EVERTON METHODS
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 04 July 1961
By Leslie Edwards
John Meade, of Hillcliffe Lodge, Acrefteld Road, Wootton, writes —ln a paper last week Manager Harry Catterick was quoted as saying "I don't want a side who play pretty football and lose; I want an effective team-a  team that will win?" Does this mean that Everton must win at all costs, sacrificing the good football that most Everton supporters are proud of?  Real Madrid have done well sticking to pretty football He also said we need more method in the team.  I think the methods Everton employed against Cardiff and Arsenal will suit most of us.  Are Everton to adopt the crash - bang methods of Wolves and Sheffield Wednesday! These are questions every Everton supporter wants answered. I am pleased to read that Roy Vernon has re-signed for the club.  On his day he is a brilliant player. I hope Alex Young Is not spoiled by playing him here, there and everywhere.  He has proved without a shadow of doubt that be is the best footballing centre forward in Great Britain. 

THE FORGOTTEN MAN WHO TRAINS ALONE…
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 05 July 1961
By Leslie Edwards
The forgotten man of football that's Tom Ring, the one-time Scottish international forward whose deceptive, drifting left-wing technique did so much lost season and the season before to revolutionise Everton. They were going great guns of Stamford Bridge last season when he fell in collision with the goalkeeper and suffered the broken leg which threatened to end his career.  There were long months of treatment; longer months of convalescence and then a practice game or two which gave no indication whether or not we should be seeing him in action again in the senior side.  Where is Ring now?  I am glad to say still with us; still progressing and doing his preparation for next season “in solitary confinement” at Goodison Park with all his team-mates, and many of the training and coaching start, absent on holiday. Doing your hour to hour and a half training stint every day alone at Goodison Park must be rather lonely, but Ring, cheerful as he is determined to get back to big-time football (and the shekels it brings) does it light-heartedly and quite willingly. Such close-season enthusiasm deserves reward. There is nothing Everton fans would like better than to see this remarkable little man sending defenders the wrong way again next season and contributing his share to the artistry one expects from the Everton team in these enlightened days. One of the features of the Everton attack next term, I believe, will be the ability of all three inside-forwards to change positions as circumstances dictate. They will wear shirts numbered 8. 9 and 10, but don't expect to see them slavishly maintain their Programme places. This fluid system was introduced with success at Anfield in pre-war days by Manager George Kay, who had Fagan, Balmer and others inter-changing continually to the detriment of defences not always alive to the system of switching. The war killed the plan and Liverpool's excellent prospects at that time and it has never been worked meantime with quite the same success.

HULL MANAGER
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 12 July 1961
Mr. Cliff Britton Appointed
Mr. Cliff Britton, former manager of Burnley, Everton and Preston, has been appointed manager of Hull City F.C. He succeeds Mr. Bob Brocklebank, who resigned last May after six years with the club. Mr Britton, who won 13 England caps at wing –half, helped Everton to win the Second and First Division championships and the F.A. Cup early in the 1930's. When football resumed after the war, he was appointed manager of Burnley and later spent four years with Everton before taking over at Preston in August 1956. He resigned from this post just before the' end of last season, when relegation from the First Division was already a certainty for Preston.

ALEX YOUNG LEAVES ARMY-MARRIES IN MIDLOTHIAN
Monday, July 17, 1961. The Liverpool Daily Post
By Peter Price
Alex Young Everton’s Scottish international centre-forward, who may well be among the most published and lionised players in the country in the coming months, looks like being a reluctant hero, judging by the precautions he took to ensure that his wedding to twenty-two-yards-old blonde Miss Nancy Smith, at Newton Grange, Midlothian on Saturday, should go unpublicised and a most entirely unattended.  Only a bare minimum of relatives and personal friends saw him speak into the church through a little used rear entry, but Alex did not quite get away with it.  The news has leaked out, but at least he achieved part of the objective –that his fame as a footballer should not be allowed to take away the privacy of this day in a life-time.  Mr. James Stark of Hearts Supporters Club, told me; “We knew nothing about it which was a pity, for he was one of the greatest favourites around here.  If only the fans had known there would have been quite a crowd.”  Which seems to suggest that Alex has scored again! 
JUST PLAIN MR. YOUNG
It was as plain Mr. Alex Young that the international took his marriage vows, for he severed his connection with the Army on Wednesday last, and with a certificate to advertise his undoubted merit, left for Scotland on Thursday night, before starring in his private match on Saturday.  Young is expected to return to Liverpool next Sunday, a few days after his colleagues get together, on Tuesday morning at Goodison Park.  Hi s new house is in the final stages of completion, although it may be a few weeks before the house-warming is helped on its way with his Everton colleagues this time in attendance. 

