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00:29This is the darts final time in the Indoor League at World Championships. After three months, we've two lasses left and two men. We're starting with the ladies' final. Representing Lee in Lancashire is the fastest dart in the north, Margaret Lally, but she's up against a real gunslinger, Jean Dickinson from Stockport, the only professional woman player and the reigning champ. In the first round, Jean disposed of York's Susie Robertshaw and was her finishing, which impressed.
00:54So she's gone upstairs. She's once now at 83. Come down for a 51. She's got a 57, is it? Yeah, 58 score.
01:0426.
01:05And that leaves 26, two-thirteens. Two-thirteens. Two-thirteens. It's over there at two o'clock on the board. And she's got shot out. Wow.
01:17Then in the second round, she met the highly fancied Pat Piper, but it was Jean who called the tune.
01:25This is Jean Dickinson of Stockport, leading 2-6-2, the reigning Indoor League champion.
01:31100.
01:31Champion gets a ton, and she really is getting her game together now. A bit of a shaky start.
01:35In the semis, she looked really cool, despite being under great pressure from Maureen Flowers.
01:40Shot here, 60, 39, two-sixteens. Yes, that's 60. That's 60. She wants three-thirteens. Three-thirteens is her shot.
01:4739, which... And she's got it. She's got it. She wants two-sixteens.
01:53Oh, she's missed him. What a fantastic try, though. That really was quite a try.
02:02But has it come too late? Jean Dickinson wants tops.
02:10Yes!
02:13Her opponent, that lassie from Lancashire, Lally, has been equally impressive.
02:18But what catches the eye, and don't blink, is her fast action.
02:21In the first round, she really was the fastest tonne around.
02:24This is the lady, of course, who won that first leg. Margaret Lally, and she looks terrific.
02:28Now, that's two.
02:29140!
02:30140. She's got two-sixteens.
02:32The average time taken for a throw is 15 to 20 seconds.
02:36Not Margaret in the quarterfinals.
02:38Lally, wallop, wallop, wallop.
02:41100.
02:42Gets her time. Super darts.
02:44Ten seconds. She doesn't waste much time getting out.
02:47Here's a clip from the semifinal.
02:49Two twirls, then, from Margaret Lally. That's just too deep.
02:52Amen!
02:57You need to really have your skates on to keep up with these ladies.
03:02Bang, bang. Thank you, ma'am.
03:03Well, who do you plump for as the winner?
03:06We'll soon know.
03:07It's the best of three legs.
03:08Margaret has won the toss.
03:09So let's straight away join her at the hockey and Dave Lanning.
03:14Match on.
03:15Truly great darts in the 76-77 series ladies indoor league.
03:21And this is the climax of them.
03:23The final between Margaret Lally scoring 45 and the reigning champion,
03:27Jean Dickinson, straight into the groove with 60.
03:31And it's an interesting point that the time her first throw,
03:35No reigning champion on indoor league has yet retained the title at darts.
03:43So Jean looking for her second title, 150 quid,
03:46and a little slice of darting history.
03:48One hundred!
03:54Another time.
03:55She really is playing superlatively well.
03:57Barry Tromlow, really, this lady is going terrific guns, isn't she?
04:01Yes, she's been...
04:02In fact, she's got more consistent as the game goes on.
04:04One hundred!
04:06Also very consistent.
04:10I mean, but you've played in big-time finals, Barry.
04:12Do the nerves get worse as you get towards the end of the game,
04:15or do you, in fact, get into the groove when you've played a couple of matches
04:18and have a couple of wins under your belt?
04:20Yes, and I think because these two are, they've got into the groove now.
04:23I think the situation's not bothering them.
04:26So the whirlwind for Margaret Lally from Lee.
04:30Bang at them home.
04:31230 she needs Jean Dickinson.
04:33Once, two, four, six, less these.
04:35And 501, of course, subtract these scores.
04:3960.
04:39Well, Jean Dickinson does it all in hundreds and 60s.
04:42It's quite easy to subtract them as well.
