Everton Independent Research Data

 

HARRY MILLER
Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 04 July 1925
Harry Miller, a Prestonian, and former Everton forward, who was with North End last season, has been engaged by Lancaster Town. 

TICKETS AND CONTACTORS READY
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 16 July 1925
By Blackstaff
Everton shareholders’ season tickets are now on sale at the office, Goodison Park, from 91.15 to 5.30 each day, with the exception of Saturdays when the hours are 9.15 to 12.0.  Shareholders will oblige by making early application.  These tickets, I may state, will be at the original price, as the amusement tax is now not chargeable. 

PRESTON ROTARIANS’ RIBBLE TRIP. 
Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 17 July 1925
A party of members of the Rotary Club of Preston, headed by their president, Mr. W. S.  Low, had a delightful trip down the Ribble yesterday on the Corporation tug Perseverance.  It was an highly instructive outing. While the tug was anchored off Ansdell, Mr. James Barron Ribble Engineer gave a short lecture, tracing the history of the Ribble enterprise and pointing out the purpose of the proposed extension of the training walls by a mile and half into the sea. Charts and drawings were shown to illustrate the lecture, at the conclusion of which Mr. Barron answered numerous questions concerning shipping, the depth of the river, and the dredging and maintenance of the Ribble channel.  After lunch the party were rowed across to the sandbank at low tide, and football match took place there. This provided great amusement and intensive effort. Mr. R- E. Smalley, who was Everton’s first goalkeeper when they joined the Football League and who with North End before that, made some remarkable saves, and later became forward and scored a goal. Mr. Smalley’s team were beaten at  least 3—2, but there was some uncertainty as to  the actual result, as Councillor Wade very  adroitly managed to move one of the goalposts  when number of scoring shots were made.  Before the party returned the tug a number of players bathed in the pool left by the ebb tide between the top of the training and the foot of the sandbank. . .  One of the most interesting incidents of the return journey was the visit to the Corporation’s biggest sand pump, the J-C. Hamilton, which was working at full speed. 

BOBBY PARKER
Sunday Post - Sunday 19 July 1925
Bobby Parker, the old Rangers-Everton-Notts Forest centre forward, has accepted the position of player-coach and secretary of Fraserburgh F.C.  Bobby has certain theories regarding play, and hopes to put them into practice with the Northern club.

NEW-PLAYER-COACH FOR FRASERBURGH
Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties' Advertiser - Tuesday 21 July 1925
ROBERT N. PARKER FORMERLY OF RANGERS
The directors of the Fraserburgh Football Club, Ltd., have appointed Robert N. Parker, Glasgow, to act as player coach for next season. Parker, who is 33 years of age, is a centre-forward, who has done splendid work in that position with a number of leading clubs on both sides of the border. He began his football career in Glasgow, played for several Junior teams, and was a Junior Internationalist.  He attracted the notice of the Rangers’ management, who signed him on, and he turned out a great player, but unfortunately for him, he was contemporary with William Reid, one of the most outstanding forwards of his time, whose brilliance kept Parker out of his place in the first team, and he was ultimately transferred to Everton for one of the biggest fees going at that time.  Parker proved a great success in the Toffee town, and was going strong when the War came and demanded his services in a sterner game. He was badly wounded in the abdomen and on his recovery be returned to Everton, where, however, he did not seem to find his best form, and he was transferred to Notts Forest for 500 pounds. After playing for two seasons with that club he went into business in Glasgow and has been out of thegame for a year.  Parker, who is again feeling as physically fit as ever he was, will arrive in Fraserburgh early next month to enter upon his duties, and will lead the Black and White attack when the season opens on 15th August.  Mr. James McNab, tobacconist, who has acted as secretary of the Club during the past year, with general acceptance, has been obliged to resign on account of pressure of business, and Parker will see the Secretaryship along with his other duties.  The numerous supporters and patrons of football in Fraserburgh will be keenly interested in this appointment. For many years the Club has been unable to find a good, goal-getting centre-forward, and a man of Parker’s class and wide experience is bound, to supply the missing link, and bring strength to the team where it has always been weakest. The  management are to be congratulated upon their enterprise in securing a prof who will  not only be able to bring fresh enthusiasm and  confidence into the ranks of the senior eleven  —factors which make for victory—but who  will be qualified to train the young bloods in  the way in which they should go.

BARTON GOES TO TRANMERE
Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 29 July 1925
Bee’s Notes
Barton, of Everton has been signed by Tranmere Rovers.  Preston, Chester, and others were on his track, and it is odd that the club obtaining his signature should be the one that transferred Dean to Everton.  Barton is a good boy in the best sense of the term, and he has plenty of football experience, having been a schoolboy international. 
Local amateurs all positions, who are desirous of having trail with Everton “A” team should write to Mr. McIntosh, Everton Football Club, Goodison Park. 

 

July 1925