Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 25 : CORNWALL V DEVON At Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne on Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 July 1913 Result: Cornwall won by 95 runs Points: Cornwall 5 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cornwall none; Devon 1 (Rev W H Arundell) First day score: Cornwall 255 and 63-3 wickets (J C Bickford-Smith 4*, F C Barnes 9*); Devon 158 Cornwall * H Tresawna b Knight 7 (1) c Cruwys b Fulcher 9 W N Bickford-Smith c Knight b Light 19 (2) b Fulcher 32 Trevarthen, C c Conde-Williams b Light 30 (3) c Wreford b Fulcher 4 J C Bickford-Smith run out 6 (4) c Cruwys b Fulcher 5 + Vibart, R F not out 125 (7) c Davies b Wreford 40 Barnes, F C b Wreford 4 (5) c Knight b Wreford 12 R J Holman st Davies b Light 16 (6) c Davies b Fulcher 0 E Hawken b Wreford 1 (8) c Davies b Wreford 10 G H Escott run out 8 (9) b Wreford 8 F G Port b Wreford 13 (10) st Davies b Knight 19 Whiting, F J b Knight 2 (11) not out 27 Extras b 18, lb 6 24 b 5, w 3 8 Total (all out) 255 (all out) 174 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 16 65 65 102 117 168 177 216 252 255 Second innings 35 39 54 68 68 68 80 111 134 174 Knight 14.4 2 73 2 - - (1) 3 1 11 1 - - Wreford 23 3 81 3 - - (2) 21 3 68 4 - - Light 15 4 63 3 - - (5) 4 1 10 0 - - Robinson 6 2 14 0 - - (3) 6 3 8 0 - - Fulcher (4) 15 2 69 5 3 - Extras - - 24 2 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 58.4 11 255 10 0 0 49 10 174 10 3 0 Devon Rev W H Arundell b Port 32 (1) c Tresawna b Whiting 3 M M F Conde-Williams b Escott 1 (8) c J C Bickford-Smith b Hawken 37 F H Carroll c Vibart b Escott 0 (3) c Port b Escott 0 E A Fulcher not out 73 (4) c Escott b Port 62 R Knight b Hawken 3 (5) c Vibart b Whiting 0 Light, W F b Port 0 (6) c Trevarthen b Whiting 0 R G Cruwys c Vibart b Escott 7 (2) c Tresawna b Whiting 17 * J F Shelley st Vibart b Escott 13 (7) c W N Bickford-Smith b Whiting 4 + Davies, T c W N Bickford-Smith b Escott 0 (10) c Vibart b Port 7 Robinson, W H M b Port 5 (11) not out 5 W Wreford c Whiting b Port 9 (9) c Escott b Hawken 2 Extras b14, lb 1 15 b 29, lb 10 39 Total (all out) 158 (all out) 176 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 14 66 75 76 99 121 125 148 158 Second innings 20 20 24 39 41 49 162 163 165 176 Escott 15 2 55 5 - - (1) 16 8 34 1 - - Whiting 13 1 44 0 - - (2) 23 8 46 5 - - Port 10 3 14 4 - - (5) 8.1 1 29 2 - - Hawken 8 2 30 1 - - (3) 11 3 12 2 - - Holman (4) 5 0 16 0 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 39 0 - - Total 46 8 158 10 0 0 63.1 20 176 10 0 0 Notes: Cornwall won this match by 95 runs on the second day. For the winners Vibart played an ‘explosive’ innings of 125 not out, which included 6 sixes and 13 fours; he received a collection of £3 2s 2d in recognition of this. He also top-scored in Cornwall’s second innings with 40 and caught 4 batsmen and stumped another in what was a most impressive all-round performance. Escott took 5 wickets for 55 runs in Devon’s first innings and Whiting took 5 wickets for 46 in their second. For the losers Fulcher top scored in both innings; there were 1 five and 10 fours in his 73 not out whilst there were 1 five and 7 fours in his 62. In Devon’s second innings he added 113 for the 7th wicket with Conde-Williams. Fulcher took 5 wickets for 69 runs in Cornwall’s second innings. Davies caught 3 batsmen in Cornwall’s second innings and made a stumping in both innings. [Missing: Umpires; in Cornwall first innings time taken for Vibart’s 125 not out; precise time completed.] Source: Devon Scorebook; Devon Yearbook; The Cornishman 24 July; Cornish Telegraph 24 July; Western Daily Mercury 17,18 July; Western Morning News 17,18 July; Cricket 26 July, p 440. 58