The Minor Counties Championship 1903

29 MATCH NUMBER 6 : NORTHUMBERLAND V YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday 8, Tuesday 9 June 1903 Result: Northumberland won by 135 runs Points: Northumberland 3 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: W Copeland and J Gregory Debutants: Northumberland 2 (J Smith, C F Stanger-Leathes); Yorkshire 2 nd XI 1 (H E Hartington) First day score: Northumberland 104 and 124-2 wickets (C F Stanger-Leathes 60*, J Marshall 4*); Yorkshire 2 nd XI 124 Northumberland Chambers, M b Hartington 7 (2) b Brown 38 Tomlin, E c Higgins b Brown 10 (6) not out 17 F W Gillespie lbw b Brown 0 (3) b Brown 18 Marshall, J b Hartington 10 (4) not out 100 * R G E Mortimer b Brown 7 (5) b Myers 51 C F Stanger-Leathes b Brown 12 (1) b Myers 77 J Smith c and b Hartington 3 E Mortimer b Hartington 0 R H Gillespie b Hartington 33 Elsey, G c Higgins b Hartington 0 + Greenwood, L not out 17 Extras b 4, lb 1 5 b 20, lb 3 23 Total 104 (4 wickets declared) 324 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 13 16 21 37 39 50 52 56 57 104 Second innings 63 93 163 279 - - - - - - Brown 19 2 56 4 - - (2) 18 6 53 2 - - Hartington 19.4 4 42 6 - - (1) 28 6 78 0 - - Ward 1 0 1 0 - - (3) 10 0 40 0 - - Myers (4) 31 7 92 2 - - Newstead (5) 19 7 38 0 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 23 0 - - Total 39.4 6 104 10 0 0 106 26 324 4 0 0 Yorkshire 2 nd XI Rothery, J W b Elsey 8 (3) c substitute (Housley) b Elsey 1 Rudston, H b Elsey 0 (2) b Tomlin 21 Farrar, A c Marshall b Elsey 1 (4) b Elsey 0 J S Auty b Tomlin 1 (5) c E Mortimer b Tomlin 3 Newstead, J T b Elsey 4 (6) c substitute (Housley) b Elsey 64 + Higgins, J c Marshall b Tomlin 2 (7) c and b R H Gillespie 16 Myers, H b Elsey 24 (8) b R H Gillespie 5 * R W Frank b Elsey 79 (1) c substitute (Housley) b Tomlin 34 Brown, W b Elsey 0 (9) c Elsey b R H Gillespie 9 Hartington, H E not out 0 (10) c Tomlin b R H Gillespie 16 Ward, F b Elsey 0 (11) not out 0 Extras b 4, w 1 5 0 Total 124 169 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 3 10 10 15 16 103 103 124 124 Second innings 40 41 41 56 63 87 113 131 161 169 Elsey 19.4 7 28 8 - - (1) 23 5 55 3 - - Tomlin 14 0 49 2 - - (2) 16 3 48 3 - - R H Gillespie 3 0 26 0 - - (4) 10.4 0 41 4 - - Marshall 2 0 16 0 1 - Smith (3) 4 0 25 0 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 38.4 7 124 10 1 0 53.4 8 169 10 0 0 Notes: Northumberland won with eight minutes to spare by 135 runs at 5.52 pm on the second day. The Northumberland declaration had set Yorkshire a victory target of 305 runs in just 2½ hours. For the winners, Elsey took 11 wickets in the match for 83 runs. Marshall’s 100 not out included 11 fours, 2 threes and 9 twos, an innings of 3 hours and 40 minutes. There were 5 fours in Stanger-Leathes’s 77 and 6 fours in R G E Mortimer’s 51. Marshall and Mortimer put on 116 runs for the fourth wicket in the home team’s second innings. For Yorkshire 2 nd XI, Frank’s 79 contained 15 fours and Newstead’s 64 11 fours. In the Yorkshire first innings, Myers and Frank added 87 runs for the seventh wicket, which was the third highest partnership for that wicket during the season. In the Northumberland second innings, Marshall’s leg was injured by a fast ball form Brown and Chambers acted as his runner. Higgins was also hurt keeping wicket and retired with Rothery taking over the gloves. Housley, the local professional, acted as substitute fielder for Marshall in the Yorkshire second innings and held 3 catches at slip. [Missing: Initials of substitute Housley.] Sources: Yorkshire Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 9,10 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 9,10 June; Newcastle Daily Leader 9,10 June; Yorkshire Year Book 1904, p 183; Yorkshire Post 9,10 June; The Sportsman 9,10 June.