South Yorkshire Times, October 15, 1949

Remarkable Sequence

Fashion creator in this remarkable sequence of trios was H.G. Richards, who in season 1945 carried off Mitchell Thomson and Wade Cups. In the following year Ray Lawless won the Captain’s Prize. Mitchell and Thomson Cups last year It. M. Martin won the Captain’s Prize (for the second year in succession), the Mitchell Cup, and the Lloyd Cup, a new trophy given to the club by Mr. P. H. Lloyd and Mr. J. M. Lloyd. Break in the sequence came in 1947, when Arnold Royston won Wade and Mitchell Cups and W. Wigfield the Thomson Cup.

Percy Bailey’s (picture) grand success spells achievement indeed. It is only a couple of years or so ago since he took up the game seriously again—after a break of thirty years!        And the trio was completed last Sunday afternoon in a torrential downpour, when he finished four up (against bogey in the Thomson Cup—after working an allnight shift!

An engine driver at Mexborough Loco., he went on duty at 11-15 on Saturday night and reached home at 10 o-‘clock on Sunday morning.

There was a close finish to the Thomson Cup. Both Percy Bailey and F. Tomlinson finished four up in Sunday’s final, but Bailey won e cup on handicap.