South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times — Friday 29 May 1903
Swinton 107 for 6 Conisboro’ 105
Beautiful, exciting weather was experienced on Saturday, and there was a fairly large crowd of spectators assembled on the Station enclosure to witness the match between the home team and Conisboro’, it being anticipated that Swinton would put up a keen struggle for premier honours, and so wipe off their two defeats of the previous week by the Castle men.
The visitors batted first, and ran up the very decent score of 105, the last few wickets falling for very few runs.
Swinton’s chances were thought to be very poor indeed, but thanks to a spirited batting of Poppelton, 19, Rigby, 21, Shaw, 22, Taylor, 10, and Gomersall, 12, the home team pulled off a fine victory.
Jagger made the winning stroke, right out of the ground for 6.
Nesbit of Conisboro’ had three wickets for four runs, and Bowers for Swinton five for 35.
Score:—
| Conisboro’ | Runs | Swinton | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| W. Taylor c Tillotson b Poppelton | 22 | Day | 12 |
| Harrison b Taylor | 12 | Rigby c Nord b Shaw | 21 |
| Tennyson b Taylor | 15 | Shaw c Tomlinson | 22 |
| Shaw not out | 31 | Nesbit | 10 |
| Poppelton c Foss b Taylor | 4 | Gomersall lbw b Field | 12 |
| Taylor | 1 | Tillotson not out | 6 |
| Day b Bowers | 0 | Birks c Field b Nesbit | 2 |
| Field c Taylor b Bowers | 1 | Jagger not out | 6 |
| Milnes b Bowers | 0 | Extras | 9 |
| Apperley b Bowers | 2 | ||
| Nesbit run out | 0 | ||
| Norwood b Bowers | 6 | ||
| Extras | 5 | ||
| Total | 105 | Total (6 wkts) | 107 |