{"id":6024,"date":"2023-01-26T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T10:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2023\/01\/column-hr391-spanning-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T22:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:18:03","slug":"column-hr391-spanning-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2023\/01\/column-hr391-spanning-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Column #HR391  SPANNING THE WORLD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, January 26, 2023<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Column HR391<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>SPANNING THE WORLD!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Gong xi fa cai<\/em>.\u00a0 Welcome\u00a0to\u00a0the Lunar New Year.\u00a0\u00a0Year of the Rabbit.\u00a0 Like\u00a0Phil Taylor the Energizer Bunny is \u201cOver the Moon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we visit Las Vegas (what happens there won\u2019t stay there), Bucharest, Romania (a 2-WDF eventer), Copenhagen, Denmark (for the PDC) and Coventry, England, for the JDC Q School.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Dart Coach may toss in a few remarks to keep readers on their toes.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cReading on their toes\u201d seems silly.\u00a0 Reading on the \u201cdonicker\u201d – acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The Las Vegas Open drew a quality field for a 4-day darting orgy.\u00a0 ADO National Champions were anointed in cricket and 501.\u00a0\u00a0Chuck Puleo laid a good old fashion lesson in darts\u00a0on Leonard \u201cThe Jerk\u201d Gates 5-1 to become cricket champ.\u00a0\u00a0Puleo\u2019s closest call came against Danny Baggish.\u00a0\u00a0The pair were tied at 2 in the race to 3.\u00a0 Baggish held the hammer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Baggish left 19s open after 6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Puleo went 18, t17, 19, scoring 19.\u00a0 Baggish\u2019s answer was weak 18, 19.\u00a0 Puleo pounced with 5-18s, scoring 73.\u00a0 The fat lady sang.\u00a0 Puleo 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Marlise Kiel\u00a0escaped in her semifinal against Sandy Hudson 3-2.\u00a0\u00a0Hudson needed 2 bulls with 6 darts.\u00a0 Didn’t happened.\u00a0\u00a0Kiel closed with 3 single bulls from 9 darts.\u00a0 Kiel then opened a 2-nil lead over Cali West in the final. West got one back when Keil returned the honor.\u00a0 Keil became ADO National Cricket Champion 4-2.\u00a0The ADO 501 title went to Paula Murphy.\u00a0 She captured the crown 5-2 over Cali West after taking out 2023 Cricket Champ Marlise Kiel 4-2 from 2-nil down.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s \u201801 title went to Leonard \u201cThe Jerk\u201d Gates 6-3 over Danny Baggish.<\/p>\n<p>The ADO\/WDF ’01 singes saw Chris Lim\u00a0\u00a0<em>Gong xi fa cai<\/em>-ing as he rabbited through the competition to win, repeating his victory of 2020.\u00a0\u00a0Lim took down Leonard Gates in their semi 5-3.\u00a0 Up 4-3 Lim took advantage of Gates leaving himself 14 from 106 while he was on 150.<\/p>\n<p>In the final Gary Mawson, the former mailman, kept delivering.\u00a0 He took advantage of Lim, as Lim squandered a 3-nil lead to see the match level.\u00a0 Lim had double trouble.\u00a0\u00a0Lim would\u00a0lead 4-3 following a 13-darter darter (4-3) and the match was then then level\u00a0again at 5.\u00a0 Lim took the decider in 18 erasing 60 as Mawson fell into scoring drought.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy would win the Women\u2019s Cricket singles taking out ADO Cricket Champ Marlise Kiel 2-1 .<\/p>\n<p>Bucharest, Romania played host to the aptly named Romanian Darts Festival.\u00a0\u00a0The event had two WDF points events.\u00a0 On the lady\u2019s side Ms. Beau Greaves made it her very own playground winning all events.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Greaves took both singles without taking a deep breath.\u00a0\u00a0Her overall record for the pair of singles was 49-3 (adding in pair\u2019s wins, with Deta Hedman)\u00a0it was 66-3.\u00a0 Greaves trailed only once (0-2) against Aletta Wajer.<\/p>\n<p>The only conclusion is that Greaves is far, far ahead of the \u201cover the pond women\u201d\u00a0or they are really bad.\u00a0 Going with far ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Wright won his first TV title of the year with an 11-5 victory over Gerwyn Price to annex\u00a0the Viaplay Nordic Darts Masters.\u00a0 In the process he derailed the 2-match TV win streak of Michael Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Wright\u2019s 11-8 over Smith came despite being outscored\u00a0 but finishing 50%.