SUCCESS OF LOCAL CYCLISITS.
June 3 1893. Leicester Chronicle
At the Everton Football Club sports on Saturday, A.W. Harris continued his long winning sequence by carrying off the first prize in a two-mile scratch race.
A RESIGNATION
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 03 June 1893
By Richard Samuel
The announcement of Mr. Jackson's resignation came as a great surprise Evertonians. Mr. Jackson has been an associated with the Everton club almost from its infancy. He has seen some ups and downs in connection with the club, but has manfully kept his post. He was one of the guarantors Mr. Houlding, when the latter secured for the club the Anfleld site, and he had not much encouragement to fill this responsible position, for the first “gate” on this site only realized £1 14s. 10d. He has now the satisfaction of retiring after seeing the magnificent sum £765 taken under the auspices of the Everton club; In other words he has seen the revenue of the club increased from £300 per annum to between £9,000 and £10,000 per annum. In all Mr. Jackson has put in 13 years’ service, and deserves well of the club, at the time of the split took the side of the majority of members. I remember looking over the well-kept volumes of the Football Field at the Sandon Hotel, and I find his son at the time of his death in 1885 was goalkeeper for the second eleven of the Everton club. Mr. Jackson resigns through his business engagements, but he leaves the club as a first-rate going concern and not in a sinking state.
NUGGETTS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 03 June 1893
DEATH OF A HALLIWELL FOOTBALLER IN AMERCIA
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 03 June 1893
James Wilding, who was formerly connected with the Halliwell Jubilee F.C but who some considerable time ago left for America, has died as Frankford, Philadelphia; whither he had taken up his abode at the early age of 31 years. Whilst there he had trained considerable popularity as a footballer, having joined the Frankford club, the members of which greatly deplore his death and the loss they have sustained thereby. Two hundred of his friends followed his remains to their last resting place, whilst numerous floral embletus, including one from the club with which he was connected, testified to the respect in which he was held.
THE GROVES INCIDENT
Athletic News - Monday 05 June 1893
It would not be wise to speak too abruptly as to the proceedings in connection with the arrangements in relation William Groves, the clever half-back and centre-forward of West Bromwich Albion. Just now the relations between Aston Villa and the Albion are strained pretty severely over the matter, and all sorts of wild talk is being indulged in; but there can be no question about two things. The Villa secretary was shockingly slow in the first place in not going about the business in a less haphazard way than he did, and that the Albion are to blame in not declaring at once that Groves had been transferred to Everton, instead of allowing their love of lucre to tempt them to temporize and attempt the impossible feat of sitting on two stools. There is no doubt that the West Bromwich officials were overwhelmingly jealous of the Villa getting hold of one of the best men they ever had; and yet at least one of them would have liked to have handled the extra money offered for his club. As the matter stands, it does not redound greatly to the honour of the ex-Cup-holders, and if the friction at present so acute is allowed to remain it will be very much to the detriment of the Albion club, who have far more to lose than the Villa by being in bad odour with their neighbours. It is to be hoped for the credit of the game that some amicable arrangement will be made engender kindlier feelings than now prevail.
LIVERPOOL DISTRICT AND NOTES
Athletic News - Monday 05 June 1893
By the Loiterer
Three directors of the Everton Club retire at the annual meeting-that is, two in addition to Mr. Jackson, and already the fight for the positions promises to be keen. I hear of no fewer than five candidates, and I suppose the old directors will put up, so that the general meeting will be a lively affair. I rather fancy the seats would not be in such great demand were the club in a less favourable financial state. I know there is no great anxiety shown for seats on the Bootle directorate.
NUGGETS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 10 June 1893
STANLEY V NEWTON-LE-WILLIOWS (Cricket)
June 12, 1893. The Liverpool Mercury
The great feature of the match was the grand battling of R. Williams, the popular Everton goalkeeper, who compiled 60 in a brilliant manner he putting the ball out of the ground on more than one occasion. F. Geary, another Everton football expert, also battled prettily and successfully for 31. R. Williams, demonstrating that he was in bowling as well as in batting form, wrought confusion and secured four wickets for 14 runs only.
