NEW PLAYER FOR EVERTON
Liverpool Echo, Tuesday, July 1 1924
By Blackstaff
As stated in the “Echo” last evening, Everton have signed on a new centre-forward in David Bain, of Manchester United. Bain is only young, having just turned twenty-three years of age, stands 5ft 9in, in height, and weighs 11st. He played in four First Division games for Manchester United the season before last, and scored one goal, while last season he appeared on several occasions for the first team, but could not displace Lochhead, who seemed to blend better with the line. Bain, however, is quite a clever youngster, and if he can fit himself into the Everton style has all the elements for development into a first-class player, and should do Everton much good.

SUD MARKS
The Liverpool Echo- Saturday, July 5, 1924
By Louis T. Kelly

• Neat home it is good to learn that Everton are pursuing their recent plan of securing capable, promising, and yet not outrageously expensive recruits.
• A Bain has come to supplement a McBain; curiously enough hails from the same club (Manchester United) and is pivot to the attack, while “Mac” is pivot of the team.
• We had one peep at Bain last season, and considered him a very likely leader, a first class player in the making, if indeed not already made.
• He should do well at Everton
• Somehow a number of players have found it rather difficult to settle down with the “Old Trafford” club- why, we cannot quite say, but there it is.
• Let the enthusiasts see to it that Bain gets that reasonable encouragement which alone allows a man to develop his game on really successful lines.
• Everton can certainly do with a capable understudy to Cock, who, coming into the team for the eight League match last season, went right through without missing a single schedule fixture.
• Prior to this Everton had tried Forbes, Chadwick and Peacock with varying results in the season’s early weeks.
• Although the offside rule has not yet been altered by permitting a man to count “on-side” who has two opponents between himself and the opposition goal instead of three as now; nor has the proposal been made law whereby the offside rule shall operate only beyond a quarter-way line; yet there has been one change of “law” made since last season.
• In future a goal may be scored direct from a corner, i.e. without being essential that the ball be touched by a second player.
• George Brewster has been back on Merseyside during the past week.

EVERTON NEWS
Athletic News - Monday 07 July 1924
Mr. W.C Cuff has been re-elected chairman and Mr. E. Green vice-chairman of the Everton club. This is the third season in succession that these two gentlemen have occurred the confidence of their colleagues.
Everton have engaged David Bain, centre forward, who played for Rutherglen Glen, before joining Manchester United. He is 23 years of age, stands 5ft 9in., and weighs 11 ½ stones. He has been with the Manchester club two seasons.

Mr. Westmorland
July 11 1924. The Northampton Mercury
Mr. Westmorland has always been regarded outside the borough, and he has represented Northamptonshire on the Football Association since 1909. A life-long enthusiast and an old Everton player, Mr. Westmorland has watched the growth in public favour in Northampton of his game from the days when local clubs played the Town Club on the County Ground and their money of the gate receipts was 1s 2d Mr. Westmorland will live at Bournemouth.

EVERTON’S IRVINE LOSES BROTHER IN TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES
Liverpool Echo - Monday 28 July 1924
Bee’s Notes
BOB IRVINE’S BROTHER’S DEATH
MYSTERY OF GUARDSMAN’S TERRIBLE FATE
Everton football people will be very sorry to hear that Bob Irvine, the Irish international forward, has lost his brother in tragic circumstances. Bob has been at Ireland for a holiday, and just before he was due to come back he has suffered this severe bereavement. Guardsman Irvine, of the Irish Guards, was found terribly battered in the passage adjoining the stables at Inkerman Barracks, Woking, on Saturday. An inquest will be held to-day. Irvine was in the town on Friday night, and was then in the best of spirits. On Saturday he was missing, and when a search was made it was found that the window over his bed was open and there were marks on the sill. His body was in the narrow passage underneath. Human hair was found on the wall dividing the passage from the stables. Irvine’s legs were broken and his head was battered almost to pulp. The dead Guardsman was a brother of Everton’s centre-forward, and he himself formerly played for Glentoran, where his home is. He was a popular member of the regimental team, playing left-back.

EVERTON SIGN HAMILTON AND SHARE GROUND WITH NEIGHBOURS
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 31 July 1924
Bee’s Notes
GOODISON COMMANDANTS
Having successfully “climbed” the forty three steps up to Everton’s giddy heights, I had the pleasure to introduce myself to the busy officials engaged in the Goodison camp. Mr. Tom McIntosh and his trusty lieutenant, Mr. John Fare, were preparing for the oncoming season. We strolled on the balcony and saw the earth “in verdure clad.” A year ago we marvelled at the beauty of the playing space. It is, if possible, even better to-day. To play on such a carpet in August is a genuine pleasure and is in direct contrast to the dusty roads that obtained a few years ago when the season started and the ground was baked to such an extent that the dust was kicked up and players fainted through the heat. Those were the good old days. There is no summer nowadays; we have learned different ways; we shall be sweltering in October, all these being equal! Everton hope to swelter in the sun of success, which has not burned them up for many a year. They have the same competent side as last season- with additions and with power to add to their number.
Hargreaves, of Oldham, may become a great player. He is a box of tricks of the Tom McDermott type. Then Bain may be just what Everton have been wanting down the middle. Somewhere a voice has been calling for more goals for Everton, but their goals for column challenges seventy-seven out of the eight-eight clubs of the various leagues; so that the cry is more of a sob than a yell. Their goals against column was another matter -they had far too many goals against them.
LOYALTY
There has been a further cry which suggest that the crowd is not too keen to see specially clever play if that play does not bring with it victory. I deny that. It has been proved by Everton that they have gained a rich and loyal following simply and solely through the entertainment they provide. After much of the poverty of football seen in the various leagues I hope they will stick to standard, aim at victories, and be assured that the public wants some light refreshment in football wares as compared to bombing and slogging matches. The club have made two rather remarkable moves; they have signed a local player- shussshhh! And they have decided to share their ground of the “A” team with Liverpool F.C., thus showing a sensible spirit of sport rather than a dog in the manger pattern such as would have occurred had the idea been mooted in the days when bit Liverpool and Liverpool replied with a bite. Those days have been put to eternal rest, I hope, and I am sure such a pairing as the “A” team of the local sides on one and the same ground is a sign of the sporting times.
NEW EVERTON BOY
The boy taken by Everton to the Central League list is “Duke” Hamilton, the very young Wallasey boy who has played for New Brighton and was rather rushed by them into a first team inclusion at Wolverhampton last season when the club were stuck for a full back. I forget whether he was played, or whether he went as reserve, and was expected to play, but one of the lame members turned up and played. However, this much can be said, Hamilton is a big boy for his years, is a powerful back, and may develop into a big name if the crowd and those around don’t put big ideas into his head. Fortunately, he is a well-balanced lad, and the Everton club will be able to “ground” him in the services of the Kirkwood, otherwise “A” team matches. Thus the “A” team proves its worth and gives a boy a run that would be impossible to him otherwise save in the Central League; and by inclusion in the side early on he would be pushing back some better-known player who has taken umbrage at being off one week and on another. All players should be, as far as possible, in steady, regular football work. There is no practice like that of actuality- on the field of play in a competition match. That Everton will have a big season I have no doubt, and the loyalty of the crowd has already shown itself in the remarkable way in which the season tickets have been snapped up-and this is a sure and acid test.