\u00a0\u00a0Before his two TV wins,\u00a0Smith had found\u00a0crucial doubles a challenge.\u00a0 When those pesky doubles were eliminated, he became world champ.\u00a0 They\u2019re\u00a0back.\u00a0\u00a0Against Wright he was 5 for 25.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to victory Wright took out Michael van Gerwen.\u00a0 Wright led 7-4 only to find himself level at 8 when van Gerwen used T80 and a 60-out in 14 darts.<\/p>\n<p>Following 3 misses Wright got a 9-8 lead.\u00a0 MvG would level in 15 darts.\u00a0 A scoring drought by MVG allowed Wright to take the match (10-9) in 19 darts on d5.\u00a0 Wright garnered 22-T40s to MVG\u2019s 13 allowing Wright to dawdle on doubles at\u00a029.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Kaden Anderson may well be the preview\u00a0of the future for American world class\u00a0darters…<\/p>\n<p>The Bottleson Darts-sponsored youngster\u00a0traveled to Coventry, England, to face\u00a0the best JDC (Junior Dart Corporation)\u00a0darters.\u00a0 When\u00a0he won the third event of 4 events\u00a0he gained his JDC Tour card.\u00a0\u00a0In that win Andersen, early on, took out a previous finalist Fabian Taper of Wales 4-3.\u00a0\u00a0Taper had lost in final of the second event and was\u00a0\u00a0runner up in the 4<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0Against Ireland’s Luke Dooley in the semifinals Anderson was up 2-1 and 3-2\u00a0when he rolled out a 15- darter to 4-2.\u00a0 Oh yes – the average for that leg was 100.20.<\/p>\n<p>A few maybe uncalled for comments…<\/p>\n<p>The #38 ranked player from the PDC came to the Las Vegas Open on an exhibition tour of the USA.\u00a0 On the Order of Merit Whitlock has earned $153,000.\u00a0 \u201cWhile on vacation” (his words), he entered the doubles with Van Dongen.\u00a0 They got dusted by Jeff Springer and Kevin Luke 2-0 in the cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dongen and Whitlock won the doubles and mixed triples with Katie Falla.\u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s an obligations that comes with the label \u201cProfessional\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder why the ODC calls Leonard Gates a jerk?<\/p>\n<p>At the recent PDC World Championships a young boy suffering from cancer was brought into the practice room.\u00a0 Canada’s Jeff Smith took off his shirt, autographed it, and gave it to the boy.\u00a0 When the youngster asked Gates for an autograph Gates told him, “Don\u2019t bother me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Find a dictionary – you know, that book that tells what words mean.\u00a0 Look up \u201cprofessional\u201d and \u201cclass\u201d.\u00a0 Next to neither will you find a photo of Leonard Gates.<\/p>\n<p>[EDITOR’S NOTE: the PDC and CDC should sanction Gates for bringing the sport into disrepute.\u00a0 The ADO?\u00a0 Look up “disrepute” in the dictionary!]<\/p>\n<p>CONGRATULATIONS to the Reunion Committee (The Millers – not Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston from the movie but Doit and Julia from Phoenix), Linda Endo, Russ Lopez, Liza Farrell, Duck Miller and Jerry Feather for carrying on despite the restraints placed upon the Committee by \u201cI\u2019m Matt Stoner\u00a0 ADO Vice President\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday night suite photo showed 14 dart players, 5 committee members and two husbands.\u00a0\u00a0On\u00a0Saturday, the group grew larger with drive-ins.\u00a0 Things might have been different if only one of the original members had “apologized for something they didn\u2019t do\u201d or the Committee had stood up to the ADO.<\/p>\n<p>An Irish reader posted:\u00a0<em>This posting doesn’t seem up to your normal standard.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Spot on.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>The ODC answered via Facebook, when asked to name \u201cthree persons bands\u201d. \u00a0Faster than a speeding bullet the ODC came up with \u201cThree Dog Night\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately came the\u00a0Facebook rebuke.<\/p>\n<p>There were\u00a0<em>four people in\u00a0Three Dog Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shot back the\u00a0ODC:\u00a0<em>Then why isn\u2019t it called Four Dog Night?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No answer has come back.<\/p>\n<p>Stay thirsty my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we visit Las Vegas (what happens there won\u2019t stay there), Bucharest, Romania (a 2-WDF eventer), Copenhagen, Denmark (for the PDC) and Coventry England for the JDC Q 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