Facy was a fast bowler and useful lower-order batsman. On his debut in the biannual intrastate match in 1907-08 at the TCA Ground in Hobart he took 6 for 37 in the second innings to help South win by an innings and 186 runs. At stumps on the second day North were 5 for 12, Facy having taken four wickets. The Launceston Daily Telegraph commended his "graceful delivery for an express bowler" and suggested he might play for Australia "not too many years hence".Daily Telegraph (Launceston), 24 April 1908, p. 8. The Hobart Mercury declared that "Facy's entry into North and South cricket was well-nigh triumphal".Mercury, 25 April 1908, p. 9. In the match in 1909-10 at the NTCA Ground in Launceston, when North needed 150 to win he bowled unchanged through the innings and took 8 for 58 off 28 overs, bowling seven of his victims and taking a hat-trick, and South won by 16 runs.
