Minor Counties Championship 1908

46 MATCH NUMBER 13 : NORTHUMBERLAND V LINCOLNSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Friday 26, Saturday 27 June 1908 Result: Northumberland won by an innings and 39 runs Points: Northumberland 5 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: Not known Debutants: Northumberland 2 (J T Carr, R Foster); Lincolnshire 1 (G Turner) First day score: Northumberland 431; Lincolnshire 40-3 wickets (G J Allen 15*, J J Broughton 10*) Northumberland * F W Gillespie b Riley 103 Milne, G T c Hibbert b Geeson 1 J S Nesbit b Cooke 7 J Gilman b Geeson 103 Marshall, J b Riley 57 Richardson, O c Cooke b Broughton 43 + T Ullathorne b Riley 29 J T Carr not out 30 H Arkle b Riley 0 Elsey, G b Riley 8 R Foster c Thompson b Riley 10 Extras w 2, nb 8 40 Total 431 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 19 192 249 319 358 396 396 416 431 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Geeson 32 4 97 2 - - Cooke 13 2 59 1 2 - Riley 23.5 5 73 6 - 1 Broughton 22 1 70 1 - 4 Holsinger 20 1 65 0 - 3 Hibbert 6 0 27 0 - - Extras - - 40 0 - - Total 116.5 13 431 10 2 8 Lincolnshire (Followed on) * W E Thompson b Foster 4 ( ) c Ullathorne b Milne 65 W C Milner c Foster b Milne 6 ( ) b Milne 0 + Allen, G J c Gilman b Foster 20 ( ) c Marshall b Arkle 6 Holsinger, A b Foster 0 ( ) not out 8 Broughton, J J c Marshall b Foster 11 ( ) b Foster 55 Hibbert, W J c Marshall b Elsey 58 ( ) b Foster 10 Rev C G Ward c Nesbit b Elsey 18 ( ) b Gilman 10 Turner, G c Ullathorne b Elsey 0 ( ) c Marshall b Milne 19 Riley, E E c Arkle b Elsey 0 ( ) c Ullathorne b Foster 16 E T Cooke b Foster 13 ( ) b Foster 4 Geeson, F not out 0 ( ) c Ullathorne b Milne 14 Extras w 6 10 w 10, nb 5 45 Total 140 252 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 62 140 140 Second innings 24 201 252 Foster 16.4 4 49 5 6 - (1) 22 3 54 4 10 1 Milne 12 2 30 1 - - (2) 22 8 45 4 - - Elsey 10 4 23 4 - - (5) 15 2 28 0 - 4 Arkle 6 0 28 0 - - (6) 8.2 0 27 1 - - Richardson (3) 3 0 14 0 - - Carr (4) 3 0 17 0 - - Marshall (7) 5 1 11 0 - - Gilman (8) 4 0 11 1 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 45 0 - - Total 44.4 10 140 10 6 0 82.2 14 252 10 10 5 Notes: Northumberland won this return match by an innings and 39 runs at 5.20 pm on the second day, after enforcing the follow-on with the visitors 291 runs behind. The match between the two sides at Grimsby earlier in the month had also been won by Northumberland. For the winners, there were 12 fours and 4 threes in Gillespie’s 103, scored in 2¼ hours. Gilman also scored 103, an innings also of 2¼ hours, which contained 2 sixes and 12 fours. In the Northumberland innings, these two batsmen put on 173 runs for the third wicket. Marshall scored 57. For the losers, Thompson scored 65, an innings that lasted 165 minutes, and there were 9 fours in Hibbert’s 58 and Broughton scored 55. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; In Northumberland innings boundaries in Marshall’s 57; in Lincolnshire second innings boundaries in Thompson’s 65 and Broughton’s 55 and , batting order.] Sources: Newcastle Daily Chronicle 27,29 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 26,27 June; The Sportsman 27,29 June; Cricket 2 July, p 243.