Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 27: CORNWALL V MONMOUTHSHIRE At Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne on Wednesday 15, Thursday 16 July 1914 Result: Monmouthshire won by 131 runs Points: Monmouthshire 5 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cornwall 1 (R Teague); Monmouthshire none First day score: Monmouthshire 76 and 200-1 wicket (A J Silverlock 120*, H C James 38*); Cornwall 152 Monmouthshire * E S Phillips b Williams 7 (1) c and b Bennetts 41 Silverlock, A J b Trevarthen 40 (2) b Williams 139 H C James c Vibart b Trevarthen 13 (3) st Vibart b Whiting 110 T B Williams b Whiting 1 (4) b Williams 0 + Diver, E J not out 6 (5) c Williams b Trevarthen 21 F G Phillips c Trevarthen b Whiting 1 (6) c Morgan b Escott 48 E T James c Vibart b Trevarthen 2 (7) c Vibart b Escott 8 W E C Hudden c Bennetts b Whiting 1 (8) b Williams 6 C Beevers b Whiting 0 (10) c Tresawna b Whiting 0 Ewing, D A b Trevarthen 0 (9) run out 0 J R Williams b Whiting 1 (11) not out 0 Extras 4 7 Total (all out) 76 (all out) 380 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 30 62 69 76 Second innings 119 239 239 304 338 380 Escott 6 2 5 0 - - (4) 10 0 44 2 - - Whiting 15.3 5 21 5 - - (1) 31.2 2 125 2 - - Williams 8 2 23 1 - - (3) 22 4 49 3 - - Hawken 4 0 6 0 - - (5) 7 1 30 0 - - Trevarthen 7 1 17 4 - - (2) 16 0 65 1 - - Teague (6) 2 0 11 0 - - Bennetts (7) 8 1 28 1 - - Davies (8) 2 0 12 0 - - Tresawna (9) 2 0 9 0 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 7 1 - - Total 40.3 10 76 10 - - 100.2 8 380 10 - - Cornwall * H Tresawna b Beevers 5 (1) b Beevers 83 G H Escott lbw b Beevers 2 (8) c H C James b F G Phillips 9 F C C Morgan c H C James b Ewing 28 (3) c J R Williams b F G Phillips 4 + Vibart, R F c E S Phillips b Beevers 0 (5) lbw b Silverlock 0 Trevarthen, C b Silverlock 39 (4) c Hudden b Silverlock 10 Davies, J c Diver b F G Phillips 4 (2) c Diver b F G Phillips 3 R Teague b F G Phillips 4 (6) b F G Phillips 2 B B Bennetts b Beevers 24 (7) c Silverlock b F G Phillips 0 E Hawken b F G Phillips 16 (9) lbw b Beevers 15 Whiting, F J b F G Phillips 5 (10) not out 28 B Williams not out 4 (11) b Silverlock 6 Extras 21 13 Total (all out) 152 (all out) 173 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 8 13 110 130 152 Second innings 9 41 63 65 65 80 104 173 Ewing 7 2 20 1 - - (3) 4 1 13 0 - - F G Phillips 14 2 38 4 - - (1) 17 3 58 5 - - Beevers 10.5 1 53 4 - - (2) 8 2 53 2 - - Silverlock 5 0 20 1 - - (4) 15.1 3 36 3 - - Extras - - 21 0 - - - - 13 0 - - Total 36.5 5 152 10 - - 44.1 9 173 10 - - Notes: Monmouthshire won this match by 131 runs on the second day, despite being bowled out in their first innings for just 76 in only an hour and three-quarters. For the winners there were 2 sixes and 14 fours in Silverlock’s 139 and 14 fours in H C James’s 110; they added 120 runs for Monmouthshire’s second wicket after E S Phillips and Silverlock had put on 119 runs for the first wicket. F G Phillips took 9 wickets for 96 runs in the match, including 5 for 58 in the Cornwall second innings. For Cornwall Tresawna scored 83 in the second innings. Whiting took 5 wickets for 21 runs in the Wiltshire first innings. Vibart took 3 catches and 1 stumping in the match. [Missing: Umpires; part fall of wickets; extras breakdown; in Monmouthshire second innings duration of Silverlock’s 139 and H C James’s 110; in Cornwall second innings number of boundaries in Tresawna’s 83; precise time completed.] Sources: Cornish Post 23 July; Cornish Telegraph 23 July; Royal Cornwall Gazette 23 July; The Cornishman 23 July; West Briton 23 July; Western Daily Mercury 17 July; Western Mail 16,17 July; Monmouthshire Evening Post 15,16,18 July; South Wales Argus 15,16,17 July; South Wales Daily News 16,17 July; World of Cricket 25 July, p 374. 69