The Minor Counties Championship 1903

35 MATCH NUMBER 12 : DURHAM V YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI At The South Shields Cricket Club Ground, Wood Terrace, Westoe, South Shields on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 June 1903 Result: Durham won by seven wickets. Points: Durham 3 Toss: Durham Umpires: D Bookless and J T Parnham Debutants: Durham none; Yorkshire 2 nd XI 3 (W E Bates, G Deyes, A Jagger) First day score: Durham 284; Yorkshire 2 nd XI 146 and 24-0 wicket (H Myers 6*, H Rudston 14*) Durham A Burn b Hartington 10 (1) b Hartington 24 C Y Adamson b Deyes 7 (2) st Higgins b Ward 4 * E W Elliot c Deyes b Myers 44 (3) not out 34 W S Dobson c Higgins b Deyes 2 (4) b Hartington 4 T Coulson b Hartington 54 (5) not out 23 R C Cumberlege c Bates b Deyes 81 Butler, J c Myers b Ward 18 J Combey run out 5 Turnbull, G c Swithenbank b Myers 20 + J Kirtley not out 14 Smith, T c Hartington b Myers 6 Extras b 12, lb 11 23 b 2, nb 1 3 Total 284 (3 wickets) 92 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 21 23 37 89 197 225 239 260 268 284 Second innings 19 34 52 - - - - - - - Deyes 22 5 78 3 - - (1) 9 1 24 0 - - Hartington 20 3 57 2 - - (2) 14 2 32 2 - 1 Jagger 7 1 26 0 - - Myers 9.2 1 42 3 - - (4) 6 2 18 0 - - Frank 3 1 16 0 - - Ward 8 0 42 1 - - (3) 6 2 15 1 - - Extras - - 23 1 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 69.2 11 284 10 0 0 35 7 92 3 0 1 Yorkshire 2 nd XI (Followed on) Rothery, J W c Kirtley b Turnbull 26 (3) c and b Smith 11 Rudston, H c Kirtley b Turnbull 30 (2) c Combey b Butler 30 Swithenbank, S lbw b Turnbull 15 (4) b Turnbull 83 Myers, H not out 26 (1) c and b Smith 18 + J Higgins b Turnbull 23 (5) b Butler 0 Bates, W E b Burn 6 (7) c Butler b Turnbull 0 Jagger, A b Burn 0 (8) b Turnbull 0 * R W Frank b Burn 8 (6) b Turnbull 30 Hartington, H E b Turnbull 1 (9) c and b Turnbull 20 Deyes, G c Elliot b Burn 4 (10) b Smith 0 Ward, F c Butler b Turnbull 0 (11) not out 0 Extras b 7 7 b 33, lb 1, w 1, nb 1 36 Total 146 228 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 55 60 83 109 116 116 124 127 136 146 Second innings 35 60 84 84 140 140 140 188 201 228 Smith 5 0 22 0 - - (1) 19 3 52 3 1 - Turnbull 24.1 12 42 6 - - (2) 26.1 12 46 5 - 1 Combey 10 1 34 0 - - (5) 6 1 31 0 - - Burn 10 2 41 4 - - (3) 9 2 31 0 - - Butler (4) 7 1 32 2 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 36 0 - - Total 49.1 15 146 10 0 0 67.1 19 228 10 1 1 Notes: Durham won by 7 wickets at 4.15 pm on the second day. For the winners, Turnbull took 11 wickets in the match for 88 runs, including a ‘hat-trick’ in the Yorkshire second innings when his victims were Frank, Bates and Jagger. The feat was achieved on one other occasion during the season. There was 1 six and 9 fours in Cumberlege’s 81, scored in 45 minutes, and 6 fours in Coulson’s 54. In the Durham first innings Coulson and Cumberlege put on 108 runs for the fifth wicket. For Yorkshire 2 nd XI, Swithenbank’s 83 included 9 fours. When catching Dobson in the Durham first innings, Higgins reached the career milestone of fifty dismissals in championship matches. Similarly, when catching Rudston in the Yorkshire first innings, Kirtley made his fiftieth dismissal. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Yorkshire Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 25,26 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 25,26 June; Newcastle Daily Leader 25,26 June; Yorkshire Yearbook 1904, p184; Yorkshire Post 25,26 June; The Sportsman 27 June.