MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 21: CORNWALL V DEVON At Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne on Wednesday 17, Thursday 18 July 1912 Result: Cornwall won by three wickets Points: Cornwall 5 Toss: Devon Umpires: E Merrifield and T Attewell Debutants: Cornwall none; Devon 1 (F Pepys) First day score: Devon 94 and 57-5 wickets (M M F Conde-Williams 17*); Cornwall 156 Devon M M F Conde-Williams c W N Bickford-Smith b Trevarthen 1 (5) not out 93 Capt J E Bazalgette c W N Bickford-Smith b Hawken 13 (1) lbw b Escott 10 F H Carroll b Whiting 41 (3) b Whiting 10 R G Cruwys c W N Bickford-Smith b Hawken 2 (2) c W N Bickford-Smith b Hawken 2 F Pepys b Whiting 12 (4) b Escott 13 Light, W F b Escott 1 (7) c Barnes b W N Bickford-Smith 29 P T Hodge b Escott 0 (8) b Escott 42 Preedy, E A b Escott 12 (10) b Escott 29 Robinson, W H M not out 1 (6) lbw b Escott 5 + Davies, T b Escott 6 (9) b Escott 6 W Wreford b Escott 0 (11) run out 24 Extras 5 b 12, lb 1 13 Total (all out) 94 (all out) 276 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 31 39 68 69 69 77 85 94 94 Second innings 4 22 22 45 57 123 192 204 236 276 Hawken 9 2 15 2 - - (2) 15 3 45 1 - - Trevarthen 13 6 26 1 - - (4) 10 3 19 0 - - Holman 3 0 12 0 - - (5) 5 0 28 0 - - Whiting 7 1 23 2 - - (3) 22 7 67 1 - - Escott 6 1 13 5 - - (1) 26 3 86 6 - - W N Bickford-Smith (6) 8 3 18 1 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 13 1 - - Total 38 10 94 10 - - 86 19 276 10 0 0 Cornwall * H Tresawna b Light 63 (1) b Wreford 30 F C Barnes c Conde-Williams b Wreford 17 (9) not out 7 W N Bickford-Smith c Cruwys b Wreford 0 (2) b Wreford 0 + Vibart, R F c Preedy b Light 9 (3) ct Pepys b Light 77 T Romer c Carroll b Light 0 (4) c Davies b Light 0 Trevarthen, C b Light 0 (5) not out 89 J C Bickford-Smith b Preedy 15 (6) b Wreford 0 R J Holman c Pepys b Preedy 13 (7) c Cruwys b Light 1 E Hawken c Carroll b Preedy 17 (8) c Carroll b Wreford 1 G H Escott lbw b Light 6 Whiting, F J not out 0 Extras 16 b 4, lb 3, nb 3 10 Total (all out) 156 (7 wickets) 215 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 46 46 67 67 67 97 119 130 150 156 Second innings 4 111 111 119 122 137 141 - - - Preedy 21.3 6 35 3 - - (3) 12.2 2 63 0 - - Robinson 10 3 19 0 - - (4) 5 0 19 0 - - Wreford 17 6 47 2 - - (1) 23 5 63 4 - 3 Light 19 9 33 5 - - (2) 18 6 60 3 - - Hodge 2 0 6 0 - - Extras - - 16 0 - - - - 10 0 - 3 Total 69.3 24 156 10 - - 58.2 13 215 7 0 3 Notes: Cornwall won this match by 3 wickets on the second day. It was their first win over Devon since a pre-championship match in 1889. In their first innings Tresawna top-scored with 63 and in their second innings Vibart made 77 which included 4 sixes and Trevarthen 89 not out. Tresawna and Vibart added 107 for the second wicket and Trevarthen and Barnes saw their side to victory with an unbroken eighth wicket partnership of 74 in the second innings. On his home ground, Escott took 11 wickets for 99 runs in the match including 5 for 13 in Devon’s first innings and 6 for 86 in the second. For Devon, Conde-Williams scored 93 not out in their second innings. Light took 5 wickets for 33 runs in the Cornwall first innings. [Missing: Devon captain, extras breakdown in both first innings, in Cornwall first innings boundaries in Tresawna’s 63, in Devon second innings boundaries in Conde-Williams’s 93 not out; in Cornwall second innings boundaries in Vibart’s 77 and Trevarthen’s 89 not out, precise time completed.] Sources: Cornish Telegraph 25 July; Royal Cornwall Gazette 25 July; Western Daily Mercury 18,19 July; Western Morning News 19 July; Cricket 27 July, p 372. 52