Nov. 23, 1929 – Boston Wonder Workers 1:0 Hakoah at Brookline Town Field

Stevenson finished a first-half Campbell shot deflected by Lajos Fischer, a Hungarian international goalkeeper, as the Boston Wonder Workers played their final game of the season. Then, Boston’s Johnny Davison saved a Gruenfeld penalty kick after Hauesler was fouled by Tetlow. George Collins in The Boston Globe: “Boston’s pro soccer representatives shut out the great Hakoah aggregation of Jewish players, holders of the big National Cup, by 1-0, on a snow-bound ground.”

The Wonder Workers had been going strong, playing at the Walpole Street Grounds from 1924-29. But after the stadium was taken over by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. (which went bankrupt in 1935), the team struggled to find a home ground. On Nov. 27, 1929, the Wonder Workers disbanded, the move initiated by stadium difficulties, plus the transfer of Dave McEachern to the New Bedford Whalers. Boston disputed the move of McEachern, who had scored 10 goals in 19 games for the Wonder Workers, and was suspended by the Atlantic Coast Soccer League.

The previous season, the Wonder Workers had won the ASL championship and the Lewis Cup (League Cup), Billy Gonsalves making his professional debut. Gonsalves went on to play for the U.S. in the 1930 and ’34 World Cups.

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