Arthur Conway (sportsman)
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Full name | Arthur Joseph Conway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Stirchley, Worcestershire, England | 1 April 1885||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 29 October 1954 South Shore, Blackpool, England | (aged 69)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1910–1919 | Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 9 March 2009 |
Arthur Joseph Conway (1 April 1885 – 29 October 1954) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler (although his Wisden obituary says merely "rather more than medium pace" [1]) who played 29 times for Worcestershire (and twice for HK Foster's XI) between 1910 and 1919.
Conway took 54 wickets in his first-class career, of which 15 came in a single match in June 1914: playing for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire at Moreton-in-Marsh, he took 9/38 in the first innings and 6/49 in the second for match figures of 15/87;[2] as of March 2009 this remains the best match analysis for the county.[3]
A poor batsman, Conway scored just 165 runs in 52 innings (batting average 4.34), with a highest score of only 20 not out. He acted as scorer at least once, for Worcestershire's game against Warwickshire at Dudley in 1913. On this occasion the other scorer was , who scored in almost 500 first-class games.[4]
Conway also played football for Aston Villa and Wolves.[1]
He was born in Stirchley, which at that time lay in Worcestershire; he died at the age of 69 in South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1955.
- ^ "Gloucestershire v Worcestershire in 1914". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 March 2009.
- ^ "Worcestershire First-Class Bowling Records". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 9 March 2009.
- ^ "Worcestershire v Warwickshire in 1913". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 March 2009.
External links[]
- Arthur Conway at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- Arthur Conway at ESPNcricinfo
- English cricketers
- Worcestershire cricketers
- Aston Villa F.C. players
- Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
- 1885 births
- 1954 deaths
- English footballers