South Yorkshire Times August 12, 1950
Wath Hold Denaby to Draw
Wath 169 for 7 Denaby 142 for 8
it was touch and go at Wath on Saturday. Until sturdy Jack Bullard, number eight for Denaby, knocked a lusty 43 in half that number of minutes, the game was fizzling out into a tame draw, or a possible win for Wath.
Bullard’s innings gave Denaby an outside chance of winning, but after two more quick Denaby wickets, Newton and Wragg “put up the shutters” and remained till the end.
Had it not rained for 45 minutes during the Wath innings, Wath, aided by countless dropped catches and bad fielding by Denaby, might have become the second team to beat the visitors this season.
Sid Ellis (picture) and Charlie Heaton once more gave Wath a sound foundation, although Heaton scored only four runs in the first 50 minutes. Heaton was out at 71, after making 15, and Ellis, who scored 58 valuable runs in a very sound innings, soon followed.
Following his father, young Charlie Heaton got off the mark with a lovely four past cover point, but immediately after this stroke he lifted a ball from Wragg into Richards’s hands.
Aided by dropped catches, the chief offender being Newton, Ken Phillips and G. Howarth put on 55 for the fifth wicket, Phillips scoring 34 and Howarth 21.
Soon after he had made a steady 18, Wath captain Frank Darley declared his innings closed, leaving Denaby to score 170 to win in approximately 2 ¼ hours. S. Wragg had taken 5 for 47.
Opening the Denaby innings quietly with Ellis (28), Munden was out for four at nine and with the total unchanged further disaster overtook Denaby, Frank Darley taking a catch while falling backwards to dismiss Richards for a “duck.”
With six batsmen out for 78, the situation looked very grim for Denaby, but Bullard, looking as though he had no worries in the world, scored a match-saving 43. With Bullard and Oakley being dismissed quickly, however, Newton and Wragg put bat to ball and were content to play till the close. Wath claimed the extra five covers, but Denaby stood firm.