[1] An off-spin bowler, useful tail-end batsman and brilliant fielder, Fenton played club cricket in Melbourne and Sydney before being engaged as a professional coach by the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association in late 1903.
[6] Fenton left Hawke's Bay in October 1911 to take up a groundsman's position at Athletic Park rugby ground in Wellington.
[6][7] He carried out drainage works that made a great improvement to the condition of the ground in wet weather.
[8] Playing for the University club in Wellington senior cricket, he took three hat-tricks during the 1916–17 season, and finished with 44 wickets at an average of 11.22.
The marriage produced one child, but Fenton went to Sydney without them in 1902, intending to qualify as a dentist.