[2] This was their last UK Top 10 hit, their only other sizeable hit coming in 1980 with a cover of The Four Seasons "Let's Hang On!".
At that time, there was only one TV event (the Embassy World Championship on BBC TV) whereas five years before there had been plenty of TV exposure and the future of the sport had looked good. [2] More cover versions followed in 1978 with "Come Back My Love" (originally recorded by US R&B group The Wrens in 1955), and "The Boy from New York City" (originally a US hit for The Ad Libs in 1965). For decades the rules of darts were merely ‘house rules’; whatever rules a particular pub played to, visitors did too. Dutch station RTL-7, with DSF in Germany and several of the other large TV stations across the globe, also broadcast most of  the PDC darts events, with major coverage in all of these areas. The Embassy World Darts Championship was promoted the first time on television in 1975. The duo were initially involved in darts as player managers during the 1980s and 1990s, looking after the likes of Eric Bristow, Jocky Wilson and Phil Taylor. Another later member was Mike Deacon (ex Suzi Quatro band) on keyboards. Darts has continued to grow again on television and there now several major tournaments broadcast in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. [2] All three of the aforementioned hits reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart[1] and sold a combined total of 1.25 million copies. The PDC normally have their championship mid December to early January and the BDO from early January onward. [citation needed][clarification needed]. One English pub owner then made the 9 feet rule by placing three “Hockey & Sons” beer crates (3 x 3 feet) as a distance marker. Defending champion John Lowe, who had released a book The Lowe Profile just before the event suffered a surprise defeat 0–2 to Cliff Lazarenko saying afterwards "If you miss your doubles in this one, you must expect to go out."

By 1979 it was estimated that two million people in Britain played darts competitively three or four times a week with another three million playing it fairly regularly plus at least another two million who threw darts at least once a year. For the second successive year the tournament was staged at Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent. The oche line behind which the throwing player must stand – is generally 7 ft 9¼ in (2.37 m) from the face of the dartboard measured horizontally. The 1970s and 1980s created the first household names, the first darts ‘stars’ such as Eric Bristow, John Lowe, Alan Evans, Jocky Wilson, Leighton Rees, Cliff Lazarenko, to name but a few. The game was taken into all theatres of war by English servicemen (including prisoner of war camps in Europe and the Far East) and thus many allies, particularly the Americans, Australian and New Zealanders learned about the game. The latter has only twelve segments and these are numbered 20,5,15,10,20,5,15,10,20,5,15,10. No evidence exists to support this latter theory except that the bull’s-eye is even today sometimes called the ‘bung hole’. (Darts historian Patrick Chaplin has an alternative theory.

googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Unit5'); }); He then challenged any court official to do the same. Each section is separated with metal wire or a thin band of sheet metal. seems like the should have been better known than he actually is. The first paper folded dart flight was patented in 1898 by an American and in 1906 an Englishman patented the first metal barrel. What probably just started as a means of fun quickly became a game of skill, and it wasn’t long before the soldiers started exhibiting their skills at the drinking establishments.

Although the rules were amended and expanded by both the NDAGB in the 1950s and the BDO in the 1970s the key rules are fundamentally the same as those drawn up in the 1920s.
News traveled fast, and it wasn’t long before the news reached the upper class, who also became interested and wanted to show-off their dart throwing skills. Apparently to return to the BDO they were both promised the world.

The Nodor company had been established in the early 1920s by Edward Leggatt whose first contribution to darts was the creation of an odourless clay (thus ‘No Odour’ ‘Nodor’) which he used to construct dartboards which he hoped would replace both the clay dartboards made of the Plasticine® company and the more common wooden boards. He won 22 WDF and BDO titles and around 70 other titles in various competitions. You can also support us by signing up to our Mailing List. The London-based band had a number of UK top 20 hits including three successive number twos with revivals of early US rock and roll and R&B songs. One such story was about a game which originated in 1844 called “Puff and Dart“. The game of darts maintained a fairly low profile on a national level during the 1950 and 60’s, but through the excellent organization of the NDAGB, close to 4 million competitors in England alone entered the NODOR Fours competition, sponsored by the Nodor Dartboard Company.

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