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EVERTON 3 CARDIFF CITY 1
October 2 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury
EVERTON'S DOUBLE SUCCESS.
A FINE DISPLAY AT GOODISON PARK.
Everton splendid win over Cardiff City, at Goodison Park, on Saturday gave the home side their double success of the season. It was grand football, and the contest revealed Everton in resplendent form. Their display in the first half was equal to anything the Everton club has yet done, and their success was not due to cleverness alone, for there was understanding cohesion, and confidence right through the side. Cardiff, however, were not so greatly overplayed as the score would suggest, for they too played finely in the first half, and the great difference between the sides was in the finishing work of the forwards. Cardiff finished badly and it would be difficult to imagine more glaring instances of failure in front of goal than those of which the City forwards were guilty. Cardiff's weakness was Everton's strength, and the forwards pressed home their fine work with great vigour and accuracy. Seldom have the Everton forwards played with such sparkle. It was a refreshing display of clever exhilarating football. Keen and exciting the game was fought at a capital pace, put the footwork of both sides was excellent. The first half was easily the best for the pace slackened after the interval, and although Cardiff played hard they could not touch the standard set by the home side.

EVERTON'S EXCELLENT ATTACK.
There was a fine understanding in the Everton forward line, and Irvine was in a class by himself. He has never before been so electric. He scored the first goal, led many the raids, and his footwork was a model of accuracy. Chedgzoy found Irvine an ideal partner, and the former was able to utilise his speed to excellent effects. Forbes controlled the line with rare skill, and his manner of opening out the game contributed much to Everton's success. Williams and Harrison, while not so effective as a wing, were little inferior. Williams needed little encouragement to shoot, and Harrison's drives and centres brought much work for the Cardiff defenders. Much credit belonged to Hart and Peacock for their brilliant half-back work. They subbed the Cardiff attack of its effectiveness, and in addition, assisted their own forwards with good passes and openings. The defence of Raitt and McDonald was almost perfect. They kicked and tackled with great skill, and Fern although he had not a great deal to do, frequently showed fine judgement in his goal at the critical moment. He was thus able to effect several clever saves. The Cardiff backs were not consistent, and the half-backs worked hard, but lacked the science of the Everton trio. Cardiff's best forwards were Davies and Gill. The latter was dangerous in reason of his powerful shooting, and Davies would have been far more effective in a better-balanced line for he frequently revealed fine strategy and clever footwork.
EVERTON'S THREE GOALS.
Playing in the opening half lacked nothing in pace and cleverness and the big crowd had plenty of opportunities for enthusiasm. Hart was prominent early on with progressive work, and a hard drive was well saved by Davies. Then a brilliant shot by Williams and a strong shot by Harrison, which hit Smith on the hand, emphasized Everton's aggressiveness. Interest increased as Len Davies put in a clever shot after Clennell had missed and then came Everton's first goal. Smith save a corner, and from the kick placed by Chedgzoy, Irvine headed through after fourteen minutes' play. Shortly afterwards the Everton goal had a narrow escape, and the Cardiff forwards made one of their greatest blinders. Davies got well through the Everton defence and passed across to Grimshaw. The latter had only Fern in front of him, and whether his effort was intended as a shot or a pass the ball went out across the goal to Davies, who again returned it to Grimshaw. It was Grimshaw's sent the ball wide of the goal a second time, and losing one of the easiest scoring chances of the day. Everton's methods were in direct somewhat for they straightaway forced a opening, and Forbes with a fine ground shot place his side further ahead. Everton continued to show clever work, and Irvine proved a mastermind. At thirty minutes' Hart scored a third goal with a shot of the unstoppable kind. His first attempt struck Keener's body, then from the rebound Hart drove in a shot that hit the under part of the crossbar. With Davies helpless, Irvine hit the upright and Fern made a masterly save from Gill. The latter was a prominent figure in the early play, after the interval he headed over a smart centre from Evans, and caused Fern to get down for a shot near the corner. Chedgzoy finish an intricate dribble by placing the ball into the Cardiff goal and Davies was just succeeded in keeping out by falling full length. Smith reduced Everton's lead by heading through from a free kick taken near the penalty line by Clennell. McDonald was carried off, but returned after being attended to and Gill received a more series injury, as he was only able to limp about at the outside right position. Cardiff were a well-beaten side. Teams: - Everton: - Fern, goal, Raitt, and McDonald, backs, Peacock, Fleetwood, and Hart (captain), half-backs, Chedgzoy, Irvine, Forbes, Williams, and Harrison, forwards. Cardiff City: - Davies, goal, Page, and Blair, backs, Keenor, Smith, and Hardy, half-backs, Grimshaw, Gill, Len Davies, Clennell, and Evans, forwards.

BLUES COMPLETE A DOUBLE
October 2, 1922 The Daily Courier.
Cardiff City Fail To Take Chances
Hart’s Great Goal
(By F.M.N.)
Everton stock has gone up considerably as a result of their second success over Cardiff City.  The “double” will encourage the players to further effort.  The Goodison Park side owed their latest success to their strong finishing as against the milk and water shooting of the visitors.  The City had quite as many chances as their opponents, but their failure in front of Fern at times was simply amazing.  How the Cardiff inside forwards managed to miss in the initial portion when Len Davies and Grimshaw foozled their chances must be put down as one of the mysteries of football.  The only conclusion one can come too is that the wet ball completely beat them. 
An Interesting Game
Everton made no such blunders and for that reason they deserved the spoils.  It was an interesting game from start to finish, there being numerous incidents which kept the 30,000 spectators on tip toe.  First one side and then the other held away, but whereas Everton pushed home their advantage, Cardiff flattered but to deceive.  When Irvine neatly turned a centre from Chedgzoy into the net, the spectators settled down comfortably to wait for more.  They were not disappointed, and Forbes and Hart before the interval put the home side in a winning position.  The latter’s success created unbounded satisfaction.  It was a great shot, the result of the captain following up closely on the heels of the forwards.  It was not until the second half that the City reduced the lead, Smith cleverly turning a free kick from Clennell into the net.  The visitors tried desperately hard after this, but they could not break down the Everton defence. 
Fern’s Share
Fern deserves every credit for his part in the victory, his one-handed clearances from Gill at point blank range being a masterpiece, McDonald and Raitt did well, the latter being the most reliable.  It should not be forgotten, however, that McDonald received some hard knocks during the game.  Hart was the best of the halves, peacock did some smart things, but he was so prominent as on the previous Saturday.  Fleetwood was always in the thick of the fray, and some of his passes to the wings were capital.  The forwards worked together smoothly, the outstanding figures being Irvine and Chedgzoy.  The Irishman was in very forceful trim.  On the Cardiff side Page and Blair were a good pair of backs, and Smith proved a strong half-back.  Forward the line moved smoothly in midfield, Clennell being the pick.  Len Davies and Gill, however, appear to have lost their penetrative powers.  Gill, owing to injury, finished up at outside right.  Teams; Everton; Fern; Raitt and McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Irvine, Forbes, Williams, Harrison.  Cardiff City; Davies (D); Page and Blair; Keenor, Smith, Hardy; Grimshaw, Gill, Davies (L), Clennell, Evans. 

BLACKPOOL RESERVES 3 EVERTON RESERVES 3
October 2 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury
CENTRAL LEAGUE (Game 7)
After having the upper hand for three parts of the afternoon, Everton Reserves had to content themselves with dividing the points at Blackpool. Throughout the first half Everton dominated the play, their superiority being manifest in every department. Especially did they excel in attack, their forwards, admirably supported by the halves, being constantly dangerous. More than once the home goalkeeper was exceedingly, lucky in his clearances. Reid was within an ace of scoring from free kick, but twenty-two minutes had elapsed before Chadwick opened the visitors' account. Gavin almost equalised from a free kick. The second half was full of incident. Ten minutes after the restart Hird levelled matter from Watkinson's centre. In the next minute Everton were penalised for hands, Leaver shot over the bar. Seven minutes afterwards Wall put Everton ahead from a penalty given against Gavin, and Chadwick added a third. Following a heavy shower Blackpool improved, whilst Everton lost command of the ball, and Leaver twice found the net. Blackpool pressed hard in the latter stages.

FRODSHAM 4 EVERTON “A” 2
October 2, 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury
GEORGE MAHON CUP
At Frodsham. The game proved very exciting, and Frodsham were slightly the superior side. They scored first through Johnson, but Moffatt equalised before the interval. Everton improved in the second half, Virr putting them ahead. The brothers Johnson displayed splendid combination. Banner equalised the score, and McGuffie gave Frodsham the lead, Johnson heading another goal before the close.

CARDIFF’S WEAKNESS
Athletic News- Monday, October 2 1922
POOR FORWARD PLAY AND ANOTHER DISASTER
EVERTON’S IMPROVEMENT
EVERTON 3 CARDIFF CITY 1
By Junius
That Everton are improving was clearly demonstrated in their game with Cardiff City Goodison Park, where close upon 40,000 spectators assembled. The game could scarcely be described as one of the scientific order; rather was it a strenuous tussle which the home men, though undoubtedly the superior side, were somewhat fortunate to win by so pronounced a margin. They had the wind their favour in the first portion, and everything went right for them. In this period they were the faster, cleverer, and better balanced side, and deserved to lead by reason of the direct methods they employed. The advances of Cardiff were spasmodic but suggestive always of danger, though their efforts at finding the net were execrable, and in this direction they seemed to go worse as the gamewent on.
How the Goals Wars Scored.
Everton’s first goal arrived after the game had been in progress fifteen minutes. Chedgzoy had forced corner off Blair, and, placing well, Irvine headed into the net. Just prior to this the left back, with outstretched leg, prevented a terrific drive from Harrison finding its billet, and five minutes after their opening success the home forwards moved down speedily, and either Irvine or Forbes could have scored. Forbes had the honour, and the third point, which was recorded after half an hour’s play, went to the credit of Hart in a melee following some good work by Chedgzoy and Irvine. The left half-back pounced upon a rebound from Page and crashed the ball against the under part of the crossbar and into the net. The City had several chances, but their marksmanship was poor. After the interval Fern distinguished himself in saving two great shots from Gill, but at the end of a quarter of an hour’s play Peacock tripped up Evans close on the penalty line, and Smith reduced the lead. Long swinging passing movements kept the Everton defenders freely extended, but there was no further scoring.
Fleetwood’s Watch on L. Davies.
Forbes led the home forward line in able fashion, and in the early stages Irvine was the outstanding forward on view, purveying for his wing men, combining with Forbes, crossing to Harrison, harassing the defence —in fact, doing all that a good player should. Evans and Clennell formed the strong part of the Cardiff attack, the wing man being crafty and cute in his movements, and several of his cross drives merited better results. Len Davies was kept well under control by Fleetwood, who, in addition, plied his forwards with ground passes just to their liking. Keener was the strong half-back on the Cardiff side, but he was several times penalised for infringement of the throw-in law. Smith was seen at his best in the second portion, when had the complete mastery Forbes. The rear lines gave a good account of themselves. Raitt was quite cool—occasionally too much so, and Page did some clever work, in spasms. Fern's goalkeeping reached an exceptionally high standard of merit, his most notable save being from Grimshaw from three yards out just on the interval; but there were other brilliant clearances that played a big part in the success of his side. He was well supported by his backs, though at times McDonald was in difficulties with Grimshaw and Gill, and like the latter had to retire for the trainer’s attention. Davies, in the Cardiff goal, had plenty of work, especially in the first portion, and acquitted himself well. He was apparently unsighted when Everton gained their early lead; otherwise, he accomplished all that was possible. Everton.—Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart (Captain); Chedgzoy, Irvine, Forbes, Williams, and Harrison. Cardiff City; Davies (B); Page, Blair; Keenor, Smith, Hardy; Grimshaw, Gill, Davies (L), Clennell, and Evans (J). Referee; Mr. D.H. Asson, West Bromwich.

DOWN ON THEIR LUCK
Western Mail- Monday, October 2, 1922
BLUEBIRDS IMPROVE BUT GET NO POINTS
EVERTON 3 (Irvine, Forbes and Hart), CARDIFF CITY 1 (Smith)
By Citizen
Despite the fact that the score seems to suggest that the City were over-played in their return game with Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday, there was, as a matter of fact, very little to choose between the two sides. That may seem a curious statement to make, but it is nevertheless perfectly true that had the visitors been leading by four goals to three at the interval it would have just about represented the actual run of the play, instead of which Everton were enabled to commence the second half with the commanding lead of three clear goals.
HESITATED AND LOST
Saturday’s game was one in which both sets of forwards played splendidly and worked many openings, but whereas the Everton men shot quickly at every available opportunity and were deadly whenever they got within shooting range, the Cardiff forwards showed a marked tendency to try and make too sure and to obtain absolutely open goals before shooting. This hesitancy, which was more marked in the first half than in the second, may have prevented the City from scoring. Yet it is very difficult to find serious fault with the work of the Cardiff forwards compared with the previous week. They were a new force altogether and no member of the line played better than Len Davies. It just wanted a little bit of luck of change the whole course of events.
HARDY’S COLSTLY ERROR
Irvine scored Everton’s first goal, and it came as a result of an error by Hardy. Chedgzoy slipped across a perfect centre, and the young Irish lad, who, for really clever play, had no equal among the inside forwards on view, headed the ball into the net, well out of the reach of Ben Davies. This reverse, which came at the end of fifteen minutes, seemed to put an extra sting into the Cardiff attacking division. They played with a speed and a precision which was remarkable and although Everton had their turns of attack, it seemed that the Citizens would inevitably draw level so persistent were they. The real turning point of the game came when Everton secured their second goal within a couple of seconds almost of Cardiff missing one of the grandest openings possible. It happened in this way. Len Davies, who had been a particular thorn in the side of the home defenders, received the ball and went careering down the centre. He was challenged by three opponents, but kept control and when inside the penalty area sent a perfect pass to Grimshaw, who was in position for a stiff drive with every chance of success. The ball, however, served across the goalmouth and appeared to be going behind, but was rescued right on the line by Len Davies. Grimshaw meanwhile had taken up a position right in front of goal, and not three yards off.
GRIMSHAW’S GREAT CHANCE
As Raith and Fleetwood rushed to intercept Davies the latter calmly lifted the ball over their heads to Grimshaw, and all he had to do was to touch it into the net, but, to the astonishment and disappointment of a very large number of City supporters present, he blundered, and the ball went curling into the air, and was cleared to Chedgzoy. The latter was away with it like a shot, of course, and had a clear passage down the wing, the City halves having taken up an attacking position. Blair made a brave effort to check him, but it was too late. A beautiful pass went inside to Forbes who immediately shot-and Everton were two up. This second goal was as big a surprise as Grimshaw’s miss at the other end. Had the City scored then it would probably have changed the whole course of the game. They did everything they could to wipe off the arrears afterwards and the Everton defence was certainly in luck’s way, for Len Davies on two or three occasions got clean through and once a terrible shot was diverted in the penalty area apparently by a defender handling, but no “spot kick” was awarded.
EVERTON’S THIRD
Hart’s goal scored from another raid by Chedgzoy, put the issue almost beyond doubt. In the second half the Citizens made desperate attempts tom draw level. Smith reduced the lead by heading through from a free kick for a foul on Jack Evans a yard outside the penalty area. Spirited work by the forwards followed, Gill twice grazed the upright and Fern made at least three daring saves. Then Gill was injured and had to change places with Grimshaw, and the Cardiff attack suffered in consequence. Many moves were carried out on the left wing, but were doomed to disappointment. And the game ended. Although the City were beaten there was a great deal about their display to give pleasure to their supporters.
LEN DAVIES BACK TO FORM
Len Davies came right back to his real form and played a better game than any time this season. His general display was excellent. As a matter of fact, the whole forward line showed a distinct improvement and will only have to play in similar fashion to win many more games than they will lose. Keenor was the best of the half-backs and Blair was the most cool and reliable defender on the field. Teams; Cardiff City; Davies; Page and Blair; Keenor, Smith, and Hardy; Grimshaw, Gill, Len Davies, Clennell and Evans. Everton; Fern; Raitt, and McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, and Hart (Captain); Chedgzoy, Irvine, Forbes, Williams, and Harrison. Referee; Mr. D.H. Asson.

IRVINE’S CAPITAL DISPLAY AGAINST CARDIFF
Liverpool Echo- Monday, October 2, 1922
Bee’s Notes
It is interesting to note that Everton have just round their form in time for the local “Derby” game which promises to burst all records that ever have been associated with the local clubs. It will be a great day. Everton on Saturday showed up in their true colours, and one could not cavil at their general play, while there was an inclination to shoot that was worthy of commendation and emulation. I saw Mr. Jack Sharp and other directors in confab before the game in the players’ room, and was glad to see the comradeship. The players have been good enough in many respects if not in all, and lack of confidence had been getting them down. It is a proof that they played well away from home. At the ‘Spurs ground they did quite well, and that was form to depend upon. Saturday showed that revelation of that form, and Cardiff suffered at the second time of asking. Their side contains the same names as of yore, save that Keenor was not always playing last season, yet there is a difference in the side’s displays. What is it? The forward line seems to be capable enough, yet there was a frightful lot of mistakes in front of goal, and Len Davies was associated with those errors. Yet who other than he made better openings for his partners? His square pass was a gem. His worst was when he failed at close range. It would seem that Davies like some other centre forwards is not getting support. He is giving all and getting nothing in return. When he gets a goal or two his confidence will return. Then Cardiff will make some teams sit up. The visitors’ attack were a thing apart, Evans is not getting younger. Clennell after his trip from Raitt seemed to go very quiet, and Gill had many shots without applying sufficient sting. Grimshaw wormed through at times only to find the unlucky McDonald (carried off for the second successive week, and also bearing a cut or two)was too strong for him, and Hart, in front, also helping in taking charge of his man. Raitt and McDonald have “tumbled” to each other, and the Raitt man has come to stay.
THE BRIGHT FORWARD
The Everton half-back line was on its toes, and if inclined to dribble too much was certainly very special in heading. Forward, Irvine struck us once again as best at inside eight. His wheeling, his passing, his drawing of the defence, his shooting were all of good quality. I like to see him stab-back a ball, but I question whether his early move, when he pulled a ball back, was good tactics. There is only one thing that can be said for it- the players must all be offside; but as against that I think it tends to decrease the speed of the men marching forward, and is too big a surprise to the whole line to be effective. Other than that the Irishman played grand football, and played in such a way that one cast a mind back to days of long ago. Memory may be bad or uncertain, but it does not forget the stylists of the days gone by. Irvine was many times old-fashioned in his moves. Without endeavouring to split straws or even to be caustic, I still think the Everton attack should vary its passes. There is still too much solitary wing work. There were times when Forbes offered passes and was entitled to a return packet; but his letter must have been marked “wrongly addressed.” I know Forbes is not a giant, but I know him as a footballer, and I want to see his worth giving Everton some real result. That cannot be until the line works in five, instead of twos. Pardon my digression. One other word- Fern had some cause for gratitude that close-up shots went awry, but he certainly handed out a beauty from Gil and positively made Gill tire of beating him. On the Cardiff side I picked out the backs- John page was the stronger and the better- and Keenor, a very useful customer. Hardy was not in his customary able form, and Smith was rather troubled by the pace of the first half and the slippery turf.

ANFIELD DERBY DAY.
October 7, 1922. The Liverpool Courier.
There is every prospect of some keen struggle, of course on the season's form the event looks good thing for the Reds, but in these local “Derby's” form counts for little. The days, however, have gone by when the old jibe that Liverpool only had to see a Blue shirt at Anfield to be mesmerised into inactivity. That twenty year spell was broken in 1920-21, and on their showing on their own sward this season the League champions will indeed fall from their pedestal if they allow the spell to be recast today.
EVERTON'S ADVANCE.
Even on the form theory today visitors may however, upset calculations, for the Blues by their decisive away and home victories over Cardiff City have given evidence that the right blend in the team has been reached by the reintroduction of Tommy Fleetwood as pivot. There is not an movement about the attack and stability about the defence that was lacking in the earlier games. With this advance of the Blues and the return of Johnson as leader of the Reds' attack, a capital exposition of the code is assured if the importance of the occasion does not get the better of the players heads. In these games tempers soon get ragged, but let hope that the ruling officials may not have to do overtime on the whistle, and still more, that no admonitions may be necessary. Here's to a fine day, a bumper gate, a great game, and may the bets team win.

LIVERPOOL LIKELY TO BE AT FULL STRENGTH
The Liverpool Echo-Tuesday, October 3, 1922
For “derby” game at Anfield
Bee’s Notes
It is the local “Derby” on Saturday, and, as first “shadowed” by our notes in the “Football Echo,” Dick Johnson is likely to be quite ready for the fray, and there is added pleasure in the knowledge that Donal’ McKinlay is also a probable starter. From the first reading of the Liver case one has imagined that the captain was to have a long spell of idleness, and everyone will be glad to know that the thigh is mending admirably. Good. We don’t want any side to be below par in these engagements. Naturally there is promises of a record crowd, and it will be worth noticing that Referee Andrews has been appointed to control- not Mr. Howcroft this time. Mr. Andrews is the man who was concerned with the McCracken business. A nod is as good as a wink to a footballer, blind as otherwise. Mr. Paterson, secretary of the Anfield club wants some stewards for Saturday’s game, and they must be shareholders. Write him tonight.
THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN!
This makes good reading, but where are all the others?
Dear Bee,- I would like to tender my sincerest, congratulations to the Blues upon their triumph over Cardiff to-day. For the last two seasons I have only attended the Reds’ games. I shall henceforth see a good exhibition of football at more than the Reds’ games, I attended the Everton v Cardiff game to-day to see if the Blues had improved, and I was surprised at the change for the better in the
team.-Yours, &c., Sportsman.
A STORMING REPLY
“A lone Orphan of the Storm” writes me; I am much obliged to you for your courtesy inserting my letter in full in your notes, and I thank you for acquitting me of any desire to criticise simply because the Everton boys were not obliging us with a win every week. I trust I am sportsman enough to realise that many things contributes to bring about a reverse, and when our favourites go down to a better team on the day’s play, well, good luck to them and their vanquishers! I think all true sportsmen will give credit to the team which wins on its merits and will sympathise with the losers who go down fighting gallantly. I think many of your correspondents, like myself, are only desirous of drawing attention to the weak spots, and are not merely ventilating their disgust because another defeat is incurred. Of course, there are always a minority who are never satisfied in any case, think of your mailbag if, say, last week-end, all those who were anxious to let you know what they thought about the results of our local gladiators’ effort at the respective arenas were to drop you a congratulatory epistle, I will try to imagine your wading through the mass of letters which would descend upon your devoted head. So to save you from this appalling fate they will probably leave you to the lesser, but more exasperating notes of the prophets of woe, who, because their favourites have fallen from grace temporarily, cry out and will not be comforted. So good luck to you and your notebook, and may you long be amongst us; and hoping to read your articles when the local League champions and the Cup winners “celebrate.”

FOUR TIMES FIVE
The Athletic News, Monday, October 5 1922
SECOND HALF AVALANCHE IN EPIC DUEL
GOAL SCORING CHAMPIONS
LIVERPOOL 5 EVERTON 1
By Impressionist
Not even tradition; not even the unbalancing knowledge of vital responsibility such as inevitably impregnates the player, nor the electric atmosphere-all accompaniments to a match with local interests in battle array- restrained Liverpool from continuing their prodigious scoring sequence. A record crowd numbering approximately 55,000-the turnstiles registered 54,368-were thrilled by an epic encounter. For them to master their neighbours, Everton, on their own Anfield sward is alone an event of some magnitude. In the archives of this famous Merseyside rivalry it is revealed that Liverpool have been repeatedly unequal to withstanding their guests, even since they came to years of maturity and honour. But tradition was flouted with astounding emphasis. Such a margin as five goals to one between these teams is, to say the least, unusual. I question, writing at random, whether Liverpool have ever scored five goals against Everton in a League encounter. Also, surely it is among the unique annuals of the game for a team to score five times in the second half as Liverpool did. They were every bit the majestic masters the startling figures suggest. There were no extenuating factors. True, the last goal should have been averted. This was naught against the irresistible onslaught which latterly was not always pursued desperately simply because physical endurance was reaching its limit. When Everton were demoralised and the issue unquestionable the winners did not strive utterly to make chance a goal. Both sides were on the brink of exhaustion at the finish-a natural state of affairs to arise from a game of such ardour and kaleidoscopic pace, on a soft ground, and with a touch of spring in the air. This was the fourth time in five home engagements that the champions had scored five times. It is something to conjure with. Moreover, the penetrative possibilities of the team can be further appreciated when I state that the half-backs and one of the backs have gained recognised in this respect at this early stage of the season.
ART SUPERIOR TO INFLUENCE
The depressing effect of an early deficit and the corresponding inspiration to be derived by the other side are well-known portents in an ordeal of this character. Liverpool wilted ever so slightly under an early reverse, but they were always the more accomplished combination. With all the encouragement they had, the fact is Everton did not possess the innate quality to clinch their advantage. Merit can earn its own salvation. It did so in this case. Extraneous influences did not count. Sheer art and self-assertion prevailed, though it was a long trial, with pitfalls and disappointments, ere the superior class of football earned its reward. The ball might have been quicksilver encased by prosaic leather as it flashed hither and thither and for a time from goal to goal. Yet it came readily under control to the dexterous foot, aided by the comprehending eye, which were virtues especially applicable to the conquerors. Sensation to satiate the utmost craving; speed, virility, a wholesome spirit of rivalry; indeed, the hall mark of the real football were the seductive concomitants of this struggle. Liverpool were the craftsmen, but while their culture was perfect according to plan it wanted at first for a little variety when the goal loomed large. They were a closely fitting mosaic, and Everton an open-work pattern. Consequently, spurning the ball from wing to wing, showing versatility and resource, Everton opened out the Liverpool defence every time they got moving. Still, apart from Scott having to capture one or two balls coming from the wings, and to repel a great long drive from Fleetwood, the blithesome but light inside Everton forwards were not compelling. On the other hand, I hesitate to think what would have happened to the visitors-in the light of after events-had not the width of the bar prevented Johnson from heading a leading goal for Liverpool in the first few minutes.
THE LEAD AND THE AVALANCHE
Fern had made a great save from Chambers when Forshaw crossed the ball, and Fleetwood headed towards his own goal. The ball was stationary a yard or two from the line, but Fern managed to snatch it away from Johnson. Yet in a somewhat similar incident immediately afterwards McKinlay left his pass back to Scott short WILLIAMS and Forbes dispossessed the goalkeeper, and the former simply tapped it into the net. Thus Everton were in excelsis after seventeen minutes. In spite of enjoying their share of the game, Everton were oftener in peril. When McDonald stopped McKinlay’s free kick alongside the post, Lacey should have equalised, and shots by Forshaw and Bromilow swept barely wide. However, two or three minutes after the interval, Liverpool were on terms-and something more. A suspicion of offside attached to the birth of a movement whereby Hopkin dashed off and forced a corner. Chambers headed in and Fern handed the ball out, but again CHAMBERS headed, and although Fern pushed the ball away it was only after it had dropped from the roof of the net. Curious eventful goal rang the knell of Everton. Now Liverpool were a fascinating, mystifying cohort, and Everton’s inside wing forwards were compelled to retreat. The second goal, materialising after twelve minutes in the second half, was brilliantly scored by McNab. It’s genesis was in the novel movement which I have previously commented upon. Drawing the defence, lacey slipped the ball forward for the half-back to anticipate and career through. McNab sped towards Fern, drew him, and then shook the net with a terrific drive. Then some dashes by Everton were no sooner near fruition than Forshaw’s artistic individualism enabled Lacey to centre, Johnson to head on to CHAMBERS, and the last named to crash the ball home. A minute later CHAMBERS  was clearly about to pass, but instinctively pivoted, and best Fern with a shot that swerved in a direction opposite to his expectations. But the keeper should not have been taken by surprise when BROMILOW did a similar feint, Fern was too late for a ball of no pace. Therefore Bromilow celebrated his birthday appropriately. Comparatively, Scott had an easy time. Quite his best feat was to prevent an apparently unredeemable shot by Williams finding its billet in the last minute. He was unlucky to have to surrender one goal. Fern, however, was almost incessantly in action. Though he made mistakes, they should be compared with what he achieved. Incongruous as it may appear, alongside the score, the Everton backs played brilliantly. Indeed, this department on either side presented one of the most alluring features, and it is difficult to differentiate.
EVERTON’S BEST PART
Of Raitt and McDonald it has to be said they underwent by far the greater test. None could have defended better against an overwhelming proposition. Both tackled, feinted, and kicked splendidly. McDonald was inclined to balloon the ball. His judgement in cutting across goal and saving hopeless situations was great. Raitt was exceedingly good in his headwork. This was the best part of the Everton team. But Longworth and McKinlay were skilful, unwavering backs. They were sure and thoughtful in their kicking, also tackling tacticians, and master of position. I am inclined to give the palm among the quintette to Longworth, for his operations covered a wide sphere, and I cannot recall a single mistake that he made, or at any rate one that he did not recover. When Liverpool’s team work is on the flood it brooks no resistance. From backs to forwards co-operation between and among them existed. Wadsworth’s primary defensive powers were a foil to the deft intervention and strategic purveying of McNab and Bromilow. From what I have observed the latter reserve his best artistry for home games. McNab however, was the surprise to me. He began in his usual laborious way, but ere long became a confident, commanding, and calculating figure. He held the ball, movements. Lacey was inclined to delay his centres. However, this was a line presenting individual skill and concerted action. Everton were best in the rear as I have said. The half-backs were good in their tackling up to a point. Their weakness was laid bare when they had a formidable problem to face. The only one to sustain his reputation throughout was Fleetwood, who was never better than when under pressure. His distribution was hardly as good as his resistance. Peacock never got to grips with his own wing or the one opposing, and Hart was never uniform, creating some fine movements, but sometimes being badly outplayed. The Everton wing extremes, Chedgzoy and Harrison, left a lot of promise unfulfilled, Chedgzoy made some attractive runs and dangerous centres at first, but fizzled out badly. Irvine was distinctly Everton’s best forward-an alert schemer. Williams also showed some neat touches and a certain elusiveness, while Forbes slipped passes on either side of him that nearly produced scoring positions. It seems to me that height and weight are wanting among the inside Everton forwards. Meanwhile the team lives in hope of redeeming this debacle on the Goodison Park arena. Liverpool; Scott; Longworth, McKinley (Captain); McNab, Wadsworth, Bromilow; Lacey, Forshaw, Johnson, Chambers, and Hopkin. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart (Captain); Chedgzoy, Irvine, Forbes, Williams, and Harrison. Referee; H. Andrews, Prestwich.

