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Wakefield v Sheffield, Woodhouse Cup, 1886

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Played on Saturday, ?th ??? 1886, at the Bull Hotel, Wakefield.

 

Wakefield had chosen to play over eleven boards.  Play began at 4 p.m., continuing, with a brief adjournment, to 9.15 p.m.  There seem to have been no adjudications.  In the following table, the order of the games played at each board is not implied, not being discernible from the report.

 

Wakefield

10

 

12

Sheffield & DCA

FH Wright

1‑0

1

0‑1

Rev. EJ Huntsman *

S Day

1‑0

2

½‑½

GA Askham

W Ash

0‑1

3

0‑1

FE Foster

W Rea

0‑1

4

0‑1

J Crossland

GG Hein

1‑0

5

0‑1

J Roe

WR Scholefield

1‑0

6

1‑0

HA Rossell

W Crofts

0‑1

7

0‑1

E Barraclough

J Reyner

0‑1

8

0‑1

Harold Davy

GH Bays, jun.

1‑0

9

0‑1

SB Slack

AH Hawke

1‑0

10

1‑0

A Huntsman

J Staynes

1‑0

11

½‑½

Marriott Oakes

* = captain

(W Rea was probably Wakefield’s captain at this match, as he spoke for Wakefield at the close.)

 

[Undated, unattributed newspaper cutting in WYCA Minute Book]

 

The identity of players would appear to be as follows:

Ash, W

William Ash

Askham, G A

George Albert Roberts Askham

Barraclough, E

Edwin Barraclough

Bays, GH, jun.

George Henry Bays, junior

Crofts, W

 

Crossland, J

 

Davy, Harold

 

Day, S

Samuel Day

Foster, F E

Frederick Edward Foster

Hawke, A H

 

Hein, G G

George Gustav Hein

Huntsman, Rev. E J

Rev. Edmund John Huntsman

Huntsman, A

Alfred Edmund Francis Fonnereau Huntsman

Oakes, Marriott

Marriott Oakes

Rea, W

William Rea

Reyner, J

James Reyner

Roe, J

John Roe

Rossell, HA

Henry Augustus Rossell

Scholefield, W R

William Ryder Scholefield

Slack, SB

Samuel Benjamin Slack

Staynes, J

 

Wright, F H

F H Wright

 

 

Created

09/07/2012

Stephen John Mann

Last Updated

21/05/2014