The Minor Counties Championship 1905

76 MATCH NUMBER 50 : BEDFORDSHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE At The Grammar School Ground, Burnaby Road, Bedford on Wednesday 9, Thursday 10 August 1905 Result: Match drawn – Bedfordshire won on first innings Points: Bedfordshire 2 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: B W Mason and S Wrigley Debutants: Bedfordshire 1 (C K Keenan); Hertfordshire none First day score: Bedfordshire 422-8 wickets declared (G E Wharmby 100*, E E Apthorp 23*) Bedfordshire H J J Hodgkins c Goodall b Rudd 62 Pollitt, G c Goodall b White 21 R W Rice c and b Harding 18 L C R Thring c Dumbelton b White 9 * H R Orr b Harding 31 Brown, T A c Butcher b Harding 126 W E King c Goodall b Harding 1 Wharmby, G E not out 100 Rev R H Moss c and b Harding 13 + E E Apthorp not out 23 C K Keenan Extras 18 Total (8 wickets declared) 422 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 38 156 - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coleman 41 3 140 0 - - White 31 14 44 2 - - Harding 30 6 78 5 - - Rudd 20 0 93 1 - - Dumbelton 2 0 21 0 - - Betts 3 0 28 0 - - Extras - - 18 0 - - Total 127 23 422 8 - - Hertfordshire (Followed on) Golding, A J b Wharmby 8 (1) b Moss 38 A Butcher b Keenan 30 (2) c Apthorp b King 23 G G Dumbelton c Thring b Wharmby 0 (3) c Moss b Thring 45 C T Rudd b Wharmby 0 (4) st Apthorp b Orr 25 White, H E c Apthorp b Wharmby 70 (5) not out 23 Coleman, W E c Moss b Orr 70 (6) c and b Pollitt 7 J A Betts b Orr 13 (7) not out 8 * H M Harford b Wharmby 2 E G Blow b Wharmby 31 + Goodall, J c King b Keenan 31 Harding, E R not out 8 Extras 10 12 Total 273 (5 wickets) 181 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 13 13 13 84 273 Second innings 64 66 124 155 170 - - - - - Wharmby 36 12 70 6 - - (1) 5 3 7 0 - - Orr 27 4 78 2 - - (3) 9 1 41 1 - - Brown 9 3 28 0 - - (5) 6 3 3 0 - - Keenan 7.3 0 32 2 - - (7) 5 0 34 0 - - King 4 0 31 0 - - (8) 11 2 27 1 - - Moss 4 0 23 0 - - (6) 8 0 22 1 - - Thring 2 1 1 0 - - (4) 10 1 24 1 - - Hodgkins (2) 2 0 7 0 - - Pollitt (9) 2 1 4 1 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 89.3 20 273 10 - - 58 11 181 5 - - Notes: This return match was drawn with Bedfordshire winning on first innings after enforcing the follow-on. The match between the two sides at St Albans in July had also been drawn. For Bedfordshire, Brown scored 126, which included 14 fours, 3 threes and 16 twos, and Wharmby scored 100 not out. Hodgkins scored 62. In the Bedfordshire innings, Brown and Wharmby added 212 runs for the seventh wicket. It was the highest of the season and a new Championship record, exceeding the 179 runs put on by G J Thompson and T A Brown for Northamptonshire against Durham at West Hartlepool in 1899. For Hertfordshire, White and Coleman both scored 70. [Missing: Extras breakd own; part fall of wickets; in Bedfordshire innings duration of Brown’s 126, breakdown and duration of Wharmby’s 100 not out, and boundaries in Hodgkins’s 62; in Hertfordshire first innings boundaries in White’s 70 and Coleman‘s 70.] Sources: Bedfordshire Mercury 11 August; Bedfordshire Standard 11 August; Hertfordshire Standard 18 August; West Herts and Watford Observer 19 August; Sporting Life 10,11 August; The Sportsman 10,11 August.