Saturday April 7th 1956,

SHREWSBURY TOWN 2
(WEIGH, LOUGHNANE)
EXETER CITY 0

At the Gay Meadow, Shrewsbury.
Half-time Shrewsbury 2 Exeter City 0.

SAME OLD STORY IN DRAB ENCOUNTER.

A goalkeeper has one moment of fault and it means all the differnece in the results column. For in this defeat Hunter, the saviour of City on any occasions this season and had his vorst game for Exeter so far- his only bad gane of the season. The tragic mistake cane ten minutes from half time, Shrewsbury vere on top in the opening stages, they were leading 1-0 and City vere showing signs of a revival, then Loughrane crossed a high ball, Hunter his judged its flight and it dropped behind his into the net Consolation to Hunter is, had the City forwards made as few mistakes as he did, the two Shrewsbury goals, the first hit by Veigh would not casionally did something worthwhile, gest city weakness of all was in the forward line. Burke and Rees occasionally did but Thomas, Willis and Sword never did. So once again it was the old story of a defence playing without rest. It was left to John, the 23 year old Welshman now in peak fors to take the honours in the City team. was strong and tenaciousther then, Shrewsbury by the forwards which they did not take Hvantage of. Without much bother then, Shrewsbury the netter by the smallest margin of the two shocking sides won.

Shrewsbury:- Crossley; Bannister, Hobson; Wallace, Maloney, Simpson; Loughnane, O'Donnell, Weigh, Russell, Edgley.

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

The referee was Mr Griffiths of Newport.
Attendance 6,576,

Southern League 
EXETER CITY RESERVES 2
(PACKER, ELLAWAY)
GUILDFORD 0.

At St James's Park, attendance 2,483. Half-time 1-0.

Guildford City Unimpressive

Guildford were hard-pressed for most of the first half in a Southern League match at Exeter. The home team scored in the 20th minute when Dore pushed out a shot from Simpson, but PACKER followed up to shoot in the rebound. Exeter's centre-forward should have added to his side's lead soon after, but missed an easy chance. Guildford did not look like league leaders. Some of their approach work in break-aways was good but they could make little impression on a strong xeter rearguard. Guildford's best efforts were two: bots by Devine, one of which was saved on the line by Exeter's centre-half, Harvey.

ELLAWAY scored for Exeter in the 74th minute.

Final:
Exeter City 2-0 Guildford City

City Reserves:- Kelly; Walton, Foley; Packer, Harvey, Houghton; Simpson, Worthington, Ellaway, Murphy, P. Thomas.

Guildford:- Dore; Donaughy, James; Beale, Morton, Grimshaw; Ryan, Cresswell, Browning, Devine, Hope.

Referee:- Mr F.J.Higgins of Winsford.