EVERTON BREAK NEW GROUND
November 1 st 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
By John Peel
Everton travel to Reading for the first time in their career, (Everton have played friendly match at Reading), and the Southern club expect the Goodison Park brigade to prove a big attraction. The match should provide a fillip to rather drooping spirit, for Reading are struggling at the bottom of the ladder. The leaders, however, will be in no mood to ease up and on form Everton ought to win. They certainly cannot afford to drop points where it is possible to gain full value, and the players can be depended on to do all in their power to achieve the end in view. Johnny Holt will be an interested spectator, and he will be able to compare the Everton team with his day, when he was a bright little star in a great combination. Teams; - Everton; - Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Critchley, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Rigby. Reading; - Richardson, Forster, Hodgins; Balmforth, Allan, Halkyard; Meredith, Eaton, McPherson, Featherby, Davies.

EVERTON’S VISIT TO READING
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 01 November 1930
BISCULTMEN A TRIFLE HARD IN THE FIRST HALF- SOME COGGINS SAVES
By Bee
Everton; Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Critchley, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Rigby.  Reading;- L. Richardson; Forster, J. Richardson; Balmforth, Allan, Halkyard; Meredith, Eaton, McPherson, Featherby, Davies.  Referee; Mr. Casdey, of Wolverhampton. 
Everton touched new ground to-day, and the weather watt not kind to them,  although the people were, in the number  bring Johnny Holt, the former Everton  centre half-back.  Reading made no change, Richardson finding himself fit. Everton continued with Britton at half-back, but McPherson, nearly ready for service, was on reserve.  Dean, prior to the match, was in anything but good fettle, and called in the aid of Dr. Baxter just before the game started. Reading's ground has a great chance of making a huge Spion Kop, but at the moment it looks very primitive compared with our Merseyside grounds.  Covered accommodation is sparce, and one end of the ground suffers a house effect which prevents extension.  The turf was very good, and the band likewise. The place was up in arms through the announcement I made this week that the trainer had left the club all in a moment. Certain directors took stern measures in mid-week, and found that the players were not doing regulation training work.
INTER-FEAR 
There is a clock on this ground, but it is so small that one expects a cuckoo to walk out of it any moment. The crowd looked about 12.000 strong, and few probably knew that Dean wanted but one goal to make his 200 in League service.  Reading kicked off a trifle before time, and the opening stages were ragged; each side seemed to fear the other. Davies displayed good wares and Britton gave a corner through over-running the ball.  He cleared the corner, and Dean, Critchley, and Rigby went off, Rigby giving a shoulder charge and a turn in towards goal, but his shot went against a defender, and even then he did not get a corner.  The old Blackpool-Chelsea Meredith made a gross miss from a free kick against our right flank for hands. He completely missed his shot, and the ball trickled over the line.  Britton was very clever against Davies, who wheeled about too much and went the wrong way when making a second raid after trying to give the dummy.  Everton, as usual, started slowly, and Dunn was a shade too slow or else the machinery would have been put in motion. Griffiths made two stunning efforts in defence at a convenient time, and Johnson came well over to the right wing for a throw—a very sound working principle.  Dunn, to repay the compliment, crossed to the left and beat Featherhy for possession. Dean sending Rigby off as a result. The centre from Rigby was made the subject of a cannon-back, but Rigby came to the rescue again and centred without luck.  Instantly one sensed danger, Griffiths could not get to a ball in the race or it, and Davies had the chance to shoot.  He steadied himself, took deliberate aim, and then made a perfect drive just over the bar.  Coggins went for it, but Everton were glad to see the ball going over.
DAVIES SHINES
The first stop came through Critchley colliding with Halkyard, the latter having a bad ankle as a result.  Reading had to face a free-kick for hands against Allan, and they promptly worked the offside trap on Critchley.  Davies was outstanding forward on the field thus far, this well-built outside-left careered through, doing big work, and when he pulled a ball back to prevent it passing outside he centred so well that Coggins had to take a charge and edge the ball outside at the same time.  The Everton captain, Williams, also took a hand, or a hefty foot, in the proceedings and stopped McPherson doing damage close in.  The referee failed to give a free kick for a trip when on the spot, yet a linesman called to him for the free kick without getting the affirmative.  Dean had one solo when the people said,  “Here he is.  He’ll get a goal,” Dean took rather long to get the ball where he wanted.  He was crowded out by the two defenders, trod over the ball and thus a chance of shooting.  Actually he could have shot instantly, but he preferred to take stock and time. 
DEAN CHARGED
Thomas did a bonny bit of foraging without getting his wing moving off at a dangerous rate, and it was well, therefore, that Reading’s many attacks had no finality about them.  The most striking incident came at this stage.  Dean was over-charged by Allen, a big man, and the Reading men went off, and the Everton defence got mixed up.  There was a call to Coggins to come out.  He started to come out when Williams and Cresswell were in two minds as to which should take the ball.  Eventually Cresswell took it, and passed back to an empty goal.  The ball was going towards goal, and no one was there to sterm.  Cresswell raced pell mell after the ball and just closed in time to kick away- a most evicting business.  After that came two big saves b Coggins, one from Eaton, who made a fine fiery first-time shot.  Reading, they said, had not played so well this year, and the people got very enthusiastic and encouraging.  The Everton forward line for twenty minutes or so had not been seen, yet one felt that here again was the Second Division rush they had been experiencing every game.  Reading should tire. 
A DUNN JOB
VITAL EVERTON GOAL V READING
CRITCHLEY CLINCHES
Everton are like some racehorses.  They win by waiting, but they take an abnormal long time to settle to their game. Reading raced through and around them for forty-five minutes, but there was no goal, because Constable Coggins kept them at bay, aided by the other defenders.  In the second half Reading carried a passenger, McPherson, through injury, and as the team faded out so surely and securely Everton made every post a winning post and were good winners for a moderate match.  I have yet to see Everton lose at home or away. 
Williams took a free kick wisely and well, and Dean was just short of heading the ball towards goal. Coggins took a thump at a Meredith centre, and merely flicked it. McPherson got the worst of the argument, as he was hurt in the back. Again the goalmouth agape, but Britton had made the clearance with ease, and the attack looked much worse than it was. 
A CHANGE OF FRONT 
McPherson went off for a time also when Cresswell, two yards out, kicked away coolly as if it was all in the day's work.  Coggins made another safe catch, this time from Featherby, and then we had a little change of front.  Griffiths tried to force matters by going up and sending far out to Critchley, but the latter had a bit of weaving and that was the end of this chapter.  Williams  tried a long-shot that the  goalkeeper carried over the line for a  corner, a most difficult save which led Dean to make a desperate effort to head in, after Griffiths, as usual, had taken a head in the corner kick arrangement.  The ball was sent far up the field and Williams crossed McPherson, and that centre had to leave the field again. The crowd booed Williams for some time. A moment later Dean made a crash shot that nearly cracked the boards that surround the goal portion.  Rigby and Dean paired off in a quick dual turn and wretched luck befel the winger when he elected to shoot, the ball bumping a foot or so upwards, causing him to balloon it over.  McPherson, returning, went to the left wing, and held his chin as though in great pain. Cresswell also got a pain through a tumble he had in a severe stand for his lines. Critchley at last glided through beyond the defence, and his centre was for Dean or Rigby. The chance went through two cooks concerning themselves with the broth of a chance of gosling.  It was distinctly Reading's half, but wears used to this away type of match with dash away ideas early on. Rigby did a lot of solid work, drawing the defence before he centred or dribbled off. He was out of luck with his close goal work.  Everton had a rallying five minutes, and walked through Reading without getting a goal through a header or through Dunn's effort to convert a centre.  Half-time.—Reading nil. Everton nil.  McPherson went to outside-right, Meredith inside-right, and Eaton centre through the first-named's injury. Reading showed signs of failing wind, and Everton took some time to resume their late-on spurt of the first half.  Dean was keen to see the offside trap, and stood still to allow another forward to go ahead, but really there had been no combination or construction or consideration for finesse thus far.  It bad been Reading's strong rousing ramp towards goal and a sort - of stabbing effect on anything that the Everton side tried. Reading were pretty easily held, but so were the Everton attackers. Critchley made one sharp attack, and by degrees the game fell flat, though it had never been anything more than exciting football at a premium.  Rigby tricked three on the touchline and Thomson called for and went up for a pass that was delivered, but Dean had got on the go, and the hall cannoned too far forward. There were signs of an Everton revival, and their football became engaging and satisfying, Johnson was close in for a Dean header but could not get a satisfactory drive.
DUNN HEADS IN
Everton scored in fifteen minutes through Dunn’s header.  Thomson had just previously had a free kick through the damaged McPherson trying to keep the half back from taking the ball he had tried so hard for.  This foul was fatal.  Critchly edged the ball over securely and in such a way that Dunn could connect it with a header, and the ball flopped into the right-hand corner- a neat goal.  Dunn was nearly a daily double when Johnson edged the ball beautiful to Dean, who slipped up as he edged outside.  This was not the real Dean; he was plainly ill and ill at ease.  Balmforth made Reading’s best show, a long drive just over the bar.  Reading had a rare escape when Critchley’s corner kick went to Griffiths, and the latter’s header went in reach of Dean who might have shot instead of attempting a header, Reading had a let-off through no judgement of their own.  A goal at this stage would have been helpful. 
CRITCHLEY CLINCHES
Critchly supplied our want.  He hit a ball to the net so fast that hardly a soul knew where it was –in the goal.  It was a ferocious drive, and Dean made the chance with a net pass across the defence after drawing them after him.  It had not been good football, and this goal clinched matters, the game fading out.  Reading had a light first half, Everton all the second.  Final; Reading 0, Everton 2. 

EVERTON RES V WEDNESDAY
Liverpool Echo – Saturday November 1 1930
DEFENCES SHINE IN DOUR ENCOUNTER
Despite the heavy state of the ground both sides played effective football.  The Wednesday were particularly definite in their attacks, and Sagar and the home backs had many grueling spasms.  The home ‘keeper was in brilliant form, and foiled the whole of the Yorkshire attacking force.  Everton’s attack was playing well, but it was Sheffield who scored first, Johnson netting from close in.  Everton’s determination aroused the crowd’s enthusiasm and, following a brilliant spell, Stein equalized.  It had been a very fine first half, with the respective defences standing up gallantly to attacking forces that schemed and worked very effectively.  Half-time; Everton Res 1, Sheffield Wed Res 1. 
Martin scored a second goal for Everton.  Sagar crowned an afternoon’s work with a brilliant save from Jones.  Stein scored Everton’s third goal direct from a corner.  Jones scored Wednesday’s second goal. Final; Everton reserves 3, Sheffield Wednesday Reserves 2.
Everton “A” 7 Wavertree Athletic 1. 

STUD MARKS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 01 November 1930
By Louis T. Kelly

• Somebody says Everton will spend three seasons in the Second Division-
• Suppose he means autumn, winter, and spring.
• Thomson and Williams are not showmen, but they are both real grafters. 
• Until a season or so ago Johnson was quite an institution as Manchester City’s penalty kick artiste.
• Young Britton made an encouraging league team start for Everton, and is a half-back of the constructive type.

FOOTBALL CAMEOS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 01 November 1930
‘RUNNING COMMENTARY’ ON THE WORK OF MR. W.C.CUFF.
By “Bee”
A week ago I said that football jealousy often led a man to bear a false character in the eyes of those who are jealous. Well, Mr. W. C. Cuff, the Everton chairman, could doubtless tell us of the curse of jealousy.  He might not be able to offer a cure.  But at least he could refresh us with some yarns of the game, because he has lived in it and through it and by it —he was a director, he was later a secretary; he became a director after the war and became chairman of a club whose annual meetings are at least a test of control and temper, of tact and sense.  Shareholders are not the best people in the world to meet in combat, because they shy things and are never shy of shying things without first considering the occasion, the future occasion or the possibilities of hurting anyone's feelings when they are wrongly informed.  They don't ask is such a thing right.  They claim it is right and argue forthwith.  Everton's annual meetings would have been bedlam without the carefully chosen words of a man who has been with the club in some capacity for the last thirty-five years.  I shall never forget, nor forget to  tell, of the first day I met Mr. Cuff  in the doldrurn office at Goodison Park,  when they had a kitchenette-couch, all tattered and torn, as a resting place  for visitors—the sort of thing they  would now throw to the dogs. A mellow voice called through the doorway “Come in, Ernest." He called me a name; oh, how many have been  called since that day—and so varying;  so vilifying; go numerous that I can hardly answer to my proper name these  days. But it is not I who would speak  of self; rather would I tell you that it  is due in great part to the business  acumen of the chairman, Mr. Cuff, that  the club at Goodison Park has grown  to be one of the richest and best  governed sides in the land.  They signed a man who gave away too many free kicks the first day he played in the first team. The player was taken to task this wise: "My lad, that’s not football; we don't want that sort of game here. You must change your plan or change your city."  How many clubs in this age calling for "daring young men" would have curbed a young earnest boy in that manner? Yet that is the method by which the club has gained its name, its fame, its laurels; that is the reason people write me even yet from far-off lands, saying, “You know it's a great pity the old club went to the Second Division. It isn't their proper place."  All clubs are popular somewhere or other; the fascination for becoming a Red or a Blue is the same in the village, town or city. Yet Everton's charm has been their controlling influence, and the chairman must take the first award for this successful carry-through.  Mr. Cuff  is on the League Management  Committee, is secretary of the  fairly newly-born Central League, which  is a league envied by north-east clubs;  he has a solicitor's practice to attend  to; he has a host of callers and callings.  A cuff is no use to you if it comes to your ear; on the football links it is a binding-up process; in the Everton football club a Cuff is necessary to keep the old club going in a right manner.  May the first Second Division spell be the last Second Division spell. 

READING 0 EVERTON 2
November 2 nd 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
The Winning Way
Everton Ware down Reading
By "Bee"
Everton's first visit to Reading brought a 2-0 victory before 12000 spectators who made a gate of nearly £700. It was not good football, it was hard and continuous, but it spent itself on the first half so far as the home side was corcerned, and left Everton with an easy opposition in the second half when Reading could hardly raise a gallop, and never throughout the game could they produce the sort of football that was likely to take toll of the safe Everton defence.
Fines Saves by Coggins
True Coggins had to make three very good catches, but the shots looked more awkward than they were –the greasy state of the ball was the cause of the tremour that ran through the Everton ranks, just as when Cresswell had to race and kick away as the ball was speeding its way into an empty goal after the defence had been caught, of had caught itself, in three minds. Reading did not look like scoring, well as Davies, the outside left, played, and well as Allen kept a hold on Dean –who, by the way, was ill before and during the game. Everton adopted their usual procedure in these Second Division struggles of wearing down the racing, rousing opposition in the opening half, and then blinding them with science, as it were. But there was no need for the application of much science to beat this bottom dog team; they were desperately earnest men, but were very unfruitful, where real football or polish or pointed finish was concerned. True the home side suffered a bad blow when McPherson was hurt twice and became first an outside left and then an outside right, but once Everton had tasted a goal the game was over, and was flatter than ever-which was saying a lot for the standard of play was poor and the football served up was crude.
Dunn and Critchley
Dunn got the first goal at the hour, and Cricthley made him this headed goal. Afterwards Critchley scored with a terrific shot and the locals realised that true football had won its deserts. Everton did not get into their stride until near half-time and the memory of the lash play before half-time was not lost on the home side when the game was resumed, for Everton continued on the attack wellnigh throughout the second half. For the special; turn round they were indebted to the security of their backs and captain, and to Griffiths for a big display of energy and effect. Britton did fairly well against the best forward on the field, Davies. Thomson was at a steady level throughout, and finally Rigby and Johnson outplayed their companion wing; who had been patchy, even if Dunn was cute, and Critchley had a final quarter of an hour when he could do little wrong, whereas he had been ineffective for nearly an hour. It was hard football it was a fight between leader and "footer" and skill wore down the Reading side. They admitted defeat. Everton had won a poor match and had kept their goal against column clean for the second time this season. They continue winning, and it is useless to harp upon the standard of the opposition, they can do no more than keep beating their rivals whatever their pattern of play or style or endeavour to unsettle the leaders and push them off their existed perch. Everton were not "even" in their game, but even that does not curb my praise for their clear victory. Teams ; - Everton; - Coggins, goal; Williams (captain) and Cresswell, backs; Britton, Griffiths, and Thomson, half-backs; Critchley, Dunn, Dean Johnson, and Rigby, forwards. Reading; - Richardson, goal; Forster, Hodgin, backs; Balmforth, Allan and Balkyard half-backs; Meredith, Eaton, McPherson, Featherby, and Davies forwards. Referee Mr. Caseley, of Wolverhampton.

EVERTON RESERVES 3 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY RESERVES 2
November 3 rd 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Central League (Game 12)
Ted Sagar saves a Penalty Kick
At Goodison Park. Everton's win was just about deserved. Despite the terrible state of the ground both sides played attractively and the respective defences underwent many arduous spells. A feature was the brilliant goalkeeping of Sagar and Mellors. The former did Everton wonderful services in dealing worth most difficult of shots, and when he saved Jones penalty kick the crowd rose to him. Cook and Gee were prominent defenders with the front line also doing exceedingly well. Johnson opened the score for the Wednesday Stein equalised, and after the interval Martin and Stein direct from a corner scored Everton goals, while Jones added Sheffield's second.

Everton "A" 7 Wavertree Athletic 1
Liverpool County Combination
At Stopgate-Lane. In the opening ball Davies completed the hat-trick and Parker (penalty) scored for Everton. Soon after the restart the home side's lead was increased by Fryer and Cunliffe. A penalty was saved by Corner, but the goalkeeper was beaten later by Foyne. Fryer added the last kick for the home side.

CLASS TELLS
November 3 rd 1930. Evening Express
Reading Tribute to Everton
By The Pilot
"Everton's form in the second half was a revelation. It was as good as anything we have seen here," said one of the Reading directors to me after the match at Elm Park. Everton certainly played brilliantly in the later stages. Before the interval Reading had decidedly the better of the exchanges, for the Everton backs took some time to settle down. Then Everton's superior class and staying powers began to take effect and Reading were eclipsed. Everton stayed the course like real champions, and their First Division methods carried them through against virility. The Blues played delightful football, keeping the ball on the ground, and the only remarkable thing about it was that other goals besides the clever one by Dunn and Critchley were not scored. The two Richardson and Forester, who comprised the home defence, were mainly responsible for this.
Still 199!
Dean was taken unwell in the morning and this was primarily responsible for his failing to get his 200 th League goal, but he was an artistic and brainy leader, while Dunn was a clever schemer. Johnson and Rigby were a quick-moving flank who dovetailed well. Coggins was brilliant, and the half-backs were quick to take command when Reading were dangerous. Thomson was the best Everton half, his wonderful work in the second half being a feature. The fact that Williams and Cresswell took some time to find their feet enabled Reading to press hard early on, but once this pair settled down the Reading attack faded out. Both played well, later, and Critchley was another who improved, especially in his finishing. Reading deserved praise for their fine fight against more accomplished rivals in the first half, but the loss of McPherson, who was injured and went outside right, and the Blues relentless attack took the heart out of them. That is precisely what is wrong with Reading. The men have the ability and keenness up to a point, but they lose heart all too quickly.
Sports Pie
Everton, Notts County, and Northampton are the only teams in the Football League who have not suffered defeat away from home.
For the second week in succession Everton's three teams were successful; Reading 0 Everton 2; Everton Res 3 Sheffield Wednesday Res 2; Everton "A" 7, Wavertree Ath 1. Davies; Everton's A's new centre forward did the hat trick. A suggested swoop with Everton namely a half-back for whom they gave £8,000 in exchange for O'Donnell did not interest the Blues, who are exceedingly strong in this particular department at the moment. Johnny Holt, the former Everton centre half, and Mr. Tom Burrows the Chief Constable of Reading, and a former member of the Liverpool Police force, were present at Elm park to greet Everton.

