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Arthur Williams
« on: April 14, 2013, 05:32:34 pm »
It is very sad that the stalwart of the Llandudno & District dart league and indeed 'Mr Darts' himself, Arthur Williams passed away this weekend.

Arthur set up and has kept going through sheer hard work and dedication the league as we know it today. which contains over 30 teams and many hundreds of players. Not only has his work helped create enjoyable evenings and competitions for the thousands of players through the years, but the league is also responsible for raising large sums of money for charity over the last 50 plus years


http://www.llandudnodarts.co.uk/

From the Arthur's memory lane sectioh

"To begin with, our darts league will be 50 years old in 2008. In the early years of the 1950s we only played the ‘Round the board’ method or as some call it ‘The Clock method’. Whilst we did produce some truly cracking players, overall, it did not keep us up to the same standard as the other leagues around the country who where playing 501. This was felt far more, when we players took part in the 501 games like the ‘News of the World’, etc. However we did boast two great players who did well in this competition, the greatAlf  Ward of Colwyn Bay, andMerick Roberts. Our darts league did start early in the 1950’s, but as teams were being put together after the war, it grew considerably and at that time was called the “Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Darts League”. This was eventually changed when the Colwyn Bay area formed their own league under the banner of the “Gwalia Darts League” with a good friend of ours running it namely “Arthur Holland”, who also boasts a long time as their secretary. We also saw the introduction of a ladies own league the being run by the then secretaryEllie Corris, this is still going very strong to this day and has some lady county players in their league, and some who have joined our mixed teams also.


Over the years the league has been very charity minded, with our players always giving us their wonderful support to charity events and competitions and digging deep in their pockets. The proceeds for many years went to the very deserving “Guide Dogs For The Blind” associations, and we are the proud owners of two guide dogs replicas, which at the time there were only five in the whole country! We still have our charity pair’s competitions every year with donations now going to deserving local charities like the St David’s Hospice, and Children’s hospice, the “Llandudno Life Boat” funds, and this year we donated proceeds to our local “ASDA” store for the “Tickled Pink” charity for which is run with the hard work of the local staff. To start this years 2007 charity pairs, we sincerely thankMr & Mrs Ken Roberts of the Pen y Bryn Hotel in LLanfairfechan, who have started the funds with a donation of £100 and remembering that Mr Ken Roberts is our past president and is still a vice president of our league."

RIP Arthur, thank you for all the hard work you have done for the league and darts community