Denaby and Cadeby Cricket

April 1926

Mexborough and Swinton Times April 16, 1926

Denaby and Cadeby Cricket

The Denaby club are facing new season without any noticeable additions to the playing strength, but minus the brothers Appleyard, who have left the district and gone to live at York. A. S. Vollans will only be available in the last month of the season when home from Cheltenham training college.

All the other old players are available. Mr H. C. Harrison will again lead the Yorkshire Council side, with Mr R. C. Higgins as his lieutenant, and will have with him the old Stalwarts: George Worthington, W. E. Narraway, I. Greenwood, T. Tibbles, Wainwright, and G. L. Robinson.

There are one or two places to fill in the first team, and there are chances for several good youngsters who show the necessary promise, to develop into first-rate cricketers. There is no shortage of promising material, and the network, which is already in full swing, is steadily sorting out their capabilities.

The fixtures this season include new matches with Mexborough and Swinton and with Scarborough who open the Yorkshire Council programme on the Denaby ground on May 1. That match, by the way, will begin at 1.30 to follow up a finish in good time for the Scarborough men to get back home. The trip to Scarborough will be made an August 21 and will provide a delightful outing for the players and followers, if the weather is kind. The first Yorkshire Council much of the season is with Doncaster town, at Doncaster, on April 24.

The second team are again in the Doncaster league, and Ted Wathey again captains the side, with B. B. Clarkson as vice captain. They play the first game on the Denaby ground on April 24, when Doncaster Town will be entertained.

On Saturday the club will hold a full dress rehearsal for the opening of the season, in which all the old players, and the most likely the reserves will take part. Wickets will be pitched out 2-30.