EVERTON CONTINUE TO WIN;
Liverpool Echo - Monday 03 November 1930
DEAN MINUS A 200TH GOAL
By “Bee”
" Farbeitmefrom," as Sydney Howard would say, to curb the enthusiasm engendered by Everton's continued winning way. By nature an incurable optimist, I have been accused of being a pessimist where Everton are concerned this season. I want to see them back to the land fit for football heroes.  I had a 'phone message from our rivals at Manchester. They said, "Give them our best wishes; I hope they win on Saturday. We want them back in the First Division." It is the general call to elevation; the general theme. Yet,  continue to win as they do, I have a lurking fear thus early in the season  that the wins so far obtained are so tardily secured that they leave one  guessing about the strength of the side  that wins. It is not pessimism; it is a mere review of the team that wins and the strength of the opposition they best.  Having said so much, let me confess that when I find Everton on equal terms at half-time I am content to believe they will stay the ninetieth minute and win through. They have  done so unfailingly, and maybe my  alleged pessimism comes through the  failure to acknowledge the style of these  Second Division teams, who do not  attempt to settle to football, nor let anyone  else settle to that desire; they say  this is the top team, we must blind  them not with science but with slashing,  rushing attacks. And they beat themselves against Mother Nature. Reading was a case in point. The bottom dog bit into the top go in the first half. They fled everywhere, they sped without thought of furious driving; they blasted away with hardly a thought for the finesse of football or its charm; they would knock the top team off its perch. Fortunately Everton had their customary stern trinity—Coggins, Cresswell, and Captain Williams—and they took charge of the Heavy Brigade.  Reading never looked like scoring so sure as Coggins was catching them securely. That was the first intimation one could give. It only became a question whether Everton's forward line could start to play football. They gave a glimpse of it before half-time—just five minutes of consecutive football, methodical and sure. 
AND THEN I 
And then, as in the game with Barnsley and Nottingham Forest, they played their rivals to a standstill and won, one might say, almost cleverly, yet without giving the entire satisfaction one should get from a football game. It was poor football. Perhaps one could expect nothing else in such circumstances.  if a side raids often and does not look like scoring in 45 minutes and is then kept on the defensive for most  moments of the second half, the winners, especially when an away side, must have  done well. It was only the second time this season Everton's defence had got away without a goal against. It was a chance for Dean to make his 200th goal.  He failed chiefly because he was quite unwell. The pleasure is saved for the home spectators, probably next Saturday against the Wolves, who won so well at the week-end, and it will be a fitting scene at the proper place—the spot where the sixtieth goal came to him after we had despaired of getting our lungs into use. Reading were certainly unfortunate in having to rearrange'  their forward line, through McPherson's  double injury; but really they were poor  save at outside-left, where Davies was magnificent; at centre-half, where Sunderland's Allen was big and towering  in attacking and defence; and in goal, where Richardson, of Manchester, was  a good goalkeeper. There were two occasions when the nervy might have thought a goal was being given away.  Cresswell never hastens more than necessary; when he chased a ball that was entering the net he knew full well he could catch the ball, and took his time over the deliverance; later on, in the closing minutes, when the damage had been done and the victory won, he dallied and dribbled near the corner flag, he might have sacrificed a goal-but the win was there and no trouble arose. Indeed Cresswell's form is one of the outstanding features of this crazy season. Williams lent great aid, notably  in the second half, and Griffiths  throughout gave an earnest and  desperate display, useful most particularly  in heeding corners away or trying  to put his own team's corner kicks into  goal.
UNEVEN
Everton were certainly uneven, Critchley made a goal with a terrific shot, and gave a goal to Dunn’s sure-placed header; yet the right wing pair were not exactly happy and none more so than the extreme man, save for the last twenty minutes. Johnson continued his upward take and improvement, and Rigby was ridiculously unlucky in the first half and perhaps the winners' best forward in the second half, while much of Dunn's work bore a subtle stamp and “collected " the line when it was most needed. Britton caught a tartar and physically was not balanced for such a duel, yet much of his usage of the ball is delightful. Thomson (R. B.) had one of his best matches. And now I  have told you all of this " disappointing  winning side "; the side that continues  winning, stays at the top of the league,  and would seem to concentrate upon wearing out these rushing second  division types, feeling they can win at  a given moment. I would that the forwards would take the final shot more urgently and quickly rather than put a ball back or crosswise when the chance is there in the first place.  I finish as I started: “Farbeitmefrom “to curb the praise Everton merit.  I want them to return and I judge them in conjunction with the standard of the opposition party. We may strike something much more skilled than the teams we have met lately—Wolves and Millwall for example.  Johnnie Holt dropped in to pay his respects to the team he left in 1898 and to offer kind regards to John Southworth, Fred Geary, and the other old cronies, all of whom had the misfortune to be born about 35 years too soon I Johnnie said: " They pay them £8 and bonus these day's; we only got 2 pounds 10s a week in our prime. Those were the days!" 

SQUARES OF LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 05 November 1930
NO.5. –ABERCROMBY SQUARE; CITY FATHERS’ HOMES
By Michael O’Mahony
When a fine spring day dawned on the old Moss Lake, which, reflecting a blue sky, spread like a slab of lapse lazuli set in a fringe of reads from Brownlow-hill to Parliament-street, it was not one of the least attractive features on the borders of the old town.  The increasing heat of summer, which dried up the stiled footbath running through the green jungle on the borders of the lake, also lessened its waters, disclosing a rich quarry of turf, which became valuable when coal and wood were dear.  Sir Edward Moore, addressing his son in his “Rental,” 1667, says;- “I dare assure you that you may sell fifty pounds worth of turf to the town in a year, for of my knowledge you have good black turf at least four yards deep; if so, it may be worth two hundred pounds an acre, and you have ten acres of it; in a word, you know not what it may be worth lying so near a great town; and if you leave half a yard of the depth ungotten, once in forty years it swells and grows again.” 
BETTER TO BE CONTENTED
In this laudable conclusion Moore complains of opposition by Lord Molyneaux; but, the Cavalier party, to which Molyneaux belonged, being in the ascendant, Moore thought it better to b “contented with less fires till it shall please God to raise me a greater interest and him a weaker.”  It is not clear that Moore’s son shared his father’s foresight; it was a case of;
  “The rain raineth,
  And the grey goose winketh,
  Little wot the gosling
   What the grey goose thinketh,”
  Edward Moore was a sharp-witted, if grasping man, and had a vision more extensive than the prospects of the brake and the mireland.  He saw clearly that a tide of prosperity was setting in which was to carry Liverpool forward, but the channel through which it was to flow was of too limited an extent.  Speaking of this little stream running down from the Moss Lake, he writes;    “If ever the Pool be cut navigable, such a cut, wherein ships are to ride, must have either a considerable fresh stream to run continuously through it, or else there must be dams of water to let out with floodgates for cleansing of the channel.  Truly the way is convenient for raising excessive great dams, for the rush of so great fresh water from off the Moss Lake that, though my eyes may never see it, I am confident that Good Almighty, who maketh nothing in vain, hath ordained this to be the greatest good to the town.”  All are now agreed that Moore’s judgement was correct.  It is in operation today, not on the pretty scale he considered, but in the noble river, the deep outflow of which is maintained in the same scouring process he wished to apply to the Pool, the harbor of the day.  Shinning lake, whispering reeds, moss, marsh, and turbary, are now almost as forgotten as the disputes, threatening letters and law suits associated with them.  Students of old maps of 1803 can trace a wide, grassy area where once spread deep waters among the sedges which sheltered coot and heron, and in its centre a well-fenced field, bounded on the east by the Botanic Gardens of the time, on the north by the old cemetery marked “Abercromby Square.”  Until well into the beginning of the last century there was no talk of erecting a single house on Moss Lake Fields; and when developed was decided on, Abercromby-square was the central point of an elaborate scheme.  As the freehold of the property was vested in the Corporation, it was possible at last to construct the streets with a regularity glaringly absent elsewhere in the town, unlike the older squares which were just simple, open, paved spaces.
COPYING LONDON
Abercromby-square was the first to copy those of London in that its leading feature was a central enclosed garden.  The age for public parks had not arrived, indeed the new squares with their shrubs and green swards were really small parks, and, like the once attractive Ladies’ Walks at Duke-street and Oldhall-street as well as St. James’s Mount, they were formed on raised positions so as to command a view of the river, its Cheshire side, and the rising hills beyond it.  while in a region so recently peopled there can, of course, be nothing derived from antiquity, nothing of the distance which lends magic to the view, the square has been the habitat of a personnel most creditably associated with the story of the city.  In a fine mansion, on the corner of Oxford-street, long lived William Earle, a member of one of Liverpool’s oldest families, a man renowed for caustic wit and powers of bitter repartee, which gave spice to many dates in the Council. 
DEADLY URBANITY
Those were the days when braggart shouting did not pass for eloquence, and, like my countryman, John Mitchel, whose pen could be a diamond stylus dipped in vitriol, Earle cut deepest when he was most urbane.  He was Liverpool’s second Liberal Mayor, his neighbor, Robertson Gladstone, being the second Conservative one.  Henry Booth, the railway magnate, lived in the square close to, if not in what is now the town house of Sir James Reynolds.  Quite a hectic atmosphere surrounded the historic house on the north-east corner during the residence in 1861, of Priceleau, agent for the Confederate States of America, and which in our own time became the home of the gentle prelate Dr. Chavasse, memorable alike for his charity and heroic endurance of bitter sorrow during the Great War. 
RUSSELL, OF LIVERPOOL
In a large house on the west side, public questions were subjected to unsparing analysis in the fine literary leaders of Lord Russell of Liverpool, and right opposite, looking older than its years, stands St. Katherine’s Church, designed by John Foster, and opened in 1831, almost the last of the classical Greek churches to be erected in Liverpool.  The building did not please Picton, who holds that “the working out of the design has been anything but successful,” but there, of course, while preferring not to contradict a purist, I am minded to realize that in Picton’s case the architect was ever prone to run away with the historian.  Academic distinction as lately come to this church by reason of its association with the University, a distinction, indeed, shared by the whole square.  By the munificence of Mr. Charles Sydney Jones, not only the commodious House o Studies next to what was the Bishop’s Palace, but the palace itself became the property of the University of Liverpool- an act not only destined to eventuate in fine results, but one which secures the amenities of a desirable Liverpool district.  I am glad to see that Saturday’s poll finds the hands of Mr. Sydney Jones freshly empowered to work further for the honour and advancement of his native city.  Next week; Williamson-square. 

BEACON FIRES IN LANCASHIRE
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 05 November 1930
THE IMPORTANT POSITION OF EVERTON;
Even among the middle aged, there  are those who confess that November 5  with its firework displays, and especially  by its bonfires, arouses the thrill  of youth, promotes—temporarily at all events—the atmosphere of the bush and the camp fire, and awakens the spirit of  adventure which in a good many of  us still only slumbers.  With the mind thus attuned, we can appreciate the use and practice of beacon fire signaling in those ancient days when England wrought her “thrice famous deeds."  For the record of one of these fires we have not far to seek. On a site now covered by the east end of St. George's  church 'upon the high ground of Everton,  that " village" whose present day  notoriety lies chiefly in the direction of  football and toffee, stood, till 1803, the  two-storey beacon tower, described as a  building of local red sandstone, about  eighteen feet square, by twenty-five feet  high, with a platform and parapet at the top, in one corner of which was a  cistern constructed of stone and cement,  to hold materials for the warning fire.  From its style that structure was reasonably supposed to have been erected in the sixteenth century, about the time the Spanish Armada was expected: but Everton-hill may have been the site of a beacon long before that.  The word beacon" is said to be derived from an Old English word meaning “a sign," and has its counterpart in the word “beckon."  This system of beacon bill fire signalling is of remote antiquity, mentioned even in the Old Testament.  Previous to the time of King Edward III.  (1327-1377) beacons were simply stacks,  of wood or faggots, but in that reign  something more distinctive and permanent  was established, and structures  set up to hold vessels of blazing pitch.  On the occasion of Queen Victoria's  Diamond Jubilee in 1897„ celebrated by  beacon fires, Mr. William Harrison gave  a lecture on this subject to the Lancashire  and Cheshire Antiquarian Society.  He had found at the Record Office a map of 1590, from which he was able to form a chart showing, as he believed, all the beacon sites in the two counties.  Everton being now so crowded, and a wide expanse around covered with houses and assuming the character of suburbia, it is difficult to realize that it was once a gorsy eminence commanding wide, open views. If only foresight could have operated to preserve it, what a splendid lung or park for the town it might have formed.  Like Bidston-hill, it was conspicuous for many miles in its sudden rise out of the plain, and therefore a naturally good position from which to signal. Among its steep, modern streets we still have the old Beacon-lane to perpetuate the memory of the past.  It is fair to assume that Everton, so near the coast would be important as one of the first to pass a signal on into Lancashire.  A sort of twin beacon with it existed on Wootton-hill, where there is to-day the significantly named Beaconsfield-road.  Their signal would be taken up by those of Ashurst and Billinge some twelve miles away, near Wigan and St. Helens; thence to he communicated to Rivington Pike and Winter Hill, and so on. On the above-named chart, it is noticeable how these beacons seem to run in pairs from Moel Fammau, through Caldy and Heswall, Everton and Wootton, &c., in a straight line northeastwards through Lancashire, till they reach the foothills of the great Pennine chain, and on to the upstanding mass of Pendle Hill, upon which the weird experience of watching and waiting to receive and transfer the fire signal is aptly described by Harrison Ainsworth in his “Lancashire Witches."  On the Pennine and other heights, these beacon sites exist in profusion.  Lancashire's share alone, apart from the ones mentioned, is about thirty, between Coniston Old Man and Ashton-Under-Lyne.  The idea of beacon signals was evidently  seriously considered till comparatively modern times in the county,  for the towers of Ashurst, Billinge, and  Rivington Pike, and possibly others were  all erected or re-erect , d so late as the  eighteenth century.  Although the system was elaborate and serviceable in its way, it was open to much objection on the score of uncertainty, depending largely upon clear and fair weather, to say nothing of the susceptibility to accidental as well as deliberately malicious ignition, which could he so misleading, and cause so much doubt and anxiety.  When, on bonfire night, we think of this crude method of conveying important national intelligence, and contrast with it the wonderful wireless system of the present age, and when an S.O.S., broadcast instantaneously throughout the length and breadth of the land, is practically an everyday occurrence, we ran realise the changed conditions of life which have been brought about by scientific discovery. HOUBLON. 

A MEMORY OF 93
November 7 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers are old opponents, for they were among the twelve clubs that formed the League in its first season –188-89. Times have changed, and the clubs meet tomorrow for the first time under Second Division auspiece. I think the last occasion the Wolves were at Goodison Park was in the 1921-22 season, where they won by a goal to nothing in the fourth round of the F.A. Cup. They reached the final that season (after appearing in the semi-final at Anfield), and were defeated by Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge. I well remember the 1893 final, when the Wolves beat Everton, at Fallowfield, Manchester, by a goal to nothing, after the reserve team had gone to Wolverhampton on the previous Saturday and won the League match 4-2. The Everton directors wanted to keep the Cup team fresh for the final, and were not breaking any rule in sending a reserve side to play the League match. In my youthful enthusiasm of those far off days I carried home to Walton the bag of one of the Everton Cup team players, Bob Kelso, who said after their bad luck at Fallowfield Everton would never win the Cup. But they did though the club had to wait until 1906 before gaining the honour.
No Changes
The Everton team for tomorrow's game will be unchanged from the side that won at Reading. Britton, therefore continues at right half-back in the place of McPherson. The team is; - Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Critchley, Dunn, Dean, Johnson Rigby. The reserves side to travel to Stoke will be; - Sagar; Common, Lowe; McClure, Gee, Towers; Wilkinson, Barton, White, Webster, Stein.

EVERTON TACKLE THE WOLVES
Liverpool Echo - Friday 07 November 1930
ANOTHER CUP-TIE MEMORY RECALLED
DEAN’S 200TH GOAL?
Bee’s Notes
The change of customary opposition sides through Everton getting into second class and second division circles has led us to many memories, if nothing else, and tomorrow, when Wolverhampton Wanderers bring a crowd with them the memory will be crowded with thoughts of the days that were – the memory of the Fallowfield final tie; the memory of the Wolves coming upon us for a Cup-tie and beating us 1-0 at Goodison Park –a rare shock and a crack of the whip; we also mind the memory of Wolves being at the Anfield ground on a filthy race day, or the day after a Grand National, when many members of the Royal Family came to Anfield to see Wolves and Cardiff play a cup semi-final.  Wolves are the age-old side who fell upon evil days, and, like many of the older school, once they had gone to division two they never looked like coming back to division one, although they signed Stan.  Fazackerley, Dick Johnson, Dick Forshaw, Wilf Chadwick and such like in turn.  The Bury-Wolves type of teams never seem to get back or threaten to get back the place where once they were looked upon as the lads of the village, and members of the original league chart.  To-day Wolves are brighter than for many a year.  They threaten to do big things this season, and are getting a crop of goals so that their defence is having an unusually easy time. 
VITAL
To the Evertonians the meeting of the top side and a challenging side is vital, Everton are playing better against the tough opposition than against the moderate foes.  The team has been together so long, however, that they know each other, and can sense the coming move of their comrades.  Thus they are bound together in one common desire- a bonus to the full extent and a championship medal! Dean will tomorrow have a chance to make his 200th goal in senior football, and I am only sorry I shall not be there to see it, if it comes, because at the moment there is a sure return to Dean’s good standard –he was not good last week because he was not well prior to the match.  When people talk of him touching his record season form, they talk without sport sense of knowledge of how much he took out of himself that season- he can never hope to attain or touch that form; but he can weld with the line into a scoring method, and his heading alone is a sufficient indication of his natural football ability.  His nearest approach to his record game was his game against Nottingham Forest – his furthermost point from his record game was –well, there have been a number, and one does not intend to individualise.  Everton can keep on top so long as they steer clear of injuries.  Critchley got a big bang last week, but is right again and the team is the usual one.  There should be a big crowd to welcome the leaders of the league against a team like Wolverhampton Wanderers.  Interest in the Everton club is growing; it is only the vile weather that has prevented the usual huge gates, but as the season wears on the big crowds will be there as usual.  Everton; Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; McPherson, Griffiths, Thomson; Critchley, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Rigby. 
GOODISON MUSIC
Aigburth Silver Prize Band (conductor, Mr. Harry Waering) will play the following selections; - March, “The Trumpeter’s Call” (Anderson); waltz, When I passed the old Church Door” (Lawrence Wright); fox trot.  Say a little prayer for me” (Lawrence Wright); waltz, waltz, “Meet me in my dreams tonight” (Lawrence Wright); match “Loyal Hearts (Anderson); waltz, “Gipsy Melody” (Lawrence Wright); fox trot.  “The Sunshine of Marsseilles” (Lawrence Wright). 
All Ellesmere Port will be at Everton tomorrow.  They are coming with their jazz effects, as the Port is next to our port and the Ellesmere Port is the home of Midlanders and “Wolves” it is plain the visitors to Goodison are going to hear a real Midland roar tomorrow.  Lewis of Everton and Wrexham, was born in Wolverhampton, and Chedgzoy had antecedents in that salubrious neighbourhood. 
FOOTBALLLERS SERVICE
Mr. James Jackson (captain, Liverpool .C.) will pay his fourth annual visit to Stanley Congregational Brotherhood, Green-lane, next Sunday, the 9th, at 3, and I have no doubt there will be a big rally to welcome him now that he has resumed his place at Anfield.  Mr. Louis Kelly (“Stubmarks” of the “Football Echo” will be in the chair, and his two daughters.  Misses F, and D. Kelly, will be the soloists.  As usual, a number of Mr. Jackson’s clubmates have promised to attend along with Trainer C. Wilson; and Everton F.C, players will be represented by J. Thompson, C. Britton, W. Coggins, G. Cook, J.H. McClure, J. Stein, J. Towers, W. Cooke, and A.N. Others. 
Everton “A” team v Whiston (2.45) will be selected from Corry, Parker, Cook, Taylor, Chedgzoy, B. Llody, J. Lloyd, Leggings, Cunliffe, Davies, Fryer, and Hannon. 
REMEMBER THEM!
A special appeal is made to sportsmen attending the Everton Football Ground tomorrow, Saturday, where a collection will be made in aid of the British Legion.  This year, Cenotaph Year, is marked by increased distress.  Be sportsmen, dig deep, give generously, and make it a “bumper” collection.  An appeal is also made to every motorist.  See that your vehicle has a mascot consisting of a wax-treated poppy, specially made to stand all weathers. 
ELLESMERE PORT AND “WOLVES”
Ellesmere Port includes a large number of workers from Wolverhampton and that being so two train loads of supporters from the Merseyside ironopolis are visiting Goodison Park tomorrow, all specially sworn to cheer Wolverhampton Wanderers.  Furthermore, the Ellesmere Port prize jazz band has been given permission by Everton F.C to perform before the match. 

