Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 26 : NORTHUMBERLAND V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At The County Ground. Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 July 1913 Result: Northumberland won by an innings and 136 runs Points: Northumberland 5 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: Not known Debutants: Northumberland none; Cambridgeshire none First day score: Northumberland 509-7 wickets declared; Cambridgeshire 53 and 69-1 wicket (H A Carpenter 35*, F E Collier 34*) Northumberland C F Stanger-Leathes c Collier b Coulson 21 + J S F Morrison c Sadler b Coulson 109 J S Nesbit c Watts b Coulson 44 G L Hunting not out 219 Wingham, G C lbw b Wilson 62 * S P Bell c Sadler b Pemberton 37 W W Meldon c Watts b Pemberton 5 C M Skinner c Wilson b Pemberton 0 Milne, G T not out 10 J L Towler G H Watson Extras 2 Total (7 wickets declared) 509 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 59 170 177 372 429 440 440 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 26 0 165 3 - - Wilson 18 0 99 1 - - Sadler 21 0 141 0 - - Pemberton 9 0 102 3 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - Total 74 0 509 7 - - Cambridgeshire (Followed on) E H Hickman b Milne 2 (5) c Morrison b Milne 32 Carpenter, H A c Morrison b Milne 5 (2) c Watson b Towler 82 F W Wilson b Milne 4 (4) b Towler 10 F E Collier b Milne 0 (3) c and b Watson 79 + Watts, G H b Milne 0 (6) c Bell b Milne 16 R K G Marseille b Skinner 8 (7) b Wingham 35 * F P C Pemberton not out 13 (1) c and b Skinner 0 Dr R Ellis run out 0 (8) c Morrison b Milne 5 Rev F W Worsley c Meldon b Milne 0 (9) c Nesbit b Milne 10 Coulson, H c Morrison b Towler 8 (10) not out 21 T W Sadler b Towler 4 (11) c and b Towler 8 Extras nb 1 9 22 Total (all out) 53 (all out) 320 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 53 Second innings 0 155 175 320 Skinner 13 9 12 1 - 1 (1) 9 1 42 1 - - Milne 14 6 22 6 - - (2) 27 5 69 4 - - Towler 2 0 10 2 - - (4) 14.4 1 55 3 - - Watson (3) 9 0 46 1 - - Wingham (5) 11 0 61 1 - - Meldon (6) 4 0 25 0 - - Extras - - 9 1 - - - - 22 0 - - Total 29 15 53 10 0 1 74.4 7 320 10 - - Notes: Northumberland won this match by an innings and 136 runs within five minutes of lunch on the second day after making the visitors follow on 456 runs behind on first innings. The Northumberland innings of 509 for seven wickets declared lasted for only 3 hours and 35 minutes. A key feature was the innings of 219 not out by G L Hunting. In all he batted for just two hours and 20 minutes and his innings included 15 sixes, of which four were out of the ground, and 23 fours. Press reports indicate he gave 4 or 5 chances during his innings. Morrison scored 109 which contained 2 sixes, 1 five and 13 fours, an innings of one hour and 20 minutes. There were 11 fours in Wingham’s 62. During the Northumberland innings Morrison and Nesbit put on 111 runs for the second wicket, Hunting and Wingham added 195 runs in 75 minutes for the fourth wicket. Hunting and Milne had an unbroken partnership of 69 runs for the eighth wicket. Milne took 10 wickets in the match for 91 runs, including 6 wickets for 22 runs in the Cambridgeshire first innings. For the losers, in the Cambridgeshire second innings Carpenter scored 82 with 15 fours and Collier 79 with 14 fours. They added 155 runs for the Cambridgeshire second wicket in 90 minutes. A feature of the Northumberland innings was despite it exceeding five hundred runs, only two extras were conceded. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; precise time completed.] Sources: Newcastle Daily Journal 17,18 July; Cambridge Independent Press 25 July; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 18 July; Yorkshire Post 18 July; Cricket 26 July, p 440. 59