Minor Counties Championship 1913

CORNWALL 1913 Championship matches: Played 8, won 3, lost 4, drawn 1 (won on first innings none, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings none) Position: Fourteenth out of twenty Won: v Devon at Camborne, v Berkshire at Penzance and v Dorset at Camborne Lost: v Monmouthshire at Penzance, v Devon at Exeter, v Dorset at Poole and v Berkshire at Reading Drawn - won on first innings: None Drawn - lost on first innings: v Monmouthshire at Abergavenny Drawn - no decision on first innings: None Captain: H Tresawna (8 matches) Wicket-keeper: R F Vibart (8 matches) Debutants: 2 (A C Hancock and T F Pendray) Final Season: 5 (F C Barnes, T F Pendray, R Rogers, T Romer and W S Tresawna) Hon Secretaries: J Bray and Major G T Williams Professionals: 5 (F C Barnes, T F Pendray, C Trevarthen, R F Vibart and F J Whiting) Home Grounds 2: Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne (2 matches) and Penzance Cricket Club Ground, St Clare, Penzance (2 matches) Notes: The improvement of 1912 was not maintained as Cornwall dropped into the lower half of the Table. Dorset were opponents in place of Kent 2nd XI. Ronald Vibart was the leading run scorer with 431 at 33.15. The most effective bowler by far was Frank Whiting with 61 wickets at 12.81 each. During the season career milestones reached were 3000 runs by Harry Tresawna, 2000 runs by Kit Trevarthen, 1000 runs by Ernest Hawkin and 300 wickets by Frank Whiting. CORNWALL MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH AVERAGES 1913 In the averages below, + after the name denotes the 2 players who made their Championship debut for Cornwall during the season. Names in bold denote that 1913 was the last or only season that these 5 players appeared for Cornwall in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Barnes, F C 8 14 0 53 217 15.50 - 1 2 2 - 61.5 10 195 6 32.50 2-14 - - J C Bickford-Smith 7 12 2 87* 200 20.00 - 1 1 5 - - - - - - - - - W N Bickford-Smith 8 14 0 50 190 13.57 - 1 1 8 - 11 0 63 0 - - - - J Davies 6 10 2 65* 175 21.87 - 1 1 1 - 30 5 90 3 30.00 3-34 - - G H Escott 3 5 0 61 80 16.00 - 1 1 2 - 59 13 210 9 23.33 5-55 - 1 A C Hancock + 1 2 0 19 19 9.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - E Hawken 8 14 0 31 136 9.71 - - 2 3 - 128 17 494 17 29.05 4-36 - - R J Holman 5 10 1 29* 79 8.77 - - 3 - - 23.2 2 81 6 13.50 5-42 - 1 C G Humphreys 2 3 0 55 73 24.33 - 1 - - - 17 1 96 1 96.00 1-57 - - Pendray, T F + 1 1 0 6 6 6.00 - - - 1 - 4 1 15 0 - - - - F G Port 6 10 1 52 117 13.00 - 1 2 3 - 80 6 308 11 28.00 4-14 - - R Rogers 1 2 0 28 34 17.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - T Romer 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - H Tresawna 8 14 0 64 282 20.14 - 3 2 4 - - - - - - - - - Dr W S Tresawna 1 1 0 1 1 1.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Trevarthen, C 6 12 0 50 173 14.41 - 1 2 3 - 41.5 4 148 6 24.66 3-34 - - Vibart, R F 8 14 1 125* 431 33.15 1 2 - 8 5 - - - - - - - - Whiting, F J 8 14 7 27* 48 6.85 - - 3 8 - 275.4 58 777 61 12.73 9-80 2 8 Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 194 - - - - - - - - 184 2 - - - - Total 88 154 14 125* 2455 17.53 1 13 23 48 5 731.4 117 2661 122 21.81 9-80 2 10 (18 players) (6 ball overs) FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 5 players made their last appearance for Cornwall in the Championship in 1913. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Barnes, F C 1904 28 45 5 78* 507 12.67 - 2 11 18 - 2138 972 45 21.60 6-51 - 2 Pendray, T F 1913 1 1 0 6 6 6.00 - - - 1 - 24 15 0 - - - - R Rogers 1904 26 44 1 80 957 22.25 - 6 7 18 - 3 - 0 - - - - T Romer 1908 15 29 3 40* 252 9.69 - - 9 7 - - - - - - - - Dr W S Tresawna 1898 25 40 3 99 1091 29.48 - 10 3 7 - 85 59 1 59.00 1-54 - - (5 players) 156