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00:30Now then, and welcome to another series of Indoor League.
00:35Well, a lot of players have passed through our hands since we started five years ago.
00:38And this year we welcome back many of those old familiar faces and some new faces with star quality.
00:44And again, we've not just been content to bring you the best from Great Britain.
00:48We've more countries represented here than in Henry Kissinger's passport.
00:51Over 70 players from a dozen countries making up the Indoor League World Championships.
00:56We're featuring three sports, darts, arm wrestling and bar billiards.
01:00Back from the United States to defend his Indoor League title, Conrad Daniels.
01:04Very unusual stance, but as we saw in the last series, very effective.
01:12It's 80 scored.
01:14Very, very tight this game.
01:15Very tight this game.
01:16140!
01:17140, says...
01:18Representing Wales, former champion, Leighton Rees.
01:22Runner up in the News of the World, and here we go.
01:23The 60s start rattling.
01:25That's two of them.
01:27180!
01:29Incredible!
01:31190 scores!
01:32And the man everyone wants to beat, the 1976-77 News of the World champion, England's Billy Leonard.
01:39That's a 60.
01:44100!
01:45I'm back from Sweden, young Stefan Lord.
01:53100!
01:54That's a ton.
01:55Well, those four will be joined by 12 other world-class players, and we'll be seeing one
02:00first-round match later in the programme.
02:02We've got three arm wrestling contests for you this year, so strong as its popularity,
02:06with the left-handers, with the right-handers, under-14 stone, and the super-heavies.
02:12Representing the Dutch East Indies is Bill Richardson.
02:15He won the left-handed competition last year, but such it is awesome ambidexterity, he's
02:19in the right-handers this time.
02:21Back to defend that title is England's powerlifting champion, Tony Fitton.
02:25In the under-14 stones, we've Fred Carpin from America, and India's Daljit Singh Chana.
02:31And we've another yank, Bruce Marsden, the only guy to take a fall off Fitton last year.
02:36It's a sectically strong, doesn't it look like a muscle man?
02:39His opponent, Ayman.
02:40Because of our 45 seconds maximum break limit in bar billiards, the players really do have
02:46to get their skates on, which has obviously increased the chances of them making mistakes.
02:50But Stan Pratt didn't let it worry him.
02:52One hundred and fifty.
02:54Count the two-bird ambitions.
02:56And here we have Stanley Pratt.
02:58He's been playing for 20 years.
03:00He's been a counter-winner, an England champion, and his team, the Temple Farm, WMC, have won
03:06Division I League 15 years out of 18 years, so they must have a fair side.
03:10His ice break in bar billiards has been at 28,370 in one game.
03:16The break took 24 minutes.
03:18We'll see how he gets in with the 45-second rules of the indoor league.
03:23Stanley's a lorry driver.
03:24He's married with an understanding wife, except when he plays four times a week.
03:30He's away with nine hundred already.
03:33One thousand and fifty.
03:34One thousand and fifty.
03:35I think that's the highest score up to now.
03:41We've also got a few glamorous competitors for you this year, and you'll find those in
03:45the ladies' darts competition.
03:46The looks are no good without skill, and these have plenty of both.
03:51Young Susie Robertshaw from York.
03:53There's rugby against the men, so he's a big girl.
03:55Ninety-four.
03:56Gets ninety-four there.
03:58And blonde Maureen Flowers, a fair player, too.
04:03Three kids, and she's playing quite beautifully.
04:05Eighty score.
04:06One hundred.
04:07She replies all the time.
04:08Good darts.
04:09One of the youngest in the conference.
04:10This is Sandra Gibb from Gwent in Wales.
04:13From Gwent in Wales.
04:14Straight in with sixty-two.
04:17Eighty.
04:18One hundred.
04:21And representing Scandinavia, Swede and lovely Eva Johansson.
04:26That's sixty.
04:28That's just next door, travel five.
04:30Ninety-five.
04:31Four.
04:31More good looks and judgment later, but we're starting with arm wrestling and the under-14
04:37stone right-handed competition.
