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Category: Trivia

Darts History…

GRAHAM FRITH -THE PHANTOM ARROW

17 Nov 2021
In the Summer of 1967, Ted Cain, the owner of a country club at Kirklinton, near Carlisle, was looking for a different stage attraction to entertain his patrons. He came…
Darts History…

NEW ORGANISATION TO TAKE ON THE PDC AND BDO

31 Mar 2020
EMBARGOED UNTIL 12.01 A.M. (1.4.20) News released on the first of the month has reached me that, following a number of high-level meetings of half a dozen miscellaneous and misinformed…
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…
Darts History…

BREXIT IS BAD FOR DARTS

15 Sep 201915 Sep 2019
By the time you read this we here in the UK will all know what is, or isn’t or possibly might be happening as regards the exit of Britain from…
Dartboards and darts…

EU DARTBOARD RULING DECLARED ‘CRAZY’

29 Aug 201921 Oct 2019
The world of darts is this morning reeling from the news that a new European Union (EU) regulation threatens the very existence of the sport. Regulation 1420/16 drafted by the…
Humour

HARROWS LAUNCHES ‘DARTOBIKE’

29 Aug 201921 Oct 2019
Amazing news from Harrows. Always looking for innovative ways of utilising dartboards, Harrows’ Research and Development Department’s New Uses for Dartboards (NUD) team have come up with an idea that…
Trivia

Darts Trivia Part Five

22 May 201921 Dec 2020
Your Darts Trivia I was thinking that, if one person – Bob Lanctot of Ontario, Canada - was good enough to supply me with a truckload of darts trivia for…
Trivia

Darts Trivia Part Four

22 May 201927 Jun 2019
The following story was posted on alt.sport.darts by Geoff Gant ( softly@pncl.co.uk ): "I know darts stories can rival fishermen's' for size, speed and accuracy, but here is one that actually happened…
Trivia

Darts Trivia Part Three

22 May 201927 Jun 2019
From information supplied by Bob Lanctot admin@ottadart.ca The National Capital Area Darts Page http://www.ottadart.ca/ Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dartboards are made from compressed biscuits of African sisal. Flights made of real turkey feathers are becoming…
Trivia

Darts Trivia Part Two

22 May 201927 Jun 2019
From information supplied by Bob Lanctot admin@ottadart.ca The National Capital Area Darts Page http://www.ottadart.ca/ Ottawa, Ontario, Canada In September, 1989 Vic Cutts and Pete Hotchkins playing at the Eagle Nechells, Birmingham, England, totaled 460,740…

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