WHERE I THINK THE DIFFERENCE WILL LIE IN THE GREAT DERBY GAME AT ANFIELD
Liverpool Echo-Friday, October 6, 1922
EVERTON v LIVERPOOL
Bee’s Notes
The great day is imminent, bringing with it, a fund of discussion as to which is the better side, and why. They all talk that way before the kick-off. Afterwards there are all sorts of explanations. All I want to see is the better team winning, the crowd on its nicest behaviour, praising things worthwhile, and judging rightly and wisely the team that is not their special brand, and the players taking good care that the name of the “Mersey Derby,” which has been so pure for many a year now, shall be soiled. Let them think hard before they rush to folly. The man in charge has already sent off the field one McCracken. Hence he will not allow undue familiarity or remarks. He will not stand nonsense. See? Therefore, Mr. Spectator, don’t urge any player to do anything that you would not do yourself. Let us have the right and the bright game. Let us show the way to other keen rivals.
HOUSING A BIG CROWD
The arrangements made by Patterson and his lieutenants are ready for the record crowd. Coming as the match does just as Everton have struck two winning weeks against an admittedly hard side, and Liverpool have lost to the Burnley people, the “Derby” game of 1922 will be remembered as one of the most open that ever took place. But latest form may not be the best to stand. Therefore let us, calmly and respectfully, study the various lines. Here’s the position of goal- all important. Scott to most minds is the finest in the land. Scott is human. Fern was saved penalties-has confidence and capacity for work and for clearing. You can’t easily brush aside the older man. Dawson is another classic example. Burnley have another good one in stock, Moorwood, who will get his chance in the sweet by-and-bye. At full back Raitt has stiffened the Everton side, and has brought McDonald to confident kicking and much strength. McKinlay, I believe, plays- I have to write these notes on Wednesday;- and if that is the case I think the surety of Longworth and McKinlay and their personality will perhaps weigh the scales in favour of Liverpool. No two backs are playing better than, if as well as, the home pair. Longworth I go so far as to say, has never played better than this season. At half-back physical strength counts for something. Everton have it in the middle, bit on the wing Liverpool have the greater “hoof.” Tactics and skill must count, however, and sheer strength of build may not be sufficient. That is why Hart and Peacock may score, May score, I said. There is this to be remembered-all the half-backs on view with scarce an exception, feed their forwards, so we can look for an unusual crop of goals. I doubt if Johnson will be held in a vice, similarly I doubt if the Liverpool wings have of necessity a gala day in prospect. So very minute things turn a Derby game out of its ordinary course that it would be folly to be dogmatic about comparing attacks. However, we all know what a powerful combine the Hopkin-Chambers “Left” is, and there we put our finger on a point that might easily be levelled up by the Everton right wing doing things. Do not forget Irvine’s work last season, when he was a mere boy and new to Derby type.
ENGROSSING
It is all very engrossing, and I am not ashamed to state that I believe Liverpool will win. I have never yet come to that point where one sits on the fence and says, of necessity, “A draw looks probable.” If the game shows me wrong I shall have pleasure in congratulating all concerned with victory. However, I have a belief, and have expressed it in favour of Liverpool. Further, I think goals will be pretty numerous if excitement does not tend to rashness on the part of forwards. Let us hope for a joyful game, whatever else happens, and a really clean, good game from the following sides;- Liverpool; Scott; Longworth, McKinlay; McNab, Wadworth, Bromilow; lacey, Forshaw, Johnson, Chamber, Hopkin. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Irvine, Forbes, Williams, Harrison.
The Liverpool Postal Band (headmaster, Mr. Wm Jones) at Anfield commencing at2 p.m., will perform the following; March, “Colonel Bogey” (Alford); waltz, “Blue Bird”; selection, “The Bing Boys” (Ayer); song march, “Swanee”: selection, “The Maid of the Mountains,” (Simon); waltz, “Silver Star”; song march, “Sally” (Allen); one-step, “I Want a Boy”; selection, “Chu Chin chow” (Norton).

A WORD OR TWO ABOUT THE LOCAL DERBY
The Liverpool Echo, Saturday, October 7, 1922
By Stork
Round and about Anfield-road this afternoon with remind one of bees round a honey pot. There will be one road only to take, and if you don’t know the way follow the crowd- and there will be some crowd let me tell you -and you will not get lost. It is “Derby Day,” the day of all days to the local football enthusiast, and I am wondering where the club are going to put all those who will want to see the match. Anfield-road ground is reputed to be capable of housing 45,000 spectators. It will be solely taxed today, and many unfortunates will learn the progress of the game through the eyes and shouts of others. Get into your places early if you do not want to be disappointed.
NO EXCUSES
At one time during the week there was a grave doubt as to the competition of the Liverpool team, due to injuries, but it is now practically certain that the doubtfuls will take their places. This is good news, as also is the news from the Goodison headquarters that their side is unchanged from that which over came Cardiff City. With both sides at full strength there will be no excuses to offer, and the rival partisans will not be chipped by each other with those familiar phrases, “We were not at full strength,” etc. Liverpool’s home record this season is such a fine one that their supporters will not hear of defeat, and a week or so ago, before Everton showed their improved form, a victory for the Reds seemed a certainty. But the Goodison Parkers’ two victories over the Welsh side has made the result a more open affair.
LINE FOR LINE
I will not deal with the merits of the men, man for man, but take line for line. In goal I think Liverpool have a slight advantage, for to my mind there is no better goalkeeper in the country than the slim Irishman, Elisha Scott, who makes mighty saves look cheap, and he possesses the agility of a cat and an anticipation that is almost unhuman. Fern is very little behind his rival in these respects, while he is the embodiment of steadiness- never getting flustered when hard put to save his charge. Whatever, happens to-day, neither side will suffer anything for the want of good custodianship. At full back there is also little to choose from, for while Longworth and McKinlay have played together so long that they have an understanding that makes for proficiency, McDonald and Raitt are pairing off just as if they had lived on the same field for years, and are developing a working basis that makes a strong defence. Both of the forceful type, having no fear for a good shoulder charge, the Liverpool forwards will not have to treat them lightly, for if they do they will awaken of the fact that they are distinctly clever too late. Now to the middle line. Here, again, the gap is not a wide one. The wing men are pretty much on a par. Hart is playing so well that he is right on the heels of Bromilow. Each combines construction with defence, and where opportunity presents itself is not loth to take a shot-a telling shot, too. In the centre we have two men of pretty much the same type. Wadsworth has shown better football this season than ever he did before. He does not centre his attentions all on defence as of yore, but has an eye for his forwards. His vis-à-vis, Fleetwood, is playing as well as ever, and is a very knotty problem for any centre forward to solve for he worries the lift out of the “middleman” by his persistent attentions. Peacock and McNab, as right wingers, will have to give of their best, for the left wingers of each side are very sprightly and clever.
LIVERPOOL’S STRENGTH
Where Liverpool hold the whip hand is in attack. Not that they are so vastly superior to their rivals individually, but just that they work so much better together. It was this trait which won them the championship last season, and looks like going a long way to keeping it here this. Their wingers are aware that they have a centre forward, and knowing this, they give him all the chances possible. Not so the Everton wingers, who get so wrapped up in themselves that they forget the very existence of their leader, who is dashing here and there patiently waiting the pass that never comes. Forbes is not a big fellow, but is wholehearted, and can hit a ball hard and true if his colleagues will but give him the chance. Now, Irvine, Chedgzoy, Williams, and Harrison, don’t forget the little fellow in the centre. Join up with him and goals will come ,more frequently. It will take a good side to lower the Livers colours at Anfield-road and, in view of their fine home record and the fact that they seem to stay the pace better than Everton, who have a penchant for falling away after three-quarters time, I pin my faith on the League leaders. Teams; Liverpool; Scott; Longworth, McKinlay; McNab, Wadsworth, Bromilow, Lacey, Forshaw, Johnson, Chambers, and Hopkin. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Irvine, Forbes, Williams, and Harrison.

STUD MARKS
The Liverpool Football Echo- Saturday October 7, 1922
By Louis T. Kelly

BROMILOW’S BIRTHDAY GOAL WAS ONE OF SIX
The Liverpool Football Echo, Saturday, October 7, 1922
AMAZING DERBY GAME LEDS TO ANOTHER CHAPTER IN FIVES
CHAMBERS IN MERRY MOOD, HELPS TO MAKE A HALF-TIME DEFICIT INTO HUGH LEAD
Liverpool; Scott; Longworth, McKinlay (Captain); McNab, Wadsworth, Bromilow; Lacey, Forshaw, Johnson, Chamber, Hopkin. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart (Captain); Chedgzoy, Irvine, Forbes, Williams, Harrison. Referee; Mr. Andrews.
LIVERPOOL WIN 5-1
It was an admirable day for such a feastful game as Liverpool v Everton. Anfield has had some enormous attendances, notably at the West Ham Cup-tie-a replayed tie in the middle of the week-but to-day’s attendance seemed to beat anything that has ever occurred in the history of the Anfield club. What was the gate worth, I wonder? Possibly £3,500-a pretty sum in depressing times! The crowd was all agog with excitement, for they had much to discuss in view of Liverpool’s defeat last week at Burnley and Everton’s double win over Cardiff. Liverpool’s charge was Johnson for Shone, and McKinlay was fit and ready for service. Everton had selected the side that had leapt into prominence in the last fortnight.
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL


Referee Andrews was in charge of the teams and was recognised as a very strong referee-in fact, players knew that he would stand no nonsense-not that we ever get much “nonsense” nowadays in our “Derby” games. The day was gloriously fine, and there was much green to admire on the playing space. The scene was a noteworthy one, and as usual there was a big raid on the Kemlyn-road stand, which offers so good and close a view of play.
THE STATE OF THE MARKET
Without going into detail here are a couple of tables showing at a glance how the rivals have fared in their games;-
At Anfield -Liverpool won 4, Lost 10, Draw 8- at Goodison Won 8 Lost 10 Draw 4
At Anfield-Everton Won 10 Lost 4 Draw 8- at Goodison Won 10, lost 8, Draw 4
BARBED WIRE NO HINDRANCE
The crowd had plenty to interest them. There were boys who ignored barbed wire, there was the Postal Band, and there was also the method adopted for removing young boys from the top to the bottom of the Kop. Liverpool, by winning the toss, had the advantage of the sun, which was glaring. At once Chedgzoy moved ahead, and the ball ran out, after which McDonald slipped up, and Fleetwood did likewise without any serious harm. Wadsworth revelled in his third game in eight days and his leading was particularly useful. The sun bothered each side, but the extreme wingers made merry, and after Chedgzoy had offered a chance to Forbes, and the little Scottie had back-heeled to Harrison, a shot was rained in and caught McNab luckily.
NERVOUS TENSION
On the other hand, Liverpool made much ground on the left wing, where Hopkin was putting them across with rare judgement. One of his centres was headed on to the top of the goal-net by Johnson, and then there was the case where Johnson, being unable to reach a centre, handed it through, all of which betokened excitement. Now the goalkeepers had to get busy. Fern was tested by Chambers, after the latter had fallen to the ground and had regathered the ball. Fern’s catch was just as solid and sure that saved by Scott when Fleetwood, from long range, tried a big pile-driver. McNab had a shot blocked, and then had to make a mighty punt to stop Harrison and Williams making good with an opening that had been well worked. Some idea of the enthusiasm of the game was made evident when Longworth was seen dribbling in the centre of the field against Fleetwood. Irvine was wide with a shot and then in two minutes the game took a deliberate turn. Liverpool were right on the doorstep of success, thanks to Forshaw feinting effectively. He put the ball across to the middle, and Johnson looked sure to score when Fern and  he came into collision and the ball dropped two yards out of an empty goal.
A CLOSE IN GOAL
There was no red jersey man ready to make good and an Everton man kicked clear. Now watch the effect- Everton went straight away to the Spion Kop end and after a zig-zag performance in which there was uncertain defence, Williams scored when not more than a yard from goal. Forbes had a hand in the goal, and to my mind, the goal arose (first) through McKinlay passing back without sufficient force, and (second) through Scott charged out of possession of the ball. The time was 17 minutes and the enthusiasm of the Everton folk was at fever pitch. Liverpool were startled at the unexpected turn of events, and Forshaw, when on the swing, was wide in the manner as Chedgzoy was over the bar. Injuries and fouls had been gloriously few, but just now, Raitt, Bromilow and Harrison got knocked. Tommy Fleetwood escaped all knocks and ploughed through like a veritable youngster. However, when there was a foul against Peacock, it was McDonald who saved the goal, for he stood at attention to stop McKinlay’s drive, and was perfectly placed for the clearance that was necessary.
OVER-PLANNING
Judge of his pleasurable surprise, therefore, when lacey missed a perfect sitter against his own side. This should have been a levelling up, but to be quite candid, Liverpool had been “drafting” too many plans and not going in for sufficient open work stock. Everyone enjoyed the wing combination in league with the half-back, but one wanted to know when there would be a definite raid with a concluding shot to finish it off. Johnson was thinking about shooting when he was indulged in a pitch-and-toss affair.  He escaped injury, yet it seemed that he was out of luck, as when lacey took advantage of McDonald’s slip, the Irishman’s pass back being too square for Johnson to gather. Liverpool, in the closing minutes of the half, made desperate efforts to recover lost ground, and Bromilow had a beautiful drive swing just outside.
WAITING FOR HIS GIFT
It was Bromilow’s birthday to-day, and he wished for no finer present than a goal against his greatest rivals. Forshaw was also near, and then the referee had a word to say to Hart and McNab, while earlier he had spoken to Raitt. However, it had been quite a nice clean game, hard, fast, fascinating and fluctuating. Half-time; Liverpool 0, Everton 1.
CHAMBERS EQUALISES
At the beginning of the second half Raitt twice tripped Chambers without denial. Forshaw hit a sparkling left foot drive that went inches outside the post, and then Chambers equalised in a curious way. Let me give you the incident from start to finish. Hopkin, when offside, was allowed to go on and centre. The ball caught Raitt on the side of the face and passed for a corner, Hopkins placed the corner and Chambers headed it in such a way that the ball seemed to sit up against the top rigging and cannon out to Fern, who handled the ball after it had crossed the line. In his joy at equalising, Chambers swung on to one of the uprights and hung on to it in the manner that obtains on a music-hall with horizontal bar performers.
A SECOND WORD IN HIS EAR
Sensational grew. First Raitt was spoken to for the second time; then Chambers had a couple of nods towards goal, while Forshaw, with an amazingly clever header behind him, set the machinery going on the right wing, and let in McNab. He had all along been running ahead to make a sixth forward, and now he found himself with a cross-grained shot and quite a good chance for a goal. He fired in a very fierce shot that found its mark, and then he leapt for joy and did a Scottish hornpipe.
THE HAPPY TRIP
All the Liverpool half-backs have now scored a goal, and, needless to say Liverpool now played with a confidence that was quite foreign to them until the equalising goal had arrived. The result was that McDonald and Raitt had a lot of work. The former cut across to stop a sure thing and Raitt headed out when heavily pressed, whereas the Liverpool defence began to take liberties, and McKinlay passed back with such strength that Scott had to make a good save.
PILING ON THE AGONY
The Everton forwards had been most varied, and the wingers had not done much to bring relief, Irvine being the most successful worker. Liverpool made the score 3-1, thanks to Chambers who scored after Johnson had headed the ball to Chambers, and Lacey received a pass which he returned considerately for “Smiler” to score. Two minutes later Chambers applied such swerve that Fern was a yard wide of the ball as it entered the net and made the total 4-1. The crowd following up the suggestion in “Bee’s” notes a fortnight ago, commenced the Midland cry “one, two, three, four, five,” and one was sorry to see a long dribble by Hart ended by a caution on McNab.
HIS BIRTHDAY PRESENT ARRIVES
Bromilow and Hart had been hopping about through injury, but Bromilow forgot his when he scored an unexpected point. Fern being at fault in not catching it. It was Bromilow’s birthday goal and the boys recognised the fact. This made the fourth time in five matches at home that Liverpool had scored five goals. In the last minute Scott made a wonderful save from Williams.
Final.- Liverpool 5, Everton 1
CASUAL COMMENTS
BY F.E.H.
“A many years ago, when I was young and charming,” as dear little Buttercup used to sing, I went to a football match. The habit once contracted, became a tradition, for I seem to have been attending this form of athleticism ever since. So here we are again, despite all the ravages of a long succession of winters and cold weather.
And now for the harmless, necessary jingle. Thus it is;-
The champions and their neighbours came bounding on the ground,
They smiled like anything to see so many folks around.
“If all this wealth belonged to us!” -and then they simply frowned!
The player once he’s started, knows the first half’s not the whole;
He never looks behind him, but he knows that there’s a goal.
And when he’s lost his bonus he cries “God bless my soul!”
Though the money doesn’t matter, once the game is on the wing.
Yet the dropping of a quidlet leaves a nasty little sting.
And when he counts his wages, with the comforts that they bring,
He says, “To hell with Hamlet, for the play is not the thing.”
These are idle, halting verses, and their meaning may be vague;
The reader may disdain them as a man abhors the plague.
But the rambling, restless rhythm conveys a message true-
That the better side should conquer- whether it be Red or Blue.
Progress to the ground if not exactly rapid, was fairly swift.
The old days of the four-wheeler are gone, and we shall have penny tram fares soon. As the ancients would say, “Speed the plough.”
CURIOUS POINTS OF VANTAGE
Entrance to the ground was negotiated with some difficulty, and the Press seats for the most part were occupied by a very companionable company of good sportsman, who joined in the cheers and cries of the great crowd. The gates were closed some time before the rival teams appeared, but this did not deter quite a number of adventurous spirits from climbing over all sorts of barriers and perching themselves in the gutters and on the down spouts of the covered stands. The sun shone upon a scene of animation probably unparalleled in the history of the two clubs when play began. Every niche and cranny of the Anfield-road enclosure was filled. Some youngsters seemed to be hanging to points of vantage by their eyebrows, while others dangled their legs from the top of the iron standards that gave them support. The Homeric shouting when Everton started with their faces to the sun was positively deafening. Electricity was in the air, and the players themselves caught something of the feverish contagion.
 A TERRRIFIC PACE
The enthusiasm of some of the spectators was frankly partisan, not only in their demeanour, but in their personal manner of adornment. One austere gentleman of my acquaintance adopted an ingenious attitude of neutrality by wearing a blue necktie and a red rose. This combination was commented upon as being a most diplomatic device. There is no necessity for me to tell you that the pace from the outset was terrific. Both goals were visited in turn, and Hopkin and Johnson were both in the picture, but their shots were in the negative. A plan of the campaign was gradually developed with more calmness, and Chedgzoy gave Scott a particularly warm handful that made the Spion Kop contingent reel with excitement.
THE GOAL A BLUNDER?
This was merely the prelude to a much greater happening. McKinlay, at short range, passed the ball back to Scott, and before the latter could recover Williams dashed in and scored. This was rather a bad blunder, and its reception was signified with mixed feelings and a roar of joy and resentment that must have been heard at the Pierhead. The great sea of faces surged like an ocean tide as the Anfielders attempted to repair this blow, but the old war horse, Tommy Fleetwood, butted in with a counter stroke, and matters were not improved when Forshaw drove wildly away from the target. So far the game, though strenuous had been perfectly clean, but there was just an element of temper introduced when Raitt was hurt in collision. A little later Liverpool were given a free kick, McKinlay tried his level best to find the net, but luck was against him, and this time the people on the Anfield-road stand swayed with emotion and a temporary loss of equilibrium. An urchin perched just above my head loosened the tongue of a harsh and dissonant bell. He struck me as being an articulate gargoyle, but the sound he made fell upon unheeding ears.
AN EQUALISER LOST
The struggle continued without any cessation of serious endeavour, and Lacey should have paved the way to an equaliser except for a bad pass. Forbes, to the delight of the Evertonians, gave several pretty examples of neat footwork; while at the other end Bromilow tried to make up the leeway with a beautifully judged shot. Then the interval came, and the great congregation sought as much muscular relaxation as the space at its disposal afforded. There were smiles and frowns-each acting visibly according to his personal predilection. On the general run of the play, there had not been very much between the teams. Liverpool had more chances, but the Everton star was in the ascendant.

LIVERPOOL 5 EVERTON 1
October 9, 1922. The Liverpool Courier.
ANFIELD DERBY THRILLS.
CHAMPIONS GREAT RALLY.
FERN AT FAULT.
The first of the Derby games revealed a remarkable state of affairs. One could not have wished to see more evenly matched teams than Liverpool and Everton in the first half. But afterwards Everton hopes slumped top zero, and Liverpool's remarkable “five at home” goal average was duly continued just when it seemed most unlikely. Nor is it doing any injustice to their rivals to say that their game in the second half entitled the Reds to a runaway win. The Anfield enclosure was tested to its utmost capacity, and over 50,000 people paid £3,200 to see the match, the result of which strengthened the lead of the champions in the chart.
RED'S ONE MISTAKE.
There was one mistake by the Liverpool defence, and only one. It was expensive because Scott failed to hold on to a pass back from McKinlay, and gave Williams a chance to put the Blues ahead at the interval. In encounters of this nature such a grit will often decide the issue, but Liverpool's powers of recovery in the second half have been one of the most pleasing features of their form this season, and the home defence dominated the situation so much afterwards that the halves could devote all their time to supporting the forwards. In this period of strenuous forcing McNab stood out well, but he marred an otherwise excellent display by a quite unnecessary foul on Hart which drew a stern warning from Referee Andrews. Bromilow again found his best form, and Wadsworth developed advances in excellent style. Forward Chambers stood out by the value of his shooting, but Hopkins and Johnson were two live factors in the line, and the right wing was little behind in bustling tactics and neat combination.
FERN'S BLUNDERS.
Fern gave away the last two goals –inexplicable blunders for such a sound custodian –but Raitt added to his reputation by steadiness in difficulties, though he is somewhat given to reckless kickings. Hart was the pick of the halves, but the forward line had few chances to shine. Everton's goal has already been referred to, Chambers equalised with a lob, which Fern fisted out, but the referee was on the spot, and promptly ruled that the ball had been over the line in the air, a good decision. McNab gave the Reds the lead with a fine shot, after an individual run, Chambers after 70 minutes, and put on another two minutes later, while Bromilow completed the scoring with a long shot. Teams : - Liverpool: - Scott goal, Longsworth, and McKinlay (captain), backs, McNab, Wadsworth, and Bromilow, half-backs, Lacey, Forshaw, Johnson, Chambers, and Hopkins, forwards. Everton: - Fern, goal, Raitt and McDonald, backs, Peacock, Fleetwood and Hart (captain), half-backs, Chedgzoy, Irvine, Forbes, Williams, and Harrison, forwards. Referee Mr. Andrews.

THROUGH BLUE SPECS.
October 9, 1922. The Liverpool Courier
DON'T “KICK” FERN.
EVERTON NEED NOT BE DISMAYED.
Having witnessed the majority of the Everton matches this season, it has fallen to my lot to give a synopsis of the Derby game from an Everton point of view. Let me say at once that the better team on the day's play took the honours, and I don't suppose anyone of the 50,000 spectators will dispute that fact. Certainly Everton player and directors alike would be the first to admit it. The Goodison Park players have no need to be downcast on the account as few teams will take points from Anfield this season, providing the present team has the luck to keep on playing together.
FIRST HALF PROMISE.
In the first half Everton undoubtedly played spirited and, at times delightful football, and they roused hopes in the minds of their supporters by the way the team set about the task on hand. Looking at the play in that portion, I though Everton thoroughly deserved the goal lead they held at the interval. The backs had done uncommonly well, and Raitt's skilful interventions were praised by red and blue alike. The halves, ably led by Skipper Hart, had held their elusive opponents in a grip of iron, and unquestionably the persistent endeavour of the middlemen had much to do with their side's good position at the breathing space. The forwards worked together smoothly, and were ever ready to snap up chances. On the first half showing it appeared that the Goodison side would make a good fight of it. They flattered but to deceive, however. The Evertonians could not withstand the onslaught of the champions at the outset of the second half, when the Reds well and truly laid the foundation of success. Few teams could stand against the champions on that trustful brilliancy, and if Everton went down more heavily than they deserved to do they may find consolation in the fact that they were not the only side to have five goals placed on the debit side of their account by the stalwarts of Anfield.
THOSE LAST TWO GOALS!
True, the last two goals were of the unlooked for variety, but I am convinced that Liverpool had the game well won before, the long shots from Chambers and Bromilow defeated Fern. The keeper seemed to be entirely deceived by these two efforts, though he had precious little chance with the first three. All goalkeepers make mistakes at some time or other, and certainly Fern has given vastly superior displays. It frequently happens that the best of keepers let seemingly easy shots go through, while they clear some difficult propositions, so that the Everton man is by no means alone in this respect. One has only to remember Fern's one handed save of the previous week, and the penalty clearance at Cardiff, to be convinced of his ability. Saturday was an off-day. But the team, as a whole, I must admit, was only second best in the last forty-five. The backs did not reproduce their earlier form, the halves failed to stem the tide, and consequently the forwards got few opportunities. Scott was lucky to stop one from Williams in the last few minutes. The teams meet again next Saturday, and Everton will have their opportunity for revenge.