04:39Once again, we're using the thumb clasp grip, and it's the best of three falls or disqualifications.
04:46First on the table, Thomas Armstrong on the left, a sheep-shearing champion of all things,
04:51and former champion Clive Myers, a professional all-in wrestler.
04:55Go.
04:56So we get the first of our arm wrestling matches underway.
05:01On the right, it's Clive Myers, and on the left, Clive Myers, a former champion of 1974.
05:07Four.
05:08Oh, Clive.
05:09And he won the first fall, then.
05:10It's the best of three falls.
05:14So Myers wins the first fall, but not without imploring the referee with those incredulous
05:19looks.
05:19Here's the second round.
05:21And it's Clive Myers on the left, and Thomas Armstrong from North London, his opponents,
05:25and he's going straight out well.
05:27He must have lasted every bit of about 30 seconds in the indoor league.
05:31The sheep-shearing Armstrong gets shorn by the stronger arm of Myers.
05:36Now with a real international bout, between on the left, Daljit Singh Chana from India,
05:41and Fred Carpin from Pennsylvania, USA.
05:44Well, the second game of Sweden gets underway.
05:48A real international flavour here on the indoor league.
05:51On the right, it's Fred Carpin from Pennsylvania, USA.
05:54Here he is, Fred, one of the top arm wrestlers in the States.
05:58His opponent on the left of the picture, the red vest, Daljit Singh Chana, representing
06:03India.
06:04The first fall to the compact yank.
06:07Kan Singh Chana, who was wrestled in three countries, fight back.
06:12Ready?
06:13Go!
06:14Round two, and it's Chana on the right, representing India, against Fred Carpin, and now on the left
06:20of the picture of the States.
06:22Tremendous tension, best of three falls, remember.
06:25The Indian is one down, his first indoor league, and it looks like he's not used to this one
06:28as well.
06:30Carpin, the yank, very experienced.
06:32He wins it.
06:33Two calls.
06:36Carpin, the Indian eraser.
06:37Our next bout features the aptly named Alan Hands from Australia, and Joe Graham, who
06:42teaches weight training at Southbridge University.
06:44Let's join Dave Lanning for the first round.
06:47Cold.
06:50Just a relaxed grip.
06:51Elbows in the square.
06:54Ready?
06:56Go!
06:57So, Bob Sweeney gets this next under 14 stone, light heavyweight, palm wrestling match
07:02underway.
07:02On the right of picture, we've got Joe Graham from Salford Lancaster.
07:06There he is there.
07:07Oh, come on.
07:08And that wasn't a fall, was it?
07:09Give me the signal.
07:10Yes, it was a fall to Joe Graham there.
07:13Frank Buddard, the assistant referee, you can see him there, crouching down.
07:16Just making sure, helping out ref Bob Sweeney.
07:18So, the Australian goes one fall down under.
07:22Can he get back to grips in the second round?
07:26Ready?
07:27Go!
07:28Alan Llewellyn Hands from Melbourne, Australia, with everything to do.
07:31That's him there.
07:31Remember, he's one down after the first leg.
07:33Member of the Melbourne Maulers.
07:35You've got it!
07:36Interested drinking and girls.
07:38I think that's told, too.
07:39He goes out.
07:41Graham's the winner.
07:43Graham wins.
07:44Hands down and out.
07:45Our final first round match brings together Eamon Toll on the left,
07:49the British mid-heavy powerlifting champion,
07:52and Bruce Marsden, the USA Navy London champion.
07:55Ready?
07:56Come on in.
07:57Go!
07:58Eamon Toll on the left, the Irish command leading in Blakely Lanks
08:01against the second American in this under-14 stone tournament.
08:05Bruce Marsden, he's the one in the horizontally-striped blue and green T-shirt there.
08:11And this one looks like being quite a battle.
08:13First fall to Eamon Toll.
08:17They really are getting on with it here.
08:19The bell tolls for Toll, and he gets the first fall.
08:22Come Marsden signal a comeback.
08:26Go!