‘OUT TO IMPROVE THE TEAM ALL THE TIME”
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 18 July 1961
-HARRY CATTERICK
By Leslie Edwards
The football close season seems to contract, mysteriously, year by year. It is only a few weeks since Everton stopped kicking a ball in New York (some of their opponents preferred kicking players): yet they were reporting back for the new season this morning. For the party which will travel back to the United States at the end of the month for the final of the New York tourney training will be less severe than for those who have had a longer break. Everton's senior side should be in better practice at the season's start than any other in the country, since except for a few weeks' holiday recently, they have scarcely broken training. Good as Everton's team is and promising though their chances are, Manager Harry Catterick not sitting complacently waiting for the new season to begin. We are out to improve our team all the time; if there are any top-class players for transfer and we think they might improve our strength we should be after them." he told us. Everton have never had such a strong side and one more likely to win either Cup or League, or both, but it does not necessarily follow that there will be success all the way. The better your team the more likely it is to have players with temperaments to the "handled." This is the greatest problem of contemporary management. The manager who employs "big stick" methods is not necessarily master when the players get on the field. Mr. Catterick, himself an old Everton player, knows the form at Goodison Park, is a disciplinarian and had remarkable results with his previous club. Nevertheless, he still tackles a difficult task since it is clear that success and only success will satisfy the Everton authority.
COMPLAINTS DEPARTMENT
Here are readers with complaints:— The first. Mr. A. Hudson, of 33 Woodchurch Road, Stoneycroft, says: I have been watching in your notes to see if anyone would start the ball roiling about the price of admission to football matches, and what effect they will have on the pockets of old-age pensioners. “Whenever I go to Everton I nearly always find someone else who has been supporting the club for anything up to 40 and 50 years. It is there people and their support who have made Everton what they are.  “I suggest that Mr. John Moores should return this to these people, many of them now old-age pensioners, by letting them in at a reduced fee.  I would draw his attention to the club Scunthorpe United, who have arranged for old-age pensioners to have season tickets for £2 12s 6d. Cannot something similar be done at Everton.   
On the same topic Mr. J. Callagher (40 Lynsted Road, Liverpool 14) says this:  “Now that Everton, in common with other clubs, are raising their prices for ground, paddock and stands I hope they will spare a thought for the many old age supporters who have supported the club for years through bad times and good, and who, now the club shows signs of achieving great things in the coming season, will by reason of the higher entrance charges find it hard If not impossible, to see their club achieve the success they have always, hoped for. Now season tickets are available for the ground, Paddock and stands, it should be possible for the club to assist Veteran supporter to follow the team at their home games by some form of reduced payment and thereby earn the gratitude and continued support of their old and long-serving supporters.  
From Treasure Island (not Robert Louts Stevenson's). St. Petersburg 6, Florida. Mr. Albert H. Hewlett (whose brother Walter lives at 545 East Prescot Road) says:  was watching a television showing of Everton playing in New York and noted that the non-replacement rule was still in effect when a player was injured and had to leave the field.  In America replacements are used in such circumstances and thus twenty-two players are on the field at all times.;  when I lived in Liverpool I went to Goodison Park frequently during the playing says of Sam Chedgzoy and gave my opinion than that the no-substitution rule was wrong.  It is not fair to the public who support football or to teams who may lose a championship or a cup through having a player injured.” 

