The Minor Counties Championship 1905

56 MATCH NUMBER 30 : BEDFORDSHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE At The Bedford Grammar School Ground, Burnaby Road, Bedford on Thursday 20, Friday 21 July 1905 Result: Match drawn – Bedfordshire won on first innings Points: Bedfordshire 2 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: A Stockwin and S Wrigley Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Staffordshire none First day score: Staffordshire 153; Bedfordshire 242-6 wickets (W E King 69*, C B Atkinson 11*) Staffordshire E W Page c Apthorp b Pestell 7 (2) st Apthorp b Pestell 10 Brown, W c Apthorp b Pestell 15 (1) b Orr 73 Barnes, S F b Wharmby 0 (4) run out 30 * H D Stratton c Thring b Wharmby 33 (3) b Wharmby 1 Mee, R J b Pestell 2 (5) lbw b Orr 19 W J Beddows c Apthorp b Pestell 18 (8) b King 12 Tinsley, A b T A Brown 26 (7) b King 8 Holden, T not out 27 (6) not out 41 J T Pointon b Wharmby 1 (9) c Wharmby b Thring 5 + H Williamson c and b T A Brown 14 (10) lbw b Wharmby 0 Buxton, N b Wharmby 6 (11) c Pestell b Brown 23 Extras b 4 4 b 7, lb 7, w 1 15 Total 153 237 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 21 22 26 30 70 92 114 115 140 153 Second innings 34 38 96 139 144 175 193 199 202 237 Wharmby 26.1 3 45 4 - - (1) 33 14 65 2 - - Pestell 21 4 74 4 - - (2) 24 7 60 1 1 - Brown, T A 9 1 30 2 - - (3) 13 2 33 1 - - Orr (4) 17 3 35 2 - - King (5) 9 2 19 2 - - Thring (6) 5 1 10 1 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 15 1 - - Total 56.1 8 153 10 0 0 101 29 237 10 1 0 Bedfordshire Pollitt, G c Williamson b Mee 43 (5) not out 10 R W Rice c Tinsley b Barnes 0 Brown, T A b Mee 15 (4) not out 21 * H R Orr b Mee 12 (1) c Beddows b Barnes 32 L C R Thring c and b Barnes 50 (2) b Barnes 20 Wharmby, G E c Williamson b Holden 27 W E King b Barnes 83 (3) c Page b Mee 7 C B Atkinson c Williamson b Barnes 14 J Cavanagh b Mee 2 + E E Apthorp b Barnes 3 Pestell,F E not out 0 Extras b 8, lb 7 15 b 2, nb 2 4 Total 264 (3 wickets) 94 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 34 52 123 145 191 254 259 264 264 Second innings 42 57 67 - - - - - - - Barnes 24 3 90 5 - - (1) 11 0 48 2 - 2 Mee 30.4 5 84 4 - - (2) 11 1 42 1 - - Buxton 4 0 27 0 - - Pointon 1 0 12 0 - - Tinsley 3 0 16 0 - - Holden 4 0 13 1 - - Brown, W 1 0 7 0 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 67.4 8 264 10 0 0 22 1 94 3 0 2 Notes: This match was drawn with Bedfordshire winning on first innings. Bedfordshire needed 127 runs in their second innings to win in 85 minutes. For the home side, there were 12 fours in King’s 83 and 8 fours in Thring’s 50. In the Bedfordshire first inni ngs, King and Atkinson added 63 runs for t he seventh wicket. For Staffordshire, W Brown’s 73 contained 6 fours. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Bedford Record 25 July; Bedfordshire Mercury 21,28 July; Bedfordshire Standard 21,28 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 20,21,22 July; Birmingham Daily Post 21,22 July; The Sportsman 21,22 July.