04:44One, eight, six she needs.
04:45Margaret Lally needs 230.
04:4760.
04:48Really and truly, the lady successful of this dynamic duo
04:53can claim to be the best in the world
04:55because these truly are outstanding Maid Marians of Margaret.
05:00140!
05:05Truly superb.
05:06Margaret Lally, who's swept all before her,
05:09just overwhelmed at the moment.
05:1146.
05:1218 darts so far.
05:15She wants 46.
05:16That is 10.
05:17She wants two 18s.
05:19She's bucked it up.
05:20She's got a one.
05:21Needs an odd one downstairs somewhere.
05:2314 scored.
05:2414 scored.
05:25So now Margaret Lally,
05:27although Jean Dickinson has really come hurtling down,
05:29wants 110.
05:30She wants the ball.
05:31She's got 60.
05:32She's 110 she wanted.
05:34She has 60.
05:35She wants 50.
05:36Will she go for it?
05:37No, she went for 18 and two 16s and missed it.
05:41And 78 scored.
05:42That last one in agony.
05:44Jean now requires 32.
05:46So Jean Dickinson wants two 12s.
05:51Two sixes over there, three o'clock.
05:53And she's missed.
05:54So Margaret Lally with colossal support from Lancashire,
05:58just across the county borders.
05:59She wants two 16s for this first leg.
06:01That's a single.
06:02She wants two 18s and she's missed that.
06:0316 scored.
06:05Jean now requires 12.
06:07Two sixes.
06:08Three o'clock on the ball.
06:09Game on top!
06:10After a very tight finish,
06:14Jean goes one up
06:15and she has the arrows in the second leg.
06:18She's a sort of russity behind this year.
06:20Jean gets the start already one leg.
06:23But although the hair colour may have changed,
06:27the supreme dart confidence has not.
06:2955.
06:30Starts with 55.
06:31Can Margaret Lally pull it back?
06:34Very quick thrower.
06:35Slowing down a bit now, though, perhaps.
06:37Just a trifle, perhaps.
06:3941.
06:39Gets 41.
06:43Jean Dickinson, there.
06:45Such a cool little customer from Stockport.
06:48Big darts area, of course,
06:49over there in the Manchester zones.
06:51100.
06:52She's the top lady there,
06:53the top in the country.
06:54This has got to be the best lady in the world.
06:57Margaret Lally is the only lady who can stop her.
06:59And Margaret, is she cracking?
07:01Two 41s.
07:02Same order, please.
07:03The ladies do seem to get just a little discouraged
07:05when they run into adversity.
07:07It's not so much adversity.
07:10It's just brilliant play from Jean Dickinson.
07:1195.
07:12It's 95.
07:13That's 55, 95, and 100.
07:16That's her first nine darts.
07:17And Margaret Lally cannot seem to find the answer.
07:2060.
07:2060.
07:20She is now over 100 behind, and these.
07:27And there's another 60.
07:28So Margaret Lally, the hurricane housewife from Lee,
07:40looks like being tamed.
07:4241.
07:4241.
07:42166 going for Jean Dickinson.
07:46There isn't a permutation on three darts here
07:49to finish on a double, but she's got 60 again.
07:51106.
07:5486.
07:54She should go across to 54.
07:57I don't know if she does not.
07:57140.
07:58140.
08:02We start to get very low on superlatives.
08:0622.
08:08Jean, you know, requires 26.
08:0915 darts so far for this 501.
08:11She wants two 13s, and that's very close.
08:15For this title, 150 quid.
08:17To retain her title, she's got a single one.
08:20Got a single one.
08:20That's not too clever.
08:22Looking for her.
08:23Oh, and she's left it.
08:25Margaret Lally, totally overwhelmed,
08:29gets another chance.
08:3260.
08:3360 score.
08:34So 13 naps.
08:35Well, which way will she go?
08:37So many ways.
08:37One and two sixes, perhaps.
08:40What's that?
08:41That's outside.
08:42Going for five.
08:43Hard lines too many.
08:44She's got three.
