Minor Counties Championship 1908

72 MATCH NUMBER 39 : DEVON V CORNWALL – WEST DIVISION At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Drive, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Friday 24, Saturday 25 July 1908 Result: Devon won by 108 runs Points: Devon 5 Toss: Devon Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon none; Cornwall 1(W Gundry-Mills) First day score: Devon 237 and 46-2 wickets (J F Orchard 28*); Cornwall 158 Devon F H Carroll c Coad b Hosking 0 (1) c Coad b Tresawna 17 J F Orchard b Hosking 1 (2) c Coad b Whiting 71 C V L Hooman b Whiting 19 (3) b Tresawna 54 W F Sturt c Whiting b Hosking 3 (4) run out 13 Light, W F c Whiting b Hosking 9 (5) c Lubbock b Whiting 0 J F Shelley b Whiting 91 (6) b Whiting 52 Hawksworth, G M c Tresawna b Whiting 48 (7) b Tresawna 6 + Davies, T not out 28 (8) b Hosking 20 Lt W F Christian b Hosking 9 (9) b Whiting 18 * L Tamworth b Whiting 0 (10) c Bickford-Smith b Whiting 9 Aston, H R b Whiting 7 (11) not out 8 Extras b 17, lb 5 22 lb 4 4 Total 237 272 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 4 7 21 61 191 191 208 209 237 Second innings 43 46 129 158 167 198 236 236 263 272 Hosking 21 4 108 5 - - (1) 20 3 68 1 - - Whiting 19.4 6 64 5 - - (2) 27.5 3 113 5 - - Trevarthen 8 2 25 0 - - (4) 8 0 27 0 - - Hawken 3 0 18 0 - - Tresawna (3) 16 2 60 3 - - Extras - - 22 0 - - - - 4 1 - - Total 51.4 12 237 10 0 0 71.5 8 272 10 0 0 Cornwall * H Tresawna lbw b Aston 9 (1) c Carroll b Aston 1 W H Coad b Aston 1 (2) b Light 68 W N Bickford-Smith c Light b Christian 9 (6) b Hooman 65 Trevarthen, C b Christian 13 (3) run out 4 Hosking, S b Christian 27 (4) c and b Aston 12 A B Lubbock not out 78 (5) c Hooman b Hawksworth 19 T E Dunstan b Christian 0 (8) b Carroll 3 E Hawken b Christian 0 (9) c Davies b Christian 19 J Brewer c Hooman b Light 16 (7) c Hooman b Light 38 W Gundry-Mills b Aston 0 (10) c and b Christian 11 Whiting, F b Aston 0 (11) not out 0 Extras b 1, lb 4 5 b 2, lb 1 3 Total 158 243 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 8 17 31 52 95 95 99 152 158 158 Second innings 1 6 28 64 165 193 210 220 243 243 Aston 21 5 65 4 - - (2) 24 6 61 2 - - Hawksworth 18 7 44 0 - - (3) 20 5 56 1 - - Christian 15 4 29 5 - - (1) 15.5 1 55 2 - - Light 5 0 12 1 - - (4) 18 9 31 2 - - Sturt 2 0 3 0 - - (5) 2 1 4 0 - - Carroll (6) 6 1 22 1 - - Hooman (7) 4 1 11 1 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 3 1 - - Total 61 16 158 10 0 0 89.5 24 243 10 0 0 Notes: Devon won this return match by 108 runs at 6.00 pm on the second day. The match between the two sides at Camborne the previous week had also been won by Devon. For the winners, there were 15 fours and 7 fours respectively in Shelley’s two innings of 91 and 52. Orchard’s 71 contained 8 fours, and Hooman’s 54 9 fours. In the Devon first innings Shelley and Hawksworth added 130 runs for the sixth wicket. For the losers, Whiting took 10 wickets in the match for 177 runs. Lubbock’s 78 not out included 12 fours, Coad’s 68 8 fours, and Bickford-Smith’s 65 10 fours. In the Cornwall second innings Coad and Bickford-Smith put on 101 runs for the fifth wicket, and in the first innings Lubbock and Brewer added 53 for the eighth wicket. Coad kept wicket for Cornwall in the Devon second innings. [Missing: Umpires;in Devon first innings who kept wicket for Cornwall.] Sources: Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette 25,27 July; Western Dail Mercury 25,27 July;Western Morning News 25,27 July; Royal Cornwall Gazette; The Sportsman 25,27 July; Cricket 30 July, p 311.