Mexborough & Swinton Times — September 24, 1904
The Re-Play at Rawmarsh
A crowd that in numbers made a very considerable show, and in pounds, shillings, and pence, probably amounted to about £20, assembled on the geographically curious ground of Rawmarsh Albion on Thursday to witness the re-played English Cup-tie between Denaby United and Rawmarsh Albion.
The home team was identical with that which played a drawn game at Denaby on Saturday, but the visitors’ team differed in several particulars. Two or three of the side had been shifted in position, and three had been shifted altogether outside, their places being taken by men whom the committee rely upon to try somewhat.
The opposing elevens were as follows:—
Rawmarsh Albion
Goal: Baker.
Backs: Thompson, Clarkson.
Half-backs: Arthurs, Baker, Mitchell.
Forwards: G. Wood, A. Wood, Dodson, Hutchinson, Merrills.
Forwards: Roper, Lavery, Hellewell, Hosey, Lindley.
Half-backs: Torr, Chatfield, Nimrod.
Backs: Lawley, Welsh.
Goal: Massey.
Denaby United.
Denaby won the toss and kicked down the slope, with the wind behind them, while, as it had also come on to rain, as the Yankees would say, “considerable some,” the home team had also to face the rain.
The opening stages of the game were very fast, but very ineffectual. Denaby perhaps did the greater part of the pressing, but their forward play in front of goal was wickedly wild, and the opportunities which Lindley, Hosey, and Lavery missed were calculated to make a cat shed crocodile tears.
Rawmarsh, though mainly on the defensive, fairly well held their own, and once or twice their forwards threatened danger, but they were on the small side as compared with the opposing defence, and generally failed at close quarters with the Denaby backs.
However, Massey was the first of the goal-keepers to have to handle, and somewhere about twenty minutes from the start he only just contrived to clear a rasping ground shot from Hutchinson.
Then Denaby began to wake up, and after Baker had successfully negotiated one or two shots, Hellewell gave Lavery a pass dead in front of goal, and the Barnsley “small boy” opened the scoring with a shot which just scraped in under the crossbar.
The expiration of the Rawmarsh team dated therefrom.
Less than two minutes afterwards Chatfield, shooting at long range and through a perfect crowd of players, found the net again, and from that moment to the interval the Rawmarsh team were always on the defensive, and Baker had plenty of work to do to keep down the score.
The Rawmarsh forwards never got far beyond the half-way line, and the home team were two down at half-time.
Soon after the resumption Hosey was within a foot of heading a third goal, and then for a spell the game was uneventful. Aided by the slope the home forwards once or twice found work for Massey, but never seriously troubled the agile one. Generally they gave him a long, dropping shot, which he caught easily and threw away comfortably.
Also they shot often in the place where the goal wasn’t.
The agile one was never bothered a bit. If he was not keeping goal with his eyes shut he almost might have done.
When a quarter of an hour of the second half had gone, Lindley, after a splendid run, centred magnificently straight across goal. Clarkson handled the ball, which rebounded from his fist to Hosey’s toe, whence it was directed into the net.
Mr. Morton, the referee, judiciously allowed a goal, and said nothing about the penalty-kick which had been incurred.
Denaby continued to press, and after the Rawmarsh goal had had a score of hair’s-breadth escapes, from a pass by Lindley, Lavery put on the fourth goal, being so situated that he could hardly help himself.
The remainder of the game was devoid of incident save one. Denaby were evidently well satisfied with what they had done, and Rawmarsh were unable to raise a gallop. Hence there was no further score when the whistle was sounded.
And this is where the incident happened. The players were leaving the field, and the crowd swarming across the enclosure, when the referee consulting his chronometer afresh found he had made a mistake of six minutes.
The game was, therefore, re-started, but there were no more incidents.
Moreover, no more goals.
And Denaby won by four goals to nil, having been all that, if not more, the better team.