Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 3: DURHAM V GLAMORGAN At Sunderland Cricket Club Ground, Ashbrooke, Sunderland on Wednesday 3, Thursday 4 June 1914 Result: Match drawn - Durham won on first innings Points: Durham 3, Glamorgan 1 Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: B Brown and T Fenwick Debutants: Durham 1 (W F Parrington); Glamorgan none First day score: Glamorgan 187; Durham 241-4 wickets (H L Dales 68*, F Harry 58*) Glamorgan * + N V H Riches lbw b Morris 66 (1) b Hendren 68 J R Tait c and b Morris 6 (4) c Bradford b Harry 93 E R Sweet-Escott c Smith b Morris 9 (3) c Squance b Morris 20 S H Rees b Hendren 17 (6) c Squance b Morris 17 J W Jones c Common b Morris 11 (7) not out 50 Maxwell, J run out 5 (8) b Smith 27 T R Morgan lbw b Morris 7 (9) not out 23 Bancroft, W J b Harry 27 (2) c Harry b Morris 2 D B Williams not out 19 (5) c Common b Morris 35 Hacker, W S c Hendren b Smith 13 Creber, H c Bradford b Smith 4 Extras b 1, lb 2 3 b 5, lb 2, nb 3 10 Total (all out) 187 (7 wickets) 345 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 13 37 82 108 112 121 136 154 178 187 Second innings 3 30 138 209 237 240 280 - - - Morris 30 8 69 5 - - (1) 28 2 101 4 - - Harry 23 3 52 1 - - (2) 24 2 83 1 - 1 Hendren 9 1 37 1 - - (4) 14 0 58 1 - 1 Smith 6 0 26 2 - - (3) 16 0 71 1 - 1 Mellor (5) 1 0 5 0 - - Squance (6) 2 0 15 0 - - Bradford (7) 1 0 2 0 - - Extras - - 3 1 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 68 12 187 10 0 0 86 4 345 7 0 3 Durham * T A Bradford b Hacker 1 Hendren, D c Riches b Maxwell 81 T Kinch c Riches b Hacker 20 H L Dales c Hacker b Creber 98 + J J Common b Maxwell 0 Harry, F c Maxwell b Hacker 85 W F Parrington c Tait b Jones 47 F Mellor c Hacker b Creber 5 E L Squance not out 33 Morris, A not out 28 Smith, T Extras b 14, lb 4, w 1 19 Total (8 wickets declared) 417 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 105 111 111 287 314 330 374 - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Creber 22 1 106 2 - - Hacker 31 1 129 3 - - Maxwell 19 1 96 2 1 - Tait 3 0 22 0 - - Jones 8 1 38 1 - - Sweet-Escott 2 0 7 0 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - Total 85 4 417 8 1 0 Notes: This match was drawn with Durham winning on the first innings. Durham declared at 12.55 pm on the second day, leaving Glamorgan to score 230 to avoid an innings defeat. For the home side there were 12 fours in Hendren’s 81, an innings of 65 minutes, 9 fours in Dales’s 98, an innings of 150 minutes, and 7 fours in Harry’s 85. Hendren and Kinch added 103 for the second wicket and Dales and Harry added 176 for the fifth wicket. Morris had figures of 9 wickets for 170 runs in the match, including 5 for 69 in the Glamorgan first innings. For Glamorgan there were 10 fours in Riches’s 66. In their second innings Riches scored 68, Tait 93 with 1 six and 7 fours and Jones made an unbeaten 50. Riches and Tait added 108 in 90 minutes for the Glamorgan third wicket in their second innings and Jones and Morgan shared an unbroken partnership for the eighth wicket of 65 runs. Maxwell hit three sixes in an innings of 27. [Missing: In Glamorgan second innings boundaries in Riches’s 68 and Jones’s 50 not out.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Journal 4,5 June; Sunderland Daily Echo 3,4 June; Yorkshire Post 5 June; South Wales Daily News 4,5 June; Western Mail 4,5 June; The Sportsman 4,5 June; World of Cricket 13 June, p 240. 45