Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 15: HERTFORDSHIRE V BEDFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Clarence Park, St Albans on [Friday 3], Saturday 4 July 1914 Result: Match drawn - No decision on first innings Points: No points awarded Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Hertfordshire none, Bedfordshire 1 (H B Goddard) First day score: No play - rain Bedfordshire W E King b Coleman 5 S V Graham b Shelford 28 H O Sutherland c Titchmarsh b Shelford 79 F W H Nicholas c Etheridge b Shelford 8 Holdstock, H F c Golding b Shelford 20 H B Goddard c Ward b Shelford 38 R C Gutteridge c Shelford b Marsh 30 * + E E Apthorp b Marsh 17 J H Joyce run out 32 Rogers, B L not out 6 R H King st Titchmarsh b Marsh 9 Extras nb 3 14 Total (all out) 286 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 92 106 126 182 193 214 286 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Burton 23 5 70 0 - 3 Coleman 18 3 35 1 - - Shelford 31 4 112 5 - - Marsh 12.2 2 43 3 - - Rabone 5 2 14 0 - - Extras - - 14 1 - - Total 89.2 16 288x 10 - 3 286 Hertfordshire S G Etheridge b R H King 22 Golding, A J b W E King 6 + C H Titchmarsh not out 127 E S Household c Gutteridge b W E King 4 * Rev C G Ward b W E King 26 C H Tait hit wicket b W E King 21 C H Rabone W H Marsh Coleman, W E Shelford, W Burton, F A Extras 17 Total (5 wickets) 223 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 41 114 223 - - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Graham 22 8 47 0 - - R H King 22 9 53 1 - - W E King 15.2 2 52 4 - - Rogers 11 3 29 0 - - Gutteridge 4 0 25 0 - - Extras - - 17 0 - - Total 74.2 22 223 5 - - Notes: This match was drawn with no decision on first innings after rain prevented any play on the first day. For Bedfordshire Sutherland scored 79. For Hertfordshire Titchmarsh scored 127 not out and added 109 with Tait for the fifth wicket. Shelford took 5 wickets for 112 runs in the Bedfordshire innings. There are some discrepancies between the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire newspaper reports. The Bedfordshire reports have been used for their batting scorecard. The Hertfordshire reports show Burton to have conceded 62 runs not 70 as in the Bedfordshire reports. [Missing: Toss; umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Bedfordshire innings boundaries in Sutherland’s 79 and bowling adds 2 runs over; in Hertfordshire innings breakdown and duration of Titchmarsh’s 127 not out.] Sources: Hertfordshire Advertiser 11 July; Watford Observer 11 July; Bedfordshire Advertiser 10 July; Bedfordshire Standard 10 July; Bedfordshire Times 10 July; Luton Times and Advertiser 10 July; World of Cricket 11 July, p 337. 57