SATURDAY 8th SEPTEMBER 1956.

HUNTER'S FINE DISPLAY.

CRYSTAL PALACE 0
Potter; Edwards, Noakes; Belcher, Choules, Long; Harrison, Berry, Pierce, Cotton, Gunning.

EXETER CITY 0,
Hunter; Doyle, Ferrier; John, Harvey, Porteous; Thomas, Burke, Currie, Phoenix, Buckle.

Attendance 11,801,

Hunter the great, the unbetable. The man who with the help of a grim defence ket Crytal Palace golless, winless and gave Exeter City their first away point of the season, Hunter at 26, valued by Exeter City in the £10,000 class played his greatest game ever for City at Selhurst Park. Certainly withou Hunter, City would have lost quite comfortably, he made a half dozen saves which should have all the superlatives in the book attached to them, The criss cross pattern of the Palace attacks weaved temselves into midfield command soon after the City's opening spurts and almost without break until the end of the game the Palace's perogative was attack but ineffectually, because City's tough, tenaciousuntiring defence clamped down visiously from the start and when they were beaten almost by sheer weigh of numbers there was Hunter. It was a pity that the City's forwards cannot have the same success story told of them, City's attacks, the dangerous ones that is, could have been doubled and they could still hve been ounted on the fingers of one hand Burke shot inches wide on one occasion and Potter made a brilliant save on another, but there were few other efforts at goal of note City played the last 15 minutes with ten men when Currie went off with concussion,

Southern League 

Exeter City Reserves at St James's Park were beaten by Headington by three goals to one. Phillips gave the visitors the lead in the eleventh minute and doubled it five minutes later. Headington went further ahead after the interval when Phillips crossed the ball splendidly to W.Rees, who put on the third goal. Willis then scored a goal for Exeter.

City Reserves:- Lobbett; Foley, Mitchell; Houghton, Parr, D. Major; Divers, Packer, Beer, Willis, G.Rees.

Attendance 2,605.

Exeter City Reserves 1 (Willis)
Headington 3.
WEDNESDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 1956.

Southern League

For sixty miserable minutes the Southern League game between Exeter City Reserves and Kidderminster Harriers at St James's Park, won by the City 2-0, was dull. All that can be written about that period was a grand save by Bell from Burns and a worthy attempt to score by Beer. The City Reserves and Kidderminster seemed not to have not a bit of skill or imagination between them.

Fifteen minutes after half-time Divers took the ball into the penalty area where he was fouled by Millington. Mitchell rammed the ball past Parsons from the penalty spot. That was the signal for things to start happening. First Beer and then Mitchell forced their way through the middle each missing scoring by a fraction. Then Parsons turned Simpson's lob against the crossbar, and in the 66th minute Marsh made the crowd roar for the first time when he hit a ball from 35 yards and saw it crash into the roof of the net. Almost immediately Divers first-timed a left wing centre which the goalkeeper had to fling himself sideways to save. Those efforts by the City seemed to add life to Kidderminster as well for Cocum twice brought Bell into serious action. So in the last hectic half an hour there was more and better football as well as more thrills from each side than there had been from both sides previously. Beer, Mitchell, and Houghton were the City's best players, while Cocum and Parsons were Kidderminster's.

City Reserves:- Bell; Foley, Marsh; Mitchell, Packer, Houghton; Simpson, Divers, Sword, Phoenix, Beer.

Kidderminster:- Parsons; Paxton, Garvin; McCabe, Haycox, Millington; Handy, Cocum, Burns, Hardiman, Knight.

Exeter City Reserves 2
Kidderminster 0

Attendance 1.968.

Receipts £90.0s.6d