WOLVES TACKLE EVERTON
November 8 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
By John Peel
Everton will endeavour to continue their winning ways at home with the Wolves as their victims. The Midland side started off this campaign in a way they have not been able to maintain, but even so they are likely to prove one of the strongest sides Everton have to meet. Wolverhampton Wanderers have always been popular visitors and I am sure there will be a big rally today, to see the successors of the old time cup fighters. Everton have gained a useful lead of 2 points and they are likely to make every effort to consolidate their position. Points are valuable at any time, but at present worth, and a win today would be a step nearer the utmost goal. Everton will be without Critchley (injured) Wilkinson taking his place. Though it is no easy task, I shall be surprised if the Merseyside men fail to win. The kick-off is at 2-45 and the teams are; - Everton; - Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn Dean, Johnson, Rigby. Wolverhampton Wanderers; - Tootill; Lowton, Kay; Rhodes, Hollingworth, Richards; Phillips, Bottrill, Hartill, Deacon, Baraclough.

DEAN SCORER HIS 200TH GOAL
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 08 November 1930
EVERTON THREE TO THE GOOD AGAINST WOLVERHAMPTON
By Stork
Everton; Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Grifiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Rigby.  Wolverhampton Wanderers; - Tootill; Lowton, Kay; Rhodes, Hollingworth, Richards; Phillips, Bottrill, Hartill, Deacon, Baraclough.  Referee; A. Josephs, of South Shields. 
The early kick-off was responsible for a decrease in the size of the gate at the start of this attractive match, but there were plenty of people outside ready to come in.  The Ellesmere Port jazz band was a  huge success, and the two train-loads of  Ellesmere Port ironworkers, most of  whom come from the Midlands, could  soon be heard, especially so when the Wanderers made an attack through their right wing.  It was a dangerous-looking movement, for Phillip's cross was of exceedingly good length, but before Deacon could get hold of the ball, Britton intervened and eased the situation.  The Wolves lived right up to their name, yet they might easily have been a goal in arrears in the first few minutes when Dean found himself clean through the defence. He was undoubtedly at an awkward angle the time he picked up  the pass, but Dean is usually so sound  with angular drives that it was  uncommon to see him put one wrong  this time.  The Midlanders were setting a terrific pace, and one time the Everton defence was a wee bit fortunate to lift itself out of trouble made through the Wanderers’ paces.  So keen were the Wolves’ advances that Phillips, the outside right, went crashing into the Everton upright in his endeavour to head a centre clear from the left. Fortunately he was not injured, and the game went on without a break.
DEADLY DEAN 
Dean was given yet another opportunity either to beat or test Tootill, for Dunn "placed” him perfectly. Dean, however, not to lose time, did not bother to deaden the ball and took a shot instanter. The shot was of good direction but a shade too high.  Dean, however, made ample amends for this miss when he snapped up a wise ground pass from Wilkinson and crashed the ball into the net, giving Tootill no chance whatever.  This happened at the fourth minute, and half-minute later Coggins had to pull down a lob shot by Bottrill.  This was Dean's 200th goal for Everton.  The Wolves were full of earnest endeavour, and at times were more than  a little troublesome to the Everton  defenders, but they did not use up their  chances quite so well as they might have  done. Everton's chances were much more subtle and effective, and at the end of thirteen minutes they had chalked up a second goal on their score board. 
WILKINSON AUGMENTS 
Wilkinson was the scorer, and it was a one-man goal at that, too, for he made it from start to finish. He made a long dribble, defeated Kay en route, and then left him standing. I anticipated an inward pass, but this young recruit closed in and hit a great shot into the Wolves net.  Dean provided Rigby with an opportunity to show his paces and his centring abilities, and the winger obliged in turn by providing Dunn with an opening. The little fellow, however, miss-hit the ball when he shot, and the ball did not reach the goalkeeper.  Williams and Cresewell found the Wanderers' forwards a sprightly  collection, and both Thompson and  Britton had to fall back to lend a hand  when things were not going right,  Britton once stepping in to clear away  an obvious-looking danger. Cresswell once sliced his clearance, but the Wanderers' right wing did not make him pay for the slip as they should have done.  Dean and Rigby exchanged places, so  that the ball could be sent to Wilkinson,  who, no doubt, having tested the  success of a goal in this, his first League match this season, was keen to add  to its number.  He tried another shot, when a pass would have been the correct thing, for Dean and Rigby had placed themselves to accept it when it came, and were much better positioned to have had a dig at Tootill.  The Wolverhampton forwards had left Coggins alone for the space of twenty minutes, but the next ten saw him busily engaged, and some of the saves he had to make were of top class. He started by edging a free-kick out of goal, but his best save was made when he flung himself full length to a shot by Bottrill. His timing of his throw was simply perfect. It had to be, too, if Bottrill’s shot was not to count.  A fraction's delay and he would have failed to get his hands to the ball so that he could push it round the post for a corner. This also caused a peck of trouble, and made Coggins the man of the moment, for he had two more shots to deal with, but was equal to them both.  That ten minutes had been Wolverhampton’s inspired period, and there could be no gainsaying the fact that the Midlanders had shown first time football that has a way of finding a road through any defence, yete it was Everton who got the goals. 
RIGBY GETS THIRD 
Thirty-eight minutes had been ticked off by the clock when Everton scored a third goal. Wolverhampton had only themselves to blame for allowing this  point, for they stopped playing thinking  that Rigby was well offside, but the  referee, who was well up with the play,  waved his hands to signal Rigby to play on.  Rigby was standing perfectly still, which rather suggested that he, too,  thought he may have been offside, but  when he received the " all right " from  Mr. Josephs he took deliberate aim for  the far side of the goal, the ball hitting  the inside part of the upright before settling itself in the back of the net.  Half-time.—Everton 3, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0. 
FOUR FOR EVERTON
COGGINS KEEPS WOLVES FROM DOOR
DEAN’S 200TH GOAL
FAMOUS CENTRE-FORWARD’S FEAT ACCOMPLISHED
Dean has scored 200 goals for the Everton Club. He reached this figure through his goal scored at the fourth minute against Wolverhampton.  For time Wolves seriously worried the Everton defence by their fast pace and quick actions, but I would not say there was a lot of merit in their shock tactics.  Everton are getting used to this sort of thing now, although it means heavy work for a time.  The Wanderers had ten minutes of inspired play, but they found Coggins a complete barrier.  Everton were well worth their substantial win, and Wilkinson’s goal was one of the most popular of the four obtained.  Another youngster in the Everton colours to show up well was Britton, who reminds me very much of Albert Virr, both in appearance and play.   The first minute of the second half produced an appeal by Dean against an offside decision. It was a very fine point, but from my position the referee’s decision was a correct one.  Rigby was a shade out with a solid effort, and then followed a quick movement by Everton which nearly caught the Wolverhampton defence in a tangle.  Dean headed to Dunn, and although tackled speedily Dunn was just in time to scoop the ball away from Lowton and was on the point of shooting when Tootill appeared on the scene, so that the ball rattled against Tootill'a legs and came out to Rigby, whose shot skidded along the outside netting.  Williams, the Everton full back and captain, was in great form. He it was who put a stop to one of the best combined movements shown by the Wolves thus far. The ball had gone from man to man without an Everton player being able to touch it, but when Barraclough tried to sidle round Williams he found he could  not do so, the full back proving one too many for him. 
A JOHNSON PENALTY 
Rigby once more hit the aide netting when well placed, and Hartill headed right into the hands of Coggins.  Everton were awarded a penalty for a foul on Dean. What actually happened was this. Dean was held at e ball by Hollingworth and so prevent from getting in his shot. Johnson, who kicks a terrible "dead” ball, made no mistake.  To be four goals behind was enough to curb many teams' ambition, but the Wolves showed a keenness for a goal.  They never gave up trying, and Coggins had to punch away a ball that was dropping just underneath the crossbar.   The Wanderers' football has improved.  There was much more fight behind it, and not quite so much kick and run as had been the ease earlier on. Rigby went off the field just before the end. An examination show, an injury to his big toe.  Final; Everton 4, Wolverhampton 0. 

“PROXIES” – THEN AND NOW
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 08 November 1930
I read somewhere lately that a First Division club in Yorkshire had done away with “proxies.”  For many years “proxies’ for voting purposes have been a bone of contention at Everton’s annual meetings.  There’s nothing ap-“proxy”-mate to it at Liverpool’s gathering of the share-clans, as there has been no board contest for an age.  Everton is a limited liability company, and to dispense with “proxies” would necessitate an alteration in their Memorandum and Articles of Association by the process of two extraordinary general meetings –one to pass the resolution and the other to confirm it.  But if the Everton board can survive, as it did “on the floor” at the annual general meeting last June (the 13th of the month, and a Friday, too!) –a direct “No Confidence” vote on the declension of their team to the Second Division WITHOUT the aid of “proxies,” surely “proxies” need not be brought it requisition in future – leastwise for the election of directors and such a course would promote harmony “on the floor” and elsewhere.  By the way, the Everton shareholde4r who spoke at the annual meeting about taking up the matter of share transfer and “proxies” with the Football Association has I understand, had two interviews with Secretary Sir Frederick Wall, who is communication with the club on the matter. 

WHISTON V EVERTON A
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 08 November 1930
At Whiston.  Everton did most of the attacking, Fryer and Jenkins scoring.  Whiston improved, and Corry saved good efforts from Boult and Bonny.  Half-time; Whiston nil, Everton A 2. 

STUD MARKS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 08 November 1930
By Louis T. Kelly

• Everton’s famous side of the early ‘nineties are evidently a healthy stock.
• With two exceptions they are still with us, and in the main, fit and well. 
• Dunn’s five goals in five matches- splendid!
• It is interesting to note that two goalkeepers who did not quite make good for Everton are now doing well elsewhere –Kendall (Sheffield United) and Jones (Bolton Wanderers)
• Everton Reserves have now fair prospects of winning the Central League championship for the first time since 1913-14. 
• Dean’s goal-scoring aggregate for Everton to date (League matches only) stands at 172. 
• If Everton can continue to lord it over their opponents, they will assuredly return to the upper house next term.

EVERTON 4 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 0
November 10 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Dean's Double Century
Wolves Whipped at Goodison
Everton will surely not experience a more difficult task than they had on Saturday, and the fact that they beat Wolverhampton Wanderers by four clear goals should impart condidence. It was a victory well won against a side that mixed hard, robust football with a fair amount of craft, and such a combination might easily upset a team of Everton's quality. They wisely stood by their usual tactics, and all the ruggedness of the Wolves failed to put them off their game. Having emerged successfully from the early forcefulness of the Midlanders' broadsides, and with a couple of goals in hand through Dean and Wilkinson, it looked as though Everton had taken the measures of their opponents. But Wolves had different views, and for a fairly long period they played splendid football, and only Everton's tenacious defence prevented them getting through. Coggins was kept busy, and he just turned the ball past the post from a shot by Bottrill, and after Cresswell did well to kick away after Hartill's shot had been brought down by Coggins.
A Trying Period.
It was particularly trying period for Everton, and the fact that they yielded nothing probably settled the issue, especially when Rigby got a third goal at 38 minutes, when Dean crashed in the first goal at 4 minutes he brought his crop of goals to 200, while Wilkinson finished a brilliant run with an equally brilliant at 13 minutes. Play in the second half was fairly even, but the contest never lost its grim earnestness. Obviously the Wolves are a 90 minute side, determined, and resourceful, the giving and taking of hard knocks being part of the game. Johnson scored the only goal of the half when he converted a penalty kick at 68 minute, the award being against Hollingwood for holding Dean during a melee in the Wolves goalmouth. Everton showed their adaptability in this game, and the only apparent weakness was on the left wing, where Johnson and Rigby gave a rather indifferent display. Both Dean and Dunn did much good work. They had a fine understanding, although Dean missed a great chance early on when Dunn give him the ball right in front of goal. Wilkinson was speedy, and not afraid to shoot, but was rather neglected in the second half. The half-backs were strong and confident, and well able to counter the dashing methods of the Wolverhampton forwards, while the defenders gave an impressive display. The best on the Wanderers side were Tootill, Lowton, Holingworth, and Deacon. Teams; - Everton; - Coggins, goal; Williams Captain) and Cresswell, backs; Britton, Griifths, and Thomson, half-backs; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson and Rigby, forwards. Wolverhampton Wanderers; - Tootill, goal; Lowton and Kay, backs; Rhodes, Holingworth and Richards, half-backs; Phillips, Bottrill, Hartill, Deacon, and Barraclough, forwards.

STOKE CITY RESERVES 2 EVERTON RESERVES 0
November 10 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Central League (Game 13)
Two late goals both by Williamson, the Stoke City centre half, gave them the victory at Stoke. It was not a good game, the forwards work of both sides lack of cohesion and much of the markmanship being feeble. Stoke City just about deserved to win, but they were not two goals the better side . Everton; - Sagar goal; Common and Lowe, backs; McClure, Gee (captain), and Towers, half-backs; Not-Known, Barton, White, Webster, and Stein, forwards.
Everton "A" 5 Whiston 0
Liverpool County Combination
Everton took advantage of their chances Fryer, Jenkins, and Cunliffe scoring before half-time. In the second half Whiston had slightly more of the play, but were unable to recover from Everton's good lead. Fryer, and Jenkins added further goals for Everton.

BRITTON TAMES THE WOLVES
November 10 th 1930. Evening Express
Fine Form of Everton Reserves
The Will in Wilkinson
Dean gets his 200 th League goal.
By the Pilot
Two Reserves –Britton and Wilkinson –played a vital part in Everton's 4-0 triumph against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Some weeks ago I said Everton's strength lies in its reserves and this has proved it. Britton was the best half-back on the field –a schemer, a juggler yet tenuous in tackling and interbenening. His first double-turn stood him in good stead many a time –it is the move of a giant. Wilkinson was making his season's debut, and he contented himself with good accurate methods rather than running in frills. When Johnson fed him early on he carried the ball back across the goal than waiting to beat a man, and Dean his coveted goal –his 200 th in League football. Just afterwards Wilkinson picked up as sharp pass, and unhesitatingly and scored with a brilliant shot. It was clean-cut football, and this was endeavors all though. Both these boys –they are nothing put deserve the highest praise. There both set the seal on Everton's victory.
Go-Getters, But Not goal-Getters.
It was one of the most curious games ever seen for many a day The Wolves had more of the game in the first half than the Blues and yet found themselves three goals down at the interval. Still, in no period did they display the smooth football skill of the Division II leaders. They were essentially fighters. They set their weight and moved speedily, and that was all. Their forwards seemed in lack of confidence to shoot. It was a worthy victory, for in the second half the Wolves were outplayed.

UP, UP, UP, THE LIVERTON SIDES
Liverpool Echo - Monday 10 November 1930
DEAN’S CENTURY MARK.
THE WOLVES AT THE D0OR 
By Stork
The Wolves were at Everton's door on  Saturday, and that in full cry, but their  howl was more terrifying than real, and  they had to return to their quarters still  hungering for the want of more points  They undoubtedly caused Everton a lot  of anxiety during their massed attack on  their fortress, but nowadays Everton  are conversant with the shock tactics of  the Second Leaguers, and set themselves  to keep their goal intact and let the  opposition run itself out, and then hit  back. Everton, however, did not allow Wolverhampton Wanderers to set the fashion and keep it exclusively to themselves, for they, too, were soon into their stride, and established a lead which practically settled the match early on.  In fact Everton stole the Wanderers thunder, and although the Midlanders never gave up, they simply could not place the hall in the Everton net.  If the Wanderers did not possess the scheming, nor the subtlety and craft of Everton, they were nevertheless a virile side, and were well worth a goal or two in the first half. They had one inspired spell which the Everton defenders would be glad to see the back of, for it was only magnificent work by Coggins which prevented them from chalking up a goal or two, and a goal or two at that point would have worked wonders with the side. As it was Coggins’ greatness shook their confidence in themselves, and their shooting was never again so dangerous, and Everton went on to secure a capital victory.
LIKE CHARLEY’S AUNT
With the scoring of his goal at the fourth minute Dean registered his 200 League goals for Everton.  What a magnificent record that is!  It works out at an average of forty goals a season, and while it is hardly likely that Dean will repeat his sixtieth goal record it proves beyond all doubt that he is a wonderfully consistent scorer.  To-day Dean is more of a provider than a scorer, and he was so against the Wolves, whose defence found him a difficult man to keep down.  His heading of the ball was simply marvellous, and the penalty kick was given away because Hollingworth was afraid of Dean and held him off the ball. The Wanderers were as keen as mustard, and I can quite understand them rattling up seven goals against Bury, or any other side for that matter.  If things just run their way. They did not hold the ball, but got rid of it as if it were a hot brick; but don't get it into your head that it was haphazard kicking, for the ball nearly always found its man. But there was a grave shortage of shots except for one short period, when Coggins alone stood between them and goals. He had to turn a free kick out of goal, then made the save of the match when he flung himself across his goal to edge a low drive by Bottrill round his upright.  This save was a masterpiece, and he had others which required careful attention; but after that his work was comparatively easy, for the Wanderers' shooting went to nothing; but I thought their midfield play improved in the second half. 
GREAT BRITTON 
By their victory Everton have got over one of their most difficult obstacles. Wolverhampton have upset Everton’s applecart before, and tried to do so again, but Everton are not easily knocked off their perch nowadays.  Success has brought them confidence, if not an entirely faultless team, and one of the most pleasing things of the match was Britton's fine game. This boy reminds me more and more of Albert Virr in both his looks and play. If he turns out as good as Virr—and on his present form I see no reason why he should not—Everton have made a good bargain. He is getting the Everton idea, the ball along the ground; while he tackled with confidence, and linked up with Dunn and Wilkinson in clever manner. Wilkinson, who came in through Critchley's injury, scored a goal. That success may have spoiled him, for he tried other shots when an inward pass would have been the correct plan. Still, his goal was a peach. It was a self-made goal, too, for he had to dribble round Kay, before he could take a knock at the Wolves' goal.  Dean I have told you about, and if I say that Dunn played his normal game that would suffice, wouldn't it? for his game of recent weeks has been high-class. Against the Spurs the Rigby-Johnson combination was at its best, and if that standard had been maintained all would have been well, but I am sorry to say that they have not kept it up. Rigby (left the field during the second half with a nasty jab) got a goal—he should have had others—but the Wolves might have prevented it if they had not stopped playing, thinking that Rigby was offside.  Johnson, too, got a goal—a penalty kick. He bangs home a terrific "dead” ball, but when I recall his shooting in his early days with Manchester City.  I wonder what has become of his cannon-ball drive. 

THE CALL OF THE LIVERTON GAMES;
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 11 November 1930
LIVERPOOL SENIOR CUP TO-MORROW;
CENTRAL LEAGUE PRICES;
TEAM POSSIBILITIES 
By Bees
Label it Everton v. Liverpool, and no libel can arise to me when I say it must be a sufficient draw to this city. We have had one meeting of the teams this season, in a cup-tie, where, unfortunately, an Everton half-back was hurt early on and the game “blew up “as a consequence. To-morrow the Liverpool Senior Cup-tie will be played, and the Liverpool and Everton sides meet to make a rousing game. Everton will no doubt play all but one of the side that played last Saturday. Everton Reserves, like their senior brethren, are at the moment at the top of their chart, and therefore they must have been doing well; moreover, the side has been playing a very likeable sort of game.  Liverpool Reserves, on the other hand, have personality and pep, and some point, and the view of their goalkeeper is a special feature. Aitken has become famous with neither a reserve side— which takes a good deal of doing, because the Central side has nor much publicity. Aitken came from the North, and was the centre-piece of the oddity in the news paragraph—otherwise than the "Echo” and Post." He was called "Aitken Scott." He is not a Scot, but a thorough North-East type, and a thoroughly good goalkeeper. He impressed everyone by his display against Leeds United, who are second in the Central League to Everton—thus we have a form horse provided for us by the goalless draw made by Liverpool Reserve and Leeds Reserve last Saturday.  Aitken was chiefly responsible.  But one must not forget the praise that has been showered upon the Everton goalkeeper, Sager. He has performed some miracles.  So the meeting in this Senior Cup competition should be very interesting and a stern, rigid, sporting battle. The start is at Anfield, to-morrow, at 2.30, and as there has been some misunderstanding, let me put you wise about the prices. They are Central League prices:  6d admission and stands 1s. 

