The Minor Counties Championship 1905

145 CORNWALL 1905 Championship matches: Played 8, won none, lost 4, drawn 4 (won on first innings 2, lost on first innings 2, no decision on first innings none) Position: Seventeenth equal with Berkshire and Oxfordshire out of nineteen Won: None Lost: v Monmouthshire at Newport, v Dorset at Newquay, v Monmouthshire at Liskeard, and v Devon at Penzance Drawn – won on first innings: v Cambridgeshire at Truro, and v Dorset at Poole Drawn – lost on first innings: v Devon at Exeter, and v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Drawn – no decision on first innings: None. Captain: H Tresawna (8 matches) Wicket-keepers: J C Bickford-Smith (6 matches) and E F Waterhouse (2 matches) Debutants: 8 (L W Bickford-Smith, W G Blackwell, D R Dempster, A Goldsworthy, C G Humphreys, W J Letcher, J Pascoe and J H Vivian) Final season: 8 (W G Blackwell, D R Dempster, J G Donaldson, A Goldsworthy, W Goldsworthy, B Jenkin, W J Letcher and J H Vivian) Hon Secretary: J Bray Professional: 1 (C Trevarthen) Home grounds 4: The Liskeard Cricket Club Ground, Lux Park, Coldstyle Road, Liskeard (1 match); The Newquay Cricket Club Ground, Newquay – new ground (1 match); The Penzance Cricket Club Ground, St Clare, Penzance (1 match); and The Truro Cricket Club Ground, Tremorvah, Truro (1 match). Notes: In their second season in the competition, Cornwall ended up sharing bottom place in the table with Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Harry Tresawna succeeded Barclay Fox as captain, a position he was to occupy for the next thirty years. The same opponents were met as in 1904. Again, no match was won. Harry Tresawna was for the second year running the leading batsman with 346 runs at 23.06, but his figures compared badly with his record in 1904 when he had scored 433 runs at 54.12. Others to score three hundred runs were J C Bickford-Smith with 340 at 22.66 and W N Bickford-Smith with 322 at 20.12. The team average for wickets taken by the bowlers was 9 runs higher than of their batsmen. Kit Trevarthen took most wickets with 24 at 30.75, but the captain had the best average with 17 at 15.11. No major career milestones were reached during the season. CORNWALL MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH AVERAGES 1905 In the averages below, + after the name denotes the 8 players who made their Championship debut for Cornwall during the season. Names in bold denote that 1905 was the last or only season that these 8 players appeared for Cornwall in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I F C Barnes 7 11 2 17 48 5.33 - - 4 7 - 165 44 457 18 25.38 3-36 - - J C Bickford-Smith 8 15 0 45 340 22.66 - - 1 6 1 - - - - - - - - L W Bickford-Smith + 1 2 1 18 19 19.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - W N Bickford-Smith 8 16 0 47 322 20.12 - - - 4 - 42.4 4 142 9 15.77 5-14 - 1 W G Blackwell + 2 2 2 7* 12 - - - - - - 6 0 16 0 - - - - W H Coad 6 12 1 86 214 19.45 - 1 2 3 - - - - - - - - - D R Dempster + 2 4 0 4 11 2.75 - - 1 1 - 14 0 77 0 - - - - J G Donaldson 6 12 1 106* 266 24.18 1 - - 3 - 8.3 0 38 1 38.00 1-13 - - A Goldsworthy + 2 4 2 28* 41 20.50 - - - - - 38 9 120 3 40.00 2-47 - - W Goldsworthy 2 3 0 11 16 5.33 - - - 1 - 11 1 41 0 - - - - E Hawken 7 12 2 33* 149 14.90 - - - 2 - 8 0 37 1 37.00 1-18 - - C G Humphreys + 2 4 1 7* 9 3.00 - - 1 4 - 77.5 12 278 13 21.38 7-68 - 1 B Jenkin 3 6 0 10 27 4.50 - - 2 1 - 64 9 278 5 55.60 3-157 - - W J Letcher + 1 2 0 1 1 0.50 - - 1 1 - 14 1 64 1 64.00 1-33 - - R Maunsell 2 2 0 6 7 3.50 - - - 1 - 12.2 1 44 2 22.00 2-44 - - J Pascoe + 2 4 1 7 16 5.33 - - - - - 28.3 3 124 5 24.80 3-26 - - R Rogers 6 11 0 80 170 15.45 - 1 3 4 - - - - - - - - - H Tresawna 8 16 1 61 346 23.06 - 3 1 6 - 106.3 26 257 17 15.11 6-48 - 1 W S Tresawna 2 4 1 25* 62 20.66 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Trevarthen, C 8 15 1 39 234 16.71 - - 2 6 - 281.1 69 738 24 30.75 5-134 - 1 J H Vivian + 1 2 0 6 6 3.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - E F Waterhouse 2 4 3 10* 13 13.00 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 184 - - - - 2 - - - 181 10 - - - - Total 88 163 19 106* 2513 17.45 1 5 20 55 1 877.3 179 [2892] 109 26.53 7-68 0 4 [2894] [26.55] (22 players) (6 ball overs) Note – runs conceded bowling 2 short in second innings of Match 64 against Monmouthshire at Liskeard. FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 8 players made their last appearance for Cornwall in the Championship in 1905. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I W G Blackwell 1905 2 2 2 7* 12 - - - - - - 36 16 0 - - - - D R Dempster 1905 2 4 0 4 11 2.75 - - 1 1 - 84 77 0 - - - - J G Donaldson 1897 9 17 2 106* 320 21.33 1 - 1 5 - 117 69 4 17.25 3-31 - - A Goldsworthy 1905 2 4 2 28* 41 20.50 - - - - - 228 120 3 40.00 2-47 - - W Goldsworthy 1904 3 4 1 11 24 8.00 - - - 1 - 120 70 1 70.00 1-29 - - B Jenkin 1898 6 12 0 43 152 12.66 - - 3 2 - 470 345 9 38.33 3-157 - - W J Letcher 1905 1 2 0 1 1 0.50 - - 1 1 - 84 64 1 64.00 1-33 - - J H Vivian 1905 1 2 0 6 6 3.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - (8 players)