RIGHT ON TOP
October 9 1922. The Evening Express
A Record Game at Anfield
What a game it was. One that will be talked of, thrashed out, discussed from all angles for many a day to come. Liverpool's record win over Everton, before a record crowd -54,368 people paid £3,200 for admission –set the seal on their claim to be champions and again put them clear at the head of the head of the chart.
Liverpool's Sweep
First of all I should like to pay tribute to the players for the sporting nature of the contest. McNab should not have stopped. Hart in the way he did and deserved the referee's censure but considering the excitement these encounters always create the match was happily almost free of objectionable feature while the standard of football was very high, especially in the first half. As the interval Everton deserved the lead because they had snapped up an opportunity but they could not equal the stamina and skill of the home side in the concluding period and Fern had a sorry time, culminating in an error which he seemed to feel keenly though it occurred when the Blues were well beaten. Liverpool's superiority lay in the forward line and to a lesser degree with the halves. Irvine was a tremendous worker but there was little understanding among the visiting five. Individual efforts were ruthlessly checked, and the wings could work many openings so that the inside men, after a promising start, faded out of the picture. On the other hand the Reds attack, slow to settle followed pretty passing without finish to combination and shooting which was a treat to witness. Harry Chambers was in grand form and his three goals must have given him great satisfaction even though he did not do the hat-trick. Hopkins had a great deal to do with Chambers success, as they fitted together like scissors while the leadership of Johnson unproductive to himself, was an asset which cannot be over-estimated. In my judgment he “makes” the Reds line. Forshaw and Lacey were schemers of the first water and with their aid McNab has developed a sixth forward sense which gave him the unbounded satisfaction of netting the second goal with a great drive., Perhaps “unbounded is hardly the correct word, as the vocal “double Scotch” nearly out leapt the stags upon his native hills in his delight. Liverpool have been well rewarded for their persistence with McNab. He was slow in coming to hand, but now he plays excellently and gave little quarter to the opposing wing. Wadsworth was great to defensive tactics and passing up the centre while Bromilow –somewhat surprised that his long drive had gone home –Kept a watchful eye on Chedgzoy, overcame his speed by judicious taking up of position and then was off on dodgy runs till opportunity came to part with the ball to advantage. The Everton halves did not shine to anything like the same extent. Fleetwood played smartly for a long period, but fell way later and Hart took the eye more, some of his touches being very dexterous, Peacock however, I have seen do a lot better as he never seemed to settle. As between the respective pairs of backs there were little to chosen. McDonald and Raitt came out of a harassing ordeal very well the latter more than once saving his lines in thrilling fashion. Longsworth and McKinlay had less to do, but were rarely at fault except for the captain's weak pass back which gave away the goal. Happily, there were no serious knocks during the encounter and the return at Goodison Park should be another thriller as Everton are sure to be anxious to show their supporters that the form was all wrong.

EVERTON “A” 1 BURSCOUGH ROVERS 1
October 9, 1922. The Liverpool Courier.
LIVERPOOL COUNTY COMBINATION.
This match at Goodison Park was very keenly contested, and the issue was in doubt to the finish. There was little to chose between the sides in the first quarter, play being carried from end to end in rapid succession. After 35 minutes play, Ashurst received the ball in midfield, beat several men, and ran in to shoot past Kemp from short range. Play fluctuated to the interval. A few minutes after the resumption, Burscough were awarded a penalty, but Kemp brought off a great save from Barlow's shot. Just before the close Lee put Everton on level terms with a header from a centre by Young. There was little to choose between the respective defences. If Spicer and Helsby were the more polished exponents, Howard and Hughes were equally effective. The halves were uniformly sound, with perhaps Jeffs as the most prominent, he also shot well on several occasions. The home forwards were much below form, being particularly weak in front of goal. Ashurst was the outstanding forward on the Burscough side. Everton: - Kemp, goal, Spicer, and Helsby, backs, Jeffs, Robinson, and Rooney, half-backs, Parry, Jackson, Moffatt, Virr, and Young, forwards.

GREAT GAME GOES LIVERS’ WAY IN THE SECOND HALF
The Liverpool Echo- Monday, October 9, 1922
JUDGING THE GOALS
EVERTON’S LIGHTNESS PART CAUSE OF DEFEAT
Bee’s Notes
Contrary to the report in a contemporary on Saturday, the Leddy case is absolutely finished with. All though of a test case against the Chesterfield club has been abandoned, and with it all the other cases which were said to be hanging in the balance.
Well, there you are them. It is all over. The first chapter has been registered, and it shows Liverpool winners 5-1 and adds one more “five” to the collection of goals put up at Anfield by the red-coated fellows. It was a shock to Liverpool to be behind at the interval. They had not expected it, and it would not have come had McKinlay passed back a trifle more determinedly and had Scott not been charged off. However, it was a goal that served to keep the game going hot and strong, for Everton had an idea that they were going to win, and Liverpool could pass and repass but could not finish off their labours. Hence the doubt in their mind became stronger and stronger, till at last there came the turn in the tide and then the avalanche of goals. It was an amazing turn round, and showed that power of recovery Liverpool can produce when in the mood. As a game it was a delight to the eye; was full of variety and was keenly contested. There were fouls- they were few, but they were unfortunately tinged with “own back” favour-and even having said that I should say that Referee Andrews by his very sternness kept the game from becoming rough, for he early on showed that he could be quite a martinet; which was perhaps good for the game. At any rate, the game went through on sporting lines with rare exceptions and the spectator who could not find real pleasure in it must be bias-blind.
FOLLOWING CUSTOM
It has been my habit for the last nineteen years here to talk of the Derby game in the personal manner. So let us on to the team sheet right away. Goalkeepers.- Scott and Fern were not exactly busy men. Scott was “caught” in the fires when Williams scored, and after that he was cat like in his agility. His save on the stroke of time from Williams was wonderful, and old players told me they could not see how he got to the ball to deaden it. I certainly thought Scott had missed it. Fern was not comfortable. The swerving ball from Chambers and the “soft” goal scored by Bromilow were possibly due to Fern anticipating that the men concerned would pass to the right and not shoot. A goalkeeper some days Fern will tell us about these two goals. Full backs -Longworth, McKinlay, Raitt, and McDonald. A fine foursome eh? Longworth was a sturdy in enterprise. He was ceaseless in his work, he was everlasting in his sure points, and he had ideas of matching forward like a king going forth to war. McKinlay was equally good in generalship and his tackling was closer than his pal’s Everton’s pair fared well. Pratt is a shade hefty, and not for the first time since he came down here did he come under the ban. Apart from this he was most serviceable, and his heading away was powerful and direct. McDonald, too, continued his level of excellence against a wing that was a worry. Half-backs-There was a difference and a distinction here. Liverpool’s was the better line between they kept up their good points to the end; whereas Everton’s -Hart after a grand first half faded out a bit till he dribbled on into McNab, while Peacock never touched his best. Fleetwood’s hard labour in-among-a-crowd was always favourable to him, and his work would have been in a different category had he made us of the ball when he had finished his hard labour in getting it. On the home side Wadsworth was a leveller of Forbes. McNab in addition to scoring a great goal- the best of the branch- was hard on his man, and carried through the scheme of things by which the ball is put upward and he becomes an additional forward. It is a new and a profitable move and is being perfected. Bromilow got his birthday goal, and played his customary dainty game. No more need be said. Liverpool superiority at half-back was patent, but at forward it was even more patent.
ATATCKERS OF BOTH SIDES
Sturdy them. There was Forshaw doing all manner of wonderful things. He and Lacey are welded together like Siamese twins. Lacey missed a sitter, but he has fashioned his wing and his generalship counts for much. At centre Forshaw was always seeming just about to do something really big when he made a pass. He over-passed and he succeeded in that he kept a half back waiting on him all the time. That factor is apt to be lost sight of. On the left there was the smiling combination of Hopkin and Chambers. Hopkin was resplendent in the first half and Chambers in the second half; yet I should say that Forshaw was the shooter of the line, and his back header was a gem, and caused a goal Chambers got three to his number, and justified all the good things said of him in the “pose” picture published in Saturday’s Football Echo.” When harry beat fern one’s mind went to the Huddersfield match, when Mutch was beaten “yards” by a swerver on the part of Chambers. His inturned toe inclines him to the swerving ball. I think I told you long since how Hoard Baker had said that no one swerved in the way Chambers does, and that there was only one way to deal with him, and that was, in the Army phrase, to “wait for it.” Fern would doubtless prefer to wait for it than to go outside the goal! The Liverpool line was very clever-almost excessively so in the first half, because they did not get any forrader with it. However, once the equaliser had been notched the deluge arrived, and with it the new cry, “One, two, three, four, five,” which threatens to become a habit at Anfield, considering that this is the fourth occasion when the total has been reached, and the only other home occasion was made into a three goals win.
EVERTON FAILINGS
Everton’s forwards were in difficulties in the second half. They had little help and could not fathom a way of beating the opposition. Irvine was the best of the bunch as he dribbled so cutely and passed with effect. However, Chedgzoy got little out of the passes, some of them being much too fast to take. The right winger opened the ball well and his early game showed him offering a perfect-strength centre. After that he petered out, just as did Harrison, who was limping early on through an accidental kick. Forbes was light as a fairly and his early game showed him a subtle centre. Many and varied are the ideas about this man, but I have seen him do things in such a way that I should hesitate to say “Go” Forbes has neatness on his side and brain. Williams on his left side was being asked a big question. The Darwener is not used to this sort of crowds- 54,368, a record gate representing £2,200-but this could be said-he never stopped to manoeuvre when he could shoot. He got the side’s only goal, and he made two telling shots right at the finish. Had all the other forwards done something similar, who knows what would have happened? Thus were the comments of Friday night borne out with but one poignant difference. The game was very fast, and Everton did not stay the full journey in the way the winners did. As a spectacle I should like to think I was going to see something similar each week. It was good to look on and the crowd alone was worth more than a passing fancy. Spion Kop, for instance at half time decided to light up-pipes began to smoke and the Kop was as a West Bromwich furnace smoking its way towards the Midland capital. Up to that point pipes had gone out. The ‘flu was awkward, the drawing power had been lost, and shouts for victory had taken the place of clouds of smoke. All ended in smoke-and good temper, which is as it should be. So we adjourn till next week. It is no use crying over Everton’s loss. Goodison Park has been the scene of many a surprise Derby result. Who shall be dogmatic and lay ridiculous odds that the reverse side of the medal shall not be seen next Saturday.
FELL DOWN SPION KOP
FOOTBALL MATCH SPECTATOR’S FATAL SLIP
Charles William Inman, of 57, Gill-Street, off Brownlow hill, has died at the Stanley Hospital from injuries received when leaving the Anfield Football Ground, on Saturday after watching the match between Liverpool and Everton. While descending the steps leading from the “Spion Kop” stand, Inman missed his footing and fell heavily on to his head. He was taken in unconscious condition to Stanley Hospital where he died yesterday morning from head injuries.

OLDHAM ATHLETIC RESERVES 5 EVERTON RESERVES 1
October 10 1922. The Liverpool Daily and Mercury
CENTRAL LEAGUE (Game 8)
Having shared 6 goals at Goodison Park, Oldham Athletic Reserves and Everton Reserves met in the return encounter at Oldham yesterday. The Athletic moved Stanforth into the centre position and it proved a very successful change. For the opening twenty minutes Everton held their own, but Oldham were always the more dangerous when on the attack. Twenty-five minutes after the start Stanforth scored, and fifteen minutes later added a second, breaking through after Bassingdale had hit the upright. A minute or two before the interval Stanforth performed the “hat-trick” netting after Bassingdale had hit the bar. Changing over with a 3 goal lead, the Athletic were rarely in difficulties, and following good work by Horrocks, Bassingdale scored a fourth while Stanforth added a fifth during a sudden breakaway. Wall netted for Everton, who played a persistent game, but the Athletic gave them an object lesson in how to turn chances to account.

AFTERMATH
The Liverpool Echo-Tuesday, October 10, 1922
Bee’s Notes
“Pukka Bluey” writes; I hope you will be kind enough to insert in your valuable space what were, in my humble opinion, the reasons for Saturday’s debacle. They are;

  1. Poor goalkeeping
  2. Mis timing and mis-direction of passes
  3. The going too far forward by the wily halves, causing inability to recover and keep the backs against the opponents they had left wide open.

RIGHT HERE
“Blue Devil” writes; It is Sunday, and I have been pondering over yesterday’s match at Anfield. Oh, yes, the “Reds” won deservedly; but 5-1 was a bit flattering, eh? Now what was wrong? What is wrong with the “Blues”? Very little and yet everything. Forbes I am afraid, is not quite ready, and so a real thrustful man must be placed at centre. Where is he Right here, “two of him,” “Bee”-Peacock or Hart. Good dribblers, can shoot, and, above all, “go ahead.”

BEE’S NOTES
The Liverpool Echo- Wednesday, October 11, 1922
This afternoon there was the minor Derby game at Anfield, and the following selections make the game appear in the light of a semi-First Division game’-
Liverpool Reserves; Mitchell; Lucas, Lilley; Bamber, R. Mitchell, Cunningham; Gilhespy, Shone, Sambrook, Lewis and Harold Wadsworth. Everton Reserves; Salt; Caddick, Livingstone; Brown, Brewster’ Grenyer; Jones, Miller, Fazackerley, Wall, and Reid.
By these selections shall you know them. It is pretty plain that the club is anxious to see if they can produce a centre forward of height who shall depose Forbes. Fazackerley in the choice. Then the return of David Reid to outside left is a significant move. The Derby games have been well handled in the past by clubs and officials-in-the-middle, and, after the sad death of the Spion Kop spectator, I hope all onlookers at the games will take very great care when they are handling over young boys to the foot of the crowd. It is a dangerous measure, and needs to be done with infinitely greater care than was the case on Saturday. Someone will get concussion of the brain from the kick of the heel one of these bright days if more care is not taken. I should like to advise spectators about their method of getting to the ground. On Saturday next they should not congregate in large numbers at the Pierhead for the Walton team. There is a string of special care opposite the “Echo” office in Victoria-street, and these should be used. Moreover, there is another short cut to the ground from Exchange Station to Kirkdale which is but ten minutes walk from the ground. The car service at the Pierhead is taxed beyond limits. Walk on the Victoria-street, folk.

LIVERPOOL RESERVES 2 EVERTON RESERVES 3
October 12, 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury
CENTRAL LEAGUE
EVERTON RESERVES WIN WITH NINE MEN
SALT BROKE COLLAR BONE
Anfield's ground was the scene of a curious game yesterday, when Liverpool Reserves and Everton Reserves played their Central League match before about 12,000 spectators. It was a poor first half with moderate forward play, and open goals were missed. Everton had a strong side out, including Brewster, Grenyer, and Fazackerley, and after Bamber had scored though a wise effort by H. Wadsworth –Salt appeared to be at fault –Reid equalised. Mitchell pulling the ball down over the line. Mitchell had saved many good shots, his best being from the lively Miller. The second half was somewhat remarkable. Caddick strained a muscle of the leg and left the field early on. Then Salt was hurt in a collision, and Brewster went into goal. It transpired that Salt had broken his collarbone, finally Brown was so lame that he had to play at outside right. Yet Everton started to take a useful lead. When Caddick had gone D. Reid, though a perfect header from Grenyer, made a centre, and Miller increased the lead. Wall added a goal, and then Liverpool attacked in such a manner that there was one long struggle for goals against the weakened Everton defence, for Brewster was keeping goal and Livingstone was on his own at full back. Liverpool got one point through a solo effort by Gilhespy. Lewis waded through and had no one to beat the goalkeeper. He pulled the ball wide –not for the first time in the match –then Shone hit a fierce ball and failed to beat Brewster, who brought off a perfect save. Lucas joined the Liverpool forwards in an endeavour to snatch the game out of the fire, and once he was near scoring with a header from a corner. Mitchell the goalkeeper left his area and advanced a quarter of the length of the field to make a pass to his right wing. It was curious, unbalanced football, but for excitement it was indeed a good game. Right up to the finish Everton were penned in and would not yield the equaliser, so that the visitors won 3-2 –and deserved their win. They could not be blamed as the home side refused to take simple chances. On the winners' side Livingstone played a played a sound game. He was on his own, though Caddick, before his injury, had done his part nobly. At half-back, Brewster was not fighting fit, but Brown played exceptionally well, and Grenyer was very sure in all he undertook. Forward, Jones was below form, Wall was inclined to indulge in too close dribbling, and Fazackerley did not seem to relish centre forward work. On the left David Reid was resourceful and solid. His centres were good, and yet Miller was the best of the line, for he was a live forward with ideas and a ready shot. The losers have their forwards to blame for the defeat. One could have wanted no better goalkeeping than that of Mitchell, and the back work of Lucas, and in lesser light, Lilley was admirable. The half-backs, too showed up Liverpool's strength, for Cunningham never plays poorly, and R. Mitchell is a tireless pivot, while Bamber touched his old high class form all the times. It was forward where Liverpool failed. Sambrooks made some good headers, and Lewis in the open was clever and forceful, yet his shooting was wretched. Harold Wadsworth, and Gilhespy were the reliable men, and from their work a crop of goals should have accounted. Teams: - Liverpool Reservers: - Mitchell, goal, Lucas, and Lilley, backs, Bamber, R. Mitchell, and Cunningham, half-backs, Gilherspy, Shone, Sambrooks, Lewis, and H. Wadsworth, forwards. Everton Reserves: - Salt, goal, Caddick, and Livingstone, backs, Brown, Brewster, and Grenyer, half-backs, Jones, Miller, Fazackerley, Wall, and Reid, forwards.

SIGN PLEASE
The Liverpool Echo- Thursday, October 12, 1922
Bee’s Notes
Everton it issaid, have been to London and have looked at an Irish member for signing purposes, so far as the goalkeeping position is concerned. Maybe they have one in their own school already. His name? Brewster. George was forced to goal yesterday in the Central League Derby game through Salt breaking a collar bone in a collision and he fielded the ball with rare result, and one save from Shone was a positive stunner. He cleared in the duly accredited goalkeeping style, and positively revelled in his new work. Once he came out as though forgetting his new post; later he started a dribble well out of goal. But he was not alone-the same thing was done by Frank Mitchell, who actually went a third of the way up the field and tried to make a direct pass to Gilhespy! And failed, so that at once he had to chase back to gain his goal. This was not all-it was a game that led to all sorts of funniosities-not the least funny being the sight of a boy trekking on the field and asking the new goalkeeper to sign his autograph book. Brewster obliged, but when others came along for something similar in the penmanship line George said he was not “clerking any more to-day-he was only clearing.” Lucas had a great innings, like Livingstone and the former actually went far forward to help in a corner kick and came near scoring. He must be jealous of Wadsworth, Bromilow, and McNab-not forgetting Donald McKinlay.
A ROUSING FINISH
In the first half of this remarkable minor Derby game we saw poorish football. Mitchell had the more work to do, and on that showing alone Everton were laying the better. Jack Bamber scored- he is developing this habit- and Davie Reid equalised. It was in the second half that the rushing, mighty, winding game began. First Caddick, who had shaped uncommonly well at back, damaged an awkward leg and retired from the game. Salt got his break and let in Brewster, while Livingstone played a glorious game entirely on his own. Brown went lame, and therefore changed places with Jones, so that altogether Everton were in a mess, and with Liverpool making a rallying finish and Gilhespy reducing the sting of Miller’s lead-goal, the game became amazingly interesting. It was amazingly uncertain in part, however, for the Liverpool forwards were all awry when they got before goal. Harry Lewis waded through, and had no one to beat but the goalkeeper. He pulled the ball wide-not for the first time in the match-then Shone hit a fierce ball and failed to beat Brewster, who brought off a perfect save. It was curious, unbalanced football, but for excitement it was indeed a good game. Right up to the finish Everton were penned in and would not yield the equaliser, so that the visitors won 3-2-and deserved their win. They could not be blamed if the home side refused to take simple chances. On the winners side Livingstone had done his part nobly. At half-back, Brewster was notfighting fit, but Brown played exceptionally well, and Grenyer was very sure in all he undertook. Forward Jones was below form; Wall was inclined to indulge in too close dribbling, and Fazackerley did not seem to relish centre-forward work, although it must be stated that he as rather badly knocked about. On the left David Reid was resourceful and solid. His centres were good, and yet Miller was the best of the line, for he was a live forward with ideas and a ready shot. The losers have their forwards to blame for the defeat. One could have wanted no better goalkeeping than that of Mitchell, and the back work of Lucas and, in leaser light, Lilley was admirable. The half-backs, too, showed up Liverpool’s strength, for Cunningham never players poorly, and R. Mitchell is a tireless pivot, while Bamber touched his old high-class form all the time. It was forward where Liverpool failed. Sambrook made some good headers, and Lewis in the open was clever and forceful yet his shooting was wretched. Harold Wadsworth and Gilhespy were the reliable men, and from their work a crop of goals should have accrued.

EVERTON’S HOP OF GAINING THEIR REVNGE IN RHE MERSEY “DERBY”
The Liverpool Echo- Friday, October 13, 1922
Bee’s Notes
The second Mersey Derby will attract another 50,000 gate, and the average Liverpudlian -or should it be “Puddlyidlain” ?-is wondering how Everton can expect to change the chart with a victory. That reason is built upon the remembrances of Saturday’s big win. But who shall deny me when I say that the margin was rather kind to the winners? At half-time a well known critic said that Everton would win through” man’s mind, could see that the opening goal had upset the Liverpool equilibrium and the side was, for a time, unbalanced. In view of that it would be folly to be so dogmatic as to say that Liverpool must win. Remember the victory of Everton Reserves against Liverpool Reserves on Wednesday, when only eight men and a half of the Blues’ side got the better of Liverpool at Anfield. Thus form is not necessarily a guide-it is a snare in may cases and the season has shown most away winners as losers at home. So Everton have hope and some belief that they can turn the tables. This much one can state definitely, but the team I cannot give here because the exigencies of the big paper make it impossible for me to write after Thursday morning. Hence the absence of the Everton team in these notes. However, we can be sure that the position has set the Everton board a stiff task and on another page the result of their deliberations will be found, so here one need not try to imagine what they did last night. It seems to be pretty certain that changes will have been made, and I take it that they may try a new centre-forward. More than that I don’t wish to say just now. Certainly we can do with another clean, exhilarating game, such as was seen last week and I shall again go right out for a vote for the Liverpool side on the score of the previous win, heftiness in build, and forwardness in attack.
EVERTON “AT HOME”
Liverpool have made no change, and all the men are fit and well. They must not be over confident, or else they will find the determined Everton side surprise them again. Referee Andrews should have an easy task for he has duly impressed players and people, and if he has erred in part we must judge him on how few mistakes he has made, not on how many times he succeeded. Liverpool have invariably done well at Goodison Park, but it can safely be assumed that there will be a special effort put forth by the Everton men, who have played particularly well at home, with one exception-the Blackburn match. May the better side win, and may everyone remember the sporting code of his honour. Liverpool; Scott; Longworth, McKinlay; McNab, W. Wadsworth, Bromilow; Lacey, Forshaw, Johnson, Chambers, Hopkin.
THE SPION KOP FATALITY
Councillor Harry Walker writes re the death of C.W. Inman, who had been a spectator on “Spion Kop” slipped and fell on his head, and the injury resulting in his death- “He leaves a widow and five young children unprovided for, and I venture to suggest that through your columns, which are always open to appeals for any good cause, a request may be made and that a collection should be taken on Saturday next at Goodison Park when the return “Derby” takes place, or I am sure if the directors were approached they would agree to a benefit match being played for the proceeds to be given to the widow and orphans. It is exceptional that a death should occur under such sad circumstances on either of our premier football grounds, that I trust this appeal will meet with a ready response.”
EVERTON BRING IN CHADWICK AS CENTRE FORWARD
For the “Derby” game at Everton tomorrow Everton have made but one change. Last night at the directors’ meeting it was decided to try Chadwick who was signed on at the back end of last season. He is a tall, strapping fellow, who has generally got a number of goals. Forbes retires, and the team reads; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Irvine, Chadwick, Williams, and Harrison.
Holy Trinity Industrial School Boys’ Band will be in attendance at Goodison Park. Programme;- March, “The Rover’s Return” (Magne); valse, “Autumn Breezes” (Greenwood); overtune “La Fete Champetre” (Le Duc); one-step, “The Teddy Bear” (White); selection on “Irish Airs” (Round); two steps, “Jaunty Joe” (Carolan), march, “The King’s Own” (Jubb).
EVERTON OPEN NEW GROUND
Everton A open their new ground (North Liverpool’s old home), at Clubmoor, 3.15, with a visit from Skelmersdale. Teams; Kemp; Spicer, Helsby; Jeffs, Brennan, Rooney; Lloyd, Lee, McGivney, Virr, and Young

ONE CHANGE ONLY IN THE RETURN DERBY
The Liverpool Echo-Saturday, October 14, 1922
By Stork
I do not intend to go into a long rigmarole about the return “Derby” for it would only be covering ground that was well trodden in last Saturday’s article. Suffice it to say that last week’s game savoured of the sensational. At half-time Evertonian supporter was tremendously bucked with the one goal lead, and it certainly looked as if the Goodison Parkers were going to spring a surprise and lower the Livers’ home record; but once the Anfielders got on level terms it was plainly to be seen that more goals were in the offing, but few-even their most loyal followers- fancied five goals would be rammed home during he second half. Liverpool were invincible, and a repetition of their game of a week hence will, I am sure, bring them a further couple of points. Everton failed to stay? How is it?
Naturally, Liverpool make no change. How could they? Everton, however, have decided upon one alteration-Chadwick for Forbes in the centre. Forbes was at a great disadvantage when facing the towering Walter Wadsworth. He has a fine knowledge of centre forward play, but his style will never succeed so long as his colleagues persist in winging the ball instead of working in fives. This kind of thing has been going on for ages in the Everton camp. Irvine suffered in a like manner and I am surprised that he does not remember his anxious waits in the middle piece; but no, he has fallen in with the winger’s schemes. Rectify this and much better results will be the outcome. Liverpool have my vote again, but the disparity will not be so great this time. Teams; Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Irvine, Chadwick, Williams, and Harrison. Liverpool; Scott; Longworth, McKinlay; McNab, Wadsworth, Bromilow; Lacey, Forshaw, Johnson, Chambers, and Hopkin.

