With the light perfect, dart players throw for the bull's eye Saturday at Sandy's Place on Dorchester Road. Each player's darts have a different design. These people were throwing darts for fun and profit. If you think dart tossing is the exclusive domain of hard-core, grizzled old bar patrons, think again.
Darts is growing in popularity as a family activity, devotees say.
The Saturday competition at Sandy's Place on Dorchester Road drew more than 50 men and women from eastern South Carolina, according to nightclub owner and contest director Lee Miller. Proceeds benefit the Carolina Youth Development Center, Miller said. Miller said local dart contests once commanded larger crowds and bigger prizes. But the closing of the Charleston Navy Base and shipyard removed many contestants. We lost probably 60 percent of our dart players when the Navy moved out.