Scope and Content
Bound press cuttings book, including the following:
• Formation of the new county club [pages 1-3]
• Description and scorecard of the new club's first match versus Surrey II XI, Jun 1900, which included Albert Baker, Ernest Herbert Leonard Nice, Harry Pile Clode and Fred Stedman [page 4];
• Description and scorecard of Bedfordshire Club & Ground v. Biggleswade & District XVI Jun 1900 and Bedfordshire v Staffordshire [Jun 1900 page 5];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Hertfordshire Jun 1900 [page 6];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Leighton Buzzard and District and Club and Ground v Old Bedfordians Jul 1900 [page 7];
• description and scorecard of Old Dunstablians v Bedfordshire Club & Ground Aug 1900, Club & Ground v Old Modernians Aug 1900, scorecard of Oxfordshire (including Reginald Oscar Schwarz) v Bedfordshire Aug 1900 and Staffordshire v Bedfordshire Aug 1900 [page 8]
• description and scorecard of Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire Aug 1900, Bedfordshire v Oxfordshire Aug 1900, Surrey II (including Herbert Strudwick) v Bedfordshire Aug 1900 and county club batting and bowling averages [page 9];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v MCC (including Alec Hearne, Reginald Oscar Schwarz and Arthur Woodcock) [page 10];
• First Annual General Meeting [pages 10-12];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v. XVIII of Biggleswade & District May 1901 and Staffordshire v Bedfordshire Jun 1901 [page 12];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Surrey II (including Albert Baker, Edward Garnett Goatly, Frederick Charles Holland and Herbert Strudwick) and Club & Ground v Bedford Modern School Jun 1901 [pages 12-13];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Hertfordshire Jun 1901 and Bedfordshire v Cambridgeshire Jul 1901 [page 14];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v Bedford School Jul 1901 and Bedfordshire v Staffordshire Jul 1901 [page 15];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v XVIII of Keysoe & District, Jul 1901, description and scorecard of Surrey II (including Albert Baker, Ernest Herbert Leonard Nice, Herbert Strudwick and Walter Scott Lees) v Bedfordshire Jul 1901 [page 16];
• description and scorecard of Old Bedfordians v Club 7 Ground Jul 1901, Club & Ground v XVIII of Leighton Buzzard & District Jul 1901 and MCC (including Edward George Wynyard, Lord Dalmeny, Arthur Jervois Turner, Albert Edward Relf, Harding Isaac Young and Walter Mead) v Bedfordshire Aug 1901 [pages 17-18];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Old Modernians Aug 1901, Club & Ground v Old Dunstablians Aug 1901[page 18];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Oxfordshire Aug 1901, Oxfordshire v Bedfordshire Aug 1901 and Cambridgeshire (including Sir John Berry Hobbs) v Bedfordshire Aug 1901 [pages 18-19]
• description and scorecard of Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire [page 20];
• report of the 1901 county season with averages and report of AGM [pages20-22];
• description and scorecard of Northamptonshire (including William Harold Kingston, Thomas Horton, William East, George Joseph Thompson, Mark Cox and Lancelot Townshend Driffield) v Bedfordshire May 1902 and Bedford Town v Club & Ground Jun 1902 [page 22];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Hertfordshire Jun 1902, The League v Club & Ground Jul 1902 and Bedfordshire v Staffordshire Jul 1902 [page 23];
• description and scorecard of Bedford School v Club & Ground Jul 1902, Club & Ground v XVIII of Luton Jul 1902 [page 24];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Staffordshire Jul 1902; Bedford School v Club & Ground Jul 1902, Old Bedfordians v Club & Ground Jul 1902 and XVIII of Keysoe & District v Club & Ground Jul 1902 [pages 24-25];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Buckinghamshire (including Percy John de Paravicini) Aug 1902, Club & Ground v Old Dunstablians and Bedfordshire v Oxfordshire, Aug 1902 [page 26];
• description and scorecard of Staffordshire v Bedfordshire Aug 1902, Bedfordshire v Buckinghamshire Aug 1902, Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire, Aug 1902 and the county averages [pages 27-28];
• description and scorecard of Northamptonshire (including Hubert Ernest Kingston, Mark Cox, Thomas Horton, George Joseph Thompson, William East, Arthur Webb Mold and Charles James Tomlin Pool ) v Bedfordshire Jun 1903 and Bedford v Club & Ground, Jun 1903 [page 28];
• description and scorecard of Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire, Jun 1903, XVIII of Biggleswade & District v Club & Ground, Jul 1903, Staffordshire v Bedfordshire, Jul 1903 and Club & Ground v Bedford & District League, Jul 1903 [page 29];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Northamptonshire (including William Harold Kingston, George Joseph Thompson, Mark Cox, Thomas Horton, William East and Edmund Mitchell Crosse), Jul 1903 - a Bedfordshire win [page 30];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v XVIII of Keysoe & District, Jul 1903 and Bedfordshire v Cambridgeshire, Jul 1903 [page 31];
• description and scorecard of Old Bedfordians v Club & Ground, Jul 1903 and Bedfordshire v Hertfordshire, Aug 1903 [Page 32];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Staffordshire, Aug 1903 and Bedfordshire v Buckinghamshire (including Percy John de Paravicini), Aug 1903 [page 33];
• description and scorecard of Cambridgeshire v Bedfordshire, Aug 1903 [page 24];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Oxfordshire, Aug 1903 [pages 34-35];
