MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 81: HERTFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At The Hitchin Cricket Club Ground, Hitchin Hill, London Road, Hitchin on Monday 26 [no play], Tuesday 27 August 1912 Result: Match drawn - Hertfordshire won on first innings Points: Hertfordshire 3, Cambridgeshire 1 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Hertfordshire none; Cambridgeshire none First day score: Rain prevented any play on the first day Hertfordshire R C Grellet b Coulson 3 Golding, A J c K G Reid b Hunt 104 E S Household c Rose b Coulson 3 C H Titchmarsh c Collier b Hunt 100 R B Cowley not out 38 A K Gibson b Hunt 0 Coleman, W E c L J Reid b Hunt 1 * W H Marsh b Ling 0 Burton, F A not out 16 Shelford, W + H M Lemoine Extras b 15 15 Total (7 wickets declared) 280 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 18 221 228 248 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 26 1 78 2 - - Rose 12 1 56 0 - - Pigg 1 1 0 0 - - Hunt 18 5 58 4 - - Tebbutt 5 0 25 0 - - Ling 9 0 48 1 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - Total 71 8 280 7 0 0 Cambridgeshire K G Reid b Burton 0 L J Reid b Burton 20 G A Rose b Burton 5 A S Ling c Shelford b Marsh 20 * H C Tebbutt c Gibson b Shelford 58 W C Hunt c Shelford b Marsh 0 F E Collier c Gibson b Marsh 35 + Watts, G H b Burton 17 Rev F W Worsley not out 5 C H Pigg b Marsh 19 Coulson, H b Marsh 0 Extras b 12, w 1 13 Total (all out) 192 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 20 33 65 66 129 161 164 192 192 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Burton 24 4 76 4 - - Shelford 15 1 58 1 - - Marsh 13 3 33 5 1 - Coleman 5 1 12 0 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - Total 57 9 192 10 1 0 Notes: This return match was drawn after the first day’s play was lost to rain. The match between the two sides at Cambridge at the beginning of the month had been won by Hertfordshire. For the home side, there was 1 six and 7 fours in Golding’s 104, and 7 fours and 9 threes in Titchmarsh’s 100. In the Hertfordshire innings these two batsmen had a partnership of 203 runs for the third wicket. The last five wickets in the Cambridgeshire innings fell to Marsh. For Cambridgeshire Tebbutt scored 58. [Missing: Umpires; in Hertfordshire innings duration of Golding’s 104, duration of Titchmarsh’s 100, fall of fifth and sixth wickets; in Cambridgeshire innings boundaries in Tebbutt’s 58.] Sources: Herts Advertiser 31 August; Hertfordshire Express 31 August; Watford Observer 31 August; Cambridge Daily News 28 August; Cambridge Independent Press 30 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 30 August; Sporting Life 27,28 August; The Sportsman 27,28 August; Cricket 31 August, p 476. 112