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                               Sport in a pub.

     There are many public houses in London and elsewhere, where beer,  wine
and spirits may be bought and drunk at certain times of the day.  These  are
suitable for all classes of the community and provide a place, where  people
may meet together and talk, and perhaps play at darts  or  other  games,  as
well as drink.
     In the bar of every English «pub» there is a  dartboard,  and  on  most
evenings the game of darts is being played. This is  a  traditional  English
game. The first record of something  like  the  modern  game  appears  in  a
sixteenth century. In this tournament people threw missiles in a  target  by
hand, instead of using a bow.
     The dartboard has numbered  sections  and  the  score  depends  on  the
section in which the dart lands. The darts are small, about 12 cm long,  and
have a steel point, a metal body and the three  feathers.  A  set  of  three
darts is used and each player throws them in turns. Expert  players  usually
have their own private set of darts, but  pubs  always  provide  a  set  for
occasional players. If you hit the very middle – you  hit  the  bull’s  eye,
which give you the highest score.
     Pubs are really an essential part of English life.  Most  customers  in
the smaller pubs play games such as dominoes, darts or snooker.  Snooker  is
a variation of billiards played with 15 red balls and  6  variously  colored
ones. And in many local pubs there are the teams of players of  snooker  who
play matches against teams from other pubs. The idea has  developed  so  far
that there are even national championships in snooker and darts.

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