Minor Counties Championship 1909

106 MATCH NUMBER 75 : DEVON V CORNWALL – WEST DIVISION At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Drive, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Friday 6, Saturday 7 August 1909 Result: Devon won by ten wickets Points: Devon 5 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon none; Cornwall none First day score: Cornwall 170; Devon 303-8 wickets (W F Sturt 32*, L Tamworth 1*) Cornwall * H Tresawna b Hartley 13 (1) b Light 64 W N Bickford-Smith b Light 29 (2) b Light 22 R Rogers c Boles b Light 72 (3) c Davies b Light 41 Trevarthen, C c Hartley b Light 3 (4) c Davies b Hartley 4 W H Coad c Orchard b Hartley 7 (5) c Shelley b Light 6 + Vibart, R F st Davies b Hartley 1 (6) c Hooman b Light 6 J C Bickford-Smith b Boles 20 (7) b Boles 26 E Hawken c Shelley b Light 3 (8) c and b Hartley 1 A E Meyrick b Boles 12 (9) b Aston 23 Maj G T Williams b Hartley 6 (10) b Boles 2 Whiting, F J not out 2 (11) not out 0 Extras 2 4 Total 170 199 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 21 96 114 119 120 137 142 161 168 170 Second innings 41 115 199 Hartley 28.2 4 88 4 - - (1) 24 2 84 2 - - Boles 12 2 42 2 - - (2) 14.4 5 30 2 - - Aston 4 0 16 0 - - (3) 10 3 22 1 - - Light 17 6 22 4 - - (4) 19 4 49 5 - - Sturt (5) 3 0 10 0 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 61.2 12 170 10 - - 70.4 14 199 10 - - Devon J F Orchard b Trevarthen 31 D C Boles b Hawken 4 Light, W F c Whiting b Trevarthen 156 C V L Hooman c Meyrick b Trevarthen 4 J F Shelley b Trevarthen 8 F H Carroll lbw b Hawken 30 W F Sturt not out 66 (2) not out 0 Capt J C Hartley lbw b Whiting 18 + Davies, T run out 12 (1) not out 0 * L Tamworth b Whiting 21 Aston, W H b Whiting 6 Extras 9 b 4, w 1 5 Total 365 (0 wicket) 5 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 15 102 108 138 214 236 274 297 353 365 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hawken 35 8 137 2 - - Whiting 23 1 120 3 - - Trevarthen 27 4 91 4 - - Tresawna 9 4 8 0 - - Rogers (1) 0.3 0 0 0 1 - Extras - - 9 1 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 94 17 365 10 - - 0.3 0 5 0 1 0 Notes: Devon won this return match by ten wickets on the second day. The match between the two sides at Camborne in July had been won by Devon in a single day. For the winners, Light’s 156 was scored in two hours and included 6 sixes and 21 fours. He also took 9 wickets in the match for 71 runs. Sturt scored 66 not out. In the Devon first innings Sturt and Tamworth added 56 runs for the ninth wicket. For Cornwall, Rogers scored 72 and Tresawna 64. Devon needed 5 runs to win in their second innings and they were obtained with a wide and four byes. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Cornwall first innings boundaries in Rogers’s 72; in Cornwall second innings boundaries in Tresawna’s 64; in Devon first innings boundaries in Sturt’s 66, precise time completed.] Sources: Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette 7,9 August; Western Daily Mercury 7.9 August; Western Morning News 7,9 August; Royal Cornwall Gazette 12 August; West Briton 12 August; The Sportsman 7, 9 August; Cricket 26 August, p 368.