Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 24: GLAMORGAN V WILTSHIRE At The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Monday 13, Tuesday 14 July 1914 Result: Glamorgan won by two wickets Points: Glamorgan 5 Toss: Wiltshire Umpires: H Barrett and G L R Hutchings Debutants: Glamorgan 1 (F Bennett); Wiltshire 1 (Capt E L W Henslow) First day score: Wiltshire 71 and 130-6 wickets (C Williams 27*, A M Miller 0*); Glamorgan 133 Wiltshire Newman, A W b Hacker 1 (1) b Maxwell 44 + G C Davenport b Hacker 7 (2) b Hacker 0 J R Tayler b Hacker 20 (3) b Creber 14 R W Awdry b Hacker 0 (4) b Hacker 4 Capt E L W Henslow st Cording b Creber 3 (5) b Maxwell 14 G W Mathews c and b Creber 0 (6) b Hacker 11 Overton, W c Sweet-Escott b Creber 2 (9) c Gibbs b Hacker 2 C Williams, sen lbw b Hacker 21 (7) b Maxwell 43 * A M Miller st Cording b Hacker 2 (8) b Hacker 1 W E Yockney b Creber 6 (10) c Cording b Maxwell 6 Mitchell, H not out 6 (11) not out 3 Extras 3 nb 4 17 Total (all out) 71 (all out) 159 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 25 30 30 33 33 59 71 Second innings 0 17 35 60 130 131 159 Hacker 15.1 8 17 6 - - (1) 26 9 53 5 - - Creber 15 2 51 4 - - (3) 15 3 42 1 - - Maxwell (2) 14.5 4 32 4 - 1 Bennett (4) 4 0 15 0 - 3 Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 17 0 - - Total 30.1 10 71 10 - - 59.5 16 159 10 0 4 Glamorgan * N V H Riches b Mitchell 0 (6) b Overton 5 + G E Cording run out 9 (2) b Mitchell 0 R A Gibbs c Davenport b Williams 59 (1) c and b Mitchell 0 E R Sweet-Escott st Davenport b Henslow 6 (3) b Overton 34 S H Rees b Overton 5 (4) lbw b Newman 0 Maxwell, J c Mathews b Williams 24 (5) st Davenport b Mitchell 23 J L G Thomas c Yockney b Williams 8 (7) c Overton b Mitchell 2 F Bennett b Newman 5 (9) not out 14 T R Morgan b Mitchell 5 (10) not out 19 Hacker, W S b Newman 0 Creber, H not out 2 (8) c Awdry b Overton 0 Extras 10 nb 1 3 Total (all out) 133 (8 wickets) 100 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 25 59 109 119 121 121 131 131 133 Second innings 0 1 6 35 55 57 57 65 - - Mitchell 11 2 33 2 - - (1) 28 11 40 4 - - Newman 13 5 20 2 - - (2) 17 1 42 1 - 1 Overton 11 4 23 1 - - (3) 10 4 15 3 - - Henslow 3 0 10 1 - - Williams 11 1 37 3 - - Extras - - 10 1 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 49 12 133 10 - - 55 16 100 8 0 1 Notes: Glamorgan won by 2 wickets at 2.45 pm on the second day. They had been set 98 to win and collapsed to 65 for eight wickets before Bennett and Morgan saw them to victory without further loss. For the winners there were 5 fours in Gibbs’s 59, an innings of 100 minutes. Hacker took 11 wickets for 70 runs in the match, including 6 for 17 in the Wiltshire first innings and 5 for 53 in the second. During Wiltshire’s first innings, which lasted just 30.1 overs, he bowled unchanged with Creber. Cording made 3 dismissals in the match. For Wiltshire Newman and Williams top-scored with 44 and 43 respectively. Mitchell took 6 wickets in the match whilst Davenport made 3 dismissals in the match. [Missing: Part fall of wickets; extras breakdown.] Sources: South Wales Daily News 14,15 July; Western Gazette 17 July; Western Mail 14,15 July; Wiltshire Times 18 July; World of Cricket 18 July, p 358. 66