Minor Counties Championship 1909

36 MATCH NUMBER 5 : NORTHUMBERLAND V CHESHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday 7, Tuesday 8 June 1909 Result: Northumberland won by four wickets Points: Northumberland 5 Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Northumberland none; Cheshire 4 (A W Dixon, J C Fallows, E Osborn, A F Stockton) First day score: Cheshire 248; Northumberland 256-3 wickets (F W Gillespie 114*, J Gilman 34*) Cheshire J C Fallows b Milne 15 (2) b White 38 Bent, S c Ullathorne b Milne 8 (4) c Ullathorne b Foster 31 E Osborn c Ullathorne b Milne 16 (1) b Gilman 23 A S Turner c Gilman b White 21 (8) b Foster 1 R Z H Voss b Foster 28 (6) c Richardson b Milne 78 H P Rigby c Milne b Foster 56 (5) c Ullathorne b Foster 4 A F Stockton not out 37 (7) c Ullathorne b Skinner 7 * Rev F C L Hamilton st Ullathorne b Brown 23 (3) c Brown b Skinner 10 + T T Brewer c Foster b Marshall 25 (9) b Foster 23 Buxton, N c and b Brown 0 (10) c Gilman b Foster 5 A W Dixon b Brown 0 (11) not out 1 Extras w 1 19 w 4 45 Total 248 266 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 16 40 53 77 105 173 211 248 248 248 Second innings 27 60 119 119 131 163 266 Skinner 15 0 70 0 - - (1) 21 2 96 2 - - Milne 33 3 50 3 - - (2) 18 7 23 1 - - White 15 2 44 1 - - (4) 12 2 24 1 - - Brown 5.3 2 15 3 - - (5) 9 4 18 0 - - Foster 14 6 21 2 1 - (3) 21.1 4 44 5 4 - Gilman 9 0 17 0 - - (6) 4 0 16 1 - - Marshall 3 0 12 1 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - - - 45 0 - - Total 94.3 13 248 10 1 0 85.1 19 266 10 4 0 Northumberland S W Anderson c Brewer b Turner 75 (2) b Dixon 13 * F W Gillespie b Turner 123 (1) c Brewer b Turner 17 Richardson, O c Brewer b Turner 6 (8) not out 9 Marshall, J c Dixon b Buxton 4 J Gilman b Turner 52 (4) c Dixon b Buxton 10 W G Brown c Voss b Turner 19 (3) b Buxton 41 G T Milne c Voss b Stockton 0 (7) not out 13 C M Skinner c Brewer b Turner 16 + T Ullathorne b Buxton 18 (6) c Turner b Buxton 9 R Foster not out 36 (5) b Buxton 0 Rev H White c Brewer b Buxton 21 Extras w 1 29 5 Total 399 (6 wickets) 117 62 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 132 144 190 265 298 342 399 Second innings 27 60 80 80 85 98 - - - - Turner 28 5 130 6 - - (2) 5 0 34 1 - - Dixon 8 0 46 0 - - (3) 2 0 20 1 - - Buxton 22 1 123 3 - - (1) 8.5 0 52 4 - - Bent 5 0 19 0 - - Stockton 9 0 52 1 - - (4) 1 0 6 0 - - Extras - - 29 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 72 6 399 10 1 0 16.5 0 117 6 - - Notes: Northumberland won by four wickets at 6.25 pm with 5 minutes to spare after needing in their second innings 116 runs to win in one hour and 10 minutes. Amid reported scenes of considerable excitement, the victory owed much to Brown’s 41. He had been struck on the body by a fast ball from Turner early on in his innings and took some minutes to recover, but afterwards paved the way for the Northumberland win. For the winners, there were 19 fours in Gillespie’s 123, scored in 2 hours and twenty minutes. Anderson’s 75 contained 14 fours, Gilman’s 52 included 2 sixes and 8 fours, and Brown’s match-winning 41 contained 1 six and 4 fours. In the Northumberland first innings Anderson and Gillespie put on 132 runs for the first wicket, and Foster and White 57 for the last wicket. For Cheshire there were 7 fours in Voss’s 78 and 7 fours in Rigby’s 56. The match aggregate of 1030 runs was the highest for the season. Bent injured his hand during the match, but was able to bat in the Cheshire second innings. [Missing: Toss; umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Newcastle Daily Chronicle 8,9 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 8,9 June; Macclesfield Advertiser 11 June; The Sportsman 8,9 June; Cricket 24 June, p 223.