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| Venue | Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 23rd February, 2nd March 1907 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Fitzroy won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Fitzroy won by an innings and 102 runs |
| Points | Fitzroy 3; Essendon -3 |
| Close of play day 1 | Fitzroy (1) 271/5 (Hartkopf 57*, Trigg 49*) |
| Fitzroy first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| M Green | c Buzolich b Sampford | 25 | |||||
| J Paterson | c Moffatt b Forsyth | 30 | |||||
| WM Delves | c Proud b Sampford | 62 | |||||
| WA Tarrant | c Forsyth b Moffatt | 13 | |||||
| WJ McSpeerin | c Sampford b Buzolich | 20 | |||||
| AEV Hartkopf | not out | 57 | |||||
| V Trigg | not out | 49 | |||||
| C Kiernan | did not bat | ||||||
| C Dwyer | did not bat | ||||||
| *R Mitchell | did not bat | ||||||
| +T Beacham | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 15 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared) | 271 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-? | |||||||
| Essendon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Moffatt | ? | ? | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| Forsyth | ? | ? | 69 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sampford | ? | ? | 74 | 2 | - | - | |
| Buzolich | ? | ? | 32 | 1 | - | - | |
| Proud | ? | ? | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Chellew | ? | ? | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Griffiths | ? | ? | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Essendon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WH Swift | c Paterson b Mitchell | 2 | |||||
| HNH Mirams | b Mitchell | 5 | |||||
| *J Ramsay | c Dwyer b Hartkopf | 23 | |||||
| RA Proud | b Hartkopf | 0 | |||||
| JN Buzolich | b Mitchell | 7 | |||||
| CL Sampford | c Kiernan b Hartkopf | 2 | |||||
| C Moffatt | c Delves b Hartkopf | 17 | |||||
| HM Chellew | c and b Hartkopf | 6 | |||||
| +DR Moncur | not out | 6 | |||||
| RA Forsyth | c Kiernan b Mitchell | 6 | |||||
| WJ Griffiths | absent | ||||||
| Extras | 7 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 81 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-81 | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hartkopf | ? | ? | 42 | 5 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | ? | ? | 32 | 4 | - | - | |
| Essendon second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WH Swift | b Mitchell | 6 | |||||
| JN Buzolich | b Mitchell | 6 | |||||
| HNH Mirams | lbw b Mitchell | 6 | |||||
| CL Sampford | c Mitchell b Dwyer | 3 | |||||
| *J Ramsay | run out | 30 | |||||
| RA Proud | b Hartkopf | 16 | |||||
| HM Chellew | c Mitchell b Dwyer | 16 | |||||
| C Moffatt | run out | 0 | |||||
| +DR Moncur | b Hartkopf | 0 | |||||
| RA Forsyth | not out | 0 | |||||
| WJ Griffiths | absent | ||||||
| Extras | 5 | ||||||
| Total | (all out) | 88 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-88 | |||||||
| Fitzroy bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hartkopf | ? | ? | 34 | 2 | - | - | |
| Mitchell | ? | ? | 17 | 3 | - | - | |
| Dwyer | ? | ? | 19 | 2 | - | - | |
| McSpeerin | ? | ? | 13 | 0 | - | - | |