News Of The World… LEN HEARD – THE BRITISH USA DARTS CHAMPION 15 Feb 2021 In January 2021 ex-pat darts player Len Heard celebrated his 79th birthday. Immediately I can hear you saying “Len who?” I’ll let darts journalist Steve Chapman explain. Leonard Heard (pictured…
General… LIONEL SMITH 30 Dec 2020 The popularity of my News of the World,featured more or less monthly in my global Dr. Darts’ Newsletter,seems to grow and grow. This particular post was inspired by one of…
Darts History… CHARLES ‘CHARLIE’ BOWLEY – NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION 1930 20 Dec 202021 Dec 2020 It was a chance conversation that my wife had with a colleague at work back in 1988 which revealed the story of Charles ‘Charlie’ Bowley and his victory in the…
News Of The World… JOHN ZIMNOWODA 8 Jun 2020 Now there’s a surname to conjure with. I was researching something else in back issues of Darts World magazine dating back to the late 1970s when I noticed a report…
Darts History… NEWS OF THE WORLD – TREBLE 20 GUILD 24 Mar 2020 Back in 2016 Daryl H., a long-time subscriber to my Dr. Darts’ Newsletter (DDN) wrote to me saying: I read some info in [your] newsletter regarding the News of the…
News Of The World… BRYAN SMART 2 Feb 20202 Feb 2020 NEWS OF THE WORLD - LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE DIVISIONAL CHAMPION 1977 When I was made permanent custodian of the former Darts World photographic library by the retiring owner/editor Tony Wood…
Darts History… SAMMY STONE – FIRST WINNER OF THE NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 23 Jan 202023 Jan 2020 One of the key dangers of the internet for darts fans is that in some cases there is no historical basis for some of the material that appears online about…
News Of The World… GEORGE ‘PODGE’ ROGERS 20 Sep 201920 Sep 2019 George Rogers played for Durham County on 84 occasions, 50 times for the ‘A’ team and 34 times for the ‘B’, achieving around 50% success rate in both teams, a…
News Of The World… OLIVER JAMES – WALES’ FIRST NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION 19 Sep 201919 Sep 2019 Despite Wales sending Divisional champions to London for the Grand Finals of the News of the World every year since the competition was restored after the Second World War in…
News Of The World… RON CHURCH – ‘THE LEANING TOWER OF SHOREDITCH’ 18 Sep 201921 Oct 2019 Ron Church, runner-up in the 1973 News of the World individual darts tournament, was a popular London darter, played for London ‘B’ during the 1976/77 season and won the British…
