Bill Roe
Charles Wandler
At 11:30 AM 1/8/2003, malmo wrote:
Tracksters (and others) who play competitve darts:
Scott Davis
Tom Jones
Bill Dellinger
????
malmo
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Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:21 PM
To: Randall Northam
Cc: Martin J. Dixon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: t-and-f: The REAL athlete of the year
Let's not be so critical of Darts. This is truly one of the world's
great games. In fact, I was a member of a team in the early 1970's in
Westwood while in grad school at UCLA. I was the only non-Brit on the
team of 8. We played 301 and cricket exclusively. Not the cricket with
the bats and balls!! Darts is one hell of a hand-eye coordination game,
just like pool and golf, but don't get me started with golf. Just
please remember that golf is a game, like pool and darts, not an
athletic endeavor. I do remember that the Ye Ole Mucky Duck, one of our
competitive bars, had Tom Jones on their team. Yes, that Tom Jones!!
He was a hell of a player and a really fun guy. I played competitively
for 6 years and won a hell of lot of money in the process. Even today,
I have a board in my garage and toss the darts every so often while
thinking about the next track project!! Scott
Randall Northam wrote:
> Aargh! I've put up with many other sports on this list - notably
> basketball, baseball and American Football, which no other country
> other than the USA and Canada plays with any distinction - and is
> therefore very, very parochial - but now we've got DARTS on the list
> for heaven's sake. To anybody who doesn't know, Darts involves fat men
> with a pint or two of beer throwing pointed objects from a few feet at
> a cork board with strange markings. It is not a sport or even a skill
> it is a pasttime which should be confined to pubs and bars. Usually
> the Brits win, which should tell you a lot about our prowess as a
> "sporting" nation, but now a Canadian is the world champion (how many
> countries play darts you might ask for it to be a true world
> championship) and I see the start of a slippery slope for Canada.
> But there is hope. Part beat Phil "the power" Taylor and those who
know
> about these things said the reason Taylor was beaten after eight years
> was because he'd just lost three stone (42lbs) and some must have gone
> from his throwing arm. But Taylor reckons he has another three stone
to
> go and said: "health is more important than darts."
> So there is hope.
> Randall Northam
> On Tuesday, Jan 7, 2003, at 18:30 Europe/London, Martin J. Dixon
wrote:
>
> > Now here is a guy with a skill and we got him.
> >
> > "Two nights ago, Part beat Phil Taylor, who had won the world
> > championship title for eight years in a row.
