He bowled eleven overs of right arm pace for 40 runs, against the Indian Tourists at The Circle, Kingston upon Hull, but failed to take a wicket.
Alfred Pullin, writing as "Old Ebor" in the Yorkshire Evening Post during the course of the match, was not complimentary about Rhodes.
"He has a short ambling run, and does not go through with his delivery, and it is not by these restricted movements that fast bowling usually is developed.
"[3] Before his single first-class appearance, Rhodes was briefly profiled in Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game as "the Bankfoot fast bowler who has been showing such promising form of late in Yorkshire".
[4] The article says that Rhodes had played for cricket clubs at Idle, Fifeshire in Scotland and at Wibsey before joining Bankfoot CC in 1910; in his first season for Bankfoot in the Bradford Cricket League he took 86 wickets at a cost of just over seven runs apiece.