Saturday March 31st
Southampton 5
(Reeves,Day 2,Walker, Bedford)
Exeter City 0.

Half-time Southampton 3 City 0.
At the Dell.
Attendance 9,924.

CITY HAD HARDLY A MOMENTS REST.

The smooth slick Southampton side were worth every bit of their five goal vistory, They hardly gave the City defenders a moments rest throughout the 90 minutesThe City forwards were hardly in the picture, No matter how often the Exeter defence cleared the ball, the forwards could not keep possession, they could not blend, they could not make even the slightest impression on the Southampton defence. The City defence were made to look like worried men, little wonder that they lost. Had not Porteous and in the first half John, kept Southampton's inside sen quiet, the defeat would have been heavier, Had not Hunter at fault only once made some fine saves the defeat would have been bigger still and but for the man that never faltered at all, Doyle, the defeat would have been huge, Southampton were four goals to the good at half time. Day twice, Reeves and Bedford scoring, but they were only able to score one further goal, midway through the second half when Walker scored their fifth goal.

Southampton:- Kiernan; Page, Traynor; McGowan, Parker, Elliott; Day, Reeves, Bedford, Walker, Hoskins.

Exeter City:- Hunter; Doyle, Mitchell; John, Davey, Porteous; K. Thomas, Iggleden, Sword, Willis, Buckle.

Southern League

At Cheltenham the City Reserves were beaten by Cheltenham Town by six goals (Phillips 3 Knox 2 Cleland) to one (Dunn through own goal).

City Res. Crash 6-One

CHELTENHAM were two up on Exeter Reserves in the first 14 minutes of their Southern League game at Cheltenham. Still in the race for the championship, Cheltenham fielded their strongest side. Cheltenham quickly moved into the attack, and in two minutes were one up. Scott took a corner, but Clelands' header was caught by Lobbett. His clearance went to Dunn, and the left- back's quick return found Cleland, who gave PHILLIPS a chance to score from a rebound off the post. Exeter's defenders were solely tested, and Phillips almost repeated his success a minute later. After 14 minutes the same player was in the right spot to make it two nil. Cleland and Scott engineered the movement which gave the centre-forward an easy goal. Lobbett was next called on to save a difficult shot from Knox. Although Exeter tried to improve their position they found Hyde a staunch defender. Murphy prompted wel. but Gorlay had still to make his first save in the Cheltenham goal. Houghton got away but Gourlay was called on and saved at the exper.se of a corner After 35 minutes PHILLIPS had his hat trick. Scott worked up the movement which gave him the goal. Two minutes later KNOX got number four. Exeter had more of the play as half-time approached and while Luke was off the field with a leg injury. The four Cheltenham forwards were, however, still dangerous. 
Half-time:
Cheltenham. 4: Exeter City Res. 0.

In the second half KNOX and CLELAND added goals for Cheltenham. Exeter's only goal came in the 80th minute from DUNN, a home defender, who put through his own goal.

Result :-
Cheltenham Town 6-1 Exeter City Res.

Exeter City Reserves. 
Lobbett; WaltonMarshPacker, Harvey, Murphy; Simpson, Worthington, Houghton, Ellaway, Whiteside.

Scorer Exeter City og.