Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 77 : LINCOLNSHIRE V CHESHIRE At The Grantham Cricket Club Ground, London Road, Grantham on Monday 18, Tuesday 19 August 1913 Result: Lincolnshire won by 71 runs Points: Lincolnshire 5 Toss: Lincolnshire Umpires: F Johnson and J P Whiteside Debutants: Lincolnshire 1 (R S M White); Cheshire 2 (H R Parry, F S Vaughan) First day score: Lincolnshire 84 and 126-7 wickets (E E Riley 41*, J N Worman 21*), Cheshire 109 Lincolnshire * W E Thompson c Tipping b Smoker 38 (1) run out 4 C J Williamson c Wild b Smoker 2 (2) b Fairbank 8 Broughton, J J c Tipping b Fairbank 0 (3) b Smoker 1 B P Nevile b Williams 14 (4) c Holland b Williams 4 W R Rose c Williams b Smoker 3 (5) c Wild b Williams 0 Day, J W c Smoker b Williams 1 (6) b Smoker 15 G E Hemingway c Hales b Williams 1 (8) b Fairbank 27 J N Worman b Williams 2 (9) c Wild b Fairbank 22 Riley, E E c Williams b Fairbank 18 (7) c Williams b Holland 138 + R S M White c Vaughan b Williams 1 (11) not out 19 H Eaitch not out 1 (10) c Tipping b Fairbank 21 Extras 3 nb 5 9 Total (all out) 84 (all out) 268 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 12 31 46 55 68 76 76 83 84 Second innings 4 6 11 16 54 54 62 129 197 268 Smoker 17 5 27 3 - - (3) 29 4 106 2 - - Fairbank 13 2 27 2 - - (1) 19 4 78 4 - 3 Williams 14.2 4 27 5 - - (2) 19 4 67 2 - - Holland (4) 1.1 0 8 1 - 2 Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 9 1 - - Total 44.2 11 84 10 - - 68.1 12 268 10 0 5 Cheshire F C Wild b Riley 11 (1) c Hemingway b Nevile 0 A Williams b Riley 3 (3) b Nevile 19 Holland, J c Worman b Riley 22 (2) b Broughton 1 R R Wilson lbw b Broughton 11 (5) b Nevile 2 L Hales lbw b Broughton 0 (6) c Eaitch b Broughton 5 Smoker, H G c Broughton b Riley 17 (4) c Worman b Hemingway 86 * F Fairbank st White b Broughton 4 (7) b Nevile 6 Rev J M Swift c Worman b Riley 15 (8) b Nevile 0 F S Vaughan b Broughton 0 (9) c Hemingway b Broughton 0 H R Parry b Riley 0 (10) not out 41 + J D Tipping, sen not out 8 (11) b Williamson 1 Extras 18 nb 4 11 Total (all out) 109 (all out) 172 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 20 28 43 75 109 Second innings 0 6 24 27 31 31 41 41 166 172 Day 9 3 14 0 - - (1) 10 2 22 0 - - Riley 20.1 8 42 6 - - (2) 9 0 28 0 - - Worman 7 3 14 0 - - (3) 3 0 6 0 - - Broughton 8 3 21 4 - - (4) 16 6 34 3 - 3 Nevile (5) 20 8 33 5 - - Hemingway (6) 7 0 26 1 - - Williamson (7) 3.3 0 12 1 - 1 Extras - - 18 0 - - - - 11 0 - - Total 44.1 17 109 10 - - 68.3 16 172 10 0 4 Notes: This return match was won by Lincolnshire by 71 runs on the second day. The match between the two sides at Northwich earlier in the month had also been won by Lincolnshire. For the winners Riley scored a chanceless 138 with 3 sixes and 16 fours. In the second innings he added 67 runs with Worman for the eighth wicket, 68 runs with Eaitch for the ninth wicket and 71 runs with White for the tenth. Riley also took 6 wickets for 42 runs in the Cheshire first innings. Nevile took 5 wickets for 33 runs in the Cheshire second innings. Rose kept wicket in the Cheshire second innings because White received an injury to his hand when batting in the Lincolnshire second innings which prevented him taking further part in the match. For Cheshire Smoker scored 86 and added 125 runs for the ninth wicket with Parry in the second innings. Williams took 5 wickets for 27 runs in the Lincolnshire first innings. [Missing: Extras breakdown; in Lincolnshire second innings duration of Riley’s 138; in Cheshire first innings part fall of wickets; in Cheshire second innings boundaries in Smoker’s 86; time completed.] Sources: Grantham Journal 23 August; Grimsby News 22 August; Chester Chronicle 23 August; Lincolnshire Echo 19, 20 August; Yorkshire Post 19,20 August; Cricket 23 August, p 551; The Sportsman 19 August. 110