Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 32: CORNWALL V BERKSHIRE At Penzance Cricket Club Ground, St Clare, Penzance on Monday 20, Tuesday 21July 1914 Result: Cornwall won by 87 runs Points: Cornwall 5 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cornwall 1 (G R Gilpin) ; Berkshire none First day score: Cornwall 121 and 32-3 wickets (F J Whiting 0*) ; Berkshire 46 Cornwall * H Tresawna b Sharpe 1 (1) b Hawksworth 25 W N Bickford-Smith c Hinde b Hawksworth 7 (8) not out 18 F C C Morgan c and b Bailey 41 (6) b Bailey 0 + Vibart, R F c Shoosmith b Bailey 32 (5) b Bailey 23 G R Gilpin c Howard b Bailey 5 (3) c Shoosmith b Sharpe 0 J C Bickford-Smith c Howard b Bailey 2 (10) c Shoosmith b Hawksworth 2 Trevarthen, C c and b Bailey 7 (7) c Shoosmith b Bailey 0 B B Bennetts run out 10 (9) lbw b Hawksworth 0 E Hawken b Mockler-Ferryman 0 (2) c Shoosmith b Sharpe 6 Whiting, F J b Mockler-Ferryman 0 (4) c Bailey b Hawksworth 26 B Williams not out 11 (11) c Mockler-Ferryman b Hawksworth 8 Extras 5 4 Total (all out) 121 (all out) 112 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 121 Second innings 32 112 Hawksworth 22 7 38 1 - - (3) 11 4 42 5 - - Sharpe 10 2 34 1 - - (4) 3 1 17 2 - - Battye 3 0 16 0 - - Bailey 11 4 22 5 - - (2) 9 2 36 3 - - Mockler-Ferryman 2.2 1 6 2 - - (1) 2 0 13 0 - - Extras - - 5 1 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 48.2 14 121 10 - - 25 7 112 10 - - Berkshire T P W Norris c Vibart b Whiting 7 (1) c Gilpin b Hawken 42 Shoosmith, H W b Williams 4 (2) c Morgan b Whiting 0 Capt A M Holdsworth b Whiting 13 (3) b Whiting 0 W H R Hinde b Whiting 2 (4) c Vibart b Whiting 12 C W Battye c W N Bickford-Smith b Whiting 0 (5) b W N Bickford-Smith 13 * Sir C E M Y Nepean st Vibart b Williams 7 (6) not out 22 H Mockler-Ferryman c Gilpin b Whiting 0 (7) c Williams b W N Bickford-Smith 0 Hawksworth, G M c Bennetts b Whiting 6 (8) c Gilpin b W N Bickford-Smith 0 Capt A G M Sharpe b Whiting 0 (9) b Whiting 0 Bailey, W G not out 0 (10) c W N Bickford-Smith b Whiting 0 + P Howard b Whiting 2 (11) c and b W N Bickford-Smith 8 Extras 5 3 Total (all out) 46 (all out) 100 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 46 Second innings 100 Whiting 12.3 4 25 8 - - (1) 18 2 54 5 - - Williams 12 6 16 2 - - (2) 7 6 2 0 - - Trevarthen (3) 2 0 10 0 - - Hawken (4) 4 0 19 1 - - W N Bickford-Smith (5) 7.2 1 12 4 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 24.3 10 46 10 - - 38.2 9 100 10 - - Notes: Cornwall won this match by 87 runs just before lunch on the second day, rain having delayed the start on the first day until 2.15 pm. Berkshire were bowled out in their first innings for just 46 in only 65 minutes. For the winners Morgan top-scored with 41. Whiting took 13 wickets for 79 runs in the match, including 8 for 25 in the Berkshire first innings and 5 for 54 in the second; he and Williams bowled unchanged throughout the Berkshire first innings. Vibart made 3 dismissals in the match whilst Gilpin and W N Bickford-Smith both took 3 catches. For Berkshire Norris top-scored with 42. Bailey took 5 wickets for 22 runs in the Cornwall first innings and Hawksworth took 5 wickets for 42 runs in the second. Shoosmith took 4 catches in the Cornwall second innings, that off Gilpin being “brilliant in the extreme”, and 5 in the match. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; precise time completed.] Sources: Cornishman 23 July; Cornish Telegraph 23 July; Royal Cornwall Gazette 23 July; West Briton 23 July; Western Daily Mercury 21,22 July; Berkshire Chronicle 24 July; Reading Mercury 25 July; World of Cricket 25 July, p 379. 74