The Minor Counties Championship 1905

94 MATCH NUMBER 68 : CORNWALL V DEVON At The Penzance Cricket Club Ground, St Clare, Penzance on Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 August 1905 Result: Devon won by an innings and 58 runs Points: Devon 3 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cornwall none; Devon 1 (H F Grahame) First day score: Cornwall 174; Devon 332-6 wickets (W F Light 97*, H F Grahame 41*) Cornwall J G Donaldson b Boles 16 (1) c Boles b Aston 20 * H Tresawna c Davies b Aston 61 (2) b Light 27 W H Coad c Aston b Boles 1 (6) b Light 1 W N Bickford-Smith c Boles b Bamberger 45 (3) c Light b Boles 1 + J C Bickford-Smith c Aston b Light 26 (4) c Brunskill b Aston 33 R Rogers lbw b Light 7 (5) lbw b Aston 36 E Hawken c Leggett b Aston 1 (7) c and b Light 8 Trevarthen, C b Light 0 (8) run out 17 B Jenkin c Harrison b Light 1 (9) c and b Aston 0 C G Humphreys b Light 1 (10) c Arundell b Light 0 F C Barnes not out 2 (11) not out 1 Extras b 10, lb 2, w 1 13 b 3, lb 2 5 Total 174 149 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 32 38 112 147 165 165 166 166 168 174 Second innings 47 48 77 89 90 98 144 144 147 149 Light 29 12 37 5 - - (1) 21 5 68 4 - - Aston 26 5 60 2 - - (2) 27 5 55 4 - - Boles 11 0 47 2 1 - (3) 9 4 15 1 - - Bamberger 5 0 17 1 - - (4) 3 2 6 0 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - - - 5 1 - - Total 71 17 174 10 1 0 60 16 149 10 0 0 Devon Lt G E Leggett c and b Humphreys 2 R G Cruwys c Tresawna b Jenkin 53 Lt G C Harrison c J C Bickford-Smith b Humphreys 44 * H F Brunskill b Jenkin 11 D C Boles c Tresawna b Humphreys 67 Light, W F c and b Trevarthen 101 + Davies, T c and b Humphreys 7 H F Grahame c Jenkin b Trevarthen 45 R T Arundell b Trevarthen 6 Aston, W H not out 22 R J Bamberger c Hawken b Trevarthen 4 Extras b 14, lb 3, w 1, nb 1 19 Total 381 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 101 114 114 228 242 340 345 375 381 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Humphreys 32 3 155 4 1 1 Trevarthen 19.3 2 86 4 - - Jenkin 14 3 68 2 - - Barnes 4 1 19 0 - - Hawken 2 0 16 0 - - W N Bickford-Smith 2 0 18 0 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - Total 73.3 9 381 10 1 1 Notes: Devon won this return match by an innings and 58 runs 20 minutes after lunch on the second day. The match between the two teams at Exeter in July had bee n drawn. For the winners, Light’s 101 contained 2 sixes, 10 fours, 6 threes and 5 twos. He also took 9 wickets in the match for 105 runs. Boles’s 67 included 11 fours and Cruwys’s 53 1 five and 6 fours. In the Devon innings, Light and Grahame added 98 runs for the seventh wicket. For Cornwall, Tresawna scored 61 with 4 fours, an innings of 2½ hours. Light retired hurt with his score on 47 after a ball he had played rebounded off the pitch and hit him in the eye. He batted again at the fall of the fifth wicket. The 114 runs added for the Devon fifth wicket involved three players and is not counted as a century partnership. The 155 runs conceded by Humphreys were the third highest in an innings during the season. [Missing: Umpires; precise time completed.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Cornish Telegraph 24 August; Royal Cornwall Gazette 24 August; Western Morning News 17,18 August; Sporting Chronicle 17,18 August; The Sportsman 17,18 August.