Minor Counties Championship 1909

93 MATCH NUMBER 62 : CORNWALL V CARMARTHENSHIRE – WEST DIVISION At The Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne on Monday 2, Tuesday 3 August 1909 Result: Cornwall won by an innings and 182 runs Points: Cornwall 5 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: G Perkins and J Stevens Debutants: Cornwall 1 (Maj G T Williams), Carmarthenshire 1 (H A Rees) First day score: Cornwall 443; Carmarthenshire 22-5 wickets (E Gee 14*, W Davies 4*) Cornwall W N Bickford-Smith b J C Rees 99 Trevarthen, C run out 78 + Vibart, R F b J C Rees 30 * H Tresawna c John b J C Rees 101 J C Bickford-Smith c Davies b C Morgan 33 E Hawken c Davies b Bevan 23 A R Godrich c Evans b J C Rees 43 G H Escott b J C Rees 7 A E Meyrick st Davies b J C Rees 10 Maj G T Williams not out 0 Whiting, F J c Hughes Morgan b Gee 1 Extras 18 Total 443 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 154 210 217 275 316 411 443 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - H A Rees 18 3 58 0 - - Gee 33 4 107 1 - - Bevan 10 1 33 1 - - C Morgan 11 1 51 1 - - Hughes Morgan 7 1 25 0 - - Lewis 3 0 24 0 - - J C Rees 21.4 1 74 6 - - John 8 1 34 0 - - Evans 3 0 19 0 - - Extras - - 18 1 - - Total 114.4 12 443 10 - - Carmarthenshire (Followed-on) B P Rees c J C Bickford-Smith b Whiting 0 (2) c W N Bickford-Smith b Whiting 5 I Evans c Trevarthen b Hawken 0 (1) b Hawken 0 J C Rees c W N Bickford-Smith b Hawken 0 (3) c W N Bickford-Smith b Hawken 72 E Gee b Whiting 16 (4) b Whiting 0 H A Rees c Meyrick b Whiting 1 (5) b Trevarthen 5 H E John c Williams b Whiting 2 (6) c Trevarthen b Escott 8 + Davies, W c J C Bickford-Smith b Hawken 6 (7) c and b Escott 7 C Morgan b Hawken 11 (8) b Williams 31 * Capt D Hughes Morgan b Whiting 10 (9) not out 22 C P Lewis b Whiting 21 (10) c Meyrick b Hawken 5 J M Bevan not out 7 (11) c Escott b Hawken 2 Extras 7 w 2 23 Total 81 180 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 0 0 1 9 25 36 48 48 81 Second innings 0 10 10 26 43 68 122 180 Hawken 19 7 37 4 - - (1) 13.1 2 48 4 2 - Whiting 18.3 8 37 6 - - (2) 6 4 9 2 - - Trevarthen (3) 6 6 0 1 - - Escott (4) 13 3 34 2 - - J C Bickford-Smith (5) 5 0 26 0 - - Meyrick (6) 4 0 26 0 - - Williams (7) 8 1 14 1 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 23 0 - - Total 37.3 15 81 10 - - 55.1 16 180 10 2 - Notes: Cornwall won by an innings and 182 runs soon after 3.00 pm on the second day, after the visitors followed on 362 runs behind. The margin of victory was the second highest of the season. For the winners, Tresawna’s 101 took 2½ hours. W N Bickford- Smith scored 99, and Trevarthen 78. In the Cornwall innings these two batsmen put on 154 runs for the first wicket. For the losers, J C Rees scored 72. In the Carmarthenshire second innings, J C Rees and Morgan added 54 runs for the seventh wicket. Doubts about the wicket, arising from the earlier match on the ground versus Devon in July that was completed in a day, were dispelled, and the Cornwall total of 443 was their highest in the competition. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Cornwall first innings breakdown of Tresawna’s 101, boundaries in W N Bickford - Smith’s 99 and Trevarthen’s 78; in Carmarthenshire second innings boundaries in J C Rees’s 72.] Sources: Cornish Telegraph 5 August; Royal Cornwall Gazette 5 August; Western Daily Mercury 3,4 August; Western Morning News 3,4 August; Llanelly Guardian 5 August; South Wales Daily News 3,4 August; Western Mail 3,4 August; The Sportsman 3,4 August; Cricket 26 August, p 367.