SHREWSBURY MORE FORCEFUL MISSED CHANCES

City Gain a Point at the Gay Meadow
Saturday,

November 27th 1954.
Shrewsbury Town 1 (O'Donnell)
Exeter City 1 (Priestley).

The City, winning the toss, began brightly, but lost their early polish once the pitch began to cut up. The mud on the Shrewsbury ground was a big handicap to the lightly built inside men like Mackay and Murphy. The longer the game continued the more marked was the superiority of the home side in a territorial sense. Priestley was the most effective Exeter forward; he also scored the goal by which Exeter took the lead after an hour's play, though this was in the nature of a gift from Crossley, who came out of his goal to clear from Davey but lost the ball. All Priestley had to do was to run the ball into the unguarded net. Exeter's defence fought stubbornly as a whole, especially in the last twenty minutes when the exchanges were almost one way, in Shrewsbury's favour.
The attendance was 5,733.

Shrewsbury: Crossley; Bannister, Parr; Candlin, Atkins, Moloney; Price, O'Donnell, Hudson, Brennan, and Weigh.

Exeter City:- Kelly; B.Doyle, Douglass; Setters, Davey, Mitchell;
Priestley, Mackay, Ellaway, Murphy, and McClelland.

RESERVES WIN BY FIRST HALF GOAL SOUTHERN LEAGUE
CITY RESERVES v BEDFORD TOWN

The City Reserves and Bedford Town kicked off five minutes early at St James's Park on a waterlogged pitch, and only a couple of hundred spectators were present at the start.

Reserves: Bell; Walton, Williams; Callan, Harvey, Owens; Robinson, Anderson, Donaldson, Houghton, and Rees.

Bedford: Kinchin; Anderson, Adams; Fisher, Horne, Farquhar; Holland, Lunn, Duggan, P.Kelly, and J.Kelly.

Both sides found the wet ball difficult to control and on the soaking turf they had trouble in keeping their feet. After 15 minutes Donaldson and Rees combined cleverly on the Exeter left, and the final pass was cracked right-footed into the Bedford team's net by Anderson. This was the extent of the scoring, the City winning by one goal to nil.