Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 49: STAFFORDSHIRE V CHESHIRE At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 3, Tuesday 4 August 1914 Result: Staffordshire won by ten wickets Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Cheshire Umpires: T Fenwick and J Whiteside Debutants: Staffordshire 1 (G T Skellam); Cheshire 1 (H Simpson) First day score: Cheshire 38 and 43-4 wickets (D Boumphrey -*, L N Jones -*); Staffordshire 121 Cheshire * F L Eaton b Wilson 10 (1) b Heath 4 F C Wild b Wilson 4 (3) c Dearing b Heath 0 Chambers, W T c Awty b Barnes 5 (2) c Wilson b Heath 10 D Boumphrey b Wilson 0 (4) c Dearing b Barnes 13 H Simpson c Skellam b Wilson 3 (5) c Skellam b Wilson 2 L N Jones lbw b Barnes 0 (6) run out 24 V Hope c Awty b Barnes 7 (7) c Dearing b Wilson 3 Smoker, H G c Awty b Barnes 0 (8) c Nichols b Wilson 11 Williams, J not out 0 (9) not out 9 Williams, A b Barnes 4 (10) b Wilson 11 + Tipping, J D, sen. c Awty b Barnes 0 (11) b Wilson 0 Extras b 4, nb 1 5 b 6, lb 2, nb 5 13 Total (all out) 38 (all out) 100 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 19 19 19 19 30 34 34 38 38 Second innings 7 9 18 29 55 64 64 78 100 100 Wilson 8 1 20 4 - - (1) 17.5 2 36 5 - - Awty 2 0 6 0 - - Barnes 5.2 1 7 6 - 1 (3) 10 3 28 1 - - Heath (2) 7 0 23 3 - 3 Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 13 1 - - Total 15.2 2 38 10 0 1 34.5 5 100 10 0 5 Staffordshire J J Awty c Jones b Smoker 0 (2) not out 2 J S Heath b Smoker 22 J Ankers b Smoker 4 L F Taylor c Wild b Smoker 11 Nichols, J E lbw b Smoker 0 Barnes, S F c and b J Williams 44 C H Campbell b Smoker 6 W T Newton c Jones b A Williams 6 G T Skellam run out 0 Wilson, G A b Smoker 1 * + H Dearing not out 21 (1) not out 15 Extras b 4, nb 2 6 b 2 2 Total (all out) 121 (no wicket) 19 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 10 27 27 54 62 69 69 74 121 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Smoker 29 11 55 7 - 1 (1) 3 0 15 0 - - Hope 12 5 20 0 - 1 (2) 2 1 2 0 - - A Williams 13 2 27 1 - - J Williams 3.3 0 13 1 - - Extras - - 6 1 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 57.3 18 121 10 0 2 5 1 19 0 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won this return match by 10 wickets at 12.20 pm on the second day. They had also won the match between the two sides at Dukinfield in June. The ground was so wet on Monday that the start was delayed until 12:45 pm. For Staffordshire Barnes arrived a little late so Awty opened the bowling with Wilson. Barnes then took 6 wickets for 7 runs. When Staffordshire batted Barnes was the top scorer with 44 obtained in 1 hour 45 minutes. He shared a last wicket partnership of 47 with Dearing, scored in 40 minutes. Wilson took 5 wickets for 36 runs in the Cheshire second innings. On the second day play began at 11.10 am after an early shower. For Cheshire Jones was the top scorer with 24 and Smoker took 7 wickets for 55 runs in the Staffordshire first innings. [Missing: Close of play batsmen scores; precise time completed.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire Advertiser 8 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 3,4 August; Macclesfield Advertiser 7 August; World of Cricket 8 August, p 419. 91