Minor Counties Championship 1909

180 HERTFORDSHIRE 1909 Championship matches: Played 10, won 4, lost 4, drawn 2 (won on first innings 2, lost on first innings none, no decision on first innings none) Position: Second out of six in East Division Won: v Cambridgeshire at Bishop’s Stortford, v Norfolk at St Albans, v Bedfordshire at St Albans and v Lincolnshire at Grimsby Lost: v Suffolk at Watford, v Lincolnshire at Hitchin, v Suffolk at Felixstowe and v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Drawn – won on first innings: v Bedfordshire at Bedford ES and v Norfolk at Norwich Drawn – lost on first innings: None Drawn – no decision on first innings: None Captain: H M Harford (6 matches) – W H Marsh led the side in the four matches in which H M Harford did not play Wicket-keepers: E H Cuthbertson (5 matches), R B Cowley (4 matches) – it is not known who kept wicket in the match against Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Debutants: 3 (S Brown, H P L Gaussen and G C Hartley) Final season: 10 (A Butcher, D J Cassavetti, A E Clarke, C C T Doll, M H C Doll, H P L Gaussen, G C Hartley, C T Rudd, H E White and H Williams) Hon Secretary: Dr J Earl Norman Professionals: 5 (S Brown, W E Coleman, A J Golding, W Shelford and H E White) Home grounds 4 : Bishop’s Stortford Cricket Club Ground, Cricket Field Lane, Bishop’s Stortford (1 match); Hitchin Cricket Club Ground, Hitchin Hill, London Road, Hitchin (1 match); The County Ground, Clarence Park, St Albans (2 matches) and West Herts Cricket Club Ground, Cassio Road, Watford (1 match) Notes: Although Hertfordshire won one more match than in 1908 they had to yield first place in the East Division to Lincolnshire. The fixture list was extended with the addition of Lincolnshire. Harry White had an excellent final season scoring 445 runs at 44.50 and taking 88 wickets at a cost of 10.70 runs each. Jack Golding with 365 runs at 24.33 did not bat so well as in 1908 when he scored 656 at 50.46. There was a drastic decline in the effectivness of the batting of Charles Titchmarsh. Career milestones reached during the season were five thousand runs by Jack Golding, one thousand runs by H M Harford and seven hundred wickets by Harry White. HERTFORDSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1909 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 3 players who made their Championship debut for Hertfordshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1909 was the last or only season that these 10 players appeared for Hertfordshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Brown, S + 4 6 0 10 19 3.16 - - 2 1 - 33 4 110 3 36.66 2-49 - - A Butcher 3 5 0 36 58 11.60 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - D J Cassavetti 2 3 1 11* 14 7.00 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - A E Clarke 1 2 0 9 9 4.50 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - Coleman, W E 8 10 0 42 122 12.20 - - 3 4 - 213.4 56 501 28 17.89 7-85 - 1 J N Cowley 3 3 0 18 21 7.00 - - 1 - - 4 1 22 0 - - - - R B Cowley 8 11 0 50 211 19.18 - 2 2 9 1 - - - - - - - - E H Cuthbertson 5 8 0 20 49 6.12 - - 4 3 - - - - - - - - - C C T Doll 1 2 0 10 15 7.50 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - M H C Doll 3 5 0 13 26 5.20 - - 1 3 - 13 2 39 0 - - - - G G Dumbelton 2 3 0 25 61 20.33 - - - - - 24 5 68 6 11.33 4-10 - - H P L Gaussen + 4 5 0 30 89 17.80 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Golding, A J 10 15 0 64 365 24.33 - 3 2 12 - 35.4 6 125 3 41.66 1-15 - - H M Harford 6 10 2 30* 94 11.75 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - G C Hartley + 2 3 1 19* 22 11.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - W H Marsh 10 15 4 23* 100 9.09 - - 1 5 - 159 26 447 24 18.62 4-30 - - C T Rudd 4 6 0 45 98 16.33 - - - 3 - 5 0 24 0 - - - - Shelford, W 2 3 1 13 13 6.50 - - 1 1 - 50.5 13 115 14 8.21 6-41 1 1 C H Titchmarsh 10 15 0 33 120 8.00 - - 4 6 - - - - - - - - - G H Vasey 2 3 0 29 66 22.00 - - - 2 - 3 0 23 0 - - - - White, H E 10 15 5 103* 445 44.50 1 3 1 6 - 408.2 113 942 88 10.70 9-38 4 9 H Williams 1 2 0 49 50 25.00 - - - - - 4.1 0 24 0 - - - - E L Wright 9 13 1 34 179 14.91 - - 2 7 - 19 0 88 1 88.00 1-16 - - Extras/Sub/RO/R - - - - 185 - - - - 1 - - - 175 2 - - - - Total 110 163 15 103* 2431 16.42 1 8 28 69 1 972.4 226 2703 169 15.99 9-38 5 11 (23 players) (6 ball overs) Note: In match 73 Hertfordshire first innings batting is 1 run short. FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 10 players made their last appearance for Hertfordshire in the Championship in 1909. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I A Butcher 1895 111 177 13 200*3482 21.23 3 14 18 47 - 17 15 1 15.00 1-3 - - D J Cassavetti 1899 11 15 1 83 313 22.35 - 2 1 8 - 34 27 0 - - - - A E Clarke 1906 9 16 4 134* 454 37.83 1 3 4 7 - 369 221 9 24.55 3-27 - - C C T Doll 1901 19 29 5 65 450 18.75 - 2 3 7 - - - - - - - - M H C Doll 1907 11 18 1 18 77 4.52 - - 5 6 - 252 158 4 39.50 2-25 - - H P L Gaussen 1909 4 5 0 30 89 17.80 - - - - - - - - - - - - G C Hartley 1909 2 3 1 19* 22 11.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - C T Rudd 1902 48 70 4 73 1356 20.54 - 4 4 15 - 1508 1011 26 38.88 6-76 - 1 White, H E 1895 138 220 19 152*5658 28.14 7 31 18 121 - 29951 12311 751 16.39 9-38 15 66 H Williams 1903 2 4 0 49 50 12.50 - - 2 - - 25 24 0 - - - - (10 players)