Mexborough & Swinton Times, October 8, 1926

Denaby United.
Scheme for Carrying On.
Welfare Trustees at End Of Tether.

A meeting of about 1,000 of the 6,000 members of the Denaby United Football Club was held on Tuesday on the cricket field to decide whether a Midland League team should be continued.

Mr T. Swinburne presided, and said they were entitled to far more support than they were getting, “The Welfare Trustees cannot stand the strain any longer, and this meeting is called to make an effort to remedy the trouble by the smallest levy we can ask for, a half penny per week.”

it was small but it would be a help, and would enable them to keep up the standard from which Denaby had never fallen except during the war. Men with sporting instincts in them will not allow Midland League football to go from Denaby.”

Mr Tom Hill, a vice president of the welfare club said, if the men were prepared to do their little bit the Welfare Trustees would be prepared to carry on till men returned to work. A Midland league match at Denaby cost from £65-£70, and for a long time they had been receiving well under £48 “gate” average. If Midland League football died in Denaby there would be no cricket, tennis or bowls. The Welfare Trustees are prepared to give the football committee £400 annually as a subsidy.

It was proposed that the levy of a halfpenny per week should be made as soon as the men returned to work, but an amendment that the levy should not be paid was progressed and seconded.

The amendment was easily defeated and then a unanimous vote for the levy was given.