1939/40 season

Sun Engraving 2 Watford Wanderers 1                  West Herts Alliance League

Son (for Sun) set father to face Sun

R Williams beat R Williams with a low cross shot.
No, it's not a misprint.
No. 1 R Williams is "Skilly", firm favourite of Watford crowds in former years and No. 2 R Williams is "Skilly" Junior, who was playing for Sun Engraving against Watford Wanderers on Saturday.
"Skilly" captained the Wanderers, who lost 2-1 to the Sun, and his son was the skipper, for the Sun.
The son set his father to face a strong Sun (Oh, we give it up!).
Jackson obtained the winners second goal, and Burden scored for the losers.
"Skilly" in the second half went centre forward and sent in three strong shots.

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Bushey United 4 Sun Engraving 6                                 West Herts Alliance League

Bushey were game to the end

This Wests Herts Alliance game had two distinct phases.
The first half being all Sun, despite the rain, and the second half being mostly Bushey, despite the sun.
Ten minutes sufficed for Quelch to score the first goal, which was the commencement of a scoring spasm, for within another seven minutes Williams and Fitzwalter added to the score.
Hereabouts the depleted Bushey team, playing one short, and sadly missing the services of their regular backs, MacHardle and North, looked very much like being routed, but a reorganisation of their defence showed a definite improvement.
It was nearing the interval when Jackson succeeded in beating Richardson with a fine effort.
Bushey commenced the second half four goals in arrears, and after five minutes play Quelch made it five.
Then Gwynne performed a grand feat by dribbling the ball around Wood and walking the ball past Trevers into the net.
Within a couple of minutes Quelch obtained his third goal.
In the closing stages Bushey came into the picture by scoring three goals at regular intervals of five minutes.
Stevenson scored the first, Whitting got the second with a terrific drive and then Noble scored a beauty.
At this point the Sun appeared to be tiring and losing grip of the game, while Bushey showed distinct signs of drawing level.
But "Father Time" arrived to prevent such a possibility, and permitted the Sun to get away with a hard earned win.

Sun Engraving: J Trevers, C Trevers, C Wood, B Brown, A Doig, J Wright, R Quelch, R Lovett, A Fitzwalter, R Williams, A Jackson