EVERTON 1 SHEFFIELD UNITED 3
April 1 st 1929. The Daily Courier.
WAS GRIFFITHS' TACKLE OF JOHNSON DANGEROUS.
CONTROVERSAL GOAL AGAINST DISAPPOINTING EVERTON AT GOODISON PARK.
CROWD CONFUSED BY REFEREE'S DECISION; “FREE KICK BUT NO DIRECT GOAL.”
SHEFFIELD UNITED COMPLETE A DOUBLE.
CROWD BARRACK DUNN.
UNSPORTMANLIKE TREATMENT OF INTERNATIONAL.
Everton disappointed their supporters at Goodison park on Saturday, when they were defeated by the sprightly Sheffield United combination by three goals to one. The reverse was all the more bitter in view of the team's good showing at Sunderland the previous day. The Champions have no cause, however, to grumble with the result. The United played dashing, incisive football, a thing of which the Blues were generally incapable. The weather militated against a fast encounter, but this was exactly what the teams served up, the ball moving from end to end with lighting rapidity. Everton enjoyed more of the attacking than their opponents, but the forwards did not get away with such clear-cut openings as the Yorkshire attack. As a matter of fact, the abundance of Everton pressure in the second half contributed somewhat to their downfall. This is paradoxical, but infinitely true. When they were on the move, the defence followed up, so that as soon as the ball was cleared from the goalmouth away went the United with those rapier-like thrusts, which proved so disconcerting all through. They got their two second-half goals, in this way.
THE MUCH-DISCUSSED GOAL.
The first goal will long be remembered as one of the most controversial. It happened in this manner, midway in the opening half, Johnson was boring his way to goal when, Griffiths tackled from behind. He fell over, and the referee awarded the United a free kick inside the home penalty area. Matthews took his, side-passing the ball to the unmarked Phillipson, who scored. The majority of people thought that the decision must have been a penalty or nothing, but the referee acted quite correctly, for he considered Griffiths' tackle to be dangerous, an offence covered by “ungentlemanly conduct.” His only decision was a free-kick, from which no goal could be scored direct. The action of the home men in lining up in front of Matthews had one to believe that they, too, thought Matthews could score direct and it left Phillipson open. The only question about the goal was whether Mr. Bowie was justified in terming the tackle dangerous. This is a moot point. The United, however, deserved to be a goal ahead at the change over, but the Evertonians showed plenty of flight even if not a variety of method, and it was following several heavy attacks that the visitors broke away suddenly through Gillespite, and the veteran's square pass to Johnson gave that worthy a splendid chance to beat Davies. He did. A similar move led to the third goal –it was a breakaway direct from an Everton attack weakly let down by Dunn –but this time Tunstall gave the pass from which Johnson dribbled across Davies to tap the ball home.
TROUP SCORERS.
Ten minutes later Troup gave the home supporters hope by converting a lob centre from the right, which Martin allowed to run by him. Half-backs played a great part in this game, and it was not the Blues who claimed the laurels in the department. Dunn was not a success at inside right, but even than he should not have been subjected to the unsportsmanlike barracking by sections of the crowd. The winners, by the way, completed the “double” against the Champions. Teams: - Everton: - Davies, goal, Common and O'Donnell (captain), backs Kelly, Griffiths, and Easton, half-backs, Critchley, Dunn, White, Martin, and Troup, forwards. Sheffield United: - Wharton, goal, Gibson (JR), and Chandler, backs, Sampy, Matthews, and Green, half-backs, Ginson (S), Phillipson, Johnson, Gillespie, and Tunstall, forwards.

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS RESERVES 2 EVERTON RESERVES 1
April 1 st 1929. The Daily Courier.
CENTRAL LEAGUE (Game 37)
Everton's visit to Wolverhampton on Saturday provided the Wolverhampton supporters with the best Central league game of the season. Dean, who had a try out for Everton preformed admirably and scored, but did not extend himself. The Wolverhampton were brilliant in every department and Barclay's two goals were obtained by magnificent forward play. Dean hit the Wolverhampton bar in the concluding half, but the leader played convincing football. Everton: - Sager, goal, Cresswell and Kennedy, backs, Rooney, Dixon and Lewis, half-backs, Meston, Attwood, Dean, Weldon, and Stein, forwards.

"Bring Dixie Back"
Derby Mail -Monday April 1 1929
A Liverpool message to the "Telegraph" says it is practically certain that Dixie Dean will appear for Everton against Derby County on the Baseball ground to-morrow. He played on Saturday for the reserves and the cry Everton was: ''Bring Dixie back."

THE TURN IN THE LONG LANE
Sheffield Independent - Monday 01 April 1
UNITED WIN AT EVERTON AFTER 19 YEARS
EVERTON 1, SHEFFIELD UNITED 3
By F.G. Walters
It is a long lane which has no turning, and the victory which Sheffield United gained at Goodison Park on Saturday was not only their first success away from home since they conquered Liverpool at Anfield in September last, but their first upon the Everton ground since so far back in 1910.  From first to last they were the superiors of the home side, who were deficient in team spirit compared with the United to a very marked degree and never, with the exception of the opening five minutes of each half as much as held their own in actual play.  The defence generally held the measure of the Everton attack, which, despite what anyone may say to the contrary, has not yet justified the deposition of Dixie Dean.  In addition there was a great improvement in the support accorded the forwards by the half-backs and the forwards, for their part, opened the game out excellent and were a very effective force. 
THE CLASS OF CHANDLER
They were fast on the ball, and had they returned with a five goal to one victory, as well they might, they would not have bene flattered one little bit.  Some good chances were missed, but as advantage was taken of others not so pronounced little need be said in this direction.  Wharlton had not a great deal to do in the United goal, but he made a number of daring saves from situations which might easily have produced goals.  There can be no doubt about it that United have one of the best goalkeepers in the League in this player, whom they resurrected from Third Division football.  Chandler was far and away the best back upon the field.  There has been a distinct touch of class about his work in each game since he was restored to his old position some five or six weeks back.  Gibson was sound without being brilliant, but, in Troup, he had to contend with the one real danger in the home attack.  The bulk of Everton’s advances were confined to mere rushes upon the goal, for when they made any effort at combined movements they were quickly broken up by the half-backs.  Matthews showed a good movement.  He kept the ball on the move, and his placing was characterized by an accuracy which was more in keeping with his best work of last season. 
OPEN METHODS PAY
The Everton forwards obviously lacked two strategists like Gillespie and Phillipson.  Every time these two got hold of the ball they appeared to have an object in view, and both wing players were given considerable scope, for they indulged in long, sweeping passes to the opposite wings- still of the most effective moves in the game-upon every conceivable opportunity, with the result that Johnson in the centre was given a better chance than he has had for a long time now.  Johnsons scored two goals in the second half.  The first was the outcome of a splendid bout of passing with Phillipson in which they carried the ball forward almost from the half-way line and Davies had little chance to save his low shot which went into the far corner of the net.  The second goal was netted after Tunstall and he had been left with half the field in front of them and no defender near at hand to prevent one or the other scoring.  One really wondered what kind of formation or understanding a defence could have had in order to get caught in such a position.  However, whilst Troup reduced the lead about a quarter of an hour from the end, it was always the United who looked like doing the damage.
STRICTLY CORRECT
In dealing with United’s first goal last of all, for obvious reasons, full credit must be given to Tunstalland Phillipson for the neat manner in which they turned one of those free kicks to advantage which seldom  lead to anything more than a mere scramble in front of goal.  The referee, Mr. Bowie, of Newcastle, considered that O’Donnell, the Everton captain, had bene guilty of dangerous play in tackling Johnson, and he gave a free kick in the penalty area.  A good proportion of the spectators at the game were amazed at his decision, but by now I have little doubt that they have looked up the laws and satisfied themselves that it is a matter quite apart from Rule 9.  The referee’s interpretation of the rules was quite a proper one, and though a goal cannot be scored direct, the home defenders took up a position by which they expected Tunstall to shoot hard at goal.  As it was he merely passed along the ground to Phillipson, who with a very narrow margin at which to shoot, drove the ball into the net.  There was no really outstanding player in the Everton ranks, but Dunn, the Scottish international, was barracked on almost each occasion he received the ball, and the old Hibernian will no doubt be thankful to see the last of Everton as his headquarters when the present season is ended.  Teams; Sheffield United; Wharlton; Gibson (JR); Chandler, Sampy, Matthews, Green; Gibson (S); Phillipson, Johnson, Gillespie, and Tunstall.  Everton; Davies; Common, O’Donnell (Captain); Kelly, Griffiths, Easton; Critchley, Dunn, White, Martin, and Troup.  Referee- Mr. R. Bowie (Newcastle). 

CHAMPIONS WELL AND TRULY DEFEATED
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 01 April 1929
In that tantalizing uncertain, and paradoxical manner which is one of the secrets of football’s tremendous hold on the public, Sheffield United have spent the last six weeks frightening their supporters by dropping points at home, and then heartening them by gaining unexpected away points.  On Saturday they crowned everything by defeating the champions, Everton by 3-1 on their own ground at Liverpool.  They have thus registered their two away wins of the season on the Liverpool grounds.  This was no flattering victory, for United were worth an even bigger win.  They gained an early mastery and except for short spells never lost it.  The Sheffield forward line was as full “punch” as Everton was out of tune.  Tireless defensive work by Griffiths, the Everton centres Half-back; energetic tackling by O’Donnell, who captained the champions for the first time, in the absence of Hart, Cresswell, and Dean; and the very safe catching of Davies, prevented United from having more than a goal lead at the interval, but there was no mistaking their superiority. 
REFEREE’S UNUSUAL DECISION
United’s goal in the first half came as a result of an usual decision by the referee, who awarded the visitors a free kick inside the penalty area for dangerous play by Griffiths, who has alleged to have made a dangerous tackle against Johnson.  The law with regard to dangerous play provides that an offence in the penalty area need not be punished be the award of a penalty kick, but it is very rarely that a referee cares to differentiate on such a fine point as the amount of danger in the action.  However, United made shrewd use of the award, Johnson cutely unsighted Davies, while Tunstall pushed the ball to Phillipson, and the inside-right with very little space to aim at, sent the ball clean into the goal along the ground just inside the post before the Everton players had tumbled to the move.  In the second half Johnson added two more bright goals.  The first was the outcome of a corner kick to Everton and from the moment Matthews headed away the flag kick to the scoring of the goal no Everton player touched the ball, Gibson took up a forward pass, and Johnson finished off his accurate return. 
MATTHEWS AND CHANDLER DO WELL
In the third goal Tunstall helped Johnson, not only by starting the raid, but the deceiving the home defence with a feint.  Johnson’s side step and flick as Davies advanced were beautifully cool and controlled.  In a desperate effort to make a game of it, Everton shuffled their side, Easton going to inside-left and Martin to centre-forward, and they improved sufficiently for Troup to score a consolation goal, but to the end United were the masters of the situation.  Gillespie’s passes and the general liveliness of the United attack frequently caught the Everton backs out of position, although O’Donnell did well individually.  Of the other’s only Griffiths and the wingers, Troup and Critchley, had a creditable afternoon.  United, on the other hand, had no weak spots, although the two Gibsons did much better in the second half than the first.  Matthews played his best game for weeks, his height being very useful with a high and lively ball, while Chandler gave another classy display.  Wharton never gave the slightest anxiety.  A crowd of 30,000 saw the game in summer weather.  Teams; Sheffield United; Wharton; Gibson (JR); Chandler, Sampy, Matthews, Green; Gibson (S); Phillipson, Johnson, Gillespie, and Tunstall.  Everton; Davies; Common, O’Donnell (Captain); Kelly, Griffiths, Easton; Critchley, Dunn, White, Martin, and Troup.  Referee- Mr. R. Bowie (Newcastle). 

UNITED’S STEP TOWARDS SAFETY
Athletic News - Monday 01 April 1929
EVERTON 1, SHEFFIELD UNITED 3
By Junius
It is rather a strange coincidence that Sheffield United should have gained their only successes in away engagements so far this season on Merseyside, and by identical scores.  They were good value for their victory at Goodison Park, though perhaps there is something to be said in extenuation of Everton’s failure.  The strenuous game and the long journey from Sunderland the previous day probably affected the players, and in addition, Hart had to stand down owing to a leg injury.  The recently improved forward formation was disturbed, for Easton went left half-back and Dunn reappeared in the side.  But any excuses must end there. 
A LONE LEADER
Even with the bright sun at their backs in the first half Everton played as though weary, and except for a brilliant attempt by Griffiths after 30 minutes Wharton was not troubled in the slightest.  The adoption of the W formation spoiled whatever chance Everton had in the first half, when White was a daring leader, always alert and ready for an opportunity and always harassing the United defence.  But it was of no avail; for his colleagues on either side were too far behind to render support or to take a cross pass from the wings.  The United forwards were invariably in line.  They were constructive and made progress by neat, accurate passing.  The play of the visitors merited a goal lead at the interval, though the circumstances leading up to the scoring were not convincing, for Griffiths was adjudged to have been unfair to Johnson in a tackle in a tackle a couple of yards within the penalty area.  A free kick was awarded.  Phillipson, receiving a wide pass, easily scored.  The Everton forwards showed improvement after the interval, when they were more an attacking force, but after seven minutes Johnson placed the United further ahead after Davies had made a gallant effort to turn the ball outside.  Johnson went through again eight minutes later and 20 minutes from time Troup scored Everton’s solitary goal. 
UNITED’S REFRESHING ZEST
The United were a determined side and Everton became so demoralized after the second goal had been scored against them that they were just laboring in aimless fashion.  They were run to a standstill by a team more zealous and quite confident.  The main strength of the United I though lay in the half-back line, for the trio completely held up the Everton attack.  They appeared to enjoy their game and played with such refreshing zest that Everton’s defenders became overworked.  Matthews accomplished much and was brainy withal, but all three linked up to their forwards to good purpose.  Easton could not hold Phillipson and Gibson, Kelly was a hard and successful worker and Griffiths did very well.  Chandler and Gibson were a fine defensive pair, whose tackling was keen and timely.  Teams; Sheffield United; Wharton; Gibson (JR); Chandler, Sampy, Matthews, Green; Gibson (S); Phillipson, Johnson, Gillespie, and Tunstall.  Everton; Davies; Common, O’Donnell (Captain); Kelly, Griffiths, Easton; Critchley, Dunn, White, Martin, and Troup.  Referee- Mr. R. Bowie (Newcastle). 

TOFFEE MEN ARRIVE.
Derby Daily Telegraph -Tuesday 2 April 1929
Fleets of buses were held readiness for the second holiday football match at Derby, the visitors being another Lancashire side, Everton. the Toffeemen's supporters made their presence felt Derby early this morning, for in true Lancashire holiday spirit they were out to make a day it.

BEDFORD AGAIN.
Nottingham Evening Post-Tuesday 2, April 1929
DERBY COUNTY FORWARD MAKES HIS GOALS TOTAL
EVERTON SOON ARREARS.
In dull weather, before 12,000 spectators, Derby County entertained Everton at the Baseball Ground this afternoon. Crooks returned to the home side the exclusion of Robson, and Everton had two changes from Saturday, Hart resuming, and Easton reverting his original position, vice Dunn. Derby County.—Wilkes; Cooper, Collin; Mclntyre, Barker, Malloch, Crooks, Bedford, Ruddy, Stephenson, and Mee. Eve.rton.—Davies; Common, O'Donnell; Kellv, Griffith, Hart; Critchley, Easton, White, Martin, and Troup. Referee: C. E. Lines, Birmingham. Derby opened in dazzling fashion, and after Davies had saved from Crooks, BEDFORD gave the " Rams" the lead in two minutes with a brilliant shot into the corner of the net. Fine work by Mclntyre led up to the goal. Everton then had spell of attacking, without, however, troubling Wilkes. Derby had the better of the play, and Davies had to be smart get to the ball before Bedford, and moment later the inside-left was only inches wide. Wilkes tipped a great shot from Easton over the bar, and was again called upon Griffiths, but generally the visitors' attacks did not carry the same amount of danger of did those of Derby. Davis saved easily from Mee. whilst Bedford tried a volley which was only inches too high. HALF-TIME :—Derby County 1, Everton 0.

DERBY COUNTY v. EVERTON
Hartlepool Mail -Tuesday 2 April 1929
Derby in fine weather before 16,000 spetactaors. Derby had Crooks, and Everton played Hart. In two minutes BEDFORD opened Derby's account. Davies later saved finely from Bedford. It was good quality football, though the Everton halves were slow. Martin made great effort tor Everton, Wilkes tipping the hall over. The visitors' shooting was generally moderate. Half-time: Derby County 1 goal Everton Nil. FINAL DERBY COUNTY ... 3 goals EVERTON Nil.

EVERTON 1 MOTHERWELL 4
April 2 nd 1929. The Daily Courier.
HOW TO PLAY FOOTBALL.
MOTHERWELL'S OBJECT LESSON FOR EVERTON.
SCOTTISH SCHEMING.
Motherwell, who are potential runners-up of Division one of the Scottish League, gave a mixed Everton eleven an object lesson in the art of football at Goodison park yesterday, winning by 4 goals to 1 with the utmost comfort. Naturally, the Champions would not field their best eleven with a fixture at Derby to be fulfilled today, but there were men in the side who should have given the Scots a bigger run for their money than they had. At no period of the game, which developed in interest as time wore on, were the Blues any match for their opponents, and even such a star as Billy Dean was blotted out of the picture. Motherwell had not to exert themselves over much to gain the glory of victory, for their combination and scheming was all too good for the Goodison brigade, who played as a pack of individuals against a company who divined each other's intentions with the foresight of a prophet.
ART OF KEEPING POISITION.
Two goals by Tennant and Ferrier served to place the Scots in a comfortable position at half-time –Ferrer's goal was a particularly fine shot –and McMenemy and Tennant improved on splendid openings to give their side a commanding lead before Stein gained Everton's “orphan” with a shot which rebounded past McClorty after having struck a defender. Motherwell struck strictly to the tenets of good football, for each man had the common sense to keep position, and so he was able to receive the many good passes which came his way. What surer road to success is there than for a man to keep position? Everton had little semblance of combination, and it was left to individuals to extend the Scottish defence. They did not do it very well.
O'DONNELL A “LIVE” FORWARD.
O'Donnell, who figured at his old position of inside-left and the distinction of being the most enterprising of the home forwards and with a little more steadiness he would have scored in the first half. He was a man who would fight for possession as few of the others would, but he was too enthusiastic. Dean accomplished little, and Jones fought hard to make an impression on the rock which gave away nothing whatever. Stein was better on the wing than Meston, who was inclined to hold on to the ball too long. Griffiths was the only half to do any good, for Rooney wasted too many opportunities to set his forwards in motion, and Lewis allowed endeavour to get the upper hand of his better judgement. He was a trier though. SAGR'S PROMISE.
The defence was excellent, neither Cresswell Kennedy, nor Sager making the slightest mistake. One admired the manner in which Sager shaped, and one is led to the conclusion that in the youth the Champions have the making of a class goalkeeper. There was not a single weakness in the Motherwell side, but outstanding were McClory, a lank and clever custodian, Craig, McNeil, McMenemy, Stevenson, and Ferrier. Ferrier was the best man on the field, by the way. With a little extra exertion the Scots might have secured more goals, but they were content to play football for football's sake. What is more, they were accomplished enough to do it. Teams: - Everton: - Sager, goal, Cresswell (captain) and Kennedy, backs, Rooney, Griffiths and Lewis, half-backs, Meston, Jones, Dean, O'Donnell, and Stein, forwards. Motherwell: - McCloy, goal, Johnman, and Frame, backs, McFayden, Craig and McNeil, half-backs, Mudock, McMenemy, Tennant, Stevenson and Ferrier, forwards.

DERBY COUNTY CONCLUDE HOLIDAY PROGRAMME WITH A WIN
Derby Daily Mail-Wednesday 3 April 1929
COUNTY'S PUNCH THREE GOALS .
All-Round Excellence wins Against Everton
WHY dot Everton play Dixie Dean?" One may well ask this question (writes "Baseball") after the " Toffeemen's" defeat the Rams yesterday. Dean travelled as twelfth man, and I noticed him in the directors seats when the game was in progress. He did not give any secrets away by facial impressions, but I have an idea that he was just yearning get among his colleagues. Then, after the game, I had impression of " Dixie's " wholeheartedness for he was in the dressing room acting the part assistant trainer, and he towelled the Everton men down with just much zest as he hits a ball past a goalkeeper. The "crack" centre, like his Everton colleague, was full of beans, despite the fact that the Toffeemen had gone down to the Rams.
BRILLIANT PIVOT,
The real object of my visit was to have a word with Thomas Percy Griffiths, Everton's Welsh International pivot. I remember Griffiths when he entered professional football in North Wales. One could hardly credit the fact that it was as an inside forward that Griffiths first took to the game. Yesterday was outstanding man on the field of play, but he bore a trophy away in the form of damaged eye, the result of a collision with Stephenson. It is curious coincidence that Griffiths damaged himself on his last visited here in somewhat similar fashion in a Central League game. The Toffeemen have always been I upon a side which takes kindly to a light ball, but it appears they wouitl prefer a heavier surface to that of the Baseball Ground yesterday. It was pointed out to me that the side is a young one, and that the champions are intent upon building a combination which will bring them honours next season.
DEAN MISSED.
I certainly agree that more than half the side on duty yesterday represented Everton against the Rams in the Central League game on September 12th of last year, but to my mind where Derby had the pull was in the punch which rounded on their attacks. Everton missed ' there's no doubt about it, and it seemed almost tragic to see him there as twelfth man. Still, there is little doubt that he will be included in the Toffeemen's team next Saturday, or the spectators already beginning , to think hard, will be wanting to know a thing or two Merseyside way. Everton played well wnough in midfield , but White was not a success in the middle. Ruddy, of Derby, was much more effective, and in Stephenson and Bedford he had colleagues who played just the right style of football for the occasion. Bedford further impressed with his ability as an inside right, while Stephenson shared the honours in the forward line with the former centre- Neither Crooks nor Mee made the best use of their chances at times, although they were useful members of the line, and Crooks seemed to be feeling the effects of the injury sustained against the Villa. The winger seemed to receive knock on the old injury in the later stages of the game, and this resulted his being carried off.
PRAISE FOR ARKER
I spoke to two visiting officials yesterday, and they were loud in their praise of Barker, Rams' pivot. There's no doubt about the fact that the young centre –half has come on apace, and he now bids fair to rival any pivot in the game if he keeps up his present rate of progess. McTntyre, too, was in his happiest mood, and Malloch has rarely been seen to better advantage. " Why England don't play Cooper and Collins against Scotland I don't know,” was a remark I heard yesterday. It is certain that the mother country could rely upon this clever pair; both were real artists against Everton, and rendered Wilkes's task much easier than it might have been. WWhile Everton backs played pluckily there was no comparison between the respective pairs of defenders. Griffiths was head and shoulders in advance of his colleagues in more sense than one, while Troup and Easton were the best of a set of forwards whose methods lacked the essential ingredient of punch and penetrative powers. The Rams' goals were scored by Bedford, Ruddy, and Stepheson –all good points.

