Mexborough and Swinton Times, July 30, 1926
Good and Bad Fielding
Wath 55 for 2 Denaby 180
E Tibbles 47, A Vollans 38
A big crowd watched the match at Wath on Saturday and the flag was flown at half-mast in tribute to Mr Marshall Robson, a trustee of the club, who died on Friday. The team also wore black rosettes and before the game commenced the players and crowd stood in silence for a minute.
Denaby quickly lost Greenwood – who was caught by one of his colleagues, Vollans fielding substitute – and Tibbles was enticed into going forward to Williams at 47 and was stumped, but not before he had hit eight fours. Carlin was missed when four, and Vollans was missed before he scored, but Carlin was soon out and in Narroway also went cheaply. The missing of Vollans proved expensive, he and shoesmith making a useful partnership before Vollans was smartly run out by Jewsbury. By that time the total had reached 142 for seven wickets. Larke was brilliantly caught in the deep by Clark. Higgins was called on to bat for the first time in the council competition this season, Robinson, after two lives, was the third batsmen ran out. Wath’s fielding blunders allowed the Denaby score to grow much bigger than it should have been. Hargreaves took three wickets for 42 runs.
Bedford fell in an unusual way early in the Wath innings. Narroway whipped off the bails in an unsuccessful attempt to stump him and Bedford then essayed a run. Narroway, with ball in hand, promptly pulled out a stump and Bedford was “run out.” Bad light stopped play just before the rain came in and caused an abandonment.