• description and scorecard of Buckinghamshire v Bedfordshire, Aug 1903 [page 35];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Oxfordshire, Aug 1903 [page 36];
• description of the 1903 season and averages [pages 36-37];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v. XVIII of Biggleswade, May 1904 and Bedford League v Club & Ground, May 1904 [page 38];
• description and scorecard of Northamptonshire (including Thomas Horton, William Harold Kingston, Mark Cox, William East, George Joseph Thompson, Edmund Mitchell Cross and George Alfred Turner Vials) v Bedfordshire Jun 1904 [page 39];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Northumberland, Jun 1904 [pages 39-40];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v Bedford, Jul 1904 [page 40];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Northamptonshire (including Edmund Mitchell Crosse, William harold Kingston, George Alfred Turner Vials, George Joseph Thompson, Thomas Horton, William East, William Wells and Thomas Edgar Manning), Jul 1904 [page 41];
• description and scorecard of Old Bedfordians v Club & Ground, Jul 1904 and Old Modernians v Club & Ground, Jul 1904 [page 42];
• description and scorecard of Buckinghamshire v Bedfordshire, Jul 1904 [pages 42-43];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Hertfordshire, Aug 1904 and Bedfordshire v Staffordshire (including Sydney Francis Barnes), Aug 1904 [page 43];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Buckinghamshire, Aug 1904 [page 44];
• description and scorecard of Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire, Aug 1904 [pages 44-45];
• description and scorecard of Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire, Aug 1904 and Bedfordshire v Staffordshire, Aug 1904 [page 45];
• description and scorecard of Durham v Bedfordshire, Aug 1904 , Northumberland v Bedfordshire, Aug 1904, Bedfordshire v Durham, Aug 1904 and Club & Ground v XV of Luton & District, Aug 1904 [page 46];
• report of the 1904 season with averages and report of AGM [page 47];
• article on changes in the Minor Counties Championship and the status of London County [pages 48-49];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v County School, Jun 1905, Bedfordshire v Northumberland, Jun 1905 and Bedfordshire v Staffordshire (including Sydney Francis Barnes), Jul 1905 [page 49];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Durham, Aug 1905 [page 50];
• description and scorecard of Northumberland v Bedfordshire, Aug 1905, Durham v Bedfordshire, Aug 1905 and Staffordshire (including Sydney Francis Barnes) v Bedfordshire [page 51]
• letters on Luton cricket and the Wardown Park ground [pages 52-55];
• report of the AGM [page 56[;
• programmes for Bedfordshire County Cricket Club and Luton's Cricket Week at Wardown Park [page 57];
• description and scorecard of XVIII of Sharnbrook & District v Club & Ground, May 1906, Club & Ground v Bedford, Jun 1906, XVIII of Biggleswade & District v Club & Ground, Jun 1906 and Club & Ground v Bushmead Hall, Jun 1906 [page 58];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v Bedford Modern School, Jun 1906, Club & Ground v Bedford League, Jun 1906, County School v Club & Ground, Jun 1906, Bedford School v Club & Ground, Jun 1906 [page 59];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Northumberland, Jul 1906 [pages 59-60];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Staffordshire (including Stdney Francis Barnes who took 8/10 in the first innings and 1/93 in the second in a Bedfordshire win), Jul 1906 [page 60];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Durham, Jul 1906 and Bedfordshire v Hertfordshire, Jul 1906 [page 61];
• description and scorecard of Old Bedfordians v Club & Ground, Jul 1906 [page 62];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v Old Modernians, Aug 1906 [pages 62-63];
• description and scorecard of Luton League XV v Club & Ground, Aug 1906 and Bedfordshire v Buckinghamshire, Aug 1906 [page 63];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Hertfordshire, Aug 1906 and Buckinghamshire v Bedfordshire, Aug 1906 [page 64];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Northumberland, Aug 1906 and Bedfordshire v Durham "Bedfordshire's First Defeat", Aug 1906 [page 65];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Staffordshire (including Sydney Francis Barnes), Aug 1906 under the title "Bedfordshire Lose the Championship" [page 66];
• report of the 1906 season [pages 66-67];
• article "Mr. W. W. Marks as a Humorist" [pages 67-68];
• description and scorecard Luton v Club & Ground, May 1907 and Bedford League v Club & Ground, May 1907 [page 68];
• description and scorecard of Bedford School v Club & Ground, Jun 1907 and Bedfordshire v Suffolk, Jun 1907 [page 69];
• description and scorecard of Bedford Town v Club & Ground, Jun 1907, Club & Ground v XVIII of Sharnbrook & District, Jul 1907 [page 70];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Norfolk, Jul 1907 [pages 70 and 71];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Hertfordshire, Jul 1907 [page 71];
• description and scorecard of Club & Ground v Elstow School, Jul 1907, Old Bedfordians v Club & Ground, Jul 1907 and Luton Town v Bedford Town, Aug 1907 [page 72];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Cambridgeshire, Aug 1907 [page 321];
• description and scorecard of Bedfordshire v Norfolk , Aug 1907, MCC (including Alec Hearne, Harding Isaac Young, William Charles Smith and John Charlton Hubble) v Bedfordshire, Aug 1907, Bedfordshire v Cambridgeshire, Aug 1907, Bedfordshire v Suffolk (inc Walter Quaife), Aug 1907, Bedfordshire v Hertfordshire, Aug 1907, county averages, AGM and defeat of Bedfordshire proposal to amend Rule 2 of the Minor Counties Championship