Darts History… DARTS HISTORY – SAMMY STONE – FIRST WINNER OF THE NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 23 Jan 202018 Mar 2026 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… DARTS HISTORY – GEORGE ‘PODGE’ ROGERS 20 Sep 201918 Mar 2026 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… DARTS HISTORY – OLIVER JAMES – WALES’ FIRST NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION 19 Sep 201918 Mar 2026 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… DARTS HISTORY – RON CHURCH – ‘THE LEANING TOWER OF SHOREDITCH’ 18 Sep 201918 Mar 2026 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… DARTS HISTORY – KIM ‘THE FOX’ BROWN 29 Aug 201918 Mar 2026 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…
News Of The World… DARTS HISTORY – HARRY PERRYMAN – NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION 1951 29 Aug 201918 Mar 2026 Harry Perryman (right) being awarded his championship trophy by the popular English comedian Tommy Trinder in 1951 I know, from the number of enquiries I receive that darts fans like…
News Of The World… DARTS HISTORY – STEFAN LORD 21 Aug 201918 Mar 2026 Swedish darts star Stefan Lord is perhaps best remembered by Darts World readers, and all darts fans of a certain age, for his two victories in the News of the…
News Of The World DARTS HISTORY – NEWS OF THE WORLD INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP – WINNERS AND RUNNER-UPS – 1927/8 TO 1938/39, 1947-48 TO 1989-90 AND 1996/97 22 May 201918 Mar 2026 The "News of the World" tournament commenced 1927 and started out originally as a London competition. It then expanded to become one of the world's biggest darts tournaments. LONDON AREA1927-28Sammy…
News Of The World DARTS HISTORY – THE NEWS OF THE WORLD INDIVIDUAL DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP – A HISTORY 22 May 201918 Mar 2026 For many years the News of the World Individual Darts Championship was the one competition that every dart player wanted to win. They say that ‘from little acorns mighty oaks…
Humour… DARTS HISTORY – THE LIGHTER SIDE OF DARTS 22 May 201918 Mar 2026 'The Gercha and other whimsical darts-related stories Whilst recently rummaging through my data files I discovered an article which was originally written in 2000 for Planetdarts (the original name of…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 