Mexborough and Swinton Times, March 31, 1939
Boston get five goals after Half Time
Denaby United 0 Boston Town 6
Boston won a game in which almost every hallmark essay was confined to the second half. Denaby won the first are pretty comfortably on point and they promise to let nothing of Boston’s 43rd minute lead upset them. Heard in fact raised uneasy fears in Boston’s minds before the second half was seconds old. Then the unforeseen happens. Betts, spearhead of Denaby aggression, were taken to nasty knocks in the first are, collapse, and was carried from the field. He took no further part in the game, and the extent to which his absence unbalanced the scheme of things may be judged from the fact that Boston scored five of their six goals after he had gone.
I am not suggesting that Denaby would have won the game in their 11 men had been on this day: I say. They might have saved a point. I say, too, that, as things turned out, Boston might, with every justification I won 10 – 0. Remember in the second half, after gardeners to lightning goal is, Greg crashed the ball onto the crossbar with trees open sleep beaten, seconds later trees only just managed to take an awkwardly bouncing ball over the bar. A difficult ball – but it might easily have been a goal. Then Mace was there to head away a Tunstall drive, and Gardner sent a gem onto the corner of the right hand of the bar.
Those were four vivid memories of the second half. Just as lasting, too, as Notley’s hat-trick. The Boston centre forward took three of the very few opportunities which came his way excellently. All three were genuinely brilliant goals. Normal goods that. Gardener spare – scored within a couple of minutes of each other – were as big a surprise as Denaby had had during the all of the afternoon, whilst Rhodes (left – half) six was more free than anything else.
League “Scouts”
What of the game? “Scouts” from Manchester United and Lincoln city were in the stand. If they were not enamoured with the afternoon they must have been impressed with the football Denaby served up in the first half. Denaby, while been losing so heavily and so systematically throughout the season, woodwinds column stands at “one”! They had all the chances in this half.