South Yorkshire Times June 20, 1959
Lawley’s 9 for 23 in Denaby win
Denaby & Cadeby 146 for 6 – Rockingham 54
Denaby athletic medium-fast Dick Lawley skittled nine Rockingham Colliery batsmen for 23 at Denaby on Saturday to give his team their most comfortable win this season.
Dick (27), who in the early’ stages was toppling a wicket with every over, managed to sustain his aggressive deliveries for 13 overs. At one stage he had seven for 13 and had it not been for K. Hopkinson (12 not out) the only Rockingham tail-ender to stand up to his bowling, he might have reached an even more impressive analysis.
Seven years ago Dick, of Morton Road, Mexborough, would have been the first person to laugh if he was told that he would ever bring off such a feat. He told a “South Yorkshire Times” sports reporter that he had only played cricket seriously when he came out of the Army seven years ago., “I always thought cricket was a ‘cissy’s’ game,” he said.
Dick, who works in a Co-op store, went to watch an L.N.E.R. match. They were one man short, and, willing to have a go at anything, Dick offered to make up a team.
He took two wickets in his first match and since that time cricket has been his chief interest. He played With L.N.E R. for the rest of the season and then joined Mexborough Athletic. His performance an Saturday W41 his best during three seasons with Denaby, but he has previously taken nine for 11 ind nine for 16,
Rockigham totalled 65 after Denaby had declared at 146 for six.