Minor Counties Championship 1909

116 MATCH NUMBER 85 : SUFFOLK V BEDFORDSHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The Bury and West Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Cemetery Road, Bury St. Edmunds on Monday 9, Tuesday 10 August 1909 Result: Match tied Points: Suffolk 2½, Bedfordshire 2½ Toss: Suffolk Umpires: Not known Debutants: Suffolk none; Bedfordshire none First day score: Suffolk 153; Bedfordshire 172 Suffolk O H A Walters b Morcom 0 (1) b Wharmby 32 + E Pritchett b Orr 34 (3) b Morcom 0 Hon R Gorell Barnes run out 0 (2) c Apthorp b Foy 6 J F Ireland c Grierson b Morcom 2 (4) c Holdstock b Morcom 31 Hon S H Hill-Wood c Apthorp b Wharmby 34 (5) c Apthorp b Wharmby 7 Capt F T D Wilson c Apthorp b Foy 50 (6) b Morcom 8 K Raynor not out 17 (7) not out 19 H L Wilson c Apthorp b Foy 3 (8) c Holdstock b Morcom 0 * F H Mustard c Morcom b Foy 2 (9) b Wharmby 12 Penfold, W b Foy 0 (10) c Sutherland b Wharmby 11 Rev H F Steel run out 1 (11) b Wharmby 0 Extras w 2 10 19 Total 153 145 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 0 7 59 106 142 146 151 152 153 Second innings 28 31 73 79 91 95 95 120 144 145 Morcom 17 4 50 2 - - (1) 20 1 68 4 - - Grierson 8 3 15 0 - - (3) 6 1 17 0 - - Foy 10 1 35 4 - - (2) 6 1 17 1 - - Wharmby 8 5 3 1 - - (4) 17.5 9 24 5 - - Peel 5 1 11 0 2 - Orr 6 0 29 1 - - Extras - - 10 2 - - - - 19 0 - - Total 54 14 153 10 2 0 49.5 12 145 10 0 0 Bedfordshire R W Rice c Pritchett b Gorell Barnes 30 (11) not out 0 B L Peel c F T D Wilson b Penfold 20 (1) c F T D Wilson b Penfold 77 Wharmby, G E b Steel 5 (4) run out 14 W E King c Gorell Barnes b Penfold 9 (5) c Raynor b F T D Wilson 1 Holdstock, H F c Raynor b Gorell Barnes 16 (3) c Gorell Barnes b F T D Wilson 6 * H R Orr b Mustard 44 (6) b Mustard 3 + E E Apthorp st Pritchett b Penfold 13 (7) b Mustard 0 H O Sutherland c substitute (J N Goldsmith) b Penfold 9 (8) b Gorell Barnes 11 A F Morcom not out 9 (2) c Walters b Penfold 6 P A Foy c Steel b F T D Wilson 4 (9) c Steel b Penfold 2 H Grierson b F T D Wilson 0 (10) b Gorell Barnes 0 Extras nb 2 13 nb 1 6 Total 172 126 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 30 37 46 74 100 140 158 172 Second innings 23 48 75 78 85 85 121 126 126 126 Penfold 25 8 53 4 - - (1) 13.2 3 34 3 - - Steel 9 3 29 1 - - (2) 4 1 9 0 - - Gorell Barnes 14 2 35 2 - 2 (3) 8 3 17 2 - 1 F T D Wilson 7.4 1 22 2 - - (4) 13 2 30 2 - - Mustard 9 1 20 1 - - (5) 10 1 30 2 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - - - 6 1 - - Total 64.4 15 172 10 0 2 48.2 10 126 10 0 1 Notes: Tied return match which was the third time this had happened in a championship match. With just one run needed for victory and 3 wickets in hand a win for Bedfordshire looked certain, but the last three wickets all fell at the score of 126, two to Penfold and one to Gorell Barnes. The match had seen Rice being summoned from his hotel where he was resting from a heart ailment and coming out to bat as eleventh man in his ordinary attire. He played out a maiden from Gorell Barnes, but Peel who had kept Bedfordshire’s hopes alive almost single-handedly was then caught in the slips off Penfold. For Suffolk, F T D Wilson scored 50 which contained 7 fours, while for Bedfordshire Peel scored 77. The substitute catch in the Bedfordshire innings was held by J N Goldsmith, who was fielding while H L Wilson was temporarily indisposed. The match between the two sides at Bedford earlier in the season had been drawn. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Bedfordshire first innings fall of eighth and ninth wickets; in Bedfordshire second innings boundaries in Peel’s 77; precise time completed.] Sources: East Anglian Daily Times 10,11 August; Eastern Daily Press 10,11 August; Bedford and County Record 10 August; Bedfordshire Standard 13 August; The Sportsman 10,11 August; Cricket 19 August, p 347.