Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 41 : CORNWALL V DORSET At Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne on Friday 1, Saturday 2 August 1913 Result: Cornwall won by 57 runs Points: Cornwall 5 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: Not known Debutants: Dorset none; Cornwall none First day score: Cornwall 111 and 270-8 wickets (J C Bickford-Smith 84*, E Hawken 20*); Dorset 99 Cornwall W N Bickford-Smith b McIntyre 24 (1) b Walby 6 * H Tresawna c Farrer b Walby 22 (2) b McIntyre 6 Trevarthen, C b Walby 6 (3) c Parke b Freeman 43 R Rogers b McIntyre 6 (4) b Walby 28 + Vibart, R F b Walby 1 (6) c Hope b Sewell 15 Barnes, F C c Parke b Sewell 27 (5) b Hope 22 J C Bickford-Smith b Sewell 4 (7) not out 87 G H Escott lbw b Sewell 0 (8) run out 3 J Davies b Walby 0 (9) b Walby 21 E Hawken b Walby 6 (10) c and b McIntyre 22 Whiting, F J not out 3 (11) b Walby 2 Extras 12 22 Total (all out) 111 (all out) 277 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 31 44 51 52 81 92 101 101 101 111 Second innings 12 22 77 91 111 143 152 187 272 277 Sewell 11 4 23 3 - - (3) 10 0 45 1 - - McIntyre 12 2 33 2 - - (1) 11 1 52 2 - - Walby 16.2 5 43 5 - - (2) 19 2 68 4 - - Freeman (4) 13 0 66 1 - - Hope (5) 7 0 24 1 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - - - 22 1 - - Total 39.2 11 111 10 - - 60 3 277 10 - - Dorset F A S Sewell lbw b Escott 55 (1) b Whiting 25 Freeman, E J lbw b Whiting 4 (3) lbw b Whiting 18 R M Manser b Whiting 0 (2) c and b Whiting 8 J K Manger c and b Whiting 1 (4) b Whiting 28 G M Gordon lbw b Escott 4 (5) c and b Whiting 17 Walby, E C c and b Whiting 9 (6) b Whiting 17 P P Hope c and b Whiting 1 (7) b Whiting 7 * C P Goodden b Whiting 1 (8) b Whiting 9 + H W F B Farrer st Vibart b Whiting 13 (9) not out 55 J A Parke not out 5 (10) c J C Bickford-Smith b Barnes 41 E A McIntyre st Vibart b Whiting 1 (11) b Whiting 0 Extras 5 7 Total (all out) 99 (all out) 232 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 16 24 30 47 69 88 99 Second innings 28 55 62 85 110 118 126 146 231 232 Hawken 5 0 25 0 - - (2) 13 0 72 0 - - Whiting 12.5 1 31 8 - - (1) 30.4 5 80 9 - - Escott 8 0 38 2 - - (3) 7 1 39 0 - - Barnes (4) 8 1 21 1 - - Trevarthen (5) 3 0 13 0 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 25.5 1 99 10 - - 61.4 7 232 10 - - Notes: Cornwall won this match by 57 runs at 3.00 pm on the second day. For the winners there were 15 fours in J C Bickford- Smith’s 87 not out and in Cornwall’s second innings he added 85 for the ninth wicket with Hawken. Whiting took 8 wickets for 31 runs in Dorset’s first innings and 9 wickets for 80 in their second, giving him match figures of 17 for 111. He was the third bowler to take 17 wickets in a Championship match (after H E White of Hertfordshire and S F Barnes of Staffordshire). Five of his victims fell to catches off his own bowling. For the losers there were 10 fours in Sewell’s 55 and Farrer scored 55 not out. In Dorset’s second innings Farrer and Parke added 85 for the 9th wicket. Walby took 5 wickets for 43 runs in Cornwall’s first innings and had match figures of 9 for 111. [Missing: Umpires; breakdown of extras; part fall of wickets; in Dorset second innings boundaries in Farrer’s 55 not out.] Sources: The Cornishman 7 August; Cornish Telegraph 7 August; Royal Cornwall Gazette 7 August; Western Daily Mercury 2,4 August; Dorset County Chronicle 7 August; East Dorset Herald 7 August; Cricket 9 August, p 493; The Sportsman 2,4 August; Sporting Life 2,4 August. 74