Arthur Joseph Conway was an English cricket

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er: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler

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 (although his Wisden

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obituary says merely "rather more than medium pace"
) who played 29 times for Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Cricket Club

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 (and twice for HK Foster's XI) between 1910 and 1919.

Conway took 54 wickets in his first-class

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 career, of which no fewer than 15 came in a single match in June 1914: playing for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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 at Moreton-in-Marsh

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, he took 9/38 in the first innings and 6/49 in the second for match figures of 15/87;
as of March 2009 this remains the best match analysis for the county.

A poor batsman, Conway scored just 165 runs in 52 innings (batting average

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 4.34), with a highest score of only 20 not out. He acted as scorer

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 at least once, for Worcestershire's game against Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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 at Dudley

Tipton Road

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 in 1913. On this occasion the other scorer was Chicko Austin, who scored in almost 500 first-class games.

Conway also played football

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 for Aston Villa

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 and Wolves

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.

He was born in Stirchley

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, which at that time lay in Worcestershire

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; he died at the age of 69 in South Shore, Blackpool

Blackpool

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, Lancashire

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