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…
Australia… GEORGE FOSTER 22 Nov 201922 Nov 2019 AUSTRALIAN DARTS ACE The name George Foster may not be a name that instantly springs to mind today but rest assured that he deserves his place in darts history. I…
Australia… KEVIN WHITE 21 Nov 201921 Nov 2019 AN AUSTRALIAN DARTS STAR On 20th May 2015 the death was announced of top Australian darts player, Kevin White. Kevin White (right) with George Foster - 1976 Unicorn Unicorn World…
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 201918 Nov 2021 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 201921 Dec 2020 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…
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