The Minor Counties Championship 1905

102 MATCH NUMBER 76 : STAFFORDSHIRE V BEDFORDSHIRE At The Oldfields Cricket Club Ground, Stafford Road, Uttoxeter on Monday 21, Tuesday 22 August 1905 Result: Staffordshire won by 76 runs Points: Staffordshire 3 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: W Copeland and A Stockwin Debutants: Staffordshire none; Bedfordshire none First day score: Staffordshire 135 and 26-2 wickets (W Brown 12*, R C Page 2*); Bedfordshire 47 Staffordshire Brown, W b Morcom 8 (1) b Wharmby 12 Hollowood, A b Wharmby 1 (2) b Wharmby 4 Barnes, S F c Apthorp b Morcom 1 (3) b Wharmby 2 R C Page b Wharmby 6 (4) b Wharmby 7 Fereday, J B c Morcom b Wharmby 5 (5) lbw b Wharmby 13 E H Bourne b Morcom 62 (6) run out 8 E W Page c Rice b T A Brown 21 (7) b T A Brown 4 * H D Stratton b T A Brown 1 (8) b T A Brown 0 Tinsley, A c Holdstock b Moss 13 (9) not out 6 Mee, R J not out 10 (10) b T A Brown 0 + J Poole b Morcom 0 (11) b Wharmby 2 Extras b 2, lb 4, w 1 7 b 6, lb 4 10 Total 135 68 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 11 11 16 33 66 77 112 135 135 Second innings 11 19 26 39 53 55 58 63 63 68 Morcom 20 7 33 4 1 - (1) 6 2 13 0 - - Wharmby 24 9 46 3 - - (2) 24.2 11 21 6 - - Brown, T A 15 8 26 2 - - (3) 18 5 24 3 - - Moss 6 2 14 1 - - Orr 5 1 9 0 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 10 1 - - Total 70 27 135 10 1 0 48.2 18 68 10 0 0 Bedfordshire H J J Hodgkins b Mee 6 (1) run out 5 Pollitt, G c Mee b Barnes 0 (2) c Fereday b Barnes 0 Wharmby, G E c Mee b Barnes 7 (3) b Barnes 16 A F Morcom c R C Page b Mee 0 (4) b Mee 25 R W Rice c Tinsley b Mee 10 (5) b Mee 4 Brown, T A lbw b Mee 13 (6) b Barnes 4 Rev R H Moss b Mee 0 (7) b Barnes 4 W E King b Barnes 4 (8) b Mee 14 H F Holdstock b Barnes 0 (9) lbw b Barnes 6 * H R Orr b Mee 0 (11) not out 0 + E E Apthorp not out 5 (10) c and b Mee 1 Extras b 1, lb 1 2 lb 1 1 Total 47 80 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 14 14 16 26 26 41 41 41 47 Second innings 0 16 25 34 41 49 71 76 78 80 Barnes 14.4 6 18 4 - - (1) 16 4 49 5 - - Mee 14 5 27 6 - - (2) 15 5 30 4 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 1 1 - - Total 28.4 11 47 10 0 0 31 9 80 10 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won this low-scoring return match by 76 runs at 3.50 pm on the second day. The match between the two sides at Bedford in July had been drawn. For the winners, Barnes and Mee bowled unchanged through both Bedfordshire innings, taking 9 wickets for 67 runs and 10 for 57 respectively. There was 1 five and 4 fours in Bourne’s 62, scored in 2¼ hours. For the losers, Wharmby took 9 wickets in the match for 67 runs. Orr played with a damaged shoulder caused by a fall. When he had scored 5 in the Bedfordshire first innings, T A Brown reached the career milestone of two thousand runs for Bedfordshire in championship matches. In the Staffordshire second innings, on the second day Wharmby, in the opening over when dismissing W Brown, reached the career milestone of two hundred wickets in championship matches. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 26 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 21,22 August; Birmingham Daily Post 22,23 August; Bedfordshire Mercury 25 August; Bedfordshire Standard 25 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 26 August; The Sportsman 22,23 August.