Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 09 August 1941

Mexborough 83 for 3  Leeds Zingari 81

Spectacular bowling by A Vickers, who took nine for 29, enabled Mexborough to beat Leeds Zingari by seven wickets at Mexborough on Saturday.

Leeds first batsmen, J Foster, only succeeded in scoring eight before being dismissed by Vickers. F Kilner (12), E Smelt (15) and Place (14) were top scorers for Leeds, and 12 extras were included in a total of 81.

A Vollans, Mexborough’s opening batsmen, made 36 before being bowled by E Smelt, who took one for 30 police. C Bayes (21), T Hargreaves (13) and Lawton (nine) help Mexborough’s total to 83 for three wickets.

Good Feeling Tactics In Brampton’s Swinton Victory

Brampton 118 for 7  Swinton  114

Brampton brought off a win over Swinton on Saturday mainly as a result of good feeling, and the bowling of W Swift (five for 47). They closed field tactics were well executed, and a constant change of balance was responsible for “drawing the stings” of the best Swinton batsmen. L.N. Beckford went for 13 and G Barnett, who has given some good batting displays this season, for 5. Ellison, Cadman and Broadhead attempted to make stands but were dismissed for 13, 14 and 21 respectively, and in the “tail” end E Woodhouse made a surprise rally and knocked 22 off some really accurate bowling before the Swinton innings closed at 114.

The first three Brampton batsmen gave their side a really promising start and knocked off 92 of the runs. All these R Denton had 15, G Taylor 44, and footballer Mark Crook 33. For more Brampton wickets fell before Winch and Crowcroft took the Brampton total to 118 for seven. 19 years old J. Briscoe gave the best bowling performance for Swinton, taking four for 13

Dismissed for 44

Deadly Denaby Bowling

Denaby 130 Brodsworth 44

Broadworth were dismissed by Denaby on Saturday for 44.

Denaby scored 130 runs, and thanks to the bowling of Robinson (5 for 18) and Porter (2 for 13), soon had Brodsworth out.

The Denaby batting was mediocre and Wright scored an undefeated 79 (including nine 4’s) and Brodsworth’s chief scorer.

Rossington Fail at Denaby

Denaby 94 for 3  Rossington  93

Denaby and an easy victory over Rossington on Monday. Rossington made a sudden recovery after losing three wickets. Newton and Hunt try to turn the tide, but Rossington were all out for 93.

Denaby went all out for the runs which were obtained for the loss of only three wickets. This included forcefully by Robinson and 26 by right.

For Denaby, Porter took six for 21

Frickley Win at Ackworth

Govier takes seven for Frickley

Frickley Colliery won by 44 runs over visiting Ackworth on Tuesday. Frickley (C Ogley 21,A Ward 30, G Britton 18, H Hatfield not out 13, R Coope 12), were dismissed for 127. They lost their first three wickets for 40 runs, but the seventh wicket partnership from 48 to 90 by Ward and Britton improved the situation.

Ackworth were dismissed for 83, E Govier taking seven for 20.