Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 9: BEDFORDSHIRE V SUFFOLK At Elstow School, Ampthill Road, Kempston, Bedford on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 June 1914 Result: Bedfordshire won by three wickets Points: Bedfordshire 5 Toss: Suffolk Umpires: Not known Debutants: Suffolk 3 (E E G Alderwick, M C Clodd, and C B W Magnay); Bedfordshire none First day score: Suffolk 276; Bedfordshire 188-9 wickets (E E Apthorp 29*, H Grierson 0*) Suffolk R D Paffard b R H King 57 (1) c Apthorp b Graham 42 W G English b Grierson 11 (7) st Apthorp b W E King 9 J Forrest b R H King 27 (3) c Gutteridge b R H King 1 + E Godley c Joyce b R H King 2 (9) b W E King 12 * O Mortimer c Gutteridge b R H King 0 (8) b W E King 0 Penfold, W c Grierson b R H King 84 (6) b W E King 4 F L Titchmarsh c Graham b R H King 14 (10) not out 1 E E G Alderwick b Graham 37 (2) run out 32 B C Lake not out 8 (11) lbw b Durrant 1 M C Clodd lbw b Graham 9 (5) b Durrant 2 C B W Magnay run out 9 (4) c Apthorp b W E King 44 Extras nb 1 18 6 Total (all out) 276 (all out) 154 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 26 95 101 105 152 234 246 259 276 Second innings 68 86 108 111 136 154 Durrant 5 0 13 0 - - (4) 10.1 4 23 2 - - Grierson 20 3 76 1 - - (1) 4 0 20 0 - - Graham 29 6 57 2 - - (2) 12 0 35 1 - - R H King 20.1 3 81 6 - 1 (3) 12 3 35 1 - - W E King 1 0 14 0 - - (5) 9 0 35 5 - - Gutteridge 2 0 17 0 - - Extras - - 18 1 - - - - 6 1 - - Total 77.1 12 276 10 0 1 47.1 7 154 10 - - Bedfordshire W E King b Penfold 30 (1) b English 18 S V Graham c Titchmarsh b English 54 (2) run out 25 R C Gutteridge c English b Penfold 10 (7) not out 41 F W H Nicholas c and b Titchmarsh 3 (4) lbw b Penfold 1 H O Sutherland c Clodd b Penfold 32 (3) c Godley b Penfold 5 Holdstock, H F b Penfold 7 (6) st Godley b Penfold 13 J H Joyce c Titchmarsh b Penfold 9 A F Durrant c English b Penfold 2 R H King c Clodd b Penfold 6 (9) not out 16 * + E E Apthorp b English 66 (8) c Clodd b Penfold 34 H Grierson not out 10 (5) c Paffard b Titchmarsh 32 Extras 10 9 Total (all out) 239 (7 wickets) 194 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 43 75 83 120 158 188 239 Second innings 27 38 40 73 91 112 169 - - - Penfold 32 7 109 7 - - (1) 24 5 81 4 - - English 25.1 6 75 2 - - (2) 18.5 3 63 1 - - Titchmarsh 7 0 29 1 - - (3) 5 0 27 1 - - Mortimer 1 0 16 0 - - Paffard (4) 1 0 14 0 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 9 1 - - Total 65.1 13 239 10 - - 48.5 8 194 7 - - Notes: Bedfordshire won this match by three wickets at 4.20 pm on the second day. For Bedfordshire in their first innings Apthorp top-scored with 66, which included 1 six and 9 fours, and with Grierson added 51 runs for the tenth wicket. Graham scored 54. In the Bedfordshire second innings Gutteridge and Apthorp added 57 runs for the seventh wicket. R H King took 6 wickets for 81 runs in the Suffolk first innings and W E King 5 for 35 in the second. For Suffolk in their first innings Paffard scored 57 and Penfold top-scored with 84 runs including 12 fours and, with the debutant Alderwick, added 82 runs for the seventh wicket. Penfold also took 11 wickets in the match for 190 runs, including 7 for 109 in the Bedfordshire first innings. Scorecards show P S Trevor but this is thought to be E E G Alderwick playing under a different name. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Suffolk first innings boundaries in Paffard’s 57; in Bedfordshire first innings boundaries in Graham’s 54.] Sources: Bedfordshire Standard 26 June; Bedfordshire Times 26 June; East Anglian Daily Times 25,26 June; World of Cricket 4 July, p 309. 51