Minor Counties Championship 1909

72 MATCH NUMBER 41 : NORTHUMBERLAND V STAFFORDSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday 19, Tuesday 20 July 1909 Result: Staffordshire won by an innings and 138 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Northumberland 1 (G H Watson); Staffordshire none First day score: Staffordshire 403-7 wickets declared; Northumberland 101 Staffordshire P Briggs b Marshall 54 Fereday, J B c Carr b Skinner 73 Barnes, S F c Marshall b Skinner 20 * B Meakin c Marshall b Skinner 122 Hollowood, A c Wilkinson b Carr 39 J W Johnson b Foster 0 Nichols, J E not out 44 + C L Winser b Elsey 27 Lane, A F not out 0 Higgins, J B H Eardley Extras 24 Total (7 wickets declared) 403 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 84 136 186 289 290 336 391 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Skinner 26 4 116 3 - - Elsey 29 6 86 1 - - Foster 15 1 71 1 - - Carr 9 0 57 1 - - Marshall 10 0 49 1 - - Extras - - 24 0 - - Total 89 11 403 7 - - Northumberland (Followed on) * F W Gillespie b Barnes 0 (1) b Barnes 48 S Anderson c Meakin b Barnes 4 (2) c Barnes b Nichols 39 Marshall, J c Briggs b Eardley 10 (3) b Nichols 0 Carr, J T c Fereday b Barnes 36 (4) c Meakin b Barnes 28 N R E Wilkinson b Eardley 13 (5) c Briggs b Barnes 7 Lt H Cooper b Barnes 0 (6) c Nichols b Barnes 6 C M Skinner b Barnes 0 (7) b Nichols 2 G H Watson run out 2 (8) run out 1 + T Ullathorne c Lane b Barnes 7 (9) c Barnes b Nichols 9 R Foster c Briggs b Lane 19 (10) c Meakin b Barnes 0 Elsey, G not out 0 (11) not out 3 Extras nb 1 10 nb 5 21 Total 101 164 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 11 17 48 57 63 65 69 99 101 Second innings 76 76 118 131 136 141 152 152 152 164 Barnes 13.1 2 51 6 - 1 (1) 15 1 60 5 - 5 Eardley 12 1 38 2 - - (2) 4 0 17 0 - - Lane 1 0 2 1 - - (3) 3 0 11 0 - - Nichols (4) 13.4 2 34 4 - - Higgins (5) 6 0 21 0 - - Extras - - 10 1 - - - - 21 1 - - Total 26.1 3 101 10 0 1 41.4 3 164 10 0 5 Notes: Staffordshire won this return match by an innings and 138 runs at 1.20 pm on the second day after Northumberland followed-on 302 runs behind. The match between the two sides at Stoke earlier in the month had also been won by Staffordshire. For the winners, there were 21 fours, 1 three and 5 twos in Meakin’s 122, an innings of two hours. Fereday’s 74 included 10 fours and Briggs’s 54 contained 6 fours. In the Staffordshire innings, Meakin and Hollowood put on 103 in an hour for the fourth wicket, and Nichols and Winser 55 for the seventh. For the losers, Gillespie top-scored with 48 including 6 fours. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown.] Sources: Newcastle Daily Chronicle 20,21 July; Newcastle Daily Journal 20,21 July; Staffordshire Annual Report 1909; Staffordshire Advertiser 24 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 19,20; Yorkshire Post 20,21 July; The Sportsman 20,21 July; Cricket 5 August, p 310.