08:26So, Bruce Marsden on the left of the picture with it all to do now.
08:30He's one fall down.
08:31The Navy champion, the Yankee Tavern Thursday night champion,
08:34that's Bruce Marsden there.
08:36Seceptively strong.
08:37Doesn't look like a muscle man.
08:38His opponent, Eamon Toll from Lancashire.
08:40Eamon really beginning to take him on now.
08:44Bruce is a signaler.
08:46And for his job, he's...
08:47It's a quite work.
08:49Toll has seemed to have had a seizure.
08:52He's got him going now.
08:59Marsden fights back.
09:00Tough boy.
09:01This is getting very close.
09:03Oh, dear.
09:04Go on, Lord.
09:04Here comes Marsden.
09:06Marsden.
09:07The hero is Gretchen Marks.
09:09Trains as a Morse code signaler.
09:12Taps like Morse daily.
09:14This is nearly SOS you wanted then.
09:16As Toll again takes the string.
09:19Toll on the right.
09:19The Irishman now living in Lancashire.
09:20There's Marsden.
09:21The slightly felt bearded gang.
09:24Really buckling to stay in this World Championship.
09:26You got it!
09:27You got it!
09:28You got it!
09:29This time I think he's gone, though.
09:31Toll it is who wins from Blakely Lancashire.
09:33And Bruce Marsden, after a gallant effort,
09:35goes out 2-0 in this under-14 stone arm wrestling competition.
09:40So Eamon joins the last four.
09:42Next week we'll have the big stuff.
09:44The super heavyweight.
09:45Real muscular malevolence.
09:47We've got to ring the bell on part one of the programme.
09:50In a couple of minutes, bar billiards.
09:52Ladies' darts and a thrilling first-round match from the men's darts.
09:56I'll say they.
09:56Hey-up, and welcome to part two of Indoor League,
10:15and we're right on cue for bar billiards.
10:17We've a quarter-final match between Surrey's John Peters,
10:20the 74-5 Indoor League champion,
10:22and Gerry Lambert, the 76 All-England runner-up.
10:25Remember, the players can only have a maximum 45 seconds
10:28at any one time at the table.
10:30As we join it, Peters is trailing by 700.
10:34Gerry Lambert, 2,140.
10:36John Peters, 1,310.
10:4020.
10:42So, just 700.
10:45So, the Peters is quite capable of making 1,000 break
10:49and wiping that out.
10:50See, he brought the white...
10:54180.
10:55That was a good shot,
10:55cos he brought the white back down
10:57to where he could...
11:01200, 310.
11:03And he's got back into his favourite position,
11:05but he's halfway through his break, I would imagine.
11:08But he's another...
11:09No, he didn't quite get his 150.
11:12But that's the counts, then.
11:17540.
11:18This could go in Lambert's favour here,
11:22if these balls are down the bottom of the table
11:23when he can only shoot.
11:26640, break over.
11:28John Peters, 1,950.
11:31Gerry Lambert, 2,140.
11:34Well, as you can see, there's nothing in it again now.
11:36No score, the bar is down.
11:39The bar has gone down
11:41and he's left Jump Eaters
11:43with the red over the 100 pocket
11:46and, of course, he just takes it 200.
11:52Which could make all the difference.
11:59230.
12:04250.
12:06290.
12:11Yes, he is.
12:15310.
12:20He wants this, I think.
12:25And he's missed it anyway.
12:26310 scored.
12:30John Peters, 2,260.
12:33A last ball game.
12:34Gerry Lambert, 2,140.
12:35And he's got his Lambert straight in.
12:38And so he runs out.
12:39That's the closest game we've had.
12:41So Peters challenged Peters out.
12:44Now it's time for ladies' darts.
12:45Since the Indoor League started,
12:47no champion of any sport
12:48has successfully defended the title
12:50the following year.
12:52Can Jean Dickinson,
12:53the only professional ladies' darts player,
12:55break that duck?
12:55She's in action now against Susie Robertshaw of York,
12:58the winner of this year's dishiest darts competition.