EVERTON PLAYERS REPORT AT GOODISON
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 18 July 1961
NEW TRAINER TAKES OVER
YOUNG ABSENT
By Leslie Edwards
July 18 and out came the sun and Everton's £2.000 a year—plus footballers! They reported for training at Goodison Park to meet their new trainer - coach Torn Egglestone, formerly of Harry Catterick's Sheffield Wednesday staff, and to learn that Bobby Collins has been made captain for the season in succession to long-serving Tom Jones. The plus of the £2,000 salary Everton first-teamers will draw will come from the contingency clause giving them an extra £1 per week for each thousand spectators over 40,000 attending their matches up to January 31 and £1 per week each thousand in excess of 35,000 from the beginning of February to the end of the season. It is felt that the lower figure of 35,000 when attendances tend to decrease, will be even greater incentive to players at the back end to attract, customers. The only professional missing was Scottish international centre-forward Alex Young who is honeymooning in Scotland and who will join his team-mates next Monday. Club chairman, Mr. John Moores and new manager, Mr. Harry Catterick, once a player with Everton, were at Goodison Park to welcome the players. Mr. Moores congratulated the team on winning their section of the New York tourney—the Final for which they return to the United States at the end of this month—and complimented Leslie Shannon and his Youth .team on reaching the Final of the Youth Cup. He hoped the club would have great success next season and said, as one who had campaigned for better wages, he thought that it was up to the players to fulfil their part of the bargain.
TEAM SPIRIT CALL
Mr. Moores spoke of the introduction to the staff of Tom Eggleston and asked for team spirit and discipline. Players should be proud to wear the Everton shirt and he wanted the team to be a great one, worthy of the club's traditions. When the players had left for their first spell of training, with the harder schedule for players who had not taken part in the American tour. Mr. Moores spoke of Everton's £77,000 "in the red" and said that every economy must be made to wipe out that figure.  Everton have decided not to enter for the Football League Cup next season. They feel that their arduous American trip, plus the busy programme of Football League and F.A Cup matches, preclude the possibility of their entering another competition. There will be no public practice match at Goodison Park next month for the same reason.

EVERTON AND LIVERPOOL NOT TO PLAY IN LEAGUE CUP COMPETITION
Wednesday, July 19, 1961 The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
Everton and Liverpool it was announced yesterday, will not take part in the Football League Cup competition this season.  Apparently the attempts to introduce some sort of order to replace the chaos of the first attempt last season have come too late to convince the Merseyside clubs that the competition is worthwhile, either monetarily of from the interest view-point.  Everton take the view that the American football tour, plus a return to play the final on August 3 in Montreal and on the 6th in New York, plus the strain of making an all-out effort to make this a memorable season in both League and Cup, will tax the players’ stamina sufficiently, without adding extraneous matches of no great importance.  Manager Harry Catterick takes the view that he would have liked to have given his players a longer holiday away from all thoughts of football but this has not been possible.  Although there is no sort of official guidance on the point, I would not be in the least surprised if Everton were reluctant to undertake another American adventure next year even in the role of Cup-holders.  The plan to make Everton great is clearly taking shape and few would quarrel with a policy which embraced official events only.  Everton are also to dispense with a public practice match as curtain-raiser to the season.  One could not be other than impressed by the enthusiasm evident on all sides when the players were welcomed to Goodison Park yesterday by the club chairman John Moores, Mr. Jack Sharp and manager Harry Catterick.  Mr Moores mentioned the part Everton had played in the campaign to get increased wages for the players.  He hoped the new incentives would bring satisfaction not only to the players, but to the supporters and the club.  Tom Egglestone, formerly with Mr. Catterick at Sheffield was introduced as chief trainer and lost no time in getting his boys to work, and proved that with him it was a question of doing as he did, not just as he said.  Chirpy and full of optimism were Tommy Ring how in full training and apparently ready to fight for a place in the team again, and Micky Lill who has already had the advantage of breaking the ice in America after his doleful tale of misfortune with injuries. 
SKIPPER COLLINS
Bobby Collins who took over the captaincy last season after Tom Jones had lost his place is now skipper in his own right, the sixth club captain since football resumed after the war.  The others have been; Ted Sagar, T.G Jones, Peter Farrell, Don Donovan, and TE Jones.  How much the Everton players will earn this season is anybody’s guess but it would not be in the least surprising if the top paid men began with something like £60 a match.  This could be the way of it.  From wages £35; from bonus at the rate of £1 for every thousand over 40,000 -£20 or more; from winning bonus £4.  The additional satisfaction from the generous terms offered the players comes from agreement to pay the same rate for the next away match as they earned at home.  If Everton are not the biggest money-spinners in the country then football really has become a lucrative occupation.  When Aston Villa who open the season at Goodison Park were last here the crowd was only 28,115 but that was in mid-week.  At the start of a new campaign with everybody on tip-toe in the expectation of an explosive start, it will probably be more like 60,000. 