08:45Has her buckle gone?
08:47We wonder.
08:47Two, three, six.
08:48And if Margaret Lally just had a lot of cool.
08:5145.
08:52She may well have sneaked in here.
08:53Once again, Jean, you require 13.
08:54Jean seemed to have it all wrapped up.
08:56Now she's on 13 to rip.
08:57And lucky 13.
08:59Five.
09:00Five scored.
09:01She wants two fours.
09:02And she'll muck that up.
09:06Having looked so perfect.
09:08Margaret Lally, can she step in?
09:10Can she take advantage?
09:1241.
09:1241.
09:13That's not good enough.
09:13Well, Jean, once again, 13 rebounds.
09:1513.
09:1615 darts down to a double.
09:18Two fours.
09:19She has the five.
09:19Two fours.
09:20Is it this the time?
09:22She's going to move over.
09:24I don't think she's going to risk busting it.
09:26She hasn't.
09:26Why you score?
09:27Margaret Lally, can you require 150?
09:29150.
09:30Three bullseyes.
09:31That is 20.
09:33130.
09:34That's another 20.
09:3440 scored.
09:3660 scored.
09:3760.
09:37And so now Jean Dickinson.
09:38Jean now only scores.
09:39Needing two fours.
09:40Just cannot afford to muck around any longer.
09:44Margaret Lally leads only 90.
09:46Yes!
09:46Yes!
09:49Jean Dickinson has retained her title.
09:53The first darts champion on indoor league ever to do so.
09:56Not a brilliant second leg, but a nail-biting one.
09:59And Jean Dickinson becomes the first ever reigning champion in any sport to retain the title.
10:04Can Rhys become the first man to win the men's title twice?
10:08Find out in just a couple of takes.
10:10I'll say they.
10:26And welcome back to the final of the men's darts.
10:29In at the final, Quill newcomer Charlie Ellix of London and former champ Leighton Rhys.
10:34Both men have looked very impressive.
10:36In the first round, it didn't take Rhys long to find the 20s.
10:41Rhys.
10:42Been playing 14 years.
10:44Pigeon fancier.
10:50140!
10:50140.
10:52Playing beautifully.
10:54In the quarter-final, the man from the Valleys met Lazarenko.
10:57And they traded punches like Ali and Fraser.
11:00Cliff Lazarenko from Hampshire in his first indoor league.
11:06But a very impressive winner over Brian Vaught in the preliminary round.
11:10140!
11:11140!
11:11140!
11:12He starts, so he obviously isn't overawed by the presence of this Mr. Darts.
11:17Leighton Rhys.
11:20Gets 60.
11:21There's another one.
11:23Can he get three?
11:24123!
11:25Very close.
11:25123!
11:26Yeah!
11:26123!
11:27It was in the treble one instead of the treble 20.
11:30It's still pretty spectacular, though.
11:32Lazarenko.
11:33Bang!
11:3416 now.
11:34We are really going to town on indoor league.
11:37There's two more.
11:38There's two more.
11:39140!
11:41140!
11:43He leads.
11:45He leads.
11:45Lazarenko leads.
11:462-1, 2-3.
11:48Leighton Rhys at 60 is getting thrashed to death.
11:55140!
11:55140.
11:56Great dance.
11:58A knockout by Rhys.
11:59In the semi-finals, he met the reigning champion.
12:02And, surprisingly, he really had trouble finishing.
12:05Got a good third dart.
12:072-4s now.
12:08Leighton Rhys must surely back this one up now because Daniels only wants two 16s.
12:122-4s.
12:172-2s.
12:22Six score.
12:23Well, he has missed it.
12:25And that really has caused quite a murmur around the indoor league.
12:30Daniels now for a place in the final.
12:332-16s to beat Leighton Rhys.
12:35Same order, please.
12:37Daniels.
12:39The title holder.
12:422-16s.
12:452-8s.
12:46It's very close, but just the long side of the wire.
12:502-4s.
12:52Last dart.
12:53Incredible tension and drama.
