Final of the Individual Championship of England and Wales
Commentator, Stewart MacPherson
Organised by the News of the World
From the Empire Pool and Sports Arena. Wembley

The last two decades have seen darts, at one lime solely a tap-room or parlour game, raised to the status of a recognised sport. There are annual championships all over the country. One of the biggest is that run by the News of the World, which had a record entry this year of 300,000. As we go to press 299,992 of the competitors have fallen in combat in sixty-four area finals and eight divisional finals, and, if he is not beaten in a divisional final to come, Yorkshire's Aubrey Boomer will be the only one of last year's finalists to appear at Wembley tonight.