Minor Counties Championship 1908

63 MATCH NUMBER 30 : CORNWALL V DEVON – WEST DIVISION At the Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne on Friday 17, Saturday 18 July 1908 Result: Devon won by 151 runs Points: Devon 5 Toss: Devon Umpires: G L R Hutchings and G Perkins Debutants: Cornwall 1 (G H Escott); Devon 1 (Lt W F Christian) First day score: Devon 175 and 88-7 wickets (G M Hawksworth 6*, L Tamworth 2*); Cornwall 87 Devon F H Carroll b Whiting 26 (1) c Whiting b Tresawna 23 J F Orchard b Whiting 15 (2) b Trevarthen 15 C V L Hooman c Coad b Trevarthen 27 (3) b Trevarthen 12 W F Sturt c and b Whiting 0 (4) b Trevarthen 1 Light, W F b Trevarthen 18 (5) st Bickford-Smith b Tresawna 15 J F Shelley b Whiting 0 (6) c Trevarthen b Tresawna 2 + Davies, T c Hosking b Whiting 0 (7) c Hosking b Trevarthen 3 Hawksworth, G M not out 42 (8) c Tresawna b Trevarthen 6 * L Tamworth st Bickford-Smith b Trevarthen 0 (9) b Whiting 20 Lt W F Christian b Whiting 13 (10) c Bickford-Smith b Trevarthen 39 Aston, H R b Whiting 26 (11) not out 6 Extras b 8 8 b 10, lb 3 13 Total 175 155 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 33 64 68 74 74 76 90 90 133 175 Second innings 42 42 59 60 71 78 80 88 141 155 Whiting 24 2 85 7 - - (1) 13 2 36 1 - - Tresawna 8 1 20 0 - - (3) 13 0 55 3 - - Trevarthen 13 0 50 3 - - (2) 25 8 51 6 - - Hosking 2 1 12 0 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 13 0 - - Total 47 4 175 10 0 0 51 10 155 10 0 0 Cornwall * H Tresawna b Aston 5 (1) run out 0 W H Coad b Aston 1 (2) c Hooman b Aston 4 Hosking, S b Aston 8 (4) c Aston b Hawksworth 15 + J C Bickford-Smith c Hawksworth b Christian 37 (3) b Aston 0 A B Lubbock c Carroll b Hawksworth 1 (5) c Aston b Hawksworth 2 Trevarthen, C b Aston 14 (6) c Carroll b Aston 4 E Hawken b Aston 0 (9) b Aston 0 B B Bennetts b Light 8 (8) b Aston 8 G H Escott b Christian 9 (7) not out 25 J Pascoe c Carroll b Christian 0 (10) c Tamworth b Aston 0 Whiting, F not out 2 (11) c Sturt b Light 26 Extras b 2 2 b 4, nb 4 8 Total 87 92 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 8 19 20 41 41 50 85 85 87 Second innings 0 1 4 6 25 25 34 36 42 92 Aston 12 3 32 5 - - (1) 13 2 42 6 - 1 Hawksworth 12 3 31 1 - - (2) 12 1 37 2 - - Light 3 0 18 1 - - (3) 5 0 5 1 - - Christian 2.1 1 4 3 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 8 1 - - Total 29.1 7 87 10 0 0 30 3 92 10 0 1 Notes: Devon won by 151 runs just before lunch on the second day. For the winners, Aston took 11 wickets in the match for 74 runs. In the Devon second innings, Tamworth and Christian added 53 runs for the ninth wicket. For the losers, Whiting took 7 wickets for 85 runs in the Devon first innings. In the Cornwall second innings, Escott and Whiting added 50 runs for the last wicket. Towards the end of the second Cornwall innings, Aston split a finger when fielding and had to leave the field. On the first day bad light stopped play early at 5.40 pm. [Missing: Precise time completed.] Sources: Cornish Post 23 July; Royal Cornwall Gazette 26 July; Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette 18,20 July; Western Daily Mercury 18,20 July; Western Morning News 18,20 July; The Sportsman 18,20 July; Cricket 23 July, p 303.