The Minor Counties Championship 1905

63 MATCH NUMBER 37 : CORNWALL V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At Truro Cricket Club Ground, Tremorvah, Truro on Tuesday 1, Wednesday 2 August 1905 Result: Match drawn – Cornwall won on first innings Points: Cornwall 2 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cornwall 2 (L W Bickford-Smith, A Goldsworthy); Cambridgeshire 5 (A H Bristowe, W J B Crouch, J F Gaskell, O J Stibbon, C D F Waters) First day score: Cambridgeshire 298; Cornwall 210-5 wickets (E Hawken 13*, C Trevarthen 4*)) Cambridgeshire A H Bristowe run out 83 (1) b Barnes 1 G P M Robins b Barnes 7 (3) b Barnes 0 * Rev R S Swann-Mason c W N Bickford-Smith b Trevarthen 3 (4) b Barnes 3 + Watts, G H c Barnes b Trevarthen 12 (6) c substitute (H A Hancock) b Tresawna 83 O J Stibbon b Trevarthen 16 (2) c Barnes b Trevarthen 0 Coulson, H c W Goldsworthy b Donaldson 81 (5) c Donaldson b A Goldsworthy 56 C I L Allix b A Goldsworthy 1 (10) not out 16 J F Gaskell b Trevarthen 0 (11) not out 5 C D F Waters c Coad b Trevarthen 13 (7) c Coad b A Goldsworthy 2 W J B Crouch run out 48 (9) c substitute (H A Hancock) b Tresawna 20 P A Chaloner not out 10 (8) c Barnes b Tresawna 7 Extras 24 7 Total 298 (9 wickets declared) 200 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 40 60 108 136 149 154 187 267 298 Second innings 10 142 178 - Barnes 20 4 52 1 - - (2) 13 3 51 3 - - Trevarthen 41 8 134 5 - - (1) 15 3 41 1 - - A Goldsworthy 14 3 51 1 - - (3) 11 1 47 2 - - W Goldsworthy 5 1 24 0 - - (4) 1 0 3 0 - - Donaldson 2.3 0 13 1 - - Tresawna (5) 12 2 51 3 - - Extras - - 24 2 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 82.3 16 298 10 - - 52 9 200 9 - - Cornwall J G Donaldson c Watts b Waters 22 (2) b Waters 5 W H Coad b Waters 86 (1) c Crouch b Coulson 3 W N Bickford-Smith b Waters 21 (3) b Waters 9 + J C Bickford-Smith st Watts b Gaskell 40 (4) b Waters 5 * H Tresawna c Allix b Waters 9 (5) not out 17 E Hawken c Watts b Coulson 32 (6) c Swann-Mason b Waters 2 Trevarthen, C c and b Coulson 12 (7) c Allix b Waters 4 L W Bickford-Smith c Coulson b Swann-Mason 18 (9) not out 1 F C Barnes run out 0 W Goldsworthy b Coulson 11 A Goldsworthy not out 28 (8) c Swann-Mason b Waters 7 Extras nb 1 23 9 Total 302 (7 wickets) 62 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 39 81 161 226 263 302 Second innings 4 10 22 29 39 45 57 - - - Coulson 36.2 10 78 3 - - (1) 21 15 14 1 - - Crouch 3 0 20 0 - - Waters 30 8 74 4 - 1 (2) 21 5 39 6 - - Swann-Mason 10 0 39 1 - - Chaloner 3 0 30 0 - - Gaskell 7 0 38 1 - - Extras - - 23 1 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 89.2 18 302 10 0 1 42 20 62 7 - - Notes: This match was drawn with Cornwall winning on first innings after Cornwall had required in their second innings 197 runs to win in 1¾ hours. Cornwall gained two points for first innings lead, due to a last wicket partnership of 39 runs by the Goldsworthy brothers. For the home te am, there were 12 fours in Coad’s 86. For the visitors, Waters took 10 wickets in the match for 113 runs. Bristowe scored 83, which included 12 fours, Watts 83 and Coulson played two innings of 81 and 56. In the Cambridgeshire first innings, Coulson and Crouch added 80 runs for the ninth wicket, which was the second highest for that wicket during the season, and in the second innings Coulson and Watts put on 132 runs for the fifth wicket, which was the highest partnership for that wicket during the season. The two substitute catches in the Cambridgeshire second innings were held by H A Hancock. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Cambridgeshire first innings boundaries in Coulson’s 81; in Cambridgeshire second innings boundaries in Watts’s 83 and Coulson’s 56.] Sources: Royal Cornwall Gazette 3 August; Western Daily Mercury 2,3 August; Western Morning News 2,3 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 4 August; East Anglian Daily Times 3 August; Sporting Life 2,3 August; The Sportsman 2,3 August.