The Minor Counties Championship 1902

56 MATCH NUMBER 33 : NORTHUMBERLAND V STAFFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 23, Thursday 24 July 1902 Result: Match drawn – tied on first innings Points: Northumberland ½; Staffordshire ½ Toss: Northumberland Umpires: Not known Debutants: Northumberland none; Staffordshire none First day score: Northumberland 389-7 wickets (E Tomlin 18*, J Marshall 24*) Northumberland V Thompson c Brown b Stratton 138 S P Bell b Barton 30 R G E Mortimer st Poole b Barton 25 J Hansell st Poole b Stratton 38 * F G H Clayton b Barton 27 C Page b Brown 20 F W Gillespie c Fereday b Briggs 45 Tomlin, E not out 18 Marshall, J not out 24 + Greenwood, L W Hartley, R H Extras b 12, lb 11, w 1 24 Total (7 wickets declared) 389 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 58 124 229 258 274 343 343 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Grimshaw 25 4 81 0 - - Barton 26 7 70 3 - - Ellams 10 0 64 0 - - Brown 15 1 52 1 - - Briggs 11 0 44 1 - - R C Page 2 0 9 0 - - Stratton 10 2 45 2 1 - Extras - - 24 0 - - Total 99 14 389 7 1 0 Staffordshire Hollowood, A b Tomlin 3 Brown, W st Greenwood b Mortimer 39 * H D Stratton c Greenwood b Hartley 162 R C Page c Thompson b Tomlin 7 Fereday, A c and b Marshall 45 Hassall, F H c Marshall b Hartley 41 O Briggs not out 35 Grimshaw, T c Mortimer b C Page 31 E Ellams lbw b C Page 0 Barton, J b Hartley 4 + J Poole lbw b Hartley 6 Extras b 12, lb 2, w 2 16 Total 389 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 75 102 212 300 308 367 367 381 389 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hartley 38.2 9 99 4 1 - Tomlin 30 6 84 2 - - Marshall 23 4 64 1 1 - Mortimer 12 2 61 1 - - Hansell 7 2 13 0 - - Clayton 8 0 40 0 - - C Page 3 0 12 2 - - Extras - - 16 0 - - Total 121.2 23 389 10 2 0 Notes: This return match was drawn, with the teams tied on first innings and sharing half a point each. The match between the two sides at Wolverhampton in June had been won by Staffordshire. There were several interruptions due to the weather on the first day, and rain prevented further play after the close of the Staffordshire innings at 5.15 pm on the second. For the home team, Thompson’s 138 included 17 fours, 5 threes and 10 twos, an innings of 2 hours and 35 minutes. With Hansell, he added 105 for the third wicket. For Staffordshire, Stratton batted just short of four hours for his 162, which was the second highest individual innings of the season, and unlike Thompson, he is reported as giving several chances. The innings contained 20 fours, 1 three and 14 twos. He added 110 runs for the fourth wicket with Fereday, while Briggs and Grimshaw put on 59 runs for the seventh wicket. The team totals of 389 were joint second highest of the season. [An alternative version of this score found in the Staffordshire Scorebook gives in the Staffordshire innings Hartley conceding 112 runs, Tomlin 72, Marshall 60 and Mortimer 64. The version adopted is consistent with the Northumberland averages published in Wisden and other sources.] [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Staffordshire scorebook; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 23,24,25 July; Newcastle Daily Journal 24,25 July; Newcastle Daily Leader 23,24,25 July; Staffordshire Advertiser 26 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 24,26 July; The Sportsman 25 July.