Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 23 September 1922
A Notable Event for the Denaby Club.
Yorkshire Players’ Visit’
Yesterday the Denaby and Cadeby Cricket Club added to their records a most notable event. For the first time in their history they were visited by a Yorkshire county eleven, and the occasion was all the more notable by reason of the fact that the visitors came to them Champion County.
To be able to see Sutcliffe and Oldroyd on their own ground—the pair, who opened in Yorkshire’s reply to the Denaby XIV’s 73, passed, it unbeaten inside forty minutes – and to see Macaulay and Maurice Leyland bowling – Macaulay took five wickets for 23 runs, performing the “hat trick,” and Leyland claimed four for three—this was unquestionably a great treat.
When a start was made at noon the attendance was very sparse, for Denaby were then winning coal underneath the wicket. When they had done with that job for the day, they crowded round to see the Champions at their job, and cricket lovers came flocking distances far afield. The weather was splendid then. It had steadily improved with the attendance.
Denaby’s XIV, included R. M. Carlin (Mexborough), F. Pearce (Swinton). T Hargreaves (Wath Athletic), and Billy Wilson after a season with Mexborough as groundsman, and “pro.,” will probably be seen playing the season for his old club, Denaby.
The district side, of course, were no match for the Champion County, the whole 14 were bundled out for 73. Tibble s was, in fact, the only man to do anything big in the batting line. He was Miss twice before he finally succumbed to a Macaulay, but there was considerable merit in the way this Denaby “centurion” put’s innings together. Greenwood made some capital stroke in compiling 14, and the only other roan double figures was Carlin, who create lifted a ball from E. Leyland into the cemetery for six.
After lunch – Denaby’s last six wickets fell inside 25 minutes for only seven runs.
Sutcliffe and Oldroyd opened the reply merrily and soon got the necessary runs. Oldroyd hit the winning hit—to the boundary off, Hargreaves —and with his next stroke completed his 50, then he was cleverly stumped.
For Denaby. Arthur Robinson and Harry Shoesmith had the good figures of four for 28 and three for 26 respectively.