MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 34: CORNWALL V BERKSHIRE At Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne on Friday 26, Saturday 27 July 1912 Result: Cornwall won by ten wickets Points: Cornwall 5 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cornwall none; Berkshire 1 (H J Austin) First day score: Berkshire 94 and 108-6 wickets (Dr W Y Woodburn 53*, P H H Gray 1*); Cornwall 216 Berkshire G G M Bennett c Coad b Hawken 2 (1) c Trevarthen b Whiting 14 Shoosmith, H W c Coad b Trevarthen 29 (2) c Whiting b Hawken 0 Whichelow, H V c Vibart b Hawken 1 (3) c Trevarthen b Hawken 4 T P Norris b Escott 15 (4) b Hawken 1 Dr W Y Woodburn b Escott 4 (5) c Whiting b W N Bickford-Smith 58 Hawksworth, G M c Whiting b Escott 0 (6) c Trevarthen b Hawken 2 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c Hawken b Escott 11 (7) c and b W N Bickford-Smith 16 P H H Gray not out 11 (8) c Trevarthen b Escott 1 C K Cotton c Vibart b Hawken 6 (9) not out 6 + A F Todd c Trevarthen b Hawken 2 (10) b Escott 3 Austin, H J lbw b Whiting 10 (11) b Escott 12 Extras 3 6 Total (all out) 94 (all out) 123 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 3 35 40 40 54 62 75 94 Second innings 32 84 123 Hawken 12 3 34 4 - - (1) 14 1 52 4 - - Whiting 6.4 1 17 1 - - (2) 9 2 29 1 - - Barnes 5 2 9 0 - - Escott 9 5 19 4 - - (3) 9 2 21 3 - - Trevarthen 9 4 12 1 - - W N Bickford-Smith (4) 7 2 16 2 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 41.4 15 94 10 - - 39 7 124x 10 - - 123 Cornwall W N Bickford-Smith c Norris b Woodburn 139 W H Coad b Hawksworth 9 F C Barnes c Hawksworth b Cotton 6 + Vibart, R F c Bennett b Cotton 19 J C Bickford-Smith c Austin b Cotton 2 (1) not out 2 Trevarthen, C c Shoosmith b Hawksworth 2 * H Tresawna b Gray 18 (2) not out 0 R J Holman c Shoosmith b Gray 2 E Hawken c Shoosmith b Woodburn 1 G H Escott lbw b Woodburn 4 Whiting, F J not out 4 Extras 10 0 Total (all out) 216 (no wicket) 2 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 51 100 129 200 216 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hawksworth 27 11 39 2 - - Woodburn 11.4 1 71 3 - - Austin 2 0 18 0 - - Shoosmith 7 3 22 0 - - Cotton 11 1 39 3 - - Gray 5 0 17 2 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 63.4 16 216 10 - - 0.1 0 2 0 0 0 Notes: Cornwall won this match by 10 wickets after just under an hour’s play on the second day. For the winners there were 6 sixes, 14 fours, 2 threes, and 11 twos in Bickford-Smith’s 139. Trevarthen took 5 catches in the match, including 4 in Berkshire’s second innings. For Berkshire Woodburn scored 58 and Shoosmith took 3 catches in Cornwall’s first innings. [Missing: Umpires; part fall of wickets; extras breakdown; in Cornwall first innings duration of W N Bickford-Smith’s 139; in Cornwall second innings who bowled the only ball; in Berkshire’s second innings boundaries in Woodburn’s 58 and bowling runs add 1 run over.] Sources: Cornish Telegraph 1 August; Devon and Exeter Gazette 29 July; Royal Cornwall Gazette 1 August; Western Daily Mercury 27,29 July; Reading Chronicle 26 July; Reading Standard 26 July; Reading Mercury 26 July; Cricket 3 August, p 393. 65