South Yorkshire Times, August 4th 1933
Percy Holmes’s Finale
Swinton 131 Mexborough 132 for 1
Saturday’s cricket brought some more towering totals, but most of the matches in the district were brought to a definite conclusion.
Perhaps the most surprising result of the day was the emphatic defeat of Swinton by their old foes, Mexboro’, in the first of their feast games. The occasion proved Mexboro’s feast rather than Swinton’s for the home batsmen did not have a happy day and, all out for 131, were very nearly beaten by 10 wickets, Tibbles and Burkinshaw putting on over 100 for Mexboro’s first wicket.
The foundation of Mexboro’s victory was, however, laid by A. C. Williams (picture) who, save for a brief retirement to adjust a boot, bowled with rare fire throughout the Swinton innings and finished with S for 57, figures which do not do full justice to his sustained effort.