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Category: News Of The World

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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…
News Of The World…

KIM ‘THE FOX’ BROWN

29 Aug 201917 Sep 2019
Kim Brown Darts legend Kim Brown (b. 30th December 1930) (pictured) died of cancer in the early hours of 29th December 2012 at his home in Knowle, near Bristol surrounded…

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