EVERTON MAKE TIRING JOURNEY
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 03 April 1929
THE WHITE SPELL BROKEN
A TOUR OF GERMANY
Bee’s Notes
It is a grave question whether it is now wise for our journeys to Derby to be made overnight.  It is not a new thing for players to be found hanging out of the train, sick through the Derbyshire journey which rolls the rolling stock in a scenic railway fashion.  Everton made the whole journey yesterday, and though it gave us the opportunity of a view of Uttoxeter for the first time, the fear was in us that the tiring nature of the journey must affect the play of the visitors.  Everton were not football-awake when the first goal had been made.  Bedford scored with a great drive, and it took Everton a long time to settle down to normal football.  They had just nicely got a chance of equalizing when Derby broke away and Stephenson scored through what one might term a blunderbuss movement, three times he was charged, and three times the charge put him right for a goal, and finally he screwed the ball in.  In a moment Ruddy had made the total three, and it was a slight exaggeration of the merits of the two sides; yet Everton played in a way that did not suggest goals.  They lacked the sting and “sip” of the Derby fliers.  They had an air of lassitude that was possibly due to Easter overtime.  It appears that for the Motherwell game players offered their services, as the club had so many men down injured.  This statement will explain a lot.  Even so, it does not explain Everton’ easy going methods when things are not going well.  To beat Derby a side has to be pushful and progressive.  Everton are inclined to play dainty football, and dish up delightful footcraft with no suggestion of finishing off their work.  Indeed, Easton was their best shooter and their best craftsman yesterday at the Baseball ground.  Troup was, like Critchley, a consistent winger without wastage of the ball.  Therefore, it became once more the inner forwards who were at fault.  White rarely got the ball, and well as Martin cuddled the ball he could not produce a direct shot.  Indeed, Wilkes had a nice day’s outing, his backs, Cooper and Collins, playing excellently; Cooper played so well that I should never hesitate about choosing him for an international tussle at Hampden Park in a fortnight. 
A FAST BALL
As a game it was just a nice Easter-tide show, with no bones broken, even though Crooks was eventually carried off with a damaged knee.  The end of the season style was introduced; and many a player is just now anxious for a rest.  Yet the game was fast, and as is usual with Derby, the ball travelled at a great pace up and down the dry and “holy” field.  Mee fled at a great pace beyond Kelly and Common, but he was sadly lacking in finish.  His enthusiasm gets the better of him; he overworks himself.  Crooks too, though a great little player, was not secure with his concluding efforts.  Mee had the advantage of Stepheson’s excellent scheming and passing.  Bedford was the crack shot of the day, with Easton second in command in this respect.  Kelly, like Hart, was a doubtful starter right up to the start of the game, Dean and Rooney being ready on reserve.  Possibly neither wing half-back could do himself justice; they had not the pace of the extreme wing men, though they had the full value of the ball once they had got it in their possession.  Much of Everton’s forward line endeavor was undone when Barker took command at centre-half. A well-built young men from Denaby United, this pivot in name and game played masterly football, and promises a real threat to such a man as Seddon.  He was well flanked, and, like his defence, was steadiest under hot pressure.  One of the reasons for my visit to Derby was to see into this fury as between club and Press.  Derby is the centre of a storm of criticism. A battle rages on the western front between the club manager, Mr. George Jobey, and the Press.  It all arose over the announcement of the fee paid for Storer.  The club object, and since then letters have passed to and fro and placards have played with the same of Jobey, which is much like Robey, and lends itself to a skit.  The artist, like the pressman, fell under the lash of the county club, whose chairman is an ex-Birkenhead man, and is standing fast for his staff.  It is a great pity such a thing should happen, for the relations between Press and people and Press and club are generally so sensible as to realise that one cannot do without the other –and should not desire to do so either.  I say this- I who have been slashed and slated in the course of my career here, even to the point of deputations bearing down upon the office to insist upon my dismissal or else they would go elsewhere for their official stories!  I hope that by degree some sense will enter in this battle, and the sides will gather together as friends. 
EVERTON AND WHITE
I have a long complaining letter from an Orrell man regarding Everton F.C., which must bide its time.  Many people are disconcerted at the way things have gone this week, but it is well to remember that until yesterday this Everton formation had not been beaten, and that White didn’t know defeat with the first side for two seasons.
I hear that Everton go to Germany for a tour this season, and that the jubilee meeting is at the Philharmonic Hall on April 24, the Wednesday of the great final tie week. 

DERBY COUNTY 3 EVERTON 0
April 3 rd 1929. The Daily Courier.
NEARLY AN EVERTON EASTER DUCK-EGG.
LEG WEARY CHAMPIONS.
Everton wound up their holiday programme with a none too convincing display at the Baseball Ground, Derby yesterday, when the County defeated them by three goals to nil. Thus the Blues' egg has been of one-point dimensions. At no time yesterday did their play compare with the fast, accurate collaboration of the Rams, who always though and acted far more quickly than their opponents. The Champions often appeared to be a bit leg-weary, and in addition they placed the ball in the air five times out of six, whereas the Rams had the common-sense and the ability to glide it along the ground with an ease that was refreshing.
HALF-BACK SUPERIORITY.
In the middle division the County were admirably served, and they outshone the Everton trio. Griffiths, however, acted with real good heart and held up many dangerous well-directed sallies with his strong tackling. Common was the outstanding man on the Everton side. O'Donnell took too long to make up his mind, but by no means played poorly. Davies had no chance with the shots, which beat him, and like Wilkes, was guilty of no error. There was little to go into raptures about over the attack except that Martin and Easton occasionally schemed to good purpose and shot strongly when the opportunity presented itself. All five, however, wanted too much time and did not infuse that essential flavouring of “devil” into the business. Bedford scored the first goal after four minutes with a swift low shot. After an hour Stephenson dribbled through on his own to net as Davies advanced. Five minutes later Ruddy slipped down the centre from Bedford's pass, and though Davies got his hand to the shot he could not arrest its progress to the net. Teams: - Derby County: - Wilkes, goal, Cooper and Collin, backs, McIntyre, Barker, and Malloch, half-backs, Crooks, Bedford, Ruddy, Stephenson, and Mee, forwards. Everton: - Davies, goal, Common and O'Donnell, backs, Kelly, Griffiths, and Hart (captain), half-backs, Critchley, Easton, White, Martin, and Troup, forwards.

BILLY DEAN BACK.
April 4 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
EVERTON'S TWO CHANGES FOR BURY GAME.
The return of Dean for the match at Gigg-Lane, Bury, on Saturday, will send the Everton stock soaring considerably. Billy has had a lot of relief from the attack of Rheumatism and he should soon reach his usual excellent form. The Everton directors make two changes in the attack of the team beaten at Derby. White his understudy of the stir centre-forward now finished in the period at any rate, is moved to inside left, Martin being dropped. Bury are bound to fight desperately to the full points, in view of their precarious position on the First Division table. They have had to make alterations in their attack, Bullock, recovered from injury, returns to partner Robbie. Arthur Gale is to be Cnetre-forward, and Bull again joins old partner Amos, on the left wing.

DEAN RETURNS TO THE FIRST ELEVEN
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 04 April 1929
Bee’s Notes
AN ORRELL LETTER
Here, for example, is an Orrell letter, from a gentleman who signs himself, and goes deep into the club and its affairs.  Mr. Hugh Clunas writes;-
Your reference to the treatment of Dunn is admirable in tone, and meets the position very fairly and fully.  Spectators who indulge in such conduct are the enemy of sportsmanship and are unworthy of admission.  Neither is their praise worth having, I felt heartily sorry for Dunn, whose connecting with Everton has proved so disappointing.  We were led to expect great things, but these have not matured.  Is this another case of inability to blend?  Ritchie, too, has failed.  I have heard it said that he is not good health, and, if true, one need not look further.  That both he and Dunn are class players is obvious, as some other clubs will perhaps prove to their detractors here.  Well, one fears your text must again be- what is wrong with Everton?  That something is wrong is beyond question.  One feels that the club and players are at sixes and sevens; that between master and servant there is a gulf which is ruinous to both; and that there is now “bond of sympathy”; that the team spirit has gone, for the further reason that the players do not see eye to eye amongst themselves.  Whatever the canker is, it is there, and should be eradicated.  What about Dean?  Why is he not in the first team?  Is his absence due in fact to unfitness, or does the cause lie elsewhere?  Dean is something more than as Everton player- he is a national player, and the followers of the game have such an interest in him and his play that they have a right to know the true position.
WHAT ABOUT CRESSWELL?
What about Cresswell? Presumably he has been dropped because of poor play, and, if so, one cannot quarrel; but where is his successor?  Common is not yet class enough for First League requirements.  Youth is on his side, but weakness is so apparent that his presence in the team throws far too much upon that lion-hearted and enthusiastic chap from the North-East, O’Donnell.  He (the latter) reminds me of Jock Taylor, and is worth selection for our representative teams I am glad you mention the fact of him playing today, and also Griffiths, in view of the game at Derby.  Have the Everton directors lost their bearings?  Their sense of what is due to the playing members of the first team seems to have departed.  Possibly, aye, probably, Mr. Bee, the root of all the trouble may be traced outside of the field of play.  In justice to all concerned, I suggest you should, with your usual tact, review the position.  Plain talk is needed.  There has been too much of their autocrat and far too little of the democrat.  James Jackson’s recent tribute to his directorate made fine reading, and it would be a kindly action to mount the cutting and send it to Goodison Park to be hung in the boardroom!  Tut, tut! Well, Mr. Bee, much more could be said.  I would like to thank young once again for your work in the cause of sport generally, for your interest in the weaker clubs, your fairness of view in reporting all sorts of matches and not least, your ready response to appeals from various quarters for deserving objects.  Many clubs and many individuals are debtors to you for effective service in times of distress and difficulty.  Long may your pen (or is it pencil) reign in the field of sport and happy fellowship. 
REVIEWING THE POSITION
Well, sir, you do me the honour of making me coroner.  I thought I had quite sufficient in the last six months.  Everton’s position has been the talk of the football boards; everyone marvels that a side so good lasts season should suddenly lose its charm and force when it is refurnished on the right wing with two of the best known football strategists.  But the fall of the club is, in a manner, the fall of its favourite.  Dean did too much last season.  Nature is taking her toll now.  Let the public know the facts.  Dean has been unwell for some time, and should have been out of the team long since.  He is now coming back to his form, and on what I have seen I still claim he is the best centre-forward to-day, and still the unselfish scorer and artist.  The directors can be accused of playing chess with their team-sheets; the manner in which new players are signed, and then shipped to new quarters of the football eleven is rather remarkable; it has become a disease than an effort to “place a man.”  The correspondent suggests that no one has paid public tribute to the management as has Jackson.  Well, that is quite true, but the reason of its absence is that no occasion has arisen to make such a tribute possible; I have heard the tributes in conversation with players, so that it is in their hearts if not in the public Press announcements.  No, Everton have slid back through a combination of circumstances.  If they had struck their form a bit earlier, they would have been a fighting force for the honours, because a fortnight ago they were “in the offing.”  Now the officials must concentrate upon half-backs- Virr’s loss was a great blow –and more than ever upon forwards with a shot in their locker!  THAT IS EVERTON’S GREATEST NEED.  As showing the difficulty of the Everton case last week-end, it has only to be mentioned that the club found Hart unable to play after a midnight journey from Cardiff, the reserve team having already left for Wolverhampton, and being unable to have a recall notice.  Dunn was called at the last moment, complained of thigh trouble, but said he “would do his best.”  I mentioned this especially because a letter from “A Wasp” suggests something unfairly against Dunn. 
“Nuff said,”  cracks an “O.D,” joke.  “O.D.” can provide a crack of humour for anyone; he is the man whose heartiness in football games has created for him a great friendship as from the Everton crowd. 
THE SUPPORTERS WRITES-
“I fully agree with you that the attitude adopted towards Dunn was distasteful; but there is no doubt but what the crowd were unaware of the true facts of the case.  When the holiday teams were published Dean was unemployed; on Saturday, naturally, we presumed he was on the ground.  Therefore, wasn’t the obvious move Dean in his own position with White at left-half.  In the “Football Echo” we find Dean had gone with the reserve team before the first team had arrived from Sunderland.  Wasn’t it convenient for the people in charge of the first team to have ‘phoned the ground, by means of a trunk call, instructing them to hold, say.  Dean and Rooney in reserve for Saturday’s game as Hart and Critchley had been slightly damaged?  If this wasn’t possible, why play Dunn, who –according to you –was damaged, when Forshaw was not only fit but available?  Then again, why was Dean sent with the reserve team when Attwood, who was chosen to play, was fit?  Dunn and Easton were both obviously playing under difficulties.  Undoubtedly, the most popular player in the Everton team is Dean, yet the directors make no effort to let the public know what is the matter with him- DOUBTFUL.”
DOWN TOE ARTH
“The truth is out.  Politicians do good sometimes.  Mr. Baldwin has drawn the defence.  Now we understand why we are bored with all this heady stuff in modern football.  ‘Dixie’ definitely tells us that every player found a joy in heading a ball.  Honest confession is good for the soul.  But he is out of touch with the mind of the intelligent spectator.  Heading a ball four or five times may be very clever; but if we want to see fancy juggling tricks we would go where we expect them-to a circus, not a football ground.  “Heading is an obsession, which is spoiling the game.  Everybody appreciates good, purposeful heading that accomplishes something; but all this aimless bobbing about of the ball in the air frets the spectators.  It is pitiful to see the ball sailing up sky-high from the defence to the forwards, or to see ‘lovely hanging centres,’ which produce easy stuff for the goalkeeper nearly every time.  “If the uplift develops much further, the forwards will need little aeroplanes to get at the ball.  The spectator likes intelligent play, crowned with thrilling shots, and every man in a forward line should be able to fire them in – or be fired if he doesn’t!  “Our local teams are suffering from too much skylarking, and the forwards get a lot of buffeting about as a result.  Bring them down to earth, “Bee,” and earn the gratitude of – ALTITUDE.” 
EVERTON V BURY
Everton journey to Bury on Saturday and in view of the plight in which the Gigg-lane club is placed Everton will, I feel sure he faced by a desperate team.  They will have to show vastly improved form to that of recent days if they are to vanquish their opponents.  Dean leads the League side for the first time since March 11th, and it is hoped that the International c entre forward will recover his old form.  White, the versatile player who seems to be equally at home at half-back or forward, will this time figure at inside left.  White will thus have bad acquaintance with the three inside positions.  These are the only changes in the side, which is; Davies; Common, O’Donnell; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Easton, Dean, White, Troup.  Bury have chosen Harrison; Heap, F. Smith; Porter, Finney, Pratt; Robbie, Bullock, Gale, Ball, Amos.   The Everton Reserves team to meet Bury Reserves at Goodison Park (Kick-off 3.15), is; Sagar; Cresswell, Kennedy; Rooney, Forshaw, Lewis; Meston, Ritchie, Attwood, Weldon, Stein. 

BURY’S GASP V. EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Friday 05 April 1929
Bee’s Notes
The handling code reaches its semi-final point tomorrow, as you will see by the news given in another column, and Bury may reach a relegation point tomorrow when the revised Everton side tackles them at their own ground.  Dean’s return has let in White as inside forward, this time on the left-hand side, so that the forward lines carries youth and some “beef.”  Bury have had such a heavy time that one wishes them well, and to win tomorrow they will need to be cool as well as clever.  Everton; Davies; Common, O’Donnell; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Easton, Dean, White, Troup. 

THE HILLS OF LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Friday 05 April 1929
SOME PICTURESQUE POINTS IN THE LORE OF THE CITY
By Michael O’Mahony
NO. 2. – BEVINGTON HILL
Beyond where the brook joined the Pool, at the foot of what is now Fontenoy-street, was originally common land covered with gorse and thickets; and though a fringe of orchards appeared behind the Dale-street mansions towards the end of the 18th century, it so remained for many years; in fact, the town ended at a gate at the entrance to the “Priest’s Field,” now covered by St. Brigid’s Church; and from here rose the green hill from which an unbroken view could be obtained over sea and river.  Bevington Hill was higher then than it is to-day; so were many other parts of the old town.  The slope between the top of Manchester-street and where it rises again to William Brown-street must have been greater in ancient days to sufficiently account for the name of Dale-street.  However, the hill rising upward from Bevington Bush was a pleasant eminence which deserved its name.  Of course, there was a winding highway to such an important point as Walton, but a stiled footpath to the church and the intervening village of Kirkdale was the way frequented by those who went so far.  I 1771 an Act was obtained to “widen and keep in repair the road from St. Patrick’s Cross in the town of Liverpool to Preston.”  This new thoroughfare called the “New Scotland Road,” was a great improvement to the north-end; but while houses did not spring up along the route as quickly as was expected, the departure of the traffic to the new turnpike gave Bevington-hill more leafy seclusion than ever.  The “Mile House” opposite what is now Virgil-street, and exactly one mile from the Exchange, was an attractive and for some time isolated pie shop, kept by a most excellent woman named Kitty Eccleston, who attained a reputation for delightful pastry; and it was at one time, to quote quaint of Stonehouse,” quite a country jaunt for holiday people to go out to eat Kitty’s pies and spend the afternoon on Bevington Hill and Summer Seat, to enjoy the fine prospect obtainable there-from.  From the gardens in that vicinity were uninterrupted views of the rivers, the Cheshire coasts, and the open sea.  Mr. Gildart had a pleasant garden and summerhouse there.”  As far as nomenclature goes, Summerseat and even Gildarts Gardens like Bevington-Hill, still remain; but from them has long flown all rural beauty as definitely as the ancient gateway of “Priest’s Field,”  or the gorse-fringed quarry which yawned where now stands St. Martin’s Market.  On one of the cottages first built on the slope of the hill in Limekiln-lane in 1801 lived a man who earned a living by spinning catgut.  In his youth he had been a footboy in the house of Madame Clayton, whose name is commemorated by Clayton-square and who was the first lady in Liverpool to keep a private carriage.  He was fond of boasting that he stood behind the employer in that carriage when she and her father drove the first private vehicle over the drawbridge of George’s Dock.  With the coming of commence to the district also advanced art and religion.  A Nonconformist chapel, with an elevated façade and imposing flight of steps (which afterwards became the first Church of St. Brigid), for many years attracted a large congregation to Bevington Hill, while beside it rose the classic entablatures of the Casino Threate.  The place is mainly memorable for the splendid efforts made by the late Monsignor Nugent to uplift the people by providing them with refined entertainment and recreation.  Here he surrounded himself by a group of talented young men of versatile gifts, jealous in the cause of temperance and each of whom has left more than a passing memory in the story of his native city.  John Denvir, historian, novelist, poet, and playwright, as well as John Francis McArdle, who shared with Richard Campbell the priceless gifts of pure humour; and John Short, who, as the successful actor Barry Aylmer, recently died, full of years and honour, in retirement at Hampstead, were outstanding figures in the good man’s fine crusade.  Busy with buyers and sellers when I walked through it this morning, it was hard to imagine Bevington Hill given over to the fragrant freedom of gorse and bracken; yet so secluded was it that sailors arriving in the port, and anxious to avoid land sharks, were accustomed to meet there to square up and divide their pay.  Jack must have handled his wages not too tightly now and then, for a messenger from Kirkdale village entering the town by the gate of the Priest’s Field one wild March morning found a 10 pound note about to flutter right out of sight from a thorn bush.  

EVERTON AT BURY
April 6 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
BURY CRISIS.
There will be a crisis at Bury, serious in degree –for the home side. They receive a visit from Everton, with Billy Dean once more as leader of the attack, and eager to show these critics that there can be only one England centre for years to come –this fellows initials are “W.R.D.” The England selectors meet on Monday, you know. Bury are so, badly off that their outlook is simply a nightmare, so the visit of Everton, strong once more, but with much of the pep gone the middle line, has brought on an epidemic of "“umps-in-the-throat"”-this disease may not be in the medical dictionary, but you know what I mean all the same. Kick off at Gigg lane will be at three O'clock, and the teams will be: - Everton: - Davies; Common, O'Donnell; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Easton, Dean, White, Troup. Bury; Harrison; Heap, F. Smith; Porter, Finney, Pratt; Robbie, Bullock, Gale, Ball, Amos.

DUNN AND HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 06 April 1929
A Scottish wire says that before Dunn, of Everton, left Hibernians, a neighbouring club, Hearts of Midlothain, were keen on the transfer.  They have resumed inquiry.  

EVERTON AT BURY
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 06 April 1929
DEAN TAKES THE FIELD AGAIN
HIS OPENING GOAL
“ STORK’S” REPORT OF A PERILOUS “TEST.”
Everton; Davies; Common, O’Donnell; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Easton, Dean, White, Troup.  Bury; Harrison; Heap, F. Smith; Porter, Finney, Pratt; Robbie, Bullock, Gate, Ball, Amos.  Referee; Mr. D.E. Bryan, of Willenhall.  Everton’s visit to Bury was looked upon as a “test” match, for the Shakers’ position was perilous and a victory to-day was an absolute necessity if they were to remain in the senior circle of football.  It was a glorious afternoon and the ground as usual was in excellent condition.  Dean made his first appearance in the Everton team since March 9, after having missed five League matches.  I understand that in view of the selection of the English team to meet Scotland, next week, there were several of the selection committee present at Gigg-lane this afternoon simply and solely to keep their eyes upon Dean.  Bury’s team was as advertised, and a thrilling game, to be fought out to the bitter end, was anticipated.  There was a startling opening, and with a little steadiness Bury might easily have held a goal lead after the first minute.  There was a bit of a jumble in the Everton defence, and Davies found a shot cannon off him.  Fortunately the ball went to the foot of Kelly, who was able to clear.  The first Everton movement was made by Easton, Critchley, and Dean the first named setting off the attack with a nice lob to Critchley.  Dean dashed up to the front in anticipation of the winger’s centre and his effort forced a corner, from which, however, nothing arose.  A long shot by Finney was well accepted by Davies, and then we had a series of corners, mainly to Everton. 
AN UNTIMELY JUMP!
From one of them Dean timed his jump so nicely that we all expected to see the ball curl into the net.  But we were doomed to disappointment, for he had not quite got there in time.  There was a curious wind blowing, and the ball seemed to hang in the air quite a long time, and this rather upset calculations.  Easton was again the responsible factor in a thrust on the Everton right, but Critchley, instead of crossing with a first time centre, juggled with the ball on the touchline so that by the time he had got it under sufficient control, he found himself blotted out for a cross.  Bury were relying upon strong punts down the field and a quick dash forward on the part of their front rank to the Everton goal, and in one of them Davies found it necessary to dash out of his goal and kick away so that Gale could not get in a shot.  Robbie who has been Bury’s chief scorer for some time, failed weakly when he had an excellent chance to head a goal from a centre by Amos, and there was great disappointment about his failure, too.  It was grim football, and when Critchley found Smith falling and letting the ball come to his (Critchley’s feet) there was every possibility of a goal for Everton, for Dean, was hot on the trail and a quick dash carried him well forward until Smith and Heap closed in on him, but although Dean was able to get in a shot there was not sufficient steam behind it to carry it into goal. 
DEAN’SOPENING GOAL
Another quick dash by Dean brought him in full view of the Bury goal, but he failed to hit his drive and Harrison was not called upon.  However, the goal was not long delayed, for at the twentieth minute Dean scored from a centre by Troup.  There was some discussion as to who was the real scorer, for, when Troup’s centre dropped almost underneath the bar, Harrison and Dean went up for it, and although the ball did not seem to connect with Dean’s head it must have connected with some part of his body, for it went into the net without Harrison having touched it.  Harrison, however, may have been interfered with by one of his own backs who seemed to get in his road Harrison, I am told, is not all sure of himself when corner kicks are about; in any case, he was not sure with this one.
A QUICK REJOINDER
Bury were fighting tooth and nail and after a quick attack and some hot work in front of the Everton goal Robbie was able to make a centre which Ball neatly turned into the net amidst great excitement.  Just prior to the scoring of this goal there was a claim for a penalty against Everton, but the referee would not have any of it, and back came Everton to the Bury end, where Troup attempted one of the cannon-ball shots that struck somebody’s body and went out to Critchley’s who also tried his luck, the result being a ball over the woodwork.  Bury enjoyed quite a lot of the attack.  In fact they had the advantage in this respect but when in front of goal their work lacked finality.  For instance, Gale was clean through on one occasion but he could not shoot right, although he was instrumental in forcing a corner which, while it brought some work for the Everton defence, never suggested a goal as it should have done.  More corners fell to Bury in quick succession, but they were all not used correctly, and the Everton defence had not a great deal to do considering the amount of pressure that Bury put upon it.  Anxiety was, no doubt, the cause of quite a lot of the Bury forwards’ weaknesses; for they realized that they had to do something really big in this match, which was their last hope. 
DEAN WHIPS IN
It was Everton, however, who scored the next goal, Dean again being the successful man to pilot the ball into the net, and this is how it happened.  The ball was punted right up the field, and Dean went after it.  So did Smith, the Bury full back, who went up to head it, but could not connect and Dean whipped round him just as the moment when Harrison had left his goal.  This was just the chance that Dean had been waiting for, and like a flash he had the ball into the net, much to the disappointment of the home spectators.  It was certainly a tragedy for the Bury side for they fought hard.  At the interval I got to know all about Dean’s first goal.  It was just as I said.  He failed to get his head to the ball, which glanced off his shoulder and into the net.  Harrison had failed completely in his judgement of Troup’s centre.  Here were perhaps extenuating circumstances for Harrison for he had to face a blinding sun, which must have affected his sight of the ball.  Half-time; Bury 1, Everton 2. 
BURY IN TRAP
EVERTON TURNING THE LOCK
DOUBLE BY DEAN
BALL SCORES HOME SIDE’S ONLY GOAL
The second half opened in sprightly fashion, and O’Donnell had to kick away hurriedly to prevent the Bury right wing making inroads into his defence.  Amos, pretty little outside left, once worked his way into the centre, and tried a shot, the only thing the matter with it being that it lacked pace; and Davies was able to pick up and clear easily.  Davies also made a good save when he swept a ball from under his crossbar, and when Robbie tried to hook it back he hit the side-netting.  O’Donnell was playing great stuff.  Some of his tackles were marvellous, if a trifle lucky on occasion.  Dean tried to put Critchley through, but the latter was too hasty with his shot.  He should have held on a few more steps and taken deliberate aim, but he decided upon a first-timer which flew from the goal.  Gale was a dashing leader, if not too good in his ball control.  If he could have trapped well he would have had an excellent opportunity when Pratt sent one up to him to be taken in his stride, but he could not get the ball settled, and the chance went abegging. 
HUGGING THE BALL
For some minutes each goalkeeper had some work to do.  Davies when bouncing the ball after having saved, had to resort to a kick-away to stall off the challenge of Bullock and Gale.  Just about now Everton seemed to take a stronger grip of the game, and Harrison was often called upon.  Once when White headed in he caught the ball safely enough, but held to it just a shade too long, and Dean made a dash to bundle him into the net.  He was successful in this, but, fortunately for Bury, the goalkeeper had thrown the ball away.  It was a near thing.  Gale once caught a rebound and was rushing straight into the goal with all the Everton defence apparently beaten, when O’Donnell, going across, took the ball from him almost at his toes, Gale going on, but the ball remaining with O’Donnell.  It was a wonderful piece of work.  The grip Everton obtained on the game was not held long, for Bury were most persistent and during one onslaught the Everton goal had a big slice of luck.  A corner kick was the starting point of the occasion, and Amos’s kick beat Davies completely.  O’Donnell, however, was standing on his left-hand side, and it was he who headed a curling ball out of the net.  The danger was not cleared even then, for a shot came bounding back almost immediately, and once again it was O’Donnell who stood in the way.  A third shot came raking in, but it could not find a way through the cluster of players who had formed in the Everton goalmouth.  O’Donnell was hurt in a collision with Robbie, but recovered to put in some sterling work.  Dean, who was very closely watched by the tall Finney and two full backs of more power than skill once got clean away, and shot across the face of the goal, Harrison going crablike across his charge while he watched the ball to see that it did not do any of its tricks and turn into goal.  With five minutes to go Bury’s position became even more blacker than it had been, and Amos, in an endeavor to at least save a point, drifted into the middle and tried a shot, which was cannon out and eventually cleared by O’Donnell.  Everton at this point were much the cleverer side.  There was a strong claim by Bury for a penalty against O’Donnell, who handled as he fell.  To my mind he could not help it in the least, for the ball struck his hand- not his hand the ball- and with this the referee agreed.  Final; Bury 1, Everton 2. 

