NUGGETS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 06 June 1908

• Harry Makepeace had a great opportunity to enhance his fame when hardy gave him a chance, the acceptance of which would have meant a victory by one run, but tis only fair to the Everton footballer to say that few fielders would have been capable of the sprint that enabled him to reach the ball.
• Sam Wolstenholme, the International footballer, is bowling in deadly form for Prestolee.
• Makepeace has evidently dropped his barn-door tactics of last season, and shows much more freedom in his battling.  He evidently realizes that with Hartley in the eleven, what the County need is men that can score quickly.

FOOTBALL BRIEFLETS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 06 June 1908

• Evertonians may thank Willie Scott for luring Val Harris and Lacey across the Channel.
• Liverpudlians now look on the Everton management with disgust.  The different and more humane methods of the New Anfield authorities constitute a striking contrast.
• The positions Val Harris leans to are centre half and outside right.  This is very fortunate for Sharp and Taylor are reaching the age when they cannot be expected to last a whole season without rest.
• MaCormack, the ill-used player, has not been engaged by any team yet.  Apart from Mac’s undoubted ability, it would be a noble act on Newcastle’s part to resign him.  It is said the Players’ Union intend making the matter up. 
• The Football Association’s decision to limit the L.R. Roose testimonial to an address need not be taken as a precedent in the case of Hardman, who has served Everton for as many years as the Welsh International goalkeeper has had months with the Sunderland club.

ARBROATH FOOTBALLER FOR BRADFORD.
Dundee Courier -Thursday 11 June 1908
PREVENTED FROM RETURNING TO SCOTLAND.
Tom Dilly, the ex-Arbroath player, who was with Derby County last season, has signed on for Bradford (late Park Avenue), the Second Division club. Dilly played several clever games for Derby, and they were anxious to retain his services. He played for that English team at Airdrie about the end of the season in an evening match, and well did acquit himself that the Scottish League club made a bid for his signature. Derby, however, placed a heavy transfer on the head of the player, with the result that Bradford stepped in and secured his transfer. Dilly can play either at outside left or centre. He is young, tall, and well built, and will make a name for himself in first-class football. He left Arbroath several years ago when quite a youngster, and played for Everton and West Bromwich Albion.

NUGGETS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 13 June 1908

• Makepeace was surely a misnomer for the Everton man when Hirst had twice broken his defence.
• Harry Makepeace was disappointing at Sheffield, falling a victim to Hirst in each innings, and thus “bagging a brace.”
• When Everton let Graham go, they lost one of the most promising Scotch forwards playing in England, says Evertonian.

EVERTON
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 20 June 1908
By Richard Samuel.
Local cricket was completely drowned out on Saturday, the summer pastime in consequence being entirely at a standstill so far as club games are concerned, for the rain, one is told, descended in bucket loads all afternoon, as though to make up for lost time during May.  But if it rained in Liverpool it both rained and stormed in Llandundno, whither the Lancashire Combination delegates had repaired at the invitation of the championship club –Everton – for the purposes of fixing up next season’s engagements.  It has ever been the rule for the championship club to entertain the remaining Combination Club delegates each year on “Fixture” day,. And happily this was Everton’s privilege a week ago, in consequence of the splendid work carried on by the Goodison Park reserve forces during 1907-8.  Saturday morning foreshadowed rain, when we boarded La Marguerite and steamed away just as the Combination secretary and about nine other delegates came racing along in cabs towards the stage.  A miss was worse than a mile in their case, and they did not arrive in Llandudno until quarter to three in the afternoon, after a laborious, circuitous, and doubtless expensive route.  Each blamed the other for having been the cause of the mishap, but the “Wigan train” was eventually saddled with the onus of their defeat in the race to catch the streamer.   The weather in Llandudno was so atrocious that he must have been a brave man to have dared put his face outside the portals of the St. George Hotel.  I did hear that “the Jam” –mean “Junius” – had done so, along with “Porcupine’s” worthy editor, but am not in a position to verify the statement.  At any rate there was no motor drive.  The party stayed indoors all afternoon and eventually took a deal of “driving” even to catch the boat for the return journey.  Messrs Wade and Kirkwood v. Messrs Fare and Williams battled with billiards on behalf of the rival Everton and Liverpool clubs.  It was noticeable that the former took a delight in “potting the red,” whilst Mr. Kirkwood gave his opponents a fit of the “blues” at the finish by winning the game, after the score had been called Liverpool 123, Everton 122.  Respecting the fixtures these took a good deal of arranging, which, to the outsider, may appear strange mews.  It is not the 20 or 30 fixtures which give a club trouble; it is the satisfactory of fitting in of the last three or four events.  Everyone is anxious for the pick of the basket; everybody wants accommodating, but “everybody” isn’t open to sacrifice much on his own part.  Despite the “worst day of the season” an enjoyable time was spent, during the return trip particularly so, for the rain had then ceased.  All the promoters worked hard for the common good, and especially was this the case with Everton’s popular secretary, Mr. Will Cuff.

FOOTBALL BRIEFLETS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 20 June 1908

• Everton’s first three Saturday matches at Goodison next season will be against Lancashire opponents.
• Doig, Ramsey, Crelley, Booth, etc, are still unsigned.  They would be more than useful to some clubs.
• Sam Wolstenholme says he has not signed for Croydon Common, as we reported to be the case a fortnight ago.
• Everton’s great captures have not yet materialized.  It is said the players they are after are chary about coming to Goodison.
• Rumour has been rife to the effect that Brown the Sheffield United centre forward was coming to Everton.  So far these rumours have lacked confirmation.
• Everton had arranged a pleasant fixture meeting for the Lancashire Combination club’s representatives, but the weather put a damper on the proceedings, and a motor drive from Llandudno to Llanwrst had to be cancelled.

NUGGETS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 20 June 1908

• Have you seen Wattie White hold a cricket bat?
• Jack Sharp generally does well against Surrey, against whom he received his baptism of fire as a first-class cricketer.
• S. Wolstenholme is keeping himself fit by playing cricket with Prestlee.  He is one of their mainstays.
• “Wattie” White’s attempts at batting were a source of much amusement at Darcy Lever on Tuesday, especially when he released his grip of the bat, which flew towards the other end of the crease.
• Jack Sharp was the only Lancashire batsman to do himself justice against Surrey.  His 57 runs in the second innings was compiled by sound and stylish cricket.  He is indeed a great man at a pinch.

FOOTBALL BRIEFLETS
Cricket and Football Field - Saturday 27 June 1908

• Quietness resigns supreme at Anfield and Goodison; they are both deserted.
• It has been mentioned that Everton’s reason for not signing Brown, the Sheffield United centre forward, was that the Goodison club require all their players to reside in Liverpool.  If this is the fact then the rule must be a new one, for Everton have hitherto allowed such as Wolstenholmes, Bootle, Settle, and others to reside at their own homes.