13:02Leaves her a 320.
13:04So she's drifting about a ton behind Jean Dickinson.
13:07Jean now banging the 60s.
13:08There's a treble.
13:09Treble 20.
13:0960 scored.
13:10That one slips across into the five.
13:1265.
13:1370.
13:1470 scored.
13:16Jean playing very well.
13:17The reigning champion, of course.
13:18Very cool.
13:22Susie gets 25.
13:2530.
13:2630 scored.
13:26Jean requires 161.
13:28Well, 161.
13:29There is a shot here.
13:3060-51 ball.
13:32Not so many now.
13:3320 scored.
13:35Well, she wants to get an odd one
13:38and does.
13:3859 scored.
13:39Gets a 19.
13:3959 scored.
13:40That's a good score.
13:41And leaves her a 102.
13:42Susie Robertshaw, the secretary,
13:4417 only in her first big tournament,
13:46wants 290.
13:47A little bit nervous, perhaps.
13:49But still, making them all score.
13:5115 scored.
13:53Jean now requires 102.
13:55102 going well.
13:56Let's have a look.
13:57She's gone upstairs.
13:58She's got 20.
13:59She now wants 82.
14:00She's gone across for 314.
14:02There it is.
14:02She wants double top.
14:03That was very nearly
14:04a tremendous shot out.
14:05She got the 20.
14:07She went across, got 314s.
14:08Need a double top.
14:09Good stuff from Jean Dickinson.
14:11That's the shot she wants.
14:12Susie poisoning it, perhaps.
14:14She has scored 60.
14:1665.
14:1665.
14:17Good darts.
14:18And Jean now requires 40.
14:19So, Jean Dickinson
14:20looking for a double top
14:21for this first leg.
14:23One a bit high.
14:26Game on first leg.
14:27Well, good darts.
14:30So, Jean wins the first leg.
14:32Can young Susie Robertshaw
14:33stay in contention?
14:35Here's the second leg
14:36with Dave Lanning.
14:38So, we've got Jean Dickinson
14:39into the second leg.
14:41She is one leg in front
14:42playing against
14:43the youngest competitor,
14:4417-year-old Susie Robertshaw.
14:4660.
14:46She starts with 60.
14:47Jean Dickinson.
14:48This is Susie Robertshaw
14:50from York.
14:52Plays a bit of netball, rugby.
14:53Rugby, squash,
14:54and Barbillas actually plays
14:55rugby against the men.
14:56So, he's a big girl.
14:5794.
14:58Gets 94 there.
15:02This is Jean Dickinson.
15:08Very economical style.
15:10Good darts.
15:1060.
15:10That's another 60.
15:11Very steady.
15:12120.
15:14Well, sitting with me
15:15on this 1976 series
15:17of Indoor League,
15:18we have one of the
15:18legendary figures in darts,
15:20Barry Twomlow,
15:20former News of the World Champion.
15:22Barry, the women's game
15:24isn't exactly your game,
15:25but these girls,
15:25Jean Dickinson particularly,
15:26playing very well.
15:27I'm sure you'll agree.
15:28Oh, yes.
15:29I think it's a question
15:30of experience here, Dave.
15:31She's got a very good
15:32follow-through where Susie is.
15:34140.
15:35Well, there's 140.
15:37That's very good
15:37correct from Jean Dickinson.
15:39So, nine darts now.
15:40She has scored 360
15:43and poor old Susie Robertshaw
15:45really has walked into
15:46a bit of a whirlwind.
15:47Pretty girl, though.
15:4829.
15:52So, this is Jean Dickinson.
15:53Wants 2-4-1.
15:55Hasn't missed a 20 yet
15:56in this leg.
15:57Really is playing brilliantly.
15:58Right there.
16:00Keep quiet, commentators.
16:01He just scores 45 there.
16:04Susie, only 17.
16:06Secretary works
16:06in a news agency in York.
16:08Off to the North American
16:10Open
16:12in just about a month's time.
16:1443.
16:16She'll be playing
16:16with Alan Evans there
16:18in the North American
16:19mixed doubles.