EVERTON RES V BURY RES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 06 April 1929
Everton, at Goodison Park, against they scored three goals in six minutes and afterwards harassed a defence that was considered sound.  Ritchie, at inside right, was the main spring in the home team, and with Attwood showing a trustfulness that was surprising, the Bury defence was completely overwhelmed.  After Davin had scored a goal for Bury that showed the Everton defence at fault, Attwood scored the Everton equalizer.  Ritchie scored a brilliant second, and Attwood a third.  All were splendid goals, each being the result of short sharp thrusts, that had the Bury defence guessing.  Half-time; Everton Reserves 3, Bury Reserves 1. 

STUD MARKS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 06 April 1929
By Louis T. Kelly

• Sheffield United’s only two away wins of the season have been gained at Anfield and Goodison
• Jack Cock’s goal v. Southampton was his 200th in first-class football
• Sagar, Everton’s young ‘keeper, is only 19.  He came here from Thorne Colliery, a Donnachie, team. 
• Jimmy Settles seem to be growing increasingly scarce these days
• Everton’s great Easton was like a rudderless ship against the Blades
• Everton Reserves had practically a 30,000 pound side in the field the other day against Blackpool.
• Hunter Hart was out of the Everton side on Saturday for the first time since December 1927.

EVERTON'S NEW HALF.
Yorkshire Post-Monday 8 April 1929
After their home match against Newcastle United Reserves on Saturday, Blvth Spartans transferred their right half-back, Tom Robson, to Everlon. Robson. who is a native of Morpeth, played for Northumberland against the North Riding in an inter-county amateur match three years ago. He is 21 years old and, built on strong lines, is a player of considerable promise.

BLYTH HALF BACK FOR EVERTON
Hartlepool Mail-Monday 8 April 1929
Blyth Spartans, after their horme match against Newcastle United Reserves on Saturday, transferred their right half-back. Tom Robson, to Evsrton. Robson, who is a native of Morpeth, is 21 years old. and built on strong lines. He is a player of considerable promise.

FIGHT TO BITTER END
Athletic News - Monday 08 April 1929
BURY RELY ON SLENDER HOPE
RETURN OF DEAN BURY 1, EVERTON 2
By Tim Bobbin
“We shall keep on fighting,” said a Bury director to me after the disappointing display given by his side in the vital with Everton.  “We shall not give all hope until very last match has been played, and as we have still three matches to play at home we think we have a reasonable chance of escape.”It is nice to note such an optimistic atmosphere in the Lancashire club's headquarters, but there will have to be a, considerable improvement in the general display the team if they are to escape from the relegation whirlpool.  Everton won this match not because they were the superior team, but principally because they took their opportunities.  Dean will never score two more simple goals than he did on this occasion.  His first, obtained 22 minutes after the start, was really the result of an accident.  Troup, making allowance for a rather strong wind, put across a centre which swerved in very deceptively, and as Harrison and Dean went for the ball together the Everton centre-forward won.  But his success was probably a surprise him, for as he jumped the ball hit his shoulder and it glanced into the goal. 
A SURPRISE MOVE. 
When Dean obtained his second point the Bury full-backs were taken by a surprise by a long clearance down the centre by Griffiths, and Smith, attempting to divert the ball out of the reach of the Everton centree-forward, simply headed towards his own goal and Dean, immediately placed in possession, is not the sort of man to fail with such an opportunity.  He had full control immediately and the ball was past Harrison before the Bury backs could recover.  Sandwiched between these points was one from Ball, who took up a centre from Robbie to score from close quarters after 27 minutes, after an appeal for a penalty had been ignored.  Although Bury strove might and main for an equalizer in the second half they met a defence which was equal to all the desperation which the home men put into their work in the closing stages.  But what did this desperation represent?  Gale, preferred in the centre to John Smith, was never a serious menace to the visitors’ goal.  He was easily shaken off, and despite some clever touches his colleagueson each side of him could seldom control the ball sufficiently well to trouble Davies with their finishing.  Robbie had an opportunity in the first half which he should not have missed, but generally speaking the attack was devoid of punch when it was most needed.
NO FINISH
Ball is much slower than he was-he was never fast; Bullock has lost all his shooting power; and although Amos and Robbie were useful in a way, their centres were frequently too near the goalkeeper to be of much use.  Games are won by goals, and Bury must find more penetrative power if they are to escape the Second Division.  In defence there was nothing seriously wrong, if one excepts the two mistakes which resulted in the Everton goals being scored.  Harrison may have been troubled by the sun in the first case, but there was no excuse for Smith in the second instance, although apart from this, the latter kicked well and had a worthy colleague in Heap.  Pratt tired in the second half when his services were most needed, but Finney and Porter certainly did not let their side down.  Naturally in view of the Scottish International, there was much interest taken in Dean.  This was his first appearance in the League team for a month.  My impression was that he is not the Dean of old.  He missed one “sitter” in the first half, and his positional play was not up to the standard one expects of England’s centre-forward.  Not did we see much of his shooting.  White and Easton were clever without getting any further with it, and the best work in the visitors’ team was shown in defence, where Davies, O’Donnell, Griffiths, and Hart were conspicuous with some brainy tackling and kicking.  Bury have three matches to play at home in their remaining five, and I can imagine the directors having a very trying time finding the best team, especially in attack.  Tom Bradshaw’s return, which is expected, may tell a tale.  Bury; Harrison; Heap, Smith (F); Porter, Finney, Pratt; Robbie, Bullock, Gale, Ball, and Amos.  Everton; Davies; Common, Griffiths; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Easton, Dean, White, and Troup.  Referee T.G. Bryan, Willenhall. 

DEAN’S TWO GOALS
Liverpool Echo - Monday 08 April 1929
WHAT THEY MEAN TO BUSY
By Stork
Bury looked upon their game with Everton as a “Test” match, and if proved to be too big a test for them, yet the two goals which has made their position in the League a perilous one, could have been averted, for they were both result of an error in defence.  Dean was the scorer in each case, and his return to the side brought more punch into it, for he was ever ready to have a tilt at the Bury defence.  I understand that there was a member of the selection committee present whose duty it was to report on Dean.  I wonder what his verdict is?  Mine is that Dean played better than he did just before his injury, yet was not the Dean of old.  For one thing his heading was not nearly so accurate, while he did not gather the ball so quickly as he used to do.  Still, he was too quick for the Bury defence when scoring his second goal, for it was his presence which caused F. Smith to make an error.  It was only a slight slip, but it was enough to enable Dean to show that he has lost none of his skill for taking an opportunity.  The first goal was also Dean’s and again his presence in the goalmouth brought out a nervous trait in Harrison, who missed Troup’s centre, and had the mortification of seeing the ball glance down Dean’s face, bump on his shoulder, and drop behind him. 
BURY PRESSING
Bury worked hard; in fact, they worked too hard, and began to press instead of going steadily, and the result was wasted opportunities, for on the score of attack they were the equal of Everton, who, however, went about their task coolly and confidently, for they had nothing to fear.  There was never any comparison where football was concerned.  Everton were always ahead in this respect; yet Bury’s ponding play could have bene turned to advantage if they could have steadied themselves in front of goal.  They were there often enough, but marksmanship was not one of their strong points.  Robbie, Bullock, and Gale should have had goals before Ball equalized, for, despite the strong Everton defence, this trio had worked out their positions.  Everton’s narrowest escape was when Amos, the best Bury forward, centred beyond Davies, and the ball looked like curling into the net until O’Donnell headed it out.  It came back quickly, but O’Donnell blocked its passenger with his body. 
“O.D.” AND THE SELECTOR
The longer the game proceeded the more apparent it became that Bury were suffering through their relegation thoughts, for they threw numerous chances away.  The backs defended solidly and Finney did well against Dean, but the Everton backs and half backs were masters of the situation.  O’Donnell’s tackling was deadly, some of them bordering on the miraculous; in fact he was to my way of thinking the best man on the field (What do you think, Mr. Selector?), and Griffith and Common were not far behind him, while Kelly got right back to form and played a sterling game both in defence and attack.  Hart, too, was a combination of the two, and Critchley, using his speed to advantage, often had the beating of Pratt and Smith.  The former Liverpool half back was forever trying to make ground, and he gave Amos plenty of scope, so much in fact that the wee fellow was Bury’s best attacker, for Gale has only dash to commend him.  He had no craft with which to beat a man, while Bullock was inclined to overdo the fancy work in the second half.  Easton brought some clever moves into his game, and White, until he was injured, did well, with Troup tricking his than and centring wisely. 
HARRISON’S NERVES
Heap and Smith, the Bury backs, were not classy, but they stood up to their work well, but why a man of Harrison’s height and reach should fail at getting centres away is a source of worry to me.  He was not at all confident, and once courted a charge when in possession, and got it, but, fortunately, had the presence of mind to throw the ball clear before he fell backwards into his goal.  The crowd “got at “Dean for his action, for it was justifiable, for Harrison had the ball in his hands when Dean charged him.  I am afraid Bury are doomed, for they have come to the realization that they are losing the flight. 

NEW PLAYER FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Monday 08 April 1929
Blyth Spartans half-back signed
After their home match against Newcastle United Reserves, on Saturday, Blyth Spartans transferred their right half-back, T. Robson, to Everton.  Robson, who is a native of Morpeth, played for Northumberland against the Northern Riding in an inter-county amateur match three years ago.  Robson is twenty-one years old and built on strong lines, is a player of considerable promise. 

A MERSEYSIDE PERSONALITY
Athletic News - Monday 08 April 1929
It is probable that Mr. E. A. Bainbridge will become chairman of Liverpool. At present is vice-chairman, if he comes the chair Ted Bainbridge will be in the unique position of having held the premier office of two clubs in one city.  He was for four years Everton’s chairman, and after leaving Goodison Park was prevailed upon to join the Anfield board.  He has been associated with the two clubs in five finals-four Everton and one Liverpool.  That his life has been full of sporting activity diverse, will be gathered when I add that he followed running, coursing, and boxing, and in the last mentioned game numbered Jem Mace among his greatest admirers. 

ROBSON FOR EVERTON
Blyth News - Monday 08 April 1929
Blyth Spartans made an important deal after Saturday’s home match against Newcastle United Reserves by way of transferring their right half-back Tom Robson, to Everton.  The agreement given Robson extends to the end of next season.  He is a Morpeth lad, 21 years old, 5ft 9ins, in height, and turns the scales of 11 stones.  He began with the Spartans Reserves in January 1928.  Throughout the time he has served the Blyth club he has always been extremely popular with the supporters by reason of the fact that he typifies the happy combination of a genial disposition and a really good and enthusiastic footballer.  As a right full back he played for Northumberland in an Inter-County amateur match against North Riding at Seaborough on the 1st May, 1926.  It can be truly said of him he is a player of great possibilities and if favoured with luck and opportunity, it is safe to expect that he will make his mark in the top sphere of the game.  He will join other two local ex-Spartans with the Everton club in Chester Common, of New Delaval and William Easton of Blyth.  The Blyth club has received a welcome financial help from the deal.  Wolverhampton Wanderers were also represented at the match with a view to securing Robsons services. 

ALEC TROUP'S SUCCESS WITH EVERTON.
Dundee Evening Telegraph-Monday 8 April 1929
Tricks Sacrificed For Paying Game
Future of Ritchie-Dunn Wing
by A. Dundonian
Amongst the players given by Dundee to English football there are few who have been successful over such lengthy period as Troup, the Everton left-winger. Troup was first-class footballer when he left Dundee six seasons ago, and when I saw him Bury on Saturday for the first time since his Dundee days, I readily recognised that his skill is great ever. Indeed, an Everton director told me that Troup "is the most consistent player we have had for years." And I can well believe it. In the hard school of English football Troup has learned his lesson well. He is no longer the bag of tricks who used to dance along the Dundee left-wing—he is now a footballer pure and simple. So ruthlessly has he pruned his repertoire of tricks that he seems now almost mechanical in his movements. He traps the ball as beautifully as ever, dashes ahead like a deer, brings himself to a sudden full stop and then centres the ball to the very spot where virile Dean can make most use of it. That is movement number one. The second move is simply the quick pass to his inside forward and the run into position for the return pass. And the third (and, far I could see. the only other movement Troup employs) is the cut and left-foot drive for goal. The Game that Pays. To any who knew Troup in his Dundee days, and who, therefore, knows the wonderful footcraft of which he is capable but which is now never in evidence, the transformed Troup I saw at Bury would be something of a disappointment. But Troup knows what pays. It has meant a sacrifice, but he has made it willingly. If all Scottish footballers in England were as ready as Troup has been to conform to the needs of the English game there would fewer failures among the highly-priced men who come over the border. Troup is keen as ever. You remember how, when he with Dundee, he periodically had a shoulder bone displaced, and how, after a painful readjustment, he was back to the field in a few minutes, thirsting for more work. This spirit still animates him in spite 'of his advancing years. " Man, wasn't struggle T" were his first words on coming off the field Bury. Troup knows there no living on reputations in English football. To Stay on at Everton. I was told that Troup would be signed again for Everton at the close of the present season. When I asked about the future Ritchie and Dunn, the former Hibernian wingers, the information was not so definite. Ritchie and Dunn have been unable to keep their positions in the Everton team. They are not likely to transferred, if only because Everton might find it difficult to secure an adequate transfer fee, but the club might disposed to consider an exchange of players. Everton, however, are by no means certain that Ritchie and Dunn are unsuited to English football. There a belief amongst the directorate that Scottish players require season at Liverpool to become acclimatised, and there are hopes that Dunn and Ritchie may yet settle into the game which made them famdus in Scotland. Whatever English football may think of Ritchie and Dunn, is synifioant that only a few weeks ago Scottish selectors came south to see them play—unfortunately on day when neither was playing. And the selectors went far to ask if they would release Dunn, if required, for the Hampden game. Alec Troup.

BURY 1 EVERTON 2
April 8 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
“DIXIE”S TWO GOALS AGAINST DESPERATE GIGG-LANE TEAM.
COOLNESS BEFORE STORM TACTICS.
HOW EVERTON BEAT PANICKY BURY.
The ability to maintain a state of nonchalance in the face of desperate and storming football won Everton a brace of points at Gigg-lane, Bury, on Saturday, when they defeated the Shakers by the old goal in three. Bury were in a desperate mood, for the capitulation of even an inch of ground was bound to send them nearer to the edge of the Second Division. Throughout they played like a team with a worried mind, and though they set up a sturdy opposition for each and every ball, they were flurried over-anxious, hasty, and uncertain for the most part. As a matter of fact, whenever they approached goal –and this was very often –a state of stampede prevailed, and they could not improve on good chances. It was certainly not indifferent play on the part of the Champions which allowed Bury to press as much as they did, but a team in the frame of mind that the Shakers were will batter a way through any side only to waste opportunities. The Blues can be congratulated on keeping cool and alert against this enthusiastic band, who were fighting for First Division “life” and it was this, which gained them the two points.
DEAN ALL RIGHT.
Great interest centred in the reappearance of Billy Dean after being absent for five consecutive matches, and his display
should set everyone at rest in regard to him. He occasionally touched something like his form, of last season when he was irresistible, and he was always worrying the Bury defence and seeing to it that his line was kept well within the bounds of the reins. He scored the two goals, though he would be the first to agree that the honours of the first went to Troup, and altogether Dean gave an exhibition that was encouraging. Even now he is not really well, but the Shakers must be wondering what he is like when he is fit. The best man on the field was O'Donnell, and alter this glorious exposition of back play one wonders whether he will receive his first International honour today. Common supported him in a dour sturdy manner, conceding nothing at all, and behind this gallant pair was Davies, on whom they could place the utmost reliance. The halves contributed their favours to attack and defence in a refreshing manner, and touched a higher plane than they have for some matches past. Critchley was the outstanding forward and was never once robbed when in possession. With excellent support from Easton –who is playing brilliantly at the moment –he led Smith a terrible life, and his finishing was splendid. Troup was in a happy vein and Harrison –a very uncertain goalkeeper –was never joyous when he diminutive winger was “sending then across.”
WHITE HURT.
White had the misfortune to receive a heavy knock early on, but played surprisingly well considering his bodily discomfort, and Easton gave a brainy tricky display. Dean obtained his first goal by “shouldering” home a centre from Troup right under the bar, and after Ball had improved on Robbie's centre, Dean followed up a “down-the-middle” pass to worry Harrison and Heap so much that they missed the ball and he rammed it home. Bury would not have scored at all had not the Everton defenders stopped when a Bury man appealed for hands. Teams:- Bury: - Harrison, goal, Heap and F. Smith, backs, Porter, Finney, and Pratt, half-backs, Bullock, Gale, Ball, and Amos, forwards. Everton: - Davies, goal, Common and O'Donnell, backs, Kelly, Griffiths and Hart (captain), half-backs, Critchley, Easton, Dean, White, and Troup, forwards.

TOM ROBSON SIGNED
April 8 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
EVERTON'S NEW HALF-BACK.
After the home match with Newcastle United Reserves on Saturday, Blyth Spartans transferred their right half-back, Tom Robson, to Everton. Robson, who is a native of Morpeth, played for Nothumberland against North Riding in an inter-county amateur match three years ago. Robson is 21 years of age, is built on strong lines, and is a player of considerable promise,

EVERTON RESERVES 3 BURY RESERVES 1
April 8 th 1929. The Daily Courier
CENTRAL LEAGUE (Game 38)
Bury's Championship aspirations were checked at Goodison park, after winning one of the best games of the season. Hesitancy by the Everton defence enabled Davison to open the visitor's account with a goal after five minutes, but an equaliser followed almost immediately, Attwood shooting through after Robbie had headed against the post. The goal by Ritchie which gave Everton the lead was a splendid one. Attwood completed the scoring. Everton: - Sager, goal, Cresswell and Kennedy, backs, Rooney, Forshaw, and Lewis, half-backs, Meston, Ritchie, Attwood, Weldon and Stein, forwards.

EVERTON AT HOME TO WEST HAM
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 09 April 1929
Bee’s Notes
The whirlwind of matches, teams and trophies continues to entrance the football enthusiast.  Tomorrow for example, he takes his choice of a multitude of interests; he can go to Everton to see West Ham and the Goodison Park brigade; it is a rearranged fixture, and in view of Dean’s selection for England, we shall have the pleasure, I have no doubt, in seeing White operate at centre forward.  This will revive memories of the day when White joined in a 7-0 victory over the same team, Dean being absent through an international call.  West Ham have improved in recent days and with many of the players on both sides playing for their places and “for keep” it should be a stern and good game. 

EVERTON SHOCKED
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 10 April 1929
WEST HAM’S REVENGE OF 7-0 DEFEAT
Everton kicked-off, having lost the toss to West Ham, in the rearranged match at Goodison Park-a match, by the way, in which Dean and Ruffell could not play owing to international calls on Saturday.  Collins, the West Ham half-back, made his debut here in 1925, and has since put up 153 consecutive appearance for the Londoners.  Accidents come in curious fashion.  Here was one to Critchley, who was hurt by his own man, Griffiths, the centre-half having moved into the goal-scoring area, and having kicked at the ball at the same time as his colleague.  While Critchley was nursing a foot Griffiths, from a position parallel to the goal, passed square, and a goal should have arisen.  It did not, and there followed a sample of Victor Watson as a winger instead of a centre forward.  He did not start well; yet when he shot Davies made a good pat down, even though the ball travelled over for a corner kick.  This corner was fatal and in ten minutes Gibbins, the amateur, had scored an easy goal, through Griffiths standing on the goal line by Davies failing to “kill” the ball, which passed out quite simply to the West Ham centre.  Gibbins put a shot to hand and then there was a comedy of errors on the part of the Everton defence O’Donnell failing to back heel the ball, and Kelly eventually putting through his own goal after Robson had shot.  There was no one more surprised than the striker, Kelly, but he was not wholly to blame for this goal.
AND A THIRD
Gibbins scored the third goal with a header from a centre by Yews.  Three goals in twenty-four minutes was in some measure revenge for West Ham for their 7-0 defeat here in a previous game.  True, Everton ha to face a wind that was severe and variable in its direction, but that did not altogether account for the “hiding” Everton were getting.  Hufton threw the ball half the length of the field; Easton shot high over; Critchley hit the side of the net after good combination with Easton; O’Donnell saved on the goal line from Gibbins, who latter failed with an easy chance (the goalkeeper being out o position, and Troup pulled a ball back from White, who screwed well to the right hand side of the post. 
Half-time; Everton 0, West Ham 3
UNAVAILING RALLY
In the second half, aided by the wind, Everton made a desperate attempt to put a better complexion on matters, and there were some rallying attacks.  Even so, Earle and Watson should have scored further goals, Yews offering them chances.  Easton took advantage of White’s delicious punts to make a strong shot, Hufton patting away for a corner which ended when Attwood put plenty of force into a harder to make Hufton pat the ball over the bar.  Everton were showing very necessary improvement. 

EVERTON 0 WEST HAM UNITED 4
April 11 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
EVERTON CRUMPLE BEFORE WEST HAM AT GOODISON PARK
GIBBINS SCORERS THREE.
EVERTON BLUNDERS.
GIFT GOALS FOR WEST HAM FROM DEFENCE.
Everton, in admitting defeat to West ham United by four clear goals encountered one of those days when not a single player could produce his known form. On the other hand, West Ham had a day out and everything they did turned out well. If the score had been heavier Everton could not have grumbled, for their goal had several marvelous escapes. West Ham opened in confident manner and it came as no surprise when they recorded their first goal after nine minutes' play. Watson was the provider and Gibbins, the amateur centre, the scorer. Gibbins received from Norris and cut in to shoot hard and true, only for Davies to effect a brilliant save at the expense of a corner.
CONSTERNATION.
Watson took the corner cleverly, and Gibbins headed goalwards. There was nothing dangerous about the header, but to the consternation of the spectators Griffiths who was standing in the goalmouth, could do no better than return the ball to Gibbons, who promptly accepted his chance to give West Ham a deserved lead. The second gaol was also given away by a defender in an effort to clear his lines. Yews had broken through after eluding the Everton defenders, and shot goalwards, Kelly would have cleared nine times out of ten, but added to the discomfiture of the Everton camp, he simply turned the ball into his own goal, to make West Ham two goals up. This shocked the Blues, and with the defence shaky West ham were continually on the attack. It was therefore, not surprising to see them go further ahead at the 22 minutes, when Gibbins again netted. Yews made a good run down the wing, and after a half-hearted tackle by O'Donnell he centred to Gibbons, who made no mistake in heading the ball well out of Davies reach. Davies made a couple of brilliant saves before the interval, and only for his work and some over excitement by the West ham vanguard, Everton would have been further in arrears. The second half provided a similar state of affairs, although Everton did make more attacks on the visitors citadel. Gibbins registered his own third and his side's fourth goal 20 minutes after the restart but it was Earle who made the point possible. Earle and Watson took part in some pretty passing before Earle sent in a terrific drive which rebounded into play off the crossbar, leaving Gibbins, who was waiting on the spot little to do but pilot the ball into the net.
ATTWOOD UNLUCKY.
Play was lifeless after this, and there never seemed any likelihood of Everton reducing the arrears. Attwood, the ex-Walsall player, was unlucky in having to make his First Division debut in a match in which none of the home players could find his form. Troup was again, the pick of the line, while Critchley only came in patches, White and Easton had a lean afternoon. The halves were all off, and it must be many a long day since they gave such an inept display. O'Donnell, was too prone to wander, and his tendency to dribble in front of his own goal gave the spectators many shocks. Davies was not at fault with any of the successful shots, but he was not quite so clean and confident as usual. One was left wondering how such artistes as Dunn, Ritchie, Weldon, and Forshaw, could be left out of the side. West Ham's “V” formation worked out well, and all their forwards advances were made in a decisive manner. Teams: - Everton: - Davies, goal, Common and O'Donnell, backs, Kelly, Griffiths, and Hart (captain), half-backs, Critchley, Easton, Attwood, White, and Troup, forwards. West Ham United: - Hufton, goal, Barrett, and Earl, backs, Collins, Norris, and Cadwell, half-backs, Yews, Earle, V. Gibbins, Robson, and Watson, forwards.

