Easterners Sweep Darts Tournament
It was a display of Eastern Canadian dominance at this year’s Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Darts Championships, held May 7-10 at F.E. Butler Branch in Chester, N.S.
The tourney began on Saturday morning with a brief piper-led parade around the branch before the ceremony started at the cenotaph in the lower parking lot. President Marion Fryday-Cook read the Act of Remembrance. Dominion representative Ed Pigeau, the vice-chairman of the Dominion Command Sports Committee and Ontario Command president, placed a wreath.
The darts soon began flying across the branch’s upper hall as the doubles competition began. While last year’s winning team was from Ontario, that didn’t stop the East Coast teams from mounting an early charge.
The Newfoundland and Labrador team of John Anderson and R...