EVERTON’S NEW YORK DATE CHANGE
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 20 July 1961
PROBABLE OPPONENTS
DULKA
New York,  Thursday. Shamrock Rovers were beaten 3-1 by Rapid (Austria) in their international league match here, last night. Everton will play both "legs” of next month’s League Cup Final at the Polo Grounds, New 'York. Montreal was to have staged the first match on August 3. It now goes to New York on August 2. The second leg date, August 6, is unchanged, Everton. Section champions are expected to meet Dukla (Czechoslovakia), who are virtually assured of the Section II title. Shamrock are well down in the Section II table. In another Section II game in New York, Red Star (Yugoslavia) beat Petah Tikva (Israel) 7-0.  Everton have signed on professional forms Alan Jarvis, their 17-years-old wing half. He is a Wrexham boy.

EVERTON’S JARVIS DECIDES ON A FOOTBALL CAREER
Friday, July 21, 1961 The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
Alan Jarvis, Everton half back, who played for Wales as a youth and amateur international last season has signed full-time professional forms for the Goodison Park club.  Jarvis, who is 17, recently left Grove Park grammar school, Wrexham and has decided in favour of making football his career in preference to the scholastic role which had been under the most serious consideration.  Everton will rejoice at this outcome for Jarvis, shows all the promise of developing into the sort of clever half back, so greatly prized in modern football.  Wrexham will not be so pleased for they had hoped that if Jarvis decision had been otherwise, they might have been favourites to be able to play him in their side.  In the Everton team, which reached the final of the Youth Cup last season.  Jarvis played a prominent part.  It was his ability to translate keen defence into penetrating attack that made him an outstanding figure. 
NEW YORK CUP FINAL
Everton will play two legs of the American Cup Final on the Polo Grounds, New York, and their opponents will almost certainly be the Czechoslovakian team, Dukla.  As the Polo Grounds may be taken over for other purposes, the matches will be among the final events to be staged there.  Originally Everton were to have played the first leg in Montreal and the second in New York.  Under the rearrangement the games will be on August 2 (instead of August 3) and August 6. 

DAVE HICKSON MOVES HOME
Liverpool Echo - Friday 21 July 1961
WILL PLAY FOR CAMBRIDGE CITY
By Leslie Edwards
Dave Hickson, the famous former Everton and Liverpool centre forward, left his new home in Bromborough to-day to take up a long-term contract with Cambridge City. His job in Cambridge and his football earnings will give him a wage comparable with any received by First Division players. There will be quite a colony of former Everton players at Cambridge. The club is managed by Oscar Hold, who was a forward at Goodison Park in Manager Cliff Britton's days, and another newcomer will be George Cummins, the former, Everton and Eire international inside forward, who was with Luton Town last season. Hickson had two spells with Everton and one with Liverpool. He was transferred from Goodison Park to Aston Villa, and spent a short while at Huddersfield Town before re-joining his original club. Two seasons ago he joined Liverpool F.C.

