he kept his place for the 1926 match, again opposing a team of fa tourists, returning this time from canada. the amateurs won 6–3, and the "daily mirror" reported that "no one did more to influence the result than macey, the diminutive inside left of the kingstonian club. he 'made' the first goal and later scored twice, his second goal being the result of one of the most wonderful shots ever seen on the city enclosure – from fully thirty yards' range". billy bryant, who played in the match, wrote several years later that macey "gave the finest exposition of inside forward play i have ever seen, and quite overshadowed the more famous bolton wanderers' inside forwards, david jack and joe smith."