Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 67 : SUFFOLK V BEDFORDSHIRE At The Bury and West Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Cemetery Road, Bury St Edmunds on Wednesday 13, Thursday 14 August 1913 Result: Bedfordshire won by 120 runs Points: Bedfordshire 5 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Suffolk none; Bedfordshire none First day score: Bedfordshire 224; Suffolk 36-1 wicket (H A Busher 9*, J Forrest 6*) Bedfordshire B L Peel b Lawrence 2 (4) b Busher 1 S V Graham c Cobbold b Lawrence 43 (2) lbw b Waters 29 Holdstock, H F c and b Penfold 5 (8) c Penfold b Cobbold 13 W E King c Busher b Titchmarsh 101 (1) b Penfold 0 Dr A F Morcom c Cobbold b Penfold 15 (5) c Waters b Lawrence 29 F C W Newman c Cobbold b Penfold 11 (3) c Penfold b Busher 10 Ratcliff, J c Cobbold b Penfold 7 (7) not out 21 * + E E Apthorp run out 12 (9) b F R C Cobbold 9 D Turnbull not out 16 (10) c Forrest b Penfold 1 H Grierson c Forrest b Penfold 9 (6) c Fosdick b Busher 4 B L Rogers b Waters 0 (11) b Penfold 0 Extras b 1, lb 1, nb 1 3 6 Total (all out) 224 (all out) 123 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 8 137 167 169 224 Second innings 83 103 117 123 Penfold 26 2 82 5 - - (1) 17.4 7 32 3 - - Lawrence 15 3 41 2 - - (2) 13 3 23 1 - - Cobbold 8 1 41 0 - - (5) 3 0 15 2 - - Waters 11 2 37 1 - 1 (3) 7 2 18 1 - - Titchmarsh 4 0 20 1 - - Busher (4) 6 0 29 3 - - Extras - - 3 1 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 64 8 224 10 0 1 46.4 12 123 10 - - Suffolk H A Busher not out 57 (1) c King b Grierson 3 F L Titchmarsh c and b Morcom 19 (2) c and b Morcom 5 J Forrest b Morcom 12 (3) c Morcom b Grierson 11 O Mortimer c Holdstock b King 7 (4) c Rogers b Morcom 0 Penfold, W c Apthorp b Grierson 14 (5) b Grierson 14 R D Lake c Rogers b Grierson 7 (6) b Morcom 3 J S Cobbald b Morcom 5 (7) b King 17 + J H Fosdick b Grierson 3 (8) b Peel 21 F R C Cobbold b Morcom 3 (9) c Holdstock b King 0 * Capt H M Lawrence b Morcom 0 (10) c Peel b King 4 Waters, F lbw b Graham 1 (11) not out 11 Extras 3 7 Total (all out) 131 (all out) 96 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 21 45 65 90 98 131 Second innings 10 30 96 Morcom 29 9 63 5 - - (1) 11 4 21 3 - - Grierson 18 6 33 3 - - (2) 11 1 32 3 - - King 3 1 6 1 - - (4) 4.5 0 22 3 - - Graham 8.1 2 18 1 - - Peel 7 4 8 0 - - (3) 5 0 14 1 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 65.1 22 131 10 - - 31.5 5 96 10 - - Notes: Bedfordshire won this return match by 120 runs after setting Suffolk a victory target of 217 runs. The encounter between the two sides at the Bedford Grammar School ground in July had also been won by Bedfordshire. For the winners King scored 101 in the Bedfordshire first innings, which contained 1 six, 12 fours and 4 threes, and took 1 hour and 20 minutes. He had a third wicket partnership with Graham of 129 runs. Morcom took five wickets for 63 runs in the Suffolk first innings. For the losers Busher carried his bat when scoring 57 not out in the Suffolk first innings. Penfold took 5 wickets for 82 runs in the Bedfordshire first innings. F R C Cobbold held four catches in the Bedfordshire first innings, all in the slips. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Suffolk first innings boundaries in Busher’s 57 not out; precise time completed.] Sources: East Anglian Daily Times 14,15 August; Bedfordshire Advertiser 15,22 August; Bedfordshire Standard 15 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 16 August; Luton Reporter 18 August; Eastern Daily Press 14,15 August; Cricket 23 August, p 549. 100