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Other Matches, 1905
Actors v Authors
Lord's, London
29 June 1905
Result: Actors won by 7 wickets
Toss:
Umpires: AD Pougher and Brown
Scorers: Martin and Atfield
Authors innings
*Sir A Conan Doyle b Warner 2
PG Wodehouse b Smith 0
C Headlam b Smith 9
JC Snaith c Denbigh b O'Connor 17
A Kinross b Smith 5
H Bleakley not out 54
CC Hoyer Millar b Denbigh 4
Major P Trevor b Warner 44
L Trevor b Warner 4
Extras (b 5, lb 3, w 2, nb 1) 11
Total (8 wickets decl, 44 overs) 149
DNB: EW Hornung, P Graves, F Stayton.
FoW: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?.
Bowling O M R W
O'Connor 10 5 28 1
Smith 11 1 39 3
Warner 9 0 24 3
Denbigh 7 0 23 1
Evett 3 0 10 0
Asche 4 1 14 0
Actors innings
V O'Connor not out 100
HB Warner b Wodehouse 6
R Denbigh b Millar 21
CA Smith c Wodehouse b Millar 9
G du Maurier not out 13
Extras (b 3, lb 3, nb 1) 7
Total (3 wickets, 28 overs) 156
DNB: AS Homewood, CH Coffin, O Asche, R Evett, PF Knox,
H Nye Chart, K Douglas.
FoW: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?.
Bowling O M R W
Snaith 4 1 16 0
Doyle 8 1 45 0
Wodehouse 10 0 58 1
Millar 6 0 30 2
- This match was a 12-a-side, one of a series of annual
fixtures played on the main ground at Lord's.
- Notable amongst the players are Arthur Conan Doyle, the
author of 'Rodney Stone' and the Sherlock Holmes detective
stories and PG Wodehouse, the creator of Jeaves the butler.
CA Smith of the Authors was better known as Aubrey Smith,
Hollywood actor of the 1930s (star of 'The Prisoner of
Zenda') and captain of England in a Test Match in South
Africa in 1888-89. HB Warner was later to star in Cecil B
de Mille's biblical epic, 'King of Kings', in 1927.
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