Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 35 : GLAMORGAN V MONMOUTHSHIRE At Cardiff Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Thursday 24, Friday 25 July 1913 Result: Glamorgan won by seven wickets Points: Glamorgan 5 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: W H Harden and - Perrin Debutants: Glamorgan none; Monmouthshire 1 (R Carter) First day score: Monmouthshire 174; Glamorgan 218-7 wickets (T R Morgan 27*, W S Hacker 5*) Monmouthshire A M Maltby not out 77 (2) c Creber b Hacker 59 Silverlock, A J run out 10 (1) b Maxwell 17 J H Evans b Creber 0 (8) b Creber 0 + Diver, E J c Horspool b Hacker 14 (6) b Hacker 11 * E S Phillips b Maxwell 33 (3) c Hacker b Creber 14 F G Phillips c Creber b Cooper 0 (5) c Riches b Hacker 7 G L Robathan b Hacker 3 (7) c Creber b Hacker 3 W R Lewis b Hacker 0 (10) not out 0 R Carter b Hacker 3 (9) b Creber 0 H A James st Horspool b Creber 10 (4) lbw b Creber 8 Kentish, G H b Maxwell 7 (11) c Riches b Creber 0 Extras b 9, lb 8, w 1 18 b 4, lb 5 9 Total (all out) 175 (all out) 128 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 174 Second innings 40 109 113 127 128 Hacker 26 6 57 4 1 - (1) 23 6 46 4 - - Creber 21 6 44 2 - - (4) 17.2 5 31 5 - - Cooper 11 1 21 1 - - (2) 5 2 15 0 - - Maxwell 14.1 2 35 2 - - (3) 9 0 27 1 - - Extras - - 18 1 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 72.1 15 175 10 1 0 54.2 13 128 10 0 0 Glamorgan * N V H Riches c Maltby b Silverlock 23 (1) not out 27 J R Tait b Kentish 51 R A Gibbs run out 28 (2) b Silverlock 18 J L G Thomas c Diver b F G Phillips 25 (3) b Silverlock 1 Maxwell, J c Kentish b F G Phillips 21 (4) c E S Phillips b Silverlock 10 T R Morgan not out 29 (5) not out 7 A C R David b F G Phillips 8 + J J Horspool b F G Phillips 9 Hacker, W S c Diver b F G Phillips 10 E Cooper b F G Phillips 0 Creber, H lbw b Kentish 0 Extras b 15, lb 5, nb 2 22 15 Total (all out) 226 (3 wickets) 78 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 73 85 150 222 226 226 Second innings 32 33 - - - - - - - F G Phillips 20 3 93 6 - 4 (1) 4 0 17 0 - - Kentish 15.3 3 50 2 - - (3) 4 1 17 0 - - Silverlock 12 0 56 1 - - (2) 8 2 29 3 - - E S Phillips 1 0 3 0 - - James 1 0 2 0 - - Extras - - 22 1 - - - - 15 0 - - Total 49.3 6 226 10 0 4 16 3 78 3 - - Notes: Glamorgan won this match by 7 wickets at 4.00 pm on the second day. For the winners there were 6 fours in Tait’s 51; his half-century took 50 minutes. Gibbs retired hurt with the score at 101-2 after being hit by a ball from F G Phillips and returned at 150-3. Creber took 5 wickets for 31 runs in Monmouthshire’s second innings and also took 3 catches in the match. For the losers Maltby top-scored in both innings, carrying his bat in the first for 77 (his 50 coming up in 1 hour and 50 minutes), and scoring 59 in the second. F G Phillips took 6 wickets for 93 runs in Glamorgan’s first innings. In their second innings Monmouthshire lost their last 4 wickets for just 1 run and their last 7 wickets for 19 runs; during this innings Tait injured a finger and Monmouthshire’s Carter came on as a substitute. [Missing: Umpire Perrin's initials; part breakdown of extras; part fall of wickets; in Monmouthshire first innings boundaries in Maltby’s 77; in Monmouthshire second innings boundaries in Maltby’s 59.] Sources: Monmouthshire Evening Post 24,25,26 July; South Wales Argus 24,25,26 July; South Wales Daily News 26 July; Western Mail 25,26 July; Cricket 2 August, p 466; The Sportsman 26 July. 68