Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 31: CAMBRIDGESHIRE V SUFFOLK At Parker’s Piece, Parkside, Cambridge on Monday 20, Tuesday 21 July 1914 Result: Cambridgeshire won by 113 runs Points: Cambridgeshire 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire 1 (P G Huddleston); Suffolk 1 (O W Stickland) First day score: Cambridgeshire 198 and 185; Suffolk 157 Cambridgeshire W C Hunt b Driver 2 (3) c Mortimer b Penfold 63 F E Collier c Penfold b Driver 2 (2) c Day b Driver 7 W A Gray c Penfold b Driver 0 (1) c Stickland b Driver 13 * H C Tebbutt c Barnes b Penfold 142 (4) b Mortimer 33 H B Hart b Penfold 4 (5) c Paffard b Penfold 11 H D Chaplin b Penfold 0 (6) c and b Penfold 0 P G Huddleston c Godley b Penfold 16 (7) st Godley b Penfold 11 F P C Pemberton c Godley b Driver 10 (8) c Penfold b Driver 19 + Watts, G H b Penfold 7 (9) c Barnes b Driver 21 Coulson, H run out 8 (10) b Penfold 0 Sadler, T W not out 3 (11) not out 4 Extras 4 3 Total (all out) 198 (all out) 185 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 4 5 34 34 104 125 150 170 198 Second innings 20 25 108 125 185 Penfold 19.1 1 93 5 - - (1) 20 2 95 5 - - Driver 15 1 71 4 - - (2) 13.4 1 50 4 - - Titchmarsh 2 0 27 0 - - Paffard 2 0 3 0 - - (3) 3 0 25 0 - - Stickland (4) 1 0 2 0 - - Mortimer (5) 3 0 10 1 - - Extras - - 4 1 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 38.1 2 198 10 - - 40.4 3 185 10 - - Suffolk R D Paffard b Sadler 8 (1) c Sadler b Hunt 10 E E G Alderwick c Chaplin b Hunt 28 (2) b Sadler 4 + E Godley b Sadler 4 (6) c Pemberton b Gray 45 O Mortimer b Sadler 53 (4) lbw b Hunt 5 O W Stickland c Chaplin b Sadler 1 (10) b Sadler 0 H Hoyland c Gray b Hunt 1 (9) not out 4 Penfold, W c and b Hunt 8 (5) c Sadler b Hunt 14 A B Barnes b Hunt 4 (11) b Sadler 12 P S Driver b Coulson 12 (7) b Sadler 8 R H Day st Watts b Coulson 17 (8) b Coulson 7 * F L Titchmarsh not out 11 (3) b Hunt 1 Extras 10 3 Total (all out) 157 (all out) 113 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 17 60 83 85 103 108 113 144 157 Second innings 11 15 20 29 40 85 97 97 97 113 Coulson 11 3 14 2 - - (3) 11 4 18 1 - - Sadler 19 4 79 4 - - (1) 10.5 1 47 4 - - Huddleston 2 0 14 0 - - Hunt 10 3 27 4 - - (2) 10 4 30 4 - - Gray 5 0 13 0 - - (4) 6 2 15 1 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 47 10 157 10 - - 37.5 11 113 10 - - Notes: Cambridgeshire won this match by 113 runs on the second day. “Pleasant weather prevailed on Monday and the attendance in the afternoon reached quite 1000.” For Cambridgeshire Tebbutt scored 142, which contained 21 fours, in one hour and 40 minutes. The innings represented a 71.72% share of the team total. Hunt scored 63 including 9 fours. For Suffolk Mortimer scored 53. Penfold took 10 wickets in the match for 188 runs with 5 wickets in each innings for 93 and 95 runs respectively. Scorecards show P S Trevor but this is thought to be E E G Alderwick playing under a different name. This was the first use of the ground for a Championship match. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Cambridgeshire second innings part fall of wickets; in Suffolk first innings boundaries in Mortimer’s 53; precise time completed.] Sources: Cambridgeshire Chronicle 24 July; Cambridgeshire Independent Press 24 July; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 24 July; East Anglian Daily Times 21,22 July; World of Cricket 25 July, p 380. 73