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An Old Friend – T. Baxter (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

20 January 1928

Mexborough and Swinton Times January 20, 1928

An Old Friend

We expect to see at least one familiar face when Wolverhampton and United fight it out at Bramall Lane on 28 January.

In Mexboro’s Midland League championship team of three years ago was a small but fast and tricky little winger whose efforts were not always appreciated as much by the Hampden Road crowd as we pleaded from time to time that they should be. His name was Baxter and he came from Worksop, who also were not too greatly impressed by his work, apparently. . Two years ago he and Joe Beresford, who formed as good a left wing as Mexboro’ have had since the war, went to Mansfield.

Then during last summer Wolverhampton signed Baxter. He did not get his chance right away, but a few weeks ago he was put into the Football League team. He kept his place, and on Saturday he scored the goal that settled the issue in Wolverhampton’s favour and knocked Chelsea out of the Cup competition. And Baxter made his Football League debut on the Chelsea ground just a month earlier.

The first goal on Saturday also resulted from his work, for it was he who beat Smith, the Chelsea right back, in a duel of wits, and gave Phillipson the square centre from which he scored. Baxter was the smallest player on the field in that game.