DR. DARTS’ NEWSLETTER – LATEST ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW!
DR. DARTS’ NEWSLETTER (DDN)for the month of March (#35) is now available absolutely free to all darts fans and, as usual, contains loads of darts information that you will find nowhere else on the ‘net.
Dr. Darts Newsletter (DDN)is researched,written and compiled by WINMAU-sponsored Darts Historian and Author, Dr. Patrick Chaplin. With the list of subscribers now including some of the best known names in darts and darts fans from across the globe, including Albania, Russia, Fiji and Greenland, it seems to be the thing to do to subscribe to DDN.(For how to subscribe see below)
Issue 35 includes:
- The OPTIMAL Dartboard: A mathematics professor redesigns the standard dartboard to make it less easy for unskilled players to utilise. You may recall that a WINMAU BLADE 4 dartboard was constructed using the ‘optimal’ format and featured on TV during the Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship last January. Here’s its story.
- New world record attempt to throw a bull^s-eye from over 20 feet!
- Obituary for veteran Bristol darter Kim ‘The Fox’ Brown
- ‘Middle for Diddle’ – A bit of darts lingo and an alternative darts game
- 180! Fascinating Darts Facts reaches Japan
- PLUS loads of feedback from previous issues
If you would like to receive a copy of the on-line Dr. Darts’ Newsletter (DDN) then SUBSCRIBE TODAY. It’s easy and FREEand you can do so by e-mailing Patrick at info@patrick.chaplin.com. Come and join the happy (and ever-increasing) band and learn even more about the great sport of darts.
FINALLY…
Patrick’s new book 180! Fascinating Darts Facts published by The History Press is available now and can be ordered from www.thehistorypress.co.uk. (The book includes a brief history of the WINMAU World Masters.)
PLUS…His ‘masterwork’ Darts in England 1900-39: A social history, the book based on Patrick’s PhD is now available in softback (published by Manchester University Press). It costs £15.99 (plus postage and packing) and can be ordered from www.nbinternational.com.
For more articles about darts history, check out www.patrickchaplin.com.
© 2013 Patrick Chaplin
