Gregory E.

Wright

Kinsell

Parker

Walker

Moroney

Bing

Gregory J.

Robinson

Gazzard

Hooper

Fielding a side of near first team strength, West Ham jog-trotted to a half-speed win over an anything but First Division looking Chelsea in this light-hearted first round tie at Upton Park.
Although he was left with a marked limp after taking a sharp knock on the knee shortly before the Interval, crew-cut left-winger Harry Hooper (two months an R.A.M.C. Private) was the star of their victory. He had a hand in nearly all the worthwhile West Ham movements and gave Chelsea right-back Lee a trying, afternoon — so trying, in fact, that right-half McKnight virtually abandoned Gazzard and dropped back to help mark the young winger.
But even that failed to subdue Hooper. Once in the first half and again in the second he brought the crowd to its feet with great runs from just inside his own half into the Chelsea penalty box. He had four blue-shirted defenders floundering in his wake with a deft change of foot In the first run, which ended with a flashing drive inches past the post.
He did much the same thing later in the second half and ran on to shoot slantwise across the goal again just the wrong side of an upright. But he had his consolation. Two minutes before the interval Derek Parker weaved along the goal-line to fire in a half-smothered shot. It spun clear to the waiting Hooper, who drove home a stinging right, footer inside the post for Hammers' second goal. Their first had come in the 27th minute when centre-forward Robinson screwed a Moroney free kick past ex-Hammer, Medhurst. As a result of this win we meet Hendon in the next round.