High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wake Challenge Cup - A Famous Cricket Competition for Prominent Clubs in South Yorkshire in the 1880s.With 1880 came the announcement by William Robert Wake, the Sheffield Registrar, of a Cup competition for prominent clubs in the Sheffield area within a ten-mile radius of the Parish Church. It was named the Wake Challenge Cup. The Cup, a solid silver trophy costing 50 guineas, attracted much attention and was fiercely competed for. Hallam won it the first year in 1880 and due to the interest created the boundaries were extended to 15 miles from 1881.