Darts History… DARTS HISTORY – YE OLDE FAKE HISTORY OF YE OLDE GAME OF DARTS 20 Sep 20192 Mar 2026 I have been friends with Arthur R. Taylor, the noted pub games expert for some years and was unaware until recently that he had, back in 2007 written about the…
FAQs DARTS HISTORY – WHERE DOES THE WORD OCHE ORIGINATE? 13 Aug 201917 Mar 2026 This is one question that I am asked time and time again and one for which I can only offer a theory. 'Oche' as a word meaning the throwing line…
FAQs… DARTS HISTORY – JOHN LOWE AND THE FIRST TELEVISED NINE DARTER 22 May 201917 Mar 2026 John Lowe has called his now legendary nine-darter, achieved on 13th October 1984, as ‘two and a half minutes of magic’. Indeed he has recorded the historic event in detail…
Darts History… DARTS HISTORY – NINE-DARTERS 22 May 201917 Mar 2026 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…
Darts History… WALK ON GIRLS (AND MEN) 22 May 201921 Dec 2020 WILLIAM HILL WORLD DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 ALEXANDRA PALACE,LONDON PIC; (c) LAWRENCE LUSTIG PREM ROUND WALK ONS. Used with permission.) Glamorous walk-on girls became a popular feature and fixture of every…
FAQs Why 501? 22 May 201931 Oct 2019 The very first games of darts consisted of throwing three darts and the highest score with those three darts won the game. But then things became a little more sophisticated.…
FAQs Why Three Darts? 22 May 201916 Aug 2019 In June 2004 I received the following e-mail from a visitor to my web site. “Hello Mr. Chaplin, Could you please tell me why we only use 3 darts in…
Australia… First Back-To-Back 180s On TV 21 May 201920 Dec 2020 Way, way back in 2003 in response to a question that I could not answer, Wayne Robinson of the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, e-mailed me to say…
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