Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 43: BERKSHIRE V DORSET At The County Ground, Kensington Road, Reading on Monday 3, Tuesday 4 August 1914 Result: Berkshire won by 189 runs Points: Berkshire 5 Toss: Not known Umpires: S Wrigley and Not known Debutants: Berkshire none; Dorset 1 (H W P Lye) First day score: Berkshire 144 and 135-5 wickets (W Y Woodburn 40*, H F Morres 20*); Dorset 145 Berkshire A P Strange c H W F B Farrer b Hartley 37 (1) b Webb 18 Shoosmith, H W c E R B Farrer b Hartley 28 (2) c Goodden b Webb 28 Dr W Y Woodburn b Hartley 0 (3) c H W F B Farrer b Walby 40 T P W Norris c E R B Farrer b Walby 2 (4) c Barrow b McIntyre 1 G G M Bennett c Goodden b Hartley 29 (5) c Goodden b Webb 1 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c Walby b Hartley 9 (6) c Barrow b Webb 9 H F M Morres c McIntyre b Walby 0 (7) c and b Busk 34 + S H Stevens b Walby 0 (8) c Walby b Webb 10 C W Battye c Freeman b Walby 4 (9) c H W F B Farrer b Webb 15 Bailey, W G not out 2 (11) not out 44 Hawksworth, G M c Goodden b Walby 18 (10) c Barrow b Walby 56 Extras 15 nb 4 28 Total (all out) 144 (all out) 284 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 144 Second innings 176 284 Webb 7 1 21 0 - - (4) 16 2 64 6 - - McIntyre 6 0 24 0 - - (3) 10 1 35 1 - 1 Walby 16.5 5 36 5 - - (2) 25.3 8 76 2 - 3 Hartley 15 4 48 5 - - (1) 10 1 34 0 - - Busk (5) 9 1 46 1 - - Freeman (6) 1 0 1 0 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 28 0 - - Total 44.5 10 144 10 - - 71.3 13 284 10 0 4 Dorset C J B Webb b Morres 10 (1) b Morres 12 Walby, E C c Stevens b Morres 17 (2) c and b Morres 33 * C P Goodden b Morres 9 (3) c sub b Hawksworth 4 Freeman, E J c Strange b Morres 12 (4) c Nepean b Hawksworth 2 E R B Farrer c Hawksworth b Morres 2 (5) c Shoosmith b Bailey 4 P L Barrow run out 8 (6) st Stevens b Hawksworth 7 R D Busk c Nepean b Bailey 1 (7) b Hawksworth 5 H W P Lye not out 33 (8) c Bennett b Hawksworth 2 E A McIntyre c Battye b Morres 19 (9) st Stevens b Hawksworth 12 + H W F B Farrer b Morres 14 (10) not out 10 Maj H B Hartley b Bailey 5 (11) b Hawksworth 0 Extras nb 1 15 3 Total (all out) 145 (all out) 94 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 145 Second innings 55 66 94 Morres 18 3 50 7 - 1 (1) 14 2 42 2 - - Hawksworth 15 4 42 0 - - (3) 15.4 5 21 7 - - Bailey 6 0 25 2 - - (2) 3 0 13 1 - - Woodburn 3 1 12 0 - - (4) 5 1 15 0 - - Extras - - 15 the - - - - 3 0 - - Total 42 8 144x 10 0 1 37.4 8 94 10 - - 145 Notes: Berkshire won this match by 189 runs on the second day. For the winners Hawksworth’s 56 in their second innings was the highest score of the match. He added 108 for the 10th wicket with Bailey, whose unbeaten 44 was the second highest innings in the match. Hawksworth also took 7 wickets for 21 runs in the Dorset second innings. Morres had figures of 9 wickets for 92 runs in the match, including 7 for 50 in the Dorset first innings. For Dorset Lye and Walby top-scored with 33 apiece, Lye being not out. Walby took 5 wickets for 36 runs and Hartley took 5 for 48 in the Berkshire first innings. Webb took 6 wickets for 64 runs in the Berkshire second innings. Goodden took 4 catches in the match whilst Barrow and H W F B Farrer each took 3 catches. Towards the end of the Dorset first innings, umpire Wrigley was injured when H W F B Farrer, who was attempting a quick run, collided with him and accidently struck the umpire’s head with his bat handle. Although the injury was not serious, it was deemed inadvisable for Wrigley to officiate for the rest of the day and Croome, the groundsman, stood in his place. Bowling in Dorset first innings adds up one short. [Missing: Toss; one umpire; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; in Dorset first innings bowling adds 1 run short; in Berkshire second innings boundaries in Hawksworth’s 56; precise time completed.] Sources: Berkshire Chronicle 7 August; Reading Mercury 8 August; The Sportsman 5,6 August; Sporting Life 5,6 August; World of Cricket 15 August, p 429. 85