The Minor Counties Championship 1905

155 NORTHUMBERLAND 1905 Championship matches: Played 8, won none, lost 4, drawn 4 (won on first innings 2, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Fourteenth equal with Dorset and Surrey 2nd XI out of nineteen Won: None Lost: v Durham at Jesmond, v Yorkshire 2nd XI at Jesmond, v Bedfordshire at Dunstable, and v Durham at Chester-le-Street Drawn – won on first innings: v Yorkshire 2nd XI at Middlesbrough, and v Bedfordshire at Jesmond Drawn – lost on first innings: v Glamorgan at Jesmond Drawn – no decision on first innings: v Glamorgan at Swansea. Captain: F G H Clayton (6 matches) – R G E Mortimer (1 match) and V Thompson (1 match) captained the side in the matches in which F G H Clayton did not play Wicket-keepers: L Greenwood (4 matches) and G E Wilkinson (4 matches) Debutants: 5 (H Arkle, W Seymour, A Simpson, N R E Wilkinson and S P Wood) Final season: 3 (J Hansell, E Mortimer and V Thompson) Hon Secretary: F G H Clayton Professionals: 6 (M Chambers, G Elsey, L Greenwood, J Marshall, E Nicholls and O Richardson) Home ground 1: The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne (4 matches). Notes: Failing to win a match, Northumberland dropped from tenth equal in 1904 to fourteenth equal in the table. As in the previous year, eight matches were played, with Glamorgan replacing the ‘promoted’ Northamptonshire in the fixture l ist. The most successful batsmen were Frederick Gillespie with 425 runs at 38.63 and Jack Marshall with 344 runs at 28.66. Samuel Wood scored 143 runs in his only innings on his debut. The most successful bowler was George Elsey with 37 wickets at 18.59, supported by Jack Marshall with 21 at 22.90 and Clifton Skinner 20 wickets at 27.10. Career milestones reached during the season were one thousand runs by George Simpson and two hundred wickets by George Elsey. NORTHUMBERLAND MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1905 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 5 players who made his Championship debut for Northumberland during the season. Names in bold denote that 1905 was the last or only season that these 3 players appeared for Northumberland in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I S W Anderson 3 4 0 54 97 24.25 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - H Arkle + 1 1 0 15 15 15.00 - - - - - 23.2 5 84 3 28.00 2-53 - - Chambers, M 6 9 0 57 89 9.88 - 1 1 4 - 139.3 24 347 11 31.54 4-24 - - F G H Clayton 6 9 0 16 28 3.11 - - 3 2 - 38 5 134 1 134.00 1-35 - - R G Elliott 2 3 0 40 40 13.33 - - 2 - - 7.2 0 36 1 36.00 1-20 - - Elsey, G 8 11 6 23* 106 21.20 - - - 8 - 252.1 44 688 37 18.59 7-62 - 4 F W Gillespie 7 11 0 171 425 38.63 1 1 - 11 - 7 1 26 2 13.00 2-26 - - Greenwood, L 4 6 2 13* 25 6.25 - - 1 7 2 - - - - - - - - J Hansell 4 6 0 24 74 12.33 - - 1 3 - - - - - - - - - Marshall, J 8 13 1 89 344 28.66 - 2 2 9 - 164.3 34 481 21 22.90 6-60 - 1 G T Milne 2 4 0 24 34 8.50 - - 2 - - 27 1 111 1 111.00 1-38 - - E Mortimer 2 4 1 5 7 2.33 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - R G E Mortimer 3 4 0 26 32 8.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - J S Nesbit 1 2 0 23 25 12.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nicholls, E 1 2 1 6 11 11.00 - - - - - 9 2 27 2 13.50 1-9 - - Richardson, O 7 11 0 99 239 21.72 - 2 1 3 - 18.3 6 93 5 18.60 3-11 - - W Seymour + 2 3 1 29 41 20.50 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - A Simpson + 4 8 1 59 172 24.57 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - G Simpson 2 4 0 82 152 38.00 - 2 1 - - 38 6 145 5 29.00 3-83 - - C M Skinner 6 10 1 58 176 19.55 - 1 1 1 - 122 11 542 20 27.10 8-57 1 1 C F Stanger-Leathes 1 2 0 12 12 6.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - V Thompson 2 3 0 29 56 18.66 - - - 3 - 2 0 12 0 - - - - G E Wilkinson 4 7 3 18* 41 10.25 - - - 4 3 - - - - - - - - N R E Wilkinson + 1 1 0 18 18 18.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - S P Wood + 1 1 0 143 143 143.00 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 179 - - - - 1 - - - 126 2 - - - - Total 88 139 17 171 2581 21.15 2 11 20 59 5 848.2 139 2852 111 25.69 8-57 1 6 (25 players) (6 ball overs) FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 3 players made their last appearance for Northumberland in the Championship in 1905. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I J Hansell 1896 72 123 13 133 2879 26.17 2 16 8 35 - 822 522 16 32.62 3-54 - - E Mortimer 1899 7 11 1 5 12 1.20 - - 5 6 - - - - - - - - V Thompson 1896 34 54 1 138 1597 30.13 4 8 4 24 - 63 43 0 - - - - (3 players)