LIVERPOOL’S HARD-EARNED “DERBY” SUCCESS
The Liverpool Football Echo- Saturday, October 14, 1922

“BEE’S DECLARES THAT LONGSWORTH AND McKINLAY WERE MAIN REASON OF EVERTON’S FAILURE IN ATTACKING
LACEY CARRIED OF AND CHAMBERS BOUND UP
The second chapter of the book of Mersey doings was opened at Goodison Park, the only team change being Chadwick for Forbes. Was the crowd bigger than the record Anfield gathering? I think so. It will come as surprise news to partisans to know that Chambers played through the first half last week in spital of internal trouble. He was “revived” for the second half.
Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart (captain); Chedgzoy, Irvine, Chadwick, Williams, Harrison. Liverpool; Scott; McKinlay (Captain), Longworth; Bromilow, W. Wadsworth, McNab; Hopkin, Chambers, Johnson, Forshaw, Lacey.
LIVERPOOL WIN 1-0       
Would Chadwick make all the difference? That was the question Everton followers were putting to themselves. This Lancashire boy is a big fellow, and gave added weight and height to a line that needed some. Was he swift enough? Would he shoot? Would he have the chance to? These were the commentary points of the second “Derby” game that was played to-day at Goodison Park before another massive attendance. The turf was in good order, and Everton went not “down” about the 5-1 reverse of last week. They had confidence in their chance to take their revenge, and Liverpool came out on to the field with seemingly enormous confidence in their ability to make the second win. The Anfield side had no change-rarely has the side been touched, and then only through illness or injury. Lucky is the side that the win shines on, to paraphrase the superstitious matrimonial belief. Referee Andrews pleased nearly everyone last week by his masterly handling of a game that might have developed into a serious vein. And I happen to know that League officials have declared that the control of last week’s game was admirable, so that we mark down Mr. Andrews for further honours. He is not a Liverpool man, but he has Liverpool interests, is here frequently, and is well known in a certain trade.
CHAMBERS ILL
It has just come to light that last week Harry Chambers was quite ill during the first half of the game, and that he had to receive special attention ere he went out for chapter 2-in which he scored. One would like to know the name of the “dope” that revives a man in the way Chambers was revived. Better weather than that associated with today’s match could not have been desired. The sun was “glarey” of course, but it made the scene the more stirring. Goodison Park is different to Anfield in that it has more height and is not so regular in its building line. Anfield held 45,000 spectators last week, and I should think that Goodison Park, to-day, must have taken up at least 55,000, although it is difficult nowadays to judge crowds owing to some grounds packing better than others. Anfield is awkward to pack, Everton is easy- hence my belief that last week’s crowd was passed at to-day’s carnival.
LATEST WIRES FROM THE COURSE
Donald McKinlay received a telegram from Londonderry, saying “Same again, Donald,’ Chambers received one from Germany, “Best of luck, boys, 1,2,3,4,5” McKinlay won the toss again, and had the sun behind him. Fern complained to the referee of the Stanley Park goal-net, which was not taut. Play was delayed for a few moments while Jack Elliott, with the patent machine, made the network secure. Liverpool opened in an open fashion, Chambers crossing the ball to the extreme right. Forshaw, however, put the ball right over the bar. Everton responded speedily and well. Chedgzoy, Peacock and Irvine passed and repassed along the turf and made so much ground that Bromilow had to make a corner when Chedgzoy tried to centre. Considerable danger arose from this corner. Scott was unsighted when Chadwick shot, and he did well to gather the ball and swing it outside for a further corner.
INJURY TO SCOTT’S WRIST
The Irish goalkeeper was hurt on the right wrist through a forward colliding with him, and when he recovered from his injury McNab hastily headed for a further corner, and later the big Scot hesitated, till he was caught napping by Harrison. Everton made a second dangerous approach towards goal, Williams drifting to centre forward and firing in a shot that went wide. Still, it was a good effort. After Chedgzoy had grazed the upright, Chambers twice shot in hopeful manner- first time and strong. The ball passed outside. This was no criterion, and it was the proper game to play. Unfortunately, Chambers when having a shot blocked by Fleetwood, hurt his right elbow and also jarred Fleetwood. Both were cheered for their part in the game, which was full of life and earnestness.
HARRSSING THE VISITORS’ DEFENCE
Everton were persistency itself, and Chedgzoy and Hart had shots blocked and the visitors’ defence was harassed to some tune. Again Hart tried a shot at long range without finding the target, and then McKinlay after falling on the centre line, just touched the ball sufficiently to prevent Chadwick making a solo run without interruption. Play was too fast to be lasting or really brilliant, and injuries were fairly common, Bromilow jarring his ankle again. Everton had certainly done the major portion of the attacking, but neither goalkeeper, save the early incident, had work of any moment.
HOW THE GOAL CAME
Fern, in fact, had been positively idle, yet he had to acknowledge defeat at the twenty-sixth minute. The goal was the result of a swift shot from close range, Raitt having headed across his own goal, where Johnson, following up smartly, had raced McDonald for position and possession. The goal was against the balance of play, but it counted. An equaliser was precious near when Chedgzoy used another corner-kick in telling fashion, and when Scott edged the ball away he found three men on top of him. Everton persisted and perspired, and there was no luck for them when Chadwick had a drive shattered and Harrison made a centre that Chadwick and Irvine could barely reach, though they threw themselves at the ball. Irvine tried to place the ball out of Scott’s reach, and Johnson, after having had a tussle with Fern which the latter won by daring, Johnson and McDonald found Lacey’s centre headed away.
A BATCH OF ACCIDENTS
Play had become dull, and its revival tallied with a fine bit of feinting by Bromilow and a glorious run by Hopkin, which led to a fast centre and a faster shot by Forshaw, which Fern pushed up against the crossbar. Everton responded instantly, and when Chedgzoy centred gently Irvine headed near, following which McNab was chasing through for a second goal, the while McDonald was stopping his being injured. Lacey and McDonald were both hurt in the penalty area a little later on. Lacey was off the field, and seemed in great pain. This pain must have been reduced when he heard the wonderful rally given him when he resumed play.
Half-time; Everton 0, Liverpool 1
REVERSING THE FIGURES
A week ago Liverpool were being led “1-0 at half-time.” Today the position was reversed. Everton opened in splendid fashion, but they found the Liverpool defence as taut as ever. Lacey was limping and Fleetwood was getting into the thick of things without getting the ball to one of his own side when he had mastered the opposition. The Everton right wing had been the more dangerous all day. When Chedgzoy centred, Williams and McNab went for the ball near the penalty spot and both fell to the ground. A goal seemed a certainty when Irvine shot well over. Liverpool had not been without their luck to-day, and when Chambers went straight away and centered tamely to McDonald, another good chance of a goal had gone. One of the best shots of the match was that made by McKinlay in a pass-back to his goalkeeper. Apparently the champion’s captain was not going to have any doubt about direct action this week. Hart tried to inspire his men to further effort by dribbles and by determination, but there came a time when Hart showed temper following a foul on him by Forshaw. Good captains do not show up in this manner.
LACEY CARRIED OFF THE FIELD
Lacey’s first effort on resuming was fatal to him, as his right knee “went” and he had to be carried off the field. This was when the game was fifty-two minutes; old. Fleetwood made one dribble and a sensible pass and let in Chadwick whose forte is fierce driving. He made a fierce shot, and Scott responded with an equally tiptop save. Longworth joined the war merchants (Lacey and Chambers) and needed the trainer’s attention. The right back was able to resume in spite of his injured right leg, and then the depleted Liverpool side was rearranged. Chambers went to outside right, and Forshaw inside left. Still, the injuries increased and Johnson had to received attention, so that the game was being much cut up. When at last Williams was seen to handle the ball, and the referee agreed to a foul, the Liverpudlians yelled themselves hearse, as they felt that Referee Adams had not given them nearly sufficient free kicks.
FIGHTING HARD FOR EQUALISER
Everton still fought hard for the equaliser, and when Chedgzoy chased round McKinlay and centred hard and fast to goal, Scott had to do a juggling act to prevent the ball squeezing through. Chedgzoy a moment later found himself perfectly placed for an equaliser without taking the chance. Liverpool, for a change, took up the running, and Hughes cleverly made the opening for Forshaw, who steadied himself and shot in a hot ball which Fern saved brilliantly. Everton went hammer and tongs into attack again only to find Longworth and McKinlay playing a wonderful defensive game. The first sign of a talk from the referee came when Raitt was spoken to about a heel-up case. The game gradually went to rags and tatters, with McNab putting the ball into a schoolyard and McKinlayhurt in the stomach. Scott was as lively as an Irishman, and one of the features of his work was the way he picked up the ball and skipped out of the way of opposing forwards. He had one not centre from Harrison, who had a very quiet afternoon. Forshaw and Chambers tried a shot, while Hart and Peacock were beaten when trying to dribble. Everton were on the doorstep of a goal in the last three minutes of the game but the outnumbered Liverpool side lasted through to give Everton their first home defeat. It was found that Lacey had a badly bruised cartilage of the knee, but no bones were broken. Final; Everton 0, Liverpool 1
CAUSAL COMMENTS
By F.E.H
Making my way to Goodison Park it seemed to me that I overheard thousands of people murmuring to themselves. “Many happy returns of the day.” But I failed to discover whether they were Evertonians or followers of Liverpool. There must have been a world of difference in the meaning of the aspiration in the minds of the respective camp followers. Upon this smiling, autumn day.
My discourse -I regret to say,
Is ordered to be very brief,
I could, of course, in assents mild,
Point out what made so many wild
When Everton came all to grief.
The reason I can soon disgorge,
Our space is wanted for Lloyd George!
It would be difficult to say which team received the greater reception when they trotted on to the sun-swept arena. I am inclined to think that it rested with the champions, but there was not very much in it.
THE NETWORK AT FAULT
Everton lost the toss and were prepared to start, when it was discovered that there was something wrong with the network of the goal which they were about to face. There ensued much rushing about, and highly-pitched “stage directions” from trainer Elliott. The fault was mended rapidly, and the great crowd that filled the enclosure settled down to the sport of the afternoon. There was no dearth of thrills right from the start. Chadwick from a corner showed that he was out for blood and Scott was hurt in clearing. After the Irishman had been attended to, Williams waltzed in with a lovely low drive which deserved a better fate.
AN OGRE AND HIS MEALS
The home attacks so far had set the pace in the most exhilarating fashion, but Liverpool at length took up the gauntlet, and Chambers, who is a veritable ogre in trying to make meals at the expense of goalkeepers, twice tested Fern. The latter, however, as his name implies being something of a vegetarian, declined to be swallowed. In the matter of serious strenuousness, coupled with many dainty touches the game was better than that of last week, and the assembly rocked and swayed with increasingly enhanced excitement. Once Hunter Hart tried to open the scoring with a tremendous drive that passed over that elevated whitewashed line which means so much when battles are being fought. A hysterical spectator sitting near me explained, as the ball passed in the flight, “Dear me, my heart was in my mouth,” but it had not touched the goalmouth. This is the latest registered pun on record. Meanwhile the contest was full of episodes and good play on both sides.
THE CELEBRATING GOAL
The sun had been clouded by a grey-mellow light, but the spirits of the Liverpool supporters became brighter and more sparkling than ever when Johnson with a rattling shot scored the opening goal. Bells rang, horne sounded, and rattles made a deafening din. The star of the champions was still not only undimmed, but more resplendent than ever. It was obvious that Everton did not intend to suffer eclipse if they could help it. They simply stormed Scott for a time, and there were frantic cries when Chadwick and Irvine both missed chances. Once there was a veritable duel between Scott and Everton’s new centre forward, and fortune hung for a second in the balance. The custodian prevailed and Liverpool breathed again.
WIRELESS VOICES
Strong shots at either end roused such roars that waves of wireless telephony rent the air, and people on the other side of the river or in the quietude of Ormskirk must have wondered what all the row was about. Lacey and McDonald just before the interval came into violent collision as they raced for the elusive leather, and the former was put out of action for some considerable time. The cheer that he got on returning to the field of play must have been ample compensation for his “wounded feelings.” So far as I could judge during those precious ten minutes when hostilities temporarily ceased the general opinion seemed to be that there was not very much between the teams. Frankly this was my own opinion. Indeed, considering the exceptional keenness of local opinion, I thought that the football had been quite good. Of course the name of Chadwick cropped up on all sides, others were “pros and cons” -all interesting enough in their way, but too lengthy to be touched upon here.
AIR COOLER THAN TEMPERS
The air was much cooler, though tempers were rather warmer, when the struggle was resumed with greater determination than ever. Lacey was hurt, and had to be carried off, but the battle raged with undiminished fierceness. The raucous shouting became almost an infernal den, and one began to wonder what would really happen if Liverpool should actually repeat last week’s performance. Chambers, fielding for Lacey at outside right, did remarkably well, but the game was now a rather disjointed affair when the finer points of play were taken into consideration. This was emphasised when Chedgzoy missed a chance in a thousand pf putting his side on level terms. It was interesting to note as the game drew to its close the varying expressions on the faces of the seething crowd. Joy and gladness lit up the Liverpool benches-gloom, and a sort of sullen submission to fate, possessed the Evertonians, as shot after shot was intercepted.

EVERTON A v SKELMERSDALE
The Liverpool Football Echo- Saturday, October 14, 1922
At Townsend-lane, Clubmoor. Play opened out in favour of the visitors, Guttridge forcing Spicer to clear his lines. Offside spoiled a good chance for Everton. Guttridge next forced Kemp to save. The “A” team now moved down in nicely combined order, and Virr just missed by inches. Lloyd became prominent on the right, but his effort was feeble, and Rimmer had little difficulty in saving. Virr scored for Everton A.  Half-time; Everton A 1, Skelmersdale United 0.
From Echo 21 September
Everton managed to beat Skem 4-2. The pace was exceedingly fast, although Everton seemed to have the best of matters in the first half. The defence of Skem was quite equal to the demand, but it had to yield after thirty minutes-a fine goal, scored by Virr, who gave the custodian no chance. Within one minute Everton registered No. 2 through McGinney. Two minutes from the restart Virr scored with a great shot. This seemed to rouse the visitors, who a few minutes later scored through Guthridge. Following this Skem made another onslaught and scored again through Denton. A slip by the visitors’ defence saw Virr register No 4. The outstanding players for Everton were Virr, McGinney, and Young; whilst for Skem, Birks, Denton, and Guthridge were over in the picture.

EVERTON 0 LIVERPOOL 1
October 16 1922. The Liverpool Courier.
LIVERPOOOL TAKE THE HONOURS.
SUPERB DEFENDERS.
EVERTON FORWARDS' WEAK FINISH.
The double engagement of the local clubs ended with the honours resting entirely with Liverpool, but the Goodison game should have been saved by the home side, who had many opportunities in the second half and only ten men to beat. That they did not do so was a splendid tribute to Longsworth and McKinlay, who put up a remarkable performance, blocking shot after shot. Longsworth was the better of the pair, and his anticipation at times was almost uncanny, while his partner killed an excellent length. Thanks to them, Scott was not unduly troubled, and when he should have been beaten the finishing of the Everton forwards saved the situation from the Liverpool point of view.
CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
Both the men referred to received nasty knocks in a game, which was frequently interrupted by stoppages, though all were accidental. The worst sufferer was Lacey, who had a knock on the leg, which made him almost useless at the end of the first half, and led to his retirement from the game altogether after ten minutes in the second half. Chambers also was in the wars, a badly bruised arm handicapped him so much that he went outside, and was slowed down considerably, naturally taking no risks. This led up the attack, but Johnson shone in rushes and distribution, while Forshaw made some good drives, and Hopkins was an attacked who needed careful watching. Of the winning halves, all were good, and there was little to choose between them, each one being very helpful when the Reds were forced to rely on defence. Fern, despite a bandaged thumb, made some fine saves, twice hurling himself at the feet of forwards when all seemed lost, and he could not be blamed for the defeat.
RAITT'S MISTAKE.
The fault by which Raitt, the back, headed down to kick clear, but was robbed by the quick moving Johnson, who shot into the net before his opponent could get in a kick. Apart from this Raitt was sound, and McDonald never missed, though his hugh punts usually sailed into touch. Fleetwood was a splendid pivot, cool and calculating and his wing partners ably supported him, but the forwards of whom Irvine was the best, did not finish well, and sadly neglected Chadwick, who had few chances of showing what he was capable of doing in the senior ranks. Everton should at least have saved a point. They had not forfeited one at home in this season's matches, but now both went against a weakened opposition, and they had themselves largely to blame. The attendance was 52,000 and the receipts nearly £4,000. Teams: - Everton: - Fern, goal, Raitt, and McDonald, backs, Peacock, Fleetwood, and Hart (captain), half-backs, Chedgzoy, Irvine, Chadwick, Williams, and Harrison, forwards. Liverpool: - Scott, goal, Longsworth, and McKinlay (captain), backs, McNab, Wadsworth, and Bromilow, half-backs, Lacey, Forshaw, Johnson, Chambers, and Hopkins, forwards.

EVERTON “A” 4 SKELMERSDALE UNITED 2
October 16, 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury.
LIVERPOOL COUNTY COMBINATION
Played on the new enclosure at Townsend Lane, which has been taken over by the Everton Football Club. North Liverpool are also playing their West Cheshire League fixtures there. The teams were fairly evenly matched. The first half produced some good football, but neither goalkeeper had any difficult shots to deal with. It was not until close upon the interval that Everton obtained the lead, through Virr and McGivney. In the second half Everton were seen to better advantage, and Virr added two more goals whilst Guttridge and Taylor scored for the United. Everton “A” were best represented by Kemp, Spicer, Jeffs, McGivney, Virr, and Young, whilst for the visitors Birks at centre half was always prominent and broke up many promising attacks. Guttridge at outside left, also played a useful game and his goal completely surprised Kemp.

HERBERT GEORGE SPENCER SIGNS FOR WIGAN BOROUGH
October 16, 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury.
The Wigan Borough directors on Saturday evening persuaded the Everton Club to transfer their clever inside right, Herbert George Spencer, the transfer fee being a record one for the Wigan Club. Spencer, who is 24 years of age, has played nine times with the Everton League team. The directors are very encouraged with the splendid gates at Wigan and are determined to make a big effort to get the club in the Second Division. Thirteen thousand people saw the Borough match on Saturday.

LIVERPOOL IN LUCK
Athletic News- Monday, October 16, 1922
EVERTON HAVE THE EBST OF THE GAME AND FAIL
ONE FATAL SLIP
EVERTON 0 LIVERPOOL 1
By Tityrus
The margin was but goal. Yet this point sufficed to give Liverpool all the four good conduct marks in the League matches of this season with their neighbours. Everton enthusiasts can comfort themselves with the reflection that the eleven they support had the better of the argument. That cannot denied, but what did it profit them when they could not master the defence and crown their work? Various excuses can made for Everton, but the facts which overwhelm any impartial critic that Liverpool with much fewer opportunities were able to score, and that for 38 minutes of the second half the visitors had only ten men. Indeed, the League champions had only three really physically sound forwards, liven then Everton, in spite causing Liverpool much anxiety,could not even share the spoils. Liverpool defence was wonderfully sound, in spite of the great liberties that Longworth took. To me it seemed that the victors were the more finished football force, and that they showed a zest which was never approached by their opponents.
The Deciding Factor.
Everton were far the more impressive team for the first twenty minutes. Peacock and Irvine prompted Chedgzoy to action, and Wadsworth was compelled to yield a corner-kick. When the ball came in Williams made a grand shot which Scott was only able to turn round the post as he fell on the ball. There were in all three comers, but not one of them was converted. Still Everton were the more aggressive, but whenever Liverpool drew near to Fern Chambers tried to take him by surprise with fine swift shots considerable range. It seemed as if the Evertonians must make a breach, but Scott fielded all the balls that were dangerous. There was a transformation scene, for Forshaw passed to Lacey, who returned the ball to the inside right, who placed to the left the goal. The defence had been drawn out to Forshaw, and Lacey and Raitt went across the goal. But as he made for the ball Johnson dashed in. Whether Raitt was beaten by Johnson's pace I cannot say, but he closed with the back, who appeared slow to me. Afterwards I heard that he lost his foothold and slipped. The result, however, was that he did not clear his lines, and that Johnson screwed the ball into the net. This goal at the end of 23 minutes’ play, decided the issue. Everton returned to the attack, but Williams overran the ball from a cornerkick, Chadwick had a malicious drive charged down, and a beautiful centre by Harrison was not touched by any of the three inside forwards. On the other hand, Raitt was beaten by Hopkin, who ran up to the goal-line, and turned his centre back. Johnson failed to gather the ball, but Forshaw made the crossbar shiver, Irvine nearly equalised with his head, but at the interval Everton were still in arrear. Manifestly the goal of Liverpool was against the balance of play. Just before the interval Lacey twisted a knee and required attention, and seven minutes after crossing over he was accidentally injured, had to be carried to the dressing-room, and took no further part in the struggle. As Chambers had hurt his right arm, which was swathed in bandages, he moved to outside right, and Forshaw crossed to inside left. Thus the whole forward line was disturbed and disarranged. Naturally under these circumstances Everton exerted even more pressure than in the first half, and they severely tested the defence, but Scott, Longworth, and McKinlay defied all the efforts their foes, and occasionally the champions rallied. But neither side could alter the score as it stood at half-time. The game was more earnest than scientific and unfortunately there were several minor casualties—but they were, mishaps which prevented a man from doing his best. It is beyond discussion that Everton had not a suspicion of luck to aid them, and that the goal which Liverpool obtained ought never to have been scored. Had the match been drawn broad justice would have been done to both sides. The turning point was that a back made one mistake, and that decided the issue. On the other hand Liverpool were almost faultless when the danger was greatest, and they mayclaim, with some reason, that this was a fine win, especially with ten men. Yet when it is remembered that one slight slip on the part of Raitt cost his club the two points the punishment did not fit his slight lapse.
Unfinished Operations.
The team were not satisfying to me. After their two victories over Cardiff I expected more unity and more finish to their movements. At Anfield Fern wrenched a thumb, and he played with this in bandages, as Salt, the reserve goalkeeper, broke his collar-bone on Wednesday. Fern was free from fault, and foiled Forshaw in the second half when he might easily have been beaten by an excellent shot.  Raitt and McDonald tackle vigorously, and they can kick a long ball, but, as a pair, they were inferior to Longworth and McKinlay, as they exercised little control over the destination of their returns, and they were often guilty of ballooning the ball, due to mistiming. One expects the backs of Everton to help their forwards by placing, but they had no manifest idea of doing so. It is not enough be strong-kickers. McDonald was the more reliable. No men could have been more industrious than the Everton half-backs. With quick and close tackling a feature of the contest, they were grim and active. Peacock has developed a nice style since I last saw him, and he and keeps in touch with his wing. Possibly Peacock was the cleverest, but Fleetwood, if a little lacking in his old fire and swiftness of movement, was most tenacious. He kept a strong grip of the inside men, and was very loth to part with the ball unless he could do so with advantage. In short, Fleetwood was a warrior, and did his utmost to help Chadwick. Hart, the captain, is determined to a degree, but he chiefly on the defensive, although he once made a drive at goal, in the first half, that called to mind Makepeace in his day. The Everton forwards were genuine triers but they lacked coolness, self-possession, and marksmanship. The first-class forward finishes his work. This the Everton men never did. Chedgzoy and Harrison have both been more convincing. They were brilliant on occasion but their play was very uneven. In fact, there was not a really successful-wing raider on the field. They were equally inept. Chedgzoy began brightly and was very busy, but he did not maintain his form, while Harrison lacked the thrilling lustre of old. Yet the wing men were superior to their inside partners. Irvine was undoubtedly the best the bunch. This Irish youth has ideas, passes well, never flags, and shoots truly. He seems likely become quite a fine inside-right for he has the priceless gifts of youth, love of the game, and for a situation. Chadwick’s facility as a goal-getter deserts him when he is given a chance with the first eleven. He can drive a ball for goal, but Irvine and Williams were all inclined to over-elaboration with the result that they did not purvey to the wing men. They were tackled in possession, or being flurried made many mistakes in trying to pass. There was seldom any sting behind their shots.
Liverpool’s Strength and Weakness.
At the outset Everton tested Elisha Scott. That is the way to arouse a custodian of his powers. I could not say that he had many difficult shots to handle, but what I admired in the Irish international was the position that he always took. In the second half he never allowed danger to mature for he caught and cleared, several fine centres with opponents bearing down on him. There is no surer sign of Scott’s and artistry and resource than the way he makes his task look easy. McKinlay and Longworth were gloriousbacks.  They take a ball in any position with either foot and they put it where they want. In the second half they often wanted to “find touch,” as the Rugby man says. It was the line least resistance and a time-saving device with a man in the dressing-room. But Long worth, in this second half, was ubiquitous. Leaving McKinlay as sole protector of Scott, Longworth was often a  fourth half-back and again a forward. Well inside the penaltyarea, when there were only three forwards, he had the impertinence to try and score. But McDonald or somebody elsesent him to grass. Longworth in this second half was as near to perpetual motion as Wedlock when he played against Ireland at Derby 1910 and that was the most amazing example of restlessness and endurance I ever saw. I should think that Longworth would have made a remarkable long-distance runner. And he is keen. He McNab were strong toilers, but the distinguished half-back was Bromilow. No one stood beside him for his uncanny perception made remarkable in intercepting passes. His interventions were only equalled by his placing. The Liverpool forwards were, as fishermen say, decidedly off colour. Perhaps they played as well as they allowed to do. Lacey accomplished little before being injured and Hopkin even less. They were not allowed to shine in their highly classical line. As I have said, the tackling was close. Forshaw was feeble, and Johnson was not strong centre. True, he got the all-important goal through following up -always a good plan—but he did not make much play and was easily nudged off the ball. Until he hurt his arm in a collision Chambers was incontestably the mastermind  of the vanguard. He is a rare shot and has all the attributes of a strong and a sound player without unnecessary finesse. He uses sufficient for his purpose and is keen to change the whole point of attack with a cross-kick to the other side of the field—a move that I never remember Everton employing. Liverpool won this match by a bit of brain, bit of luck, by the solidity of their defence, and by the follow-up Johnson. Always follow-up. That is a good motto. There were 51,402 spectators, and the receipts were nearly £3,300. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart (Captain); Chedgzoy, Irvine, Chadwick, Williams, and Harrison. Liverpool; Scott; Longworth, McKinlay (Captain); McNab, Wadsworth, Bromilow; Lacey, Forshaw, Johnson, Chambers and Hopkin. Referee; H.W. Andrews, Prestwich.