FIRST HALF GOALS.
Nottingham Evening Post-Wednesday 10 April 1929
" HAMMERS SCORING FORM AT GOODISON PARK.
The Goodison Park, in showery weather, before 10,000 spectators. West Ham were the more forceful, and GIBBINS gave them tho lead in nine minutes. Prior to this, however, Hufton twice saved. West Ham pressed strongly and KELLY, in trying to clear a shot from Yews, turned the ball into his own goal. This was after 16 minutes. GIBBINS added a third goal in 22 mimites from Yews' centre. Everton improved, _ White and Attwood missing good openings. Near the interval Davies saved from Hughes. HALF-TIME West Ham Utd. 3, Everton 0.

WEST HAM WIN AT EVERTON.
Yorkshire Post-Thursday 11 April 1929
Visiting Goodison Park, West Ham United gained ample revenge over the champions for home defeat last October, winning handsomely 4 clear goals. Everton had early shock when Gibbins put the United ahead after seven minutes, and few minutes later Kelly turned the ball into his own net. 'Six minutes after this Gibbins scored again. West Ham were clearly the better side, and a quarter hour from tho finish Gibbins put on a fourth.

WEST HAM’S REVENGE
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 11 April 1929
Bee’s Notes
It was a crushing blow at Everton, where West Ham played with Everton for long stretches, having gained the inestimable advantage of “winning the toss and kicking with the ride of winds,” as the Irishman put it.  Such a result as this was never thought possible because West Ham had lost some of their spar for away victories, that had been a habit with them for the last two years.  The win was merited, was not over-indulgent in a score of 4-0.  It might easily have been more, because the goalkeeping of Davies was good, and there was a time when West Ham ploughed through with their fine schemes and passing movements.  Mercifully Earle hit the upright, and Yews, who played the most delightful game of the 22, had a spell when he must have been spellbound, he standing in front of goal and outing the ball out of the empty goal when that feat seemed well-nigh impossible.  These are the results that are the salt of football.  They keep things going, and they keep us in a state of uncertainly.  They make us realise how easily a game can be lost. A bump away from Griffiths’ foot and the first goal was scored.  An endeavor to kick away by Kelly, and another goal was scored; but Kelly was not to blame.  The defence had got into a tangle, and two or three others ought to have stopped the ball before it came Kelly’s way.  West Ham were clever in many ways; but a defence that includes Barrett as a back should have been punished; whereas it was let off.  The whole Everton team went off its normal trail, if we except Troup, all through; and Davies, all through and Critchley for the first half and Common, in minor key.  It was West Ham’s forward-forwards that won the game.  They kept up the field of play, made attack the best defence, and kept the ball on the move, with sound passes, compared to which the Everton forwards and half-backs gave an inept display of bad passing.  Attwood bustled into the work on hand with some degree of success.  Nothing more need be added to this funeral note.  With Aston Villa playing so strongly Everton must play improved football to win, and the changes from yesterday ought to bring about more cohesion.  After all, the experience of Cresswell, Ritchie and Weldon should be beneficial in what is likely to prove a tight game.  The team is;- Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Ritchie, White, Weldon, Troup.  Everton reserves go to Oldham (Exchange Station 11.3) and the team will be;- Sagar; Common, Kennedy; Robson, Forshaw, Lewis; Meston, C. R. Webster, Attwood, Martin, Stein this is a strong eleven, and it will be noticed the new player Robson, from Blyth Spartans, is included. 

FOR EVERTON
Blyth News - Thursday 11 April 1929
The best of the history of Blyth Spartans is comprised of a happy blend of team glory and individual eminence.  Among those to be counted in regard to the latter feature is Tom Robson, who was transferred to Everton last Saturday.  It is a conclusive proof of the popularity of this 21-years-old Morpeth right half-back that his departure has created such conflicting feelings among the Blyth club’s supporters writes “Crofter.”  There is a feeling of regret that he has left croft and on the other hand a feeling of gladness he has been afforded the chance of winning his way to the elite circles of the game.  Robson will join other two ex-Spartans with the Everton club in Chester Common (New Delaval) right full-back and William Easton (Blyth) inside forward.  It is a noteworthy fact that all these three players started on their progressive career with the Spartans Reserves.  This fact alone is not only a smashing answer to those who decry use of a Reserve team organization, but it should also serve as an inducement to those local aspirants who are invited to come under the tuition and care of the officials who guide the affairs of the Blyth club’s Blyth and District League team. 

VILLA AT GOODISON FACE CRESSWELL AND COMPANY
Liverpool Echo - Friday 12 April 1929
Bee’s Notes
Villa come to Goodison Park at a moment when the stock has been taken and it has bene found wanting.  Cresswell’s and Weldon’s return, together with the introduction of Ritchie as an inside forward after being outside left and right –and outside altogether-make this always interesting game a sure draw the memory of past matches ensuing a capital game.  Everton; Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Ritchie, White, Weldon, Troup.  Goodison Park, Saturday next, Everton v. Aston Villa, Aigburth Silver Prize Band (conductor Mr. Harry Wearing).
March, “Kneller Hall”  Greenwood
Overtune, “Tancredit”.. Rossini
Foxtrot,  “Grand Rag Doll” …Lawrence Wright
Selection, “Leslie Stuart’s Songs
Foxtrot, “Shout Hallelujah Cause I’m Home’ ..: Lawrence Wright
Waltz, “Magic Violin”   Lawrence Wright
Foxtrot, “Dusky Stevedore” Lawrence Wright
Humouresque, “Three Blind Mice” (by request)… Douglas

THE HILLS OF LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Friday 12 April 1929
SOME PICTURESQUE POINTS IN THE LORE OF THE CITY
By Michael O’Mahony, the Rambler
N0.3.- SLEEPERS HILL
Whatever was the name or purpose of the person who first called the northern extremity of Everton Sleepers Hill is “wropt in mystery.”  To-day, confined to a single street the name once denoted an area of six or seven acres of gorse and bracken, sloping down towards the cluster of roofs which was Kirkdale village.  It was not its first name.  The district was originally enclosed from the surrounding common land by a man who called it “Cobbler’s Close,”  and this was the name it was known by in 1794, when purchased from the squatter by Mr. Thomas Barton, who had made a fortune in the West Indies.  On the site of the squatter’s cottage, Mr. Barton built a good house, which he proudly called “Pilgrim,” after a privateer of that name in which he had a share.  The “Pilgrim,” was the Liverpool ship which captured off Barbadoes a French ship called “La Liberte,” the prize realizing 190,000 pounds.  On Mr. Barton’s death the property passed to one Atherton, and was by him sold to Mr. Samuel Woodhouse, who in 1813 erected the fine mansion called “Broute House,” after the district in Sicily which gave the title of duke to Lord Nelson.  The Woodhouse family has long possessed an estate on the west coast of Sicily famous for Marsals wine, but Bronte is in quite another part of the island.  The application of the name “Bronte” to the wine arose in this way.  When nelson was in the Mediterranean, about 1804, he ordered from Messrs Woodhouse 500 pipes of Marsala for the use of the fleet.  When the order was being signed by the admiral, he said;
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“Woodhouse, let the wine be good, for my brave fellows deserve a good glass; and let me have a few pipes for friends at home.”  “I’ll do my best,” said Mr. Woodhouse; but added,” it wants a name you know; nothing goes down in London without a fine name.”  “Well,: said Nelson, “call it ‘Bronte” it is the name of my new estate.  “But,” objected Woodhouse, “Bronte is not a wine area; it is a nut district,”   “Never mind that,” said the admiral “What do the people in England know about Bronte?  Let it be Bronte.”  Bronte it accordingly was called, and hence the name of the house which, while often inaccurately supposed to have literally associations with a celebrated Yorkshire parsonage, was for over a century the home of a very old Liverpool family.  When first built, “Bronte” was not without suitable environment.  Breckfield-road had a fence overshadowed by fine old trees on the west side.  Three of four handsome mansions, with lawns and carriage sweeps up to them, were on the west side, the remainder of the way being grass lands enclosed by hawthorn hedges. A row of spreading beeches down Mere-lane was the delight of the local residents while Beacon-lane was a pretty by-way overhung with boughs, and having a leafy thicket on one side, in which there was a clear and abundant well.  The ending of the nineteenth century, memorable for much, and which saw the devastation of Everton, did spare Sleepers Hill; but while lofty trees and historic house went down before the destroyers who behaved as if they hated the sight and colour of a blade of grass, the goodly Woodhouse mansion, standing behind its gates, bravely held the builders at bay for several years.  It was still frowning at invasion some twenty odd years ago, for when Picton published his “Memorials,” he was able to say of this ancient corner.  “The Woodhouse have continued to reside on the property which still preserves much of its amenity.  The recent formation of Stanley Park adjoining has in this respect done good service in rescuing “Bronte’ from the hands of the Philistines in the grab of builders.”  Alas! Even as he wrote, pick and crowbar were being whetted for destruction and with the publication of his fascinating pages came the day of doom.  When I spoke to an Anfield milkman, this morning, of “Bronte House,” he said, “I’ve served round here a many years, and I never heard of it.”  Sleepers Hill today is a well-kept thoroughfare, from which radiates similar highways of similar neatness, each manifesting evidence of a blind obedience to the conventions which suggests the fidelity of bough and branch to the parent trunk.  There is similarity in the prevailing affection for smartly captured curtains, here and there the graceful aspidistra, everywhere well-polished letterboxes, and nearly everywhere a square of clean linoleum laid on the heart of the well-scrubbed doorstep.  The whole district is not unsuggestive of the conventicle of the Yankee quatrain. 
  “Inside twas spick and span.
   Outside ‘twas span and spick;
   Its windows were not Gothic,
   And ‘twas built of yellow brick.”
While redeemed from the common-place by the handsome spire of the Welsh chapel rising against the slope, and silhouetted against the misty space which is Stanley Park, the district may be said to be of the street streety; but whoever stands in or about the corner of Woodhouse-street is not far from where once rested the hearthstone of the house called “Bronte,” Distinguished in many ways, Liverpool can boast of some remarkable place names.  There can be found more than one Everton and many Waltons in the shires of England, Scotland, if put to it, could no doubt produce a Kirkdale.  I’m not sure that there could be found anywhere else in the country a Knotty Ash, or a Wavertree; but I’m thoroughly satisfied, though English place names excel in quaintness, that the kingdom would be sore set to find, say, another Cabbage Hall or a Sleepers Hill.  M. O’MAHONY. 

NO GOODISON PARK PANIC.
April 13 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
IMPROVED DISPLAY AGAINST EXPECTED.
The midweek debacle at Goodison Park caused much guashing of teeth and much gnashing of teeth and much trepidation in regard to the future. Everton are playing far below their real form, but there is scarcely cause for panic. Any rate “fans” will be more at ease today, even though the match is with clever Aston Villa, following the wise recall of Warneford Cresswell, Ritchie, and Weldoin. We should see something of the Everton we admire today, not altogether by the return to the fold of the three men mentioned, but also because Aston Villa are the kind of fellows who pull out the best in their opponents. You see, then a pretty match, with the possibility of revenge of Everton for the defeat at Villa Park, in the first game. The match starts at 3-15 and the team will be: - Everton' Davies; Cresswell, O'Donnell; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Ritchie, White, Weldon, Troup; Aston Villa; Olney; Bowen, Brittleton; (or Mort); Kingdom; Talbot, Tate; York, Beresford, Waring, Walker, Chester.

EVERTON ONE DOWN
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 13 April 1929
WARING SCORES FOR ASTON VILLA
A GAME OF THRILLS
GOALKEEPERS EFFECT SOME GOOD SAVES
Everton; Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Rooney, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Ritchie, White, Weldon, Troup.  Aston Villa; Olney; Brittlejohn, Bowen; Kingdon, Talbot, Tate; York, Beresford, Waring, Walker, Chester.  Referee; Mr. G.N. Watson. It was a particularly small crowd for a Villa fixture, and maybe the cause was the broadcasting of the “Scottish National,” or the fact that Everton did so badly in mid-week.  It was not a good day for producing the kind of match expected from the meeting of two such sides, because the wind was strong, and the ground so hard that the opening five minutes brought two thrills very quickly.  Hart created some trouble with a free-kick given against the lanky Talbot for a foul on Weldon, but that was nothing to the danger which came about when Waring cut his way clean through the centre, tapped the ball to Chester, and took up his position in the goalmouth for the return pass, which was too wide of him to be useful.  Yet O’Donnell completely missed his kick, and the ball finished up by passing the post by a foot, O’Donnell and Davies plainly being upset by the nearness to a goal.  Then White found himself well-placed but badly angled and unable to get the ball under control, so that Critchley had a chance to make an acutely-angled drive.  However, the ball bounced badly, and for the second time in a few moment’s somebody completely missed the ball. 
A DECEPTIVE HEADER
Griffiths made a splendid head away from a corner, and Olney, and the crowd as a whole, were all taken in by a header from White, who seemed to have put the ball well over the bar, but who, in reality, made Olney make a desperate late effort to put the ball over the bar.  Villa went from good to better, and, moreover, they judged a wind running with them perfectly.  Waring, who seems to have improved tremendously since he was here in the corresponding game last year, made another up-the-middle dash, and York, who was given a good chance when the Everton defence was spread-eagled, hit a fine shot, but an unlucky one, in that it hit the upright a thumping smack and rebounded yards up the field.  There was a lot of excellent half-back play, and Tate provided a lot of it with a number of right-foot passes to his partner Chester, who in turn, put most of his opportunities to good use.  Chester was challenged by Cresswell once, and in spite of the Everton man, was able to fire in a useful shot of fair strength.  Everton’s front line put plenty of spirit into their work, and they never came nearer to a goal than when White flicked the ball onwards from a Cresswell free kick, Olney having to get down to the ball very quickly, or than when White was crowded out by Brittleton son on the Sheffield Wednesday Brittleton, and the player for whom Everton had high regard when he played with Chester last season. 
WARING SCORES EASILY
It was a pity such a bright game should be marred when Troup and Kingdon had a duel in which the Everton man came off worst, the pair of them having something to say to each other, and the linesman chiming in, with the result that Referee Watson had to issue a warning.  Villa should have taken the lead at the nineteeth minute, when Chester put the ball high over the bar from a perfect position, but Chester atoned for this mistake when he offered Waring a square centre, from which the old Tranmere man easily scored.  The whistle went for offside a fraction of a second after Walker had headed through a minute later.  Everton very nearly got an equalizer through a simple mistake by Talbot, who handled the ball in the penalty areas as though it were a red-hot coal, even through there was no great danger when White was dribbling out to the right.  O’Donnell took the kick, from which Olney made a grand save, but that was not the extent of all the danger, because Bowen had to knee the ball out, and Olney had to make a sure catch before the movement finished. 
THRILLS IN PLENTY
Afterwards Everton were in more trouble when Walker shot, the spin on the ball being great enough to cause Davies to make a mis-handling offence which led to a corner.  Beresford’s surprised shot was a good one, because he had taken the ball well out to the left.  There had been plenty of thrills and it seemed as though there would be plenty more.  Villa’s job of holding to a goal lead was not lead was not an easy one, and Talbot, making certain of preventing a goal slipped the ball out for a corner, what time Olney had it well covered.  Bowen was lucky to get off with one handling offence, the second one having previously been the victim of the circumstances in which a player gets the ball to hand instead of his hand to the ball.  The interest fell away, Villa becoming very poor compared with the way they played in the first half-hour.  Half-time; Everton 0, Aston Villa 1. 
EVERTON BEATEN
A WARING GOAL WINS FOR VILLA
WELDON’S BIG MISS
BALL BALLOONED OVER BAR FROM FIVE YARDS
The second half opened with an injury to Hunter Hart, who was winded, and a twice-taken free-kick, O’Donnell having to improve upon his first mistake through Trainer Cook being on the field when the kick was taken first.  Villa were in the fashion when they twice all but got a goal, each time an Everton defender being on the goal line to kick away when all seemed lost.  The first movement was a splendid left-flank one, but it was curious that in each case York had the chance to score.  Olney’s goal-kicking against the wind was a feature, whereas Davies, at this point, failed to get hold of the ball properly, and might have let his side down had a Villa man been there to take the opportunity of a badly-executed goal kick.  Griffiths was easily the most out-standing Everton half-back, and there was not much difference between him and the three Villa halves, each of whom could give inches in height and a beating to the men they were marking.  It was as much the Villa defence could do to clear the ball a quarter of the length of the field, although Olney, who was barracked for being very deliberately about taking goal-kick, seemed to get his usual length well into Everton’s half with the greatest of ease.  Ritchie offered up plenty of good passes, but he had not been seen as a shooter until he made a fierce drive not very far off the mark.  Walker missed a “sitter” when he put the ball over the bar from ten yards’ range, with no one to say him “nay.”  The visitors’ goal lead was never in more danger than at this time, and Ritchie was only a shade too late in collecting the ball when Olney came out and blocked his shot away.  Villa were tremendously extravagant with most of their opportunities and York did not get half as much sting in the ball as he might have done. 
THE MISS OF THE MATCH
Ritchie went out to his old position to make a fine centre which created a pack of trouble, Brittleton’s head away being Villa’s savior.  There was still plenty of kick left in Everton, but it was kick in the wrong direction lifted the ball right over the bar from within five yards range.  This was the miss of the match.  There was no goalkeeper there, and all the ball needed was a tap.  Final; Everton 0, Aston Villa 1. 

EVERTON RES V. OLDHAM RES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 13 April 1929
After fifteen minutes Maddison opened the scoring for Oldham, and following this there were numerous thrills near the Oldham goal, Sagar being several times being resolutely tackled by Ormston, the Oldham centre-forward, when he had the ball.  A feature of the game was Ormston’s dash, and shortly before the interval he got the ball into the net, but was ruled offside.  With the wind in their favour after the interval Everton attacked from the start, and at the end of fifteen minutes, Lewis got the equalsier with a perfect shot taken from well outside the penalty area. 

STUD MARKS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 13 April 1929
By Louis T. Kelly

• Dean has, among other things suffered from rumour-tism in recent weeks
• It isn’t ever a nice task for visiting players to put a nail into the coffin of low-down opponents.
• Yet this was Everton’s painful duty at Cardiff and Bury
• White has occupied five different positions in Everton’s League team during 1928-29 (a record in Division 1)
• And has still to be tried in his original position –outside left.
• Davies is Everton’s only ever-present. Jackson and Morrison claim similar distinction
• Archie Goodall, the old-time Everton, Preston, Villa, and Derby stalwart, helped the Wolves in 1905-06
• In fact, his last appearance for Wolverhampton was actually at inside-right at Molineux grounds, that season when Everton won 5-2
• In their eight matches against Yorkshire opponents this season Everton have only earned one point out of a possible sixteen!
• This must be a record of its kind. The odd point, too, was picked up in the first match of the eight-v. Sheffield Wednesday at Goodison

EVERTON 0 ASTON VILLA 1
April 15 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
EVERTON'S THIRD SUCCESSIVE HOME DEFEAT.
WARING BEATS CHAMPIONS.
VILL'A FIRST POST-WAR WIN AT GOODISON.
O'DONNELL MISSES A PENALTY FOR NEVERTON
Everton suffered their third successive home defeat at Goodison Park on Saturday, when Aston Villa registered their first post-war victory there by a goal to nil. The fall of the Blues was not so disappointing as the score suggests, however, for they enjoyed by far the bulk of the attacking, and must be considered unlucky not to have obtained at least one point. When two such artistic teams as Everton and the Villa meet one expects to see super-football, but hopes in this respect did not materialise, for there was little combined work by either side, though the game pleased from the point of thrills. The all-important point was obtained after 22 minutes, and proved what an opportunist “Pongo” Waring is. Walker slipped the ball far out to Chester, whose centre outwitted Cresswell and fell in front of the post. Warting sprang forward and flicked the ball as it dropped. Davies having no time to more before it had struck the roof of the net.
EQUALISED MISSED.
Everton had a glorious chance of equalising five minutes later when Brittleton knocked the ball down as White was making tracks for goal in promising style, and the referee awarded the Blues a penalty on the appeal of a linesman. O'Donnell was anxious not to “blind” at the ball, so he carefully placed towards the top left hand corner of the goal. The effort would have beaten none goalkeepers out of ten, but Olney saved. He flung himself sideways and upwards to his left and effected a miraculous double-handed save. If ever a man deserved the cheers which greeted his clearance and the handshakes of his confreres it was Olney. As a matter of fact it was he, more than anyone else, who won the points, for he gave a faultless exhibition, bringing off a number of saves when it seemed that the goal must fall. Everton did most of the pressing, and at times they set their work with such goodwill that only Davies was left in the home half of the field. Yet it was the Villa who had more clear0cut openings, these being won by individual sallies carried out at high speed. Walker and Chester missed particularly easy openings, but the greatest “sin” of all was at the other end of the field when the ball came from the Villa crossbar right to the feet of Weldon, who was standing unopposed not four yards from goal. He shot right away, but landed the ball many feet over the bar. It was questionable whether he could miss scoring again in the same circumstances if he tried.
EVERTON FAULTS.
There was often a gap of almost 20 yards between the Everton forwards and halves when an attack was being launched, and so whenever the ball came out there was no one at hand to push it forward again. Rooney often tried to break through on his own, and these attempts were delightfully refreshing. The understanding was not too good either between any department except Cresswell and O'Donnell, and the tactics were not varied enough. Weldon was a “bag of tricks,” but Ritchie did not put enough dash into his work, though he operated coolly all through. White had to be content with trying to make bricks without straw. Critchley always waited too long before making up his mind what to do. Griffiths was the outstanding half from a defensive point of view, but his feeding was too serial altogether. One of his tackles off Waring was brilliant. Rooney tried hard all through, and only failed because he was so easily drawn on a false trail. Hart was not so good ass he usually is, being slow in recovery. Davies did what little that came his way well. Teams: - Everton: - Davies, goal, Cresswell (captain), and O'Donnell, backs, Rooney, Griffiths, and Hart, half-backs, Critchley, Ritchie, White, Weldon, and Troup, forwards. Aston Villa: - Olney, goal, Brittleton and Bowen, backs, Kingdon, Talbots, and Tate, half-backs; York, Beresford, Waring, Walker, and Chester, forwards.

DEAN CAP
April 15 th 1929. The Dairy Courier.
Scotland 1 England 0
At Hampton Park, in front of 110,500, England losing by a last minute dramatic goal.

OLDHAM RESERVES 1 EVERTON RESERVES 2
April 15 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
CENTRAL LEAGUE (Game 39)
Everton fully deserved their victory over Oldham Athletic at Boundary Park. Maddison scored for Oldham in the first half, and the visitors with the wind in their favour after the interval, got goals through Lewis and Attwood. Only good goalkeeping by Lloyd saved Oldham from a heavier defeat. Attwood was a clever and constructive leader, and Lewis a fine half-back. His shot which brought the first goal for Everton was a wonderful one. Everton: - Sager, goal, Common and Kennedy, backs, Robson, Forshaw and Lewis; half-backs, Critchley, CR Webster, Attwood, Martin, and Stein, forwards.