EVERTON VISIT ANFIELD
November 12 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
By John peel
Liverpool and Everton meet again today at Anfield, the occasion being the first round of the Liverpool Senior Cup, and as two strong teams will turn out a capital match is anticipated. The game will afford an opportunity to sturdy the reserve strength of the clubs, and I am sure the players will be out to show their best form. The senior sides met earlier in the season in a Lancashire Cup-tie Liverpool winning, and Everton's Central League players, who have accomplished some fine work this season, may succeed where their seniors failed. Everton are at the top of the Central League and have won ten of their thirteen games, while Liverpool have won five out of fourteen. The kick-off is at 2-30, and the teams are; - Liverpool; - Done; Charlton, Ireland; Jones, Lowery, Burke, Clark, Scott, Wright, Gunson. Everton; - Sagar; Common, Lowe; McPherson, Gee, McClure; Liggins, Martin, White, Webster, McCambridge.
When Everton Played At Millwall.
Everton visit Millwall on Saturday for the first time in league games but years ago they were there for a cup-tie. This was in the season 1902-03, when they were beaten in the third stage by a goal to nothing. Everton in the previous rounds had beaten Portsmouth 5-0, and Manchester United 3-1, at Goodison Park (Millwall were then in the Southern league). The Southern League joined the Football league as the Southern Section of the Third Division for the 1920-21 season. Millwall gained promotion to the Second Division in the 1927-28 season when they carried off the championship of the Southern-League with this fine record; Played 42, won 30, lost 7, drawn 5; goals for 127 against 50, points 65. They finished 10 points ahead of Northampton and 12 in front of Plymouth Argyle. In their first season in the second Division Millwall got only 39 points, and again last season they finished with 39 points. To date they have only 10 points for 14 matches compared with Everton's 23 points for the same number of games. But they have won four of the six matches at home. Two former Merseyside players are with Millwall. J.G. Cock once with Everton, is the Millwall centre-forward while H. Wadsworth formerly of Liverpool, is at outside left.
Everton Unchanged.
Everton's team for the match at Newcross will be the same as that which defeated the Wolves, and on this visit to London the Goodison park club hopes to continue its winning career. The team is; - Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Rigby.

EVERTON AND LIVERPOOL IN SENIOR CUP-TIE
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 12 November 1930
By Bee
Everton and Liverpool Res, met at Anfield to-day in a Liverpool Senior Cup-tie.  A dry ground and the absence of wind gave the players a chance to show individual efforts.  Both sides were strong, although including some youngsters not well-known.  Liverpool: Aitkin; Done, Charlton; Ireland, James, Lowery; Burke, Clark, Wright, Gunson.  Everton; Sagar; Common, Lowe; McPherson, Gee, McClure; Liggins, Martin, White, Webster, McCambridge.  The match gave plenty of chance to see the ability of the two goalkeepers.  Sagar made a leap that prevented Wright scoring from inside-right.  The Sunderland man then went back to his position at inside-left and made a capital dribble without working hard, except in his football forte, but there was corresponding response from the forwards.  After a shot across the goalmouth Liggins showed his keenness by a quick thrown-in, which led Webster to go close to goal.  Gunson made a dribble and a shot, the shot being of tremendous power, but Sagar was safe again.  Gee up-drove the ball, and found Aitken safe.  Clarke, the universal supplier, pushed the ball forward to defeat the offside trap, and Sagar, b coming out, saved a goal with the smothering process. 
SAGAR HURT
The same goalkeeper was injured a moment later, when he failed to pick up the ball which came to him low and awkward, and while he was nursing a damaged shoulder blade, Gunson was unable to put the ball into his net.  Scott, running in from outside the field of play, was given offside when he netted, and the Everton captain, Gee, raised vigorous protests against the decision until Martin took charge and advised Gee that he had got the referee’s decision wrong.  Near half-time Burke was inches off taking the lead.  Half-time. - Liverpool Res 0, Everton Res 0. 
BRILLIANT WHITE
In the second half White scored a brilliant goal from the eighteen yards line after MaCambridge had supplied the chance. White tried hard to make it two, and when he caused a corner, he tried to convert it with a header.  Martin played extremely well and did many uncommon things, but was unlucky with a shot that narrowly over. White made Aitken's fingers tingle with a save for a corner, and Done prevented Aitken's goal falling by kicking off the line. 
EVERTON'S KEY MAN 
Wright was hurt, and on recovering he made a fiery onslaught that brought a corner, and he headed the corner kick on to the crossbar. McCambridge had two drives at goal. Aitken saving them, and then hit the side net.  Liverpool were fighting back when Martin received a well-judged pass from Liggins, and although Martin was crashed out with the first effort his  second led to Webster making the issue safe with a goal.  FinaI.—Everton Res 2, Liverpool Res 0. 

EVERTON’S EARLY DAYS
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 12 November 1930
Three Liverpool friends have very sadly sent me a copy of a recent “Echo” in which the beginning of Everton F.C is referred to by Mr. Edward J.Jones, who mentions my name and wonders if I am alive.  If the person of the letter is Edward Johnson, yes, I well remember him as the first one to whom I spoke on the day that I entered on my duty as head master of Prince Edwin-street School in 1876. In his letter he mentions Mr. George Mahon, who will long be remembered one of the great chairmen of Everton.  I had the honour of taking Mr. Mahon to see Everton play Preston North end-the first big football match I had ever seen.  Mr. Jones also mentions the brothers Griffiths in connection with the Prince Edwin-Street School football.  One is now Rev W.T. Griffiths, a popular Welsh teacher, and the other is Councillor Griffiths, of Hoylake.  I am still deeply interested in the Everton F.C, being one of its oldest members and shareholders, and though in the 82nd milestone am hoping to see a club restored to its proper place in the First League at the end of this season. - S.M. Crosbie.  “The “Anchorage,” Kippford, Dalberattie, N.B.

NO MOANING AT THE BAR
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 12 November 1930
“J.F.F.” writes; - What happy inspiration made you reproduce the “Four in a Bar” photograph in Saturday’s “Echo”? Having studied it, I closed my eyes and enjoyed a pleasant half-hour’s reverie.  Joe Clennell –we are still awaiting his successor! Sam Chedgzoy –my ideal- the prince o right wingers; his successor will never come! I recall his two Celtic Park games, among many others.  A few weeks ago in company we fell to recalling the three greatest goals we ever saw.  I gave two to Sam and the third, Wilf Chadwick’s forty yards shot against Burnley in a cup-tie, the day Jack peacock broke his leg.  Then Stan Fazackerley, those lighting flicks were a glory to behold.  Last but not least, the greatest ball controller that ever played in this city and one, among many, who was not treated fairly here, Jack peacock.  If you could put them in the market to-day –pound? But what struck me most was that the photograph presented four of the finest gentlemen that ever donned a jersey.  With best wishes for the “F.F”
MERSEY SIDE RISES 
Mr. William Stapleton writes:—  Merseyside soccer is certainly rising  to the occasion of late, much to the  public delight, the majority, red or  white, prefer the " double " to a  " single." Everton's series of successes  have brought home satisfaction to the  no confidence " fans who marred the  situation of last campaign; the Goodison  Park crowd are a happy lot now, a  pleasant dream to realize, a dream,  perhaps, with no awakening. Being a Red “supporter does not make me hesitate in congratulating “Dixie “on his goal-getting habit-200 goals! What a “break!" Who else in such short time can equal this record?

SQUARES OF LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 12 November 1930
No.6. Williamson square; its theatre ghosts
By Michael O’Mahony
Though set to-day within the very heart of the city, Williamson-square was at one time the last vein in the anatomy of Liverpool, and for a long time marked the boundary of the “great development” when the old town stirred and stretched forth its limbs 200 years ago.  The importance of this development will be made plain when we recall the fact that on the famous Dr. Harry Parks moving his surgery from Lord-street to Basnett-street the Pool, his friends remonstrated with him for going such a distance from the centre of the town and out of the way of his patients.  The square was built by the Williamson family about 1700 on the edge of a swamp.  What we call Whitechapel was then known as Fog-lane, because of the croaking ever going up from the water course which ran through it.  The strains which ever rose at dusk did never cease till dawn.” The enterprising Williamsons, who were no relative to their notorious namesake, “the King of Edge Hill,” built wisely; they drained the swamp, thus putting the closure on the Frog-lane choir forever, and the square became a most select place of residence.  Not only the square itself, but the fact that all the streets round it bear the names of old families in the town- the Richmonds, Houghtons, Tarletons, Dawsons, and the rest –proves the old-time popularity of the once new district. 
DUELS AND DANDIES
Those were the days of stiff cravats, high collars, and corseted waists for young dandies, but all the same life was not all one perfumed afternoon parade, it had its sinister side in frequent duels.  Too often was Dr. Park called out at night to ride off in his chaise to minister to some dying youth struck down by the hand of some mutual friend.  In Basnett-street was born was born Charles James Mathews, one of the gifted spirits Liverpool has given to the drama.  There also lived and reigned jovial John Leigh, a man whose statue would dwarf that of Goliath.  He, too, has a local street called after him, but it is lean and obscure and most unlike the picture given us of ponderous John himself.  Near his office was that of a firm of famous lawyers called McAdam and McCorquodale, well known for their sharpness.  One of the joys of John’s buoyant life was to make the newsroom ring with his loud laughter whenever he related that standing at his door one day he noticed a country woman wandering about, and who, seeing him, told him that she had come from Prescot and was looking for the office of McAdder and McCrocodile. 
ANCIENT AND MODERN
The district is not only redolent of the traditions of the old town, but in thoroughfares leading to it varied aspects are happily blundered.  Richmond-street I often regard as one of the brightest, briefest, and busiest street in the world.  Tarleton-street, where craftsmanship is ever occupied behind windows set close between those of snug inns and offices, has a savour of the old London shops which Pett Ridge loved to discover.  Williamson-street is not so definite in this respect; it has its old nooks, but its propensity at one end for laden lurries speaks too loudly of modern commerce.  Houghton-street just now wears a look of indecision not at all foreign to its reputation, while Basnett-street, like the “lass with the delicate air,” ever suggestive of flowers and music, has charm incomparable. Basnett-street is bonny.  The old square itself has its facets of varying interest.  Standing by the Playhouse door, and looking at the high, bare branches of the new trees, and the chalet beneath them, you get a momentary suggestion of Switzerland, but it is one soon shattered by a far-flunbf squadron of taxi-cabs spreading out behind it. 
THE SPOTTED LADY
Less utilitarian was the Williamson-square of our boyhood, which on Saturday afternoon exhaled the milieu of an open-air theatre of varieties.  There the giant who smashed stones on his chest, the dwarf who licked red-hot iron, the snake charmer, spotted lady, and trick-o-the-loop man had each their own clientele of patrons, while where the barred portals of Harford’s emporium dominates today the junction with Williamson-street, once flared the bizarre lamps of Simonds’ Music Hall.  Of those clamorous days and nights a relic remains in the Cumberland’s milk shop, which was the origin of the great café system now spread over Liverpool Brown’s is still Brown’s.  Between Harford’s Basnett-street little change has come to the square.  There is an air of unpretentious worth to be found as in the country shops described for us by Miss Braddon, and if this does not extend to the north side enough of the glory of the old Theatre Royal lingers round to atone for much that is commonplace.  This is a corner, indeed, not ever ignored by the muses.  In Market-street stood the old Forum which once echoed the resounding periods of Rushton, Egerton Smith,. And Mulock (father of the authoress of “John Halifax, Gentleman”), the Ltinerant,” gave classic entertainment on its stage. 
THE “OLD ROYAL”
To try and squeeze all that might be written of the old Royal into the last page or two of this article would be foolish, it makes a series of articles all to itself, for its name connotes all that might be said of dramatic art and music in the town for well over a hundred years.  Kemble and Mrs. Siddon both failed on its stage, to return afterwards and be crowned with victory; Edmund Kean, Inceldon, Booth and Braham shone there at the height of their fame, as did the brilliant and ill-fated Gustavus Brooks; while its walls have witnessed stormy scenes which never knew rehearsal.  Cooke hissed by a select audience, hissed back the blistering retort which informed “a gang of slave-dealers that every black brick in their accursed city was cemented with the blood of a negro!”  Here broke out the “High Prices” riots which ended in bloodshed; but stormy incidents in a long career left its fame untouched.  Its records reveal that gifted women such as Miss Bolton (Lady Thurlow), Miss Farren (Lady Derby), Miss Stephens (Countless of Essex), Miss O’Neil (Lady Beeches), as well as that truly noble soul, Miss Mellon (Duchess of St. Albans), held gracious memories of the theatre Royal.  That elfin spirt Paganini there enchanted Liverpool with the magic of his art; while iots roof has re-echoed the strains of that wonder of the world, Catalini.  In later days Charles Dickens, in a velvet coat, ribboned eye-glass, and perfumed curls- ever a dandy –read there to favoured assemblies.  With the succeeding years came clouds and the chill of failure.  The light that had long burned so brightly gradually faded; the once honoured shrine of art and song has become –of all things –a cold storage.  The glary that encircled storied genius has ended in a frost.  But the lights that lessened never went out, the falling torch caught by the firm hands of men of our generation has flamed anew, and in the envied artistry of the Playhouse is ever sending a genial glow into the life of an appreciative public.  Next week; Derwent-square.

LIVERPOOL RESERVES 0 EVERTON RESERVES 2
November 13 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Liverpool Senior Cup
Everton Win Local Cup-Tie
Martin's Fine Display at Anfield
By "Bee."
The Liverpool Senior Cup-Tie between Liverpool Reserves and Everton Reserves has ended in a well-earned victory for Everton by 2-0, a margin that was a fair one in view of the way the winners' forwards played and in view of the way the home forwards played. The mixed team of some first team men and some famous names, together with the addition of some youngsters from the "A" side, made the game worth watching. Burke, a well-built young lad at outside right for the home side, was plainly lacking in experience, whereas the outside right of the winning side was caught in the desires and gestures of Martin, who practically forced the boy to play well. He was naturally crude, this boy Liggins, but he had a good heart, looked for work, and responded to the calls of the man, who was the dominating forward on the field. Martin did not get a goal, but he commanded the winning line and showed the value of constructive football, with the ball on the ground compared with the general rush-about tactics that so often obtain in these engagements.
Superior Style.
In nearly every department Everton had the superior style and effectively followed this style, but both goalkeepers played remarkably well. It is a city of goalkeepers and to the list has to be added the names of Sagar and Aitken, both admirable young men. Sagar got a blow on the shoulder, but continued to keep goal safely, and it is no exaggeration to say that if the home goalkeeper had not fielded the ball remarkably well Everton would have had a larger victory. As it was it took then some time to win this game –there was no score at half-time –and shortly afterwards White hit a good goal, and Webster clinched a right wing movement by settling the affair late in the game at a time when Wright was beginning to go though on his own having tired of trying to make the remainder of the forward line respond to his urge and his neat footwork. Gee, and James were capital pivots, and although Webster did not shine as much as usual the ability was plainly there in his boots and football brain. McCambridge tried at outside left broke into a shooting sweat near the end, whereas the greatest joy of the match was early on when both sides were hitting the ball very hard and giving the goalkeepers their chances to shine. McCambridge was playing against Ireland –odd reading this when one remembers McCambridge is of Ireland; Common and Lowe were sturdy defenders, and Done and Charlton had too much to do to succeed –it was a persistent call upon them and their strength. Teams; - Liverpool Res; - Aitken goal; Done and Charlton, backs; Ireland, James, and Lowery, half-backs; Burke, Clark, Scott, Wright and Gunson, forwards. Everton Res; - Sagar, goal; Common and Lowe, backs; McPherson, Gee (captain), and McClure half-backs; Liggins, Martin, White, Webster, and McCambridge .
The winners now play at Tranmere.

THE FABLE ABOUT FINANCE
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 13 November 1930
Bee’s Notes
I was in Stoke last week-end and witnessed the Central League match between Everton and Stoke Reserve sides.  The result, 2-0 for Stoke, is no criterion of the character of the game, and the home side narrowly achieved victory in the last twenty minutes or so (says “Llys Davies”).  The comments of the section of the crowd where I chanced to be would have interested you- in so far as the comments of a football crowd can interest anyone of intelligence.  One large gentleman appeared to think that Everton’s Reserve side had cost the club a fabulous amount, and that it was no mean feat on Stoke’s part to defeat such wealth.  The truth is that there is fabulous wealth in Everton’s Reserves side in the shape of sterling ability, and it is to be hoped that Everton .C will keep their eyes on it lest somebody comes along and get his hands on it.  The outstanding features of the game, in my opinion were, firstly, the display of Everton’s ‘keeper (he was truly brilliant on one occasion); secondly, the readiness of the crowd to pick on a perfectly harmless collision between J. McClure and a Stoke man (actually, the former’s performance was beyond comment, except it to be too praise excellent footwork); thirdly Stein’s speed.  He was on form.  Cyril Webster is growing, too.  His great quality is that he doesn’t “mess abart we’t ball.”  He gets rid of it with quick and accurate passes.  At Stoke he was fit, and drew appreciative Tuscanian applause on several occasions.  Incidentally, I heartily endorse the note of a correspondent that appeared in your column recently, re Cyril Webster and Vivian Woodward.  That was truly apt. 

MEETING OF FRIENDS 
Liverpool Echo – Friday November 14 1930
EVERTON TACKLE THEIR OLD CENTRE-FORWARD
Bee’s Notes
Everton have a partiality for London grounds; they have done well there this season, and there is reason to believe they will engage in another Second Division duel to-morrow with happy results.  No team will be keener to welt Everton than Millwall, whom I do not remember ever facing an Everton audience, even in a Cup-tie. The men who will live for a day to-morrow are Jack Cock and Harold Wadsworth—two former Evertonian players. Yes, dear reader, do not imagine the writer has gone wrong in his facts; Harold Wadsworth played for Evertonian players.  Yes, dear reader, do not imagine the writer has gone wrong in his facts; Harold Wadsworth played for Everton, Liverpool, and Leicester City in his time-a stubby young man who might not have left the city it his name had not borne the name of a more famous brother!  Which shows the difficulty of two brothers being a success in one side. Wadsworth was never able to live down the title "our. Kid." Jack Cock, possibly the oldest man in football to-day, is remembered as a centre-forward with Huddersfield, Chelsea, then Everton, then Plymouth, and now Millwall. At Plymouth they said he kept the line moving smoothly; at Millwall they vow he playing as well as ever, and some Everton officials who saw him recently say that his perpetual motion is simply wonderful.  Jack Cock will want to score against his old side, just as George Harrison, of Preston, yearned for that stinging blow and the comradely handshake.  Goals against a former club are sweetest of all- to the scorer.  It is in the lap of the gods what happens tomorrow, but at the Den I think we shall beard the Lions and take a continued stance at the top of the table.  The Everton fellows have got into a confident vein; they have learned the lesson of Second Division stride and insistent struggle for an early lead, they have borne down and worm down the opposition, and no matter what comes now, they reckon they can stem them and finally stab them with goals.  Millwall can be no walk-over; everyone is hoping for a pegback of the Everton side.  So Everton must make every post a winning one and not rest content with paltry leads against inferior sides, for they have been inferior at almost every encounter this season.  I think we shall have a Mersey double tomorrow.  If so, we shall sing “Happy days are here again.”  Everton; Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; McPherson, Griffiths, Thomson; Critchley, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Rigby. 
EVERTOR RESERVES 
Everton Reserves, at the top of the Central League, to-morrow entertain Wolverhampton Wanderers Reserve at Goodison Park in a game that should be well worth watching. The Everton team has been chosen as follows:  Sager; Common, Lowe; McClure, Gee, Towers; Ligging, Barton, White, Webster, McCambridge. Kick-off 2.45.  Everton A visit Present to engage with the Cables team:--Corry; Parker, Jackson; Chedgzoy, B. Lloyd, J. Lloyd; Jenkin, Cunliffe, Davies, Fryer, Hanson.

