Minor Counties Championship 1907

47 MATCH NUMBER 15 : CORNWALL V MONMOUTHSHIRE At The Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne on Monday 24, Tuesday 25 [no play] June 1907 Result: Match drawn – Cornwall won on first innings Points: Cornwall 3 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cornwall 1 (R J Holman); Monmouthshire none First day score: As match – rain prevented play on the second day Cornwall * H Tresawna c Stedman b Steeples 49 W H Treweeke b Silverlock 19 W N Bickford-Smith c Silverlock b F G Phillips 27 Hosking, S b F G Phillips 6 Trevarthen, C b Stedman 12 E Hawken b Stedman 11 W Coad b W A Williams 50 + J C Bickford-Smith c Steeples b Stedman 56 R J Holman b W A Williams 9 C G Humphreys not out 0 Whiting, F c F G Phillips b W A Williams 3 Extras nb 2 29 Total 271 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 23 85 103 115 142 251 256 263 271 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Steeples 19 4 40 1 - - Silverlock 23 6 54 1 - - W A Williams 23 7 55 3 - - Stedman 28 10 53 3 - - F G Phillips 9 0 40 2 - 2 Extras - - 29 0 - - Total 102 27 271 10 - 2 Monmouthshire Silverlock, A J b Humphreys 0 M Stratton c Trevarthen b Humphreys 43 E S Phillips c J C Bickford-Smith b Humphreys 1 + Diver, E J b Humphreys 2 M David b Whiting 15 T B Williams c J C Bickford-Smith b Whiting 3 * Dr A L Tatham b Humphreys 8 F G Phillips c and b Whiting 3 L F Stedman c J C Bickford-Smith b Whiting 0 W A Williams not out 0 Steeples, R c Hosking b Whiting 4 Extras 8 Total 87 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 1 4 32 43 68 87 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Humphreys 15 4 42 5 - - Whiting 14.4 7 37 5 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - Total 29.4 11 87 10 - - Notes: Drawn match with Cornwall winning on first innings. Rain prevented any play on the second day and the match was abandoned at 1.30 pm. For Cornwall, there were 10 fours in Coad’s 50 and J C Bickford -Smith scored 56. W Coad and J C Bickford-Smith added 109 in 75 minutes for Cornwall’s 7th wicket. Humphreys and Whiting bowled unchanged during the Monmouthshire innings. Hosking returned to the Cornwall team after a stay in South Africa. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Cornwall innings boundaries in J C Bickford- Smith’s 56.] Sources: Cornish Post 27 June; Cornish Telegraph 27 June; Royal Cornwall Gazette 27 June; Western Daily Mercury 25,26 June; Western Mail 25,26 June; Western Morning News 25,26 June; South Wales Argus 24,25,26 June; South Wales Daily News 25,26 June; South Wales Weekly Argus 29 June; The Sportsman 25,26 June.