ASTON VILLA’S TEAM SPIRIT PREVAILS
Birmingham Daily Gazette - Monday 15 April 1929
FIRST VICTORY AT GOODISON PARK SINCE WAR
TTHRUSTFUL FORWARDS
EVERTON 0, ASTON VILLA 1
By Touchstone
Aston Villa gained their first victory at Goodison Park since the war when they defeated Everton on Saturday by 1-0.  This was Everton’s third successive home defeat, but they did not play like a team in the depths; they gave a fine exhibition of forceful football.  Villa, however, were the more convincing and a little swifter and more calculating in their movements, and upon gaining the lead after 20 minutes hung on grimly and thwarted all Everton’s efforts to save the match.  The game was in keeping with the traditions of the clubs, and although a strong wind and a lively ball often presented puzzling problems the players rose to the conditions, and their teamwork was not only polished, but kept a crowd of 25,000 interested to the last minute.  The best football was seen in the first half, during which Villa sparkling footwork, better ball control, and more dangerous marksmanship gave them the lead.  With only a goal dividing the teams at the interval Everton made determined efforts to equalize, but they were foiled by the splendid defence of the Midlanders.  The most outstanding figure in the duel was Olney, whose work in goal often commanded the admiration of the crowd.  Everton’s forwards were craftsmen in the manner in which they tried to place the ball out of his reach, but Olney parried all their efforts with ability, and cleared on several occasions in thrilling fashion. 
OLNEY SAVES PENALTY
His best feat, however was performed in the first half, when shortly after the Villa obtained the lead Everton were awarded a penalty, after Talbot had handled in the penalty area, O’Donnell took the spot-kick and Olney did not move until the back had made the shot.  Then he flung himself sideways and turned the fast drive round the post with his left hand.  Here Olney was at his best.  Bowen and Brittleton were staunch defenders as were also Cresswell and O’Donnell the Everton backs.  The day was one to give opportunities for the defenders to show their abilities, as each side in turn received assistance from a strong wind.  But throughout the contest the backs in both teams performed with credit.  In a strong Villa middle line Tate was notable for the assistance he gave to his forwards, who were led in a dashing manner by Waring.  The ex-Tranmere Rovers player had many friends present, and they were delighted when he scored the goal which decided the game.  He was given a centre by Chester, and he turned the ball into the net, out of the reach of Davies, in a cool and skillful manner. 
WARING’S FORCEFUL DRIBBLING
Waring was prominent for his forceful dribbling and when in possession of the ball he was always dangerous.  On each occasion he was challenged by both backs, who often had the assistance of a half-back to checkmate the Villa centre.  York and Chester were speedy wingers who put across many menacing centres.  The former also was within an ace of scoring when he hit the post with a hard shot.  Walker’s success as a schemer was often militated against by his anxiety to assist the defence.  Everton felt the absence of Dean, who was playing in the International match, for White who deputized lacked the finish of the famous centre.  Critchley and Troup, the wingers, centred with judgment and better use should have been made of the opportunities they provided.  Weldon had the best scoring chance during the game, for he took the ball on the rebound after White had struck the bar, and shot over with Olney on the ground.  Villa also had their chances of increasing the lead during the second half, but they failed to make use of their opportunities.  Their team spirit, however, was more convincing and entitled them to the honours.  Everton; Davies’ Cresswell, O’Donnell; Rooney, Griffiths, Hart; Critchley, Ritchie, White, Weldon, Troup.  Aston Villa; Olney; Brittleton, Bowen; Kingdom, Talbot, Tate; York, Beresford, Waring, Walker, Chester.  Referee Mr. G.N. Watson (Nottingham). 

HOME IS NOT HOME WHEN ""WIN" IS NOT THERE. 
Liverpool Echo - Monday 15 April 1929
By Stork
Everton's third successive home defeat was a big surprise for the depleted Goodison followers, who faithfully turned up for the Villa match.  Other matches between these two famous sides almost invariably produced football skill at its best, but this time the best was concentrated in the first half hour, leaving the spectators to ruminate for the remainder of a rather scrappy, if always interesting, game.  Waring’s goal –the game’s only one- was the least correct guide to the run of the game which might easily have been one of the tall scoring type.  Chances such as each side had, with moderately successful finishing, would have produced goals galore, but the fashion was set and Weldon, Rooney, York, and Walker did not take easy chances, the loft on the ball being noticeable in each case.  Everton were beaten by a combination of events, Waring’s goal was the main one, but others were their ill luck, their poor shooting and he fact that the Villa goalkeeper made a fine save from a penalty kick, conceded in a simple way by Talbot.  If Everton had been in their opponents’ League position and the Villa in Everton’s, no one would have been surprised by the way the teams played.  The winners were characterized by that “don’t care a hang,” effortless mood, whereas Everton were all fire and pressed for goal.  The defeat was due to the lack of size of the home forward line against men who had the ball every time it was in the air- and it was there a lot through the hard ground.  Ritchie provided many good passes, but his shooting was no better and no worse than other Everton forwards.  The Villa strike one as a team biding their time before making a very determined attempt to sweep up a championship.  “They are within hail of Sheffield,” says “Buzz,” “and should be hale and hearty next season. “ 

EVERTON NOT TO TOUR GERMANY
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 17 April 1929
Bee’s Notes
Everton F.C are not touring this season.  They were expected to go to Germany, but the matter has fallen through, and Newcastle United will take their place.
THE FUTURE
After witnessing a debacle for the last three games at Goodison, the Everton board must feel in queer street (says “Well Hammered”) as to their programme for the future.  Seeing that they spent a lot of money on finding the right talent, which has not materialized, they cannot very well “sack the lot,” they must get something back for their outlay.  It is quite obvious that the present playing staff must be augmented or we shall be a team less in the First League.  When will the Everton directors get about and spot “players” with “names” top make, instead of “names” with “players” to make? I suppose seeing that we are quite things will go on in the same old sweet way. 
LATE SPORTS WIRES
Though dean played for England against Scotland last week, he is not in the Everton team to visit Leicester City.  The team is; Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Ritchie, Dunn, White, Weldon, Troup.  The reserve team to meet Sheffield United at Goodison Park (Kick-off 3.15) is; Sagar; Common, Kennedy; Robson, Forshaw, Lewis; Critchley, C.R. Webster, Attwood, Martin, Stein. 

GREAT FOOTBALL ASSEMBLY
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 18 April 1929
EVERTON’S JUBILEE GATHERING
700 AT A DINNER
UNIQUE GATHERING OF NOTED SPORTMEN
PAST AND PRESENT LINK
Probably the greatest gathering of sporting heads ever seen in Liverpool, will assemble at the Philharmonics Hall on Wednesday next, when the jubilee of the Everton Football Club (1879-1929) is to be celebrated at a dinner.  Names to conjure with in the world of football from the dim and distant past to the bright and glowing future will figure on the list of from 600 to 700 guest. Although the Lord Major, Lord Derby, and Lord Birkenhead have unfortunately been unable to accept invitations the club expect to entertain the president of the Football Association, the president of the Football League, Sir Edwin Stockton, of Lancashire C.C., the presidents and secretaries of the Lancashire Association, the Liverpool County Association, the Central League, the chairman and secretaries of every team in the First Division, also of New Brighton, Tranmere Rovers, and Southport, while representatives of the Scottish, Irish and Welsh Football Associations will be present. 
OLD PLAYERS
Of the old players who have promised to attend, the veteran of the party will probably by John McGill, who played in the eighties and others well known to the older generation, George Dobson, Edgar Chadwick, George Eccles, Boyle, Crelly, Sandy Young, Fred Geary, Harry Makepeace, &c., &c.  Many ex-directors will be present, including Messrs Clayton, Bainbridge, Griffiths.  It is expected that a jubilee souvenir containing a history of the club will be ready to be presented to each guest at the dinner, and what a history it is! Ten years as a local football team playing friendlies around and about.  Then came the formation of the Football League, and for the forty years of its career the Everton team has retained its membership, the only football team in the country which has never yet been compelled to spend a spell outside the premier division. 
THE LEAGUE TROPHY
Once, it is true, they practically brought their way back by signing on players to save them from relegation, but as this is a legitimate move it is really a compliment to the astuteness of their management in choosing the right men to carry on the Everton tradition.  Although they will not have the League championship trophy as their prize this year, it will figure among the table decorations, because the team are entitled to hold it until the season ends, and, although it would seem that next Wednesday’s event will be a memorable gathering. 

S.DAVIES’S NEW CLUB
Birmingham Daily Gazette - Thursday 18 April 1929
APPOINTED TEAM MANAGER TO ROTHERHAM UNITED
Stanley Davies, the Welsh International forward of Cardiff City and formerly of West Bromwich Albion and Birmingham, has been appointed team manager to Rotherham United F.C. Davies has find a remarkable career.  During the war he became a Signaling Sergeant and saw much active service.  He won the Mons Medal, the Military medal, and the Croix de Guerre.  He was originally of the Army Signalling School at Dunstable, where there was a player from Rochdale.  Davies was asked to have a trial with the Rochdale Club, and when the war was over he signed for that club.  He rapidly came to the front and was soon transferred to Preston North End.  In 1920 he played for Wales in all the three international encounters and season after season he was “capped.”  In all he played for Wales on 19 occasions, occupying in one game or another almost every position on the field.  In 1920 he was transferred to Everton at a fee said to be 4,000 pounds, but he did not stay twelve months at Goodison Park.  In November 1921, he made another move, being signed on by West Browmich Albion, for whom he played six seasons.  In November 1927, he was transferred to Birmingham, and towards the end of last season he joined Cardiff City. 

BRONTE HOUSE
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 18 April 1929
The old Bronte house referred to in the article on “Sleepers Hill,” stood in Walton-lane at the top of Fountains-road and Barry Street.  It was pulled down about forty-three years ago, and I was one of the carters who removed the bricks to build new property in Bedford-road, Bootle.  An Iron mission hall was later built on the site and this was replaced by the present church.  I hope this information will be of some use to the writer of the “Hills of Liverpool.”- WM. Cave.

TRIP TO THE SOUTH FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Friday 19 April 1929
Bee’s Notes
Everton go on a southern trip with a team that has set tongues wagging, but they probably have not realized that Everton meet the Arsenal on Monday evening, and that there will doubtless be some “fresh” members for the Monday game.
Everton, with their right-wing formation, go to Leicester, and hope to see from that flank some rich football. Perhaps the pair can give away from home what they cannot produce to a critical audience such as Goodison Park.  It can easily be that way.  Certainly it is no use blinking the fact that Dunn in particular has not done himself justice, and that his name is on the list of players on offer marked “At his own request.”  Other names include the sharp right-winger, Meston, Dixon, Hardy, Jones ex-Bournemouth, and Dick Forshaw, to mention the main ones that come to my memory.  Everton at Leicester tackle one of the sides that should have made Sheffield “jumpy,” Leicester have in Cup and League failed when least expected, but their form has been an attractive pattern, and they play football- which is a redeeming clause, whatever the result may show.   Arsenal’s game on Monday versus Everton will recall past Cup-tie excitement and League game charm; two days following we meet at the Phil, for the jubilee –and then the final ties at Wembley.  It is a fast-rushing football wind-up.  Everton; Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Kelly, Griffiths, Hart; Ritchie, Dunn, White, Weldon, Troup. 
“J.A.G,” writes;-
In view of the efforts of the Everton F.C, to win matches, I thrust you will pardon the liberty I am taking in asking you to be good enough to publish what to my way of thinking may be a winning combination;- Davies; Kennedy, O’Donnell; Cresswell, Griffiths, Hart; Easton, Virr, Dean, Weldon, Weldon and White. I do not suggest this as a team for next season, but just to finish up the present campaign with the addition of a few more points.  Cresswell at right half would, I think, be a success in view of his intelligent anticipation and ability to place a ball. 

TEAM CHANGES
April 20 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
There are only five teams in the whole of the Football league and the First Division of the Scottish League who have not been beaten at home in a League match this season. Leicester City are one of these teams –The Wednesday are the other, this in the First Division of the Football League –and today Everton, who at this time last season were about to be crowned with a Saint's halo, instead of the Dunce's cap, which some would like to see them this term, pay a tremendous visit to the awesome Filbert Street ground. I am not taking Any laid today, Winston Churchill of no Winston Churchill. The Everton plough has experience rough going in the past month or so. Only a strange trick of fate, how often have you seen fate with shooting Boulton? Can give them success today –or Conan Doyle's spirits, I will say no more –I am tried. Teams; Leciester City; McLean; Black, Brown; Duncan, Carr, Ritchie; Adcock, Hine, Chandler, Lochhead, Barry; Everton, Davies; Cresswell, O'Donnell; Rooney, Griffiths, Hart; Ritchie, Dunn, White, Weldon, Troup.

LECIESTER CITY 4 EVERTON 1
April 20 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
EVERTON'S PECULIAR FATE AT FILBERT-STREET.
CHAMPION'S BAD FINISHING.
LECIESTER'S DEADLY SHOOTING GAINS THE DAY.
Everton suffered a peculiar fate at Filbert-street, Leciester, for, after having had equally as much of the play as the local team, they were trounced by four goals to one. Time after time clever inter-passing and guile took the Champions into their Leicester territory, but the manner in which they got down to the task of clinching matters was disheartening, to sat the least. Each side attacked in turn, but there was one thing, which made the City the better team, and so deserving of the points. This was better deadly finishing. Snap, fire, the ability to worry and unsettle the opposing backs, and willingness to shoot-all these things were missing in the Everton ranks, to be found among Chandler and Co.
HEART-BREAKING
In few matches this campaign has there been such a good understanding –a workable understanding –between each department of the Everton side, but it was heartbreaking to see it all come to nothing. They led one to expect goals and then disappointed. The City were lucky to be two goals ahead at the interval, but they had the happy knack of being able to pile on agony when the spirit of the Champions was at zero. After 32 minutes a fortunate goal placed them in front, and in less than 30 seconds number two had also been chalked up. The first was unsatisfactory in that Chandler attempted to screw the ball in from the goal-line after Davies had been drawn out. It was up to O'Donnell to do all he could, but when he played, the ball twisted off his foot into the net. He could not help it, and it is possible the shot would have scored had he not touched it, but there it was. The City returned post-haste, and when O'Donnell lost track of Adcock the elusive winger tapped back for Hine top shake the net. Hine also got the third after an hour, flashing a shot into the roof of the net after Davies had knocked out a close-up attempt by Adcock.
WHITE'S GOAL.
The next goal came the way of the Blues, and it was a good one, Weldon, who had gone to outside-right, though injury, slipped a low centre across for White to register as Black came into tackle. The City quickly restored the margin when Davies partially cleared from Adcock, and the ball ran to Lochhead two yards out. Lochhead was certainly surprised but though he stumbled once he managed to do the needful. The Everton defence was excellent, especially in view of the astuteness of the home forwards, and Davies, in particular, came through a harrowing afternoon with nothing but credit marks. The side was well served at half, where hart was the shining light. Griffiths was also a tower of strength. Forward, chief credit went to Troup, who crowned spontaneous and classic field play with good shooting. Dunn and Weldon were as artful as foxes and always got plenty of work on the ball, but why cannot they display the same skill in finishing? White was much the same –he failed at the last obstacles –and Ritchie did not put half enough life into matters to be effective. Teams: - Leciester City: - McLaren, goal, Black and Brown, backs, Duncan, Carr and Ritchie, half-backs, Adcock, Hine, Chandler, Lochhead, and Barry, forwards. Everton: - Davies, goal, Cresswell (captain) and O'Donnell, backs, Rooney, Griffiths, and Hart half-backs, Ritchie, Dunn, White, Weldon, and Troup, forwards.

EVERTON AT LEICESTER
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 20 April 1929
TWO MINUTES’ LAPSE, TWO GOALS DOWN
CITY FORWARDS SHARPER IN FRONT OF NET
By Bee
Leicester City; McLaren; Black, Brown; Duncan, Carr, Ritchie; Adcock, Hine, Chandler, Lochhead, Barry. Everton; Davies; Cresswell (captain), O’Donnell; Rooney, Griffiths, Hart; Ritchie, Dunn, White, Weldon, Troup.    Again we struck the dusty roads and a light ball, yet the early play suggested that the two teams were all out for good-class football, and the ball was kept on the earth and used to some tune. Kelly was unable to play, and Rooney came in, starting quite well.  Cresswell resumed the captaincy, and the first point of note was an effort by Troup,who gave forward to White, and, in spite of the visiting centre-forward being well on the left wing, he got in a nice shot, even though McLaren was not beaten.  He repeated the dose a moment later when Troup offered him another one, and hurt his hand on the hard going.  Davies made a beautiful one-handed save from Hine, and Griffiths used his head with rare strength and success, while Cresswell and O'Donnell placed themselves accurately and ably.  Everton's early spurt in attack was followed by a collection of attacks by Leicester, and when Weldon failed to charge Chandler off the hall the home centre put in quite a useful effort, there being pace in his shot but the direction was a yard out of the left post. 
SPARKLING PLAY. 
Troup, White, and Dunn, the last-named moving to inside-left, made combination that would have been hailed with muchapplause had the game been played at Everton. Indeed, the form of Everton was a revelation compared with the form shown against Sheffield United. Dunn, for instance, made a magnificent dribble, and alto dispossessed the goalkeeper, while Troup, with little space in which to work, shot sharply and awkwardly, McLaren picking up.  Griffiths followed with a long shot that passed slightly over the bar, and when Leicester returned to the attack O'Donnell and Cresswell were almost cheeky in their defence, but their trickiness gained them the glad hand. Chandler charged Weldon full in the middle ofthe back under the referee’s nose, as it were, and from a free kick Black made a very timely clearance three yards from goal.  O'Donnell became a forward for a moment, and made just one dribble too many, so that his intended shot did not arrive. The football of the visiting side was much more like their championship type than any I have seen for five months.  Lochhead had s strong drive just over the bar, and Leicester were the keener shooters. Everton being able to get a blow at McLaren. Griffiths smothered Chandler when the crack centre forward was looking dangerous, and later the same man was offside, the whistle going after Chandler had shot badly from an easy position. 
DUEL AT THE CORNER. 
Rooney became a forward for a moment and made a brave attempt to open score by moving out of position, while Ritchie, who had not had much chance so far, went on to have a duel at the corner flag with Brown. He tried to kick the ball on to Brown's legs to make a corner, but the ball spun along the goal-line, and Ritchie was able to get in his centre.  The position came undone through a back heading out.  Hine made a strong attempt to open the day's book of scores, Davies making a good catch. The referee, Mr. Gould, of London, was soundly castigated by the crowd of 15.000 spectators for refusing a free kick against Griffiths for an alleged trip. McLaren had to pick up some oddments; it is most difficult one being a curling shot from Weldon.  Everton, who, by the way, played in white through the clashing of colours and kicked against the wind after, having won the toss, must have thanked Davies for the spell of good goalkeeping that kept the scoresheet clean. After Barry had wasted a shot, Weldon helped the defence by lying back and kicking clear, and Davies made a great save from Lochhead after Cresswell had been beaten for pace alone by the young Barry.  Chandler made an overhead hook after O'Donnell and Davies had cut in and not closed the way to goal. Davies, then held tightly a free kick by Carr from the half-way line, and after White had been punched on the jaw by the goalkeeper, who tried to punch away a corner kick, O'Donnell headed out and Hine left a nice chance to Chandler, Davies pushing the hot shot over the  bar for a corner.
DOUBLE PENETRATION
Again Mr. Davies- the Everton goalkeeper-caught a very hot shot from Chandler, and the chance should have been easier because the goalkeeper left his goal about four yards.  However, after half-an-hour of goalless football Leicester snapped two goals in two minutes.  In the thirty-second minute a goal without any semblance of prettiness yet carrying much effect came to Chandler, O’Donnell helping the ball into the net on the left-hand side.  This was a shock, and in one minute there came a second goal, this time to Hine, as a direct result of a duel between Adcock and O’Donnell.  O’Donnell had apparently won the battle, when Adcock persisted in his endeavor and followed the ball, Hine completing the work.  O’Donnell must have felt vexed by the turn of events, for he made two enlivening runs half the length of the field, and it was a great pity that one of them should be spoiled by the offside trap on White, while the second nearly gave a goal to Ritchie.  Troup put an angle shot against the upright, and the final point of the first half was a great piece of heading away from the goalmouth by Griffiths when Lochhead shot hard and true, and the defence had stopped playing, expecting an offside decision which did not come.  Leicester had been the more penetrative in attack, and Everton’s first half-hour’s form faded down when Leicester clapped on the two goals.  Half-time; Leicester City 2, Everton nil. 
EVERTON FAIL
PIERCING METHODS OF LEICESTER
WHITE’S SINGLE
CITY PENETRATE GOAL FOUR TIMES
Everton began the second half in just the same excellent fashion as they had opened play, and now that they had the wind in their favour one looked to them to produce some work for McLaren instead of making many attacks with no shots. 
LEICESTER’S THIRD
However, they were still lacking in that important point, and at the hour Adcock broke clear, drove the ball hard against Davies’s legs, and the rebound o the ball let in Hine to score an easy goal.  Troup was often centering accurately ad once nearly scored direct with a corner kick.  Weldon jarred his foot in an attempt to shoot, and Chandler put a fast shot slightly over the bar.  Troup juggled admirably, but the run of the ball was against him.  Leicester had a solid two minutes in Everton’s goalmouth without being able to score, and Troup made Everton’s best drive, putting the ball swinging just over the bar.  Chandler had an offside decision against him that was lamentable; but the same man put Davies out of action with a full-blooded charge.  Cresswell was in among the forwards; but there was a preponderance of Leicester attack and their forwards wanted little encouragement to shoot, whereas Everton’s front rank were unsettled in front of goal and; finally Weldon had to go to outside-right through his injured leg, Ritchie changing places with him.  Rooney was quite successful against the clever Lochhead, and the fast young Barry, but Hart was having a hard time against the lively Adcock and scheming Hine.  Troup looked to be the only man likely to score for Everton and he had one good shot saved by McLaren.  Griffiths joined in the shooting, while Dunn placed White for a shot through an ankle tap.  Dunn also made a long shot which McLaren handled easily. 
WHITE REDUCES THE LEAD
Everton got some recompense for their general play when they scored at the end of eighty minutes, White shooting hard into the goal.  Weldon, the improvised outside right, made the centre which caused the goal, Hart being original mover in the three-piece scheme.  Leicester were upset by this blow, but Davies had to punch away.  He was plainly nerved, however, by Chandler’s charge and knock-out blow.  Rooney was limping, and Weldon was carrying on nobly in spite of his troublesome thigh.  Leicester were incontestably the sharper in front of goal, and the margin was not severe, considering how they had played.  Yet Everton had many excellent shows in midfield play. 
THE LAST GOAL
Five minutes from the finish Hine made a capital juggle hooking the ball over a defender, and although Davies was able to divert the ball with an out-stretched hand he could not stop Lochhead scoring quite easily.  Final; Leicester City 4, Everton 1. 

EVERTON RES. V. SHEFFIELD UTD RES
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 20 April 1929
Although Everton scored through Attwood following good work from Easton in their first raid, and later augmented this was a second from Attwood, it was not until mid-way through the half that the interest developed.  The home side had proved the master attackers, sharp and snappy in every move, and with Yorkshire defence finding the sun a severe handicap.  Everton kept Alderson well employed.  Kennedy, the visiting centre-forward, headed a simple goal for United, who now made a game effort, but it was short-lived, for Everton galloped back into the attack, and Stein and Attwood added two more goals.  The Yorkshire defence had proved uncertain in its work, and the half closed with Easton hitting the crossbar.  Half-time; Everton Res, 4, Sheffield United Res 1. 
Shortly after the resumption Easton headed a fifth for Everton, while Kennedy reduced the lead.  Three-quarter time, Everton Res 5, Sheffield United Res 2.  Meston (2) and Easton took the Everton total to 8 and so uncertain was the visiting defence that it seemed likely Everton would reach double figures before the finish.

EVERTON AND LIVERPOOL ATTENDANTS’ REUNION
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 20 April 1929
On Monday evening, the historic Sandon Hotel was filled with song and mirth, the occasion being the annual reunion night of the Everton and Liverpool turnstile attendants, when some seventy members made merry.  Brief speeches were made by Messrs Barker, Wallace, and “Stud-Marks,” Mr. George Patterson, the Liverpool secretary, was present, although suffering from a severe cold; whilst Messrs E. Jones and Summerskill, in their role of chairman and secretary, carried out their duties in excellent fashion, as did Mr. Williams in charge of the artistes.  Among those who served up the serious and the funny stuff were Messrs, “Billy” Matchett, Boesden, F. Fletcher, Jack O’Rourke, Will Martin, Fred White, Bert Jones, George Kerl, Jack Hughes, Foukles, Corkill, Crossley, Tom Shannon, Frank Williams, Fred Kitoker, Will Cubby, and Pincers, &c.  An especial feature was the fine singing of the “Apollo” Quartet Party, whilst E. A. Tubb, at the piano, played a pleasingly important part.  Among those present was one, Mr. E. Wright, who has had an uninterrupted service as turnstiles attendant ever since “Everton entered the League in 1888, and is still busy” clicking.” 
CHESTER FC
Chester give a trial to Rose, an Everton “A” player, at outside left.

STUD MARKS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 20 April 1929
By Louis T. Kelly

• Owing to loose ligament trouble Albert Virr won’t play again this season, and will also need to “gang warily” during the summer months.
• His loss to the Everton side has been severely felt
• Dean’s third successive appearance as England’s leader by no means constitutes a record.
• “Bobby” Jones the ex-Everton keeper, is being watched by more than one big club, we hear
• Everton earned 23 away points last season

EVERTON RESERVES 8 SHEFFIELD UNITED RESERVES 2
April 22 nd 1929. The Daily Courier.
CENTRAL LEAGUE (Game 40)
At Goodison park. The Sheffield defence offered such poor resistance that the heavy score might easily have reached double figures. Even allowing for the fact that the United lost Davies services with a leg injury after 15 minutes in the second half, it is no excuse for the loser's overwhelming defeat. The visitors were decidently weak at half and full back, while Alderson, although having no chance with the goals, has often played better. Everton in contrast played brilliant football. The goals were scored by Attwood (3), Meston (2), Easton (2), and Stein, while Kennedy was responsible for both of the United's points. Everton: - Sager, goal, Common and Kennedy, backs, Robson, Forshaw and Lewis, half-backs, Meston, Easton, Attwood, Martin and Stein, forwards.

