Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 23 November 1912
Denaby Again Defeated
Worksop Town 3 Denaby United 1
Denaby came away from Worksop empty handed after a good fast game, in which they got a decent start, but were unable to stay the course.
Worksop never really showed up until after the interval and Denaby had much the better of the first half, in which they’s scored their only god through Hobson. It was a lucky point, for it glanced into the net off the visitors centre-forward after Clerk had been allowed to centre from an off-side position.
Still the general display of Denaby was value for at least one goal that. Later, their forwards fell off a lot, and in proportion those of Worksop came into prominence. Still, in the first half the Denaby goal had one or two narrow escapes. Watson, who played after all, although there have been talk of trying a change between the sticks, stopped a hot shot from Price at close quarters with his face, while shortly after Denaby had got their goal and with Worksop pressing Moxon made a rather bad mistake which, but that the home forwards were caught napping, would surely have spell the equaliser. Just before the interval price found the net, but the referee’s whistle had gone for a foul.
Worksop’s Revival.
The Worksop attack was much brighter in the second half, but twice Blackburn looks like working damage to his old club. Once he shot right across the goalmouth, and on the second occasion he fell down as he was in full cry.
It was not until halfway through the second moiety that Worksop equalised, and then Foster scored with a regular beauty, which beat Moxon all the way, and passed into the top of the net.
The rest is fairly easy, and for before the finish Webster and Williams both got through. In the Denaby side the three old Worksop men, Raybould, Westwood and Blackburn, rendered a good account of themselves, but Denaby lost because they could not keep up the pace.
At one period, early in the second half, they appear to have played Worksop down and to have paved the way for a comfortable win, but that goal of Fosters revived the home team, and after that Denaby never looked like holding them. The defeat was a blow to Denaby after the way they’re gone in the first half, but on the whole run of play Worksop deserved their victory.