Minor Counties Championship 1908

91 MATCH NUMBER 58 : STAFFORDSHIRE V LINCOLNSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 3, Tuesday 4 August 1908 Result: Staffordshire won by an innings and 73 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Lincolnshire Umpires: J Gregory and S Wrigley Debutants: Staffordshire none; Lincolnshire 2 (G Charlton-Jones, W Peach) First day score: Lincolnshire 140; Staffordshire 235-3 wickets (J B Fereday 69*, S F Barnes 36*) Lincolnshire Hibbert, W J b Eardley 15 (1) run out 8 T Hedworth c Dearing b Eardley 0 (8) b Bucknell 19 * W E Thompson c Dearing b Barnes 57 (6) b Eardley 11 Geeson, F b Barnes 0 (9) c Bucknell b Vost 11 Turner, G c Briggs b Barnes 4 (4) lbw b Eardley 3 R E Williams b Mee 11 (5) c Barnes b Eardley 8 Riley, E E c Dearing b Barnes 22 (7) c Dearing b Eardley 34 Peach, W b Mee 17 (10) b Bourne 28 G Charlton-Jones lbw b Mee 0 (3) b Eardley 0 F S Cannell not out 7 (2) c Barnes b Eardley 13 + Allen, G J b Eardley 2 (11) not out 0 Extras lb 4, w 1 5 b 4 4 Total 140 139 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 28 29 33 64 106 127 127 131 140 Second innings 20 20 21 34 35 75 82 101 135 139 Barnes 25 7 51 4 - - (1) 10 1 33 0 - - Eardley 16.1 5 36 3 1 - (2) 20 8 49 6 - - Bucknell 3 1 5 0 - - (4) 4 1 12 1 - - Mee 16 2 43 3 - - - - Vost 1 1 0 0 - - (3) 13 2 35 1 - - Bourne (5) 1.4 0 6 1 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 4 1 - - Total 61.1 16 140 10 1 0 48.4 12 139 10 0 0 Staffordshire P Briggs b Riley 35 Brown, W run out 2 * H D Stratton c Allen b Riley 90 Fereday, J B c Geeson b Riley 103 Barnes, S F b Riley 41 E H Bourne c Geeson b Riley 1 Vost, E c Allen b Peach 52 Bucknell, A not out 10 + H Dearing b Peach 0 Mee, R J st Allen b Riley 12 H Eardley Extras b 3, lb 2, w 1 6 Total (9 wickets declared) 352 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 68 184 264 272 283 333 335 352 - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Geeson 43 8 104 0 - - Peach 18 2 73 2 - - Riley 32 7 108 6 - - Williams 5 0 26 0 - - Thompson 5 0 16 0 - - Hibbert 3 0 19 0 1 - Extras - - 6 1 - - Total 106 17 352 9 1 0 Notes: Staffordshire won this return match by an innings and 73 runs at 4.10 pm on the second day. When the two teams had met at Grantham in July the match had been drawn. For the winners, there were 10 fours, 3 threes and 10 twos in Fereday’s 103, an innings of 2¼ hours. Stratton scored 90 and Vost’s 52 included 6 fours. In the Staffordshire innings, Stratton and Fereday added 116 runs for the third wicket, and Vost and Bucknell 50 for the seventh. For the losers, Thompson scored 57. Four thousand spectators were present on the first day. [Missing: In Lincolnshire first innings boundaries in Thompson’s 57; in Staffordshire innings boundaries in Stratton’s 90.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 8 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 4 August; Grimsby News 7 August; Yorkshire Post 4,5 August; The Sportsman 4,5 August; Cricket 13 August, p 342.