Minor Counties Championship 1908

65 MATCH NUMBER 32 : NORTHUMBERLAND V STAFFORDSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday 20, Tuesday 21 July 1908 Result: Staffordshire won by an innings and 24 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: W Copeland and M Myers Debutants: Northumberland 1 (T Patton); Staffordshire 1 (A Devey); First day score: Staffordshire 299; Northumberland 89-6 wickets (J T Carr 17*, G T Milne 13*) Staffordshire P Briggs c Milne b Marshall 84 Brown, W c Chambers b Marshall 20 Barnes, S F c Elsey b Milne 25 E W Page st Ullathorne b Marshall 13 Fereday, J B st Ullathorne b Marshall 17 Hollowood, A b Milne 4 A Devey b Milne 4 + C L Winser b Elsey 66 * H D Stratton hit wicket b Milne 7 Bucknell, A not out 32 Mee, R J st Ullathorne b Marshall 7 Extras b 12, lb 2, nb 6 20 Total 299 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 49 81 98 159 169 175 189 217 282 299 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Milne 29 4 82 4 - - Patton 12 2 34 0 - - Marshall 38.4 12 82 5 - - Veitch 10 3 25 0 - - Elsey 13 3 39 1 - 6 Skinner 5 0 17 0 - - Extras - - 20 0 - - Total 107.4 24 299 10 0 6 Northumberland (Followed on) M C Hill b Mee 4 (9) run out 9 T Patton c Bucknell b Barnes 20 (5) b Fereday 16 Richardson, O run out 14 (3) b Brown 36 Marshall, J c Bucknell b Barnes 3 (1) b Mee 15 Chambers, M b Bucknell 5 (4) run out 19 J T Carr b Mee 17 (2) b Mee 10 + T Ullathorne c Briggs b Barnes 1 (7) lbw b Mee 7 Milne, G T b Barnes 17 (8) c Briggs b Barnes 23 * C M Skinner b Barnes 2 (6) lbw b Barnes 7 Elsey, G not out 8 (10) c Devey b Barnes 8 W Veitch b Barnes 5 (11) not out 0 Extras b 13, lb 2, nb 1 16 b 10, lb 1, nb 2 13 Total 112 163 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 15 36 48 50 57 62 93 99 104 112 Second innings 28 33 69 90 109 109 137 140 157 163 Barnes 21.4 7 45 6 - 1 (1) 22.4 6 64 3 - - Mee 19 10 25 2 - - (2) 15 5 38 3 - 2 Bucknell 5 0 20 1 - - (3) 7 1 24 0 - - Brown 2 1 1 0 - - (4) 5 0 8 1 - - Stratton 1 0 5 0 - - Fereday (5) 9 5 16 1 - - Extras - - 16 1 - - - - 13 2 - - Total 48.4 18 112 10 0 1 58.4 17 163 10 0 2 Notes: Staffordshire won by an innings and 24 runs at 3.35 pm on the second day, after Northumberland followed on 187 runs behind. For the winners, there were 5 fours in Briggs’s 84 and Winser scored 66. In the Staffordshire innings, Winser and Bucknell put on 65 runs for the ninth wicket. On the second morning before play started, the umpires agreed to an upward adjustment of two runs to the Staffordshire score from 297 to 299 to reflect the fact that Winser’s biggest hit off Elsey was a ‘six’ not a ‘four’. Winser’s own score was increased from 64 to 66. [Missing: In Staffordshire innings boundaries in Winser 66.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Journal 21,22 July; Staffordshire Advertiser 25 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 20,21 July; The Sportsman 21,22 July; Cricket 23 July, p 301.