EVERTON SPARKLE YET ALCK ‘HEART”
Liverpool Echo - Monday 22 April 1929
By Bees
There has been nothing to equal the rise of Liverpool and the fall of Everton- it is a weekly affair, and the only paralled case to Everton’s is the amazing fall of Huddersfield, who from being favourities for the Cup and having an outside chance of championship honours, have slipped to a region known as the danger zone- all within a period of five weeks.  This football business is a severe test of nerves and nous; no prizes for the people near the top and many bricks for those who are in trouble.  There was a murder with a brick outside the Leicester ground last Friday, and there was nearly a murder inside the ground next day, Everton being swamped near the finish of their game.  Everyone of us knows the full strength of Leicester, possibly the most excellent mixture of Scottish and English, and a dash of Welsh at outside left; they are a great side, especially when Duncan comes in as a leader at half-back.  They said he was done- he’ll never be done, his tenacity refusing to accept such a suggestion.  I said Everton were nearly swamped- well, that is a truth yet Everton had spells of football excellence that made one remember the past successes.  The inside forwards stated well; the general tenor of the team was that of a side that was content to play good football, and succeeded thereby.  They failed through a goal being scored just when they were at the pinnacle of their attacks.  Rooney had nearly scored, and he played well; Weldon went to kick a ball down, and crocked himself.  A goal would not have been sufficient to win this game.  Everton, however, closed up when a second goal came in one moment. 
A PRESSING NEED
It is not a new complaint against Everton that they had apparently no heart yet plenty of sparkle.  The fizz of their champagne of football was soon out; men of their standing-maybe they have been standing too long- should not be worried out of their normal game by the rub of the green.  They had no heart to fight back, and even if we find Hart, Weldon and Rooney all limping, we are still left with the memory of a forward line that was disjointed.  One begins to wonder whether forwards have lost the joy they had; the joy of shooting, I mean, McLaren had little to save except White’s clean-cut goal –the best of five moderate ones- and Troup’s endeavor.  White ploughed on, leaping to the air to get a ball fit for angels alone; he headed it, he took knocks and bumps; he never forgot endeavor, while some others had cried “Enough.”  The right wing experiment –for that is what it was in view of the fact that Critchley had been described as having played well against Villa-was not successful.  There was no powder and shot, but this must be stated-Dunn did some delightful things in midfield, and got nothing to prove his worth in this direction.
TARDS FASTER
Leicester were yards faster than Everton in every rank, and that was one of the secrets of their well-earned success.  Leicester had two clever inside forwards who could and would shoot.  Chandler was the mere buffet-he blazed his own trail, and was a trial to Davies through the manner of his hefty charging, which brought Davies over his line for a free kick for what is called dangerous play by Referee Gould.  Davies, as a matter of fact, was superb.  Four times he reached back to retrieve the ball for a goal, and a dozen times he made capital catches and clean saves, and there was a time when O’Donnell saved him with a header, and Griffiths made a spectacular save with the head just as Blenkinsopp had done at Hampden Park a week earlier.  Oh, yes, there were incidents in plenty, and there was some good football.  Everton, however, slipped back into their shell so readily that Leicester should have punished them with a pile of goal.  The losing side was in its vexatious mood; the capacity for control was there; the trickiness was there, and contrariwise the ball was too much in the air to allow forwards to gather it, and the lack of shot was almost appalling.  The style of play suited the home people, who have been brought up on good lines, and if Carr did not play his usual demonstrative game the side as a whole was wise and convincing and clever.  Leicester will always be a power in such conditions, and one marvels how they came to throw away the championship with never a match lost at home this season in League affairs.  The call for reserves at the Arsenal ground is severe, and the Everton club is hard placed to find half back substitutes.  An S.O.S on Saturday brought Easton and Martin to London this morning, and I believe Dean who has been south this week-end with the team, will be centre forward and White inside left to-night at Highbury.
EVERTON NEEDS REMODELLING
As matters stand to-day, even allowing for injury, the Everton side would seem to need remodeling in at least two lines. The excellence of their midfield play against Leicester, for instance, only aggravates the fact that there is no tangible result to such work near goal. It is odd that one of their players, Rooney, who has been with the side about six year, was only signed afresh a few days ago, after his name had been” added to the list."  Rooney played well against Leicester’s schemer Lockhead. He had an innings with South Liverpool years ago, as did Gillow, manager of Grimsby, whom we met. As Messrs Sawyer and H. Banks were in charge of the Everton party this week ,one's thoughts turned lightly to South Liverpool—Lucas, who  was on the point of joining them;  Finney, who started with them; Gillow,  Rooney, and others. I hope to-night to chronicle better news regarding the Everton team's effort way down South. 
EVERTON V ARSENAL
Everton (v. Arsenal, tonight), play Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Rooney; Critchley, Dunn, Dean, Martin and Troup.  Hart, Ritchie, and Weldon are injured. 
FOOTBALL AND CHARITY
The Everton Football Club –as part of the sum it sent to the League of Well doers from its charity match- was the host on Saturday evening at the League’s 2,096th free “food and fun” treat for poor children, when prettily-garbed young pupils of Miss N. Hough provided a pleasing entertainment. 
EVERTON F.C’S TEAM SHEET
STARTLING CHANGES FOR ARSENAL GAME
Everton F.C will create something like consternation by the changes they have made for the game at the Arsenal ground to-night.  It was patent at Leicester  that some changes were necessary owing to injury, but actually only two changes became necessary on that account, Weldon and Hart being unfit to play to-night.  However, there has been an S.O.S to Liverpool, and the result was that this morning Forshaw, Critchley, and Martin made their way to London to join the party there, and when the final selection was made it was found that Forshaw was chosen centre-half, Griffiths moving from centre-half to right-half.  Martin came in at inside-left, White and Dunn were omitted and Dean reappeared, while at inside-right Ritchie has another spell after one outing at outside-right.  The team against the Arsenal reads; Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Rooney; Critchley, Ritchie, Dean, Martin and Troup. 

LECIESTER’S GREAT RECORD
Athletic News - Monday 22 April 1929
Still unbeaten at home and only one to play
LEICESTER CITY 4, EVERTON 1
By Roman
Leicester City may not win the championship, although on their general form the honour would not have flattered them, but providing they do not fad in the only outstanding home engagement they will have had the distinction of fulfilling their whole League programme without reverse on their own ground.  Leicester had only runners-up honour to hope for when they received Everton, but they played like champions.  It was a demonstration that constructive football can be developed, even when the ground in a gusty wind.  Leicester did not master these conditions immediately.  This was perhaps more than they had a right to expect, and for nearly half an hour Everton gave as good as they got.  Then the City found their best form.  Two goals came in less than that number of minutes and in the end Everton had, to a large extent, to thank Davies, their goalkeeper for enabling them to escape an even heavier defeat.  Leicester found the secret of success in keeping the ball low.  Half-back and forward lines dovetailed almost perfectly.  Everton began in a manner that suggested a closer fight.  Earnestness went a long way towards making Leicester look anything but a safe proposition; in fact, the City had no little difficulty in clearing their lines on occasions and had any of the other forwards been able to shoot with the same enterprise and directness of Troup, easily the cleverest and most dangerous of the visiting attack all through, the game might have pursued a different course.  White, who led the line while Dean, who only a week ago played for his country, looked on from a seat in the directors’ box was bustling, but his best shooting came too late.  True, he did not receive very great support from the other inside forwards.  Dunn seemed lacking in confidence whilst Weldon did his best work after he moved to the extreme wing through an injury.  To begin with, Everton’s defence compared more than favourably with that of the home side.  Cresswell’s positioning and clean kicking were reminiscent of old times, while Griffiths was masterly both in stopping and starting attacks, but the skill and understanding attained by Leicester later in the game would have caused the stoutest opposing to waver. 
LECIESTER’S STRENGTH
O’Donnell was tireless, a strong tackler, and discreet purveyor throughout.  It was not easy to individualize where Leicester are concerned, for when the side got into their stride they did not reveal a weakness.  Hine’s return, after three weeks’ absence was very satisfactory, although with his knee still bandaged and wisely exercising a certain amount of restraint he gave added punch to the attack, whilst Duncan, skillful forward as he has proved to be, seemed more at home in the half-back line.  Chandler led the attack with enthusiasm that proved infectious, and his ability to outwit the attentions of Griffiths was the prime factor in turning the game so much in Leicester’s favour.  Chandler scored the opening goal when the game was little more than thirty minutes old by shooting past Davies as the goalkeeper advanced.  O’Donnell, in trying to avert disaster, only helped the ball into the net.  A minute later a neat pass by Adcock was swiftly converted by Hine, who scored a third a quarter of an hour after the restart when Davies could only block Adcock’s shot.  Ten minutes from the end Weldon broke away to give White an opening to score, Lochhead replied with another goal for Leicester from an easy opening.  Leicester.- McLaren; Black, Brown; Duncan, Carr, Ritchie; Adcock, Hine, Chandler, Lochhead, and Barry.  Everton; Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Rooney, Griffiths, Hart; Ritchie, Dunn, White, Weldon, and Troup.  Referee; Mr. G.T. Gould, London. 

EVERTON LOSE AT HIGHBURY.
Yorkshire Post- Tuesday 23 April 1929
Arsenal defeated Everton at Highbury yesterday in moderate game, which was witnessed by 15,000 spectators, by 2 goals to nil. Everton were handicapped from the first minute owing to injury to Martin, who could only limp about on the wing. Clever work by Jones enabled Jack to open the score for the Arsenal with a smart shot after four minutes. Seventeen minutes from tho end Parker converted a penalty kick given against Cresswell for handling. Everton defended admirably, but their forwards were mastered by the Arsenal halves and full backs.

ARSENAL 2 EVERTON 0
April 23 rd 1929. The Daily Courier.
DAVID'S JACK WONDER GOAL.
BALL HOOKED INTO NET WHILE HIS BACK IS TURNED.
EVERTON DEFEAT.
Everton made drastic changes in their side to meet the Arsenal at Highbury, and before they had time to settle down to anything approaching a working understanding the Arsenal took the lead with one of the finest goals scored on the ground this season. Jones, who had worked the ball down to the goal-line, passed back to Jack, who, with his back to the goal, hooked it round well out of Davie's reach. O'Donnell took a flying leap into the net, and just missed heading the ball out.
MARTIN HURT AND DEAN HITS WOODWORK TWICE
Everton were thus in arrears at the end of five minutes, and at the same time, add to their misfortune, it was noticed that Martin was limping badly, and he had to change places with Troup. He was a hobbling passenger on the line for the remainder of the game. Dean made valiant efforts to get his side on level terms, but always found himself outnumbered, for Butler, Parker, and Hapgood seemed to have a special mission in subducing him. This they accomplished with a fair amount of success, owing to the lack of support for Dean from his colleagues. They did not, however, prevent Dixie hitting the foot of the post in the first half, with Paterson beaten, and heading against the crossbar in the second half, when the goalkeeper was again very uncertain of saving. While so much attention was being paid to their centre-forward it would have been a paying policy for the other forwards to have taken risks and indulged in more shooting, because Paterson, in the home goal, was none too safe under pressure.
CRITCHLEY NEARLY SCORERS.
Critchley did, however, try two chance shots during the opening chapter. The first almost caught Patterson napping, and the second he was very lucky to tip over the bar. Although the visitors never really recovered from their early misfortunes, they improved considerably in the second half, and were so persistent that they had the home defence well extended, and were playing such purposeful football that they deserved to meet with success. They received their final blow, though, 15 minutes from the end, when Cresswell, for some unaccountable, reason, handled a harmless pass by Brain in the penalty area. The Referee did not hesitate to award the full punishment, and Parker gave Davies no chance with the spot-kick , which he placed, well to the right. This unfortunate occurrence marred an otherwise masterly display, which, in conjunction with O'Donnell's had been a feature of the game. They covered each other with such superb judgement that Davies was never seriously troubled.
FORSHAW'S TASK.
Forshaw, in his unaccustomed position, did fairly well. He had a stiff task in holding Jack, but received good support from Griffiths and Rooney, who were too much occupied in defence to be of great assistance to their disjointed forward line. There were 18,000 spectators. Teams : - Arsenal: - Paterson, goal, Parker and Hapgood, backs, Baker, Butler, and John, half-backs, Hulme, Brain, Jack, Peel, and Jones forwards. Everton: - Davies goal, Cresswell (captain), and O'Donnell, backs, Griffiths, Forshaw, and Rooney, half-backs, Critchley, Ritchie, Dean, Martin, and Troup, forwards. Referee A.J. Weaver (Grimsby).

EVERTON’S LAMENTATIONS
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 23 April 1929
A GAME WITHOUT ANY LUCK
Bee’s Notes
Everton have had some severe fortune when visiting Highbury, the Arsenal ground.  They had cruel luck in a Cup-tie there, and their League fortune has bene nil.  But surely yesterday crowned all.  The difficulty of team formation was heightened through the week-end form at Leicester, and there followed some means by which further inroads into the eleven were created.  Let me show you in a few words the difficulty of the situation. 
This was the team at Leicester;
Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Hart, Griffiths, Rooney; Ritchie, Dunn, White, Weldon, Troup.
This was the team for the Highbury game as it started;
Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Rooney; Critchley, Ritchie, Dean, Martin, Troup
This was the team for an hour in the game under review, Martin being hurt in one minute;
Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Rooney; Critchley, Ritchie, Dean, Troup, Martin
And finally it finished in this phase;
Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Rooney (Injured); Martin, Critchley, Dean, Ritchie, Troup. 
A STRANGE SIDE. 
I As if that were not sufficient; it is only necessary to add that Dean shot a ball against the upright an headed one on to the bar, that O'Donnell and Rooney suffered injuries. If you look through the original selections you will find that the side chosen bore a strange appearance and that some of the men were in strange positions; but in the end of this night and summery game only six men were in the positrons for which they are known. Can it be wondered that they were beaten two goals to nought? Not for a moment.  But let me add this: Until a penalty goal came at about the last gasp of the game there was a great chance of Everton wearing down the opposition. The Arsenal got windy about their slender lead; a lead, mark you, that came from a snap and angled goal when Martin was nursing his injury off the field. Jack took the snap, and the snapshot did not, as is customary, bear the Everton men down for the rest of the game. They fought back and showed sparkle and spirit against a superior side any eleven men should be superior against ten men.  Martin would not go off, but he was utterly incapacitated and could not even stop a ball that was running into touch. I don't desire to make excuses for any side; but here is a case where there is some cause for showing delight at the splendid effort made, and chronicling the effect of the introduction of men such as Critchley and Forshaw. Forshaw is probably the best at left-half, in case any further injuries arise! As a centre-half he did much good, and Ritchie in his uncommon inside position worked hard, and finally had a trip that prevented his getting a really great solo goal—he did not even get the referee's verdict, so that he had good cause for complaint. 
THE TURNING POINT. 
The game started in the evening, it bore an end-of-season air for some time, but when Griffiths had pocketed the elusive Jones, his Welsh compatriot, and done a lot of spade work, together with Forshaw's fine intuition for where the ball would be sent. Everton came into the region of a drawn game. They were smarting under the stress of having to pull out a little bit extra, and all did their part well, if not succeeding in making a draw. The game was clean, hard, and interesting, and finally Everton were pressing the London side into a severe defensive measure. Paterson making saves, and Parker, who has not missed a game of any sort for three years, being hard pressed to keep Hapgood from failing. Parker set Hapgood and two others to watch Dean, by the way. Meantime it is necessary to point to the turning point of the game. It came near the end, when O'Donnell reached his hand out playfully to stop a ball, and, failing to connect with the ball, the right wing went on with the attack and centred. There was no danger, but apparently Cresswell sensed some, and he handled deliberately. Parker put paid to the weekend account. Even so, Everton fought resolutely and well to the finish, and got some rounds of applause- notably when Troup curled a ball togoal, and when Ritchie went through; also when Critchley made some of his sound runs and centres. 
AGAINST ODDS
It was no disgrace; this defeat was something to ponder over; it showed that Everton have the men, and the spirit of willingness to battle against odds has not left them.  Arsenal were often raiding, but they were not sure shooters, and the work of Davies, Cresswell, and O’Donnell got through in the opening half was excellent.  The half-backs work all round was of good quality, but the run of the ball plus the mixed medley of team sheets, caused by injury, &c., brought a further defeat.  Jock Macnabb came up to see the game, and to accept our congratulations on his part in his side’s promotion; and Fred Pagnam, ex-Liverpool, was there looking for new talent and praising Neil McBain’s consistency and brilliancy.  Everton need not be despondent at tomorrow’s feast of Jubilee celebrations; the latest defeat was one that would not occur again in a hundred matches, and the difference between the side at Leicester and Highbury was most marked- and pleasurable.  Here was a struggle against odds and against Fate.  You can’t beat Fate; that’s a sure winner with “pounds in hand” every time. 

EVERTON’S HISTORIC JUBLEE
April 25, 1929. The Liverpool Echo
The Veterans have a “complaint
Bee’s Notes
It is not an easy matter to dine and wine a party of 600, and I had grave misgivings how Everton would carry through their mountainous task –a Jubilee with their large army of friends. The Philharmonic was a capital setting; there was amplification of the speeches made, and some “blasting” when the autograph hunters tended to interfere with the smooth running of an historic and memorable night. I cannot do justice to the gathering in one session and must leave the affair to the verbatim report provided by “Blackstaff,” in the “Football Echo.” My views must be cursory and commentary, but at the outset I must pay tribute to the officials for the holding of the crowd, and the excellent manner in which the memorable occasion was carried through, then I must say how happy we all felt to link up with the musty past. It was a great joy to sit besides the great men of other days and nothing gave me quite such a thrill as the intervention of Lord Derby, who came straight from the famous 5.55 and at once created an atmosphere in the gathering that accounted for the rare enthusiasm at this point. Then Lord Derby told us of the joy the King and Queen had experienced when at Goodison Park in 1913 they had seen the schoolboys and schoolgirls giving their amazing display. Their Majesties had told, by latter their delight, but here, sixteen years after, was a revival of the gratitude of the Royal household that they had been privileged to witness such a display as this. And who if us at the gathering will ever forget the scholar-scheme and the colour –scheme? “Uncle Stalky” heard the Derbyan statement I am sure.
A Suitable Chorus
I think just one chorus song, as above, would have been suited to the occasion last night, instead we had to be content with a sort of roll call, such as we used to experienced at school. Mr. Cuff, the chairman, called upon the men one by one, beginning with the oldest of all, Director Alfred Wade –a proud moment in his life –then we had a filmed view of the men who made Everton famous. I can’t detail all; but I was glad to note the wellbeing of them all; Edgar and Arthur Chadwick, looking alike save for the silver threads. Edgar said “Send me paper, don’t ee forget.” Jack McGill, who still does useful work for the local football association; W.H. Parry, a West Kirby ,man and former Captain. Tom Booth, another captain, Jack Taylor, silver haired and still going strong, the man who held the cup aloft along the road ways of Liverpool in 1906, an occasion when it is definitely stated I sported a top hat and frock coat –well, I’d willingly do the same again if we could have another cup victory in our city. J.D has son playing rugger; so has Jack Parkinson. Then up spake Fred Geary, bowler and billiard man. H.P Hardman sat at the top table, because he is a director of Manchester United, Charlie Joliffee; Bill Stewart, lucky to be alive, although his recent injury cost him three inches of one leg; and the Marriott’s, and forgetting the clean-cut and still finely constituted Bill Briscoe my old friend of mine.
Friends from Everywhere
Around the board one found friends from Birmingham in Mr. Lane and Mr. Harry Morris, both directors of Small Heath when I was a lad there; the Villa and Newcastle, Manchester City and United, Newcastle United through “young” Mr. Watt, Jim Galt, another former captain, a man who plays off two at the gold courses –therefore a man to be feared just as he was feared on the football ground –one could go on for hours in this strain; Bob Balmer and Crelley suggested I did not remember them –who could forget? Mr. Ted Robbins was there paying just tribute and in an ulterior moment asking for Griffiths to be allowed to go to Canada with the Welsh F.A, Mr. Tom Crompton, chairman of the Liverpool Football Club spoke through the “mike” and reminded us that he too was an old Everton player. But the oddest point of a joyful night was the request of one of the old school of players who asked me not to call them “Veteran,” he was dead serious about it too. So well christen them the “W.O.P” –otherwise the “Wonderful Old Players” Not veteran –sounds too autocratic and ancient. These are epoch-making dates; I myself am joining in them. May they long be memorized in the think-tank.
Lord Derby’s Joke
Mr. Bracewell represented Burnley and denied the O’Dowd and Burton swopping story. New Brighton and Tramnere had their representatives there, and Mr. Barritt and the chairman of Blackburn sat near the old players, and the cry was “Eureka!” when Messrs Cartwright and McConnell made their bow. The ladies were there in goodly numbers and though the crowd was a big one, I fear some of them missed Lord Derby’s cute joke. He hoped to see Everton’s supporters packed like Sar-Dean’s in a final tie at Wembley. The League championship cup, held by Everton during the past season, and other trophies were displayed. Mr. W.C Cuff, chairman of the Everton Club, presided. Mr. C.E Sutcliffe, proposing “The Everton Club” referred to the pleasure it gave him to see the old players and paid tribute in individuals players including Harry Makepeace, who would go down to posterity as one who never caused any trouble to anyone. Whether it was the players on the field or the directors off the field. Everton always gave the public full value in real, meritorious football. “If I were asked to name two of the finest sporting clubs in the country,” he added “I think that I should place Everton first as a real, good, honest sporting club, that has made its mark in the world of sport,” Everton was one of the clubs whose name was not only respected in Lancashire and England, but throughout the whole world.
Pioneers
Mr. Cuff, replying, indulged in a retrospect of the Everton club’s history. He referred to the pioneers movements which the Everton club inaugurated such as the institution of goal nets invented by Dr. Brodie, the then city engineer; the publishing in the programme of details of the home and visiting players; numbering the players on the programme and indicating changes on the board; showing results on a telegraphic indicators, setting aside a League match as a benefit to a player and guaranteeing a £500 benefit to a player. “The one outstanding feature of the club” he added” has been the ideal that whatever the result the team would play a scientific type of football, and I feel that we have achieved that ideal. Mr. Cuff went on to pay tributes to many of the old players, to old directors to the players and directorate of the present day, and to the sporting public. Mr. Ernest Green vice-chairman of the club, giving the toast of the guests, referred to the great pleasant it gave them to welcome Lord Derby, who never spared himself in the interests of his country, and in particular of Lancashire, while his interest in sport was well known.

EVERTON'S JUBILEE.
Yorkshire Post -Friday 26 1929
Lord Derby's Consolation and Hope.
"As long as we live there always the hope that next season will bring off the double event by winning the Football Association and the Football League Championship. One hundred and thirty-seven years elapsed between my family first won the Derby and won it again, so you may take consolation with me and go on hoping, said Lord Derby, speaking the jubilee dinner of tho Everton Football Club Liverpool Wednesday. Mr. W. C. Cuff, chairman the club, presided, supported by directors and representatives of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish F. A.'s, and several old members of the club were present. The Mayor of Accrington, Mr. R. Watson, for Mr. John McKenna, said that Everton had played in the Lancashire Junior Cup, and from that position had succeeded in winning the championship of the League and F.A. Cup, although in different, seasons. Mr. Cuff recalled that 1889 the Football League was composed of tho twelve best clubs in the land, and Everton was one of them. The club had maintained an uninterrupted membership of First Division of League ever since that date and was tho only club the country to have done so.

MANCHESTER UNITED AT EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Friday 26 April 1929
Bee’s Notes
Manchester United’s rise has been electrical since they chose to take Tom Reid.  Swansea wanted him, but would not pay the money.  Manchester were more determined and better placed financially.  Manchester United believe it was the greatest stroke of signing they have made for some time.  Manchester are due at Goodison Park tomorrow.  Everton (?) Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Rooney; Critchley, Ritchie, Dean, Martin, Troup. 
EVERTON’S CHANGES
Everton (v. Manchester United, at Goodison, 3.15)- Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Hart; Critchley, White, Dean, Easton, Troup,.  Everton Reserves at Preston, Sagar; Common, Kennedy; Robson, Dickson, Lewis; Weston, C.R. Webster, Attwood, J. Templeman, and Stein. 