STRAY LEAVES
Athletic News- Monday, October 16, 1922
THE FUTURE HOME OF THE ENGLISH CUP FINAL
WONDERFUL STADIUM
By Tityrus
For the first time in the history of The Final Tie for The Football Association’s Cup the match next April will be decided upon a ground befitting such an occasion. The national stadium, which is part of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, will be the scene of the struggle. The announcement that the great stadium will be officially opened by the playing of The Final Tie on the twenty-eighth day of April is a severe rebuke to the wiseacres who wrote, and the newspapers which printed the opinion, that the whole scheme was a chimera, that the national stadium was merely a castle in Spain, and that the guarantee fund for the project would never be promised. Why such words should ever have been penned passes all comprehension, for the British Empire Exhibition was supported by the Government and the dominions overseas, and had so much influence at call that failure was out of the question, spite of the industrial depression and the scarcity of fluent money. But the stadium is in being. On September 5, 1921, it was said in En Passant that “there is no reason to doubt . . . that the ground will be fully equipped in time for the playing of the Final Tie in April, 1923,” and not two months later we were able, owing the kindness of Mr. U. F. Wintour, C.B., C.M-G., the general manager, to supplement this assurance with the details of the big arena, which is likely to prove one of the great assets of the exhibition, as it supplies a necessity in the capital city, and will minister to the satisfactory settlement of many national and international championships quite apart from the great football festival.
TRANSFORMATION OF THE LINKS.
The only regret which can arise is that a golf course has been cut up to make what the Romans would have called a “circus. Still, at the most, there were only 400 members of the Wembley Park Golf Club and this new sports rendezvous now being constructed will hold thirty-one times that number. The promoters bought 136 acres of beautiful and undulating pastures. Originally this was a park laid out Milner, the famous landscape gardner for the Page family, who lived at the hall. It wasrich in woodland scenery. Trees have been felled, but one the experts told me on Friday that a huge and magnificent chestnut was about to be transplanted. One cannot have a vast football ground singly carved out of the north side this estate and retain the sylvan beauty amid which once reared the gaunt ironwork of the Wembley Towers -a doomed rival of the Eiffel Tower. A party of journalists was conducted over the stadium on Friday afternoon by Captain A. Herbert Wall, M.C, O.B. E, the sports secretary of the Empire Exhibition, and Major Warman, the secretary to the Stadium Sub-Committee. Gathering at the Marylebone terminus the Great Central Railway the train took the company to Wembley Hill station in tenminutes, and in another five we were passing over the foundations of the turnstiles—72 of them in all. But the ingress of the crowd will be quicker than that, as a bridge is being thrown over the lines to admit to the grounds within a minute or so. After the inspection the party returned by the Metropolitan Railway to Baker-street Station in another ten minutes of rapid and smooth travel. These details are mentioned because they show that the site is so accessible. The Great Central, the London and North-Western Railways, and the Bakerloo Tube are all prepared to convey thousands of people in minimum of time to the ground. There are 120 railway stations in London and suburbs with direct access to Wembley Park, and trains from most parts of the provinces can run up to the exhibition grounds without entering London at all.There are trams and omnibuses with good roads, some of them made, taking routes encircling the site. There cannot be any difficulty in getting to the Mecca onthe eventful day and no trouble in dispersing, because it is computed that with 120,000 people at the match, or any other festival, the arena can be emptied at the most in a quarter of an hour. When the Final has been played at Kennington Oval, the Crystal Palace, and Chelsea there have been no such facilities these.
A PERFECT PLAYING PITCH.
The first view of the Stadium was most impressive, if not satisfying. The first sod was cut by the Duke of York in February, and work was commenced during the next months. Since then the extractors, Sir R. McAlpine and Sons, who are to build the new ground for the Manchester City F.C., have made amazing progress. A great oval, level valley has been scooped out the hillside by a steam navvy, a huge excavator which has shovelled any weight up two tons of soil and clay out of the site, so as to make the playing pitch. On trucks this has been run to the fringe of the arena and has been used to raise big banks, which form the foundation of an amphitheatre, on which has been built tier upon tier of ferro-concrete terracing, 51 of these steps rising to the summit. This alone is a tremendous work to have accomplished in a few months, but modern machinery and 1,000 men can accomplish much when they know that they have to finish the essential work by the second day April. Not only has the whole playing-piece been dug out, but the turf has been laid, and as I walked over it the sensation of the tread was like that a series of carpets. There was an idea transporting turf from the Solway Firth or from Cumberland, but the experts found that the old turf from the fairways the golf course was the best possible for the purpose. It was treated with lime and cut in squares of two and a half inches thick, and placed within half-an-hour or being cut on a bed of clay, cinders, and marl, with a slight fall from the centre to the outer ring. Most people are painfully aware that there has been plenty of rain, and in the course of a little over a month this turf has benefited by the downpour so that it has taken root and joined edges in such a manner that it is difficult to realise that it has been so recently laid. On Friday there were men cutting the grass with mowing machines and rolling it, and in other parts there were sprinklers spraying. The promoters know full well that it is vital to have the playing pitch in perfect order. Nor do I anticipate that it will be found wanting, unless a very unfavourable winter is experienced. The maximum length for Cup-tie is 120 yards long by 80 yards wide. For Semi-final and Final Ties-the measurements are 115 yards by 70 to 75 yards, but on this ground there is ample space for a pitch of the fullest size. Indeed, it is pointed out that 115 yards by 75 yards permits of a dead ball line at each end of 20 yards. Apart from the perfection of the pitch, it should be added that there will be spacious, complete, and up-to-date dressing-rooms for football teams, or for 500 athletes. Nothing that foresight and human ingenuity can suggest and provide has been overlooked.  The ground is encircled by a cinder-track of 440 yards, and less a straight sprint than 220 yards under the shelter of the north grand stand and immediately below the Royal box. In order to get 220 yards straight it has been necessary to tunnel under part of the super-structure of the stadium terraces in the west wing.
THE WORLD’S FINEST GROUND.
It is believed that there is no sports venue in the world so large as this will be. Inquiries made show that even America cannot equal it. I was given to understand that the whole area is nearly half as big again as Stamford Bridge, and that even the Coliseum, Vespasian’s vast amphiphyte built at Rome by slave labour, could be placed inside this national stadium. At last London is have an arena worthy of the greatest city in the world. , There will be grand stands on each side-north and south with open terraces behind the goals situated east and west. Accommodation be provided for 24,800 people under cover, with 10,000 more ring seats- There is to be capacity for 35,000 folks in the enclosures in front of the stands and 57,000 lookers-on upon the terraces. This gives room for126,000  persons who will able to see. This ground has been planned by architects and engineers of the highest standing after examination of the principal grounds in this and other countries. Owing to the gradations of the terraces and steps, and the arrangement of all constructions on the principle of a curve it is believed that everybody will have uninterrupted view of the Final tie, or even of an open air boxing match in the centre of the arena. With spacious entrances, ample turnstile accommodation, and a 40 feet toad running round the whole stadium, under cover of the stands, it is believed that visitors will be able to reach their places without the least difficulty. Crush barriers, on an overlapping plan, thought to be superior to the pens at Hampton Park, will be erected, and it seems to me that with a banqueting ball, ample cloak-rooms, a big Press gallery behind the Royal Box with writing and telephone apartments attached, nothing has been forgotten. Indeed it is proposed to have an observation gallery over the west wing, and above the permanent training quarters. This gallery will have a wireless installation and be in telephonic communication with all parts of the ground, so that the gates can be closed to any portion and first aid sent to any part in case of necessity. Since I feasted my eyes on the Coliseum at Rome I have seen nothing so imposing as this stadium promises to be, even in its present state. The exhibition will not be open until 1924, but by that date the Stadium will have proved itself a national boon and will have been the scene of many great events besides the Final Tie for the Cup. Nobody need stay away for fear of being unable to see the match, or any other reason that can be imagined by those who have nerves.

EVERTON TRANSFERS
The Athletic News-Monday, October 16, 1922
Mr. W McIntosh manager of Everton has signed Glyn Hunt, an ex-Cardiff schoolboy, who has gained some reputation as a centre-forward. Although but 19 years of age, Hunt who has been service with Southampton, stands 6ft, and weighs 11st 6lb.
H.G. Spencer, Everton has been signed by Wigan Borough. Spencer came from the south to Everton about two seasons ago, and is a clever inside forward. He stands 5ft 8in, and weighs 10st 7lb.

EVERTON PLAYED NIPPY FOOTBALL, YET LOST “DERBY” GAME AGAIN
The Liverpool Echo- Monday, October 16, 1922
AMAZING REDS DEFENCE
Bee’s Notes
Well, Liverpool just managed to hold out sufficiently to carry them through to the top berth and to a double victory- their second win away from home and Everton’s first home defeat. It was touch and go all the time, and this remark applies too, where accidents were concerned, for there were many cases of touching and going. It was the accidents and the number of times that the ball found the touch line that made the game rather unsatisfactory, for it was not nearly to electrifying a game as that of the previous week. There was just cause and impediment in this case, for the injuries were numerous and were not due to anything but accidents. Lacey was off the field for practically the whole of the second half with cartilage trouble and Chambers with a damaged elbow was unable to take risks and became an outside right of real worth while Forshaw went over to inside left. The attendance was 52,000 strong, and the gate receipts nicely over £3,000, but Everton would have sacrificed something to have landed the spoils against their dearest rivals.
THE CROWD’S EXCITEMENT
There was plenty of excitement, but that could hardly suffice. We wanted shots for our money’s worth. Fern was not a busy man. He certainly made two safe clearances when called upon, but otherwise he had an easy passage. Everton were on the attack for something like 75 per cent of the time. How came it, then, that Everton could not draw blood. Just this, sirs- Longworth in particular and McKinlay in minor key, saw to it that the Everton forwards did not shoot. It cannot be gainsaid that the winners’ half-back line was a shade below form, yet Longworth and McKinlay disheartened the opposition attack to sickening point. I tire of telling the good form of Ephraim Longworth. He gave a mighty display, and when Scott got his most serious test in the second-half he seemed to have been inspired by the work of the man before him. They would inspire any goalkeeper. Scott is some goalkeeper. Raitt and McDonald were equality sure, though they did not kick the length and the accuracy of their rivals. Still the home defence had done their work well. At half-back it must be confessed that the wingers lost the ball at times through dribbling. It has become a habit with them, and one inclines to the belief that t’were better to part with the ball to a comrade than to part with it through intervention on the part of a rival player. Fleetwood early on failed to find his forwards with his passes, and later on he did better than for many a week with his practical dribble and pass. In fact, I made him out to be the best of the losers’ half-backs, well as Hunter Hart worked and played.
THE NEW CENTRE
Chadwick is a big, slow looking centre-forward who can hit a ball. He has been appearing with the “A” team, and has been hitting a bundle of goals- good practice and encouragement for him to keep on hitting on. However, in this game when he got his shot in he found Scott catching sure and clean, and he had other shots blocked out of reach, Chadwick and Irvine too, were similarly unblessed. Chedgzoy was in a gay mood and it was one of his brightest exhibitions. His centres were worth a goal and so was his play. On the left, however, there was an absence of “life” and vim. Williams had one shot at goal and Harrison early on was in the picture, but later on went cold, notably with the last centre of the match, which was turned outside by the extreme winger. Chadwick is built on big lines and he lends weight and height to the line. I don’t like arguing but I have yet to see the Everton attack lining up and playing up as five men. They are too centred in their wings to remember the centre forward. Chadwick, it is true, made rather too sweeping and too fast centres, but who can say that he had any assistance in forward combination.
PERSONALS
Taking the winners first, let us run through the gamut;- Scott.- A broth of a boy. As hibhly exciteable as his brother William was clam and collected. But Elisha has no nerves. Everton forwards think he has a “nerve.” Longworth and McKinlay.- The old firm. Words fail me. Clean as a pink, strong as an ox, each seems to improve his reputation at each “sitting.”
Half-backs.- McNab a bit unlucky once when gliding through to goal. Big fellow, and apt to find touch in the first half as if only three minutes remained for play. Wadsworth not so dominating as against Forbes, yet a worrying half, who fitted his position admirably. Bromilow got a knock, and came to his best in the feinting line in the second half, when he offered us some jewels.
Forward.- Mixed medley- naturally. Johnson got a goal and kept the defence on stretch. None of the line did himself proud, yet Chambers out of position, did some uncommonly good things at outside right. A good player can play anywhere. Liverpool attack was naturally disjointed. Hopkin, perhaps, nearest approached the best of the line throughout the piece, Forshaw being lieutenant.
Everton.- Goal; Fern safe with “kicking” shots.
McDonald and Raitt-stern fellows, dour and solid. No complaints.
Hart-hearty display, sir. Quick to tackle and swift to make ground. This swiftness we hope will now shot itself in the threatening takes. You’re a wise man. A word to the wise is sufficient. Also please forget the dribble “as a matter of course.” We like to see you diddling, but we want to be sure that the ball will be placed to one of your own side. In same measure, Peacock, read the aforementioned. Fleetwood; Good lad, Tommy. One of your best displays, and ball was made use of in second half to some tune.
Forwards.- I liked your movements when they were combined and when they mowed up the ground space. Keep it going, and shoot instantly. Chedgzoy best performer. Irvine not in the limelight so much as week earlier, and Williams and Harrison had a poor return for their labours. Chadwick is named earlier in the notes.
GOOD!
Mr. William C. Jolley, of Walton, is good enough to recognise the nippy and capable display given by Everton. He writes a welcome letter;- “Just a few lines to give Everton hearty congratulations for the very fine game. If Dame Fortune had smiled on them, there is no doubt that the score would have been reversed. I am looking forward to a win for the Blues against Nottingham Forest, although away from home and trust that the Blues will do as they did on Saturday last- shoot at every opportunity and have Liverpool’s motto in mind (1,2,3,4,5). They all proved themselves to be a team of whole-hearted players.
It is nice to find a losing side gaining letter-praise
SPENCER
Spencer, the Everton forward, has been signed by Wigan, who are doing very well.
It is said that Glyn Hunt, ex-Cardiff school-boy player, nineteen years of age, has joined Everton. He is a centre forward.

Joe Clennell
Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 17 October 1922
The house in Kirkdale, Liverpool, of JoC Clennel, a well-known Cardiff City footballer, formerly of Everton Club, broken into, and £80 in cash, jewellery, ana three football medals stolen.

REID FINDS A PLACE IN THE EVERTON SIDE
The Liverpool Echo- Wednesday, October 18, 1922
Bee’s Notes
In view of Everton’s nippy display against Liverpool, on Saturday, one was led to the belief that there would not be vital alteration save that Irvine is playing for Ireland, who, by the way, have now been refused the help of Emerson, of Burnley. However, when the Everton directors met last night, they decided on the usual defence, but brought in D. Reid for Harrison, and made an optional “call” at inside left-Williams or Wall. Miller, whop did well in the local Central league “Derby” game a week ago, takes the place of Irvine, and I imagine that it is the first time since he came to Everton from Leicester that Harrison has been dropped from the senior side. Davie Reid played a very sure game at Anfield last Wednesday. Teams;-
Everton at Nottingham; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Miller, Chadwick, Williams, or Wall, and D. Reid.
Everton Reserves at home to Burnley, 3.0;- Kemp; Weller, Livingstone; Brown, Brewster, Grenyer; Jones, Fazackerley, Edmonds (the new Welsh boy international), Forbes and Alford.

EVERTON CHANGES.
October 19, 1922. The Liverpool Courier.
There will be changes in the Everton side to meet the Forest at Nottingham on Saturday. With Irvine playing for Ireland, Miller of Leyland, will partner Chedgzoy, and Wall will probably deputise for Williams, who is suffering from boils, which will displace Harrison on the left wing. The side, therefore, is: - Fern, Raitt, McDonald, Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart, Chedgzoy, Miller, Chadwick, Williams, or Wall, and Reid.

EVERTON’S REAL CHANCE
The Liverpool Echo- Friday, October 20, 1922
Bee’s Notes
I should like to see Everton work off that outstanding match, so that we can keep their League position in perfect parallel with other clubs. At the moment they are lower than they should be, lower than they ought to be, and lower than they deserve to be. The fact is that at home they have done splendidly, and away from home they have lacked a touch of kindliness on the part of Fate. However, the memory of the win at Cardiff won’t be lost on them, and they can depend upon one thing- last Saturday’s form will beat most sides, although it did not bring them a goal or a point last week. There was much shooting last week from the Everton forwards and half backs, and I don’t recall a match where so many shots were blocked. Now the average case of blocking of shots is due to the forward hesitating ere he shots. Saturday was not such a case. It was just the luck of the game that the ball hit an opponent. Therefore I hope Chadwick and company will not shrink from shooting, but will realise the necessity of hitting hard and often at Nottingham, where Sam Hardy guards the fort with his customary forte. Forest have almost lived on their defence, and if the Everton back-guard fare as well as recently it become solely a question whether Everton can get a goal or two. Sparen will have to be watched-he is the live wire of the old Nottingham teams-and yet I think it is highly probable that Everton will record their second away win of the season, for Forest have not been convincing from the earliest stage of the appearances in the upper circle. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Miller, Chadwick, Williams, Reid. Notts Forest; Hardy; Armstrong, Gibson, Spavin, Green, Tinsley, Martin.

 FACER FOR EVERTON
The Liverpool Echo-Saturday, October 21 1922
By Stork
At home Everton have done splendidly and their game against the champions was one of the best they have put up there this season. There was more life in their attack and far more balance. It was only the great defence of the Livers that prevented a draw, if not a win. In meeting Nottingham Forest, the Everton forwards will find themselves up against an exceptionally strong defence, and they will find it a difficult task to bring about the downfall of Samuel Hardy, who is now keeping the Forest goal with great success. Silent Sam shows no falling away, and his eye and judgement are just as keen as when he was in the heyday of his youth. Hardy has had the smallest number of goals put past him than any other ‘keeper in the First Division- eight in all. The Forest’s forwards are not a great lot, and only in the last two weeks have they shown any real signs of goal getting, when they scored on five occasions, previous to which they have been notching one at a time. Everton have made a startling change. Harrison has been left out, David Reid taking his place. The inside left berth has not yet been definitely decided upon. It rests between Williams and Wall. Miller partners Chedgzoy. Everton last Saturday showed that they can shoot when they like, and if they will do so to-day I think they will record their second away win of the season. Teams; Notts Forest; Hardy; Bulling, Jones; Armstrong, Parker, Burton; Gibson, Spavin, Nellis, Tinsley, and Martin. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Miller, Chadwick, Williams, and Reid.

STUB MARKS
The Liverpool Football Echo- Saturday, October 21, 1922
By Louis T. Kelly

A TRIP TO THE FOREST
The Liverpool Football Echo- Saturday, October 21 1922
RESUMPTION OF LEAGUE RELATIONS
EVERTON’S FAILURE
F.E.H’S STORY OF WHAT HE SAW
FOREST WIN 2-1
The Everton team accompanied by Directors Sawyers and Banks, and their popular secretary, Mr. Tom McIntosh, made the journey to Nottingham yesterday afternoon, reaching the lace capital in wise time for supper and bed. The morning broke cold and gloomy, but as the day advanced the outlook improved. The sun was shinning but a boisterous cross wind swept over the enclosure when the players appeared. There were changes in both sides, of which mention has already been made in our columns. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald (Captain); Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Miller, Chadwick, Wall and Reid. Notts Forest; Hardy; Bulling, Jones; Armstrong (Captain), Parker, Burton; Gibson, Spavin, Green, Tinsley, Martin. Referee Mr. W.P. Harper (Stourbridge).
THE WIND IN A FROLIC
The playing patch looked in capital condition and there was a crowd of about 12,000 people present when play began. Everton started Armstrong signalising his return to the captaincy by naming the coin. The opening exchanges were not of much account, the wind upsetting all calculations. Fleetwood was early in the picture with a fine pass forward, and Chadwick taking up the running, broke through in promising fashion until he was pulled up by Bellamy. The visitors soon began to show their cleverness, and Chedgzoy made a brilliant dash down the wing, but he found an effective stumbling block in Jones. The Forest forwards made an immediate reply, for Green ran down and gave the leather to Tinsley, who just missed the target. For some time after this the Notts vanguard were a menace to the Everton defenders, but they were well held, and the next episode of moment was another breakaway by Chedgzoy and a shot from Wall that went wide of the mark. Good work on the part of the Everton left opened out possibilities but Reid overran the ball, and Hart misjudged his kick in the baffling breeze. So far play had been level, neither side settling down to close passing or good groundwork, and this was emphasised when Spaven, who was quite unmarked, put the ball recklessly on the wrong side of the post. The Forest, however, were most persistent, and Tinsley, following upon a bully, headed the ball against the far upright. A beautiful bit of triangular play on the part of Hart, Reid, and Ward was splendidly broke up by Armstrong, and when Everton advanced again Fleetwood sent in a long drive which led to a corner. This was cleared and there were defaultory passages in midfield which proved of little benefit to either side.
QUICK BUT RUGGED
The Notts men were very quick on the ball but their “mass formation” was very rugged as was instanced when Gibson lobbed the ball ridiculously wide. Nevertheless, the home quintet kept pegging away in the most dogged fashion, and Tinsley butting his way thus sent the ball an inch outside the woodwork. The visitors at this stage were acting mainly on the defensive but at last Chedgzoy got off the mark and passed to Miller, whose effort was nullified by the wind. Everton were now enjoying the better of the argument, for they forced another corner on the left, and from the place kick the ball was sent over the bar. How it actually occurred I am not able to tell you because of the pillars of the stand obscured my vision. The Forresters brightened up again, and this time their advance proved successful. They came along at top speed on the right, and McDonald and Raitt in their joint effort to clear collided.
FERN BEATEN BY SPAVIN
This proved Spaven’s golden chance, for he nipped in and scored with a fast low shot which Fern fell at in attempting to arrest the flight of the ball. After this play became more vigorous than ever and Raitt was damaged in stopping a dangerous rush. Chedgzoy sailed away again and put in a well judged centre, which Chadwick headed in at close range. Sam Hardy, however, showed that he had lost none of his old cunning for he fielded the ball in masterly fashion.
SPAVIN SCORES AGAIN
Towards the interval Everton made the most determined efforts to get on level terms and some of their passing was very pretty to watch but it just lacked that finishing touch which means so much. Reid, who had been rather starved tried top get away on his own but Armstrong checked and the Forest were again pressing. Just before half-time they made ground once more in business-like fashion, and both McDonald and Fern were again beaten by Spavin who netted with a short fast shot. Half-time.- Notts Forest 2, Everton 0
On resuming, before a considerably increased gate, the Forest at once ran down on the left, and Fern had to throw himself full length on the ground in order to save a daisy cutter from Tinsley. The home right wing was then busy, but McDonald proved equal to the occasion, and for a period Everton did most of the attacking. Everton certainly did not deserve to be 2 goals down at the turn. The Forest, it is true, had enjoyed rather more of the attack than their opponents, but their combination was certainly nothing to write home about. The first goal was a lucky one, the second a meritorious effort. The experimental Everton front line did not shape badly, but they were rather overawed by the strong home defence. Wall put in a swift shot, which was only diverted at the cost of a corner. Bullen turning the shot just outside. The place kick was cleared and the Forest made play on both wings without finding the goal; though the ball was once driven over the bar with tremendous force by Spaven.
CHADWICK SCORES FROM PENALTY
Chedgzoy and Miller between them forced a corner and from this Peacock headed in cleverly, but the old Liverpool goalkeeper gathered it in time and cleared. Pressure of the part of the home right led to some anxiety, but the situation was saved and Everton in turn made excellent play on the right, Chadwick, however, missed a golden chance. A moment later, however, another corner was forced and Armstrong handled; a penalty was claimed and allowed and Chadwick scored with a strong shot. Final; Notts Forest 2, Everton 1. 

EVERTON RESERVE v  BURNLEY
The Liverpool Football Echo- Saturday, October 21, 1922
At Goodison Park. Everton fielded a strong team, including Brewster at centre half, Forbes inside right instead of Fazackerley and also tried Edmonds, the Cardiff schoolboy, at centre forward. When play started there would be about 3,000 spectators. Burnley won the toss, but the first movement came from Brewster, who sent off Jones with a nice pass. A corner resulted from which Moorwood brough off a clever clearance. Burnley afterwards advanced on the right, and Livingstone was compelled to pass the ball to Brown to clear when hard pressed. Burnley was again to the fore, and Weller was only just in time to pull up Richardson. Nice play by the home left wing gave Alford a fine opportunity, which that player took full advantage of and Moorwood again distinguished himself by saving a fast ground drive. A few minutes later Forbes again received from Alford and with an open goal his shot went high over. Most of the play was in Everton’s favour, and Jones was conspicuous with good centres, and many attempts were made to capture the goal, but the keeping of Moorwood was exceptionally good. Play went so much in Everton’s favour that Kemp, the home keeper, only handled the ball once and that was a pass back from Livingstone. Burnley now had a turn of pressure but failed to give any trouble to the home defence, the best attempt coming from Chambers, the centre half. Although the bulk of the play went in Everton’s favour, Burnley were the first to score, Richardson sending in a hard drive from 25 yards and although Kemp appeared to clear, the ball had evidently passed over the line, for Referee Yates promptly allowed a goal. Five minutes from the interval Richardson again got through, and added a second.
Half-time Everton Res 0, Burnley Res 2
When the second half commenced, Everton rearranged their forward line, the line now reading-Edmonds, Jones, Forbes, Jackson, and Alford. Play soon raged round the Burnley goal, and Jones almost got through with a header from Alford’s centre and following this Forbes hit the upright with Moorwood well beaten. The home forwards played hard to get a goal, but the Burnley goal bore a charmed life, Moorwood between the sticks giving a brilliant exhibition.

NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2 EVERTON 1
October 23, 1922. The Liverpool Courier.
EVERTON LOST IN THE FOREST.
OLD FAULT AGAIN.
PLENTY OF SKILL BUT NO DASH.
It was not a great game at Nottingham between the Forest and Everton, but there was a lot of clever plat, which at times roused 12,000 spectators to enthusiasm. The home side were the more businesslike in their efforts, and for that reason they gained the award by two goals to one. The Forest forwards took two of the chances which came their way, whereas Everton missed several openings, their only goal coming from a penalty awarded against Armstrong for a palpable case of handling (Chedgzoy Corners-Echo). Chadwick made no mistake with the penalty kick , the shot travelling to fast that Hardy had no chance of saving. At times Everton played quite well, the inside forwards combining cleverly in midfield. When it came to forcing home their attacks, however, that extra yard so essential to success was lacking. Even in the last minute an extra spurt might have saved a point. Generally speaking Everton were more polished in their methods, but the dash near goal gave the home side the palm. Chadwick, Wall, and Miller did some smart things, but their lack of experience against such backs as Bulling and Jones was an undoubted handicap. Still these players will improve. There is any amount of promise in Miller, and Chadwick only requires the ball placing favourably, for there are no too opinions as to the quality of his shooting. He swung the ball out to his wings cleverly, but he did not receive the necessary attention from his partners. Wall is an artiste in possession, and several of his moves were neatly executed. He should, however, shoot more often. Reid was not a success at outside left, though it must be said that he did not receive a great amount of support. Chedgzoy was probably the best forward.
STEADY HALVES.
The halves were steady, Fleetwood and Hart playing capital football. The backs too, kicked well, though it was a misunderstanding between the pair that led to Spaven scoring the first goal, which was something in the nature of a grit. There was some luck too, about Spaven's second goal, as that player sent the ball in from 30 yards' range. McDonald was the better back, He kicked splendidly throughout. The Forest side is nothing out of the ordinary, and one must admit that they were somewhat fortunate. Still, their forwards were dashing, and the live men of the line were Spaven, Gibson, and Martin. The halves were sound, with Parker the outstanding player. Bulling and Jones kicked strongly, whilst Hardy showed a lot of his old skill, but was not fully tested. On the whole the respective custodians had a comparatively easy afternoon. Teams : - Nottingham Forest: - Hardy, goal, Bulling and Jones, backs, Armstrong, Parker, and Burton, half-backs, Gibson, Spaven, Green, Tinsley, and Martin, forwards. Everton: - Fern, goal, Raitt, and McDonald, backs, Peacock, Fleetwood, and Hart (captain), half-backs, Chedgzoy, Miller, Chadwick, Wall, and Reid, forwards.

EVERTON RESERVES 0 BURNLEY RESERVES 2
October 23, 1922. The Liverpool Courier.
CENTRAL LEAGUE (Game 10)
Although the blues were defeated by two clear goals at Goodison Park, they were distinctly unfortunate, as they had the bulk of the play. Burnley were indebted to Moorwood, who kept a magnificent goal and saved many difficult shots. The backs, too acquitted themselves with credit, under severe pressure. The forwards did little with the exception of Richardson, who scored both goals. Livingstone stood out in the Everton defence, as cool and calculating defenders, the halves were uniformly good; forward Forbes and Alford did much good work. Edmonds the new centre forward. (Cardiff school boy)Did little, and in the second half went to outside right. Burnley penned in their own half for the first quarter, but withstood the pressure, and after 30 minutes opened the score through Richardson, following a scrimmage in the goalmouth. Another breakaway just before the interval ended in Richardson scoring again. Everton: - Kemp, goal, Weller and Livingstone, backs, Brown, Brewster, and Grenyer, half-backs, Jones, Fazackerley, Edmonds, Forbes, and Alford.

ROBERT IRVINE PLAYED FOR IRELAND
October 23 1922. The Liverpool
England beat Ireland at Birmingham on Saturday, at the Hawthorns, winning by a goal to nil.

WIGAN BOROUGH RESERVES 4 EVERTON “A” 2
October 23, 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury
LIVERPOOL COUNTY COMBINATION
After holding a commanding lead at the interval, Everton “A” were beaten by two clear goals, at Springfield Park, thanks largely to the efforts of Williams, a centre forward from the Liverpool district, who, in his first appearance distinguished himself by scoring three brilliant goals. He was ably backed by the whole forward line. Eatock especially showing good form, while Lawson in goal, performed capably. The Everton front line showed some exceedingly neat and clever combination, but their efforts were nullified when near goal by lack of direction. Jeffs was a tower of strengthened at half back, and in addition to scoring a splendid goal, continually piled his wing with clever and well judged passes.

