Torrington Darts League

The passenger trains have stopped but there was no stopping Railway Hotel in their opening game of Torrington Darts League when they visited Black Swan and changed the home team’s colour with a double whitewash.

In the game Laurie Cudmore scored the season’s first hat-trick, and other scorers were Vernon Steer, John Lawrence and Tony Smithson.

League champions Temperance Eight were also on form. They beat the Rook Shooters 5-1, dropping a point in the foursomes when T Beer scored a consolation double. Brian Sussex bagged two winners for the Temperance Eight and went out in one leg on 110.

Top team last term, the Union Inn, Stibb Cross, trounced the Buckingham Arms 5-1, Austin Broad landing four winners for them.

Top scores: 153 E Bond; 140 S Blackmore, M Cloak (3) also 2x100; A Mills also 112, 100, G Stevens, also 100, D Ayre also 2x 100, W Cooke also 100; 136, E Short; 133, 121, J Soby; 133, 2x100, T Durk; 133, C Slade; 132, G Oke and G Wheeler; 125, 121, 120, D Courtney; 125, D Bailey; 121, 100, V Steer; 120, 100, B Weeks, F Raymont; 110, B Sussex.

Division A – sixes; Union Inn 3, Buckingham Arms 0 (fours 2-1); Black Swan 0, Railway Hotel 3 (0-3); Rams Head 2, Bell Inn 1 (1-2); Hotspots 2, Newcomers 1 (2-1); West of England 2, Clinton Arms 1 (1-2);

Division B – Rook Shooters 0, Temperance Eight 3 (1-2); Globe Inn 2, Royal Oak 1 (2-1); Newmarket Hotel 2, Swans 1 (3-0); New Inn 3, Hunters Unapproachables 0 (3-0); Hornets 1, Castaways 2 (1-2).

Gazette article dated 15 October 1965