Minor Counties Championship 1907

71 MATCH NUMBER 39 : DEVON V CORNWALL At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Road, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Friday 19, Saturday 20 July 1907 Result: Match drawn – Cornwall won on first innings Points: Cornwall 3 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon none; Cornwall none First day score: Cornwall 212 and 12-1 wicket (H Tresawna 5*, W Coad 5*); Devon 183 Cornwall * H Tresawna c Brunskill b Aston 8 (1) c Davies b Cruwys 79 W S Tresawna b Aston 11 (4) c and b Aston 99 E Hain c Watts b Clarke 29 (5) c Cruwys b Hooman 1 W N Bickford-Smith c Davies b Aston 19 (8) b Clarke 9 W Coad run out 5 (3) b Clarke 31 Trevarthen, C run out 45 (6) c Blackburne b Cruwys 24 + J C Bickford-Smith c Davies b Aston 8 (9) not out 38 Hosking, S not out 37 (7) st Davies b Hooman 9 E Hawken run out 9 (10) c Hooman b Blackburne 34 R J Holman st Davies b Light 4 (2) c Brunskill b Clarke 1 Whiting, F b Aston 18 Extras b 13, lb 4, w 2 19 b 10, lb 7, w 4 21 Total 212 (9 wickets declared) 346 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 24 73 73 102 138 144 171 179 212 Second innings 2 98 152 165 228 265 269 281 346 - Aston 37.1 7 80 5 - - (1) 45 8 122 1 - - Light 20 5 47 1 - - (3) 22 10 55 0 - - Clarke 18 1 66 1 2 - (2) 24 6 55 3 3 - Blackburne (4) 8.3 2 21 1 - - Cruwys (5) 9 0 30 2 - - Hooman (6) 10 2 42 2 1 - Extras - - 19 3 - - - - 21 0 - - Total 75.1 13 212 10 2 0 118.3 28 346 9 4 0 Devon R G Cruwys c H Tresawna b Hosking 79 (1) b Hosking 35 C V L Hooman b Whiting 6 (2) c W S Tresawna b Whiting 23 Maj J G Blackburne c J C Bickford-Smith b Hosking 3 (3) b Hosking 11 H V I Watts c Hawken b Whiting 33 (4) b Whiting 24 W F Sturt b H Tresawna 11 (5) not out 61 W S Gwynn not out 21 (6) c Hosking b Hawken 17 * H F Brunskill b Hosking 12 (7) not out 29 Light, W F b Hosking 2 Lt R H Clarke b Hosking 0 + Davies, T b Hosking 4 Aston, H R c H Tresawna b Hosking 3 Extras b 2, lb 7 9 b 2, lb 9, nb 1 12 Total 183 (5 wickets) 212 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 9 85 125 141 159 163 163 179 183 Second innings 37 68 77 103 132 - - - - - Whiting 25 3 70 2 - - (2) 25 4 78 2 - - Hosking 23.2 5 59 7 - - (1) 23 0 89 2 - 1 Trevarthen 6 1 14 0 - - (4) 2 0 15 0 - - H Tresawna 6 0 31 1 - - Hawken (3) 4 0 18 1 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 60.2 9 183 10 0 0 54 4 212 5 0 1 Notes: Match drawn with Cornwall winning on first innings. The match was played in fine weather on both days. The Cornwall declaration on the second day left Devon two hours to score the 376 runs needed for victory. For the visitors, there were 15 fours in W S Tresawna’s 99, and 8 fours in H Tresawna’s 79. In the Cornwall second innings, J C Bickford -Smith and Hawken added 65 runs for the ninth wicket. In the Devon first innings, Hosking took 7 wickets for 59 runs. For Devon, Cruwys’s 79 contained 10 fours and Sturt’s 61 not out 8 fours. Aston’s 45 overs were the second most bowled in an innings and the 202 run s conceded the equal highest in a match during the season. The match aggregate of 953 runs was the second highest of the season. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette 20,22 July; Western Daily Mercury 20,22 July Western Morning News 20,22 July; Cornish Telegraph 25 July; Royal Cornwall Gazette 25 July; The Sportsman 20,22 July.