Minor Counties Championship 1908

77 MATCH NUMBER 44 : STAFFORDSHIRE V NORTHUMBERLAND – NORTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 27, Tuesday 28 July 1908 Result: Staffordshire won by an innings and 40 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: W Copeland and M Myers Debutants: Staffordshire none; Northumberland none First day score: Staffordshire 343; Northumberland 97-3 wickets (F W Gillespie 68*, M Chambers 0*) Staffordshire P Briggs c Marshall b Elsey 79 Brown, W b Skinner 15 Barnes, S F b Elsey 19 * H D Stratton b Marshall 65 Fereday, J B c Elsey b Marshall 42 E H Bourne c Wood b Marshall 6 Vost, E run out 3 + C L Winser c Wilkinson b Milne 34 Bucknell, A not out 46 Mee, R J c Marshall b Skinner 16 H Eardley b Gillespie 6 Extras b 6, lb 2, nb 4 12 Total 343 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 27 60 134 220 235 238 248 301 324 343 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Elsey 23 2 62 2 - 4 Skinner 24 2 115 2 - - Milne 15 1 47 1 - - Marshall 16 2 53 3 - - Chambers 6 0 22 0 - - Richardson 5 0 21 0 - - Gillespie 3 1 11 1 - - Extras - - 12 1 - - Total 92 8 343 10 0 4 Northumberland (Followed on) * F W Gillespie c Stratton b Mee 95 (2) b Eardley 0 J T Carr c Winser b Eardley 17 (3) b Eardley 0 Marshall, J c Barnes b Eardley 1 (4) c Winser b Eardley 4 Richardson, O lbw b Barnes 4 (5) c Winser b Vost 30 Chambers, M c Fereday b Barnes 5 (6) b Eardley 0 S Wood c and b Barnes 1 (7) b Vost 0 + T Ullathorne b Mee 0 (10) b Eardley 0 Milne, G T b Mee 10 (8) c Bourne b Vost 4 N R E Wilkinson b Mee 5 (9) c Bucknell b Vost 15 C M Skinner not out 58 (1) b Eardley 5 Elsey, G b Eardley 34 (11) not out 1 Extras b 5, lb 2, nb 2 9 b 2, lb 3 5 Total 239 64 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 59 67 92 107 117 118 123 144 155 239 Second innings 0 0 6 11 11 12 20 59 60 64 Barnes 35 12 79 3 - - Mee 30 9 72 4 - 2 Bucknell 10 2 31 0 - - Eardley 11.3 5 21 3 - - (1) 10 3 30 6 - - Vost 6 0 20 0 - - (2) 9.4 2 29 4 - - Fereday 4 2 7 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 96.3 30 239 10 0 2 19.4 5 64 10 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won this return match by an innings and 40 runs at 3.30 pm on the second day after enforcing the follow on, which Northumberland narrowly failed to save by 5 runs. The match between the two sides the previous week had also been won by Staffordshire. In the Staffordshire innings, Winser and Bucknell added 53 for the eighth wicket. For the winners, there were 1 five and 6 fours in Briggs’s 79 and 5 fours in Stratton’s 65. For the losers, Gillespie’s 95 contained 1 five and 9 fours and Skinner scored 58 not out. In the Northumberland first innings, Skinner and Elsey put on 84 runs for the last wicket. [Missing: In Northumberland first inningss boundaries in Skinner’s 58 not out.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 1 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 27,28 July; Newcastle Daily Journal 28,29 July; The Sportsman 28,29 July; Cricket 30 July, p 317.