REDS’ MERRY MARCH
Nottingham Journal, Monday, October 23, 1922              
EVERTON BEATEN AND LUCKY TO GET OFF LIGHTLY
SPAVEN IN FORM
FOREST 2 EVERTON 1
Nottingham Forest continue their merry march of progress in the First division, and their patrons are getting full value for their money at the City Ground. Everton are now to be counted amongst the vanquished, and if the Reds had beaten the famous Goodison Park team by four goals to one instead of two to one, no one could have grumbled -not even Everton’s friends. As a matter of fact, Forest had two golden opportunities to score, and they accepted two of them.  It was a bright game, full of incident and interest, and occasionally production of the very best football. The conditions were difficult for the players, the ground being hard and the wind and sun troublesome. Still the football was keen, and there might have been half a dozen goals scored. The Forest, like their guests, had a make changes on account of international honour and injuries. Each had a player assisting Ireland in Nelis and Irvine. Forest’s changes may be said to have been more successful than Everton’s. Armstrong came out to play bright football, at right-half-back-a position to which he was no stranger-and Green during the short time he had the use of both feet, led the attack in lively fashion.
THE ELEMENTS INTERFERED
It cannot be said, however, that the visitors’ changes added strength to their attack. The reserve players, Wall and Reid were not the effective combination Williams and Harrison usually provide, but Miller did well as Chedgzoy’s partner. At the outset play was scrappy, for both sets of defenders were inclined to put too much power behind their clearances. This was due to the fact that there was strong cross wind, and the backs were unable to judge their placing. As the game wore on the kicking improved, and the half-backs and forwards made valiant endeavours to keep the ball on the ground. The first great chance to score came to Forest, when play had been in progress fifteen minutes. Spaven and Gibson, who were as prominent as any of the four wings got away and eventually the inside-right found himself with a clear course for goal both Hart and McDonald having been passed. Spaven, however, was over-anxious and when he made his shot he did not “hit” the ball sparely and it flew wide. It was one of those chances which Spaven would have turned to account nine times out of ten.
EVERTON’S NARROW ESCAPES
Just after this Gibson put in a high centre from which Green took the ball of his head and made a splendid effort to score. It was obvious that the wind hampered, the centre-forward’s intention, for the ball struck the foot of the past and passed out. The next exciting incident was provided by a beautiful run shared by Tinsley and Martin. The winger who was at the top of his form eventually gave his partner a perfect low centre right in front of goal. Tinsley met the ball and endeavoured to side-touch it into the net but it stuck the face of the post and glanced out. These were anxious moments for Fern the old Lincoln City goalkeeper, but he was destined to be beaten. At the end of 28 minutes Spaven made the goal for which the crowd of 15,000 had been patiently waiting. Gibson and Spaven made a characteristic advance, and the latter successfully resisted a challenge by Hart and McDonald to race on to goal. Fern left his charge in the vain hope of checking the Forester, but he made a sharp, low shot, and the ball rested safely in the net. Everton attacked desperately for some minutes, but they were staunchly held by Fred Parker and his colleagues. Hardy’s goal was endangered by a centre from Reid, which passed across about the height of the bar.
HARDY’S BRILLANCE
The famous goalkeeper came out and pushed the ball over the heads of Chadwick and Miller, who were in waiting only to be badly shaken up as a result of colliding with the centre-forward. Hardy, however, was in splendid form and when Wall made a praiseworthy attempt to equalise by heading in from a grand centre by Chedgzoy he caught the ball in masterly fashion and cleared. Then with two minutes to go to the interval we saw Spaven score a magnificent goal. Gibson and Spaven raced away together, and when the wingmen saw his progress was barred by McDonald he made a square pass to his partner. Spaven attempted to take the ball with his right foot, but he was not successful, and then, swinging round, he managed to get in a great drive with his left. The ball flew to the net- a distance of about 25 yards-and Fern had no chance of saving. Subsequently play was strenuous, for Everton made many efforts to get on terms. They succeeded in reducing the lead by a penalty kick given against Armstrong for “hands” when the game was 60 minutes old, but the Forest defence refused to be beaten again. The Forest attack lost considerable virility when Green, who limped badly from a period early in the game, had to change places with Martin. The famous winger made several bold attempts to break through, but generally the line was out of gear. The Forest wings were in excellent form.
PROMINENT PLAYERS
Seldon have Martin and Tinsley given a better exhibition of really clever football and Spaven and Gibson conspired to give Hart and McDonald serious trouble. Spaven’s luck has returned and his shooting was a great feature. Green led the attack with dash until his lameness developed, and there need be no doubt about his ability. Of the home half-backs it must be said that all played brilliantly, and the defence was excellent. In no department were Everton the equal of their hosts although there were outstanding members of their team. McDonald for example gave a grand display at left back, and Fleetwood was prominent amongst their half-backs, while their best forward was Chedgzoy, who played delightful football. Forest have not been beaten for six weeks, and they should go to Everton hopeful of success. Teams;- Notts Forest; Hardy; Bulling, Jones; Armstrong (Captain), Parker (F.), Burton; Gibson, Spaven, Green, Tinsley, and Martin. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart (Captain); Chedgzoy, Miller, Chadwick, Wall, and Reid. Referee; Mr. W,P, Harper (Stourbridge).- J.R. S.

SPAVEN’S HONOUR
Athletic News- Monday, October 23, 1922
TWO GOALS AGAINST EVERTON AT NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2, EVERTON 1
By Trentsider
NOTTINGHAM FOREST were thoroughly deserving of their success against Everton. Their work was perhaps not as polished as that of the visitors, but they were much more dashing, and attacked with greater spirit. The Forest had the better of the exchanges in the opening half, and no one was more prominent in their raids than Spaven. It appeared as if he was always on the ball, and he was a constant source of danger to the Everton defence. His play was full of life, and the spectators, who numbered 15,000, were not slow to appreciate his efforts. After one of these he put across to Tinsley, who shot near the post, and he ended another trying himself, sending behind. After 28 minutes, however, Spaven ran into a favourable position, Green being alongside, and, as Fern rushed, out, scored with a fine, fast ground shots. Two minutes from the interval Spaven received from Gibson and put in one of his express shots from 24 yards range. The ball was high and quite away from Fern, and entered the angle of the goal.
A Useful Reserve.
Spaven was the marksman of the whole party. Green, who was tried in place of Nelis, made the best of what has evidently become an unaccustomed position, but an injury did not help him. He formerly played in the centre for Fleetwood, but the Forest have consistently assigned him the outside-right position, and it was there that he was given his first trial at Elland-road in the final game last season. There is plenty of football him, and he is an exceedingly useful player to have in reserve for the centre. He is fast, passes with judgment, and his heading is exceptionally good. Gibson was sprightly, but did not get a great number of opportunities. He found the Everton defence wary and not so easy to run round, still he met with a fair measure of success.  The left wing did not achieve any noteworthy results, but could claim a share in the success of the side. Martin was in form and often placed finely. In one instance he afforded his partner a splendid chance, but Tinsley, in his anxiety not to miss the opening, sent past.
Where Everton Failed.
Everton played in admirable style. There was thorough understanding in the forward line, and pretty movements were carried out, but the finishing was not too strong, and Fortune did not smile on their endeavours. Both wings earned out excellent work and at times moved along with freedom. Reid and Wall were a capital pair, and the Forest goal had an escape when Wall headed in from a centre by Chadwick, whose ability was marked. At the same time he was most unfortunate. He had one shot, which was well on the mark, diverted over the bar by Parker, and another, which was travelling in the right direction, was also turned aside. In this case Chadwick appealed for a penalty kick, but that was not allowed. , Everton were, however, allowed a penalty-kick fifteen minutes after the interval for handling by Armstrong, and CHADWICK, being entrusted with it, made no mistake. The Forest defence was splendid. Armstrong made his first appearance of the season, and acted as captain. He was particularly clever in his tackling. Burton and Parker also played well. McDonald was in rare form in the Everton defence and Gibson found him difficult to pass. Raitt also acquitted himself with credit, and the half-backs were capable. Nottingham Forest.-Hardy; Bulling, Jones; Armstrong, Parker, Burton; Gibson, Spaven, Green, Tinsley, and Martin. Everton.-Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart (Captain); Chedgzoy, Miller, Chadwick, Wall, and Reid;  Referee W. Harper. Stourbridge.

INTERNATIONAL RIVALS
Athletic News- Monday, October 23, 1922
LABORIOUS SUCCESS FOR THE NEW ENGLANDERS.
HARLAND’S HANDIWORK
ENGLAND 2 IRELAND 0
By Tityrus
The loyalist who is concerned for the football prestige of England will no doubt derive considerable satisfaction from the victory over Ireland at West Bromwich on Saturday. Chambers scored both the goals in the second half when the players of the homeland were facing the breeze. The Liverpool forward decided the issue. I am grateful to him for his triumphant touch. But then I look around and ask myself if I am satisfied? Was anyone content with this exhibition? The play was stamped with mediocrity. There was scarcely any relief. There was a keen wind; atmospheric cutlery Thomas Hardy described it. The football was not even interesting enough to chase away the chill that got into the blood. In an international encounter the highest class is properly expected, but I have seen a thousand more stirring, aye and more scientific struggles, under the auspices of The League. Even a win by two goals was just cold comfort, and considering their limited resources, their disappointments, and their strange surroundings, the Irishmen were entitled to real praise from the victors. At least, that is how the match appealed to me. There were as many really high-class players in the Hibernian eleven as in the English team. Had Ireland had the least luck, for Gillespie deserved a goal before England counted one, the whole course of the match would have been changed, and the result might have been different. But the Fates were not with the sons of Erin.
Fine Goalkeeping.
The first was even, that not a goal accrued to either side. It is certain that England were chiefly the aggressors. They advanced between the ranks of their foes again and again. But one could place the ball in the net because Harland fielded in the manner of a man who felt inspired by stepping into the shoes of Elisha Scott. To deprived of Scott and find Harland so safe in all his handiwork must have given intense joy to the Irish Association. At the interval the spectators warmly applauded him. He had earned their appreciation, for fielded a dozen shots and centres with never failing skill, while Edward Taylor had only twice to be really wary. Harland is much a part of the Irish team as the centre forward; indeed, he was several men rolled into one. But he should have been defeated. That the forwards were not able to finish their attacks in the only style that settles the issue their weakness. Osborne should have scored from a centre by Williams, even though Harland saved his charge with one hand at the expense of a corner, but this was headed above the bar. Later Osborne shot so well that another corner-kick was yielded by Harland, and when the ball curled in from the flag Chambers compelled a similar concession. But all was purpose. Taking a centre from Mercer, Chambers made a magnificent header, which Harland intercepted just under the bar. Although Nelis and Lyner brought relief by an excursion, Taylor had no difficulty in grasping the ball, and the Englishmen returned, the Irish custodian thrice clutching and clearing shots. At the end of 25 minutes Taylor had to deal with an awkward centre from Lyner. The visitors became more prominent when Emerson passed to Burns, who covered some ground before Smith glided the ball along. Gillespie obtained possession, and delivered an excellent shot which was only inches above the bar. I am doubtful whether any drive by an Englishman equalled this shot in quality, but strive as the rivals did neither could make a breach in the defence.
Chambers the Sharpshooter.
On changing goals the Hibernians became the attacking party, and another superlative drive by Gillespie struck the crossbar. It seemed as if the ball travelled too quickly for Taylor, who was a yard or two away. The visitors struggled desperately, with the wind at their backs, to make a lasting impression, but they were not convincing, and the defenders never seriously faltered or blundered. A few centres arrived from each wing, but the ball was never touched by the inside men. England’s representatives rallied, but both Seed and Chambers lofted the ball, and it was not until 21 minutes had elapsed that the first goal arrived. Mercer dashed strongly and persistently along the right flank, and his attempted centre being covered a corner-kick resulted. The Sheffield United player placed the ball outside the penalty-area, and no doubt the wind carried it a little in that direction. It seemed to me that Osborne stretched his legs apart for the ball to travel on, and then Grimsdell touched it to Chambers, who had little space to aim at. But with a right foot hook he drove just inside the near post —so near that there was little daylight between the base of the woodwork and the ball. This was a low, rather a bouncing, shot, and was a better effort than it looked, because Chambers had practically margin. Chambers to tried increase the score, but he was either crowded out by players or repulsed by Harland. Osborne got away by himself and endeavoured to force a passage. In a measure he was successful —so penetrative that he drew out the goalkeeper. Harland made his first mistake. He went down for the ball and did not get it. The ball veered away from the two players to the right. Osborne ran on, but could not shoot into an unguarded goal as there was no angle. But he held for a second or and passed back to Seed, who came rushing up. Seed should easily have netted, but he was not equal to the chance presented to him. The Irish made some flickering, spluttering attacks, and their opponents were not much better; but five minutes from the finish some determined work by Owen Williams opened up a situation which Chambers turned to account with a spectacular shot, which travelled obliquely through the air away from Harland and beat him from the moment that it left the boot of the inside-left. This was a better goal to look at than the first, being more of a theatrical effect, but I question if there were so much real skill behind it. Thus did England win by the same margin as at Sunderland two years ago, but beyond the fact that the team prevailed the match was a drab, dull monotone, without one purple patch to afford relief.
England's One Discovery.
England played an eleven which included six Mien who had not previously received international cap, and only one of the forwards, Chambers, had ever previously been honoured. There was one discovery in the team. I refer to Owen Williams, the outside left, who was, in spite some shortcomings, far and away the best wing raider the field. If I say that no one else, on either side, was halt convincing as Williams I am not guilty of exaggeration. The other three were -well, not good. Owen Williams is young. Not overawed by occasion, as lads may be in their first match of this kind, he appeared full of confidence. The probability is that gave his ordinary game, or perhaps a little above it, while the others fell far below their club standard. Temperament enters into matters. Williams took his passes well. Coming from Chambers and Grimsdell these were generally acceptable, but Williams was very quick into his running, and when in his stride his pace was such as suggest that he was the fleetest player on the arena. Always having the foot of Emerson and Rollo could easily outstrip them. Keeping command of the ball he was direct in his attacks, and centred well. There is every prospect of his acquiring more resource to beat a back. Most of his work was direct, but once twice he was so entangled that he had to retrace his steps to gain a position from to centre. This could be avoided by slipping the ball into the middle just as the defender approaches. Williams has some craft and  company again. Although not by any means in a sparkling vein, Chambers was eminently and always useful If he did nothing great in field play he served his partner with care and exactness, was always in his place, and shot with accuracy. In these representative matches Chambers rarely fails to prove that he is a marksman.
An ill-balanced Vanguard
Since list February, Osborne has been discussed as likely to be England's white hope, the long-looked for centre-forward. I only wish that he was. On his display against Ireland he appears to be a lucky man to have been chosen. His four goals against the Army at Aldershot dazzled some of the selectors and gained him his place. Surely, the trial must have been moss inadequate, for he neither made play nor finished off the manoeuvres of his colleagues on Saturday. With every physical gift at his disposal, it has been said that he has the temperamentfor big matches. Whatever his capabilities may be there was no evidence of such talent in this match. It was obvious from the two or three shots that he made at the beginning of that game that he has the use of both feet, but after the first twenty minutes I only saw him once, when he made his solo effort in the second half. His performance, even it Smith, of Cardiff City, gave him little room, was so like a boy vainly chasing a butterfly, that I can only conclude he must be a better player than this match suggested. That is the only explanation I can give of putting Osborne in the centre and placing George Elliott on the stand to watch him! No, Osborne is not the spell-binder am I looking for, as he did not show a single trait entitling him to be considered as the wanted man for England. The right wing was unsatisfactory, for if Seed showed boundless energy, and some calculated passes, he was not the brain of the line as he is reputed to be with the Hotspur. Of course, Mercer was a feeble partner, for not until the match had run two-thirds of its course did he revert any form.  Whatever Mercer may have been he is notnow an international outside-right. He was slow in pace and did not centre with discretion. Neither Osborne nor Mercer justified their sponsors, and with two weak links in five the chain did not hold. Serviceable Back Division.
So much attention has been given to the vanguard because the line was a novelty. The experiment was not a success—in spite of the result. The half back line was not of piece throughout. It does not seem that Moss is quite so astute and eager as he was in keeping touch with the forwards. As a defender he only did half his work. George Wilson may not be able to train on the ground of the Blackpool club, but evidently he trains somewhere, for he was in action all the time and played well, but he has supported forwards more exactly. In the second half Grimsdell was more conspicuous than before. He defended by means of attack, and was most certainly an attacking half-back, but the Watford man is never so happy as when in the ranks of the Hotspur. On the whole the intermediate line, far too strong for Ireland, was good without being distinguished. The same may be said of the backs and the goalkeeper— although the latter had so little to do that he had no chance of proving that he was entitled to a cap. Joseph Smith game is a game player and sure return. Harrow, if not quite faultless, was equal to the opposition without being fully extended.Reilly the match was so colourless that some of the English eleven had not much opportunity of proving their skill, energy, and endurance under sustained pressure.
Ireland Without Wing Raiders
There is no doubt that Ireland played better as a whole than could have been anticipated when one thinks that Scott, McCandless, W. and R. McCracken, Hamill, Scraggs, Lacey, Gallagher, and Toner could have been Introduced and, in most cases, would have added strength. With some of these men in the side it is interesting to speculate on what might have happened. Harland was even more notable than in the Inter league match at Bolton. In both matches his judgment and fielding have been excellent. Not even Scott could have surpassed his handicraft in the first half. IfRollo kicked with the timeliness and graceful ease that have always characterised him, he was often outpaced and tricked. He has played much better, but Curran, formerly of Glenavon, is a reliable left back, for his returns strong and placed. He is a player who would be welcome in It  should be said that the half-back in front him, Morgan, was a sound intervener and a rare prompter. Smith was mighty in defence, and rose at times even above bis club standard. Not only was Emerson lacking in speed, just as much as Rollo, but he did not make such discreet, use of the ball as when I last saw him at Anfield against Liverpool. His display that day was better than against England. A bird cannot fly without wings any more than a football team can soar to any great heights without wing raiders. Burns and Lyner were relatively poor. It was hardly possible to conceive that Burns was the fast touch-line exploiter that I saw helping the Irish League at Bolton. He had a most discouraging day and never showed his capacity. If he  break away he wasted the position he gained, while Lyner was slow and cumbrous. With the raiders so weak the inside men got no response to their efforts. Gillespie is still the Irish McMenemy and the surest shot—is not the only one—on the side. Nelis deserved sympathy, for between the lack of centres and harrying tactics of Wilson he cannot have pleasant recollections of his first international match. He is worthy of re-introduction to a team where the centre forward can hope to get the ball occasionally. Irvine is a developer with the gift of deception, but he did not shoot as can do. Even with all these limitations the Irish eleven toiled along in grim earnest, and never half-hearted. Their intentions were honourable if their performance fell short. But, taking all circumstances into consideration, they did better work than could have been reasonably expected in keening their fortress intact for over an hour, and if Gillespie had received a smile from the fickle dame the issue would have been even closer. Of course, the conditions were helpful to either side, the ground, was fast and the grass closely cropped, the ball never gathered weight and the wind blew lively with force and was cold in spite of a bright sun. There were 15,000 spectators. England.- Taylor (Huddersfield Town); Smith J. (West Bromwich Albion), Harrow (Chelsea); Moss (Aston Villa), Wilson (The Wednesday), Grimsdell (Tottenham Hotspur, Captain); Mercer (Sheffield United), Seed (Tottenham Hotspur), Osborne (Fulham), Chambers (Liverpool), and Williams (Clayton Orient). Ireland.- Harland (Linfield); Rollo (Blackburn Rovers), Curran (Pontypridd); Emerson (Burnley), Smith E.E. (Cardiff City), Morgan (Linfield), Lyner (Manchester United), Irvine (Everton), Nelis (Nottingham Forest), Gillespie (Sheffield United), and Burns (Glenavon). Referee; A.A Jackson, Glasgow.

WHY EVERTON FAILED
The Liverpool Echo- Monday, October 23, 1922
By F.E.H
It was pleasant and interesting to renew acquaintance with the good old town of Nottingham after its temporary eclipse from First League football. Unfortunately the visit was not a profitable one, for Everton, quite undeservedly, to my mind, dropped both points. A division of the spoils would have been the truest reflex of an encounter that possessed many good features- and, by the same token a few bad ones. Taking by the same as a whole the visitors showed much more polished football than their opponents, but the forward line was not at all convincing. Chance after chance was lost by the three inside men, and this at present is the crux of the problem, which the directors have to face. Of course, it is idle to suppose that you can put old heads on young shoulders. It is equally true that experience can only be gained at a certain cost. In this case it meant the dropping of at least one valuable point. Spaven’s two goals were, in their way, well deserved for he was a rattling good worker and went all the way. Everton’s penalty goal was the result of “hands” and it was well driven home by the hefty Chadwick. At present this player is a little on the awkward side, but he will improve. Wall and Miller did not impress one, and the work of the wingers and the halves was in agreeable contrast. McDonald gave a great exhibition and he was very ably seconded by Raitt. Although a little “down on their luck,” there is no reason to despair. The material is there.

W.C. JACKSON SOLD
October 25, 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury.
Terms have been arranged between the clubs concerned for the transfer of W.K. Jackson from Everton to Wrexham. Jackson is a centre forward or inside left, and assuming the necessary formalities are concluded in the meantime he will play for the Welsh club in their match against Accrington. The transfer of Jackson follows that of Spencer, the inside right to Wigan Borough recently.

RESERVES FIRST AWAY VICTORY
Burnley News- Wednesday, October 25 2022
Burnley Reserve secured their away win on Saturday, when they fulfilled their engagement with Everton, who fielded a strong team, including Brewster at centre-half, Forbes at inside-right, and Edmonds, a Cardiff schoolboy, centre. The teams were: Burnley Reserve: Moorwood; Pearson, Astin; Blackadder, Chambers, Hasty; Fisher, Wade, Richardson, Lindsay, Waller. Everton Reserve: Kemp; Weller, Livingstone; Brown, Brewster, Grenyer; Jones, Forbes, Edmonds, Jackson, and Alford. Although the bulk of play went in Everton's favour, Burnley were the first to score, Richardson sending in drive from fully 25 yards range which Kemp cleared, but the ball had previously crossed the line, and the referee, Mr. H. T. Yates, had no hesitation in granting a goal. Another goal soon came to the visitors, Richardson from a breakaway getting a second past Kemp, the keeper having misjudged the ball in its flight. The score was not a fair index to the play, Everton having pressed continuously, but failed to score. In the second half Everton re-arranged their forward line, but they were unable to penetrate the Burnley defence. Richardson missed a change of completing the hat trick, and generally; had their finishing touches been better, Burnley would have increased their lead. By their excellence in midfield Burnley thoroughly deserved their victory.

SIR WILIAMS P. HARTLEY
Lancashire Evening Post-Wednesday, October 25, 1922
DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN PHILANTHOPIST
Sire William P. Hartley, J.P., died at his residence, 11, Oxfordroad, Birkdale, this morning. Sir William Hartley, who was the father of Councillor Christiana Hartley the Major of Southport, was a noted manufacturer of grocer’s sundries, including jam, marmalade, &c. Born at Colne, in 1848, he commenced business in a humble way, and subsequently started jam factories at Aintree and London, which are regarded as amongst the biggest business of their kind in the country. Early in married life Sir Williams and Lady Hartley registered in a note book their joint decision to devote a tithe of what they might acquire to object of benevolence. By virtue of this agreement Colne has been enriched with a Cottage Hospital and a block of alms houses. To the University of Liverpool have been added the Hartley Botanical Laboratories, while in Manchester a Primitive Methodist College forms one of the benefactions-which embrace a church and gifts for schools at Southport-to the connexion. A site and funds for a maternity hospital in Liverpool were provided before the war. Yearly private sharings among the employees at Aintree was inaugurated over a quarter of a century ago, and has been extended to the works since brought and rebuilt in London. Sir William who received his knighthood in 1908, was a fine type of Lancashire character, and was a strong Primitive Methodist who set his connexion a striking example of persons generosity. He was a generous supporter of all church extension schemes, and the Church-street Church, Southport, has been the recipient of magnificent support for him. His interest was not confirmed to his denomination, but included the whole of the Free Churches and social and philanthropic organisations in Liverpool, all testifying to his generosity. He as a consistent supporter of the Liverpool hospitals. Sir William was a magistrate for Lancashire and had resided in Southport for some years but took no prominent part in the municipal for political life of the town. He was some years ago president of the Primitive Methodist Connexion. He was the author of a work entitled “The use of wealth” which was published by the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches. When news of his death reached the Southport Town Hall the flag was lowered to half-mast. At Southport Police Court, this morning alderman Dr. Limont made sympathetic reference to the loss sustained by the Mayor in the death of her father. He said they greatly regretted that the closing days of her year of office had been saddened by such a great sorrow. He was sure all would join with him in the sympathy which the whole town would feel with her in her bereavement. Sir William had led an honourable and distinguished career and he was one of the citizens they could least afford to do without. Sympathetic references were also made by Mr. Arthur Quale (magistrates’ clerk), and Major Egan (Chief Constable).

