Minor Counties Championship 1909

80 MATCH NUMBER 49 : CARMARTHENSHIRE V DEVON – WEST DIVISION At The College Ground, Llandovery on Monday 26, Tuesday 27 [no play] July 1909 Result: Match Drawn - no decision on first innings Points: None awarded Toss: Devon Umpires: Not known Debutants: Carmarthenshire none; Devon none First day score: As match - rain prevented play on second day Devon Lt F O’B Wilson c Lewis b Gee 20 Lt G C Harrison b Howell 26 Light, W F c Lockyer b Howell 23 C V L Hooman c and b Howell 16 J F Shelley c Gee b Morgan 42 + Davies, T b Morgan 16 R G Cruwys c Lewis b Gee 30 W F Sturt b Gravelle 47 Capt R C S Waller c Gee b Morgan 79 * L Tamworth not out 6 Hon D Scott b Gravelle 0 Extras 8 Total 313 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 47 53 100 145 313 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Gravelle 15.3 1 60 2 - - Gee 23 2 - - Howell 19 1 95 3 - - Morgan 10 0 55 3 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - Total 67.3 2 218x 10 - - 313 Carmarthenshire H Howell c T Davies b Scott 46 I Evans not out 57 B P Rees run out 0 S H Lockyer c Waller b Cruwys 0 D T M Jones not out 56 J M Bevan + Davies, W E Gee G T Gravelle * C P Lewis C Morgan Extras 8 Total (3 wickets) 167 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 78 - - - - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Scott 12 4 24 1 - - Light 11 4 19 0 - - Waller 11 2 36 0 - - Wilson 9 1 21 0 - - Sturt 4 1 12 0 - - Hooman 1 0 9 0 - - Cruwys 13 3 38 1 - - Extras - - 8 1 - - Total 61 15 167 3 - - Notes: Weather-interrupted drawn match with no decision on first innings. Rain prevented play on the second day, when the players were preparing to go to the wicket at 3.00 pm there was a further heavy downpour. The match was abandoned soon afterwards. For Devon, there were 1 six and 11 fours in Waller’s 79. For Carmarthenshire there were 5 fours in Evans’s 57 not out and 7 fours in Jones’s 56 not out . [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; large partnerships; in Devon innings bowling adds 95 runs short.] Sources: Re-discovered partial Devon scorebook; Llanelly Guardian 29 July; South Wales Daily News 27,28 July; Western Mail 27,28 July; Western Daily Mercury 27,28 July; Western Morning News 27,28 July; The Sportsman 28 July; Cricket 12 August, p 335.