12:57He's missed that one.
12:58Score.
12:58100.
12:59Keep going out.
13:02Obviously, the indoor league crowd a little bit on the side of the Britain.
13:04Welshmen.
13:05Leighton Rhys, one on two runs.
13:07Taking a long, long time to finish.
13:09Colossal tension.
13:102-3s.
13:113-4s.
13:123-4s.
13:133-4s.
13:133-4s.
13:143-4s.
13:153-4s.
13:163-4s.
13:173-4s.
13:183-4s.
13:193-4s.
13:22Charlie Alex is a newcomer to indoor league, but what a find.
13:26Cool, calm and collects big scores.
13:28In the first round, he met Scott Williscott, but the Highlander couldn't fling his darts like
13:33Alex.
13:33I think, in that occasion, he was blocked on his 16, so he'd got to try for the empty...
13:40140!
13:41Well, not blocked that time.
13:44In the next round, Lowe got his comeuppance, and Alex showed his coolness.
13:48It seems like he may have lost his cool.
13:50Barry Twomlow, you are indeed a next-door neighbour of John Lowe.
13:53Do you think he's lost his bottle now?
13:56Yes.
13:58180!
13:59Well, Charlie Alex gets 180 there while we were trying to sum up what's happened to
14:06John Lowe.
14:07Great maximum score there.
14:09Yes, it just lost the rhythm somewhat.
14:11On the last occasion, these two met on a match play game of 3,001 best of five.
14:16Johnny, in fact, won.
14:19Well, 161 he wants.
14:2060-51 balls.
14:21Is that 60?
14:22No, it isn't.
14:23It's quite close, though.
14:24He's got 80.
14:25You want something odd.
14:26110 score.
14:27110.
14:28110.
14:29If he was cool then, he was an iceberg in the semi-finals against Bristow.
14:34Two apiece and 220 to get.
14:36Alex is back up top on his 20s.
14:39That looks like 80.
14:41It is.
14:42100.
14:43That's a ton.
14:44He wants 120, so now Bristow has pressure.
14:47Bristow needs a big score.
14:50He just cannot find it this time.
14:54He's got six.
14:55Has he gone?
14:56Has he gone?
14:57That's the question.
14:58No.
14:59Comes back with his third dart.
15:01Shanghai on 20s in for Alex.
15:03He's got the treble.
15:05He's got the single.
15:07Can he get out?
15:08Can he get out on double top?
15:09This is a dart.
15:10Yes!
15:11Great finish.
15:12So, we're all set up for the final.
15:16It's the best of five legs, remember?
15:18501 down, straight off, and finish on a double.
15:21Charlie Alex won the toss, so he throws first.
15:24So, who is to be the new champion of the indoor league?
15:27Will it be this man?
15:28Charlie Alex, the little underer in dynamic form right now.
15:31Throwing first in this five leg, 501 final.
15:3460.
15:35Scores a turn.
15:36Or will it be the familiar figure of Leighton Rees,
15:39so often a big time finalist, of course,
15:42the former winner of this title back in 1974.
15:45And a great player.
15:47A truly great player.
15:48100.
15:49Charlie Alex.
15:52Charlie Alex.
15:54Cooly lighting up a cigarette there.
15:57Taking his time.
15:58Confusing to be overwhelmed by the occasion.
16:00Of course, Charlie has won five titles already in the calendar year.
16:05Looking for his sixth.
16:07A very steady player.
16:08Reckoned to be just about the most consistent player in the country.
16:13140.
16:14Leighton Rees, of course.
16:16Sort of an untrained king of world darts.
16:19Runner up in the news of the world, and here we go.
16:21The sixties start rattling.
16:23That's two of them.
16:24180.
16:25Incredible.
16:26180 scored.
16:27Colossal hours.
16:28Rees had a bit of a shaky semi-final against Conrad Daniels,
16:29the title holder.
16:30He's beaten fellow countryman Phil Aubard.
16:31Cliff Lazarenko, who, indeed, was a desperately unlucky loser.
16:32He's in the final.
