The Minor Counties Championship 1902

36 MATCH NUMBER 13 : STAFFORDSHIRE V NORTHUMBERLAND At The Wolverhampton Cricket Club Ground, Danescourt Road, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton on Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 June 1902 Result: Staffordshire won by ten wickets Points: Staffordshire 3 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: A Stockwin and J Yeadon Debutants: Staffordshire none; Northumberland 1 (E Lowes) First day score: Northumberland 132; Staffordshire 180-8 wickets (J A Bourne 36*) Northumberland * F G H Clayton b Brown 16 (1) c Poole b Ellams 15 R G E Mortimer b Bourne 15 (2) b Brown 2 J Hansell c Clapham b Bourne 0 (3) b Ellams 0 S P Bell b Ellams 14 (4) c Poole b Ellams 11 F W Gillespie b Ellams 53 (5) c Poole b Burns 54 E Mortimer b Ellams 0 (6) b Clapham 0 Marshall, J c Grimshaw b Ellams 12 (7) c Grimshaw b Brown 1 + C Page b Brown 6 (8) run out 23 E Lowes c Brown b Ellams 8 (9) b Ellams 5 Elsey, G not out 1 (10) not out 20 Lowings, A c Poole b Ellams 0 (11) b Bourne 8 Extras b 5, lb 2 7 b 14 14 Total 132 153 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 30 32 35 82 88 109 118 127 132 132 Second innings 8 9 20 45 46 69 102 122 125 153 Grimshaw 2 0 9 0 - - Clapham 8 0 22 0 - - (3) 8 4 22 1 - - Brown 19 8 33 2 - - (2) 17 2 41 2 - - Bourne 16 7 29 2 - - (5) 1.5 0 7 1 - - R C Page 2 0 11 0 - - Ellams 14.2 4 21 6 - - (1) 25 7 49 4 - - Burns (4) 4 0 20 1 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 14 1 - - Total 61.2 19 132 10 0 0 55.5 13 153 10 0 0 Staffordshire Hollowood, A b Elsey 35 Brown, W lbw b Lowes 1 W B Burns c E Mortimer b Clayton 43 (1) not out 52 * H D Stratton c E Mortimer b Lowes 26 R C Page c Elsey b Clayton 6 (2) not out 34 J A Bourne c Lowings b Elsey 37 F Ellams st C Page b Clayton 5 F H Wynne lbw b Lowings 14 Grimshaw, T lbw b Elsey 1 + J Poole not out 4 Clapham, J R b Lowings 3 Extras b 10, lb 1, w 2 13 b 9, lb 3 12 Total 188 (no wicket) 98 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 61 97 112 140 156 177 180 181 188 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Lowes 10 2 44 2 2 - (2) 4 0 12 0 - - Lowings 12 1 37 2 - - (4) 3 1 8 0 - - Elsey 19 6 44 3 - - (1) 9.3 2 37 0 - - Marshall 10 1 19 0 - - (5) 6 1 12 0 - - Clayton 14 3 31 3 - - (3) 5 1 10 0 - - R G E Mortimer (6) 2 0 7 0 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 65 13 188 10 2 0 29.3 5 98 0 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won by ten wickets at 4.45 pm on the second day. Ellams took 10 wickets in the match for the winners for 70 runs. There were 2 fours in Burns’s 52 not out. For Northumberland, there were 5 fours and 7 fours respectively in Gillespie’s two innings of 53 and 54 . [An alternative version of this score found in Northumberland sources gives in the Staffordshire first innings Stratton caught Elsey not E Mortimer.] [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 28 June; Staffordshire Sentinel 25, 26 June; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 25,26,27 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 26,27 June; Newcastle Daily Leader 25,26,27 June; Birmingham Daily Post 27 June; The Sportsman 26,27 June.