MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 40: CAMBRIDGESHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Friday 2, Saturday 3 August 1912 Result: Hertfordshire won by ten wickets Points: Hertfordshire 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: G J Rye and A C McArthur Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Hertfordshire 1 (A R Petrie) First day score: Cambridgeshire 256; Hertfordshire 219-3 wickets (C H Titchmarsh 36*, A K Gibson 36*) Cambridgeshire W E Constable c Titchmarsh b Coleman 0 (1) c Marsh b Coleman 0 E B Darby c Shelford b Coleman 5 (2) lbw b Shelford 10 C H Pigg c Household b Burton 39 (3) b Coleman 38 * H C Tebbutt b Coleman 108 (4) b Shelford 10 + Watts, G H c Titchmarsh b Burton 33 (5) b Coleman 1 F W Bryan st Petrie b Marsh 14 (6) b Shelford 0 H B Hart b Coleman 13 (7) c Titchmarsh b Coleman 3 F P C Pemberton run out 15 (8) b Coleman 19 G A Rose c Gibson b Marsh 15 (9) not out 34 Coulson, H c Anderson b Coleman 1 (10) b Shelford 4 O’Connor, J not out 4 (11) b Shelford 10 Extras 9 4 Total (all out) 256 (all out) 133 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 14 78 179 256 Second innings 133 Coleman 24.2 7 65 5 - - (1) 21 7 67 5 - - Burton 19 1 67 2 - - (2) 7 2 15 0 - - Shelford 9 3 41 0 - - (3) 13.3 2 47 5 - - Marsh 11 0 52 2 - - Household 3 0 22 0 - - Extras - - 9 1 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 66.2 11 256 10 - - 41.3 11 133 10 - - Hertfordshire R C Grellet c Tebbutt b Coulson 74 (1) not out 13 Golding, A J b Coulson 41 (2) not out 17 E S Household c Tebbutt b Bryan 15 C H Titchmarsh c substitute b Coulson 51 A K Gibson b Coulson 39 J O Anderson b Tebbutt 32 Coleman, W E b Coulson 10 * W H Marsh b Coulson 34 + A R Petrie c Watts b Rose 24 Shelford, W not out 7 Burton, F A b Rose 7 Extras 27 2 Total (all out) 361 (no wicket) 32 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 361 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 34 8 63 6 - - (1) 4.4 1 22 0 - - Rose 22 5 96 2 - - Tebbutt 8 4 30 1 - - O’Connor 16 4 38 0 - - (2) 4 0 8 0 - - Pigg 3 1 11 0 - - Bryan 18 2 87 1 - - Constable 3 0 9 0 - - Extras - - 27 0 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 104 24 361 10 - - 8.4 1 32 0 - - Notes: Hertfordshire won this match by ten wickets on the second day. For the winners, Coleman took 10 wickets in the match for 132 runs. Grellet scored 74 and Titchmarsh 51. For the losers, Tebbutt scored 108. In the Cambridgeshire first innings, Tebbutt and Watts added 101 runs for the fourth wicket. In the Hertfordshire first innings, Coulson took 6 wickets for 63 runs. In the Hertfordshire second innings, some sources state Tebbutt bowled and others Rose, but the averages support O’Connor bowling. [Missing: Extras breakdown; fall of wickets; in Cambridgeshire first innings duration and breakdown of Tebbutt’s 108; in Hertfordshire first innings boundaries in Grellet’s 74 and Titchmarsh’s 51; precise time completed.] Sources: Cambridge Daily News 2,3 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 9 August; Herts Advertiser 10 August; Watford Observer 10 August; Sporting Life 3,5 August; The Sportsman 3,5 August; Cricket 10 August, p 413. 71