Minor Counties Championship 1907

77 MATCH NUMBER 45 : NORTHUMBERLAND V LINCOLNSHIRE At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 July 1907 Result: Lincolnshire won by an innings and 12 runs Points: Lincolnshire 5 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: Not known Debutants: Northumberland none; Lincolnshire 1 (W F Baines) First day score: Northumberland 220; Lincolnshire 302-7 wickets (E T Cooke 39*) Northumberland * F W Gillespie b Geeson 6 (5) c substitute b Broughton 40 W Seymour b Geeson 15 (1) c Wells-Cole b Cooke 3 Marshall, J c Baines b Haworth 68 (3) c Haworth b Cooke 19 J Gilman lbw b Cooke 10 (4) c and b Cooke 6 C G Hill not out 82 (2) c substitute b Cooke 14 R B Stephenson c Baines b Haworth 4 (6) b Geeson 1 + T Ullathorne b Haworth 2 (7) b Cooke 0 G T Milne c Allen b Geeson 0 (8) c Cooke b Geeson 3 H Arkle lbw b Geeson 19 (9) b Geeson 9 Elsey, G b Broughton 6 (10) not out 6 W Veitch b Broughton 0 (11) b Broughton 3 Extras 8 4 Total 220 108 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 16 45 58 147 151 154 159 199 220 220 Second innings 7 24 38 45 48 100 108 Geeson 28 7 65 4 - - (1) 17 8 31 3 - - Cooke 16 1 66 1 - - (2) 14 1 55 5 - - Haworth 12 1 48 3 - - Broughton 5.3 0 22 2 - - (3) 2.5 0 18 2 - - Baines 4 1 11 0 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 65.3 10 220 10 - - 33.5 9 108 10 - - Lincolnshire G F Wells-Cole c Milne b Veitch 124 T Hedworth lbw b Elsey 13 Hibbert, W J b Marshall 31 * W E Thompson c Marshall b Veitch 39 Geeson, F c Marshall b Gilman 0 Broughton, J J st Ullathorne b Milne 17 E T Cooke b Elsey 58 L S Harrisson c Gillespie b Arkle 21 J Haworth c and b Elsey 2 W F Baines b Elsey 0 + Allen, G J not out 13 Extras 22 Total 340 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 37 116 204 253 302 304 304 340 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Elsey 22.2 2 79 4 - - Milne 19 1 83 1 - - Veitch 21 3 76 2 - - Arkle 3 0 28 1 - - Marshall 7 0 34 1 - - Gilman 4 0 18 1 - - Extras - - 22 0 - - Total 76.2 6 340 10 - - Notes: Lincolnshire won this return match by an innings and 12 runs on the second day. Northumberland had won the match between the two sides at Grantham in June. For the winners, there were 15 fours, 1 three and 9 twos in Wells- Cole’s 124, an innings of 110 minutes. He injured a knee when his score was 90 and needed a runner for the rest of his innings. Cooke’s 58 included 1 six and 8 fours. For the losers, Hill’s 82 not out contained 12 fours and Marshall’s 68 included 7 fours. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Northumberland second innings fall of sixth to eighth wickets, and who held two substitute catches; in Lincolnshire innings fall of fourth and fifth wickets; precise time completed.] Sources: Newcastle Daily Journal 25,26 July; Grantham Journal 27 July; The Sportsman 25,26 July.