SECOND DIVISION RACE
November 15 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
In the Second Division, Preston North End are pressing –Everton, and the Deepdale side have an advantage today as they are at home to West Bromwich Albion. At their best the Midland side is a good one, but I shall be surprised if Preston fail to win. We have become so accustomed to Everton gaining full points that I am afraid a lot of their supporters take victory for granted. No matter what the class of football, it is unsafe to proceed on these lines. Still, I consider Everton possess the skill and the necessary dash to win at New Cross-where, however, Millwall will make a bold fight. Jack Cock and Harold Wadsworth will be keen to show their Merseyside friends that they are not yet done with, and they will be among the most earnest players to oppose Everton this afternoon. Millwall are in the last five in the table. In the Everton team Stein plays in place of the injured Rigby. Teams; - Everton; - Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn Dean, Johnson, Stein. Millwall; - Yuill; Moran, Pipe; Newcombe, Sweetman, Martin; Wadsworth, Readman, Cock, Forsyth, Paxton.

EVERTON AT MILLWALL
Liverpool Echo- Saturday, November 15, 1930
JACK COCK CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY AGAINST HIS OLD CLUB
By Bee
Everton; Coggins; William, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Stein.  Millwall; Yull; Moran, Pipe; Newcombe, Sweetman, Martin; Wadsworth, Beadman, Cock, Fortsyth, Paxton.  Referee; Mr. C.A. Wood, of Smallheath.  This was a new meeting League series, Everton v Millwall, at the Den.  Maybe these Londoners will prove a “den of thieves,” where points are concerned.  At any rate that was the promise of  Jack Cock, the former Everton centre  forward, who was welcomed by his old teams of Everton players.  Jack was celebrating his thirty-eighth birthday to-day.  Another Merseyside man whom I met was Harold Wadsworth, looking very fit, fresh, and young. Unfortunately the weather broke down, and at midday the rain came in such supply that the crowd was bound to be affected.  Millwall’s Den has been much improved since last I was here. There is much banking and some covered accommodation.  The team has not been doing well, or there would have been more improvements.  Everton played Wilkinson again on the right, and Stein made his first appearance of the season as a first team man through Rigby's bad ankle.  The home side wore blue and white, so there had to be a change of colours for the visitors.  When the teams turned out there was little drizzle and wind, and the ground was in a condition prospective to reliable football.  Cock won the toss, which meant nothing. Everton began with a pass to the centre half. Griffiths, this finding touch. Cresswell was thrown, and the free kick brought Stein to a centre, the ball passing outside. Griffiths made another long pass, this time towards Wilkinson, who did not catch the run of the wet ball. Cresswell was cheered for some brainy defence, which seemed easy meat for him. 
A LUCKY INTERRUPTION  
Millwall took some time to get through, and when they did they showed the usual Second Division urge and rush. Offside was their barrier.  Johnson made a lovely dummy for a defender and struck out boldly for what seemed to be a goal.  Moran got in the way of the shot, and thus stopped a first-class sensation in the first stanza of the game. Millwall made miskicks and Johnson, on his wrong wing, tried to send the bonny boy, Wilkinson, on a journey.  Wilkinson could not quite reach the awkward ball to use it to any purpose; in fact, it struck me that the ball was skidding to a large degree and was very awkward to work. Wadsworth had two sinuous runs, and Williams cut across him to stern his winding pass.  Williams also crossed Forsyth, and jarred his limbs so that there had to be a stoppage. Griffiths miskicked in front of goal, and Cresswell hit square to touch to ensure the danger was passed.  Cresswell's heading was a feature of the moment, and the 20,000 spectators were enthusiastic over a game that was certainly hard and fast. Millwall making some bustling moves through the aid of free-kicks.  One of these led to Cock missing in front of goal, but the referee had sounded the call of off-side.  Dean and company sent Wilkinson away ruggedly, and the little man crossed the ball towards centre, where Johnson had gone. Johnson could not grip the ball for a sound shot. The ball went upwards, and Johnson tried to head the rebound, but could not have known a defender was handy to clear the lines.  Williams was very definite in his work just now, and he it, was who sent Dean forward with a right stab and a left pass to Stein, who ran the ball out. Coggins say edsharply from Readman.  Dean ended a raid by nodding the ball to Wilkinson, whose ballooning shot put the ball well over.  Cresswell, in full view of the grandstand, beat Readman with the skill of a forward dribbling, and Newcombe, at right half, showed some fine phases of play. He is big, quick, and clever.  Thomson, from the touch line, made a perfect centre; and Dunn, keeping high, made a glorious effort to turn the ball to the extreme right end. 
INCHES WIDE 
The goalkeeper was beaten, but the ball trekked inches wide of the goal mark.  A free kick for hands against Griffiths struck me as one of the usual hand cases where the ball meets man and the hand. The free kick was outside, so there was no damage.  Thomson come to the line with another fine solo, and once again the speed of the ball off the slippery turf beat pre-conceived notions.  Millwall were speedy if not trustworthy in their attacks, and Williams had to come over to the left wing to keep the wingman from danger.  Everton now began to make some real football passes, and strategistic passing was plainly the game against the London folk.  Wilkinson could not round off the good combined move with a proper centre. Later he was crowded out by the sheer force of the home defence.  They were rather beefy. 
THOMSON SCINTILLATES 
Thomson positively radiated with football, and his trickery gained him much applause from the locals.  Cook was the definite, sound passed of the ball, but his work was difficult, when those around him were rather too rugged in their rush tactics.  Dean made one of his heat back-headers, and Stein escaped the, back who made a sliding tackle, centred, and the ball passed outside, when the whole move deserved a goal.  So far there had been no shooting, and the goalkeepers, like ourselves, merely looked on and wondered what the harvest would be. Moran kicked hard at a ball he merely topped, and Stein's centre was so dangerous that Moran's fellow hack, headed the ball over his own goal, and got the thanks-pat of his goalkeeper for his thoughtfulness.  Half-time.—Millwall nil, Everton nil. 
EVERTON WIN AFTER BEING DOWN
EQUALISER COMES FROM OVERHEA KICK
REFEREE BOOED
CROWD ANNOYED AT A STEIN GOAL 
There was no score in the first half.  It was hard work winning this match. The referee gets “the bird “through giving a corner-kick that the people debated.  Dunn scored with an overhead kick after Cock and Wadsworth had made the opening goal.  Everton's attack in the first half was an attack in name only. Afterwards they did much better. I have yet to see Everton lose this season.  The Everton forwards had done little or nothing in the first half, and one looked for their customary second half revival.  In one minute Millwall had showed us different, ideas. Thomson was beaten near the touch-line, and Wadsworth centred to Cock, who turned the ball slightly forward.  Forsyth, dashing in and racing Coggins for the ball, practically shot the ball into the empty net, getting an injury in a collision as he did so.  The scorer was off for a time, so was Everton's confidence, and once more ex-Everton players had made a vital goal. Cock and Wadsworth naturally took much enjoyment out of this leading point.  Dunn tried to put Wilkinson well forward, only to find the extreme winger could not find the ball.  Cresswell went up, dribbled all and sundry with ease, and yet the forward line could make no impression. Wadsworth returned to the attack through a ball skidding off a back's foot, and his shot went at great pace across the goal.  Millwall were now much quicker than their rivals, who could not get settled to their football convictions. There was a lamentable lack of shot by our side until Wilkinson followed up well and Dunn made a well-judged shot which Yuill handed over for a corner that caused much trouble.  Wilkinson apparently moved the ball six inches from a spot chosen by the referee. Wilkinson was inclined not to remove at order, but the referee was adamant, and Wilkinson had to replace the ball a foot or so.
DUNN LEVELS 
This was the prelude to some dribble and shot by Britton. A corner came from this, and it brought an equalizer in twelve minutes. A remarkable goal, too. It began with a Wilkinson corner kick, and a magnificent effort to book the ball over his head by Dean.  The ball was all towards goal when it was sent out, and Dunn, repeating the overhead hook, turned it beyond the goalkeeper and also a full back who was standing on the line, and tried to leap high over the goal-fence.  This was very necessary encouragement for a side that had not impressed until now.
STEIN LEADS 
Griffiths tried to head in. Dunn, at inside left, delayed his shot to make a dribble close in. Dean shot, and Wilkinson, taking the rebound, hit the crossbar. Stein, running forward at very close range, and square angle, slammed the ball into the net.  Coggins ran to the corner flag to keep off Wadsworth, but failed, and a corner came. These were bound to be dangerous, because the light was failing.  Williams cut in in his own unstoppable manner and put the ball up to Dean, whose shot was stopped by the goalkeeper.  Dean at once claimed a corner kick, the people at the back of the goal saying "No." The corner brought a goal, and the referee had to stand boos from this point.
IN THE DARK
A scrambling goal, a debated goal, a welcome goal.  The crowd continued their bark at the referee, and those at the other end of the field joined in.  How they could tell whether it was a corner is inconceivable, for the darkness was now of an inkiness.  Millwall fought hard and valiantly to reduce this lead goal at the sixty-seventh minute, and Griffiths gave a corner that was dangerous.  Wilkinson was right through when he was elbowed in the back.  He too got nothing for his pains except a pain in the back!  Britton saved a goal when Williams missed his kick.
WILKINSON INCREASES 
Wilkinson scored again—another goal that should not have been. Johnson was the starter then tried a shot the goalkeeper should have saved. The ball dropped on the line, and when punched away rather than kicked away, it went right to Wilkinson who thus got recompense for his loss of a penalty kick.  Final.—Millwall 1, Everton 3

EVERTON RES V WOLVES RES
Liverpool Echo- Saturday, November 15 1930
FORTUNES FLUCTUATE IN KEEN ENCOUNTER
Without revealing the same balance and reliability that has characterized previous home matches, Everton had done well to be only a goal in arrears at the interval.  Wolves were a dangerous attacking force with a sound defence, whereas Everton had been compelled to make changes from their usual team.  Hunt opened the score with a beautiful goal, but McClure took his chance and succeeded in driving home a great shot from thirty yards to equalize.  Liggins scored an easy second Everton goal, and Bellis headed into to level again for the Wolves.  A defensive lapse enabled Hetherington top glide a ball into the net and give Wolverhampton an interval lead that was just about deserved.  Half-time; Everton Res 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers Res 3.  Britt prevented Hunt getting through, and after White had been very near, Gee levelled the scores.  Gee scored a fourth for Everton, and Hunt a fourth and fifth for Wolverhampton.  Final; Everton 4, Wolverhampton Wanderers Res 5. 
PRESCOT CABLES V EVERTON “A”
Early play favoured Everton.  Hanson scoring after ten minutes.  Prescot forced matters on the left, Corry saving from Bevan and Rigby.  The Everton goal had several narrow escapes, and then a dash by Jenkins resulted in Davies scoring their second goal.  For a period Everton were on the defensive and Bevan scored for Prescot.  Half-time. - Everton “A” 2, Prescot Cables 1.  Final; Everton “A” 4, Prescot Cables 2.

STUD MARKS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 15 November 1930
By Louis T. Kelly

• If Everton can continue to carry all before them everybody will be left in the rear. 
• The Wanderers left Goodison wondering
• The Wolves fans call Hartill, their ex-gunner centre-forward, “Hartillery,” because f his heavy firing propensities.
• Prior to Saturday Wolverhampton Wanderers had not visited Goodison under League match auspices since April 7 1906.
• They drew 2-2 on that occasion, a player named Hopkins getting both their goals from outside right. 
• Baddeley was their goalkeeper, and Jones, left back, was the man who a few years previously was unwittingly the cause of Wilfred Toman’s career being cut short through a broken leg misfortune.
• The Everton side included internationals like Abbott, Scott, Young, Settle, Sharp, and Hardman in that particular match
• Although never a showy player, Williams, the Everton captain, is surely a model of consistency. 
• It was Williamson’s seventh appearance with the Everton League team on Saturday.
• But it was the first time he had found the net for them or finished on the winning side. 

“THERE’S ALWAYS ROOM AT THE TOP”
Liverpool Echo- Saturday November 15 1930
Everton on Saturday last completed a third of their engagements, and are heading for the championship, thus emulating Liverpool’s great effort in Division 11.- “once upon a time.”  By participating in 14 games almost all of Everton’s players become eligible for championship medals- 14 being the minimum decreed by the League –and it is up to them to “team” it well and secure them.  NOW, BLUES, KEEP ON KEEPING ON!

FOOTBALL CAMEOS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 15 November 1930
By Bee
Which indicates seamanship, but actually means “able breaker.”  He has broken many hearts-the hearts of the opposing side’s forwards.  Truly Bristol.  Talks that way.  I’ll tell’e, came to Goodison in the midst of strife.  Davies, Sagar, and company had their turn.  He took his turn through a mid-week Central League match.  The team had been selected and posted.  But Coggins was brought into it at the week-end.  I thought that tactically that was a shock piece of business.  And still think so.  That doesn’t prevent me saying how good Coggins has been and is and how his name is now talked of in connection with the international games.  There is Hibbs, there is Speirs (which means Spurs), there is Barber, and there is Coggins.  The last named started with a view of Robson, who had four pots at goal and scored bulls-eyes each time. A nice baptism for the new man.  He kept his even keel, however, and I had the pleasure of having a close-up of his goalkeeping against Burnley, when he held his ten men up by superb goalkeeping. I think it was Good Friday; at any rate. I went holidaying, and am convinced it would have been Christmas Day in the workhouse for Everton if Coggins had not been keeping guard.  Coggins is as daring as he is driving.  Which interpreted means that he takes a chance with the wheel and the save.  His motoring feats would fill a chapter, if he would tell them to you as well as to me.  A likeable, quiet sort; enthusiastic for the game and the club; not given to the swelling of the cranium.  I spoke to a Manchester official about a young man from our area. He's doing no good just now; his head swelled, said be. What do you propose to do about it! I asked.  The reply was: "I shall let him stew in his own juice. It's a great steaming process and does the swelled member such a lot of good."  Young players take note and hear yourselves as does Coggins, with modesty and with the ever-present desire to go on learning the business on hand. 

MILLWALL 1 EVERTON 3
November 17 TH 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury.
Everton Well Placed
Another Second-Half Win in Hard Fight
By "Bee."
Everton have taken full points from a further away journey, and that in itself is something upon which one must offer them congratulations. It has become a habit for them to succeed where the others have failed, and to carry their success to a logical conclusion in the second half of the tussle. Actually Everton won a hard game at Millwall –their first League visit there –before 20,000 spectators, who enjoyed the strenuousness of the game and caviled at a corner kick that produced a goal the referee from Small Heath Mr. C.N. Wood being booed to some extent during the second half, and especially at the end of the game which finished its course in a spell of darkness.
Running Fire at Referee
The referee did his work well, even if we imagine that he could, and perhaps should, have given the visiting side two-penalty kicks. Johnson made very definite and instant appeal that the ball had been deflected by a full-back, and the crowd imagined he had appealed against the goalkeeper for touching the ball that plainly evaded him. So the referee had to withstand a running fire of comments and complaints. One could grumble at the way Everton played in the first half. They had little punch. The home side played fast resolute football, but there was an added touch of smartness in manipulation of the ball. Fortunately Cresswell stood firm in this period and Griffiths and particularly Thomson got through much sound work when it was most needed. On the other hand no one compared with Newcomb, who had a glorious day at right back.
A Wadsworth Movement.
It was Wadsworth ex-Liverpool, who started the move by which Millwall took the first goal, a moment after half-time at a time when one expected Everton to show their staying powers. It was a good goal, and it came through the fine constructive notion of Jack Cock, the former Everton centre-forward who wears so amazingly well, and at thirty-eight years of age still stands for adroit, subtle football. The Everton team, whose attack had been a thing of shreds and patches fought back and finally Dunn scored. A ball that was bandied about and was finally hooked over the head, first by Dean and then by Dunn, led the latter to an equaliser. Then the battle was fierce, and Millwall became faulty in their passing. When Everton taste a goal they generally go on to take other goals, and so it was now -Millwall's defence which had been solid and secure with a ball that was wet and awkward to control through its slippery nature, became unsettled. Wilkinson began to cross the ball with accuracy Stein woke up into a breezy period of darting in –it was Stein, who followed up a scrambled goal to make the lead, and when the goalkeeper blundered Wilkinson took the third.
Difficult Hurdle
It is not exaggeration to say that Millwall were one of the hardest teams to counter Everton have had this season -–omething like West Bromwich hurdle. The margin was a kind one; the delayed goals to Everton threatened to make this Everton'' first away defeat of the season. Once they had got into their mood Everton'' mode of play altered; they were canning and constructive, and convincing –but this was at a late hour of the day. All though save the spasm of play I have mentioned, the Everton attack was poor. The extreme wingmen had a bad day, and the result was that there were no centres coming across for Dean to nod; nevertheless this must be accounted one of Dean's poorest displays. The inner men Dunn and Johnson did a fund of wise work against a rocklike defence whose half-backs were the best part of the machinery. Williams, the winning captain, suffered from a bad knee but his heartness was noticeable, and at one convenient moment Britton cut across the left wing to stop the score being 2-2.
Lack of Shooting
Everton were disappointing; they were not happy in their attempts, and there was a fatal lack of shooting in the first half . Forsyth scored the opening goal; otherwise Coggins was not bothered a great deal. It may seem churlish to talk of an away win of 3-1 margin as lacking in points one would desire to see, especially when two of the goals to the winning side are of a character that bore no charm except for their registered card. However, Everton can do no more than keep on winning. Teams; - Everton; - Coggins, goal; Williams (captain) and Cresswell, backs; Britton, Griffiths and Thomson half-backs; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson and Stein forwards. Millwall; - Yuill, goal; Moran and Pipe, backs; Newcombe, Sweetman and Martin, half-backs; Wadsworth, Readman, Cock, Forsyth, and Paxton, forwards. Referee Mr. C.N. Wood of Smallheath.

EVERTON RESERVES 4 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS RESERVES 5
November 17 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Central league (Game 14)
Everton were compelled to make a number of changes from their usual team, and in consequence there was not the same sparkle and solidarity that characterized previous home games. Still the losers fought a great fight and seemed assured of victory till the last quarter, when the Wolves fought back desperately and succeeded in getting two goals inside four minutes. It was a good hard game, with fortunes fluctuating remarkably. Everton's attack did exceptionally well, White Martin, and Webster playing brilliantly, while Gee scored twice, and was conspicuous in a resolute defence. Hunt opened with a fine goal, McClure equalised and Liggins gave Everton the lead. Belis and Hetherinton (Wolves) scored before the interval, after which Gee scored Everton's third goal. Shortly afterwards Gee scored Everton's fourth and victory seemed theirs till near the close when Hunt came along with a fourth and fifth goal for the Wolves.
Everton "A" 4 Prescot Cables 2
Liverpool County Combination.
Blunders by goalkeepers and backs contributed argely to the defeat of the Cables. After ten minutes Sutcliffe failed to hold a cross shot from Cunliffe, and Hanson scored easily. Davies for Everton, and Bevan for Prescot scored before the interval. In the second portion Everton were the better team. Davies and Fryer adding goals Rigby for Prescot.

