Minor Counties Championship 1909

134 MATCH NUMBER 103 : GLAMORGAN V WILTSHIRE – FINAL At The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Monday 30, Tuesday 31 August, Wednesday 1 September 1909 Result: Wiltshire won by 164 runs Toss: Wiltshire Umpires: C Hughes and J Stevens Debutants: Glamorgan none; Wiltshire none First day score: Wiltshire 122 and 52-1 wicket (C S Awdry 27*, J E Stevens 24*); Glamorgan 96 Second day score: Wiltshire 122 and 297; Glamorgan 96 and 125-7 wickets (H G Symonds 8*) Wiltshire C S Awdry b Nash 0 (2) c Preece b Hacker 76 S R Nicholson not out 40 (1) b Nash 0 J E Stevens lbw b Maxwell 32 (3) c Maxwell b Creber 48 Newman, A W b Maxwell 0 (4) b Hacker 0 R W Awdry b Maxwell 10 (5) b Hacker 5 T T N Perkins b Maxwell 0 (6) b Hacker 17 S J H Taunton b Maxwell 4 (7) c Symonds b Hacker 64 * A M Miller b Nash 5 (8) b Hacker 33 + T S Luce c and b Nash 25 (9) b Hacker 13 Smith, W R R b Maxwell 1 (10) st Riches b Creber 0 Mitchell, H b Maxwell 0 (11) not out 1 Extras lb 4, nb 1 5 b 32, lb 7, w 1 40 Total 122 297 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 41 41 55 59 67 76 115 122 122 Second innings 0 131 132 139 140 174 264 290 291 297 Nash 20 4 63 3 - 1 (1) 19 3 58 1 - - Creber 4 1 11 0 - - (4) 20 4 35 2 1 - Maxwell 15.5 6 43 7 - - (2) 15 1 66 0 - - Hacker (3) 24.4 1 98 7 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 40 0 - - Total 39.5 11 122 10 0 1 78.4 9 297 10 1 0 Glamorgan + N V H Riches c Luce b Smith 37 (1) lbw b Newman 24 T A L Whittington b Mitchell 2 (5) b Newman 31 E R Sweet-Escott b Mitchell 8 (3) c Luce b Miller 8 Bancroft, W J lbw b Smith 16 (4) b Miller 16 Preece, T b Mitchell 1 (6) b Newman 13 H G Symonds b Mitchell 2 (7) b Miller 39 Hacker, W S c Luce b Smith 1 (8) c Miller b Newman 0 * A Gibson not out 13 (2) c Luce b Miller 20 Maxwell, J c Taunton b Mitchell 1 (9) c and b Miller 1 Nash, A b Smith 0 (10) c Newman b Miller 0 Creber, H lbw b Mitchell 8 (11) not out 0 Extras b 4, nb 3 7 b 2, lb 5 7 Total 96 159 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 28 58 65 65 68 68 70 76 96 Second innings 46 46 62 75 116 119 125 138 142 159 Mitchell 22.2 7 48 6 - - (1) 16 3 36 0 - - Newman 6 3 9 0 - - (3) 15 4 38 4 - - Smith 16 6 32 4 - 3 (2) 12 6 29 0 - - Miller (4) 18.5 4 49 6 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 44.2 16 96 10 0 3 61.5 17 159 10 0 0 Notes: Wiltshire won at 12.05 pm on the third day. It was the second time that they had become Champions. For the winners, there were 9 fours in C S Awdry’s 76 and 6 fours in Taunton’s 64. In the Wiltshire second innings C S Awdry and Stevens put on 131 runs for the second wicket, and Taunton and Miller 90 for the seventh. In the Wiltshire first innings Nicholson carried his bat for 40 runs, an innings of 1 hour and 50 minutes. It was the first instance in a Championship Final or Challenge Match. Mitchell and Smith shared the wickets for Wiltshire in the first innings and Miller and Newman in the second. For Glamorgan, Maxwell took 7 wickets for 43 runs in the first innings and Hacker 7 for 98 in the second. Symonds top-scored with 39 that included 3 fours. In the Wiltshire second innings Glamorgan conceded 40 extras, with Riches constrained by a bruised hand. Creber had a strained side that limited his bowling in the Wiltshire first innings. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Glamorgan Scorebook; South Wales Daily News 31 August, 1,2 September; Western Mail 31 August; 1,2 September; Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 2 September; North Wilts Guardian 3 September; Wiltshire Times 4 September; The Sportsman 31 August, 1,2 September; Sporting Life 31 August, 1,2 September, Cricket 2 September, p 370.