16:20Jean Dickinson is from
16:21Stockport, where Alan,
16:22of course, the world
16:23last or world number one
16:24nowadays, is based.
16:25This is Jean Dickinson
16:26from the red-hot dance area
16:27of Stockport.
16:31All right, Jean only wants
16:32166.
16:34Susie
16:34hasn't played that badly
16:37for a girl of her youth
16:38in her first big tournament.
16:3952.
16:40Played pretty steadily,
16:41but lagging a bit behind
16:43this super-experienced
16:44Jean Dickinson.
16:46166, you want.
16:46So that's 146.
16:48She'll stay there.
16:48She'll try to keep it even.
16:50She's got a 5.
16:51She must surely come downstairs
16:52looking for a 19.
16:53She gets three of them.
16:54Good darts.
16:5557 there.
16:58Jean really coming down well.
16:59This is Susie Robertshaw.
17:04Too right on the wire there.
17:05Not getting much luck,
17:06the young'un.
17:0656.
17:07I had a trouble with 54.
17:0984.
17:1084 going.
17:11Trouble 20.
17:13So she'll go upstairs.
17:14She's once now at 83.
17:16Come down for a 51.
17:18She's got a 57, is it?
17:20Yeah, 58 score.
17:2126.
17:22And that leaves 26.
17:24Two 13s.
17:26Two 13s.
17:27Two 13s.
17:30That's over there
17:31at 2 o'clock on the board.
17:32And she's got shot out.
17:34Wow.
17:35Well, she didn't know
17:36what to go for.
17:37It might have been
17:38wherever she's got it
17:39worked out.
17:40She didn't play around.
17:42Superstar there
17:43for T. Dickinson.
17:43Bad luck for
17:44Susan Robertshaw.
17:45Jean Dickinson,
17:46last year's Indoor League
17:47champion and ladies
17:48national champion.
17:49Now we're moving on
17:50to men's darts.
17:51We've got 16 players
17:52gathered and quite honestly
17:53any one of those
17:55is capable of winning.
17:56That's why we don't
17:57seed them as such.
17:58We just put their names
17:59in a hat and draw them out.
18:00And here's what the
18:01first round draw
18:02came out as.
18:03Bill Lennard of England
18:04versus England's
18:05Cyril Hayes.
18:06Peter Jackman
18:07takes on John Lowe.
18:09Conrad Daniels of America
18:10versus John Stanton.
18:11Leighton Rees of Wales
18:12plays Phil Hobart of Wales.
18:14Charlie Alex of England
18:15meets Willie Scott of Scotland.
18:17Stefan Lord of Sweden
18:18against Ken Brown of England.
18:20Alan Glazer of England
18:21takes on Eric Bristow of England.
18:23And finally,
18:24Cliff Lazarenko
18:25meets Brian Vokes.
18:26Well, there's no doubt
18:27which is the tie of that draw.
18:29Leighton Rees,
18:30former Indoor League champion
18:31of Wales
18:32versus Phil Hobart,
18:34runner-up
18:34in this year's World Masters.
18:36Hobart beat Rees
18:37in the Indoor League
18:38last year
18:38on his way
18:39to the semi-finals.
18:40Can you repeat that feat?
18:42We join Dave Lanning
18:43for the first
18:44of the three legs.
18:46Rees,
18:47been playing 14 years.
18:49Pitch infancier.
18:50140.
18:55Score of 140.
18:56Playing beautifully.
18:59Now,
19:00full-time pro Leighton Rees
19:01worked
19:03as a storeman
19:04for about 20 years.
19:08125.
19:09125 kilometers
19:10in reply.
19:12The tall score
19:12is really piling up.
19:13176 Leighton Rees
19:15wants now.
19:16That's 20 of them.
19:1940.
19:2360.
19:2360.
19:25Hobart needs
19:26186.
19:28So,
19:28no three-dout finish here,
19:30but
19:30a ton would be
19:32very useful
19:32to his calls.
19:3440 scored.