ALEX STEWART
Lincolnshire Echo - Friday 16 June 1893
We Understand that the Forest Executive have signed Alexander Stewart, left half-back, late of Everton, whose good play in the English Cup against Shaw and “Tich” Smith was such a noticeable feature.
THE EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB.
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 17 June 1893
In regard tothe final statement showing the winding up of the affairs of the Everton Football Club,we are informed Messrs. T. Theodore Rogers and Co.. the auditors, that the various items in that statement are now merged accounts the Football Club Company, Limited.
EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 17 June 1893
FINANCIAL RESULTS OF THE YEAR
COMPLETE AND DETAILED STATEMENT
By the kindness of the directors of the Everton Football Club company, Limited we are enabled to furnish our readers with a complete copy of their balance sheets, the first dealing with the winding-up of the old club, and the second setting forth in detail the income and expenditure of the new company for the ten months ending 29th April. A very slight perusal of the figures will show that the directors although meeting considerable opposition, were justified in every step which they took to extend the influence and reputation of the club as an organisation of the first importance in the country. The annual meeting of the company will be held on Monday the 26th inst, when the directors will recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum on the paid-up capital. The Statements of accounts are as follow;-
DICK WILLIAMS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 17 June 1893
By Richard Samuel
The Stanley Club
“Dick” Williams is doing splendid work for this club, for against Newton on Saturday the popular Everton goalkeeper was top scorer with 60, and in addition took four wickets for 14 runs. This he further supplemented by scoring 43 against Walton on Wednesday and took seven wickets at a small cost. Geary in the first named match, scored 31, while another footballer Bradshaw, who by the bye, has not done much this season, took two wickets.
Now is the time for setting up accounts. By this time this is in print the Everton balance sheet will be published, and will be found interesting reading. The turnover is enormous and although several items will be severely criticized at the meeting on Monday, the 16th inst., the directors are in the favourable position of showing a splendid balance in hand. Three directors retire, and I notice they are Messrs, Mahon, Currier, and Jackson. Well, well! This will do away with some keen opposition that was threatened.
NUGGETS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 17 June 1893
YEARS FINANCES OF THE EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB
June 17, 1893. The Liverpool Mercury
The balance-sheet of the Everton Football Club Company, Limited, during the ten months of its existence shows that the receipts have amounted to £10,892 13s, 10d, the chief items in which have been –Gate receipts, £8815 19s, 1d,; proceeds of matches played away, £1099 10s. 3d; profits from athletic sports, £322 17s 5d; and season tickets £390 13s, 6d. Players ‘wages and bonuses have amounted to £3539 1s, 6d; amount paid to visiting clubs £1595 1s 6d.; amount paid to visiting clubs, £1595 1s, 6d; amount paid to visiting clubs, £1595 1s 2d; travelling expenses, 11s, 9d.; gate expenses and wages, £462 10s, 9d; entertaining visiting clubs, &c, and sundry expenses', £125 17s. A balance of £1814 7s 5d, remains in hand on the working accent shows that the stands, hoarding, and erections at Goodison park cost the company £3820 16s 6d, of which £764 3s 2d, had already been paid off. The directors recommend the payment of a divided at the rate of 5 per cent, on the called up capital.
EVERTON BALANCE SHEET
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 24 June 1893
By Richard Samuel
The Everton balance sheet has been favourably received on the whole, but the meeting on Monday evening next promises to be as lively as any of its predecessors. I take it that Mr. Mahon will have no difficulty in retaining his seat on the board, but over the two other vacancies there will be a stiffest fight. Mr. Currier intends going to the poll, and the only objection to him, as far as I can gather, is that he has not attended so well. It should be borne in mind that for a long time he suffered from illness during the winter, whilst lately he has been in London on business. Mr. Jackson, of course, does not intend to seek re-election, and the fight for the two vacancies promises to be keen. As regards the balance-sheet itself I am fairly well satisfied. Several items are large, but it must be borne in mind the club had to contend with a strong opposition throughout the season, and with their revenue they could afford to be a bit lavish in their expenditure. Probably another year several items will be considerably less. It must be satisfactory to the shareholders to receive a dividend of five per cent., and to carry such an excellent amount forward to next year, besides having paid off a fifth of the stands account. The only thing that I am disappointed in is that out of all this money expended the club have nothing to show to the sporting world. Barring the West Bromwich Charity cup not a single trophy has been won by the club, and, however well the club has been financed this must be a source of disappointment to many. All the honours of the game have gone to clubs having nothing like the support we have, and to my mind the shareholders would do well to get men who understand the game on the directorate. Better results ought to have been obtained out of the money expended on the club.
