The Minor Counties Championship 1901

8 Professional at Clifton between 1923 and 1941. He is also recorded as coaching at Rugby prior to his engagement at Clifton, and at Stowe afterwards. He died at Clifton, Bristol on 3 March 1943. Amongst the batsmen playing five or more innings, 11 averaged over forty. Of these eleven, the six scoring over three hundred runs were Fred Holland of Surrey 2nd XI (380 runs at 95.00), Irving Washington of Yorkshire 2nd XI (340 at 56.66), Herbie Morgan of Glamorgan (400 at 50.00), Henry Stratton of Staffordshire (345 at 49.28), debutant Charles Sandford of Devon (439 at 48.77) and Albert Baker of Surrey 2nd XI (625 at 44.64). Herbie Morgan of Glamorgan also had the distinction of breaking the record score for a batsman, his 254 against Monmouthshire at Cardiff in July, exceeding the previous record of 200 not out scored by Frederick Marsh for Oxfordshire against Buckinghamshire at Aylesbury in 1899. Herbert Edward Morgan was born at Llandough, Glamorgan in 1870, and educated at Weston School, Somerset. He was a leading player for both Penarth rugby and cricket clubs. As a cricketer, he made his debut for Glamorgan in 1889 v MCC, and a year later, still five years prior to the launch of the Championship in 1895, he scored a century against Monmouthshire at Cardiff. A late replacement for Daniel Jones, he went in at number seven and his 147 was the first century score for Glamorgan. Eleven years later he was to become the first Glamorgan batsman to score a double century. His 254 is reported to have taken three and a half hours and to have contained 1 six and 40 fours. Researches in newspapers to date have not revealed any details of the breakdown of ‘twos’ and ‘threes’ in the innings: could this have been because he lived up to his nickname of ‘The Penarth Slogger’ and there was uncertainty about whether these details had been accurately recorded by the two scorers? Morgan played his final championship match in 1905. He was a farmer at Llandough and served on the Glamorgan Committee between 1898 and 1909. He died at Penarth on 5 February 1933. His brother, Frederick William, played one match for Glamorgan in 1896 and was onetime Mayor of Penarth. A second batsman to score a double century during the season, and the third in the competition, was Fred Holland with 207 for Surrey 2nd XI against Norfolk at The Oval in August. The innings included 1 six, 2 fives and 24 fours. As already highlighted the bowler of the season was George Thompson with 103 wickets at 13.10 apiece. Other bowlers to take forty or more wickets at an average of 13 or less were Sam Lowe of Glamorgan, who topped the bowling averages, with 70 wickets at 10.54, W C ‘Razor’ Smith of Surrey 2nd XI (63 at 11.15), Rev Horace Gray of Cambridgeshire (42 at 11.16), George Turnbull of Durham (40 at 11.55), John Butler also of Durham (48 at 12.08), Mat Wright of Buckinghamshire (61 at 12.19), Tom Smart of Wiltshire (61 at 12.57), Tom Kersley of Surrey 2nd XI (51 at 13.47), Bill Overton of Wiltshire (50 at 13.84) and Ernie Nice of Surrey 2nd XI (44 at 13.90). Of these bowlers, Turnbull and Smart were the only two not to have played first-class cricket.