Minor Counties Championship 1909

91 MATCH NUMBER 60 : BEDFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The Luton Town Cricket Club Ground, Wardown Park, Luton on Monday 2, Tuesday 3 August 1909 Result: Bedfordshire won by an innings and 16 runs Points: Bedfordshire 5 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Cambridgeshire 1 (A J S Stearn) First day score: Bedfordshire 198; Cambridgeshire 39-1 wicket (L J Reid 14*, F W Bryan 1*) Bedfordshire B L Peel c Rose b Coulson 16 W E King c Stearn b B W Pigg 7 Wharmby, G E not out 87 * H R Orr c C Pigg b B W Pigg 1 + E E Apthorp c and b Coulson 2 Holdstock, H F c Rose b Coulson 7 H Willett b Coulson 2 H O Sutherland b Coulson 1 A F Morcom b Rose 4 B Maclear c Fromant b Stearn 12 H Grierson run out 35 Extras nb 1 24 Total 198 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 25 33 38 44 78 80 82 98 142 198 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 29 9 49 5 - - B W Pigg 19 2 71 2 - - Rose 10 1 28 1 - 1 Stearn 4 0 10 1 - - Fromant 4 0 16 0 - - Extras - - 24 1 - - Total 66 12 198 10 0 1 Cambridgeshire (Followed on) L J Reid b Grierson 14 (1) b Wharmby 16 T W Brown c Holdstock b Morcom 23 (2) b Morcom 16 F W Bryan c Holdstock b Morcom 7 (3) b Morcom 0 B W Pigg c Maclear b Grierson 0 (4) b Morcom 8 B Gray b Morcom 17 (5) c Apthorp b Wharmby 1 + Watts, G H b Wharmby 15 (6) b Morcom 7 H W Fromant b Morcom 2 (7 ) b Wharmby 8 * C Pigg b Wharmby 0 (8) b Morcom 0 Coulson, H b Morcom 0 (9) b Wharmby 18 G A Rose c Grierson b Wharmby 5 (10) c Willett b Wharmby 13 A J S Stearn not out 1 (11) not out 2 Extras w 1 9 0 Total 93 89 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 38 39 39 57 72 75 78 79 92 93 Second innings 23 23 39 41 41 53 53 61 70 89 Morcom 16.4 3 37 5 1 - (1) 13 0 48 5 - - Peel 2 0 5 0 - - Grierson 12 3 27 2 - - Wharmby 11 6 11 3 - - (2) 12.1 1 41 5 - - Orr 2 1 4 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 43.4 13 93 10 1 0 25.1 1 89 10 0 0 Notes: The match was for the benefit of G E Wharmby. Bedfordshire won by an innings and 16 runs at 3.10 pm on the second day after Cambridgeshire followed on 105 runs behind on first innings. Rain on the first day delayed the start until 2.30 pm. For the winners, Morcom took ten wickets in the match for 85 runs. There were 9 fours in beneficiary Wharmby’s 87 not out, an innings of almost 2½ hours. In the Bedfordshire innings, Wharmby and Grierson put on 56 runs for the last wicket. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown.] Sources: Bedfordshire Advertiser, 6 August; Bedfordshire Standard 6 August; Luton News 5 August; Luton Reporter 5 August; Cambridge Daily News 2,3 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 6 August; Hertfordshire Express 7 August; The Sportsman 3,4 August; Cricket 19 August, p 352.