EVERTON CLUB
Athletic News - Monday 26 June 1893
The annual meeting of the Everton Football Club will be held to-night, and we understand there will be the usual fight for seats on the directorate. In towns where football has been popular for many years the difficulty is to find persons willing to accept positions on the committee, but at Everton matters are different, and there is generally a regular scramble. If the funds were low perhaps there would not be the same anxiety displayed.
NEW GOALKEEPER FOR EVERTON
Glasgow Evening Post - Tuesday 27 June 1893
It is said that Roger Ord, a clever goalkeeper belonging to the Shankhouse Football Club will play for Everton next season.
EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB
June 27, 1893. The Liverpool Mercury
The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Everton Football Club Company, Limited, was held last evening at the Presbyterian Schools, Royal-Street, under the presidency of Mr. George Mahon. The report and accounts, were submitted. A dividend of 5 per cent, per annum was recommended on called-up capital, and Messrs, Mahon, Currier, and Jackson, retiring directors, were proposed for re-election. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said the club had passed through a crisis. Notwithstanding that, he regarded the balance sheet as one of a memorable character. One side of the balance sheet recalled reminiscences of a troublesome past, while the other side showed strong traces of the old club, and offered a cheerful augury of a successful future. He claimed that the balance sheet was a distinct and able vindication of the part which they had all along assumed. They had endeavoured to conduct the club on broad and liberal lines. They had catered for working men to a more liberal extent than any other club in the country, providing for those who could not afford out of their small weekly wages to pay a shilling to see the League matches. He drew the attention of other League clubs, which now complained of inadequate support to the way in which the Everton club had been rewarded for providing the accommodation for the working classes. Alluding to some private meetings which had taken place, he said the directors did not approve of such meeting, and with reference to the proposed divided he said he would prefer that 100 per cent, should be declared instead of 8 per cent. A member second the resolution and after considerable discussion the motion was agreed to. The next subject discussed was the question of dividend, and on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Montgomery, it was resolved that the dividend of 5 per cent should be declared. According to the rules a dividend of a higher rate could not be declared. Messrs, Mahon, Currie, and Jackson were the retiring directors, and the meeting proceeded to consider these denominations.
Mr. Mahon, the chairman, said the matter had been one of serious import to him taken from a health standpoint. For the greater portion of the past 18 months he had not been up to the mark, and he felt that for the next six or twelve months he should conserve his strength to perform the obligations imposed upon him. At the same time he had discussed matters with his directors, and what he might call terms had been arrived at, which Mr. Clayton would explain.
Mr. Clayton said what he had you propose was that in the ensuing year Mr. George Mahon be president of the club, with full power to attend any meeting of the directors, but the directors would not call upon him to attend all the meetings. This was agreed to. Messrs. Currier and Jackson having declined to stand, the meeting proceeded to vote on the nominations of Messars B.Kelly, John Read, Frank Hall, and William Wilson. Messrs, Kelly and Read were elected, receiving respectively 79 and 51 votes. The meeting shortly afterwards closed.
ROGER ORD
JUNE 27, 1893. Nottingham Evening Post
It is said that Roger Ord, a clever goalkeeper belonging to the Shankhouse Football Club, will play for Everton next season.
EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB COMPANY, LIMITED
Liverpool Daily Post - Thursday 29 June 1893
The annual meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on Tuesday, in the Presbyterians Schools, Royal Street. Mr. George Magon presided, and there was a very good attendance of shareholders. The balance-sheet, which has already been published and a copy of which in each case, was the shareholder’s credential of entrance to the meeting, was submitted. The Chairman, in his opening remarks, said that the club had passed through a crisis such as he ventured to think no other club in the country had ever to undergo (hear, hear). The directors that evening presented to the shareholders a memorable and unique balance-sheet. On one side they had many reminiscences of the painful past, while on the other they had the augury of a brilliant and successful future (applause). He claimed that the balance-sheet presented was a justification and a complete vindication of the position the directors had taken up all over the line (hear, hear). He did not want to refer to many of the matters which were past, but he thought that the figures of the balance-sheet before them set out in bold relief the fallacy of the absurd and melancholy prognostications of failure so sedulously propagated by those whose interests lay in another quarter. It had been no child’s play for the directors, who had adopted a bold and aggressive policy through compulsion (hear, hear). That policy had resulted in increased benefit to the club both financially and as regarded the attendance at the various matches (hear, hear). They had at the same time endeavoured to conduct the club on what he would call exceedingly broad liberal lines. They had also catered for the working man to a greater extent then, he ventured to think, any club throughout the country (hear, hear) by providing covered stands for shelter to those who could not afford to pay a shilling at the League matches. In this connection he wished to draw the attention of some of the other League clubs to the policy Everton had adopted in thus catering for the working men. Some of these League clubs had very poor accommodation, consisting of what he would call bacon-boxes broken up (laughter). Would it not, he asked, be finically and otherwise better for those clubs who grumbled about lack of funds to adopt the policy introduced by Everton? Everton, at all events, found it paid; and why should not they? Alluding to the balance-sheet and to its first item of £154 8s 9d for law costs, he remarked that it was a serious thing to be drawn into the vortex of the law, but he claimed on behalf of the directors that it was not their fault. The law was forced upon them, and what they did was done in self-defence. Financially, these lawsuits had been beneficial to the club. With regard to the gate receipts, he said it was exceedingly satisfactory to find them in an increased amount to the extent of 60 per cent, over those of last year (hear, hear, and applause). League as these figures were, his hope and belief was that with careful and judicious management, the club had not yet reached its zenith by a long way (hear, hear, and applause). As regarded season tickets they had issued the largest number for any year during the club’s existence, the total being 810, as against 590 in the previous year. There was also a corresponding increase in the sale of programmes. With regard to the expenses, he said that they had been incurred in carrying out a broad and liberal policy, as opposed to one of shilly-shally, and they desired to do all they could for the public charities in the future (hear, hear, and applause). As to the number of the League clubs, he said the proposition to increase them was lost through equal voting. For his own part, he preferred to see the number of League clubs increased, and the number of society clubs reduced as unprofitable. Regarding the future, he wanted to see the club placed on a firm foundation before they spent what might be called “extra;” but he would like to see in the near future a clubhouse where not only their players, but shareholders, might meet from time to time. The question for another reserved stand would also have to be considered, the directors being alive to all these questions. They ought also to have the telegraph on the ground. As to the efficiently of the players, he said they were in a satisfactory condition for commencing next season’s work (applause). He claimed that the club was in a very satisfactory position, financially and otherwise. One point he remarked that it was an ungracious act for any section of the members to take upon themselves the onus of calling together a section of the members (hear, hear, and loud applause) to discuss the names of those whom they though should be placed upon the directorate, thought he admitted that he believed the gentlemen who did so were acting with the best intentions. With regard to the dividend, the directors proposed to pay 5 per cent. He concluded by moving the adoption of the balance- sheet, and by inviting questions.
A question was asked by Mr. Nelson, a shareholder, as to the trainers’ expenses and charges having risen from £137 odd to £300 odd, and whether the training was better than that of the previous year?
The question was answered by many shareholders exclaiming in chorus, “Yes, certainly.”
The Chairman added that they must not forget that the players were away at Hoylake training for cup ties (applause).
On being seconded and put to the meeting, the balance-sheet was unanimously adopted. Afterwards, by a large majority, the proposed 5 per cent dividend was passed, against an amendment put forward by Mr. Ashton, a shareholder, for allowing it to remain in the accounts till next year.
The Chairman was cordially thanked for his services during the year. To a proposition to re-elect him, he replied that, owing to indifferent health, he had desired to retire from the directorate, but had yielded to the wish of the directors for a compromise.
Mr. Clayton’s resolution, electing Mr. Mahon as president of the club, with full power to attend and vote at any of the meetings, a seat on the board being reserved for that purposes, was carried unanimously. The other two vacancies on the board, caused by the retirement of Messrs. Currier and Jackson were ultimately filled up by the election of Mr. Benjamin Kelly and Mr. John Reid.
