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in releasing players for Minor County matches, and also as a means of helping to raise funds for the two organisations. The match also promised to give some decent practice to the county’s players ahead of the next batch of scheduled games in the Minor County Championship, but with talk of impending invasion by German troops, several of the amateurs who worked in the Cardiff area and had initially agreed to turn out for Glamorgan were now unable to take time off from their jobs as their employers started to make contingency plans for the country going to war. The upshot was that several of those from the Cardiff area who had previously agreed to play at Briton Ferry dropped out on the day before the match and although replacements were sought, another player withdrew on the morning of the game, so Glamorgan turned up with only ten men, chiefly from the Swansea and Neath clubs. Harry Creber was in fine form with the ball and the Swansea spinner duly led the Glamorgan XI to a 50- run victory over the combined side. Glamorgan’s matches on 17 and 18 August against Wiltshire at Trowbridge and Essex II at Leyton on 19 and 20 August were cancelled. There was to be no Minor County Championship in 1919 and Monmouthshire did not re-enter until 1921. Minor Counties 103