Minor Counties Championship 1909

88 MATCH NUMBER 57 : BEDFORDSHIRE V LINCOLNSHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The Luton Town Cricket Club Ground, Wardown Park, Luton on Friday 30 [no play] Saturday 31 July 1909 Result: Match drawn - Bedfordshire won on first innings Points: Bedfordshire 3 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: R Head and A Rudd Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Lincolnshire none First day score: Rain prevented any play on first day Lincolnshire E T Cooke c Apthorp b Morcom 3 Day, J W b Morcom 0 T Hedworth c Wharmby b Grierson 8 * W E Thompson c Apthorp b Wharmby 22 E B Waite c substitute b Morcom 2 F S Cannell c Apthorp b Peel 23 R E Williams b Grierson 45 J E Crookes b Peel 2 A W Foster c Holmes-Brown b Grierson 8 Geeson, F b Grierson 7 + Allen, G J not out 5 Extras b 8 8 Total 133 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 9 17 20 57 65 79 98 126 133 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Morcom 20 3 41 3 - - Grierson 13.4 1 34 4 - - Orr 5 0 22 0 - - Peel 13 3 19 2 - - Wharmby 5 1 9 1 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - Total 56.4 8 133 10 0 0 Bedfordshire Holdstock, H F c Allen b Geeson 0 B L Peel c Williams b Geeson 33 Wharmby, G E hit wicket b Geeson 17 W E King c Foster b Williams 57 * H R Orr c Cooke b Geeson 31 + E E Apthorp b Crookes 27 H O Sutherland c Foster b Crookes 10 A E Holmes-Brown not out 16 B Maclear c Waite b Crookes 1 A F Morcom not out 10 H Grierson Extras b 10, lb 4 14 Total (8 wickets) 216 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 38 72 119 164 184 186 194 - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Geeson 18 5 55 4 - - Cooke 13 3 42 0 - - Day 6 0 16 0 - - Foster 2 0 13 0 - - Crookes 12 4 32 3 - - Williams 9 0 44 1 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - Total 60 12 216 8 0 0 Notes: This rain-affected match was drawn with Bedfordshire winning on first innings. No play took place on the first day though newspaper reports indicate that the match could have started at around 3.30 pm, but the Bedfordshire captain Orr had allowed several of his players to go home shortly after noon when it looked as if any prospect of play was out of the question. Lincolnshire were put in to bat by Bedfordshire. For Bedfordshire, King scored 57. Williams top-scored for Lincolnshire with 45. Holmes-Brown was not at the ground when the match started, and Waite was caught by the substitute fielder. [Missing: In Li ncolnshire innings identity of substitute fielder who caught Waite; in Bedfordshire innings boundaries in King’s 57.] Sources: Bedfordshire Advertiser 6 August; Bedfordshire Standard 6 August; Luton News 5 August; North Herts Mail 5 August ; Grantham Journal 7 August ; The Sportsman 31 July. 2 August; Cricket 12 August, p 327.