Mexborough and Swinton Times May 9, 1902
Cricket Doings
For the present Hickleton Main head the Mexborough League table having won both the matches they have played. They got 4.42 wins and 2.2 gives it could not be played on account of.
Conisbrough 48 Hickleton Main 49 for 5
Eyre 6-26, W Proberts 3-1 A Crow 19*
A Crow, the new man from Staincross, was the top scorer for the side on Saturday, at Conisbrough, his total being 19 – precisely the same score that he registered against Wombwell. The top score for the club in league matches is held by G Pinder, the captain, with the 33 he compiled against Wombwell.
At Conisbrough the home team batted first, and Hickleton got rid of them all for 48, just three runs less than it cost them to dismiss Wombwell on the previous Saturday. F Eyre was mainly responsible for this is, as he took six wickets for 26 runs. Runs came slowly in one part of their innings Hickleton eventually managed to rub off the score without giving, winning with five wickets in hand.
Denaby & Cadeby 62 for 2 Wombwell Main 161 for 0 dec
W Robinson 36, J Stott 20 F Turner 101*, GW Hinchcliffe 58*
Some remarkable play was seen on the Denaby and Cadeby United ground on Saturday, in the match between Wombwell Main and the home team. The ground was new last season, and during the winter being greatly improved, been levelled on the side farthest from the pavilion. A very substantial post and cable fences been put down, should prevent spectators encroaching on the field of play, and was as was the case in the match with Mexborough last season. The pavilion now looks very trim and neat, and though the red shale, with which the pavilion encloses Lane, was rather troublesome on Saturday, it will no doubt be all right tongue down a little more. Considering the wet weather in the early part of the afternoon, the attendance of spectators very encouraging.
Those who remain to watch the place of such batting as has been seen before in the Mexborough League. The Wombwell captain, H Sykes, sent in F Turner and GW Hinchcliffe to back, and so well did they perform that the score had reached 161, of which only two were “extras,” when Captain Sykes decided to declare, with no wickets down. The score came as a surprise to many who had been expecting see the woman wickets fall like ripe corn before the bowling of W Shore, the new Denaby pro and Luther Robinson. The fact of the matter is, as was clearly shown, during the Denaby innings, the wicket was all in favour of the batsmen, and the levelling of the ground made it possible for more runs to be gained than was the case last season.
Mexborough 72 for 6 dec Tankersley 35
Brown 6 wkts, Beckett 4 wkts
The Mexborough season opened in a very satisfactory fashion. Tankersley, the newly admitted members of the Mexborough league, being easily vanquished. At the outset of these comments, I am bound to say that the team as representing Mexborough on Saturday (with the inclusion of Walter Bennett (is a very strong one in all departments, and one which will require a lot of beating. A unanimous desire to win the week with cup visiting, and there was never such a good prospect of success for Mexborough cricket.
Tomorrow (Saturday) Mitchell’s commence their United League cricket at Barnsley, where a stiff task will be set them, as, in addition to the regular team Barnsley always engage the services of one or two first-class men when they receive a visit from Mitcham Main. It is to hoped that Washington will be able to take his place in the team, as his presence as wonderfully stimulating effect on the whole 11 and he generally makes runs against Barnsley.
The form is anything to go back again should be a good one and Mitchell’s ought to be first at the finish
Wath 76 for 6 Swinton 75
HT Allan 20* T Elliott 28*