THE HILLS OF LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Friday 26 April 1929
SOME PICTURESQUE POINTS IN THE LORE OF THE CITY
By Michael O’Mahony, the Rambler
NO.4. –ELLIOT HILL
When the worshippers who attended Newington Chapel complained of its distance from the centre of the town, when Renshaw-street was a stiled path to the country, and when the townsfolk on summer evenings came out to eat strawberries and “fruit in season” under the spreading boughs of Ranelagh Gardens, Elliot Hill rose a sloping green mound above the trees.  Change of title for hill came with the founding of a copperas works by Mr. R. Hughes, who was mayor in 1756.  Owing to their effect on the surrounding orchards the works, after a tedious lawsuit, were closed in 1770; and though their effluvium passed away the new name, now become an old one, stayed on, if it isn’t destined to remain forever.  Who knows?  On the left side of the slope going up once stood two windmills, the lower one owned by a rough, violent character, the upper one by a man of placid temper.  Differences between the neighbours were frequent, and one day the owner of the upper mill left his place to go into town and was never heard of more.  As he had to pass the mill of his enemy going down suspicion fell on the latter, but as nothing could be proved and as it was in the sinister days of the pressgangs, when men often suddenly disappeared, the affair in time faded into tradition.  In 1810 Joseph Hadwen, a member of the Society of Friends, brought the lower mill, which was close to the end of Hotham-street pulled it down, and erected a school on the site.  When the foundations were laid bare, the finding of a skeleton in a grave sunk in the rock was accepted as the solution of the “White Mill Mystery.” 
CHASING THE HARE
About this time, too, “Red Dick,” who, according to Stonehouse, “was an atrocious ruffian,” was hanged for murder in a field off Copperas Hill, and in the opinion of the period, “not before it was time.”  So countrified did the district remain up to the beginning of the last century that a hare was chased down the hill by Lord Sefton and his hounds.  While passing the house occupied by one of the five “Harveys,” Miss Harvey, then a little girl, ran out at the back door so suddenly as to turn the hare and throw the dogs out,” “whereupon my Lord Sefton and all the gentlemen did swear most lustily.”  If hounds chased a hare down Copperas Hill today it is as certain that the dogs would be “thrown out” as that the swearing would not be confined to the huntsmen, for the neighbourhood is of the street streety and crowded with houses.  Turning into it from Lime-street you find yourself in an atmosphere
(Unreadable to this point in Echo)
your spirit is shed of artistry, you find yourself lingering by the window of a small shop on the rising left pavement.  It is full of richly-coloured old violins, and is soothingly reminiscent of the pre-jazz days of our youth when among the people that on earth did dwell, those who lived in Liverpool greatly favoredgood music.  It is a mellow note in a grey setting, a window to linger by, even while the spirit of St. Simon’s still beckons you on. 
THE CAXTON PRESS
It doesn’t, however, beckon you too much.  At the junction with Skelhorne-street the hill becomes more of a thoroughfare and less of a street than ever.  The drab iron walls which have long replaced roofs on the north side, which, while their panels offer ample opportunity to youthful lady writers, who, armed with bits of chalk, seem ever anxious to inform all fellow citizens that “Maudie Jones is soft,” are suggestive of nothing more romantic than traffic and the rights of railways; and before it reaches Moor-place it peters out inconsequently.  The hill should not be without honorable mention in the history of literature in Liverpool. A corner of Bolton-street was the site of the once-famous Caxton Press.  At the end of the eighteen century, when the popular taste for literature began to manifest itself, and when such periodicals as “Chambers’ Journal” held the field afterwards shared by “Bow Bells” and the “London Journal,” the demand was met in an interesting manner, Old-fashioned and voluminous works were spilt up into serial issues of numbers containing one sheet each, in the distribution of which armies of travelling agents or “number men” were employed, who scoured the country, not only finding their way in the courts and alleys of towns, but penetrating to the remote recesses of the country.  By this means such works as “T. Pilgrim’s Progress” and “Robinson Crusoe” found their way into many a lonely cottage, which would otherwise be without fruit for the mind. 
A 36,000 pound fire
One of the most enterprising men associated with the “Caxton” was Jonah Nuttal, who, retiring on 1820, purchased an estate near St. Helens, which he called Nutgrove.  A versatile associate of the concern was Samuel Drew. A native of St. Austell, in Cornwall, and the son of a day labour, Drew, who during a hectic youth was shoemaker, smuggler, cudgel-player, scapegrace and orchard robber, and who only learned to read in his
Unreadable in Echo
Continuing- expanding city to thousands of mothers Copperas-hill is today the best known street in the heart of Liverpool.  At the corner of Bolton-street, where once stood the building of the Caxton Press, stands the modest-looking but ever purposeful Welfare Centre.  To its doors daily come wearied women to go away refreshed in spirit and strengthened by promised help which they know will not fall their.  Through those open –rest unreadable. 

EVERTON AT HOME
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 27 April 1929
GOALS BY HANSON AND GRIFFITHS
UNITED LEAD AT INTERVAL
“DUVAL” DESCRIBED LIVELY PLAY
Everton; Davies; Cresswell (captain), O’Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Hart; Critchely, White, Dean, Easton, Troup.  Manchester United; Stewart; Moore, Dale; Bennion, Spencer, Mann; Spencer, Hanson, Beat, Rowley, Thomas.  Referee; Mr. F. Robinson, of Blackburn.  Dean lead the attack for Everton’s last home game, and Reid, who has done much to revive the Manchester side, was an interesting figure on his leaving the Liverpool club.  In the first minute Reid made a characteristic effort with a long drive, which Davies was ready to deal with, and Dale standing on the goal-line was just able to push the ball out when Dean headed in from a corner.  The early play was good, though there was very little of special interest. 
TWO QUICK GOALS
At the end of seven minutes, however United scored through Hanson, but credit for this success really belonged to Reid, who, following up cleverly, beat O’Donnell, and with a square pass into the centre of the goalmouth left Hanson with the easiest possible chance.  Everton replied with a goal a minute later, when Griffiths nodded the ball into the net, and with the teams on level terms play became more interesting and keen.  One of the best incidents hereabouts was a brilliant effort by Dean.  He followed up a long pass, and with a clever touch flicked the ball into the United empty goal.  Fortunately for Stewart, who had left his goal, the ball bounced outwards, and United got out of a very awkward position rather luckily.  Reid was keen and alert for a snay opening. 
GRIFIFTHS INJURED
Griffiths was injured, and left the field, and White moved over to right half position.  Thomas did some good work, and opened out two glorious positions, from one of which Hanson struck the woodwork.  White made a capital run, and with Critchley, Dean, and Troup taking a hand, Easton was left with a capital opening, but he shot very wide.  O’Donnell was applauded for some excellent work, and a miskick by Moore was covered by Stewart.  There was more danger at the other end when Spence crossed the ball and Thomas, with a tremendous drive, was unlucky to have his shot blocked.  Then came a fine effort by O’Donnell when he took the ball along and drove in a hard shot which Stewart handled well.  Reid was in his usual energetic mood, and required a deal of watching, and at this stage Griffiths returned.  Play was bright without being brilliant, and thus far neither side could claim any particular advantage.  Reid forced a corner, and his dash made the United attack a very live force.  Hanson should have scored, but he made poor use of a capital position.  Mann got the ball away after some neat work by the Everton forwards, and Davies reached out for a high shot by Thomas, and Rowley headed wide from a square centre by Spence.  After Davies had cleared from Thomas, Everton made one of their best efforts which ended when White sent the ball very wide.  Forshaw, who was operating in an unusual position, was hardly a success, and his weakness was responsible for the Everton inside forwards being rather neglected in the matter of chances. 
REID REGAINS LEAD
At this stage Griffiths went to outside-right, with Critchley inside and White as a right half-back.  It must be admitted that the United attack was more dangerous than Everton, and at thirty-nine minutes Thomas got through, and placing into the Everton goal Reid was able to give United the lead for the second time by heading the ball into the net.  Everton were awarded a free kick a few yards outside the penalty area, and although White sent in a half shot, the ball went a trifle wide.  Easton got through and finished by sending the ball into the United goal, where Steward picked up nicely, what time Dean dashed into the net and was penalized for a foul on the United goalkeeper.  It could not be said that Everton’s shooting was good.  The forwards had chances but they were rather indefinite in front of goal. 
Half-time; Everton 1, Manchester United 2. 
EVERTON BEATEN
DOUBLES FOR HANSON AND REID
GRIFFITHS RETIRES
CRESSWELL SCORES FIRST LEAGUE GOAL
Everton resumed with the same formation as they finished the first half, and Griffiths about in the out-side right position.  Thomas rounded Cresswell in great style, although he could not improve upon his good work, and the referee refused a penalty against O’Donnell, whose handling was merely accidental.  The 25,000 spectators applauded Griffiths for a plucky effort in spite of his injury, and Troup went near after Dean had provided am opening.  Still, the Everton inside-forwards were poor, and most of Dean’s work was wasted.  O’Donnell took the ball well up the field, apparently with the object of showing the Everton forwards how to shoot, but his shot cannoned off a United player, and both Easton and Critchley made poor attempts to find the net.
HANSON’S BRILLAINT GOAL
The referee stopped the game to say a few words to Spence, who apparently questioned the referee’s decision regarding a corner against United.  At sixty-one minutes Hanson scored a third goal for United with a brilliant shot.  He got the ball from Davies, who kicked it out, and the ball went straight to Hanson, who without hesitation drove it into the net.  A moment later Davies made a capital save from Spence, and several of the United players made attempts to get the ball past Davies without success.  Play deteriorated, and several of the players were far more vigorous than necessary.  Fifteen minutes from the end Griffiths left the field, and Troup provided one on Everton’s best chances and afterwards got through with a nice shot which Stewart caught high up. 
CRSSWELL’S GOAL
Play was of a rambling order that did neither side much credit.  Three minutes from the end Cresswell took a free kick a couple of yards outside the penalty line and scored his first goal in league football.  At the 89th minute, Reid headed through from a centre by Thomas.  Final; Everton 2, Manchester United 4. 
Mr. McIntosh, the Everton secretary was watching the Sunderland-West Ham match this afternoon, and our Sunderland correspondent learns that the object of his visit was to watch Andrews, the Sunderland left half-back. 

STUD MARKS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 27 April 1929
By Louis T. Kelly

• To reach the Cup final Portsmouth have travelled 350 miles to play six games, and Bolton Wanderers 300 miles in playing their seven games
• Yet Everton journeyed 386 miles in their first and only tie –v. Chelsea
• Curiously, Everton’s only really poor home gate has also materialized in the West Ham match.
• Everton won the League last season with 53 points.  The Wednesday should about equal those figures

EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS
April 27, 1929. The Liverpool Football Echo
Historic Gathering of 600 at the Philharmonic Hall
Great Record of a Pioneer Club
Old Players Listen to their Feats in the Light of History –Epoch Making Reunion
Full Report of Speeches
By Blackstaff
Everton F.C celebrated its fifty-year career by a banquet at the Philharmonic Hall on Wednesday, April 24. There were over six hundred people and a feature of the gathering was the sight of famous players of the early year days, who listened to eulogies of their deeds, and signed autographs by the hundred. In view of the tremendous interest with the attainment of fifty years’ unbroken connection with the highest class of football has caused among Everton followers all over the world, the “Football Echo” presents a full report of the proceedings for the especial benefit of thousands who could not be present.
No vivid description is necessary –the speeches tell the whole story, that is last season’s story, it is the hope of the future, along with the elusive companies, the Cup trophy. When shall they meet again? That is Everton’s concern after fifty years of football.
Mr. W.C. Cuff, chairman of the club, presided at the jubilee dinner, which was held in the Philharmonic Hall where over 600 were seated. Having taken wine with various sections and individuals, including the several ladies present. Mr. Cuff invited the old players to drink with him. He said; The first name I will mention is one who played in the Everton team in 1878-79 –Mr. Alfred Wade, I ask that the players as I name them will stand up, that I may have the honour of presenting those who carried the banner of Everton in days gone by to the notice and acquaintance of the present day players. Mr. Alfred Wade having stood up and received his ovation, Mr. Cuff proceeded I now pressed Mr. Jack McGill, Mr. George Dobson, Mr. Robert Smalley, Mr. W.H. Parry (captain in 1879), Mr. Edgar Chadwick, (the famous Hookie”), Mr. Alfred Chadwick (his brother); still hovering about Blackburn, Mr. Tom Booth another centre half-back and captain when we won the English Cup; Mr. John Taylor. Then going back to ancient times, May I introduce you to one of our famous centre forwards –Mr. Fred Geary (loud applause). The next name I have to present to you at the famous captain Mr. James Galt, and coming to another favourite who was in the championship team –Mr. Harold Hardman, and yet another of the team that won the championship –Mr. George Crelly (applause).
Of Stanley Memory
Charlie Joliffe, Bill Stewart then with memories of Stanley Park –William Briscoe and a contemporary of his Mr. H. Williams. Let us remember with friendship two brothers whose name was Marriott. Mr. Tom Marriott is not with us now, but William Marriott is. Then we come to another well-known player, Mr. Fred Core, likewise Tom Costley, and the last name I have the pleasure to bring forward is that of Johnny Holt (prolonged applause). Other well-known former players present but not named were T. Fleetwood, G. Harrison, J. McDonald, Harry Makepeace, Harry Cook, J. Elliott, L. Weller, T. Crossley, and R. Balmer.
F.A and League
Mr. Cuff next proposed the toast of “The Football Association and Football League” He said; “It is quite unnecessary for me to deal at great length with these two very excellent bodies. You are all aware that we are attached to one great sport under the auspices of the Football Association, which is the parent body and which controls and generals the sport in all its directions so far as play on the field is concerned and that, of course is a very important function. The Football league, however, is a member of the Football Association and, if I may say so a very important member of the Association. It performs its duties as obtrusively, and with obvious regard and respect for the players body. It provides the competitive spirit; it provides the match for the various towns and cities in Great Britain for an afternoon’s entertainment.
Keen Competition
The competition is keen in the three Divisions of the English League. I will not say anything more except that I am sorry to say that owing to indisposition our worthy president of the Football league and our worthy vice president of the Football Association (Mr. John McKenna) is unable to be with us tonight. He had hoped to be with us up to the last moment, and I am sure you will regret as he regrets that he is not able to come. “In the absence I am going to ask you to drink the toast of the Football Association and the Football League and to couple with that toast the name of Mr. Richard Watson, Major of Accrington.
Mayor of Accrington
Mr. Richard Watson (Mayor of Accrington) responding said “I rise to respond to the toast that you have pleasingly streak to the health of the Football Association the noble body and gathering football in this country. I have belonged to the Association for very many years and every man who is at the table I have seen before –on the football field or in some connection with the game. My memory goes back to the Everton Football Club as it was originally. Many happy hours I spend on those occasions when Everton had to play in the Lancashire Junior Cup. From that time onwards you have come to a position when you win more than one championship and even the F.A Cup. I hope that success may attend the efforts of the Everton directors and the club itself in the future during the next fifty years as during the last fifty years (applause). I was going to say that I have only one regret and that is that probably I shall not be here at the next-banquet; nevertheless if I am not here perhaps I shall be somewhere else looking on (laughter)
Football Association’s Part
I appreciate the great honour, if I may say so of being asked to respond on behalf of the Football Association. As a member of this body, I think we do our best though I know perfectly well we don’t always please, it would be a bad job if we did. You want a decision, you get it when you want it, and sometimes before (laughter). Again to the directors and to all present I say with a grateful heart how pleased I am to be present here this evening and I wish success to all connected with the game of football, I would like to close with this plea – put your best into the game and you will get the best out of it (applause).
The Everton Club
Mr. C.E. Sutcliffe on Measure of Esteem
Mr. Charles E. Sutcliffe proposes The Everton Club,” He said I don’t know that I altogether like the fancy of talking into a sort of Noah’s Ark (a reference to the microphone that created laughter), I am afraid that sometimes that ought to go ill will never get in, and that something will get out that ought not to got out. I want first of all to thank the Everton directors for the privileges of attending this jubilee dinner and celebration (applause). Very often, on all occasions like this there is some rankling as to which is the greater toast. There is no doubt to-night, because I shall carry everyone with me when I say that my toast is pre-qainently the toast of the evening (applause). If you don’t believe it, hear it (laughter). Had it not been for the Everton Football Club none of you would have been here. Then I have personally the pleasure of seeing some of the old Everton players here under conditions that it is impossible for them to give any trouble (laughter). I knew a few of them in the past, and if I could have carried out my wish with one or two, I suppose they should be absent. My old friend Johnny Holt won’t mind if I say he was one of those (laughter). He caused no end of trouble, and there is Edgar Chadwick, who thought he could argue with the best lawyer in the land (laughter). But it is a real pleasure to us to see them, and see them looking so well- (hear, hear) –even my old friend Harry Makepeace –Hear, hear) –who I think, will go down to posterity as the one player who never caused any trouble to anybody (hear, hear).
Universally Esteemed
Having said that, I want to say that I have got rid of the worst of my toast because I don’t know a club in football whose name stands so richly respected so universally esteemed as that of the Everton Football Club (applause). Right through from the commencement of the club they have always sought –not only the players on the field, but the directors –to give the public not only full value for their money in any competition in which they took part, but full value for their money in the exhibition of real, meritorious football (hear, hear).
A Sporting Club
If one were to sit down and write the names of the two finest sporting clubs of course a lot of you would write your own club first and Everton second. If they were subjected to censorship, I think you would more often have found that the name of the Everton club would have stood first as that of a really good honest sporting club (applause). You are good workers and you have made your mark in the world, but you have not always made your mark. I could mention something that would be intimate, but I don’t want to give you the blues, and I could mention a name at the other end of the ship that would mean an unhappy day in the life of the lot of you, one who is very, very miserable. But that is all in the game, and when all is said and done, whether you win or whether you lose, I do honestly believe that the Everton players and the club itself are always highly esteemed and respected. The full measure of estimation is not what you yourself think of it and neither our friends nor our enemies are the best judges. We have got to get down to the sport who can afford to pay a tanner a week.
The Cracks
I was at the meeting of the Northern Section club this afternoon and I was telling them of a friend of mine from Burnley, and he was telling me of the very splendid sporting spirit of the game, and how much he had enjoyed it. Of course, Burnley won 2-0 so that is why he had enjoyed it (laughter). But very often, nearly always, the first question-people ask is; “Where’s Everton?” That shows that as a club you are the cracks. Well, Mr. Chairman I must catch my train, which is the last and I now purpose my toast, but I do want to emphasize almost my opening words of gratitude at this opportunity of being with you. It has brought to my mind many happy memories, many names that I would always gladly have recalled, because I have known the Everton club practically from its birth have known secretary, manager, players and directors in connection with the club as they have succeeded one another.
Rich Friendships
Somebody will say it is about time I cleared off. Well, I am going to in a few minutes and yet there is a richness and sweetness, a pleasure and a joy in all these men, and I tell you frankly that whatever might have been our association in life in the past, whatever they may be in the future, there is nothing so fresh and sweet to me as the memories of the rich friendships I have made in connection with the game of football (applause).
The Major of Accrington reminded you, and perhaps I may emphasize it, we are not here merely to celebrate and to rejoice over the past, but we are here to wish the Everton club, its players and directors all goodwill for the future (hear, hear). Every success therefore, to all.
Money Not Everything
There are directors here whom I have known across the years, and who are going away also and they have an idles that it is time they were doing something. I agree with them (Laughter) they kept spending money and getting players –of course. Everton spend money, I don’t think we spend more; I have just been signing a lot of chequers –that is the only thing they ask me to put my autograph to. However, I may remind you that money is not everything and I think the directors of the Everton club would agree that a man can make a good bargain at little cost and make a bad bargain at a big cost, but whether Everton players are cheaper or not, you can reply that in the years to come as in the years gone by they will be one of the clubs that will be respected not only in Lancashire and England but throughout the world. Therefore I ask you, everyone of you except the chairman, because although I am proposing the toast of the club, and a club has no soul, I am not proposing the toast of the directors or of the shareholders – you are in a class of your own, to rise and drink with me to the Everton club coupled with the name of your worthy chairman Mr. Cuff (applause).
Mr. Cuff Responds
Everton in Prominence all over the World
Mr. Cuff rose amid applause to respond. He said I am sure you will agree with me when I say that this is a momentous occasion. It is an event unique in the history of this club, and very nearly in the history of most clubs. If you don’t agree with that you will agree that it is extremely improbable that this occasion is likely to be repeated in this club in the presence of any one of us here. That will not prevent us ladies and gentlemen from making this an occasion for rejoicing and for commemorating in festive spirit. I seriously realize my unworthiness to hold a position such as this chairman on such an occasion as this! “No, no.” the gift of oratory was never more earnestly desired by anybody than by me at the present moment, but knowing as I do and conscious as I am of my own limitations, I will do my best to accept the position and rely upon your indulgence whatever my shortcomings may be. I am addressing Mr. Sutcliffe in his absence but I say Mr. Sutcliffe, that as chairman of this club I am very deeply sensible of the very flattering eulogistic, and complimentary observations it has pleased you to pass on the club of which I am chairman. And to you, ladies and gentleman, I wish to accord my very deem appreciation of the enthusiastic manner in which you received that toast and the toast of my own personal health.
The World Over
We meet ladies and gentleman, to commemorate an event the importance of which it is impossible to overstate. We celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the existence of this club and if I may say so, with egotism, I feel confident in saying, after the complimentary remarks of Mr. Sutcliffe that Everton is one of the most prominent club organiastions in the world (hear hear) and I feel it is proper that we should celebrate such an occasion as this in festive spirit (hear hear). These responsible for the celebration were anxious that not only they but their friends and acquaintances and well-wishes should join in the rejoicing and that is the main reason, ladies and gentlemen, why we have invited our football friends to honour us with their presence tonight and celebrate our fiftieth birthday. The attainment of a half-century, whether it be of one’s life or the duration of a business association or, as in the present instance a club naturally induces those who are participating therein, to pause at the prominent mile-stone to reflect for a moment to enjoy if they can the flight of mental retrospect.
Passing Thoughts
To me, and to such as I, who have had thirty-eight years of my life in close and constant connection with the Everton club, the temptation to survey the past is well-nigh, irresistible and if I may, without boring you to tears, I shall attempt to fulfill some of those thoughts which pass through my mind. Complementing that mental retrospect takes me back to when I was a very little boy in 1878, when I was a junior member of the Sunday school of St. Domingo, attached to the chapel in St. Domingo-road. In that year the senior scholars of that school formed themselves into a football club, and they gave it the title of St. Domingo Football Club. The following year, owing to the influx of membership of a number of youths having no connection with the church or Sunday school, the club changed its name from St. Domingo to that of Everton, and it was in 1879 in Stanley Park that the Everton Football Club, the members of the Everton Football first set the ball rolling which has been rolling continuously for fifty years from that time till now (applause).
Originators.
During the next few years the members played as amateurs and it is unique that of those players who first donned the jersey of the Everton Football Club we have three present tonight (applause). There may be more, at any rate I recall three that is Mr. Alfred Wade, Mr. Jack McGill, and Mr. W.H. Parry. Substantial progress during the next few years brings me to 1888, when Mr. W.H. McGregor found the Football League, consisting of the supposedly twelve best clubs in the kingdom, and the Everton club was invited to become a member and did become a member of the League. I think I may say, with the greatest respect to other clubs present that the Everton club, of that original twelve has maintained unbroken membership of the League to the present moment.
Lord Derby Arrives
At this point Lord Derby entered the half, and was enthusiastically received. Continuing, Mr. Cuff said; I am quite sure you will permit me to break into my retrospect to tell you that Lord Derby, when he responded to the invitation to come this evening, said he was engaged in London on that date but expected to arrive back in Liverpool, at 9.35 and if it was possible he would come and join us. I have very little more than to say, on your behalf that those of us, and there are a multitude who know Lord Derby, say,” That is exactly what Lord Derby would do” (applause and cries of “Good old Lancashire”). Personal convenience does not count but to show his interest in his fellow countrymen he comes here after a long hard day’s work and a long journey to show his interest in the sport we are here to celebrate the anniversary of and to show his interest in the county generally (applause).
First Championship
I had arrived at a point in 1890-91 when my club won the League championship and I think I see several members here tonight of the team that won the championship –Holt, Crelley, Edgar Chadwick, and Fred Geary, others do not for the moment occur to me. The year 1892 was a very important one, not from a playing point of view but that year saw the removal of the Everton Club from its headquarters at Anfield road, to Goodison Park, their present headquarters. It is not necessary for me to dwell at all on the circumstances that occasioned the removal. It is too far back to go into now. At any rate, I will say this, that the reasons were satisfactory to both sides, but one cannot help but refer to the energy displayed by those pioneers who took the Everton Club, without anything but a team of players –no stands, no ground at the moment –to Goodison Park where they established themselves and founded the club afresh, where it now stands. I refer of course, to stalwarts such as George Mahon – (applause) –Dr. Baxter – (applause) –John Atkinson, who did great work, and who unhappily has now passed beyond. And I would like to refer to others who happily are still living –Mr. W.R. Clayton – (applause) –and Mr. James Griffiths.
Two Great Sportsmen
The owners of those names represented the cream of the talent at Anfield road but not all the cream of the talent. Some of the cream remained, and help to form the club which is now the Liverpool Football Club, and I refer only to one –Mr. John McKenna (applause). The next important event was in 1897, when we participated in a memorable final at Crystal Palace against Aston Villa, and it was by common consent the finest game that ever was played in a final tie before or since (applause). In 1905-06 we were successful in winning the English Cup, and of those players who brought that trophy to Goodison Park there are members present here this evening. I refer to Mr. Jack Sharp, my colleague on the board, and one of the greatest all round sportsmen in the world (applause). Harry Makepeace (applause) who might in this respect be bracketed with Mr. Sharp (hear, hear). Harold Hardman (applause) and our then captain John Taylor (applause), John Crelly, and Roberts Balmer (applause). The following year 1906-07, we again appeared in the final, and were, unfortunately, beaten by Sheffield Wednesday, who deservedly won the cup in that year. In 1914-15 we won our second League championship, and tonight we recall the 1927-28 championship, a fitting prelude for the jubilee festivities we are now holding (applause). That ladies and gentlemen, is something of a mental retrospect of the past fifty years, but there are one or two other things for which I am going to claim credit for the Everton Football Club as being pioneers. The Everton Football Club –and when I mention the Everton Football Club I mean necessary men and officials, or mately with the Everton Football club –were the pioneers thanks to Dr. Brodie, of goals nets, of printing in the programme information concerning the home and visiting players. That was considered a great innovation. Another one was affixing numbers to the players in the programme, and announcing team alteration by notice board. The public were not aware of the personality of the players until they saw these names and numbers. Everton also originally started the system of communicating half and full time results by means of a telegraph board. We were the first board to give a League match as a benefit, and the first club to institute or guarantee £500 benefits to our players.
The Everton Ideal
Scientific Football Played On The Turf
But in my view there is one feature of outstanding clarity and that feature was referred to in the toast so ably proposed by Mr. Sutcliffe, and I would describe that feature as an ideal, an ideal which although never mentioned on any committee that I was associated with, seems to have been set up by those who have governed the destinies of the Everton Football Club in the early days at Anfield Road, and which has been followed by succeeding candidates and directors as the goal of their ambition. I would describe that ideal as the cultivation and development of the scientific type of Association football (applause) Ladies and gentleman, there has been to my recollection, no period in the history of the club in which a predilection and perhaps a natural bizz towards the stylish type of football has not predominated. While the clever-footed artist has always exercised a great influence over the minds of those representatives of the club employed in the engagement of players, it is strange but true, that the vigorous, robust type of player has failed somehow to attract their attention.
On the Turf
It has been argued, is argued and no doubt will be argued that the best type of football, the purest football, is that which is played on the turf and not in the air (applause). I am sure that must be generally accepted, or else why do clubs and club managements go to such enormous expense ad care in providing for the production of first class conditions unless it were to play football on the turf. Ladies and gentlemen, we have endeavoured to cultivate that style of football. We may not have much to write home about when we talk about winning championships and cups, and may not have cut much ice in the Cup but all that winning of championships and winning of cups, is not the be all and end all of football (applause). Above all the game is the thing that matters (applause). It pays best in the long run. It has paid best as far as the Everton club is concerned. Its attractiveness is universal, and we have nothing to complain about in the game that we have played because we are satisfied that it has been the great consolation of hundreds of thousands of spectators who go to Goodison Park week in and week out (applause). That brings to my mind that it is now proper that I should place on record our indebtedness first to our predecessors in office who set up that high ideal and those traditions, and their successors in generations who succeeded in maintaining those traditions.
Players and Supporters
We desire also to express out gratitude to players past and present, for the manner in which they on the field of play, have exhibited that style of football, which has provided such attraction and been so entertaining to the thousands of football followers (applauses). I should also like to express on behalf of the club our acknowledgments of the Press of the country (hear-hear). They had at all times commended approved and applauded every effort to improve the style of the class of football and they had given it the very pleasant feeling that it gives us to-day (applause). Lastly I would place on record our great gratitude to the sporting British public the finest sporting body in the world, who week in and week out, no matter what the weather is, will pay money, not so much to see us win, but to be certain of seeing a game of football worthwhile (applause).
A Glorious Picture
These are thoughts which occur to one, and they are not the thoughts of a decrepit old man sitting in his armchair, who at the end of life looks back at his life with great regrets, and into the future with little favour and much resignation. This is the mental retrospect of a vigorous youth, one “full of beams,” and still going strong, and who, tonight although celebrating what we call a jubilee, is really celebrating his attainment to vigorous manhood after a lusty youth, with long life and plenty of honours before him. We leave the past behind. We look into the future and we see that it is a glorious picture. We know not what is in store for us. We do know that there are trails and tribulations which will beset us as they beset the very humblest and jumps to overcome, but of this we may be assured that comes weal or come woe, if only those who follow us will strive to carry on the good work of our predecessors and hold on to those ideals and maintain the traditions of the past success will undoubtedly be ours, and we shall undoubtedly go on to play the game (applause).
The Guests
Mr. Ernest Green proposed the toast of “our guests”. He said; it is my honour and my privilege and pleasure to propose the toast of our guests, a very important toast this evening because without our guest this historic occasion could not possibly be a complete success. I dare any further that without our guests this historic occasion could not have been at all a success, and the members of our club this evening differ from our gusts in this respect, that while our members are playing at home, so to speak our guests are playing away. What I mean is, that our guests for the most part had to make journeys to be with us this evening, some very long and tedious journeys, some even involving a stay overnight. So while we members of the Everton Football Club welcome our guests, while we are indeed happy and delighted to have them amongst us, we are very grateful to them for making these journeys and making these festivities the more memorable. I thought it would fall to my lot to enumerate quite a number of our guests but I think the enumeration has taken place already. I think you have heard most of the guests’ names, and the various associations to which they belong, so that it would be invidious for me to repeat them. There still remain two that I may mention without being tedious. We have with us the representative of a national association in the person of Mr. E. Robbins, secretary of the Welsh Football Association. Since Liverpool is the capital of Wales we might claim Mr. Robbins, that you ought to be here.
Tom Crompton
One other name reminds that has not yet been mentioned –and it is one that we directors of the Everton Football Club are delighted, mention –that of the genial chairman of our friends across the Park –Mr. Tom Crompton, I should like to couple with this toast the name of the Earl of Derby. He never spares himself in the interests of Lancashire whether in the sphere of commerce of welfare or of sport (applause).
Lord Derby’s Joke
A Wembley Crowd Packed Like Sar-Deans
Lord Derby was vociferously received and said; Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I could wish that the order to retire to the side of the ball – (extended to the waitresses and autograph hunters) –applied to me (laughter). Alas I did not come prepared to speak to you and yet I feel that not to respond to the kind way in which the health or myself and other guests has been given and accepted by you would indeed be churlish. I have to apologise to you for arriving late on the scene, because had it been a racing meeting, I should have been disqualified from running. Yet you know already because your chairman knew I should be late, and I only came here to night because I wanted to see you, and still more because I wanted to keep faith (applause). Now Mr. Green in his kind remarks said that without your guests the dinner would not have been a success. May I say this that without any hosts we should have had no dinner at all (laughter) I think the guests are more to the hosts than the hosts to the guests.
The Crowd
I unfortunately did not hear the whole of your fifty years record, but I did come in just at the time when I first began to take an interest in local football. I was – and I suppose you will cry “shame” when I say it –educated in a school where Rugby football was played “(Shame”), I thought you would say so – (laughter) –but since then, since I left school and lost both my youth and my figure, I paid full attention from the spectator’s point of view to Rugby and Association, and I can safely say that never have I spent more happy hours than on the Everton football ground-(applause) –to which I have been kindly asked by your directors. I got much enjoyment from the game I am not sure that I did not get almost as much amusement from the extra ordinary outspoken and forcible comment of the crowd (laughter). “The directors are a set of imbeciles for playing that they do” and so forth. If any player makes a mistake, the man in the crowd lets him and everybody else known. And yet, all through it there is something one cannot help admiring, and that is the extraordinary enthusiasm for the game in the first place, extraordinary loyalty for the club in the second (applause). Forcible and direct as they are, it is simply with a view to expressing what they think would be for the benefit of the club, and for no other reason (applause). You and Everton can congratulate yourselfs and I think you do congratulate yourselves, on having a stalwart body of supporters and I sincerely thrust that next year will see those same supporters packing themselves like sar-Dean in a tin to see the club playing at Wembley (laughter and applause).
Hope For The Future
The year is past but as long as we live there is always hope and we can hope that next year we may see you successful in bringing off the double event of the League championship and the Cup. After all, its is not so long, and you will take consolation from my own family, who took 137 years between winning one Derby Cup and the time they won another (laughter and applause) - and who thinks every year he is going to win the Derby, I hope you won’t have to wait that long lapse of time before you gain the blue riband. All of us, when I might call the out siders who sometimes see most of the game feel that in Everton you have got directors, players and spectators whose one and only object is what we j=know in England as the best tribute that any body can have –the playing of the game (applause). You profess to play the game and you do play the game; and as long as you do that you will reckon all on your side, sharing gladness in your victories and sorrow in your defeats (hear hear).
Everton’s Centenary
Fifty years is a long time in the life of a man, perhaps not quite as long in the life of an institution and I only hope – though I shall not be here to share it –that in fifty years time my son will be honored as I am honored at present, and will be able to be in a position to be invited to your centenary (applause). If so, he will have the same delight and experiences, I am sure that I have had in finding myself amongst those –some of whom O know, some of whom I don’t –but can say to myself; I have been to a meeting where my friends predominated” (hear hear). I thank you for having invited me and before I actually sit down I would like to take this, perhaps the most fitting opportunity I have ever had of publicly thanking the directors of Everton for something they did for me sixteen years ago, when the King and Queen cam to Lancashire and came to Liverpool.
Sixteen Years Ago
There was no place I could get where they could go to see a demonstration by the school children. Everton came to my rescue and I venture to say that in that ten days, tour, when we went all round Lancashire and saw the loyalty of the people, there was nothing that gave greater pleasure to our king and queen, nothing so striking, as what they saw on the ground which Everton had so kindly placed at my disposal. In conclusion, I thank you for the toast you have received. May I also thank you for the personal welcome you gave me. I don’t thank you simply with lip service. It is from the bottom of my heart that I say to you, Mr. Chairman and to all present thank you (applause).
A Welsh Note
Mr. Ted Robbins, secretary of the Welsh F.A, acknowledged his gratitude for being allowed to be present. He could not say he had come without an ulterior motive. He came also to gain a kindness from that great club, Everton who have always been very kind to Wales in the years, brothers of ours on the great while continent what they had bred, and born in Wales and he would be delighted if he could take with him one of the Welshmen who was making a name with Everton today. Mr. Robbins’ reference was to Griffiths. Mr. Tom Crompton chairman of Liverpool Football club said he stood there in the dual capacity of representing the Liverpool Football Club and also an old player of the Everton team. He went back to the old days. There was himself, Jack Crelley, Jack Taylor, Chadwick, his colleague of the old days and they had played for the game. They had got a picture of old players before them and on their behalf he wished Everton great luck. Mr. Cuff apologized for having omitted Mr. Crompton’s name from the list of former Everton players. He was of course a valuable centre forward of the old Everton team. Mr. Joe Galt and Mr. Fred Geary also replied on behalf of the guests.
The Chairman
Mr. W.R. Williams purposed the toast of the Chairman.” He said; Thirty-five or so years ago there entered into the councils of the Everton club a dapper young gentleman with an undoubted profile destined to play a large part in the councils of the club in years to come. That he has played that large part you will agree. Mr. Cuff prayed for oratory, and then proceeded to give as fine an exposition of the club’s history as we could wish. He never once mentioned the large part he had played in the club’s affairs. Through the length and breadth of the land –and I could bring men who have known him –Mr. Cuff is well known and Mr. Cuff and the Everton club are synonymous terms. Every where he has gone he has been received with open arms and respect. He was the initiator of the Central League. He nursed it through its infancy, through its early youth, during the period of adolescence, to take a prominent place in football in the South, North, and North Midlands of England. He has been associated with an agitation for better representation of the League on the F.A Council, and has been nominated by the members of the Football League to the champion of their cause with the F.A. No greater tribute could be paid to the chairman of any club. Mr. Cuff suitably responded, and the function closed with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” During the evening Mr. Eric Child and Mr. Griff Williams obliged with songs, and Mr. J.L. Pennington’s orchestra discouraged enjoyable music.

