Minor Counties Championship 1907

70 MATCH NUMBER 38 : STAFFORDSHIRE V NORTHUMBERLAND At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday 17, Thursday 18 July 1907 Result: Staffordshire won by an innings and 159 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: T Attewell and S Wrigley Debutants: Staffordshire 1 (J W Johnson); Northumberland none First day score: Staffordshire 430 Staffordshire P Briggs st Ullathorne b Milne 63 Brown, W c Marshall b Veitch 26 Barnes, S F c Ullathorne b Milne 46 * H D Stratton c and b Wood 73 Hollowood, A b Brown 72 Fereday, J B b Skinner 66 Pike, S b Brown 0 J W Johnson not out 35 Mee, R J c Veitch b Skinner 11 + J Poole c Gillespie b Skinner 7 Bucknell, A b Brown 4 Extras b 20, lb 5, nb 2 27 Total 430 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 63 132 167 244 338 338 383 397 423 430 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Skinner 30 3 101 3 - 1 Milne 31 9 80 2 - - Elsey 24 3 60 0 - 1 Veitch 10 3 19 1 - - Marshall 10 0 28 0 - - Brown 22.5 6 72 3 - - Wood 4 0 10 1 - - Chambers 12 3 33 0 - - Extras - - 27 0 - - Total 143.5 27 430 10 0 2 Northumberland (Followed on) * F W Gillespie c Poole b Bucknell 20 (1) c Fereday b Mee 1 R B Stephenson c Poole b Mee 2 (6) c Brown b Mee 16 Marshall, J c Pike b Bucknell 43 (3) b Mee 1 C M Skinner b Mee 58 (4) b Bucknell 1 S Wood b Pike 7 (5) b Barnes 32 Chambers, M not out 23 (2) c Barnes b Bucknell 6 + T Ullathorne c Mee b Barnes 3 (7) not out 18 G T Milne b Barnes 1 (8) b Barnes 6 W G Brown c Brown b Mee 8 (9) st Poole b Barnes 2 Elsey, G b Barnes 0 (10) c Johnson b Barnes 4 W Veitch b Barnes 2 (11) b Barnes 0 Extras b 10, nb 5 15 lb 1, nb 1 2 Total 182 89 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 38 102 126 157 167 168 177 178 182 Second innings 2 7 8 21 40 70 80 82 89 89 Barnes 30.5 6 62 4 - 4 (1) 9 5 11 5 - 1 Mee 29 8 57 3 - 1 (2) 14 4 24 3 - - Bucknell 13 3 41 2 - - (3) 10 2 38 2 - - Pike 2 0 7 1 - - (4) 2 0 14 0 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 74.5 17 182 10 0 5 35 11 89 10 0 1 Notes: Staffordshire won this return match by an innings and 159 runs on the second day, after enforcing the follow-on. The match between the two teams at Jesmond in June had also been won by Staffordshire. For the winners, there were 9 fours in Stratton’ s 73, Hollowo od scored 72, Fereday 66 and there were 6 fours in Briggs’s 63. In the Northumberland first innings Skinner scored 58. In the Northumberland second innings resuming at 70-5, Barnes took the last 5 wickets for 7 runs. On the first morning Veitch injured his right arm and was unable to bowl after lunch. [Missing: Precise time completed; in the Staffordshire innings boundaries in Hollowood’s 72 and Fereday’s 66; in the Northumberland first innings boundaries in Skinner’s 58.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 20 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 17,18 July; Newcastle Daily Journal 18,19 July; Birmingham Daily Post 18,19 July; The Sportsman 17,18 July.