EXETER CITY HOLD OUT TILL HALF TIME. MITCHELL INJURED AND BRADFORD SCORE FOUR IN SECOND HALF.

Saturday September 17th 1960.

BRADFORD 5 (Reilly, Anders 2, Buchanan 2)
EXETER CITY  2 (Donaldson 2)


Played at Park Avenue, attendance 6,000.

Bradford:- Gebbie; Baker, and Lawton;
Atkinson, McCalman, and Dick; Gibson, Buchanan, Allan, Reilly, and Anders.

Exeter City:- Lobbett; Whitnall, and MacDonald; Mitchell, Harvey, and Thompson; Harrison, Donaldson, Wilkinson, Gordon, and Rees.

Referee:- Mr T.Reynolds of South Stanley.

Exeter's run of bad luck continued at Bradford, where Mitchell was injured in the second half. He carried on but was obviously under a considerable handicap and was of little use.

How far the result was influenced by Mitchell's mishap is a point for conjecture, but the fact remains that until he was hurt the City were in front, and it is inconceivable that they would have crashed to such a heavy defeat had the side remained at its full strength.

As it was the game became an unequal struggle in the second half, and it was when Exeter were down to ten men in the last half hour that Bradford scored their last three goals.

• In the Western League match at St James's Park Poole Town, Exeter City Reserves' visitors, were let off lightly in a one-sided game. Exeter fielded three amateurs in their forward line, and two of them, D.Symes and P.Sokell scored the goals by which Poole were beaten. Exeter City Reserves 2 Poole Town 0.