MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 56: BEDFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At The Luton Town Cricket Club Ground, Wardown Park, Luton on Friday 9, Saturday 10 August 1912 Result: Match drawn - Cambridgeshire won on first innings Points: Cambridgeshire 3, Bedfordshire 1 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Bedfordshire 1 (R H King); Cambridgeshire 1 (Rev F W Worsley) First day score: Bedfordshire 170; Cambridgeshire 218-7 wickets (G H Watts 64*, F W Bryan 11*) Bedfordshire * H R Orr b Bryan 5 (1) not out 1 Holdstock, H F hit wicket b Coulson 38 Wharmby, G E b Whybro 47 (2) c Watts b Bryan 3 W A G Southwell c and b Coulson 26 (3) not out 0 E E Apthorp c L J Reid b Coulson 7 Dr A F Morcom b Whybro 7 + Capt H C Potter c Watts b Coulson 0 F C W Newman c Ling b Whybro 0 H V Baumgartner c Tebbutt b Coulson 19 S V Graham c and b O’Connor 14 R H King not out 4 Extras 3 0 Total (all out) 170 (1 wicket) 4 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 79 99 128 128 132 133 165 170 Second innings 4 - - - - - - - - - Coulson 25.5 7 59 5 - - (1) 2 1 4 0 - - Bryan 13 3 49 1 - - (2) 1 1 0 1 - - O’Connor 6 1 11 1 - - Whybro 8 2 27 3 - - L J Reid 2 0 21 0 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 54.5 13 170 10 - - 3 2 4 1 0 0 Cambridgeshire Rev F W Worsley st Potter b Baumgartner 0 L J Reid b Morcom 8 K G Reid run out 19 A S Ling c Potter b Morcom 48 * H C Tebbutt b Graham 22 + Watts, G H b Graham 75 H B Hart b Graham 12 R H V Whybro lbw b Orr 10 F W Bryan c King b Graham 31 Coulson, H lbw b Graham 1 O’Connor, J not out 3 Extras nb 2 25 Total (all out) 254 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 57 110 130 159 178 241 247 254 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Morcom 20 7 40 2 - - Baumgartner 19 5 52 1 - - Wharmby 9 1 29 0 - - Graham 21 8 33 5 - 2 King 13 2 30 0 - - Orr 9 0 45 1 - - Extras - - 25 1 - - Total 91 23 254 10 0 2 Notes: This rain-interrupted match was drawn with Cambridgeshire winning on first innings. A storm on the second day at 10 minutes to twelve, drove the players to the pavilion, and an early lunch was taken. Conditions were too wet to play after the break and a further storm at around 3.00 pm led to the decision to abandon the match ten minutes later. For the home side, Wharmby top scored with 47. For the visitors, Watts scored 75 which included 2 sixes and 4 fours. In the Cambridgeshire innings Watts and Bryan added 63 runs for the eighth wicket. During his innings, Ling hurt his leg when batting and K G Reid went out and acted as his runner. Graham took 5 wickets for 33 runs. For Bedfordshire, Apthorp suffered from a damaged finger so Potter kept wicket. Wharmby returned to the side after breaking a finger, but hurt it again when fielding in the Cambridgeshire innings and had to leave the field. Tebbutt acted as his substitute fielder. This was Baumgartner’s final championship match, having played one each in 1901 and 1902. [He was to play one Test for South Africa against England at Durban in 1913-14 scoring 16 and 3, and taking two wickets – Hobbs and Douglas – for 99 runs.] [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Bedfordshire first innings fall of fourth wicket; in Cambridgeshire innings fall of first wicket.] Sources: Bedfordshire Advertiser 16 August; Bedfordshire Standard 16 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 17 August; Luton News 15 August; Luton Reporter 19 August; Cambridge Daily News 9,10 August; Cambridge Independent Press 16 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 16 August; Sporting Life 10,12 August; The Sportsman 10,12 August; Cricket 17 August, p 432. 87