WEAKNESSES IN EVERTON'S TEAM
November 17 th 1930. Evening Express
By the Pilot
Coolness and the ability to rally late in the game won two valuable points, for Everton at Millwall. I agree that the Blues had a shade of luck in the matter of their goals but it was a splendid preference to win after being a goal down against a team that battled, determinedly from beginning to end. It was something like the Wolverhampton match in that the Lions enjoyed plenty of the exchanges but there was no trace of craft about their play. They kicked the ball hard and chased it like a pack of hounds after a fox. It generally ended at that, and Coggins had light afternoon.
Weaknesses
To my mind, the most important aspect was the revelation of semi-weaknesses in the Everton side. Wilkinson and Stein were enthusiastic and willing, but were imperious in their finishing so that Dean rarely got a chance from the wings and so was blotted out. Johnson and Dunn were excellent, working thoughout all through. Britton made the mistake of doubling back when in possession instead of getting the pass away. He was dilatory. Griffiths played Millwall at their own game, and Thomson vied with Newcomb –a really fine player –as the best half-back on the field. Coggins was finely covered by Williams and Cresswell, and the latter's generalship and utter nonchalance captured the hearts of the Londoners. Cock is still a clever footballer, but he did not work hard enough, even though he made the opening from which Forsyth scored the first goal of the match, and Readman was the best forward. The backs were unceremonious, and Yuill made only one error. Two speculative overhead kicks by Dean and Dunn led to the first Everton goal. , and Dunn scored. For the second three players tried to tap the ball through in a hectic scramble before Stein succeeded. This came after a much debated corner kick, but Tommy Johnson assures me that his shot was deflected outside by Moran. The third point was from another melee, for Yuill tried to kick away a shot, and though Dunn's effort failed Wilkinson was there to net. The failures of the nearest rivals have placed the Blues in a splendid position in the League table now.

EVERTON STILL WINNING BY WAITING
Liverpool Echo - Monday 17 November 1930
EVERTON CAPTAIN INJURED
THE WALL OF MILLWALFIGHTING ON THE DEFENSIVE
By Bee
Tarleton and Everton fight on the same principle—on the defensive. And it does not always pay as a policy.  When Tarleton was making his belt effort the wireless code from his trainer, Ted Broadribb, came per tinkle of the handle of a bucket. The tinkle told Tarleton to stall his opponent. Practically every away match by the Everton side leads to the same formula. They stall the first half and then win the second round. And to me it has become a habit, so that at half-time if the score is goalless I say, “They’ll win." This principle of stalling has gone on till it has become more than a habit; it has become a disease, and the disease may prove fatal.  Let us be frank about this Everton business. I will not shrink from stating a careful view of the victory. It may sound like terrible reiteration and faint praise, which is damning (as a soldier friend at Orpington suggests), but if anyone is satisfied with anything more than Everton's position, then I am sorry for his look to the future. It may be sufficient that the evil of the day should be "topmost position." But the manner of winning at Millwall was anything but convincing, and the margin looks better than the victory side. It was put to me at the week-end that "they can't do better than go on winning."  Yes, that's a fair proposition so long as the authorities do not bank on such victories to carry their side in the next twelve months. 
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 
At once let me declare that while Everton played curiously uncertain football with a most difficult ball, the opposition played well without ever looking like a score machine until they snapped a goal when the Evertonians were asleep—it was too near half-time!—  and Britton saved a certainty by cutting across a rival. Now that save was of the utmost importance—, goal then would have brought the score to two all, and, having recovered their lost balance.  Millwall would have been veritable fiends had they got level with us. As it was they petered out as others have done before them. Millwall, like ourselves, looked hopeless near goal—there were no shots. Afterwards the shotgunners got more on the mark, and if one says that the winner's goals were of a tripey character, it must be confessed that it is useless declaiming a side because it takes the simple chances— Stein and Wilkinson took the simple chances, and Dunn scored with an overhead kick. Those were our three goals.  It is more important that we could have had two penalty kicks –one for a perfect push on Wilkinson and for the throw-down of Stein.  Those things showed me how Millwall’s defence, from being a solid rock-like thing, had become overplayed and without security.  Their calling came with the uprising of Wilkinson and Stein.  The winging work was only good in the revival period; prior to that there had been shocking lean patches, as lonely, but more dreary, than those I spend at midnight in the village where sleep is a forgotten art!  This game was played with an awkward ball, an awkward crowd (who took exception to a referee who handled the game quite well, spite the penalty possibilities) and against a Millwall side that strikes as being more useful, if a trifle erractic.  I have seen no half-back since the war who impressed me so urgently as did Newcomb –high praise of a high man; a 6ft, notion of tackle and pass, dribble, and feint; usage of the ball his special forte.  Make a note of the name; Newcomb.  There are no flies and few hairs on this Newcomb, but like Cresswell he shaped like an artist and played like a Trojan. 
HOLDING THEM UP
Candidly, the Everton defences held up the opposition.  Cresswell is the magnet in away games.  The crowd cannot miss him, with his light complexion and ruddy complex.  They call him “Grandpa”- mistaking him for me! And they call him “Bernard Shaw.”  He hears nothing but the shouts of praise or his delightful and effective game.  By his side big heart Ben Williams continues to stride through! “Body and Soul” must have been written by him; boot and toll- that may be the equal, for Williams in half-an-hour pulled the side up with unstinting energy and sternness.  Unfortunately, Williams got a bang in a tackle, and not only has his knee swelled up, but the ankle has taken foreign matter.  It is to be hoped that the defence is not be disturbed –it is the uniformly sound portion of the team, while other links of the eleven have been as awkward as the trainer’s carbuncle! In the first half Thomson was a remarkable dribbler and provider.  His work may not have created a great impression because in this half we had not a forward in five names.  Afterwards Dunn brought the line into the use of combination; he was the placer of shots, and Johnson delved into the far corner to much effect later on.  Stalling and winning by waiting may be Everton’s special forte.  I watch them and await developments.  Granting Cock, Wadsworth, and Co, were rousing and racing, and the backs were strong, one is left with the remembrance that this was a pleasing result, if not a pleasant recommendation for those who made it possible.  This does not warrant me closing the innings of the week-end without paying tribute to Griffiths for a stiff day’s work against a soldier such as Jack Cock, preserved and prime-mover in 1930; nor does it prevent me saying that Millwall are a very useful side-erratic, but sure to do better than their fifth-from-bottom record indicates.  Merseysiders were there in force –men who have been taken to London to storm the office-citadel, I met Mr. John R. Lynch, of the Bristol Manning Travel Service- a man who has travelled some since he played football in the north-end of Liverpool.  Where’er we go we meet the former citizens of no mean city; and the home-folk, rather than the Liverton people, say “How did Everton get to the top?” I always tell them to wait the second half.  And although Everton have not let me down this season, I begin to have my fears.  Four points lead is a tremendous lead at this stage.  See to it, Everton that you hold on to the gift the gods gie us. 

EVERTON'S ELEVEN
November 19 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Everton meet Stoke City at Goodison Park on Saturday (Kick-off 2-30), and the Potteries club will thus renew acquaintance with Mereyside after a long interval. The City are not the power they were when in years gone by they ran Everton close on many occasions. Everton will have the same side as last week, and I expect them to consolidate their position at the head of the table. They should remember, however, that it was a team from the Potteries that brought about their only defeat this season. Port Vale creating a surprise at Goodison Park. Stoke City stand ninth in the table and have gained seventeen from fifteen matches, so that they should give Everton a hard run. The Everton team is; - Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn Dean, Johnson, Stein.
The Reserves side to meet Aston Villa, in the Central League at Aston Villa is; - Sagar; O'Donnell, Lowe; McPherson, Gee, McClure; Critchley, Martin, White, Webster, McCambridge.

SQAURE OF LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 19 November 1930
NO.7. DERWENT SQUARE, A PEACEFUL RETREAT
By Michael O’Mahony
If I wanted to find a place which might be regarded as the antithesis of the place I have been writing about lately, I think I could claim to have discovered it in Derwent Square, Stoneycroft.  Stoneycroft (pace topographers) is the more imposing name for the suburb of Old Swan, and Derwent Square lies close to what is, to-day, one of the busiest thoroughfares on the outskirts of the city.  Yet it is so secluded that I have walked and been driven round it for over forty years, and never knew of its existence until recently.  Leaving Green-lane for Moss-lane, and taking Derwent road as a direct cut eastward, I soon fell to admiring the old property, finding in it an enjoyable contrast to the rattling roadway I had let behind me, for a rattling roadway once placid, grass-bordered Green-lane has now become.  Some vestiges of the bowery past which justified its title linger here and there, but to look at it now and to think of what it was is to recall the case of the useful household drudge who was once the fine lady. 
AULD LANG SYNE
Time was when clear dawns broke on a green and brambled by-way which was a favoured sanctuary for birds, who were well aware that young families could easily be reared close to luscious orchards.  Strong old house with quaint windows under quainter roofs looked out across shaded lawns, and in many an arbour now on more shone the precious china which made tea drinking at Green Lane a pleasant ending to the long walk out from town.  To-day Derwent-road recalls some of the departed amenities of the old days of the fragrant orchards where the evenings closed “full of the linnets’ wings.” More, indeed, than I expected to find there.  It is commonplace enough at the start, but just before I came to where it ends at Derby-lane and where the tower of t. Paul’s new church is seen through the tress, I found myself admiring the tranquil enclosure, which is the subject of this article.  A line of oaken wattles makes a palisade guarding a high hedge.  This leads to an ample gateway, and beyond this spreads out a square of venerable turf surrounded by solidly-built old houses, the sort of sequestered back-water, which looks as if it had never heard of strikes or general elections.  Dignity might be more emphatic if one side of the square was not marked by less-imposing property than the other comfortable houses, but this fact in no way affected my sense of gratified discovery.  The high facades gazing dreamily at each other across the buffer state of level sward seem unware of any other company but their own.  Despite a Dutch suggestion in the quaint plinths of brickwork supporting the lamp-posts, it has, with its high trees, an air of the rocks and ancestral elms which mark it as English of a cathedral close. 
TIME-TONED NOOK
Indeed so much so that it is the sort of time-toned old nook which might feel itself quite away from home in industrial county.  It reminds me more of the corner of a certain Hampshire town than anywhere else I have seen further North, a town as well-known to walkers like myself as the “Pilgrims’ Way,” and remarkable for a delightful old inn, which I recall with pleasant memories of good cheer, black oak, and blue china.  These were not the most of its attractions, it was so historic that on occasions the venerable proprietress would fling open the door of the last apartment, observing with an air of grim pomp “An’this is the room in which Queen Elizabeth slep’ the night before her head was cut off.”  Derwent-square is so quiet that faint echoes of trade or traffic scarcely disturb the song of the robins in its boughs, a place where it always seems to be afternoon and best seen through bare branches under the sky of a silver and scarlet November. 
A Waterloo reader is informed that Hall-lane is so called because it was the road to Vernon Hall, which once stood on the south-east of the highway.  I am not aware that the lane has ever been called by any other name.  I regret that I have no means of discovering the precise dates in relating to the adjoining property in Low-hill.  Next Week; CLEVELAND-SQUARE

EVERTON TORN BETWEEN TWO ADAGES
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 19 November 1930
Bee’s Notes
Everton are torn between two adages.  One reads: “Don’t change a winning eleven."  The other is:" Don't take the pitcher to the well once too often."  It is an awkward predicament, the only beauty of the club's season being that they stand high and dry just now and should make each post a winning post.  Everton meet Stoke City at Goodison Park on Saturday (kick-off 2.30), and the Potteries club will thus renew' acquaintance with Merseyside after a long interval. The City are not the power they were when in years gone by they ran Everton close on many occasions. Everton will have the same side as last week, and I expect them to consolidate their position at the head of the table. They should remember, however, that it was a team from the Potteries that brought about their only defeat this season. Port Vale creating a surprise at Goodison Park. Stoke City stand ninth in the table and have gained seventeen points from fifteen matches, so that they should give Everton a hard run. The Everton team is:—Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, and Stein.  The Reserve side to meet Aston Villa,  in the Central League, at Aston,  Sager; O'Donnell, Lowe; McPherson,  Gee, McClure; Critchley, Martin, White,  Webster, McCambridge. 
EVERTON'S OPPONENTS 
Next Saturday Stoke City are due to appear at Goodison Park to engage Everton in a Second Division encounter, and this will be the first meeting of these clubs in this category.  Stoke City are one of the oldest provincial clubs, and they were formed in  1863 as the result of the efforts of four old Harrow boys, under whose guidance  they soon developed into a football force in the Potteries. When the Football League was inaugurated in 1888-89, Stoke City were asked to join.  The League at that time consisted of only twelve clubs, and the City's first experience under its auspices proved very discouraging, for they finished bottom. Re-election, however, served them for another season, but, closing that campaign as "wooden opsonists" once more, they lost their status, Sunderland taking their place. After this the Stoke club sought successfully for admission to the Alliance. where the Wednesday  were then operating, and their first  season in this category proved very  successful, for they carried off the  championship at the first attempt, and  this induced the League to take them  back again. Still, once again they failed to make headway, and again finished at the foot of the table, but kept their status by being re-elected.  After a period of several seasons, however, they were relegated to the lower sphere, where they figured until the season 1921-22, when they finished runners-up to Nottingham Forest, beating Barnsley for the promotion place on goal average only, both clubs having 52 points. Their success in the premier circle, however, was short-lived, for they again dropped back to the second position the following season, and then into the Northern Section of the Third Division, which championship they won in 1926-27, and gained promotion back to the Second Division. Since then they have maintained their status, and last season closed their programme, occupying the eleventh position in the chart with 40 points. The Potteries side are by no means strangers to Goodison Park, for they have appeared at this enclosure under First Division auspices, the last occasion being in the season 1922-23, when they were defeated by 4 goals to 1.  So far this season the Potteries club have not with an even amount of success and of the 15 games played they have won 7, lost 5, and drawn 3, while they have registered 25 goals conceded 23; but, as Everton are making a bold bid to regain their status at the first attempt, it would appear that the visit of the Stoke side will only serve to help the Goodison Park club to take a step nearer to promotion. 
DAMNING! 
Pensioner Johnston writes me from Orpington: — I have accused you, ' Bee,' of ‘damning with faint praise ' Everton’s away performances. After witnessing their display at Millwall, and presuming their other away displays were similar, I can only agree with you when you say there is still something lacking, and with Cresswell out of the side I dread to think what would have happened.  Admittedly, the conditions were bad, but that was no excuse for Everton's poor forward display during the first sixty minutes. Not one shot did the Everton forwards produce (if you except Johnson’s rebound from a back) in the first half. And yet we won.  Why? Well, our defence was great; and the Millwall attack was weak—  Coggins only had one shot to deal with of any note, late on in the second half, but  the Millwall keeper had none at all (save the scoring shots). Briefly, the Everton forwards did not produce constructive football, and the goals they scored were not clean-cut. 
“I am a red-blot Evertonian, but I would be willfully purblind if I did not note their deficiencies.’ Our Kid ‘(Harold Wadsworth) was as good as any forward on the field."  I was rather interested reading your  comments last evening on the Everton  team, and certainly agree with what  you say, as it has been my opinion for some time past. They are certainly doing well and picking up the points (says "Old Blue"), but the forward line is far from convincing, and we can thank the defence to a large degree for their present position. When are the directors going to give a trial to Webster? They played Stein on Saturday, and, to my way of thinking, should have brought in Webster, knowing, as they do, each other’s play so well; but this been the failing with the selectors; never think of playing the right or left wing o the reserves when making changes; and as Webster and Stein have been doing so well in the reserves, I am sure they would improve the forward line if given a fair trial. 

NEW DIRECTOR FOR EVERTON F.C.
November 21 st 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Appointment of Mr. Clarence Hayes
The Everton football club has filled the vacancy of the directorate caused by the resignation of Mr. WJ Sawyer by the appointment of Mr. Clarence Hayes, a well known City man and a member of the legal profession. Mr. Hayes has been co-opted to the board he is an enthusiastic sportsman a native of Liverpool a follower of the Everton for a decade, and a shareholder for many years. He has taken part in most sports in a practical manner, and is remembered for his cycling and boxing feats. In later years he has been a leading member of the West Derby Golf Club.

EVERTON “STOKE UP”
Liverpool Echo - Friday 21 November 1930
EVERTON’S HOMELY GAMES
By Bees
Everton are at home to Stoke.  That revives many memories of the days gone by when we went to Stoke’s ground and there saw the late Richmond Roose make a show of goalkeeping that was memorable, but not equaled by his after-show when he teased a station-load of people who had gone to the refreshment room.  However, that’s by the way.  Stoke are a side to be respected.  They have done sufficient in the last month to show that Everton will need to be emphatically at their best if they are going to consolidate their excellent position at the head of the league.  It is just the sort of match one fears.  Yet Everton with the resources, confidence, and strength should be capable of putting to turn-about this side from the Potteries.  Actually, Everton seem to be saving their best for the home games –which I do not see- and the bogey of Goodison seems to have been laid to rest- for which many thanks.  The single break by Port Vale is sufficient to indicate that Everton can by urgent methods that their revenge from this part of Staffordshire.  The talent is there; the need for imagining they are not the best side in the world is perhaps the most urgent call to these Everton people – as a whole, I mean. They seem to look upon the opposition as common fly.  Perhaps they are; but they are sometimes arresting and arousing.  Everton must rouse themselves, so that the first half becomes as important to them as the second half.  You would not know the Everton side in its first-half displays away from home.  As leaders the side commands respect, as persistent winners the team has found a lost confidence; I expect they will have a big crowd there to welcome them to the home-fold.  Everton; Coggins; Willliams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Stein. 
GOODISON MUSIC
Aigburth Silver Prize Band (conductor Mr. Harry Wearing); - March “Hale and Hearty,” Powell, fox-trot, “Melancholy,” Campbell and Connelly; fox-trot “I am in the Market for You,” Campbell and Connelly; selection, “Maritans,” Wallace; waltz, “The Same As We Used to Be,” Campbell and Connelly; one-step.  “There’s a Good Time Coming,” Campbell and Connelly; march, “La Fanfare,” Powell. 

NEW EVERTOR DIRECTOR 
Liverpool Echo - Friday 21 November 1930
Everton F.C, have elected Mr. Clarence Hayes to the vacancy on their board, created by the retiral of Mr. W.  .J. Sawyer. Mr. Hayes has been a shareholder of the Everton club for many years, and has had a wide experience of all forms of sport, notably football, boxing, cycling, golf, and athletics.  He is a member of the legal profession and has accepted the position offered him by the members of the Everton board.

SPOTTER AT WEST DERBY UNION
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 November 1930
CAMEOS OF THE TEAM WHICH PRODUCED CYRIL WEBSTER
It took only three seasons for W.D.U. to bring their name to the front in Liverpool amateur circles.  Experiencing some opposition to their selection to the Zingari League, they were compelled to prove their right of entry by a convincing championship season in the Zingari Alliance.  It is to their credit that the following two seasons brought the championship of the 3rd and 2nd Divisions of the Zingari League, and promotion to the highest division.  During the season which earned their promotion they made many friends by their sound displays and excellent team work, and they are proud of the fact that Cyril Webster, who is at present giving some fine displays with the Everton Central League team, was one of the team who laid the foundation of their later successes.  They have no Cyril Websters in their present eleven.  Their forward play was always considered a feature of their game.  On Saturday last it was a weakness.  Last season their forwards claimed 116 goals in  twenty-six league games, this season, they have 32 goals in eleven games.  Their officials explain the lack of cohesion in the side to the fact that they are opposed to more experienced teams in the higher division.  Cup-ties in the last few seasons have drawn them against teams from the higher divisions, and they have always performed with credit.  The display in this game leads to the opinion that they have gone back a good deal. 

MONDAY’S REPLAY
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 November 1930
On Monday night, at Guinea Gap Baths, Seacombe, Everton and Chester second strings are playing off their match to decide which shall take honours in the Liverpool Combination.  Both sides have awaited the venue and date early, s neither can claim medals for this competition previously, which makes the vent decidedly interesting.  They each headed their respective section with equal loss of points, thus showing the teams to be fairly level.  I expect a large number of enthusiasts from both clubs will be present at eight of the clock, the starting time. 

