Darts or “arras” is still a popular pub game and has over the past ten years reached TV status and has like in all sports, got its band of followers and a number of celebrities.
When in the Dolpin we met three darts players who had just returned from watching The Professional Darts championship in Las Vegas .These professional darts players can earn up to £50,000 a year while those at the top of the profession can earn over a million pounds a year in prize money.
It is interesting that quite a few number of these famous darts players have nicknames and when making their entrances to do battle like gladiators of the ochre line, they have a piece of “walk on music”. Phil Taylor known as the Power enters to The Power by Snap, Dennis Priestly known as the Menace, enters to Hell Raiser by the Sweet and Denny Smith known as Smiffy enters to You really got me by van Halen.
Denny Smith is personally known by the Captain. Denny still lives in Hungerford where the Captain used to live. Smiffy can still regularly be seen playing darts with his mates in the Borough Arms and Hungerford Town football club. He is a big old boy, with a pony tail and although has dark hair he has bright blue eyes. He must have changed his nickname for in Hungerford he was known as The Barcardi Geezer because of his fondness of the Barcadi logo- the black, flying bat or something like that.
The three darts players that we met were Andy, Ed and Eddie but who was more interesting than the three of them put together was the darts team mascot. More on this little fellow will be found elsewhere in this book.
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