Mexborough and Swinton Times October 22, 1926

Mexborough’s Triumph
Denaby Beaten at Second Attempt

Denaby United 0 Mexborough 2

on Wednesday, for the second time, Mexborough were required to go to Denaby to decide their Cup tie, and this time they tried. The game was played out at a fine pace throughout there is much more really smart football than is usually found in meetings between these teams. For a long period of play followed remarkably close of the general lines of Saturdays. Mexborough dominated the first half and Derry for half an hour looked a well beaten side. But Mexborough missed more chances than they took, and cross over with only a one goal lead.

In the second of Denaby rallied strongly and had a Mexborough defence hard pressed. But there the similarity ended. Denaby did not get an equalising goal, and Mexborough never quite fell away so completely as they did for nearly half an hour of the second half on Saturday. On the contrary they quickly pull themselves together again, scored a second goal and from then held the mastery to the end.

The first goal came after 15 minutes as a climax of well maintained pressure by Mexborough. The ball was whipped over from the left, Davies missed it, but Bradley was in the right place and neatly turned it past Bromage.

The second was the outcome of a pretty little movement in the 26 minute of the second half. Ashton, taking advantage of Hunter’s misjudging the ball, swept through and crossed the ball. Davies received it within a few yards of goal and with admirable coolness he tapped it aside the couple yards or so to Taylor who promptly put it well wide of Bromage.