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Woodhouse Cup, 1889-90

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For the season 1889-90, neither Wakefield nor Hull re-entered after missing 1888-89, and to make things worse Halifax declined to re-enter, leaving only Bradford, Leeds and the Sheffield and District CA to contest the Woodhouse Cup.

The fixture list for the season 1889-90 was as follows (first-named in each pairing being the home team):

Round	Date	Match
1	11/01/1890	Bradford v Sheffield
2	01/02/1890	Leeds v Bradford *
3	15/02/1889	Sheffield v Leeds

* This match was in fact played at Bradford, whose club thus had two home matches.

(Click on underlined pairing for match details.)

Final results are summarised in the following table.

	Bra	Lee	She	P	W	D	L	Pts*
Bradford	X	10½	win	2	2	0	0	2
Leeds	9½	X		1			1	0
Sheffield & DCA	loss		X	1			1	0

* Scoring was 1 match point for a win, and half a match point for a draw.

It is evident that the third match, that between Leeds and Sheffield, was not played, the competition winners having by then already been determined. In the Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplement of 09/02/1890 James White wrote, “We had some time ago received hints that the Leeds players were not entering heartily into the contest,-but we forbear naming the reason alleged.”

Various local papers covered these matches. The details below are mostly from the Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplement. Some adjudication results have not yet been unearthed, but the final score from the Leeds v Bradford match was recorded by hand in the on the WYCA Minute Book, which otherwise lacked results of either match. Some obvious typographical errors have been corrected for the purposes of the following match details:

Date/Board	Home	Score	Away	Venue &c

11/01/1890	Bradford	12+-6+	Sheffield	Bradford
1	T Spencer	1-0	Rev E J Huntsman
2	J E Hall	½-½	F E Foster
3	G A Schott	½@½	G A Askham
4	T A Guy	½-½	J W Baker
5	R Whitaker	@	S B Slack
6	H H Waight	1-0	Col T E Vickers
7	J A Guy	1-0	H W Pearson
8	J A Woollard	0-1	Arthur Davy
9	C Quarkowsky	1-0	H Mercer
10	S Hudson	1-0	J Wollman
11	E Dobson	@	W Tiptaft
12	E Glaser	½-½	E Barraclough
13	W W Simpson	1-0	H W Lear
14	LH Browne	1-0	S G Harrison
15	W Collins	1-0	G W Middleton
16	J Gorell	0-1	R Snow
17	B Bottomley	½-½	G H Harrison
18	Dr Wilmot	½-½	J T Dayson
19	W S Carey	1-0	A E Harrison
20	H K Walker	0-1	J Bennett	/\ back to fixtures /\

01/02/1890	Bradford	10½‑9½	Leeds	Exchange Café,
1	J E Hall	1-0	F Toothill	Market Street,
2	T A Guy (capt.)	½-½	A Bilbrough	Bradford
3	J A Woollard	½-½	F P Wildman (capt.)
4	J A Guy	1-0	J S West
5	T Spencer	0-1	C G Bennett
6	C Quarkowsky	1-0	T Y Stokoe
7	S Hudson	½-½	S R Meredith
8	C D Knapton	0-1	A W Bairstow
9	H C Padgett	1-0	E B Hussey
10	E Dobson	?@?	A G Cowling
11	E Glaser	½-½	J W Stringer
12	LH Browne	0-1	T Smith
13	W W Simpson	1-0	R S Stansfield
14	B Bottomley	0-1	J Craven
15	W S Carey	?@?	J Moorhouse
16	H Glaser	½-½	E J Wacheux
17	J Gorell	0-1	W C Carter
18	H K Walker	0-1	J Pearce
19	C H Guy	1-0	J P Myers
20	F W Elliott	0-1	C E Collinge	/\ back to fixtures /\

Identities of the players would appear to be as follows:

G A Askham	Sheffield	George Albert Robert Askham
A W Bairstow	Leeds	Arthur William Bairstow
J W Baker	Sheffield	John Woodhead Baker
E Barraclough	Sheffield	Edwin Barraclough
C G Bennett	Leeds	Charles George Bennett
J Bennett	Sheffield
A Bilbrough	Leeds	Alfred Bilbrough
B Bottomley	Bradford	Benjamin Bottomley
LH Browne	Bradford	Lionel Henry Browne
W S Carey	Bradford	Walter Selway Carey
W C Carter	Leeds
C E Collinge	Leeds
W Collins	Bradford
A G Cowling	Leeds	Arthur Goodyear Cowling
J Craven	Leeds	John Craven
Arthur Davy	Sheffield	Arthur Davy
J T Dayson	Sheffield	James Thomas Dayson
E Dobson	Bradford
F W Elliott	Bradford
F E Foster	Sheffield	Frederick Edward Foster
E Glaser	Bradford
H Glaser	Bradford	Henry Glaser
J Gorell	Bradford	John Gorell
C H Guy	Bradford	Charles Herbert Guy
J A Guy	Bradford	John Anthony Guy
T A Guy	Bradford	Thomas Arnaud Guy
J E Hall	Bradford	John Edmund Hall
A E Harrison	Sheffield	Arthur Ernest Harrison
G H Harrison	Sheffield	George Henry Harrison
S G Harrison	Sheffield	Samuel Gardner Harrison
S Hudson	Bradford
Rev E J Huntsman	Sheffield	Rev Edmund John Huntsman
E B Hussey	Leeds	Edward Bishop Hussey
C D Knapton	Bradford	Charles Demain Knapton
H W Lear	Sheffield	Henry William Lear
H Mercer	Sheffield	Henry Mercer
S R Meredith	Leeds	Samuel Redhead Meredith
G W Middleton	Sheffield
J Moorhouse	Leeds	James Moorhouse
J P Myers	Leeds	John Palliser Myers
H C Padgett	Bradford	Henry Clarence Padgett
J Pearce	Leeds
H W Pearson	Sheffield	Henry William Pearson
C Quarkowsky	Bradford	Charles Quarkowsky
G A Schott	Bradford	George Adolphus Schott
W W Simpson	Bradford
S B Slack	Sheffield	Samuel Benjamin Slack
T Smith	Leeds
R Snow	Sheffield	Robert Snow
T Spencer	Bradford
R S Stansfield	Leeds	Robert Savels Stansfield
T Y Stokoe	Leeds	Thomas Young Stokoe
J W Stringer	Leeds	John William Stringer
W Tiptaft	Sheffield	William Tibetot Tiptaft
F Toothill	Leeds	Frank Toothill
Col T E Vickers	Sheffield	Col Thomas Edward Vickers
E J Wacheux	Leeds	Eugène Joseph Wacheux
H H Waight	Bradford	Henry Hoyer Waight
H K Walker	Bradford	Harris Kirk Walker
J S West	Leeds	James Samuel West
R Whitaker	Bradford	Robert Whitaker
F P Wildman	Leeds	Frank Preston Wildman
Dr Wilmot	Bradford	Dr Thomas Wilmot
J Wollman	Sheffield	Joseph Wollman
J A Woollard	Bradford	Joseph Algeron Woollard

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Created

27/05/2014

Stephen John Mann

Last Updated

27/05/2014