FROM CHURCH CLUB TO CHAMPIONS
April 27, 1929. The Liverpool Football Echo
Everton Jubilee Souvenir Handbook by the Late Mr. Thomas Keates
From Church club to Champions” aptly sums up the history of the Everton Football Club’s fifty years of progress as contained in the Jubilee Souvenir which was presented to the guests at the celebration dinner held in the Philharmonic Hall. Complied by the late Mr. Thomas Keates, a former director of the Everton Club, who died very shortly after he had completed the work, and while it was in the process of publication the book contains a mass of information not only of absorbing interest to supporters of the club, but to the sporting world in general. The early vicissitudes of the club, the many difficulties which were surmounted and the gradual building up of the Everton traditions, are told in entertaining fashion and there is no doubt that the booklet, which runs to over 100 pages, will find an honorable niche in the bookshelf of every sportsman.
The First Match
The young men of the St. Domingo Congregational Church little thought that the football team they brought into being in 1878, under the name of St. Domingo Football Club, would be hailed as champions of the premier football league in the country fifty years afterwards. The name was changed to Everton in 1879, and on December 23 the first match under that title was played in Stanley Park against another church team. In those days they played two half-backs and six forwards. In 1880 Everton signed their first Scotsman, one Jack McGill and as it well known ever since they have shown a fondness for Scottish players, which has stood them in good stead throughout the years. Everton and “The Blues” are synonymous terms nowadays, but up to October 1881, the players wore Blue and white striped jerseys then they had them dyed black, and wore scarlet sashes to relieve the drab scheme. They called the team “The Black Watch” during that period. Later salmon jerseys with blue knickers was the garb and ruby shirts with blue trimmings and dark blue pants were also worn for a time. Finally the dark blue jerseys and white knickers as now worn were introduced.
The Spilt
They had their first enclosed ground in Prior road for the season 1883-84 but the venture was not all immediate success, for the first gate realized only 14s a striking contrast with today’s gates realizing £3,000 or so. In 1892 came the famous parting of the ways, when the Everton executive disagreed with Mr. John Houlding the owner of the Anfield ground, and after protracted meetings Everton went across the park to Goodison road, and the Liverpool club was formed at Anfield. The story of Everton as original members of the First Division of the Football League, retaining that membership unsullied throughout its history, is well known but it is retold with much interesting detail in the booklet. The old players who did so much to make the team famed throughout the county the three championship years, the historic Cup final, and all the ups and downs of fifty years of first class football are faithfully chronicled in the absorbingly interesting publication.

DEAN'S RETURNS.
April 27 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
HOPES OF EVERTON REVIVAL AT MANCHESTER UNITED'S EXPENSE.
The Goodison Park follows, starved of the warmth of a win for so long, are castling envious eyes on the Manchester United tucker-box-and are saying “there at last is a meal for us boys.” They know very well that the United are a vastly improved set of people, yet the Everton fans are confident that there will be a bore or two left behind at the Park today. Certainly Everton should at least hold the visitors. Dean returns to the Everton team, while Forshaw will be the pivot. Manchester United make no changes. Time of kick off 3015. Teams; Everton; Davies; Cresswell, O;Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Hart; Critchley, Dean, Easton, Troup; Manchester United; Steward, Moore, Dale; Bennion, Spencer, Mann; Spencer, Hanlon, Reid, Rowley, Thomas.

EVERTON 2 MANCHESTER UNITED 4
April 29 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
23 POINTS OUT OF LAST 28.
MANCHESTER UNITED'S WONDERFUL IMPROVEMENT.
The worrying point about the game at Goodison Park was that Everton had more of the play territorially, but there was a decided lack of method, and that was what counted. They would generally scramble the ball into the Manchester quarters and thrust to luck as to who was to apply the finishing touches. Consequently no one ever did, and the numerous occasions when Stewart should have been brought into action he filled the role of a mere spectator. Dean was invariably hemmed in on all sides, but he was quick to realise it, and so he played a totally unselfish game, striving hard to make openings for the others. They shot, it is true, but not half often enough, and when they did hit a ball goalwards, it was generally off the target. With the United it was a totally different story. They had some semblance of an understanding and it was the combined raids;- not too many of them by the way –which won the points. In addition they had the happy knack of being able to fasten on to opportunities like leeches. Result Four goals. United were by no means a brilliant combination, but, compared with them, Everton were ragged –a conglomeration of disintegrated units with each man weaving a scheme which no one else divined, understood or fell in with. The United displayed surprising improvement since Everton paid their respects, to them at Old Trafford, and have now garnered 23 points on the last 29 played for. During that period they have only lost once. Except for the first five minutes they did not look like biting the dust here, for, though the Blues did so much of the pressing they simply could not introduce artifice into their penalty area play, and Spencer, backed up by two resolute defenders in Moore and Dale, was able to hold them off in comparative ease.
GRIFFITHS HURT.
It must be said of Everton that they laboured under a great handicap after the first fifteen minutes. Then Griffiths received one in the face and had to go off. He returned only to have a leg injured, which necessitated his transference to the extreme right. By the second half he hobbled about on the wing trying, only =knows how hard. to do his duty, but at last the pain got the better of goodwill and he had to go off for good. The United took the lead in seven minutes when the ex-Anfielder Reid, drew the defenders before slipping the ball across for Hanson to score at ease. In less than a minute Critchley had stepped forward in a most enterprising manner to gain a corner, which he placed so accurate that Griffith bobbed up and the ball bobbed down into the net with Stewart and Moore standing nonplussed. Davies was at fault in the next two Manchester goals, one secured just before the inter and the other at the end of an hour, for he should have come out to Thomas's centre when Reid nodded home and when Spencer crossed a ball later on Davies, with no one near him, elected to fist away instead of gathering as he usually does. The result was that the ball went to Hanson who joyously landed it into the net before Davies had a chance to get back. The Blues got a goal three minutes from the end, and it was Warney Cresswell who scored. This, incidentally, was the first score for the Blues in a League match, and he was proud of it. A free kick fell to Everton on the edge of the penalty area, and Cresswell did precisely what person on the stand loudly appealed for –took shot through the crowd of United players in front of the goal. The ball went through then and was in the roof of the net before Stewart could move.
REID'S LATE GOAL.
Reid negatived this point, however, by scoring off a centre from Thomas in the last half minute just when the majority of people were thinking more traincars than goals. Except for those two errors on the part of Davies, no fault could be found with the Everton defence, but Forshaw is clearly not a centre-half for his very style of play will not allow him to do himself justice in the position. He did his best, though, and, like Hart, always tried to make good use of the ball. However, the ball was too much in the air so Dean never had a really workable pass. Critchley was too eager to get on with the work, and many times overran the ball, and Troup sufficient from the lack of good passes. White and Easton could get no direction in their shooting, and neither did they meet with any luck when came to conferring blessings on their fellows, a matter of fact cohesion was sadly lacking in the attack, and that is why Stewart had such an easy time. Interest centred on the display of Reid as United leader, and he has improved considerably since leaving Anfield. Not once did he barge the goalkeeper, and he gave a subdued and consequently, much more efficient exhibition lead the line with thought and enterprise all through. Teams: - Everton: - Davies, goal; Cresswell (captain) and O'Donnell, backs, Griffiths, Forshaw, and Hart, half-backs, Critchley, White, Dean, Easton and Troup, forwards. Manchester United: - Stewart, goal, Moore and Dale, backs, Bennion, Spencer, and Mann, half-backs, Hanson, Spence, Reid, Rowley, and Thomas, forwards.

PRESTON NORTH END RESERVES 3 EVERTON RESERVES 0
April 29 th 1929. The Daily Courier.
CENTRAL LEAGUE (Game 41)
The Deepdale side were full value for the two points and had finishing been better than perhaps, would have been a greater margin. The Everton front line gave a poor display, Stein alone beening effective. Robson was the best of a good half-way line, but Kennedy and Lewis could not hold Baugh and Healless, who were the best forwards on the field.

Dismal Home Records.
Dundee Evening Telegraph -Tuesday 30 April 1929
Comment is being made in Liverpool at the dismal home record of Everton, who have been beaten at Goodison Park eight times this season, and it can readily be understood that Dundee people are not feeling at all happy over the performances of the Dundee team on Dens Park during the past season. Dundee lost 10 games at Dens Park, thus beating Everton by two matches.

EVERTON LOSE AGAIN
Liverpool Echo - Monday 29 April 1929
Bee’s Notes
After scoring Saturday’s game at Goodison one can readily understand Reid’s Value to Manchester United.  He is essentially a match-winning forward, and his activity has lent power to what must have been a very drab attack.  At Liverpool he did not fit the line, but he has come into his own at Manchester, and it was mainly his direct methods that carried United to success on Saturday.  In no sense, however, could the game be called a good one; indeed, much of the work was exceedingly poor.  Everton were seen in anything but a favourable light.  The forwards seem to have lost not only confidence but all semblance of cohesion and understanding and even Dean got few real chances.  Furthermore, Forshaw was ill-suited to the pivotal position and no doubt much of Everton’s forward failure was due to the weakness of the half-backs. Early on Griffiths was injured and although he stayed till near the end he was of little practical use.  The reshuffling of the right flank was probably the best under the circumstances, but the side lost its balance and power afterwards.  Cresswell, from a free kick, got his first League goal, and the defence did fairly well, but the remainder of the side had little to slow for their energies.  United were not a great deal better, and many weak places need filling before another season starts.

EVERTON AS PIONEERS
Athletic News - Monday 29 April 1929
Why is Association football so popular?  One of the reasons is that the clubs cater for the public.  Nowadays a club like Everton can count on what is really a great gate on all occasions, and in any weather.  Links in the chain of organization that has created this state of affairs were recalled at the club’s remarkable successful and efficiently staged jubilee dinner, at Liverpool, by the Everton chairman (Mr. W.C. Cuff), who stated that they had led the way in introducing.  The printing of news-sheets for sale at matches, giving the name of the teams, with numbers and information about the players.  The exhibition at matches of a board carried round the ground to notify team changes.  The display at the ground of half-time and full-time scores of other matches.  The granting of League games as benefits to players and the guarantee of 500 pounds as a player’s benefit.  He added that the idea of introducing goal-nets came to the inventor –Mr. Brodie, the Liverpool engineer-at an Everton match. 
AMESSAGE FOR ALL
A further explanation of Everton’s present position –they are one of the wealthiest clubs in the country –was given by Mr. Cuff when, referring to a tribute paid by Mr. C.E. Sutcliffe to the team’s record through the years for “really meritorious football,” he said that since their earliest days the height of their ambition had been the cultivation and development of the scientific type of play.  There had been no period when this desire had not dominated those in control.  They had their F.A Cup year and League championship years, but such successes were not the be-all and end-all of football.  Everton had not been attracted by the vigorous or robust type of player.  They were proud of their record, and were content.  Everton’s reputation is the result of a policy which has been closely adhered to at all times.  As they are the only club among the original twelve members of the League whose position in the First Division at the end of the season has always been clear of the fear of relegation the policy has been abundantly justified.  Everton’s happy position is a lesson for all. 

HUMILIATION OF EVERTON
Athletic News - Monday 29 April 1929
EVERTON 2 MANCHESTER UNITED 4
By Junius
There could be no doubt that Manchester United were the better side at Goodison Park.  They were to some extent assisted through a leg injury to Griffiths after ten minutes’ play for he had to go to outside right and finally retired a quarter of an hour from the finish.  But the United were the superior team when the home forces were intact.  There was more life in their play and the forwards generally found their colleagues with passes on the turf in marked contrast to the Everton quintet whose movements rarely suggested danger.  Chances came their way occasionally, but there was not a forward who could finish with any approach to accuracy. 
DEAN’S HOLD-UP
Dean did very little indeed against Spencer, but he got little assistance from his colleagues who were rarely able to escape the attentions of the United half-backs- a much better line than the Everton trio, of whom Hart alone played up to his reputation.  White, who fell to half-back when Griffiths was injured, could not successfully cope with Thomas and Rowley, behind whom Martin was an outstanding success.  The United forwards were a fast-moving line who exploited wing play to the full.  Reid worried the defence and opened out the play with sweeping passes to the wings where Spence and Thomas put across some telling centres.  The home forwards lacked thrusts and did not get the ball across well from the flanks.  Everton had more of the play in the second period without troubling Stewart, who, especially in the last 15 minutes, had only to deal with shots from long range.  Defensive work reached a high standard of efficiently, with O’Donnell a shining light, and in this department only could Everton claim equality. 
THE GOALS
After seven minutes Reid left Hanson with an open goal, and he placed the United ahead, but a minute later Griffiths equalized with a header from a corner kick.  In the fortieth minute Thomas, who had been a thorn in the side of Cresswell, centred for Reid to head through, the United thus leading at the interval by two goals to one.  Hanson put his side further ahead 17 minutes after the restart, and though Cresswell reduced the lead from a free kick three minutes from time Reid obtained a fourth point for the United in the closing moments when Cresswell, out of position, left an opening for Thomas to centre.  Everton; Davies; Cresswell, O’Donnell; Griffiths, Forshaw, Hart; Critchley, White, Dean, Easton, and Troup.  Manchester United; Steward; Moore, Dale; Rennion, Spencer, Mann; Spence, Hanson, Reid, Rowley, and Thomas.  Referee; Mr. F. Robinson, Blackburn.