December 23, 1922
Charles Harrison Davis, aged 20 years, who has been transferred to Liverpool from West Staveley (North Eastern League), is a youth of powerful physique. He stands 5ft. 11½in. and weighs 12st. He is the son of a well-known sculler, Mr. R.W. Davis, also a man of powerful physique, who has rowed many matches on the Tyne.
Prior to joining West Staveley, young Davis was engaged in minor football in East Northumberland. He had been sought by several clubs without success, and the Stanley directors are to be congratulated upon their good fortune in securing the youth in time for an important local Cup-tie, the final of the North West Durham Charity Cup, in which they had as opponents Annfield Plain (Northern Alliance), a team which boasted of an unbeaten home record until their meeting with West Staveley on December 9, when they were slaughtered to the tune of 5 goals to 1. Davis thus won a gold medal in his first appearance for the North Eastern League team.
He won much more, for his fine judgment and the perfection of his passes caught the eye of representatives of the Liverpool club, who were thee on other “game,” and they lost no time in fixing him up, the arrangements for his transfer being completed within eight days of his first appearance for West Staveley.
Billy Hogg, the well-known ex-Sunderland and Glasgow Rangers forward, who was an onlooker at the match in which Davis made his debut for West Stanley was high in his praise of the new “chum.”
Davis is easy of identification, through his stock of ruddy hair. His style of play is modelled on that of Wilf Low, the Newcastle pivot, and if he “keeps clear of the wagons,” as they say on Tyneside, there should be a great future for him in the football world. Davis is a modest and quiet lad, but born a footballer.
A little speed development will improve him, but for his age he appears one of the most promising players seen in the North for many years, and should undoubtedly go far. Liverpool are lucky in finding a youth with such great prospective powers.
(Source: Liverpool Echo: December 23, 1922)
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