This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project - research is continuing on this scorecard which can be expected to change. Surrey 2nd XI won this return match by 153 runs shortly before 5.00 pm on the second day. The game at Exeter the previous week had been drawn. For the winners, there was 1 six, 17 fours, 6 threes and 6 twos in Hayes 123, an innings of just under 2 hours. Penfold scored 67 and Gillett 57, which included 6 fours. In the Surrey first innings Penfold and Graburn added 109 runs for the sixth wicket and, in the second innings, Hayes and Gillett put on 161 for the second wicket in two hours. The latter partnership was the highest for that wicket during the season. Kersley took 10 wickets in the match for 66 runs, including 8 for 38 in the Devon second innings. For the losers, Roles took 12 wickets in the match for 140 runs, including 8 for 78 in the first innings. There were 6 fours in Sandford's 67. [The Surrey Year Book gives in the Devon first innings Hayes and Gooder bowling 7 and 2 maidens respectively, and in the second innings Hayes bowling no maidens not 1. The Devon Scorebook version has been preferred. All sources except the Devon Scorebook give the Devon second innings total as 148, not 149 and Hussey scoring 3 runs not 4, and in this instance the other sources total has been adopted.] [Missing: In Surrey 1st inns boundaries in Penfold's 6; initials of Roles.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Surrey Year Book 1901, p 132; Devon Evening Express 20 August; Western Daily Mercury 20,21 August; Sporting Life 20,21 August; The Sportsman 20,21 August.