SIR WM HARTLEY DEAD
The Liverpool Echo, Wednesday, October 25, 1922
HIS SUDDEN END AT A RIPE AGE
PRINCE OF PHILANTHROPY
HUGE BENEFACTIONS TO THE DESERVING
NOW HIS JAME TRADE BEGAN
DISPUTE LED HIM TO START FOR HIMSELF
We record to-day the loss of a prince of philanthropists. Sir William Hartley, J.P., passed away rather suddenly about five of clock this morning at his residence in Birkdale, at the age of seventy-six. He had not been feeling very well of late, but he contemplated coming down to the office to-day, so that the end was unexpected. Sir William’s draughter, Miss Christina Hartley, is at present Major of Southport, and much sympathy is felt with her and the members of the family in their loss.
SIR WILLAM’S CAREER
Sir William Pickles Hartley, J.P., was a great captain of industry, a practical apostle of profit-sharing and systematic giving, a philanthropist of wide sympathies a temperance man by conviction and example, and a Primitive Methodist who took a lead in many connexional enterprises, at home and abroad, more especially in developing the means of raising the culture of the many of his church. Born at Colne, February 23 1846, he displayed a creditable pride in the progress of his native place. “Bonnie Colne on-the-hill,” situated on the borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire, is often chosen as a starting place on foot for pilgrims to the “Bronte country.” Sir William's grandfather, from whom he received his first Christian name, was a useful local preacher, originally with the Wedeyans, afterwards with the Primitive Methodists while for a short period in still later life he served as town missionary in the Isle of Man. Sir William’s father (John Hartley) was a locksmith, and likewise a local preacher of the Primitive Methodist Church. His mother whose maiden name was Margaret Pickles, kept a small grocer’s shop at Colne, and through her family Sir William inherited a spirit of commercia enterprise.
HELPED IN THE SHOP AT 13
Educated at the Colne British School, and “Finishing” with a year at the Grammar School, Sir William, early in his teens, became a Sabbath school teacher, and played the harmonium at the Primitive Methodist Chapel. At the age of 13 he began to assist in his mother’s shop, and at 16 boldly commenced a larger business in the main street of Colne. Before he had completed his twenties, he married Miss Martha Horsfield, also of Colne and a Primitive Methodist. A family of one son and seven daughters was the issue. Since leaving Colne, soon after their marriage, Sir William and Lady Hartley successively resided at Bootle, Birkdale, Aintree, and Southport, finally returning to Birkdale. In all his philanthropic enterprise, Sir William had the cordial support, and often acted on the advice of Lady Hartley and the family. His principle of systematic giving was expounded in an essay which he published on “The Use of Wealth.”
CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY
A simple dispute with the manufacturer from whom he brought preserves led Sir William Hartley to try the experiment of manufacturing for himself. The result was so encouraging that he founded a factory at Bootle in 1874 and after twelve years he removed to Aintree, the works there being rapidly enlarged and supplemented by the rebuilding of an extensive factory at Southwark, London. Many hundreds of men, women, and girls are employed. A model village for the work people and a large area of houses let on the hire-purchase principle (an anticipation of the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act) form, together with several institutions, notable features of the Aintree estate. Sir Williams acquired a large acreage in Bedfordshire for the growth of fruit. He paid visits to the orange districts of Spain, whence he imported largely. In early business life his holidays were restricted top about three days in the year. He was married on a Whit-Monday and reopened his shop the next morning.
A MONENTOUS VOW
On January 1, 1877, Sir William and Lady Hartley jointly recorded in a small note-book, a vow that henceforth they would devote one-tenth of their income to the cause of religion and philanthropy. As their prosperity increased the percentage of the giving was enlarged. Coincident with the opening of the Aintree works, a graduated scale of yearly profit-soaring for the employees was introduced, and in due course extended to Southwark, where Sir William’s son is the manager. The cost has approximated £100,000.
£5,000 TO START PENSIONS
At the profit-sharing of 1909, Sir Williams announced a gift of £5,000 as the nucleus of a pension scheme for his workplace. The public benefactions of Sir Williams Hartley were so numerous that a complete list would be difficult to compile; while in his private philanthropy he was assisted by almoners pledged to secrecy. His liberality to this city, for example, knew so limit. To the University of Liverpool he have £20,000 for the tower clock, chimes and botanical laboratory, a supplemental donation being for the installation of wireless telegraphy in communication with the Eiffel Towe, Paris, for purposes of tuition. His endowments of beds in the Royal Infirmary Royal Southern Hospital, Stanley Hospital and Children’s Infirmary exceeded £10,000. On March 9, 1909 he offered £15,000 a sum to be increased as need arose, for a new maternity hospital for which the site of the old alms houses in Arrad-street with adjacent land near the top of Mount Pleasant had been cleared. Liverpool shares largely in the benefits of the Delamere Forest Sanatorium for Consumptives, opened in 1900 and to which Sir William gave the larger part of £20,000 and in certain of his large Lancashire and other benefactions, which embraced many donations to the Free Churches. To the Bishop of Liverpool Diocesan Fund, and in token of sympathy with his lordship’s attitude towards temperance, Sir William sent a timely cheque for £500. For three years he contributed £310 annually for temperance education in Liverpool schools. Southport and Aintree each owe a Primitive Methodist Church to his generosity. To the Manchester Infirmary on its rebuilding he gave £20,000, and to the Wesleyan Million Fund 5,000 guineas. On the outbreak of the European War he sent £10,000 to relief funds and doubled the weekly contributions from his staffs and work people. To commemorate his seventieth anniversary in February, 1916, Sir William gave £30,000 for thirty-four hospitals and other institutions, Liverpool’s share being £5,000.
PRIMITIVE METHODIST PRESIDENT.
When the Primitive Methodist Conference elected Sir William Hartley as its president in 1909-10, a series of noble gifts to the connexion was recognised, and supplemental donations have followed on the same scale. Extensions of and aid to the Primitive Methodist College, Manchester, must have consumed £50,000, and the private libraries of all the ministers have been enriched. His calling of Professor Peake from Morton College, Oxford, to Manchester, opened a new era in the theological education of primitive Methodist students. The securing of the Holborn Town Hall, at a cost of £31,000 mainly for use as a Primitive Methodist Church House, presented the denomination with a metropolitan centre for the home and foreign enterprises, in all of which they have received princely encouragement from their “leading layman.” On November 9, 1909, Sir William Hartley received the honorary freedom of the borough of Colne, his native town, the resolution having been inscribed on an illuminated scroll and enclosed in a silver casket. Colne, it was stated at the presentation, took pride in the career of Sir William in the splendid spirit which had animated him, and in the fact that he was the first native of the borough on whom the King had conferred the honour of knighthood in a reminiscent reply. Sir William gave a glimpse of the strenuous labours of his early days. He remarked;- when the Mayor brought me to his house this afternoon on Keighley-road, it reminded me that 46 or 47 years ago I walked the same road and on through Laneshaw-bridge over Lancashire Moor to Stanbury, journey by journey, starting from my home in Colne-lane before five o’clock in the morning, calling upon my first customer at about seven o’clock. I walked to Haworth, Oakworth, and to Keighley station so tired that I was very glad to sit down in the station. I walked about twenty miles, I had called on twenty customers, and on many a journey I did not make a shilling. It took a good deal of resolution to keep that up.
LAST YEAR’S £25,000 GIFT
In April last year Sir William gave a site and £25,000 towards the cost of building a new hospital to the Liverpool Maternity Hospital and Ladies’ Charity, whilst during the acute distress among the unemployment last year he made a donation of £1,000 to the funds of the Liverpool Unemployed Distress Committee. The Devonshire Hospital at Buxton also benefited from his generosity this year. Twelve months ago, in Colne, the foundation-stone was laid of a magnificent new hospital which Sir William Hartley was giving to his native town. This hospital, upon which no expense was being spared to make it as complete and up to date as possible adjoins the Hartley Homes, which were built by Sir William in 1912. Colne had already received from Sir William the gift of a cottage hospital, which he has since doubled in size, while another gift (1910) was a block of twenty cottage homes of alms-house. A turret clock in the centre of the homes confers a boon on the neighbourhood. In 1919 Sir William declined, on medical advice and because of his distant resident to accept the mayoralty of Colne.
MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL
On the large extension of the municipal boundaries of Liverpool in 1896, Sir William entered the City Council, and served for a single term of three years, when pressure of other work brought about his retirement. He was a justice of the peace, allotted to the Kirkdale Division of Lancashire, and he apportioned such time as he could afford to the bench. A liberal, and a member of the Reform Club, Liverpool, he was often approached with invitations to offer himself as a candidate for the Commons. He was knighted by King Edward VII, in 1908, the distinction being universally endorsed. His sole recreation was driving about the country for rather extensive tours. Sir William leaves a widow, one son, and seven daughters, of whom six are married. The eldest daughter is wedded to the Rev. J. T. Barkby, a Primitive Methodist minister, and another married Mr. J.S. Higham, M.P.
SOUTHPORT ASSOCIATION
Flags at Southport Town Hall and Southport Liberal Club are at half-mast. S. William Hartley, who formerly resided a Sea View, Lord-Street, and more recently in Oxford-road, Birkdale, where he died, was a familiar figure in Southport. He had not associated himself prominently with municipal government-though his influence was large- until last November, when his daughter Miss Christina Hartley, was chosen as the first woman Mayor of the borough. On that occasion she handed her mayoral salary of £500 to a Labour candidate to be distributed as he though fit among the unemployed, and Sir William gave a cheque for £500 for the same object. Politically, Sir William was a staunch Liberal, one of the oldest vice-presidents of the Southport Liberal Association, and a subscriber to the party funds for may years. His association with Primitive Methodism was life long and devoted, and when the Primitive Methodist Church in Southport was built he added a percentage to every £1 raised for that purpose. His local benefactions were extensive and Southport Infirmary has lost in him a valuable supporter and the temperance cause an ardent advocate.
POLICE COURT TRIBUTES
At the Southport Police Court, to-day, the chairman (Alderman Dr. Lamont) expressed their sympathy with the Mayor (Councillor Miss Hartley) in her great loss. They deeply regretted that the closing days of her mayoral year had been saddened by such a great sorrow. He was sure the whole town would extend its sympathy to her. William Hartley had an honourable and distinguished career, and was one of the citizens whom Southport could least afford to do without.
The Law-clerk (Mr. Quayle) associated himself with the expression of regret, Sir William was full of years and honour, but they deplored that he should have been called away now. He was a man who could ill be spared. The Chief Constable (Major Egan) on be half of the police also expressed sympathy with the family and other relatives. S. William, he said, was a friend to many people and he was always a very good friend to the police. He felty they had sustained a personal loss by his death.

BEE’S NOTES
The Liverpool Echo- Wednesday, October 25, 1922
Everton, bring back Williams and Irvine, and from information received it would appear that Davie Reid and Alec Wall made “a glowing wing” at Nottingham. The Forest and Sam Hardy will indeed be welcome visitors to Goodison Park.
FROM LOCAL WATERS
Everton have wisely kept their eyes on local waters when they have been angling, and I learn that they are now giving a trial to a former Earle goalkeeper, a 21-year-old player named A,C. Ashton. He has latterly been playing with Bon Marche, and has the benefit of height and weight, whereas the Cardiff boy tried by Everton was full of height, but lacked experience. Everton have transferred Jackson to Wrexham. The Welsh club wanted Moffatt, I believe, but have taken the other Scottie, who, I think, will do them good, for what I saw in trial games convinced me that this player is a tall, strong, never-ceasing type of forward and he can shoot. I do not know the inner history of the case, but it certainly struck me that Jackson should have had a more prominent run with the Goodison side. Wigan are certainly pleased with Spencer, of Everton, who you remember, generally contrived to get a goal when he appeared in the senior side, and it is said that the Wigan club are now after a little forward from Liverpool’s books.
STANLEY HARRIS
Note only
Stanley Harris died, played for Corinthians and England, it is said “So much so that Mr. W.C Cuff, I remember made a special journey to a certain spot to try and get the famous amateur to assist the Everton Club.

ARMSTRONG AND HARDY VERSUS EVERTON AT GOODISON
The Liverpool Echo -Friday, October 27, 1922
Bee’s Notes
It will be like old times tomorrow at Goodison Park when we get in touch with Sam Hardy again. He was supposed to be a back number when he went to the Forest from Aston Villa’s ground, after having served his great period of apprenticeship at Anfield; yet here he is guarding the Forest side in such a way that the club has one of the best “goals against” columns. It is rare that any side pierces the Forest defence, and if the side’s forwards had been “anything like” the team that has just gained promotion would by now have been among the top notchers, whereas it is only half-way down. As a matter of fact the match at Goodison park tomorrow is rather noteworthy in that it brings us once more to the half back Armstrong who is one of the quietest men in football history, yet has been with the Forest for a generation or more; in fact he made his debut at Everton. The Forest side does not include Bobbie Parker, ex-Everton, but it seems to me pretty certain that Everton will again draw their home talent money, for they have done consistently at home and cannot afford to risk anything on the score of instant shooting or in passing in to-morrow’s game. I met a man who was at Nottingham last week, and his view is that Forest were lucky to get away with an early lead last week, and that I can go “nap” on the Blues this week. It certainly seems to be time and tide for Everton to-morrow for the club like Cardiff are improving and have struck into some fierce rods early in the season. The Forest side has Nelis back in leadership, and I shall be glad to see this whippet-like forward shaping for he had no chance last week in the Irish international side. The teams will line up in the following order to-morrow. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Irvine, Chadwick, Williams, Reid. Notts Forest; Hardy; Bulling, Jones; Armstrong,Parker, Burton; Gibson, Spaven, Nelis, Tinsley, Martin.

THE LATE SIR W. P. HARTLEY
Supported Everton on Goodison Move 1892
Burnley Express- Saturday 28 October 1922
Work Hard 12 Times
Colne’s Grand Old Man
A Rumance of Living and Giving
Truth is often contrasted with fiction and in the final weighing up it is accounted to be the more gripping and remantie.  So it has been with Sir William Pickles Hartley, whose death occured on Wednesday.  Everywhere it was with great regret that the news was heard.  Consequent on heart trouble, Sir William had modified his work of late, but he intended to proceed from his residence, Oxford-road, Birkdale Park to the Aintree works on Wednesday.  Early in the morning, however, an attack occurred and he passed away at five o’clock.  The funeral service will be held at Church-Street Primitive Methodist Church, Southport this morning and the interment will follow at Trawden, near Colne, this afternoon.  There will be a momarial service at Colne Primutive Methodist Chapel tomorrow morning.  Bonnie Colne on the Hill was justly prouder of no son than of William P Hartley.  He was born in the waterside district of the town February 23rd 1846,, so that he was 76 years of age.  In the words of the Psalmist, he spent his years as a tale that is told, and no tale is better worth the telling.  His life was packed with fine illuminated by his rules of success.  Hard work’ twelve times.  I have worked hard; I still work hard, and that is my experiences.  Let a young man put the best he can into his work, make the best possible article and never be content with second quality or second place.”  Sir William’s grandfather, from whom he received his first Christian name, was a useful local preacher, originally with the Westleyans afterwards with the Primitive Methodists, while for a short period in still later life he served as town missionary in the Isle of Man.  Sir William’s father (John Hartley) a man who earned a modest living was a Jocksmith and likewise a local preacher of the Primitive Methodist Church.  His mother, whose aiden name was Margarett Pickles, kept a small grocer’s shop at Colne and through her family Sir William inherited a spirit of commercial enterpraise.  Educated at the Colne British School, and finishing with a year at the Grammer School, Sir William, early in his teens, became a Sunday School teacher, and played the Harmonium at the Primitive Methodist Chapel.  At the age of 13 he began to assist in his mother’s shop, and at 16 boldly commenced a larger business in the main street of Colne, where he was known as a manufacturer of grocers’ sundries and jam, marmalade, and table jellies.  Ever anxious to extend his business, he worked from early morning until late at night, and acted as his own traveler.  Before he had completed his twenties he married Miss Martha Horsefield, also of Colne and a Primitive Methodist, and the daughter of Mr. George Horsefield, yeast merchant Albert-road.  A family of one son and seven daughters was the issue.  Since of one son and seven daughters was the issue.  Since leaving Colne, soon after their marriage inb 1874, Sir William and Lady Hartley successively resided at Bootle, Birkdale, Aintree, and Southport, finally returning to Birkdale.  In all his philanthropic enterprises Sir William had the cordial support, and often acted on the advice, of Lady Hartley and the family.  His principle of systematic giving was expounded in an essay which he published on “The Use of Wealth.”  By the time he was 25 years old, the ambitious young man had emerged from the day of small things and was the owner of one of the largest wholesales business in the country.  It was a simple dispute with the manufacturer from whom he brought preserves that led him to try the experiment of manufacturing for himself.  His enterprise at Colne had considerably developed, and he sold it to two of his travelers.  So successful was his new venture that he founded a factory at Bootle in 1874 and after twelve years he removed to Aintree, the works there being rapidly enlarged and supplemented by the rebuilding of an extensive factory at Southwark, London, where many hundreds of men, women, and girls were employed.  A model village for the workpeople and a large area of houses let on the hire purchase principle (an anticipation of the small Dwellings Acquisition Act) form, together with several institutions, notable features of the Aintree estate.  Sir William acquired a large acreage in Bedfordshire for the growth of fruit.  He paid visits to the orange distincts of Spain, whence he imported largely.  In early business life his holidays were restricted to about three days in the year.  He was married on a Whit-Monday and reopened his shop the next morning.  There is a well-authenticapted story that on January 1st 1877, Sir William (then Mr.) Hartley and his wife wrote out a vow in a little notewbook that henceforth they would give one-tenth of their income to the cause of religion, and ever since his “giving” had been on a systemation and proportionate plan, though the original 10 per cent, had long ago been left behind.  The magnitude of their philanthropy was such that probably their grits to religion and charity grew in the end to be one-third of their income.  Sir William reaped enormous wealth, but never allowed it to become his mater.  “Nothing raises money to a higher plane and gibes it a more real interest than systematic giving”  he declared.  “I sit on my money; I don’t let it sit on me.  To distribute my money is a harder and more anxious task than making it.”  In our record of his enterprise and munificence, pride of place must be given to his gifts to his native town of Colne.  In 1910 he gave to the town a block of 20 handsome cottage homes or almshouses in Keighley-road for the aged poor of Colne and Trawden, with a turret clock in the centre of the property.  This scheme involved him an expenditure of from $8,000 to $10,000.  This was a happy sequence of the conferring upon his exactly a year previously of the dignity of Knighthood.  Sir William in 1912 built the Hartley Homes at Colne, thwe town having already received from him the gift of a Cottage Hospital.  In September, 1921 the foundation stone was laid of a magnificent new hospital.  This hospital upon which no expense is being spared to makle it as complete and up-to-date as possible, adjoins the Hartley Homes, and is now in process of errection.  It will supersede the Colne Jubilee Cottage Hospital which was erected fully equipped, and presented to the borough by Sir William on condition that an endowment fund equal to the cost was raised by the townspeople.  On April 1st, 1898, the foundation stone was laid by him, and the Hospital was formally opened on April 21st 1900, by the Early of Derby.  In 1914 Sir William offered to erect, equip, and present to the borough a new hospital, provided an assurance was given for its efficient maintence.  The scheme was postponed on account of the war, but in the meantime a suitable site adjoin preparations proceeded with.  On November 9th 1909, Sir William Hartley received the honorary freedom of the berrugn of Colne, the resolution having been inscribed on an illuminated scroll and enclosed in a silver casket.  Colne, it was stated at this presentation, took pride in the career of Sir William, in the splendid spirit which had animated him, and in the fact that he was the first native of the borough on whom the King had conferred the honour of knighthood.  In a reminiscent reply, Sir William gave a glimpse of the strenuous labours of his early days.  He remarked.  “Which the Major brought me to his house this afternoon on Keighley-road.  It remained me that forty-six or forty-seven years ago, I walked the same road, and on through Lance-shawbridge over Lancashire Moor to Stanbury, journey by journey starting from my home in Colne-lane before five o’clock in the morning calling upon my first customer at about seven o’clock, I walked to Haworth, Oakworth, and to Keighley Station, so tired that I was very glad to sit down in the station, I walked about twenty miles, I had called on twenty customers and on many a journey I did not make a shilling.  It took a good deal of resolution to keep that up.”  Colne further honoured him, in 1919 with the request that he should accept the Mayor of the borough, but this he declined on medical advice and because of his distance with dence.  The Primitive Methodist Churches in the two Burnley circuit, as will as in the Nelson and Colne circuity benefitted considerably from his beneficence, through which nearly all of them are now free from debt.  He must have given thousands of pounds to the churches of the connexion in this district, on the principe of supplying the balance if the churches themselves would raise a certain amount.  In this way he has helped to clear the debts off Bethal, Rehoboth, Padiham, and Howard-street churches, while julilee, which is working towards debt liquidation, has also received a strong helping from him.  In 1886 Sir William built his present factory at aintree and two years later began to build round it a model village for his workpeople.  He also came to own large estates in Bedfordshire and Essex, where most of the fruit for his jam is grown.  In 1900 he opened a second factory in South London, which brought up the total capacity of his works to 200 tons of jam a day.  He was one of the pioneers of profit-sharing and in 1893 started a scheme which put something like $5,000 a year into the pocket’s of his workpeople.  Meanwhile his grits to charity were continually growing.  The Primitive Methodist Church benefitted particularly.  Sir William practically created the Chapel Aid Association, and twice enlarged the miniters training colleage at Manchester, now called by his name, at a total cost of about $50,000.  To Liverpool he gave $13,000 to provide botanical laboratories at the University and $7,500 towards the cost of the Delamere Sanatorium for tuberqulosis.  At Aintree he built an institute, a model of its kind, at a cost of nearly $20,000.  In 1908 he purchased for $31,000 the Holborn Town Hall for use as a Methodist Church House.  On the outbreak of war in 1914 Sir William sent $10,000 to the relief funds and doubled the weekly contributions of his workpeople.  In 1916 he commemorated his 70th birthday by giving $30,000 to charities, largely divided between London and Liverpool hospital.  The same year he celebrated his golden wedding.  Politically, Sir William was a staunch Liberal, but he was not a strong party man, and refused various offers to stand for Parliament.  When news of Sir Williams death was received at Soouthport Town Hall the flag there was lowered to half-mast.  Warin tributes to Sir William’s work were paid by the magistrates at the local police court.  He is survived by a wodow, one son and seven daughters of whom six are married.  The oldest daughter is married to the Rev J.T. Barkby, a well-known Primitive Methodist minister and another to Mr. J.S. Higham, late M.P. for Sowerby, <iss Hartley, one of his daughters is the present Mayor of Southport.  Sir William was described as “one of the greatest and most generous sons the Primitive Methodist church ever possessed.”  And in recognition of his splendid services he was elected in 1909, president of that church, being the first layman to hold the position for over 50 years. 

STORK’S NOTES
Liverpool Echo- Saturday, October 28, 1922
It is ten years since we had the pleasure of seeing Nottingham Forest at either of our local grounds in league warfare, but the victors of Everton last week will receive a great ovation for is not the great Sam Hardy to keep goal for the Nottingham side? All eyes will be glued on Hardy, to see if he has lost any of the old-time brilliance which made him famous the world over as the finest goalkeeper ever. Hardy made his name with Liverpool club well known as the nursery for international ‘keepers. Notts’ great strength this season is in defence; only nine goals have found their way into the net, which is just three-quarters of a goal per match. It was ever thus, when Hardy was between the sticks. Has he hypnotic powers? I have seen men, after they have practically beaten the rets of the opposition, fail in an unaccountable manner when they have caught sight of those massive shoulders, deep-set eyes and green jersey of Hardy. One could expect young players to get the “breeze up” when they had to face this silent man, but I have seen “old lags” upset joy his presence. In Bulling and Jones, hardy has two strong players in front of him. Both kick with good judgement and surety, so you see the Everton forwards are faced with a difficult task. The halves are not as strong as the Everton middle line, and although this forwards have been collecting goals pretty frequently in the last few weeks they cannot be described as a great lot. It was not they attacked that foiled Everton last week, but the defence. Everton have made changes. As was only to be expected, Irvine returns to the side and Williams also makes his reappearance. Everton’s home displays have been good so far, and I think they are sure to improve it with a victory over the Forest to-day. A repetition of their game against Liverpool should find them good winners. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Irvine, Chadwick, Williams, Reid. Notts Forest; Hardy; Bulling, Jones; Armstrong, Parker, Burton; Gibson, Spavin, Nelis, Tinsley, Martin.

TIDE OF DEFEAT TURNED TO VICTORY
The Liverpool Football Echo, Saturday, October 28, 1922
LIVERPOOL’S PLEASURE AT RENEWING THE ACQUAINTANCE OF “BANK OF ENGLAND” GOALKEEPER
BEE DESCRIBES EVERTON’S FIRST WIN FOR A MONTH
HOW FOREST, WITHOUT THEIR HARDY GOALKEEPER, WERE BEATEN AT GODOISON PARK
FAZACKERLEY’S FANTASTICAL FOOTWORK
EVERTON WIN 4-2
Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald (Captain); Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Fazackerley, Chadwick, Williams, Reid. Notts Forest; Bennett; Bulling, Jones; Armstrong (captain), Parker, Burton; Gibson, Spaven, Nelis, Tinsley, Martin.
It was good to see the old Forest side at Walton today. One does not need to be old or cold to recall Spouncer, Grenville Morris, and a host of other Foresters who used to delight us. Forest came to Goodison with icy-cold weather and a bit of sunshine and Everton, who took a big hand in the collections for the widow of the “Kop” man who died recently brought back Irvine (International) and Williams (had been ill) instead of Miller and Wall. Everton were desperate for points, having lost three games on the run. The crowd was a loyal and big one- as ever. When Referee Harper, of Stourbridge, lined up the men, the crowd was very disappointed at the non-appearance of Sam Hardy, and they had little idea of seeing Fazackerley at inside right, there being no word of Irvine’s injury.
AN EXTRAORDINARY DECISION
It was an exhilarating start, and not without a sensation. First of all the Everton defenders had to face the sun, and then Fazackerley was a shade short with his pass. There was much determination shown by both sides, and Hart, with a risky header, made a forward run, and Chedgzoy tried hard to keep the ball in play, and there followed a Forest defender, Jones, heading nearly into his own goal. Fazackerley scored a most perfect goal after the whistle had sounded for some infringement. One could hardly believe that the referee had made him offside. In fact, the whole thing was inexplicable.
A FINELY WORKED-FOR GOAL
However, Fazackerley had the joy of opening the score in six minutes, with a sound example of heading undue force, but with rare direction. Fazackerley had to thank D. Reid and Williams for fine work on the left which led to the goal. Each of the left-wingers had a big hand in the goal. Forest were not going to take this lying down, and Fern had to fall and clear an effort by the sharp-shooter Spaven, who is an old-fashioned-looking fellow and is very keen to hit ‘em. Nelis put a shot over the bar, and was copied by Chadwick when Fazackerley made a wonderful pass with his ankle swung up behind his body.
A SURPRISE PUSH
Chadwick has a trusty left foot, but at the moment he lacks experience and resource. There was considerable surprise when Tinsley, having wormed his way through, found himself pushed in the middle of the back by McDonald. That a penalty did not come was an eye-opener for a number of people. The game had quite a number of surprises and debateable point for five minutes. First McDonald, in kicking clear, his Fleetwood and the ball passed very close to goal.
THE REAL BUSINESS
Then McDonald made a very fine clearance, while Tinsley in particular and Spaven showed up prominently. The referee was criticised for an offside verdict, and once Everton were penalised and a second time they moved forward, and while Jones was trying up his bootlaces, Chadwick was careering up the middle after a long punt. That the home centre should have such an easy passage was the subject of much talk, but Chadwick heeded not the talk, and went about his goal. Another debatable point came when Peacock was obstructed by Jones. Peacock resented this, and handed off the Nottingham man in thorough Northern Union fashion. The referee gave Everton a free kick and followed it with plenty of offside positions through both sides playing the one-back side to a degree. Everton claimed hard for a penalty kick which was not a penalty. After Tinsley had shown dainty form, and a hard shot-the two rarely go together-Spaven altered the complexion of the game in a twinkling.
SPAVEN SCORES
He was out on his own on the right wing when he saw a fractional chance, and he shot in fiercely and truly. It was a good goal, and reminded us that Forest had, with ten men, rubbed off two goals lead in the Preston match. The game was in a measure farcical because all the men, except the goalkeeper congregated like deacons in a vestry. They lined up round the centre man and played for keeps on the offside question. Everton’s best work was at outside left and right back. D. Reid was unfailing in his centres, and Raitt was admirable against two clever men. Everton should have been two goals up again, when Fazackerley bumped a full back off the ball and let in Chadwick, who was slow to take a right foot shot. Hart shot over, and the finishing touch before half-time was an escape for Everton when fern ran out and did not gather the ball, Gibson being quite near an equaliser.
Half-time; Everton 2, Notts Forest 1
The second half had only been going a minute when Hart stopped Nelis, who was apparently an all-over scorer. Forest were very canny in all they did. Spaven was for once at fault in his shooting.
A PUZZLE FOR THE OFFICIALS
When the ball passed on to Gibson, the extreme wing man pushed it rather wide, and Fern was hurt in saving. Tinsley was also hurt. Referee and linesmen were both puzzled to know whether the ball had gone out for a corner of a goal-kick, and the crowd of 35,000 people hung on the decision as though it were a judge’s verdict.
WALLET FOUND
Some days ago I made reference to a wallet lost. It has now been found on the Anfield ground. The owner should apply to Mr. Riley, of the Liverpool football ground.
WILLIAMS REAPS
Forest found Everton more than troublesome this week, and after Peacock had been pulled up for a foul, not for the first time in the match, Fazackerley marched off and put the ball to the left, where Williams edged it to the right again, and darting between the two backs, who tried to make a sandwich of him found himself with a nice shooting chance. Fazackerley had propped and Williams had cropped. The time was 64 minutes and the Everton stock had gone into a peaceful groove because prior to this, Forest had been too hot to be nice, like the stung of a wasp. Williams was encouraged to shoot again, and this time the ball soared over the bar. Parker, too, tried a long shot, the referee being in the way. Burton, the Forest half-back, was very able in the way he made play for his wing men.
THE WORK THAT TELLS
Whatever Fazackerley did was done in such a way that it compelled admiration. He was not a sprinting, dashing forward, but he crowded more art into his passes than the full backs of to-day crowded kicks into offside decisions. And he wasn’t without a stinging shot either. The danger of the defence lining up as a well when a free kick is being taken was shown when Chadwick, having been brought down inches from the penalty area, took the free kick and hit a ferocious ball that knocked out Spaven who, however, soon recovered and offered Gibson some nice passes. The Everton half backs had been much better than usual, and if Peacock’s work had been helped by the quiet game played by Martin the fact remained that Fleetwood’s dour tackle and Hart’s level-headed game had prevented the Forest forwards doing such damaged.
ANOTHER GOAL FOR EACH
Fern once endeavoured to hand out the ball, and he knocked out Raitt. Still the Scottie did not worry as the goal had been saved. From this accident Everton went right away on the left in combined fashion. It was short-lived pleasure, however, because Spaven scored an entirely solo goal two minutes later. This new boy at inside right is tremendously like Danny Shea was in his West Ham days. He is not quite so bustling but he certainly has confidence and ability, and positivelymakes the Forest line into a live force. The goal that made the score 4-2 was made from the inside left, in which place Spaven had dribbled in complacent fashion. The Forest, nevertheless, have never given four goals away this season and that number would have been five had not Bennett caught in surprising fashion a shot from Williams. Final; Everton 4 Notts Forest 2.
OTHER RESULTS
Burnley Res 3, Everton Res 2
Liverpool University 1, Everton A nil

BLUES CAPTURE
October 30, 1922. The Evening Express
Everton Sign an International
By CRI
Everton have made an important capture in securing the signature of Alfred Harland, the Irish international goalkeeper. When I saw him in the inter-league game at Bolton he showed exceptional skill, especially in dealing with low shots, and in the international at West Bromwich he also carried off the honours on the Irish side. Naturally English managers became keenly intervened in him, and there was lively competition for his services. The persuasive powers, of Mr. Tom McIntosh won the day and Harland joins the playing staff at Goodison Park. Harland has been with Linfield for two seasons, and is well built for a custodian, being 5ft 10ins. He weights 11st 7lb and is 23 years of age, so that if he returns his skill Everton have done a particularly good stroke of business.

