Career
Hoy took to umpiring after becoming frustrated by a run of batting failures in Brisbane"s grade cricket competition, and stood in his debut First-class match in January 1952. He umpired nine Test matches between 1954 and 1961. Johnnie Moyes, writing in 1959 when Hoy was a current Test umpire, stated that "he is young, has excellent eyesight and the keenness to study his art
… He should be in the forefront for years."
In this most dramatic of all Test series, Hoy stood in every Test with Colonel Egar.
In the first Test, at Brisbane, Hoy gave Ian Meckiff run out to record the first tie in Test history. The West Indies" captain Frank Worrell was full of praise for the calm and unobtrusive competence of the umpiring in that tension-filled series.
After that series, Hoy retired from umpiring to concentrate on business and grade cricket in Brisbane, playing for the Valley District Cricket Club until 1988. He returned to umpiring for the World Series Cricket tour of 1978-1979.
His working life was spent in the retail trade and with Ansett Airlines, and he was the Australian rules football reporter for the Brisbane Courier-Mail.
