South Yorkshire Times, June 23rd 1933

Swinton Just Get Home At Mexboro’

Wath’s Bold Bid

In spite of rather boisterous weather. with rain again threatening, the district cricket programme was not seriously interfered with, though there was again a fair quota of drawn games.

At Mexboro’ where a good deal of local interest was centred in the first of the feast games with Swinton, the visitors just beat the clock to administer to the home team their second defeat at the hands of local rivals, Wath having previously won at Hampden Road.

Swinton had Tommy Hart and Charlie Heaton largely to thank for their success, though Arthur Adey (who, like Hart lives in Mexborough, by the way!) also played a useful part. Other games to be finished were those between Hickleton and Mitchell Main and Denaby and Firbeck.

Both Hickleton and Denaby were away but gained emphatic successes. Cyril Probert gave the Mitchell Main batsmen a bad time and they were dismissed for their lowest score of the season.

At Firbeck it was also the visiting bowlers who won the match. Ellis Robinson taking 6 for 33 and Sid Wild 4 for 21 after Denaby had made only a moderate score.

Mexborough  176                                      Swinton 178 for 7

R Burkinshaw 72                                        C Heaton 74, A Adey 32

Firbeck  59                                                Denaby 126 

Robinson 6-33, Wilde 4-21                        J Wright 33

Mitchell Main  55                                     Hickleton 63 for 3

C Probert 7-37                                            R Probert 31*

Elsecar 220 for 8                                       Brampton 108 for 9

Wrightson 37, Cookson 46, Lloyd 40*     W Evans 37

Rawmarsh  183                                        Wath  175 for 1

W Wadsworth 45, W Rippon 43              B Senior  59*, T Hargreaves 104*