Bill Duffy (sportsman)

Bill Duffy
Personal information
Full name William Vincent Duffy
Born 8 July 1866(1866-07-08)
Doutta Galla, Victoria, Australia
Died 13 June 1959(1959-06-13) (aged 92)
Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm off-break and fast-medium
Role All-rounder
Domestic team information
Years Team
1887 Smokers
1893 Western Australia
First-class debut 17 Mar 1887 Smokers v Non-Smokers
Last First-class 1 Apr 1893 Western Australia v Victoria
Career statistics
Competition F/C
Matches 3
Runs scored 62
Batting average 15.50
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 42
Balls bowled 363
Wickets 8
Bowling average 29.37
5 wickets in innings 1
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 5/124
Catches/stumpings 1/-
Source: CricketArchive, 8 November 2011

William Vincent "Bill" Duffy (8 July 1866 – 13 July 1959) was an Australian sportsman. He played first-class cricket for Western Australia and football for the Rovers and West Perth Football Clubs in the West Australian Football Association (WAFA), and also umpired several matches in both sports.

Career

Duffy was born in Melbourne, but moved to Perth in the late 1880s to coach West Perth in the WACA district cricket competition. He participated in the first tour of the Eastern states by a Western Australian team in 1893, playing two first-class matches on the tour.[1] Against Victoria in April 1893, he took 5/124 from 31 overs while opening the bowling, the first five-wicket haul by a Western Australian bowler.[2] Duffy had previously played in a first-class game in 1887, a match in Melbourne between "Smokers" and "Non-Smokers".[3] When the WACA Ground opened in 1893, Duffy was appointed curator. He was elected secretary of the West Perth Cricket Club in 1894, and also received a prize for the "best all-round player" at the club for the previous season.[4] In 1897, he umpired an exhibition game between George Giffen's XI and a Western Australia XVIII, featuring a number of national players, including Joe Darling, Clem Hill, Syd Gregory and Ernie Jones. [5] The Western Mail said Duffy "fulfilled every duty appertaining to the position with the utmost satisfaction to everybody concerned."

Duffy was also a noted footballer for Rovers and West Perth in the WAFA. In 1894, he finished third in the WAFA's goalkicking, with 18 goals for the season, two behind the eventual leader.[6] He also umpired one game in September 1893.[7]

In 1928 and 1929, he participated in a "veterans' cricket match" held at the WACA Ground.[8] He later become involved with the Grand Theatre Company, and died in Subiaco in 1959.

See also

References

  1. ^ First-class matches played by William Duffy – CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  2. ^ Victoria v Western Australia – CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  3. ^ Smokers v Non-Smokers – CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  4. ^ THE WEST PERTH CRICKET CLUB. – The West Australian. Published 5 October 1894. Retrieved from Trove, 8 November 2011.
  5. ^ NOTES ON THE GAME. – The Western Mail. Published 23 April 1897. Retrieved from Trove, 8 November 2011.
  6. ^ WEST PERTH v. ROVERS. – The Western Mail. Published 29 September 1894. Retrieved from Trove, 8 November 2011.
  7. ^ FREMANTLE v. ROVERS. – The West Australian. Published 11 September 1893. Retrieved from Trove, 8 November 2011.
  8. ^ VETERANS' MATCH – The West Australian. Published 3 March 1928. Retrieved 8 November 2011.