Storey from Portsmouth Today http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2146161&SectionID=457Pubs will keep their dartboards covered up across Fareham and Gosport as scores of enthusiasts aim to raise thousands of pounds at a charity tournament in memory of a well-known player.
The open tournament at Ferneham Hall in Fareham on Monday is being held in honour of former Fareham Men’s Darts League chairman Colin McGinnis, who died last July.
The open tournament at Ferneham Hall in Fareham on Monday is being held in honour of former Fareham Men’s Darts League chairman Colin McGinnis, who died last July.
Proceeds will go to The Rowans Hospice, in Purbrook, which helped Mr McGinnis’s family look after him in the final weeks of his battle with stomach and liver cancer.
The Fareham father-of-three died at the age of 63. The competition is open to anyone who pays a £2 fee. Spectators get in for free from 6pm. The matches are due to run from about 7pm until midnight.
There will also be a raffle and Andy Jenkins, a top 10 player and former winner of the English, Welsh and Swiss Opens, is to auction off a dartboard signed by the country’s leading lights in the game.
Mr McGinnis’s family will also be there to cheer the players on.
David Nevitt’s Fareham-based Eurosheen cleaning firm is sponsoring the contest, and he said: in Fareham and Gosport have been cancelled for that night so people can come along because Colin was so well-known.’
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