Books… DARTS PLAYERS’ BIOGRAPHIES 1 Nov 2019 TELLING IT LIKE IT WAS I am always on the lookout for new books about darts especially biographies of famous (and not so famous) darts players and so it was…
Humour… THOMAS ‘TUMBLE’ TOMPKINS 27 Oct 2019 Way, way back probably even before the first issue of Dr. Darts’ Newsletter (DDN) was published IN 2010, I received an e-mail from Dennis D. an itinerant woodsman asking if…
Players ALLAN PLANT 21 Oct 201927 Oct 2019 I first met Allan Plant (pictured) in the early Noughties in Hull, England at the WINMAU World Masters and found him to be a very knowledgeable, engaging and fascinating man.…
Darts History… JOCKY WILSON – SCOTLAND’S FIRST WORLD CHAMPION 1 Oct 20191 Oct 2019 JOCKY WILSON (22nd March 1950 – 24th March 2012) On the evening of 24th March 2012, just a few days after his 62nd birthday Jocky died at his home in…
Darts History… ‘THE EMBASSY’ – THE TOURNAMENT THAT CHANGED DARTS FOREVER 1 Oct 20191 Oct 2019 There were ‘world’ darts titles that were contested before 1978 but it was ‘the Embassy’ that lighted the road for the rest to follow, and follow they did. Before the…
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…
Players TONY SONTAG – ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL 19 Sep 201919 Sep 2019 Tony Sontag was a long-time member of London County darts and was selected a number of times to play for England during the 1970s and 1980s. He was described by…
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…
Darts History… HARRY HEENAN – THE PRIDE OF SCOTLAND 16 Sep 2019 Harry Heenan (b. 13th May 1936) was a proud Glaswegian darts player who burst on to the scene in the early 1960s. Harry Heenan Harry was born in Glasgow…
