CHRISTMASTIDE FOOTBALL
TORQUAY v CITY HOME AND AWAY.

BOXING DAY AT PLAINMOOR:

CITY WON BY 3 GOALS TO 2.

Interest never flagged for a moment in the Boxing Day clash between the Devonshire rivals in the first of this season's "derby" games. But although there was only one goal in it at the end, there was for most of the game only one team in it, and that was Exeter City. For the City produced almost all the football and almost all the speed and excitement, and in their new all-red playing colours the Exeter "red devils" really gave the Plainmoor boys a pasting on their own absolute mud-heap of a ground.

Torquay:- Gill; J.P.Smith, Penford; Bettany, G.Northcott, Rawson; Baxter, Cox, T. Northcott, Bond, Mills.

Exeter City: Jones; Foley, MacDonald; Mitchell, Oliver, Thompson; Stiffle, Rees, Wilkinson, Micklewright, Dale.

The extent of Exeter's territorial supremacy can be gauged from the fact that in the first half alone they forced 17 corners to four by their hosts, and it was from the 17th of these corner kicks in the last few minutes before half-time, that Wilkinson scored Exeter's first goal. In the second half goals by Rees and Stiffle for the City came just before and after one by Cox for the "Gulls," and right at the close of play Tommy Northcott got through for Torquay again. Two goals for Torquay were just flattery, and the City should have won this game by five or six goals at By

Southern League 
City Reserves v Tunbridge Wells 

In the Southern League match at St James's Park the City Reserves beat Tunbridge Wells by 4 goals to 2.

EXETER CITY RESERVES
Lobbett; Butterworth, Whitnall; Williams, Rapley, Harvey; Atkins, Pulman, Bennett, Hill, Calland, 


Scorers
Exeter City Pulman, Hill 2, Og.


TUESDAY 29th DECEMBER 1959.

CITY TO SCRAP RESERVE AND A TEAMS.

Exeter City are to scrap their Southern and South Western League sides next season and enter a reserve side in the Western League, this was the shock news that came in a statement from St James's Park this morning, The statement read:-"At a meeting of the board held on December 3rd, it was agreed by all the directors present that the club should withdraw from the Southern and South Western Leagues and that an application should be made to enter the Western league. In the last annual balance sheet it was clearly that the club was facing tremendous difficulties in hotel and travelling expenses. The attendance Southern League games have shown a serious decline over the past three seasons. The board agreed that the above mentioned changes will help to meet today's additional expenses and by slightly reducing the personnel at the club at the end of the season, it will enable them to pay increased wages to the retained. It is the intention of the club to bring Third Division football to Exeter as soon as possible.st Mr Gillin added that City take an average £40 from home gate receipts, and that the reserves cost aproximately £200 per week to run, He added that the club could obviously not keep 30 players on the staf at they have this season, but they would have sufficient good men to always have a good first team strength,

THURSDAY 31st DECEMBER 1959.

CITY GIVE RUTTER A FREE TO WISBECH TOWN.

Charlie Rutter, the former England B' International fullback who has not played in the City first team since signing from Cardiff City, just over a year ago has signed for Wisbech Town on a free transfer, He has been on City's transfer list for some time after refusing to live in Exeter.