Darts History The Lightning Dart Scorer 22 May 201928 Jun 2019 The Lightning Dart Scorer Some time during the 19th century the chalk and dartboard replaced the cribbage board as the standard method of scoring a game of darts. Since the…
Darts History The Language Of Darts 22 May 201916 Aug 2019 ‘The man who cannot speak the lingo of the dart is nowadays an outcast’ Alan and Geoffrey D’Egville (Darts with the Lid Off (1938)) In July 2004 I received an…
Players Leighton Rees 22 May 201921 Aug 2019 Leighton Rees Included In The Dictionary Of National Biography Leighton Rees, the first World Professional Darts Champion and probably the best-known and best-loved Welsh darter of all time, has become…
Books… Make Mine A Double 22 May 201928 Jun 2019 MAKE MINE A DOUBLE - THE STORY OF HULL DARTS Regular readers of Darts World will have noted, writes Patrick Chaplin,that I am always keen to encourage research into darts, especially at a…
Books… In And Out By Mat Coward 22 May 201928 Jun 2019 Mat Coward knows a good deal about darts Converted to the game in the 1970s when darts was booming, Mat played regularly for a pub in Hampstead, North London. Later…
Darts History The Nodor – Winmau Story 22 May 20194 May 2023 A Brief History... How These Two Companies Merged by Frank Bilotta with Patrick Chaplin, the Darts Historian Nodor, Winmau for the first time under one roof The British history of…
Books… Murder On The Darts Board – Justin Irwin 22 May 201928 Jun 2019 Although the title sounds like an Agatha Christie novel, this is not a murder mystery but a book describing Justin Irwin’s ‘journey into the heart of dartness’. Many darts fans…
Darts History… NINE-DARTERS 22 May 201911 Dec 2021 Who Threw The Very First Nine-Darter? I receive a good number of darts history questions via my website, but one I received in February 2003 from a dart fan in…
Humour The Oldest Oche? 22 May 201921 Dec 2020 The darts world is in a state of apoplexy this morning as news emerges of the discovery on Pewet Island, Essex, England, of what experts believe to be the oldest…
Dartboards and darts Numbers On The Dartboard 22 May 201921 Oct 2019 WHY ARE THE NUMBERS ON A DARTBOARD IN THE ORDER THEY ARE? This is probably the most asked question about the origins of the modern game. Who was the devious…
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