THREE GOALS FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 November 1930
DEAN SCORERS TWICE AND JOHNSON ONCE AGAINST STOKE CITY
By Duval
Everton;- Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Stein.  Stoke City;- McGrory; Spencer, Robertson; Jackson, Sellars; Liddle, Bussey, Wilson, Mawson, Archibald.  Referee; Mr. I. Caswell, Blackburn. 
With four successive wins to their credit, Stoke were expected to make a good bid to maintain the sequence when they made one of the infrequent visits to Goodison Park.  It was fine when the game started, but the heavy morning rain had left the ground exceedingly sodden and heavy, pools of water being dotted about the ground.  Everton opened in brisk fashion, and twice Lewis was called upon in the early stages. Dean had a shot turned for a corner, and altogether Everton's work in the opening stages was promising. 
EAST FOR DEAN 
Everton scored an offside goal through Dean before Stoke made any headway, and then it was only a minor effort that caused little trouble. Everton were particularly lively on the right, and it was from this quarter that their first goal originated.  Wilkinson placed a corner so accurately that Dean was able to head the ball into the net, and Lewis had a very remote chance of saving, because in its flight the ball struck the upright and rebounded into the opposite corner.  Cresswell was applauded for a fine piece of defensive work, and Stoke were thrown to the pass-back to the goalkeeper idea that was hardly suitable on such a sodden surface.  Johnson neatly put the bell into goal, where Dean's header was saved by Lewis, and Dunn finished the movement, sending wide. Then Stoke for the first time became really dangerous, Coggins making a good save by leaving his goal to pick up 
CITY'S GREAT CHANCES 
Than Stoke had a great chance when Liddle crossed the ball, and Bussey, with a clever overhead kick, put Wilson in possession, but the ex-Huddersfield man hardly made the best use of the opening, and the Everton goal escaped rather easily.  On such a day mistakes could be made readily, and might easily prove costly, as for instance when Cresswell missed a clearance and the ball skidded onwards to give Wilson another opening, which he neglected through running the ball over the line.  Under the prevailing conditions science was not so much a factor as the  power to struggle through the heavy  going, an in this respect the Everton  forwards were wise in giving the ball plenty of boot. So far, most of the attacks had come from Everton, and the players generally adapted themselves well to the conditions.  Lewis was temporarily knocked out through coming into collision with Dean, and he recovered in time to scramble the ball away as Johnson dashed forward to take up a pass provided by Dunn.  Little had been seen of the Stoke forwards.  They apparently found the conditions not so much to their liking, and in addition, the Everton defence held on tenaciously. 
JOHNSON IN LUCK 
The Everton forwards might have made better use of their chances, and there was an element of luck about the goal which Johnson scored at twenty-nine minutes.  Credit belongs to Stein for a neat movement by which he transferred the ball to Johnson, and the latter's shot struck McGrory. Where Johnson was fortunate was in getting the ball again, and this time shot struck the under-part of the crossbar and finished in the net.
DEAN AGAIN
Two minutes later Dean wriggled himself clear of the Stoke backs, and, with a hefty ground shot scored a third goal for Everton.  On the play, this was no more than Everton deserved. They were superior in attack, and the Stoke forwards had been given little opportunity to display their goods because the Everton defence was too good for them.   Cresswell created some amusement when he beat his man by standing still.  It was a clever move, and one that only comes from experience.  Dunn was a rare plodder, and it seemed that the heavy going was much to his liking.  A free kick taken a couple of yards outside the penalty area by Johnson was well caught by Lewis, and Wilkinson made a gallant attempt to head the ball through from a good centre by Stein.  Stoke did not give the impression of being a clever side, and on their showing to-day they were much inferior to Everton. Still they forced a corner, which was something to break the monotony of Everton's persistent attack.  The "Potters" made effective use of the offside laws, and several times the Everton forwards were held up in this way. Lewis was one of Stoke's busiest performers, and he had to save twice in rapid succession from Wilkinson, while Griffiths got in a neat piece of work when he stopped Wilson, who was forging ahead.  Half-time; Everton 3, Stoke 0. 
EVERTON STOKE UP
FIVE CLEAR GOALS V. CITY
DEAN GETS THREE
JOHNSON AADD THE OTHER TWO
Everton had not a great deal to beat Stoke, and in the first half were easily the superior side. Goals came from Dean (2) and Johnson.  Dunn and Dean have rarely shown a better understanding. Stoke rallied well in the second half, and for a time Everton had to meet a stiff challenge. Dean, however, got his third goal at 67 minutes, and Johnsen his second at 73 minutes.  In this game Dean gays one of his best displays for some weeks,  and there was a happy co-operation between he and Dunn that meant  goals, while in the half-back line Griffiths worked with great success. 
In the first half Dean (2) and Johnson scored for Everton.  When the game was resumed it was noticed that Williams did not reappear.  While Williams was away, Stoke had their chance if they could take it, but they showed little ability to do so.  Williams, however, returned after six minutes, Britton in the meantime taking up a semi-half-back position.  One of Stoke's best efforts came when Archibald dropped the ball cleverly to goal, and Coggins safely held it. Then Dunn put in some clever footwork and finished with a shot that Lewis got down to.  This was followed by a determined rally on the part of Stoke, and twice Williams were prominent with clever and effective wort in keeping out the Stoke forwards.
THREE FOR -DEAN 
Stole's effort came to an end when Dean got a fourth goal at sixty-seven minutes, Dunn providing the opportunity.  Johnson got a fifth at seventy-three minutes, and Everton were easy winners.  Williams headed off the goal-line, and Coggins made a couple of brilliant saves when Stoke made desperate efforts to score.  Three minutes from the end Dean netted the hall again, but the goal was not allowed on the score of offside.  Credit mug be paid to Stein for his clever work that led to Dean's opportunity.  Final; Everton 5, Stoke City 0.

VILLA RES V EVERTON RES
Liverpool Echo – Saturday November 22 1930
Lance-Corpl. H. Martin, of the Army XL., assisted Villa in the Central League reserve match with Everton, at Villa Park, this afternoon.  Play was interesting in the first half.  Martin and White gave Everton the lead, but in a fine rally Brown and Tunstall equalized.  Half-time;- Everton 2, Villa 2. 

STUD MARKS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 November 1930
By Louis T. Kelly

• Other great players on Stoke’s early day books have been W. Dickson, Hyslop, and the Maxwells, one of whom subsequently joined Everton.
• They had a notable Cup victory by 4-2 over Everton in 1890 and again in 1894 by one goal to none. 
• The latter game took place on January 27, 1894, in a perfect gale.
• Stoke had the wind at their backs in the first half, but failed to score.
• Then with grim determination the Potters faced both the hurricane and the fury of Everton’s attack, and amid a scene of the wildest excitement J. Scholfield (outside left) got the winning goal two minutes from the end.
• Everton’s visit to Millwall last week recalls the fact that they succumbed there on March 7, 1903, in the third round of the Cup by the odd goal, 1-0 after overthrowing Portsmouth and Manchester United. 
• Their side included Sutcliffe and Dave Storrier
• The Blues’ team that day was; - Whitley; Henderson, and W. Balmer; Clark, (Wolstenholmes being absent), Booth and Abbott; Sharp, Taylor, Young, Settle, and Bell. 
• In the two previous rounds Jack Brearley, a local who also won fame with the Spurs and Notts County, had displaced “Sandy” Young as leader to the attack.
• Prest, who is doing so well for Burnley, was “wanted’ by Everton, but unfortunately the good thing just failed to come off and this through no fault of the Goodison Club.
• Fleetwood, Everton’s former wing half-back, has been in hospital through an internal trouble.
• Tommy will be remembered for his hard work and the fact that he was once unsuccessfully “got at” with a view to squaring a match.
• He is nowadays quite a fair judge of budding football talent.
• Everton in their last eight games (five away) have earned 14 points out of a possible 16.
• After duly putting the Biscuit team out of sight, Everton have demolished the Wolves and Lions in turn.
• Week by week Cresswell has been demonstrating the value of an old head.
• Everton this morning had as many points as when March came in last season.

FOOTBALL CAMEOS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 22 November 1930
TOMMY GRIFFITHS
By Bee
It is good to look on Tom Griffith.  He has a fine stature, and he is essentially a quiet fellow; a likeable fellow, with never a suggestion of forgetfulness as to his position in life.  A gentleman, see?  Came from Wrexham after playing with the Boys' Realm companionship.  Also plays the 'cello, never plays the fool.  Never remember him doing a foul act, complaining, roystering the referee, or rousing himself except in the cause of his beloved club.  A Welsh international; started with a game against his club mate, Dean; helped to win championships; scores goals with his head and foot; stops goals ditto.  Height carries him through, plus his sporting way. Could increase his strength to 100 per cent, if he would  get the ball to his forwards when he  has come through the torrid zone by  superhuman efforts; but is inclined to  lash the ball, thus creating more work  for himself and his co-defenders.  Deserves welt; must be nearing his fifth year and benefit-money stage; the quietest man I know; a credit to the game he has adorned for many years.  Has been amongst the sufferers of the Prince of Wales” handshakes.”  When arriving at Wrexham home he is greeted by everyone, we knows him –and who does not? - “Hello, Tom, lad” His heading, which is his forte, is delivered in a peculiar manner; he makes a side-glance first, then juggles with the ball putting it upward and onward-a spectacular vein of football that may not produce the greatest results, but at least brings a bright light into a dreary world!
EVERTON V. BRADFORD
In connection with the Everton versus Bradford match at Bradford on Saturday, the L.M.S, announce a special excursion leaving Liverpool (Exchange) 11. A.m., Kirkdale, 11.8 a.m., Preston-road, 11.14 a.m., arriving Bradford (Exchange) at 1.28 p.m. The return train will depart from Bradford (Exchange) station at 8.5.p/m., Return third class fare 4s 6d. 

EVERTON 5 STOKE CITY 0
November 24 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Dean and Johnson among the Goals
Dean scores Hat-Trick
Everton's sound win over Stoke City by 5 clear goals keeps them in a favorable position at the head of the League and at the moment it is easy to see how they can be deposed. Stoke may be considered a side of average Second Division class, yet Everton had little difficulty in gathering the points by a decisive margin. Obviously there is a wide difference between First and Second Division football, and in this game Everton demonstrated they are out of their class. On a ground that was exceptionally heavy and all against clever footwork Everton gave a capital display, and adapted themselves well to the conditions. In the first half they had matters pretty much their own way, and with a three goals lead at the interval were well on their way to success. It was after the interval, however, that Stoke came more into the picture, and while they never seriously disputed Everton'' superiority they played with greater spirit and were more dangerous.
Dean On The Mark.
Two further goals however, placed the issue beyond dispute. Dean scored three and Johnson, two, and not for many a day has Dean given such a wholly satisfying display. The heavy going seemed to suit Dean to a nicety. He judged well the cross passes from the wings, and with relentless forceful work kept the Stoke defenders on the stretch. Dunn was another successful worker who found the conditions much to his liking. His footwork was excellent and the openings he created offered fine opportunities for Dean. The game lacked the finer points, but it revealed Everton as a side competent to combat the stern forcefulness of a typical Second Division combination and win by a handsome margin under conditions that were against their known style of play. Frequently they swept through the Stoke defences like water through a sieve and although the Potters improved in the second half they were made to look like commoners for most of the game.
Direct Methods.
The Everton forwards employed direct methods. Both Stein and Wilkinson were smart and speedy raiders, and the inside man responded with good shooting. Of the half-backs Griffiths was a great worker, prominent in attack and defence, while both Britton and Thomson rendered excellent services. The neat and polished work of Cresswell and the more pretty methods of Williams kept the Stoke forwards well in hand, and Coggins gave a sound display. There were few personalities on the Stoke side, but Lewis got through a good day's work in the Stoke goal. The goals were scored in the following order; - Dean 8 minutes, Johnson 29 minutes, Dean 31 minutes, Dean 67 minutes, Johnson 73 minutes. Teams; - Everton: - Coggins, goal; Williams (captain) and Cresswell, backs; Britton Griffiths, and Thomson, half-backs; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, and Stein, forwards. Stoke City; - Lewis, goal; McGrory and Spencer backs; Robertson, Jackson and Sellars, half-backs; Liddle, Bussey, Wilson, Mawson, and Archibald, forwards.

ASTON VILLA RESERVES 2 EVERTON RESERVES 2
November 24 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
Central league (Game 15)
At Villa Park. Aston Villa were fortunate to share the points for the visitors were rather the better side and showed more thrust. After twenty minutes Martin wriggled through the home defence to score for Everton, and two minutes later White added a second. During the second portion the Villa strove hard to score and Brown netted, while Tunstall levelled the score. Morton (goal), Smart (back), and Brown and Dorell (forwards) did well for the Villa while Sagar, Gee, Martin and White were outstanding for Everton. Everton; - Sagar, goal, O'Donnell and Lowe, backs; McPherson Gee (captain) and McClure half-backs; Critchley, Martin, White, Webster and McCambridge, forwards.

DONE BY DUNN
November 24 th 1930. Evening Express
Stokers Find Him Much Too Hot
Everton's Master Mind Again
Dean Again In His Happiest Vein
By the Pilot.
Well Dunn Everton! That sums up the victory over Stoke. Every one of the five goals scored by the Second Division leaders were deserved, and Dunn's was the mastermind that kept the Everton machine running so sweetly. I have not seen Dunn play a better game since he came to Goodison Park from Hibernians. After this game everyone could appreciate how he got into the all-conquering Scottish team in 1928. The way he manipulated the ball and delivered up the most perfect passes on such a morass was marvellous. In praising Dunn for this comparative walk-over –the Stoke folk said after the match that the City had not been so definitely outclassed for seasons –I do not wish to detract from the undoubted value of other men but seven movements out of ten could be traced back to his fertile brain.
Not a Gloomy Dean.
In addition to the brilliance of Dunn, both Dean and Johnson did well, Johnson was a splendid purveyor of the ball. He is improving every game. Dean was in his happiest vein. He snapped up chances with deadly effect and led the line with rare skill. His three goals were scored with that polish and cleverness that earned him the distinction a couple of seasons ago of being the finest centre forward in the country. Johnson by the way, obtained Everton's other two goals. Wilkinson's finishing was faulty, but Stein often used the ball with discretion, and was the best winger on view. Griffiths was the best of the half-backs, who, as a line, were far superior to the City trio. The defence was flawless with Cresswell providing those effortless touches, which look ridiculously easy but are so effective. Williams played well under the handicap of side injury, and Coggins cleared with customary confidence, although he was almost unemployed during the first half. Stoke were outplayed at all points, only Lewis, Wilson, and Jackson catching the eye as being more than useful. Everton now hold a lead of five league points over Burnley their nearest rivals. If they maintain this progress they will have promotion safe in their keeping by March.

EVERTON'S TRIUMPH CONTINUED 
Liverpool Echo - Monday 24 November 1930
By Duval
EVERTOR'S PROGRESS 
Can Everton maintain the current form? Although there are strenuous times ahead, the outlook is bright, and one is inclined to the view that they can and will regain First Division status. Their decisive win against Stoke should further inspire confidence—not for the win alone, but because it was obtained against a side that had four successive victories to its credit and that the Potters may be regarded as a fair sample of Second Division quality. In several games this season Everton have shown they are a stage removed from Second Division football. It was pleasing to note the improved play of the forwards. Both Stein and Wilkinson were speedy and satisfactory, while the inside men produced something like their known form.  Dean had a good day, and Dunn has seldom been more effective. They had a capital understanding, and much of Everton's success was due to the cleverness of Dean and Dunn. There was not a weakness on the side, and the present combination certainly looks good enough to carry the club back to the higher grade. 

A FOOTBALL EXCURSION 
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 25 November 1930
The ways of our railway companies are indeed mysterious. A few weeks ago, when Everton played Bradford City, an excursion was run by the L.M. and S. Railway Co. to Bradford for 3a 6d. The train was halt empty on that occasion. Everton are again due in Bradford next Saturday, and a further excursion is being run, this time for 4s 6d.  What does one get for the extra shilling? An earlier start from Liverpool  (too early for most people), an earlier return from Bradford, a slower outward journey, and thirty-six minutes  longer in Bradford.  If the first excursion was half empty, what will be the result of the second at increased cost? I wonder!—PUZZLED.

CO-OP(T)ERATING
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 25 November 1930
Bee’s Notes
I was surprised to learn that Everton had filled the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. W.J. Sawyer by appointing Mr. Clarence Hayes (says “Old Shareholder”) Now, after the support given to Mr. F.W. Lake at the annual meeting, you would have thought that he might have been the first consideration on any vacancy arising; but it looks to me that it would be “putting the cat amongst the pigeons” by co-opting Mr. Lake.  So that the record of the present board is that they have co-opted four gentlemen since they have been in office-viz., Messrs, Wade, Banks, Baxter, and now Mr. Hayes.  In spite of the very questionable strength of holding so many proxies, surely the active shareholders might be considered after what happened at the last annual meeting, when the voting was greatly in favour of Mr. Lake. 

EVERTON'S BRIGHT OUTLOOK
November 26 th 1930. Liverpool Post and Mercury
By John peel
If Everton can maintain anything like the form they have shown so far this season, there is no reason why they should not attain the ultimate goal. On Saturday they visited Bradford, who stand ninth in the table, and Everton are hoping to continue their winning sequence. Next Month Everton are due to meet Oldham At Goodison Park (2.20) are Sagar; O'Donnell, Lowe; McClure, Gee Towers; Critchley, Martin White, Webster, McCambridge.

SQUARES OF LIVERPOOL
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 26 November 1930
NO.8 –CLEVELAND SQUARE; STIRRING TIMES
By Michael O’Mahony
Cleveland! There is something in the name which is suggestive of the opening of a long-closed book, on every time-toned page of which the word Liverpool is plainly printed.  A name which, while carved with ancient ways and worth is associated with memorable expansion, great hopes, great happenings. In it we hear the echo of the bells of old churches, the cheers of the townsmen as they hail the inrushing tide through the gates of their first dock, the tramp of hoofs on cobbled stones and wooden bridges; we see Chadwick busy at his magnums opus, the first "mapp of Leverpoole," and mark the slow breaking of the bond which bound the fortunes of the old town to that of the Moores of the Old Hall for centuries.          John Cleveland was elected mayor in 1703, was returned to Parliament as member for Liverpool in 1710, and lies buried in St. Nicholas's Church. A monument in the east corner of the south wall bears the inscription, "John Cleveland-square, Esq., formerly a representative of Parliament for Leverpoole, died he 1st of August, 1716, in the 55th year of his age, and of William Cleivland, his son, representative in Parliament for Leverpoole, who died the 5th day of March, 1724, in the 28th year of his age."
A MILTONIC REPUTATION
Renowned for benevolence, the Clevelands were not unknown to the (uses. John Cleveland (born 1613. died 1659) was a poet, and is own day a reputation equal in to that if Milton.  The last edition of his works as printed in 1661.  They have now dropped out of sight.  Though greatly interested in the expansion of the town when it spread beyond the Poole Bridge, and of which extension Cleveland-square was the hub, it does not appear that any of their family ever lived there.  When aid out, about 1735, it was called “Price’s Square” (the Prices, a Welsh family, relatives of John Cleveland, were Lord of the Monor of Birkenhead), but in time it was given its present title, and must have been an agreeable place to live in. It was surrounded by respectable houses, was lined by elm trees, and had an obelisk in the centre. On one side were the paths and hedgerows leading to the open country, and on the other the wooden footbridge crossing the Pool to the lane leading down to the beach and ever-flowing river.  Rumours, and even murmurs of war, more than once invaded the placid retreat bearing the name of the benevolent Cleveland'. 
Fears for the Port 
When Thurot, sailing out of Dunkirk with a small squadron of privateers, had almost swept away the commerce of the Irish Sea and West of Scotland, plundered the town of Carrickfergus and carried off the Mayor, such consternation seized the public mind that a volunteer force was promptly demanded for the defence of the port.  Read in connection with an account of the splendour of the uniforms worn,
It can be said that the patriotic response was a brilliant success. The record runs:  On Tuesday (March 14, 1760) the Right Hon. the Earl of Scarborough reviewed in Price's-square the independent companies of the town, and went through the manual exercises with platoon and street firing. The companies were all clothed in their new uniforms at their own private expense, the colonel's company in blue, lapelled and faced with buff; Captain ingrain’s in scarlet coats and breeches, lapelled enjoyed and faced with green, green waistcoats, gold-laced hats, and queue wigs; Captain Tarleton’s in blue, with gold vellum buttonholes; Captain Johnson’s company of the train of artillery wore the uniform of the navy, blue and buff with gold- hates.” 
A STIRRING SIGHT
Mustering with martial music under the fine elm trees the scene must have been one to stir the spirit of the people.  Less orderly was the militant invasion of the square which took place during the seamen’s riot fifteen years later.  Owing to depression of trade an attempt had been made to lower the wages of the seamen on board a slave ship- the Derby –owned by Mr. Yates, an African merchant living in Cleveland-square.  This was resisted, and disputes broke out into open violence.  The sailors rose in a body, cut the rigging of the ship and that of others preparing for sea, broke open the gunsmiths’ shops, and made a violet attack on the Town Hall during which some people were killed.  Mr. Yates’s house was set on fire and almost demolished.  Some of the rioters being secured and lodged in the Old Tower, a mob of 2,000 arose and attacked the goal, which falling like the Bastille, the prisoner were carried off in triumph, when the streets were paraded and contributions levied off the principal residents. 
In the course of the wild march they stopped and thundered at the door of Mr. William Leece, Water-street (Leece-street bears his name). 
A Courageous Girl 
Miss Leece, a young girl, though alone in the house, opened the door widely and in a determined manner asked the leader of the gang why he knocked in such a fashion and what he wanted. The man, taken aback by her spirited manner, stepped back, swept off his hat, and solicited instead of demanding money, which, being given him, he retired with his fierce-eyed followers.  Few houses of African merchants escaped so well that day, but it is interesting to note that in the directories recently republished by Mr. and Miss Shaw, Mr. Yates was living  in Cleveland-square in 1769.  The elm trees, though they survived the obelisk by fifty years, have gone long ago, and for fully a century the square, becoming gradually commercialized, has become an established centre for all who seek varied style,  and classes of china ware. To-day It associated with the word in a more delicate and subtle sense, for in the tides of change Cleveland-square has become the open gate of Chinatown.  The inhabitants of the square to-day would be surprised at the glittering splendour of such a review as took place under the trees in 1760.  I wonder would they stare more widely than the people of that period would to see to-day the joeseticks and chopsticks in the weird-looking window or hieroglyphics round the cryptic doorways. It is a case of “The Lady or the Tiger."  Next Week: Great George-square 

