Minor Counties Championship 1908

106 MATCH NUMBER 73 : CARMARTHENSHIRE V CORNWALL – WEST DIVISION At The Llandovery College Ground, Llandovery on Monday 10, Tuesday 11 August 1908 Result: Match drawn – Cornwall won on first innings Points: Cornwall 3 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: Not known Debutants: Carmarthenshire 1 (C P Lewis); Cornwall none First day score: Cornwall 145; Carmarthenshire 44-1 (H Howell 25*, S H Lockyer 1*) Cornwall * H Tresawna b Gee 7 (1) c Lockyer b Gee 81 W H Coad c and b Howell 1 (2) not out 140 Dr W S Tresawna c Longcroft b Gee 8 W N Bickford-Smith b Gee 5 (3) c Morgan b Longcroft 0 Trevarthen, C c Morgan b Gee 21 (4) not out 24 + J C Bickford-Smith c Lockyer b Howell 53 Hosking, S c Howell b John 31 J Brewer c Davies b Howell 4 G Escott b Howell 3 E Hawken c Howell b Gee 8 Whiting, F not out 4 Extras 0 23 Total 145 (2 wickets declared) 268 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 13 19 42 43 107 128 145 Second innings 224 224 - - - - - - - - Gee 21.2 4 73 5 - - (1) 19 4 61 1 - - Howell 22 4 48 4 - - (2) 16 1 55 0 - - John 5 1 16 1 - - (4) 8 0 36 0 - - Hughes-Morgan 2 0 8 0 - - (3) 4 0 20 0 - - Lockyer (5) 2 0 15 0 - - Watkins (6) 5 1 28 0 - - Longcroft (7) 4 0 30 1 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 23 0 - - Total 50.2 9 145 10 0 0 58 6 268 2 - - Carmarthenshire H Howell c J C Bickford-Smith b Hosking 25 (1) c Trevarthen b Whiting 4 Dr R L Thomas b Hosking 18 (2) b Whiting 10 S H Lockyer b Hosking 21 (3) b Whiting 0 J E Morgan c J C Bickford-Smith b Whiting 0 (4) b Whiting 0 + Davies, W c Coad b Hawken 15 (5) b Whiting 13 H John b Hosking 17 (6) c W N Bickford-Smith b Whiting 0 E F Longcroft b Whiting 0 (7) c Brewer b H Tresawna 1 CP Lewis b Hosking 10 (8) c Whiting b H Tresawna 0 * Capt D Hughes-Morgan c Trevarthen b Whiting 2 (9) not out 13 E Gee not out 0 (10) not out 33 H V Watkins c Hawken b Hosking 4 Extras 6 18 Total 118 (8 wickets) 92 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 43 44 44 77 93 118 Second innings 14 - - Whiting 18 4 38 3 - - (2) 19 10 27 6 - - Trevarthen 5 1 15 0 - - (4) 2 1 7 0 - - H Tresawna 2 0 6 0 - - (3) 5 1 6 2 - - Hosking 19 0 42 6 - - (1) 15 6 30 0 - - Hawken 5 3 11 1 - - (5) 2 1 4 0 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 18 0 - - Total 49 8 118 10 - - 43 19 92 8 - - Notes: Drawn return match with Cornwall winning on first innings. The match between the two teams at Camborne the previous week had been won by Cornwall. On the first day rain delayed the start until 2.45 pm. The declaration by Cornwall left the home side a victory target of 296 runs with 2 hours to play. For the visitors, Coad scored 140 not out, H Tresawna 81 and J C Bickford- Smith’s 53 included 11 fours. In the Cornwall second innings H Tresawna and Coad put on 224 for the first wicket. [Missing: Ground location; umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Cornwall second innings breakdown and duration of Coad’s 140 not out, boundaries in H Tresawna’s 81.] Sources: South Wales Daily News 11,13 August; South Wales Daily Press 12 August; South Wales Echo 10,11 August; Western Mail 11,12 August; Royal Cornwall Gazette 13 August; Western Daily Mercury 11,12 August; The Sportsman 13 August; Cricket 20 August, p 366.