Minor Counties Championship 1908

35 MATCH NUMBER 2 : LINCOLNSHIRE V NORTHUMBERLAND – NORTH DIVISION At The Peoples Park, Park Drive, Grimsby on Wednesday 3, Thursday 4 June 1908 Result: Northumberland won by 108 runs Points: Northumberland 5 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: Not known Debutants: Lincolnshire 4 (F Borton, W C Milner, J Raby, L Wood); Northumberland 1 (J H Charlton) First day score: Northumberland 144 and 7-0 wicket (H Arkle -*, M Chambers 5*); Lincolnshire 164 Northumberland J H Charlton c Borton b Geeson 4 (9) not out 0 Milne, G T st Wood b Geeson 25 (4) b Riley 2 W Milne c Brooke b Geeson 19 (3) c Wood b Brooke 21 Marshall, J b Brooke 3 (6) c Borton b Brooke 4 Richardson, O not out 42 (7) run out 76 * J Gilman c Milner b Geeson 18 (5) c Wood b Borton 92 + T Ullathorne b Broughton 7 (8) b Riley 2 Chambers, M b Broughton 12 (2) b Riley 7 R B Stephenson c Thompson b Borton 9 H Arkle c Riley b Borton 1 (1) b Riley 25 Elsey, G b Borton 0 Extras b 1, lb 2, nb 1 4 nb 4 27 Total 144 (8 wickets declared) 256 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 26 37 52 52 82 93 127 140 144 144 Second innings 17 38 42 62 87 237 256 256 - - Brooke 22 4 54 1 - - (4) 14 2 36 2 - - Geeson 19 6 48 4 - - (2) 1 0 9 0 - - Broughton 5 0 32 2 - 1 (1) 16 2 57 0 - 2 Borton 4 0 6 3 - - (5) 12 1 36 1 - - Riley (3) 23.3 1 78 4 - 2 Thompson (6) 2 0 12 0 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 27 1 - - Total 50 10 144 10 0 1 68.3 6 255x 8 0 4 256 Lincolnshire W J Hibbert b G T Milne 1 absent ill - W C Milner st Ullathorne b Elsey 3 (1) c G T Milne b Elsey 8 Broughton, J J lbw b G T Milne 21 (5) b Elsey 1 Rev C G Ward b G T Milne 15 (4) b Elsey 14 * W E Thompson b Richardson 25 (3) not out 47 J Raby b G T Milne 20 (2) b Elsey 9 Riley, E E b Elsey 42 (6) c Gilman b Elsey 19 Geeson, F not out 27 (7) b G T Milne 0 J A Brooke c Marshall b Elsey 0 (8) c Ullathorne b Elsey 17 Borton, F lbw b G T Milne 0 (9) b Marshall 2 + L Wood b Elsey 1 (10) c G T Milne b Arkle 3 Extras 9 nb 3 8 Total 164 128 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 12 98 142 164 Second innings 12 19 47 53 85 89 111 115 128 - G T Milne 25 5 49 5 - - (1) 26 3 63 1 - - Elsey 16.3 1 48 4 - - (2) 30 13 38 6 - 3 Richardson 4 0 28 1 - - Arkle 5 2 15 0 - - (3) 3.5 1 3 1 - - Gilman 1 0 5 0 - - (4) 5 1 15 0 - - Marshall 1 0 10 0 - - (6) 3 2 1 1 - - W Milne (5) 2 2 0 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 52.3 8 164 10 - - 69.5 22 128 9 0 3 Notes: Northumberland won by 108 runs on the second day with 4 minutes remaining, after setting Lincolnshire a victory target of 237 runs in three hours. For the winners, Elsey took 10 wickets in the match for 86 runs. Gilman scored 92 and Richardson 76. In the Northumberland second innings, these two batsmen added 150 runs for the sixth wicket. Hibbert suffered from sunstoke and could not bat or field on the second day. Bradshaw, the Grimsby Town professional, fielded in his place. Geeson suffered from sciatica and was unable to bowl on the second day. [Missing: Umpires; first day Arkle’s score; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in the Northumberl and second innings boundaries in Gilman’s 92 and Richardson’s 76 and runs bowling 1 short; precise time completed.] Sources: Grimsby News 5 June; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 4,5 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 4,5 June; Yorkshire Post 4,5 June; The Sportsman 3,4,5 June; Cricket 11 June, p 197.