EVERTON MAKE NO CHANGES
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 26 November 1930
Bee’s Notes
For the match at Bradford, Everton will be represented by the side which beat Stoke City, viz., Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Stein. 
Everton reserves to meet Huddersfield Town Reserves at Goodison Park (2.20) are; Sagar; O’Donnell, Lowe; McClure, Gee, Towers; Critchley, Martin, White, Webster, McCambridge. 
EVERTON’S OPPONENTS
Everton will again be renewing old acquaintances when they go to Bradford to meet the Park-avenue side on Saturday, for he clubs have met on several occasions, both under First Division auspices and in cu warfare.  Bradford, like the majority of clubs, have had many ups and downs during their career.  Founded in 1907, the Park-avenue club were accepted into the Second Division of the League in 1908-9, where they remained until 191-14, when they finished runners-up to Notts County and gained promotion to the premier circle.  They did fairly well for a few seasons, but at close of 1920-21 they lost their status and dropped back to the Second Division.  The following season they fell still lower, being relegated to the Northern Section of the Third Division, of which section they were runners-up in the season 1922-23 and 1926-27, finally winning the championship in 1927-28 from Lincoln City.  Since then their performances in the Second Division have been very creditable, for they have occupied the third and fourth positions with the following records;- 1928-29 (42); Won 22; Lost 16; Draw 4, For 70; gainst 70; Points 48. 1929-30; Play 42; Won 19; Lost 11; Draw 12; For 91; Against 70; Points 50. 
So far this season they have met with a fair amount of success, and at present hold the ninth position in the chart with 17 points for 16 games.  Of this total 12 points have been secured at home, where so far they have an unbeaten record this season, their home record reading;- Play 7; Won 5; Lost 0; Draw 2; For 27; Against 10; Points 12.  Thus it would seem that the Goodison Park side will have to be at their best if they are to continue to hold their own unbeaten away record. 
OLD-TIME LORE
Here is an old-timer’s letter;-
Just a note from one who has loyally supported Everton since 1887;  When I met you at the Regent Palace in August last you will say that attending football matches all these years makes me look quite young.  In looking up my old records I thought the enclosed programme would interest you in view of our match next Saturday.  It brings back to me pleasant recollections of the past.  Score at Everton, 2-2-, November 12, 1892.  Score at Stoke, 1-0, for Everton, January 28, 1893.  Maxwell, I think came from Stoke to Everton.  Latta (Mrs. Latta died this week).  Jamieson (Bob J., of Bootle).  Albert Chadwick (Edgar’s brother).  Howarth (is it the great Howarth and Holmes, P.N.E?). I have others as the matches come along if any use to refer to.- Yours, &c., J. Summerskill. 
The card shows the meeting of Stoke and Everton in 1892, and names the North-end Music Stores at Walton-road –in those far-off days, not forgetting the smokers’ “cabinet” at Rattenbury’s and Denyer’s Stanley Park hotel.  The teams show Fred Geary at centre of a great forward line, with Holt at centre half, winged by Boyle and Jamieson; Williams in goal, and Milward and Chadwick on the left attack and Maxwell and Latta on the right wing.  I like to look up the names of the men who took the vessel to the Potters.  The card shows the great Rowley in goal, Tom Clare and Underwood at full-back, Christie Proctor and D. Brodie at half back, and Naughton, Dickson, Robertson, Evans, and the old-timer Scholfield as forwards.  I thank Mr. Summerskill for the card of remembrance.
EVERTON F.C BECOME JUDGES
Last evening a dozen members of the Everton F.C were the guests of the Skelmersdale United Supporters’ Club on the occasion of a fancy dress ball at Witham-road School School, on behalf of the club’s funds, which was largely attended.  Six of the Everton players, namely, Messrs, Ben Williams (captain), Dunn, Griffiths, Martin, McClure, and Britton, along with Mrs. Chitson and Miss Stansfield, acted as judges.  Their awards were;-
Girls;- Under 7; Miss Phyllis Tootle, over 7; Miss L. Ashursy. 
Boys;- Peter Pitt and William Thompson
Ladies;- Mrs. Hardy
Most Original –Miss M. Howarth.
Best Advertisement.- Miss E. Watkinson.
Most Comical;- Mrs. W. Westhead
Gents.-Mr. R.S. Williams.
Most Original.- Mr. E. Ackary
Best advertisement.- Mr. F. Ackary.
Most Comical.- Mr. T. Barker.
Prior to the dance the Everton players were entertained to tea at the Skelmersdale Arms Hotel by Mr. Richard Forshaw, the president of the club. 
A FOOTBALL EXCURSION 
In a communication which appeared under this heading in the Echo “Letter Box on Tuesday.” Puzzled “wrote that whereas for the L.M.S  excursion to Bradford on September 27,  for the Everton-Bradford City match, the fare was only 3s 6d, the fare for next Saturday's excursion to Bradford  (Everton v. Bradford) is 4s 6d. He complained also that the November excursion is to start earlier than that of September.  An official of the railway company sends us two hand bills which show clearly that our correspondent is in error. The fare for the two excursions is the same-4s 6d. He points out, moreover, that the earlier start is due to the fact that the starting time of football matches is advanced as the season progress towards mid-winter. The excursion fare, he added, is exceptionally, as a matter of fact.

CUEFELLOWS’ DATES
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 27 November 1930
Wednesday, December 17.- (?) Everton F.C., at Stork Hotel, Queen-square.
Thursday, December 18.- Liverpool F.C., at Sandon Hotel, Oakfield-road.
JAMES JACKSON’S NOTE-WORTHY SERVICE
On Sunday evening, at 6.30 p.m., there is to be another special “Footballers’ Service” at Shaw-Street Presbyterian Church.  In order to wipe off a deficit a sale of work is being held on Friday and Saturday in the church halls, and this service on Sunday is a closing effort.  The Misses “Studmarks” will again render musical items, with Mrs. Robert Done at the organ, Tom Bromilow reading the lesson, and James Jackson conducting the service.  The subject of his address is a rather interesting one, “Football and Life.” This should be most appropriate when we consider the number of players and football followers who will be present.  Both Everton and Liverpool Clubs will be well represented. 
BRADFORD V. EVERTON
The Bradford team to entertain Everton is; Clough; Cookson, Lloyd; Taylor, Elwood, Smith; Davis, Scott, Rhodes, Kilnar, Dickenson.  This is the side that beat Cardiff City 3-0, at Ninian Park, last week. 

EVERTON AT BRADFORD
Liverpool Echo - Friday 28 November 1930
Bee’s Notes
The continued posture, or posing, of Everton at the head of the chart, with others well behind, gives the Everton players confidence.  They were a long time getting over that period of depression caused through foolish easing up against Port Vale.  The fact that Port Vale have since knocked overboard the three top-notchers only adds to the galling remembrance of Everton leading 2-0 when their game had gone 75 minutes –yet Everton went down the vale (3-2).  Everton realise that their position, while happy, is a responsible one.  Every club they meet respects them; every club also desires to have the flame of publicity in notifying the second defeat of the session.  At the moment Port Vale are described as “unattached.”  Who’s next on turn, I wonder? –f any, of course!   Everton have had one taste of Bradford and it was pretty hot stuff, too.  City lost but their method and their movements were not exactly comforting.  Now it is the sister club, Park Avenue, we have to meet.  One does not forget Everton’s dismal record at this ground –Cup defeat and a player ordered off.  There is need for a balancing in Everton’s favour, and there is no reason why this should not be done to-morrow.  Especially as Mclean has left the town for Huddersfield I reckoned him as one of the big dangers to the Everton game, and therefore was glad to see him go in good time for our meeting.  Judging by the team-sheets the Goodison club have attained a position that is almost troublesome by reason of the glut of first team players.  Otherwise how else could one explain the reserve team appearance of men like Critchley and McPherson, who had become first team men, in fact, Critchley has hardly ever been other than No 1 choice.  Yet injury causes his removal for the time being, and when fit again he was not included in the senior side.  As per promise James Dunn is keeping a grip on his first team berth.  He said he would, and at the moment he is our most consistent forward.  Everton; Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Wilkinson, Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Stein.  Bradford; Clough; Cookson, Lloyd; Taylor, Elwood, Smith; Davies, Scott, Rhodes, Kilcar, Dickinson. 
CENTRAL LEAGUE FLIGHT
The Central League fight between Everton Reserves and Huddersfield tomorrow, at Goodison Park, is a miniature Cup fight.  Both sides are on the top rungs and on tenterhooks.  Everton’s team reads well and strong; Sagar; O’Donnell, Low; McClure, Gee, Towers; Critchley, Martin, White, Webster, McCambridge. 
Everton “A” (v. Rhyl, Geo. Mahon Cup, first round); Corry; Sephton, Parker; Chedgzoy, B. Lloyd, J. Lloyd; Liggins, Cunliffe, Davies, Fryer, and Simpson. 

NO GOALS AT BRAFORD
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 November 1930
EVERTON LOSE WILLIAMS INJURED LATE IN THE FIRST HALF
By Bee
Everton; Coggins; Williams, Cresswell; Britton, Griffiths, Thomson; Dunn, Dean, Johnson, Stein.  Bradford;- Clough; Cookson, Lloyd; Taylor, Elwood, Smith; Davies, Scott, Rhodes, Kilcar, Dickinson.  Referee; Mr. Heath, Sheffield. 
Everton went to Park-avenue today remembering that they had suffered a Cup-tie defeat as well as some untoward happenings.  The visiting side was unchanged from the eleven that won last week.  McPherson was on reserve. The day was one more diabolical Saturday. The wind howled, the wintry air made the spectators in the stand or on the Kop look as though they would pay a fortune for a fire, the turf was wet and soggy, the ball was likely to play tricks; in fact, the outlook was dreary.  Incidentally, it should be said that Secretary Mclntosh was out further afield, scouting.  In spite of the weather, the people of Yorkshire turned up in good numbers, and once more proved what a valuable adjunct Everton are to the Second Division clubs.  There were some 200 excursionists with the visiting side, who, from the stand, looked into the gloom and upon a wealth of steeples—church and otherwise.  Bradford, in their multi-colored waspish-looking jerseys, seemed a very big side, and one remembered that the Everton back. Williams, was not yet over his damaged shoulder. 
ON THE COLLAR 
Bradford won the toss, which meant that Everton would have to be on the collar. At once Cresswell brought into play one of his best tricks by which the forward was well and truly tricked.  Bid Bradford came again with a good left wing movement near the corner Rhodes headed backwards to Scott, who did not get in a good shot, otherwise there must have been a goal.  Everton were slow to get under combined strength, and Thomson made a miss-pass that led to Dickinson having an opening. He made a well-judged centre, which Williams took to safety.  Thomson now went beyond big Elwood as if the latter were not there.  Dean's first move was a header, and it led to a rare attack, ending with Dunn making a telling shot with sting, but it hit a defender on the head. Britton showed up with some bonny individual work. Dunn, Dean, and Johnson were a trinity that made another upward move, and Johnson was inches off a certainty.  Then we saw the work of the able right winger, Davies, who wheeled about and got beyond Cresswell's outstretched leg.  Coggins ran out and took a risk with a big kick.  CRESSWELL'S SHOT 
Kilcar took a shot at goal, the hall soaring up and over. This chance came through a great delivery by Griffiths, following which Britton for once did not use the ball well.  Dean was charged off, after Cresswell had been as cool as the weather in his taking of the ball from Rhodes. One of the sweetest things I have seen was a twisting pass by Dean. Then followed a free kick against Taylor.  Cresswell came up to take the deal ball, and he made a lovely shot that Clough caught. The shot would have done credit to any forward.  Griffiths was playing a very admirable game. Cresswell, who tried to force Davies offside, was let down by impatient half backs, and Scott's header of the centre was quite near. Scott also tried a swinging shot that was too close to be comfortable, yet Everton bad played  better than they had done in any away game I have seen this season. 
IN A MELEE 
They were cleverer and sharper. A corner, however, gave Bradford a melee, in which Britton kicked out when a goal seemed on the register.  This referee missed a definite arm in the back by Elwood, who was watching Dean closely--as closely as the crowd in fact. Play was better and faster than one would imagine could be; the case in the awkward conditions.  Cresswell stepped in to stem Kilcar's goal notions, and Williams covered another shot by the same forward. There was too much dribbling in front of goal by the home men, and when Rhodes made a shot Coggins picked up at the second time of asking.  Everton were spared by this, and Dean sent Stein on a mission. Wilkinson drifted to centre berth, and, shooting hard and high, Clough caught this ball ably. Coggins also dashed forward and caught equally well, but begot a kick from Rhodes, and the game had to be held up. When Coggins returned he saw a ball from Scott pass inches outside.  He was thankful, as this was a real danger. The Everton forward line was not much in evidence, and there had been little work on the left flank. 
A BREEZE 
There was a great chance for Bradford when there were three forward standing close in, but Coggins walked into the bleach, took three bumps., and also took the ball away, at which there was a " breeze "between Smith and Dunn, the former being spoken to by the referee.  Dunn made a threat, but the incident went no further. Next Williams was damaged in collision, and went off the field. He had a bad ankle.  This was at the half-hour.  Johnson fell to helping the deence and Williams returned in five minutes.  Williams was limping badly, and it was well Britton did well at this point.  One of his passes led to Stein centring, Clough making a blunder with a ball that passed under his arms.  It was touch and go whether the ball went over the line.  Coggins made a much clearer save, and Davies, on the run, put pace into a shot that swung over.  Bradford made a further sure catch when Kilcar tried hard to make the opening goal, but his best save was when he put the ball over the bar from the lively Davies. 
WILLIAMS LIMPS AWAY 
On half-time only Williams stood there to take a challenge. He was bumped over again, and went off limping on the arm of his fellow back. Cresswell. Half-time; Bradford nil, Everton nil. 
EVERTON’S SECOND DEFEAT
WILLIAMS AWAY ALL SECOND HALF 
BAD LUCK GROUND 
THREE GOALS SCORED IN 12 MINUTES 
Everton confounded at Bradford to-day. Second defeat of the season for the leaders.  It was a blow to go through three goals in twelve minutes, but the explanation was the absence of Williams, Everton's captain, for the entire second half. He had damaged his ankle.  Bradford is Everton's luckless ground. Before Williams went, the Everton forwards and half backs had not been satisfying.  Dean did not touch his best form, and there was little winning work.
In the first half there was no score. Williams was off when the game was resumed, and Britton joined Cresswell as a defender. The handicap was a testy one, and it was no surprise when Scott shot just over the bar.  This was the second successive week England's captain had been damaged.  Everton had their greatest chance when Griffiths came sailing through, and Stein found himself with a shooting chance as he closed in. He trod on the ball, and lost the glorious chance.  Thomson made a solo dribble and showed his command, but he went too far. Griffiths and Cresswell strove hard, and Thomson missed a sitter.
RHODES SCORES 
Dean danced and pranced in front of goal when a shot had been offered through Johnson and Stein. The standard of play had gone back, but, a goal was soon to be coming, and in five minutes of Coggins having been nearly knocked over by a grand shot he half saved, Rhodes ran in and scored.
EXTRAORDINARY 
Then there came an extraordinary happening, quite unlucky for Everton.  Elwood tripped Dean, who appealed for a foul, but he did not seem to have gained a free kick. Play went on, and Dunn scored a neat goal, only to be amazed at the notification of a free kick.  Hardly anyone heard the whistle for a foul, least of all the players nearby.  Scott scored a second. The second came through Coggins being barged into when he had the ball which swept into goal.  Rhodes followed up and scored a third.
SCOTT AND RHODES 
Three goals in twelve minutes—and not surprising, when one remembers the absence of a full-back and captain.  Nothing was going right for Everton now, and the prospect of their second defeat of the season was ripe.  The team had not done well in attack or half-back, and just, now Bradford were full of confidence.  Ten versus eleven was the secret of this score.  Johnson reduced the margin with a good goal, but it was eight minutes from the finish, and the goal came too late.  The official attendance was 20,000.  Davies scored with the last kick of the match for Bradford.  Final: Bradford 4 Everton 1.

EVERTON RES V. HUDDERSFIELD
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 November 1930
Everton were the more persistent attackers in the first half and provided some very stern football.  Early on McCambridge hit the woodwork, and Critchley and White went very near, whilst from a Webster shot sumbler made a brilliant save.  Everton’s finishing was not too good.  The town in their breakaways were very dangerous.  Smallies made an opening that was not accepted, and then an open defence enabled Kelly (R.) to send across a centre from which Magnall headed Huddersfield’s opening goal.  The Yorks side were playing practical football, and showing a snappy finish.  Everton made what appeared a justifiable penalty claim that was not granted, and a few minutes from the interval the Huddersfield goal survived heavy bombardment.  Half-time; Everton Res nil, Huddersfield Res 1
Everton’s defence was unable to held the Yorkshire attack near the end, and goals were scored for Huddersfield by Raw, Kelly (2), and Magnall.  Everton Res 0, Huddersfield Res 5. 

STUD MARKS
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 November 1930
By Louis T. Kelly

• Everton, Oldham, and Preston have made no changes in goal or full back to date this season.
• It is pleasing to mention that the notes appearing in these columns re the late Alec Latta, in September, 1928, were read by the mourners en route to the cemetery, and appeared to give much comfort.
• By the way, the contract signed by Latta when he joined Everton from Dumbarton Athletic provided for 35 pounds down and 3 pounds per week.
• Truly he was a rare bargain when you think of to-day’s transfer prices, wages, and the calibre of the man Latta himself.
• One understands that Latta left three internationals caps-one for each of his sons. 
• The late Mrs. Latta was a Miss Bridson in her maiden days, sister of Mr. G.B. Bridson and Mr. Bridson, the well-known organist. 
• She was well known to such former surviving Everton stars as Edgar Chadwick, Alf Milward, and Johnny Holt, whilst her father was in his day a promising Everton shareholder. 
• Visiting Team Supporters –Rotten ground, this! Scarcely a blade of grass on it.
• Weller, the former Everton player, was at Goodison on Saturday; he is now with the Pottery club.
• Everton have been unlucky enough to have three players injured in their meetings with Liverpool this season. 
• Nor have the Anfielders come through unscathed.
• Coggins and Co, have only conceded two goals to half-time in Everton’s last eleven matches –one to Forest and one to Spurs.
• The Potters found “clay” in plenty at Goodison, but were almost useless in the hands of Cresswell and Co.
• It was something like old times to find Dean getting home a three-timer at Goodison last week.
• His last similar success there dates back to New Year’s Day of 1928-29
• Johnson served up his best display in an Everton jersey last week
• Leaders of mien- Everton