the sensible thing.
10:57Refused to be rattled.
10:58Kept steady.
10:59He wants two 18s.
11:02And Priestner wants 140.
11:03120.
11:05He's got 60.
11:06He only wants 60.
11:06He wants double top.
11:09So this is the moment.
11:13Tommy O'Regan needs two 18s to stay in.
11:16And that one's right on the wire.
11:19That's there.
11:20What a game.
11:21What a game.
11:23What a match.
11:24O'Regan goes through with a nonchalance that belittled and belied Priestness skills.
11:29Now Peter Chapman, the news of the world champs, in action.
11:32Peter Chapman plays every night of the week.
11:35And he's been doing that since 1948.
11:37And he's really banged some scores.
11:39And that's 180.
11:41Shooting skills like that gave Chapman the first game over Steve Rollings of Wales.
11:45Now the second leg.
11:47Beautiful stuff.
11:48Treble 20.
11:49Just pulled over.
11:50Is it in the five of the 20?
11:52100.
11:53Now it's a 20.
11:53100 scored.
11:55So now Chapman just needs a ton.
11:59And Steve Rollings needs two or eight.
12:00100.
12:01108.
12:03100.
12:04100 going, so he'll go for the 20s.
12:06That's almost for sure.
12:08Yes, he's got one of them.
12:09He wants 80.
12:11He's come down to try and get 24.
12:14That's 48, 360.
12:1576 scored.
12:168, 76 scored.
12:19So that leads him to 12s.
12:20108 going now for Steve Rollings.
12:22Desperately trying to find that treble.
12:25Couldn't do it.
12:27So 24.
12:28Two 12s for Chapman to wrap this one up.
12:32Just a little wide.
12:33Half an inch too wide.
12:35That'll do.
12:36Once again, the superb finishing power of the news of the world champion.
12:43Chapman, his chest bristling like a doormat.
12:46Goes through.
12:47Time for a break.
12:47But in just a couple of minutes, more breaks as we join American Pool.
12:51I'll say that.
12:51Hey, now for American Pool.
13:09Willie Thorne's already won through to the final.
13:11His opponent, he'll soon know.
13:12Will it be Vera Selby, the British women's champ, or Ray Edmonds of Crethorps, one of the few amateurs who can live with the pros?
13:18Edmonds won the first frame of their semi-final.
13:21We join Hector Olmedes with Edmonds on the white.
13:30Two.
13:32Three.
13:33Don't forget, this is the second game of a three-from-five series.
13:45Edmonds having taken the first.
13:47Another beautiful cut from Edmonds.
14:02When Edmonds isn't playing snooker, he's playing golf.
14:06Now he's going to cut this to the side, and he's obviously in brilliant form.
14:22Took that one out cleanly, with very little tolerance, very little chance to make an error.
14:27But Edmonds doesn't make many errors.
14:29Not in this or snooker.
14:31Beautiful again, beautiful, absolutely perfect.
14:41Now he's going to the bottom right-hand pocket for the bogey ball.
14:46And who'd bet he wouldn't take it?
14:47I certainly wouldn't.
14:48And that's it.
14:50Edmonds has run it off.
14:51He's almost embarrassed.
14:52Brilliant play by Edmonds.
14:54Now the third frame, and it's the world champion to break.
14:57And here's Ray Edmonds now in the third game.
15:01Having two under his belt, and heading for the third.
15:05It's up to Vera now to stop him.
15:07If she doesn't, of course, as you know, Vera, we wave goodbye to Vera in this 1974 indoor league.
15:14But she hasn't been disgraced, there's no doubt about that.
15:17Two.
15:19And now he's down with two.
15:21Edmonds has two down.
15:22So he's starting off similarly to it as he did the last.
15:26And it doesn't over too well for this bonny last from Newcastle.
15:33Edmonds is playing immaculately.
15:38He's making this game look easy when it's anything but easy.
15:44What a brilliant player.
15:47Obviously world class.
15:49Thinking ahead every time.
15:51Now he's on the cushion.
15:53A long, hard shot.
15:56But he keeps it there.
15:58Brilliant.
16:00Is he going to duplicate the last again?
16:04Here he is again.
16:07Now, has he snookered himself?
16:08Has he snookered himself or can he see it?
16:12Now he's playing it down to the end.
16:15And he's done it right from break.
16:17Fantastic.
16:18Brilliant.
16:18He must be, he must be the favorite for this tournament.
16:22Once again, Edmonds clears the table without letting Vera get a look in.
16:26Now the final.
16:27It's the best of five frames and we join the first with Edmonds on the blacks trailing.
16:32So Edmonds and Thorne are pretty level except that Thorne has a slight lead.
16:39Edmonds screwing back to get on that position again.
16:42I'm sure to Edmonds it looks like putt black right now.
16:46And he's made it look like that.
16:48It's a position he's been in many times, I should think, in snooker.
16:52And here he goes again.
16:55Beautiful.
16:56He's taken one up.
16:57His one up.
16:58As Len Oldham just called it.
16:59Five-four.
17:00Five-four.
17:00And now that makes it six-four.
17:07Edmonds continuing his unbeaten run at the moment.
17:12However, we saw Willie Thorne come from four down against Ashcroft to clean the table.