19:3660.
19:3660.
19:38116 going for
19:39Leighton Rees.
19:41So,
19:42he'll be looking
19:42for that 61st start.
19:44He's got it now.
19:44Which way is he going to go?
19:45He's down for the 16.
19:46He wants double top.
19:4976 scored.
19:50So cool.
19:52So calculated.
19:52Still requires 126.
19:54126.
19:55Not an easy one
19:56to get this one.
19:57Well,
19:58not now anyway.
19:59125.
20:01He's coming down
20:01looking for the 57
20:02treble 19 misses.
20:03It goes back upstairs.
20:06Leighton now requires
20:0740.
20:08Top of the top then
20:08for Leighton Rees.
20:10Game on!
20:13So,
20:14Leighton Rees
20:14knows he's in front,
20:15but Hobart is a fighter.
20:17Let's join the second leg.
20:18John, please.
20:21So,
20:22legendary.
20:24Leighton straight in
20:25with treble 20 again.
20:29100.
20:30Off to the tonne.
20:31Bill Oliver
20:31didn't play at all badly.
20:35And that first leg
20:36has got to put it out
20:37this time.
20:40That's 80.
20:43100.
20:44Precise for the tonne.
20:50Reece.
20:54That's 40 scored.
20:56100.
20:57Scores a tonne.
20:58Beautiful stuff.
21:00Hobart.
21:01Stayed in.
21:08Flight came out.
21:09Only 40 though.
21:1060.
21:11Scores 60.
21:12So,
21:13we've had 12 darts
21:14here,
21:15and we haven't
21:16missed a 20 yet.
21:17And Rees has scored
21:17two tons to start with,
21:18and that's one
21:19on the deck.
21:22That looks like 60.
21:23It is.
21:2480.
21:24It trails by 80.
21:33That's three fives.
21:33Bad luck, Phil.
21:35That looks like another one.
21:36No, it's a single five.
21:3740.
21:3840 scored.
21:39Takes a peep across
21:39at the scoreboard,
21:40Phil.
21:40Hobart knows he's trailing.
21:42It's 80 adrift.
21:43And these.
21:44And that's 64.
21:45Reece.
21:46That looks like a second one.
21:48No, it isn't.
21:48It's a single.
21:49100.
21:50Beautiful ton.
21:52Beautiful ton.
21:54121 Leighton Reece
21:55once after only 12 darts.
22:01So,
22:01well,
22:01but really.
22:0260.
22:03A little bit unlucky
22:04to draw
22:04the big-name Welshman.
22:06121.
22:06121 going,
22:07so 61st darts.
22:09Is it?
22:11Looks like a single 20.
22:13It is.
22:14It comes downstairs
22:14looking for
22:15317.
22:16It's got 37.
22:1885 scored.
22:1985.
22:20Good last dart there
22:21in treble 16,
22:23which leaves him
22:24two 18s next time.
22:26Phil Arbard needs
22:272-4-1.
22:29Oh,
22:30he's having a lot of
22:30rotten luck.
22:3124.
22:3224 scored.
22:33Leighton now requires
22:3436.
22:35218 up there.
22:39Two nines.
22:41Game set!
22:4417 darts.
22:4516 darts
22:46to first late.
22:4717 to second.
22:48Leighton Reece
22:48gets on.
22:49And one feels
22:51some sympathy
22:52for Phil Arbard.
22:52He really could do
22:53nothing about that.
22:54Leighton Reece
22:54looking absolutely
22:56superb.
22:57So one Welshman
22:58goes through,
22:59one goes out.
23:00And that's it
23:00for this week.
23:01Next week,
23:02we'll have another
23:02men's darts match.
23:03More of those ladies
23:04at the hockey.
23:05A female bar billies
23:06match.
23:07And those eight giants
23:08who make up
23:08the arm wrestling
23:09super heavyweight competition.
23:11Until then,
23:12I'll see that.
23:13I'll see that.
23:13I'll see that.
23:14We'll see it.
23:15We'll see it.
23:16We'll see it.
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