FAZACKERLEY’S SKILL
October 30, 1922. The Evening Express
Everton Turn The Tables on the Forest
By CRI
Everton have turned the corner, and I trust, now that the Blues have got their head in front for the first time since the Cardiff match, that the boys will go on from success to success. Their display against the Forest and refreshing, and even if several chances were missed, four goals to two is good enough to be going on with. Compared with the play at Nottingham there was far more wim in it, and the dash near goal made all the difference. On the whole it was a capital game to watch, there being plenty of good football and at times the skilful movements of the home forwards were delightful, I must say that I have never seen (writes Liver) Fazackerley play so well as he did in this game. He subtle passes were Buchan like in their accuracy and it was undoubtedly a brainy movement which resulted in the first goal. “Fazy,” as a matter of fact, had a foot in the majority of the aggressive movements and there is no doubt that he is still a most polished and enterprising exponent. Chedgzoy was rather too much inclined for a pop when to me it appeared that he would have done better to middle the ball. Chadwick got two capital goals and a player who can do this is well worth his place. The centre would probably recall the phrase. “He who hesitates a lost,” when he failed by a fraction of a second to get to the ball first when he had a glorious chance. Williams as usual, was always in the picture. This Lancashire lad is a rare trier and a fine shot. He never gives up, and his tussle with the half-back to secure the ball to send on to Chadwick to score the fourth goal demonstrated his pluck and determination. Davie Reid gave a vastly improved display, his centres being of nice height and strength. Everton’s halves were a worrying trio, with Hart the outstanding figure. The captain is undoubtedly a fine footballer. Fleetwood retains the ability to break up opposing attacks and he was usually in the right spot. Peacock too, was useful but not quite at his beat. Raitt and McDonald kicked and tackled with skill and judgment. Fern made one particularly fine save from Nelis. On the Forest side, Bennett lacked the experience of Hardy, and Jones and Bulling were not up to their usual high standard. The halves were fair, and Spavin was the live wire of the attack. His two goals were beauties. The inside will remember with pleasure his experience against Everton for he obtained a quartette of goals. A collection in aid of the widow and children of the man Ingram polished £25 16s 2d.
McDougall for Goodison?
Everton I understand (says a writer in the Athletic News) are still keen on securing J. McDowell the big centre half back of Airdireonians but they have not yet persuaded the manager Mr. William Orr to part with him. McDougall is one of the best of the young players who have shown real promise within the past season or two. Possessed of a splendid physique –he is 5ft 11ins and 12st –this Glasgow born young man plays the game with an intelligence which bids fair to develop into genius skill. Though stronger than the average player to whom he finds, himself opposed he shows little inclination to prevail by sheer force. Up to Saturday, no opposing centre forward, except Adams of St. Mirren had scored against Airdreonians. Is not that an indirect tribute to the prowess of the centre half back? McDougall’s first senior club was Greenock Morton, who realize now that they made a mistake in parting with him. Accidents like that will happen.

EVERTON 4 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2
October 30, 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury
EVERTON RETURN TO FORM
FINE WIN OVER NOTTS FOREST.
Everton broke their sequence of defeats with a capital win over Notts Forest, at Goodison Park on Saturday, and, following upon three successive defeat, their success was very welcome. It was a splendid game, played in the best spirit with football of the exhilarating type brought out the cleverness of both sides. Everton's success was due in the main to the capacity for taking advantage of their chances. In point of skill there was little to choose between the sides and in the first half Notts, although they never gained the lead, were frequently dangerous, while the footwork of the forwards was exceedingly good. Everton too played with a freshness and buoyancy that brought its due reward.
FAZACKERLEY'S RETURN.
Fazackerley, after several weeks, absence, returned to the side, and his artistry lent balance to the Everton attack. He was never very prominent, but all he did was marked by cleverness and judgement. Reid who occupied the outside left position, played with great heartiness, and in conjunction with Williams made a wing that was always troublesome. Chadwick has improved his method of distribution, and thus becomes a more important factor in the attack. He has still however, to overcome a tendency to hesitate in front of goal. Chedgzoy was not as prominent as usual, and his centres were often badly placed. The half-backs were very powerful and uniformly good. So, too, were the backs, and Fern did his work well. The Forest played a fine open game, and although many of the 40,000 spectators were disappointed at Hardy's absence though a chill, they saw a clever goalkeeper in Bennett, whose clean and sure catching was generally, admired. The backs were unsteady, but the half-backs made a splendid line. Burton was more than useful in attack, and Parker was a powerful pivot. Spaven was easily the most outstanding figure in the forward line. He could shoot from any angle, and his dexterous manceurving created most of the scoring chances. Tinsley and Martin had a fine understanding, and did excellent work in the first half. Neils was too well guarded by Fleetwood to be often dangerous and Gibson was moderate.

INCIDENTS OF THE PLAY.
The game was only five minutes old when Fazackerley scored Everton's first goal, which was the result of a cleverly engineered attack. Reid took the ball almost to the corner, and with a perfect centre placed it so that Fazackerley easily headed into the net. Then Spaven almost equalised, for Fern had to fall to keep out a fine shot. Play was keen, and both sides played sparkling football. The forwards were not afraid to shoot, and a clever thrust by Tinsley was rather faultily cleared by McDonald. A moment later Hart fell back to prevent Spaven advantage of a clever run and centre by Martin. At twenty minutes, however, Chadwick added a second goal, and in doing so he took advantage of Jones, who was busy fastening his boots when Chadwick fastened on to a long forward pass and went through to score with a long drive. Everton continued to show capital work, and the pace was certainly very keen. Spaven reduced the lead by snapping up a chance that might have escaped a slower moving forward. The ball appeared to be going wide of the Everton goal when Spaven deftly shot hard into the net. Near the interval Chadwick missed a glorious chance provided by Fazackerley. He was slow to appreciate the position, and allowed Armstrong to clear. When the game was resumed after the interval Chadwick missed another chance through hesitating, and Neils was likewise robbed by Hart under similar conditions. Williams scored a third goal for Everton at fifth-four minutes. It was a fine shot and a clever individual effort on the part of Williams, as he had to dash between the Notts backs before taking aim. Chadwick scored again at seventy-five minutes; but much to the credit belonged to Williams, who made the gaol possible through his persistent tackling of Parker. Two minutes later Spaven added a second for Notts –the result of a brilliant dribble and shot. Teams: - Everton: - Fern, goal, Raitt, and McDonald, backs, Peacock, Fleetwood, and Hart (captain), half-backs, Chedgzoy, Fazackerley, Chadwick, Williams, and Reid, forwards. Nottingham Forest: - Bennett, goal, Bulling, and Jones backs, Armstrong, Parker and Burton, half-backs, Gibson, Spaven, Neils, Tinsley, and Martin, forwards.

BURNLEY RESERVES 5 EVERTON RESERVES 2
October 30, 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury
CENTRAL LEAGUE
Burnley Reserves registered another victory over Everton Reserves by 5 goals to 2, and this result was hardly expected considering the strong visitors' team, and the run of the play. In the first half Everton were not so trustful as Burnley, and lost the advantage of some good field work Kemp was weak in goal whereas Moorwood on the other side was in good form. All the Burnley forwards, scored once, these being Waller, Wards, Lindsay, Richardson, and Fisher. Forbes and Wall scored Everton's goals in each half. Everton's shooting was very faulty.

ALFRED HARLAND SIGNS FOR EVERTON
October 30, 1922. The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury
The Everton club on Saturday signed Alfred Harland, the Irish International goalkeeper. Harland who is 23 years old, stands 5ft 10ins and weights 11 stone 7lbs, played this season for the Irish league against England league at Bolton and against the Scottish league at Glasgow, and for Ireland against England in the international match at West Brom on Saturday, when he gave a fine display. Harland went to Linfield towards the end of the 1919-20 season from Dummtry from which club Everton secured Robert Irvine their inside right. Harland assisted Linfield to win the Irish championship last year and seven additional trophies.

GRIT AND GOALS
Athletic News _Monday, October 30, 1922
EVERTON TAKE FULL REVENGE AGAINST THE FOREST
EVERTON 4 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 2
By Junius
Apart from the goals, the play in the match at Goodison Park was often crude, with an ultra-keenness about the proceedings that did not add to the attractiveness of the contest. There were enforced changes on both sides. Hardy, suffering from severe cold, was unable to make the journey from Nottingham, while Irvine had to stand down from the Everton team through an ankle injury sustained at practice during the week. Playing with wind behind them, Everton set out on a profitable plan of campaign by keeping the ball low, and after five minutes Reid centred beautifully for FAZACKERLEY to score with a perfect header. Within a minute Nelis was clean through, only to Fern dive at a terrific shot and save his charge when all appeared lost.
A NARROW ESCAPE
Severe pressure followed on the Everton goal which was almost lowered when McDonald, in attempting a clearance, flashed the ball just inches wide of the post. After twenty minutes CHADWICK put on a second point from a long forward pass by Fleetwood. Jones was attending to his footgear when this was happening, and before Bulling could get across the ball was the net. The first half scoring was completed by SPAVEN, who, receive from Gibson, drew out Fern, and shot into an untenanted goal. Five minutes after the interval WILLIAMS pounced upon a wide pass from Fazackerley, and tricking both backs took the ball to score with rising drive. Everton’s fourth goal was the direct result of Parker preferring to show what he could do with Williams rather than clear. The Evertonian got the better of the bout and centred square for CHADWICK to score. Within minute SPAVEN reduced lead with cleverly executed movement in which weaved round three of the defenders in turn, none of whom made much apparent effort to get to close quarters.
The Faults of the Forest.
There could be no questioning the fact that Everton were the better of two justaverage sides. The chief features of the Forest’s display were speed, determination and vigour, but of football of the real kind they showed but few glimpses. Their inability to keep the ball on the turf was often noticeable; they preferred to head and loft it, which did not help towards accuracy. The Everton forwards played well together, combining neatly, effectively, and making good progress. They were easily the more dainty, although their clever football was often nullified by the resolute tackling of Jones and Bulling, who kicked powerfully and occasionally extricated their side from difficult situations by heading out. Williams and Reid formed a strong wing, and were judiciously kept on the move by Hart, who was the finest half-back on view. Scarcely did he waste a ball, and frequently drove passes across to Chedgzoy, who was quite equal to making good use of them. Fazackerley, who has been out of the side since the opening game, was somewhat fitful. Occasionally he was too brainy for his own colleagues, and his best-laid gliding schemes led more than once to the opposing half-back obtaining possession. Chadwick led the line successfully but pace is not his strong asset, otherwise he must have increased his scoring account.
EVERTON’S SOUND DEFENCE
THE Forest forwards usually relied upon the long swinging method. Gibson showed a good turn of speed, and was occasionally tricky enough to circumvent McDonald. Spaven displayed much cleverness in ball control, indulging in many intricate movements, but as a rule he was generally well held by Hart. Nelis was a capable leader, but with very few exception there was a lack of cohesion in the line. Fleetwood shadowed the Forest leader to some purpose and like Parker, was a hard worker throughout. Raitt and McDonald maintained a cool, collected and effective defence, while Bulling and Jones were not averse to the one-back game to relieve pressure. Bennett had a big task, and was obviously ill at ease in the early stages. Later on, he improved out of recognition, and two of his saves towards the close were masterly. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart (Captain); Chedgzoy, Fazackerley, Chadwick, Williams, and Reid. Nottingham Forest; Bennett; Bulling, Jones; Armstrong, Parker, Burton; Gibson, Spaven, Nelis, Tinsley, and Martin. Referee; H. W. harper, Stourbridge.

AFTER SEVEN WEEKS!
Nottingham Journal -Monday, October 30, 1922
THE REDS BEATEN IN LUCKLESS GAME AT GOODISON
SPAVEN BRILLAINT
EVERTON 4, NOTTM FOREST 2
One of the brightest matches it has been my pleasure to witness for a long time was produced by the meeting of Forest and Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday afternoon. It was a game rich in incident, and full of movements worthy of First Division football. Unfortunately they were momentary lapses on the part of the Foresters which undoubtedly cost them a point, and their seven weeks’ unbeaten record. Indeed if the Reds’ defence had been as determined as their forwards were clever they might have added another victory to their list. Hardy’s absence made considerable difference. The famous goalkeeper is a personality apart from possessing remarkable talents, and he inspires the men in front of him with confidence. Generally, the defence played well, but there were moments in the game when they did not appear to be so confident as usual. Illness and injury, however, are bound to bring changes in teams, and in their fortunes on the field. The Everton attack, which was strengthen by the return of Fazackerley and Williams opened briskly and it was evident they intended to avenge the defeat at the City ground. Fazackerley used a hand quite early to assist him to accept a chance when in an off-side position, and to shoot past Bennet.
FAZACKERLEY’S GOAL
The infringements were obvious, and the referee did not wait, for Forest to appeal. He disallowed the advantage sought by the inside right, but the latter’s enterprise met with due reward at the end of six minutes. A hefty clearance enabled Reid to put across a centre which some goalkeepers probably would have endeavoured to “kill” by running out and punching away, but Bennett evidently took the view that it was wiser to remain on his goalline. Fazackerley met the ball with his head and it went into the net. From this point we saw the Forest forwards at their best, and to give Goodison Park people their due, they are a sporting crowd. Several times they cheered brilliant work by the Reds’ attack in which Tinsley stood out at one period as the best forward on the field. A brilliant dribble for position by Nelis almost brought the equaliser for the centre-forward gave Spaven a superb pass. The inside right who has come back to his best shooting form, sent in a good shot. As the ball was entering the net on Fern’s right the goalkeeper effected a magnificent save turning it round the post. The crowd had another thrill when Tinsley accepting a pass from Martin dribbled through in wonderful fashion. He was about to shoot when Peacock came tearing up at top speed and took the ball from his toe. Then we saw Everton add to their lead in a remarkable way. Some no doubt would call it a “gift goal.”
A LOOSE LACE
As Bulling took a free kick near the half-way line, Jones was on his knees adjusting a loose lace. The ball dropped at the feet of McDonald who promptly returned it down the middle of the field. Chadwick who was standing between the backs careered after it, and gain possession, he had a clear course for Jones was left behind and Bulling run across in the hope of catching the player but he was a moment too late. One felt sorry for Bennett because he had no chance with the shot, though some of the critics wondered why he did not run out to meet his opponent. The game was now 21 minutes old and Forest were playing quite as well, if not better than their hosts. Raitt and McDonald resorted to the “safety” game during a spell of heavy pressure but Tinsley and his colleges were in splendid form. A delightful run by Martin and Tinsley -the most cunning wing on view- enabled the latter to send in a brilliant shot which had Fern well beaten as it grazed the bar. The Liverpool critics frankly admitted that the Evertonians were lucky to be in possession of the lead, but so far it had been one of those games in which the more enterprising side met with the least luck. Forest maintained their liveliness, and every now and then Burton or Fred Parker came into prominence with a shot. A well-deserved goal came to Forest at the end of 31 minutes.
THE MARKSMAN
It was scored by Spaven, who going through in characteristic fashion, drew out Fern before driving home a sharp shot. The inside right (whose younger brother it is interesting to note has joined Forest) turned a somersault when he shot. A supreme chance to equalise came to Nelis immediately after the interval, it was Martin who provided it through the medium of a beautiful centre. Neither Raitt nor McDonald were near the centre forward when he secured the ball but the young Irishman instead of making a shot passed to Spaven whose drive was a trifle wide. If this opportunity had been turned in account, it is doubtful whether Forest would have lost. Their work in every department compared favourably with that of their hosts. Still it was Everton’s lucky day, and Williams who is a lively forward obliges with another goal with a clever shot. Another disappointment came along when Fred Parker fell in checking Williams. Although the half-back stopped the forward and dispossessed him, he could not get the ball away after falling. It was a simple task that feel to Chadwick when he received the ball right in front of Bennett and he adequately performed it. One admired the Foresters for their unflagging energy and pluck. They stuck to their opponents like leeches and battled bravely.
BEST OF SIX
Spaven’s last goal was the best of the six. He took the ball from a centre from Gibson and racing over to the left gave Fern another taste of his “non-stop” shots. Nelis, Fred Parker and Burton all made further endeavour to add to the Reds’ score, and Fern had quite a busy afternoon. He had more  shots to deal with than Bennett had, and he did his work well. Raitt and McDonald defended strongly and Fleetwood and his colleagues in the middle line were in splendid form. It was well for Everton that they were, for the Forest forwards have seldom shown more vim. The home forwards made the most of their chances, apart from which they rarely gave Bennett serious trouble. Chadwick, Chedgzoy and Williams were the most prominent, though on occasions Fazackerley did good work. The Forest forwards, as already stated were excellent, and the half-backs as a line were good. Burton played a game of outstanding merit, and Fred Parker and Armstrong worked hard. Bennett must not be discouraged by the misfortunes which came his way. He made several smart saves, and was unlucky to come into a game which had no luck for Forest. The attendance was estimated at 30,000. Everton; Fern; Raitt, McDonald; Peacock, Fleetwood, Hart; Chedgzoy, Fazackerley, Chadwick, Williams, and Reid. Notts Forest; Bennett; Bulling, Jones; Armstrong, Parker (F), Burton; Gibson, Spaven, Nelis, Tinsley, and Martin.  Referee Mr. W.P. Harper (Stourbridge)- J.R.S.

EVERTON TAKE HARLAND THE IRISH GOALKEEPER
The Liverpool Echo, Monday, October 30, 1922
Bee’s Notes
Everton have signed Harland, the Irish international goalkeeper. It is a wise move for the side have not been blessed with the very best in the last defending line. True, Fern has been an able and consistent goalkeeper for his side throughout his long term of service, but in the reserve team section there has been absence of surety, and with Salt breaking his collar-bone in a match at Anfield the club has been forced to make a move. Having seen Harland more times than other Liverpool pressmen, I can give you an “extended view” of his capabilities. Hence the following “picture” of the new Evertonian, who is only one of a number of Irishman who have figured well in the Everton backs- remember W. Scott, Lacey, Val Harris, Houston, Irvine, etc.  Harland is not an impressively looking goalkeeping when he is in mufti. Like Sam Hardy one would not judge him to be a grand goalkeeper. Actions speak louder than appearances, however, and Harland is known by his works. He was watched by Everton folk, I can state before ever he made a name in the English League-Irish League match at Bolton but on that occasion I recall that I told one Director. “Now’s your chance; you should not stop until you have got Harland.” Later when he was still unsighted, I went to the Bromwich ground and saw him give a remarkable exhibition in the first half, and it was this game that clinched matters. Many people have marvelled how the critic could say that England had a poor forward line, and in the same breath say that Harland did wonders. I said in my critique that it was all Harland against the English side. That was actually the case. It was not so much the number of shots that were applied against Harland, but the very awkwardness of these shots and the way he put the ball to safety. He has, like his compatriot William Scott, a fine idea of falling at the right second and handing out one-handed. His grip of the ball is very pronounced and he is of the type that does not waste time in closing-he copies Hardy in that he makes a save and clearance in one and the same action. Thus is his motto “Safety First.” At Bolton he saved one shot with his face -that was his only accidental save- all the rest were genuine and unfluky saves, and at the Albion ground he fared even better although not worked nearly so hard. When Chambers scored the first goal for England Harland was unsighted and still he went for the ball, and was an infinitesimal point too late for a ball that squeezed into the goal. Goal number two was one of Master Harry’s best, and all goalkeeper can be beaten by this kind of shot. 
Alfred Harland is twenty-three years old, 5ft 10in, and weighs 11st 7lbs. He went to Linfield towards the end of the 1919-1920 season from Dunmurry, from which club Everton secured Irvine, their inside right Championship last year, and seven additional trophies.
AND ANOTHER SIGNING?
Apparently there are other things in the air beside a cold nip. A Scottish correspondent says that Everton are still beat upon getting J. McDonald, the Airdrie pivot. This strapping centre-half is just an inch short of 6ft in height and he weighs 12st. Up to the week-end no centre forward had scored against Airdrie, and Scots say that this was due to McDougall’s work. Irvine by the way has been down with a bad ankle, and Bill Lacey on Saturday told me that he believed he would be right for play in a fortnight. Harry Lewis has been ill through tonsilitis, I am told that his younger brother is doing grand work for Clover’s.
Everton, it is plain are justifying the suggestions that have been made fairly often in this column that they are not as bad as their record points them. At home they have done remarkably well, for only the Liverpool game has been lost, and the other games have shown them up in a bright light; and no one can gainsay that the local Derby game at Goodison did not reveal Everton in a favourable light. On Saturday against a nippy old-fashioned side. Nottingham Forest, to wit, the Everton followers pulled up their socks as it were and hammered away till they gained a pretty solid victory. It was a victory to enjoy if not to be unduly proud of, because there was so much offside tactics in it that it became a well-cut engagement. It was all whistle and little wool. As a fact I am not against a full back using his brains-and have given my reasons for not crying out against such tactics -but I think that Saturday’s exhibition was a pointer against forwards who cannot keep behind the ball. They study the man too much and do not finish sufficiently about the position of the ball. When a pair of them go off in a march up the man who has not the ball invariably cuts in front of his pal and thus creates the danger of offside. Look to the ball, lads! Keep your eye on it!
RULES AND PLAYERS
This was not the only thing the players could be condemned for on Saturday. Take the case of the centre-forward of the opposition side, who restarted the game at centre and touched the ball twice! I should have thought that the Irish international would have known the rule on the point. Yet he conceded a free kick. Then there were men throwing in and lifting some part of the feet off the line, while there were others who were catching the ball for a throw-in before the ball had actually crossed the line. It was not a game well handled, and it was a game that would be awkward to handle, because there was little combination between the referee and his linesmen, the latter seeming to be in difficulties I certainly don’t know why the opening goal was disallowed. It looked as if it was for off-side, but Fazackerley was yards onside when he shot, and the goal was a good one. However, in the end, the Everton forwards kept up the fire, and thus won the day. They have done what no other side has done to the Forest defence and admitting it was Bennett in goal instead of Hardy, the old Liver man being down with a chill, the fact remains that the Forest defence was harassed into goals and the backs did not shape too well. I don’t like Bulling, and Jones seems to take things very easily. I think Parker a bonny centre-half working and willing, and Burton was even better, because he was so artistic. Forward the Forest had no life when Spavin was not working. What a bonny little fetcher and carrier this boy is! He is very like Danny Shea in build, but not quite so stout. What I like about Spavin is his close dribble, his practical measure of those in front of him, and the instant way he hits a ball. This forward takes the ball as it comes and does not want it pitted ands patted before he drives. Hence his goal getting successes. He scored two for Forest while none of the others looked like getting a solitary goal, Martin being much below par and Nelis again disappointing.
THE WINNERS
Everton merit congratulations on an even-balanced side’s victory. Chadwick at centre may not be an Irvine in quick-thinking, but he keeps his place, works slowly, and hits the ball hard. I notice a tendency on his part to shoot with the left only. He should cultivate the right foot, for no centre can afford to take time to “change his feet.” He is big, and with Fazackerley on his side he doubtless began to learn some niceties of play. Fazackerley played quite good stuff throughout, and if one obliterates the occasions when he is inclined to be short with his passes through applying screw to a ball that is on the move, we are still left with the delight of his work and know that his work helped to bring goals. Some doubted the wisdom of bringing back Williams. Not having been at Nottingham, who hall dare to say? Certainly Williams and Davie Reid made a very useful wing, and Reid never wasted one ball, and made numerous centres of takeable value. Chedgzoy, perhaps not consistent was on his toes, and behind him was a solid half-back line that was not afraid to go out and help defence or attack. Peacock was one such, and Hart, I though, played his best and most balanced game this season. Fleetwood was just the same “Tom” as ever. He gets himself into knots, and does not pass accurately, but by Jove, it has to be a clever centre who can wade past him, his tackle being so deadly. Both the backs shaped admirably, with Raitt perhaps the more solid. McDonald, however, lent much aid, and Fern early on made a clearance from a shot that I for one thought must beat him.

INTERNATIONAL GOALIE FOR EVERTON
Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 31 October 1922
HARLAND'S SIGNATURE SECURED.
Everton have secured the transfer of A. Harland, the Linfield and Irish International goalkeeper, at a fee stated to be in the region of  £1,500.  It's is Harland's second season in senior football.  He appeared in three Irish representation games this month within ten days, the inter League games at Bolton and Glasgow and the international at Birmingham. 

IRISH INTERNATIONAL GOALKEEPER FOR ENGLAND.
Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 31 October 1922
Harland of Linfield Transferred to Everton.
Everton have secured the transfer A. Harland, the Linfield and Irish international goalkeeper, at a fee  stated to be in the region of £1500. It is Harland's second season in senior football. He appeared in three Irish representative games this month within ten days, the inter-League games at Bolton and Glasgow and the international at Birmingham. Aston Villa were also negotiating for Harland's services. Harland was the outstanding player the international, and his goalkeeping saved his country from much heavier defeat. Two seasons ago he was junior with Dunmurry in the same club from which Everton secured Irvine, their Irish international inside right.

HARLAND’S ABILITY TO PLAY AT CENTRE
The Liverpool Echo- Tuesday, October 31, 1922
Bee’s Notes in Northern Ireland football circles the news of Alf Harland’s capture by Everton has occasioned regret at the loss of a brilliant player, but little if any surprise. His career, is not meteoric, has been featured by rapid progress to the front rank and by conspicuous consistency like not a few other Linfield men of note. His abilities are not confined to one position, but he has shone equally in forward play, as he has in his later career as a custodian native of White Abbey. Alfred Harland joined up in the big war with the 12th (mid-Antrim) Batt, of the Royal Irish (Now Ulster) Rifles, and in the intervals off duty in the trenches displayed ability as a sharpshooter in the centre forward position of his company team. On leaving the Army he displayed brilliant form in junior ranks for Dunmurry, and it was due to his services to this club as goalkeeper, enabling them to win Steel and Sons’ Cup, that Linfield spotted and secured him for their ranks before his promotion to junior status. Harland had the distinction of keeping goal for the Juniors of Ireland against Scotland.
As an officer of the Royal Ulster Special Constabulary, Harland has been occupying a responsible position in connection with the guard of the Northern Ireland Parliament House, Belfast.
In conversation with our Belfast representative, Harland said he had made arrangements to sail for Liverpool on Wednesday night. Of a modest disposition, he speaks with reserve of his prospects with the great club he is joining, but declares he will do his best and the best can do no more. Those who know him intimately in Belfast football circles have no hesitation in declaring that he will fully justify the confidence of the Goodison Park management. He has to-day placed his resignation with the constabulary authorities.  Kemp, the recently signed goalkeeper of the Everton Club, was said to be from S.S Simon and Jude’s Crawford’s A.F.C point out that Kemp was captain of their first team last season, and played in the early part of the season, when he was signed, and after recovery, refused to turn his deputy out of the team, going to SS Simon and Jude’s for a while eventually returning to Crawford’s with whom he finished the season. Kemp is a Crawford’s player.
THANKS
I wish says Councillor Harry Walker, to express my sincere thanks through you to the directors and officials of the Everton and Liverpool Football clubs and the supporters of both clubs for their generous response to my appeal made through your columns on behalf of the widow and children of the late Mr. Inman, who met with such a tragic death at the Liverpool football ground. The publicity given to the appeal in your notes always open to every good cause, stimulated public interest, which will result in a good sum being realised. This will be some comfort to the widow and orphans in the sad loss they have sustained by the untimely end of the bread-winner. Again many thanks “Bee” for your practical support to those in need.

 

October 1922