The Minor Counties Championship 1903

36 MATCH NUMBER 13 : STAFFORDSHIRE V DORSET At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 June 1903 Result: Staffordshire won by ten wickets Points: Staffordshire 3 Toss: Dorset Umpires: H Mycroft and S Wrigley Debutants: Staffordshire 1 (T A Grose); Dorset 5 (A J Daniell, A K Gibson, H M Greenhill, R C James, W Vine) First day score: Dorset 247; Staffordshire 202-7 wickets (H D Stratton 61*, J N Burns 14*) Dorset A K Gibson b Brown 1 (4) c Hollowood b Fereday 17 P Crimmins b Grose 105 (2) b Grimshaw 0 A J Daniell b Grose 52 (1) b Grimshaw 14 Hunt, H b Grimshaw 1 (3) b Grimshaw 24 Battrick, G c Poole b Crane 48 (5) c and b Grose 21 Rev A B Burney b Grimshaw 4 (6) b Grimshaw 1 R C James lbw b Grimshaw 6 (7) b Grimshaw 12 + Vine, W c Crane b Grimshaw 0 (11) b Briggs 0 E B T Lee c Stratton b Grose 2 (10) not out 8 Lt H M Greenhill c Briggs b Grose 12 (8) b Briggs 14 * W H Manfield not out 3 (9) run out 0 Extras b 8,lb 5 13 b 2 2 Total 247 113 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 97 100 203 215 221 221 224 236 247 Second innings 5 18 51 78 79 80 105 105 110 113 Grimshaw 26 4 76 4 - - (1) 16 3 39 5 - - Brown 15 4 37 1 - - (2) 4 1 14 0 - - Briggs 6 1 29 0 - - (3) 5 2 8 2 - - Grose 13 0 54 4 - - (4) 8 0 35 1 - - Fereday 11 3 29 0 - - (6) 3 1 7 1 - - Crane 3 1 9 1 - - (5) 2 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - - - 2 1 - - Total 74 13 247 10 0 0 38 7 113 10 0 0 Staffordshire R C Page c Crimmins b Battrick 28 A Hollowood c Vine b Greenhill 11 P Briggs c Greenhill b James 28 * H D Stratton b Hunt 67 Brown, W c Manfield b Lee 18 G W Crane c Greenhill b Lee 7 (1) not out 15 Fereday, J B b Greenhill 10 Grimshaw, T c Lee b Hunt 8 J N Burns lbw b Greenhill 33 (2) not out 12 + J Poole not out 46 T A Grose c and b Lee 63 Extras b 15, lb 2 17 0 Total 336 (no wicket) 27 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 23 72 81 124 132 166 187 222 230 336 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Greenhill 20 5 69 3 - - (1) 3 0 11 0 - - Burney 15 1 62 0 - - Crimmins 6 0 34 0 - - James 4 2 10 1 - - Battrick 7 1 27 1 - - Daniell 3 0 18 0 - - Lee 14.3 6 54 3 - - (2) 2.4 0 16 0 - - Hunt 11 1 45 2 - - Extras - - 17 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 80.3 16 336 10 0 0 5.4 0 27 0 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won by ten wickets at 3.30 pm on the second day. For the losers, Crimmins’s 105 contained 13 fours, 4 threes and 6 twos, an innings of just short of three hours. Daniell’s 52 contained 2 fours. In the Dorset first innings, Crimmins and Battrick added 103 runs for the fourth wicket. For the winners, there were 7 fours in Stratton’s 67 and 12 fours in Grose’s 63. In the Staffordshire first innings, Poole and Grose put on 106 runs for the last wicket, which was the highest partnership for that wicket during the season. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 27 June; Staffordshire Sentinel 24,25 June; Birmingham Daily Post 25,26 June; Dorset County Chronicle 2 July; The Sportsman 25,26 June.