Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 07 April 1913

Mexborough’s Penalty Failures.

Mexborough Town failed take advantage of the intervention of fortune in the shape of bad weather which caused their abandonment of the game with Hull the other week, when the Tigers were leading comfortably by 3-0 after sixty minutes’ play, for when the game came to re-played at Mexborough, on Saturday, they lost by the only goal, an unsatisfactory point scored in the first minute of play by Fenwick, the visitors’ centre-forward.

It was wretchedly poor game, and the players were all in trouble in the high wind. The team playing with the wind were almost as great disadvantage the team facing it, and rarely were the bombarded goals in any serious peril. Towards the close of the game Mexborough were awarded penalty, and for the ninth time in succession the spot-kick was thrown away for them, Williams being this time the offender.

Two Points for Lincoln.

There was too much wind for good football at Lincoln, and the encounter between the City Reservists and Denaby United was not very interesting.

Lincoln were altogether smarter than their opponents, and but for the breeze would doubtless have won by bigger margin than 2 – 0. Denabv had their full share of the game in the first, half, with the wind at their backs, but they failed to score, while Lincoln were more successful, Gibson passing the backs and netting with a well-judged shot. The visitors’ marksmanship was extremely poor.

The young Imps were constantly attacking in the second moiety, but Heath, the Denaby custodian, was very energetic, and in this period he was only beaten once, and then by Brindley, who scored his first goal this season. Tierney and Strong wore able backs. Meinier in his new role as goalkeeper, never made a mistake. The halves did their work creditably, and Brindley and Gibson, the two wing men, framed the best of the forwards. In the ranks Frith was the pick of a moderate set of forwards, and Westwood at left-half, worked very well.