17:18Don't forget, it's the best out of five.
17:25And Edmonds had his first miss there.
17:27Now Willie Thorne comes back trailing by two.
17:31The best three out of five.
17:32And this is the first in this 1974 final of the Indoor Peru Championship.
17:38And what a beautiful shot that was.
17:39That drew it from the crowd.
17:41Excitement rises, as you can see.
17:44And with every reason, two brilliant British players.
17:48Playing pool as it should be played.
17:52Brilliant, brilliant.
17:53Thorne has done the same thing again as he did against Ashcroft.
17:57Fantastic.
17:58Edmonds' first loss in this tournament.
18:00Thorne draws first blood, but Edmonds is far from an eunuch.
18:04We join the second frame.
18:18Four, six.
18:27There's Owe from Cleethorpe's.
18:29He's one of the snooker's brilliance.
18:32And here's the proof.
18:33What a double that would have been.
18:37Thorne is still after this one ball to get on the bogey ball to make it 2-0.
18:41A lot of Thorne support comes from the Leicester folks who've come up for the cheese skittles.
18:52There's quite a few entries in that, and they've brought their supporters.
18:55And naturally, they're here now, crowding around, hoping that Willie Thorne will beat this experienced, brilliant, former world champion from Cleethorpe's.
19:04Let's try the shot to the bottom that hasn't come off.
19:08He feels he's got time to spare, but with Ray Edmonds, you never can tell.
19:20That's the sort of style that's put Ray Edmonds where he is.
19:25Long shot clean into the end pocket.
19:27Now one over the...
19:29He's going for the end again.
19:31Has he come back far enough?
19:36I'm sure he's not certain.
19:38He's looking closely at that.
19:40And wondering what he's going to do.
19:43I don't think he has much choice.
19:48He's going to try a difficult one with the back cushion.
19:52If he pulls this off, and he nearly did.
19:54And there's the roar of applause that came to...
19:57Even as you notice, Willie Thorne applauded.
19:59What a daring, confident try.
20:04And there goes...
20:06Willie Thorne is now on the bogey ball.
20:09And if he gets it, he's two up.
20:14And he has.
20:15And now do you hear that for...
20:17Fantastic support for Willie Thorne from his Leicester supporters
20:21as he makes it 2-0 against Ray Edmonds.
20:24Thorne goes two up.
20:26Now it's him to break for what could be the championship.
20:31And Willie Thorne breaks in this third game.
20:35Leading Ray Edmonds 2-0.
20:38Unbelievable.
20:39Turn up for the book.
20:39And do you know, his Leicester supporters were just singing
20:43You'll Never Walk Alone.
20:45That's how excited they are about this brilliant young Leicester player
20:49who's upsetting all the odds
20:52by leading the former world champion Ray Edmonds 2-0
20:57in this final of the 1974 pool championship.
21:06Ray Edmonds realizes now
21:08that he's just got to come through.
21:13He hasn't any nerves.
21:15He's said to have no nerves.
21:17And it's obvious here today.
21:18He's not showing any.
21:19Even though he's trailing 2-0.
21:23Fair, clean shot, confident.
21:25Chalks his cue.
21:28Comes in for the next one.
21:30And he's determined to make it 2-1.
21:33Of course, he can't afford to lose this one.
21:36Or he's just a runner-up once more.
21:40If you remember, he was runner-up last year to Johnny Estrella.
21:45And right now, he's trailing 2-0
21:47in this festive 3-5 series.
21:55Now Willie Thorne gets his first ball, a black.
22:03Thorne is on the blacks.
22:04As you can see, since Ray Edmonds nearly cleared the table of the whites.
22:11Thorne is playing with great confidence.
22:13Great confidence.
22:14Despite the big lead Edmonds had on him, he's cutting it back with every shot.
22:27Terrific performance from Thorne.
22:29Leading 2-0.
22:31And now cut the lead of Ray Edmonds down to one.
22:36Fantastic.
22:36Fantastic performance of this young man from Leicester.
22:41Only 20 years of age.
22:45And here the crowd roared their approval to that one.
22:48And Edmonds has snookered.
22:49He could lose a ball here.
22:51He could have a ball come back.
22:53No, sir.
22:55Not to a man of Edmonds' caliber.
22:58Snookers are a common thing for Edmonds.
23:02And there goes that ball, that last one of Thorne's.
23:06And now he's on the bogey ball and he worked position beautifully.
23:10Are we going to have a new champion?
23:12We have 3-0.
23:14And the crowd erupt as this young man from Leicester beats Ray Edmonds.
23:20Edmonds is the runner-up once again.
23:23As Willie Thorne is the new indoor American pool champion.
23:27And now to the winner of American pool, Willie Thorne of Leicester.
23:34Willie, can we have you here to receive your TV Times gold medal?
23:49Well, congratulations, Willie.
23:52And here's your check.
24:22Well done, Willie.
24:28Dapper Willie Thorne from Leicestershire wins the 150 quid first prize.
24:33And Edmonds finishes runner-up for the second year running.
24:35And that's it for this week.
24:37But if you fancy yourself as a fair darts player,
24:39join us next time and see what real throwing is all about.
24:43I'll say there.
24:43We'll see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time and see you next time
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