EVERTON’S HARRY COOKE RETIRES AFTER 58 YEARS
Saturday, July 22 1961 The Liverpool Daily Post
By Horace Yates
Harry Cooke, Everton’s G.O.M., one of the few men in this sporting world, of whom it can truthfully be said, he has a host of friends and not a single enemy, yesterday, at the age of 83, retired on a generous pension with the record of being the oldest club trainer in the country.  Goodison will hardly be the same without his cheery presence and his friendly word for everyone, but as manager Harry Catterick put it; “He will still be around whenever wanted to give us the benefit of his experience and knowledge. “ while it may hardly be true as his admirers claim, that he was in at the roots of Everton, during his 58 years service, loyal and willing, Harry cannot count the number of players and officials he has seen come and go, but if it is ever true to say of a man that retirement has been well and worthily earned, it can certainly be said of Harry Cooke.  May he have many years to enjoy the role of looker-on.  Harry’s greatest hope is that he may now witness three years as great as Everton enjoyed under his guidance in 1931-32-33 when the club won the Second Division title, the First Division title and the F.A Cup in successive seasons-a record still unequalled. 
OUTSIDE RIGHT
Form manager Catterick, now entering his first full season in charge of Everton affairs saying farewell to Harry Cooke was like bidding cheerio to a personal friend, for the manager was a player at Goodison Park during the Cooke era.  He joined the club in 1903 as an outside right and was playing in the reserves when Everton won the Cup in 1906.  After his playing days were done Harry because assistant trainer to the late Jack Elliott in 1928 and succeeded Elliott as trainer with a championship celebration to launch him happily on his way.  He was still there in harness for the championship celebration of 1938-39 and it was under the Cliff Britton regime that he was promoted to the position of chief trainer.  In the capacity he took charge among other things, of the modernised medical room.  Charlie Leyfield succeeded Harry as the first team trainer, with Harry Wright and Gordon Watson following on.  Now Tom Egglestone has come, from Sheffield Wednesday with the title of chief trainer and a wonderful example to inspire him in the years ahead.  Mr. Cook, although I am sure he would still prefer to be Harry to everybody is a man full of ideas and no doubt thinking back to his playing days when shapeless shirts and stretched of shrunk stockings became customary after the newness had worn off, Harry invented shaped dying appliances which banished complaints of the nature, an example followed by other clubs in various parts of the country.  Harry’s museum in which he has chips of bone taken from damaged players, and cartilages removed from knees of heroes of the past like Dixie Dean and Ted Sagar has fascinated those peering into back room activities down the years. 

EVERTON TAKING 16 TO NEW YORK
Liverpool Echo - Monday 24 July 1961
Tournament Final
MEET DUKLA
BY Leslie Edwards
Everton are taking 16 payers for their two-leg final in the New York international league next week against Dukla, the Czechoslovakian league champions. Dukla have won Section Two of the tournament and play Everton in New York on August 3 and 6. Everton’s party will be: Malley, Dunlop, Parker, Thomson, Jones, Gabriel, Labone, Harris, Meagan, Bingham. Lill, Wignall, Young, Vernon and Fell. The trainer will be Gordon Watson. Two directors probably chairman John Moores and Mr. Holland Hughes will be together with manager, Harry Catterick, who told me to-day that he saw Dukla play last season and regards them as one of the finest club sided he has ever seen.
MAILEY IS NEW
The only player who did not make the initial trip to America and Canada, when Everton won Section One of the competition, is goalkeeper Willie Mailey, the Scots boy ,Albert Dunlop was the only goalkeeper who went originally and fortunately he was not injured and played in every match.  Brian Harris would have deputised for Dunlop had the goalkeeper been injured, but Mr. Catterick says that a. Mailey is the recognised second team player for the Position, it was considered wise to have him in the party in case Dunlop was injured in the first match against Dukla. The party fly from Manchester Airport next Monday, returning immediately after the last game on August 6, so that they will be back in England on August Bank Holiday Monday. 

BOOTLE HIT 175
Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 25 July 1961
Autograph hunters were out full strength at Wadham Road last night when Bootle C.C, batted first, scoring 175 for eight declared in their annual two-evening match with Everton footballers.  Bootle lost three for 49 but Summerfield with a quick 42 (one xix, 6 fours) improved the Bootle outlook.  J.K. Hughes being 43 not out (5 fours) at the close.  J.Fell,2-38, had the best figures for Everton of the six bowlers tried.  Everton bat this evening. 

EVERTON WIN
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 26 July 196
Facing a total of 175 for a declared in their annual two evening match with Bootle C.C. Everton F.C. just got home in an exciting finish. Needing 13 runs, Albert Dunlop, captaining the Everton cricketers, hit two 4's and a six, the winning six going through a window in Wadharn Road, before he was stumped by Summerfied in going on. Seven Everton batsmen reached double figures. Brian Harris topping the list with 39 (six 4's), Sharpies also hit a six. J. K. Hughes had the best bowling figures with 3 for 46 while Summerfield stumped the last three batsmen.

EVERTON SIGN HUMPHREYS
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 26 July 1961
JOINING FATHR’S OLD CLUB
By Leslie Edwards
Everton have signed, as an apprentice, 16-years-old Gerald Humphrey’s, a stepson of their old Welsh international centre half back Jack Humphreys, who died some five or six years ago.  Gerald, an outside right, is a Welsh schoolboy international and has played for the Clwyd and Conway School F.A team for the past three seasons.  Manager Harry Catterick said today; “We are delighted that Gerlad Humphreys is joining us.  He came to the ground a few days ago to consider our offer and have had confirmation from him this morning.  “He represents a major capture among juniors.  There were many other first-class clubs who wanted him.  Because of his father’s relationship with Everton he expressed a preference to join us.  He is a very good young player and should develop well, I was of course a member of the Everton playing staff at the same time as Jack Humphreys.” 