16:33100.
16:34Rees wants 2-2-1.
16:35Rees wants 2-2-1.
16:36100, 180.
16:37That's his first two throws.
16:38There's another 60.
16:39He's in time.
16:40It's at 4-9.
16:41There's another one.
16:42He's going to come down.
16:43I think he knows he wants an odd one.
16:44171.
16:45171 scored.
16:46He leaves the ball in just nine darts.
16:47Charlie Alex looks across at the scoreboard, shakes his head and wonders what he can do.
16:52Absolutely nothing.
16:53Of course, a nine-dart finish in a 5-0-1 is the minimum 5-0-1, but he can finish in 5-0-1, but he can finish in 5-0-1, but he can finish in 5-0-1.
17:02Let's see what he's going to do.
17:04He needs 50.
17:05He's gone for the ball very bravely, and I think he's got a 25.
17:06He wants 25 to rip.
17:08He's gone across.
17:09He has got a nine.
17:11He wants a five-0-1-1 for two.
17:12He's got a nine, he wants a 25.
17:14He wants 25 to rip.
17:15He's gone across.
17:16He has got a nine.
17:17He's got that nine.
17:18He wants a seven.
17:19He's got a five-0-1, but he's got one hundred.
17:22He wants to win.
17:23What's the goal?
17:24Well, he wants to win.
17:26He wants a five-0-1.
17:28He wants to win.
17:29I am sure he's going to win.
17:30He has got a nine, he wants two eights, and he's just missed it.
17:36So although Leighton Rhys has done all the spectacular scoring,
17:40Charlie Ellix now needs only 101, and he can get out here.
17:45Not going to this time, though.
17:4733 score.
17:4833.
17:49Two fours going for Leighton Rhys.
17:52Two fours up there at two o'clock on the board.
17:56Good game.
18:01Sorry.
18:03Well, the nerves even getting to Mike Palmer.
18:05Understandable, though.
18:06Four scored, sorry Leighton.
18:07Well, that was really some controversy.
18:10Poor old Mike.
18:11Poor old Mike Palmer.
18:14Looks around and hopes that the ground will swallow him up,
18:16because that really was just a question of nerves.
18:19It's so difficult to say.
18:20Poor lad.
18:22He wants 53 now.
18:23He's got 15.
18:24Charlie Ellix, of course, 53.
18:27He's got 22.
18:28That's odd.
18:29Not at two 18s.
18:33Leighton requires four.
18:35Four.
18:35He requires two twos.
18:37Game of the game.
18:40Nice game shot.
18:41Rhys has trouble finishing, but still goes one up,
18:44and he starts first in the second.
18:46Turn to start off.
18:47Second leg.
18:47So Leighton to start, of course.
18:49That's the first time we have seen a leg one against the toss
18:53for a long while, Barry Tromler.
18:55Of course, it is so important.
18:5560.
18:56Oh, yes, it is.
18:57It really is.
18:58Can Charlie Ellix respond?
19:00Didn't play at all badly there.
19:03Had his chances, albeit outside ones, but he wants to keep this.
19:0860.
19:08Leighton Rhys hold in this way.
19:10Can't afford to go two down, surely, against Rhys.
19:1225, unluckily.
19:2325 is four.
19:25Leighton always caught this dart and realise that there's anything to do.
19:27Charlie Ellix, though, with a chance of stepping in.
19:3125 there from Rhys.
19:32Very, very low by his super standards.
19:37100.
19:37Good.
19:38Good.
19:39Couldn't seem to have a lot of room to squeeze that third dart in,
19:41but Charlie Ellix from Mill Hill did just that.
19:45Shaved the way for Leighton, too.
19:46That's just too low.
19:48So, 80 scored.
19:49100.
19:50Tonne.
19:53Charlie Ellix, of course, British Open Singles winner.
19:5674, 75.
19:58National Singles Champion, same year.
20:00He's been collecting a lot of big titles.
20:0285.
20:0385.
20:033-1-6 for Leighton Rhys, against 2-5-6.
