William Arthur Hay (6 December 1873 – 16 June 1945) was an Australian
Methodist
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minister. He was also a
cricketer
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, who played two
first-class matches for
Otago
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in New Zealand in the 1917-18 season, taking 18 wickets.
Life and career
Born in Scotland, the eldest of 11 children, Hay came with his family to Australia in the 1880s. He began his ministry in 1896 as the inaugural
Wesleyan
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minister of the newly-established mining settlements of
Black Flag and
Broad Arrow in the West Australian goldfields. After postings in the West Australian towns of
Collie,
Northam and
Bunbury, he was appointed to Mount Eden Methodist Church in
Auckland
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, New Zealand, in 1911.
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While in Northam, Hay, a slow-medium left-arm spin bowler and left-handed batsman, had played for a representative Western Australia Eastern Districts cricket team against the touring New South Wales state team in March 1907. He played cricket in Auckland for the Eden club, and was close to selection for the Auckland representative team in early 1913. When he was posted to ]Dunedin
Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...
in 1914 he played in the senior competition with the Carisbrook club.
Hay was selected to play for the Otago cricket team in March 1918 against Southland at the Carisbrook ground in Dunedin. Making his first-class cricket
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debut at the age of 44 years 102 days, he opened the bowling and bowled unchanged through both innings, taking 8 for 70 and 4 for 48 for match figures of 58–14–118–12. Two weeks later, also at Carisbrook, he took 5 for 49 and 1 for 25 against Canterbury
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for match figures of 34–10–74–6. Otago won both matches.
He was transferred to Timaru in 1919 to take charge of the Methodist circuit there. While in Timaru he represented South Canterbury at cricket, taking 7 for 27 (all bowled) in a victory over Ashburton County in January 1923, then a week later he played for a combined South Canterbury, Ashburton County and North Otago team against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club
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, taking two wickets. At the time a local newspaper described his bowling thus: "Medium-pace left-hand round-the-wicket bowler; breaks from off or leg at will."
In 1923 Hay was transferred to Christchurch. In early 1928 he took time off for health reasons and visited Western Australia. He did not resume his duties in Christchurch and in early 1929 he was transferred to West Perth. He then served in Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includ ...
from 1935 to 1940, when he was transferred to Subiaco in Perth. In 1941 he was elected president of the Methodist Conference of Western Australia.
Personal life
Hay married Emma Jane ("Minnie") Langridge in Melbourne in April 1902. They had a daughter, Jean, a noted New Zealand educator, and a son, Hugh.
See also
* List of Otago representative cricketers
References
External links
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1873 births
1945 deaths
Australian Methodist ministers
Sportspeople from Peterhead
Cricketers from Aberdeenshire
New Zealand cricketers
New Zealand Methodist ministers
Otago cricketers
Scottish emigrants to New Zealand
20th-century New Zealand Methodist ministers
19th-century Australian Methodist ministers
20th-century Australian Methodist ministers