Mexborough and Swinton Times, March 12, 1910
Shearing the “Lambs.”
Denaby United 7 Notts County Reserve 0
Denaby United were again out for fireworks on Saturday at home against Notts County reserve, who with Souter as a Guardian Angel, found the colliery atmosphere much too warm to be present.
Beautiful weather, and Denaby’s recently improved form, were responsible for a swollen attendance, and as the ground is in splendid condition after the heavy roller treatment, there was every prospect of a capital game.
And a capital game it proved – for one side only. The “lambs” to put it mildly, were outclassed from start to finish stop true, they started with a beautiful moment characteristic of a trained and clever side, but that effort was killed straight away, and Denaby came into the picture to stay.
So immensely superior was the on team in order pounds that Notts in the first half could find little time for foraging, while they were almost to a man heavily engaged in a trice in strength of defensive work. For a period it looked as if Souter was going to repeat some of his former displays in the Don Valley, and play the all teen himself. But though he borders on the marvellous, is a man after all; and after serving up a series of thrilling saying, he was beaten by numbers. Dyal driving a great ball at an acute angle in the top corner of the net.
Much the same state of affairs continued, the Notts attack been unable to make headway against the powerful Denaby halfbacks, again among whom Jack Westwood again demonstrated his growing capacity as a sort of reserve forward for the home team. In this direction he showed more enterprise than Kelly himself, though the big man is not slow to seize the chance of a pot shot.
The Denaby left-wing was moving in the old sweet way, the footwork of Glennon being a delight in conception, while Dudsley utilised his opportunity to show his old County comrades that Nottingham has lost a rattling good footballer.
He was from this left-wing that the second goal came, Glennon beating Souter with one of his best. Just on the interval the “magpies” made a most dangerous effort to score. Lee having hard luck with a grand shot which hit the site post and glanced across into Thompson’s arms for a rather lucky clearance.
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