GOODISON PARK GETS A FACE LIFE-TWICE
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 27 July 1961
By Leslie Edwards
Part of the scheme of things at Goodison Park during the close season was a face lift -or rather two. I refer to the faces of the huge clocks, each showing 45 minutes, which were installed last season in conjunction with an advertisement. The Football Association have reminded Everton that there is a resolution forbidding the installation of 45-minute clocks because it is felt that they are a distraction to both players and spectators and because, as the rules say, the referee is the only arbiter of time. I understand that Everton's two great clocks will now be given 90-minute faces. Arsenal started the fashion for 45-minute clocks years ago. The Football Association resolution arose because some spectators did not appreciate that although the clock showed half-time or full-time it was not running in conjunction with the referee's watch which must.,of course, be stopped to allow for players' injury. So far as I remember no one at Goodison Park ever drew the attention to the referee when the clocks there showed full-time and Everton were holding a narrow lead, but the prospect of them doing so or of citicising a referee for allowing what could have appeared to be a goal after 90 minutes of play was ever-present. Everyone will agree. I think, that there is great sense in the Football Association resolution. Clocks at football grounds are there as rough and ready guides of how much or little time remains. The referees' watch continues to be the only true reckoning of time.
A “LINE” ON DULKA
A LIVERPOOL man exiled in Long Island, U.S A., Mr. Chris Heyes.,has been scouting Everton's opponents, Dukla, of Czecho Slovakia, in the second half of the New York International soccer tournament, Mr. Neves writes: "All exiles from the homeland are deeply interested in these matches and are rooting for their home town club. Dukla, whose record on this side of the water looks good on paper, have not met the same stern opposition which Everton ran into in the course of the first leg of the tournament.  But they are a well-balanced team with direct, go-ahead methods "All their forwards are the goal-hungry type. Brumovsky at outside right and Jelinek at outside left being very forceful. Jeliniek is the smallest man in the side, but is very elusive when in possession. These two key-points must always have close coverage by stay defence.  Their half-back line carries strength and height and weight Pluskel at centre half is at his best defensively in the air, but he as cumbersome in his ground-level work. The full-backs Safranek and Cadek have not been under very much fire or pressure so far but show a tendency to panic when pushed. Safranek is heavy in build and moves up deep with every Dukla advance, but when the attacks lose impetus he is caught out of position, unbalanced and sluggish in his effort to regain his defensive position. So any quick return of the ball to the opposing left wing finds a territorial gap of advantage “Dukla are a full 90-minute team and Everton would do well to press the panic button at the sound of the first whistle and stay in the collar till the end. Everton have the ability to be successful. They will not lack in support from New Yorkers on August 2nd and 6th and especially on the second date when the ship's company from the liner Parthia ” will be on hand to rally to the cause. Red or Blue they never let Merseyside down on these occasions and the port of registration on the stern of the "Parthia will always read Liverpool (regardless of the number of Liverpudlians and Evertonians aboard). - Good luck to Everton and best wishes to the Echo which so often links the Old World with the New."

CUP FINAL
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 29 July 1961
Everton’s American international soccer tournament Cup final with Dukla (Czechoslovakia) in New York will be screened in an exclusive recording in the B.B.C., “Sportsview” on August 9. 

EVERTON FLY OUT
Liverpool Echo - Monday 31 July 1961
TO MEET CZECH TEAM DULKA
By Leslie Edwards
Everton F.C, players who face the Czech team Dukla in the two-legged final of the New York international journey in New York on Wednesday and Sunday, left Goodison Park early this morning to fly to the United States via Prestwick.  The players have been insured for a sum between £400,000 and £500,000.  They were accompanied by manager Harry Catterick and the Chairman, Mr. John Moores and another director Mr. Holland Hughes.  The party are due to return next Monday less than a fortnight before Everton’s first League fixture of the new season against Aston Villa at Goodison Park.