20:08So, Alex just marginally in front.
20:10Rhys has the darts.
20:1460.
20:1460.
20:16So, now, Alex, the scores are exactly level.
20:192-5-6 apiece.
20:20And Alex has got these to count.
20:24And that looks like the treble five it is.
20:27Very close.
20:27Comes down.
20:2894.
20:29Looking for 19s.
20:3094 scored.
20:32Down to 162.
20:33There is no shot for that, though, oddly enough.
20:36Leighton Rhys.
20:37What's a big one?
20:4185.
20:44162, Charlie Ellix.
20:45No permutation on three darts will leave him a double shot here.
20:48Got 60.
20:49It's 102.
20:51It's 82.
20:52He'll look across shortly now for 3-14s.
20:5482 you want, Charlie.
20:56Yes, he was going for...
20:58107.
20:59He's got it as well.
21:01Good darts.
21:02129.
21:03129 scored, so it's very, very level.
21:15Alex needs 55.
21:16He'll go for 15.
21:17He gets it.
21:18He wants double top to level it up.
21:21Very close.
21:22Two tens.
21:22Four o'clock on the board.
21:2330 points.
21:25He's missed it.
21:26And Rhys needs 32 after that tremendous 1-39 last shot.
21:29He requires 32.
21:30Two 16s for a 2-0 lead.
21:33Game.
21:35Didn't even look.
21:37Alex was walking away.
21:38This time, no bother for Rhys, but do remember, it's the best of five legs, and it's Alex to throw.
21:43Charlie Alex was on the third leg, but he must win this leg and the next one to stay in with a shout at the indoor league title, but it's a 150 pound first prize.
21:5560.
21:56Starts for 60.
21:58Leighton Rhys.
22:00One thinks it's going to take something very special to stop him now, Barry Tromlo.
22:04Oh, yes.
22:05Leighton has had a terrific start there, winning that first leg.
22:09100.
22:11Starts with a ton.
22:13Alex back to the wall.
22:15Game little fighter, though.
22:16He won't give up.
22:17Quite a struggle.
22:19It's just into the five.
22:21It looks like.
22:2185.
22:2285 score.
22:23Beautiful.
22:25Even in the tension of the final, Dave, their arm action exactly the same.
22:29Beautiful.
22:30I see Leighton's sweating a bit, but he's a big lad and prone to sweat under the lights of television, Barry.
22:3560.
22:35Only 60, so Alex has the opportunity to grab the lead here.
22:44Remember, it's a straight start.
22:455-0-1.
22:46Must finish on a double.
22:4760.
22:4860 score.
22:49Good, Charlie.
22:512-9-6, then Alex.
22:533-4-1, Rhys, but he's got the dart.
22:55So that familiar first dart in the large part of the 20s, leaving room in the trebles, just like that.
23:00140.
23:02140.
23:033-4-1, Rhys, rampant.
23:06Charlie's got it all to do now, Dave.
23:11And he's trying very, very hard.
23:12100.
23:15Responds with a ton.
23:16196 he wants.
23:18Rhys wants 201.
23:19And another magic.
23:21Treble 20.
23:22And another one.
23:23I think he's going to go downstairs.
23:25135.
23:26So calculating.
23:27135s for a 66 he wants.
23:32Alex wants 196, plugging along gamely.
23:37Like hanging on to a hurricane, though, with Rhyses in this sort of form.
23:4066.
23:4166.
23:42So three tens, double 18, perhaps he'll go for.
23:45Yes, he does.
23:46Two 18s to wrap it up.
23:48Two nines.
23:49Three nil in the final.
23:58Rhys, so often the pride's made in the big tournaments, has got the indoor league.
24:03So Leighton Rhys, with that marvellous shutout, becomes once again the indoor league champion.
24:08And it couldn't happen to a nicer fella.
24:10And that's all for this week.
24:12But do join us next week for a look back in Langa for the highlights of the series.
24:16Don't forget, relive the memories the champs will carry with them to their graves.
24:20I'll say they.
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