ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR EXETER CITY. DEFENSIVE AND ATTACKING FAILURES AT GILLINGHAM.

Saturday December 10th 1960.

GILLINGHAM 4
(Pulley 2, Lobbett own goal, Bacon)
EXETER CITY 2
(Carter, Rees)

Played at Priestfield-road, attendance 4,925.

Gillingham:- Simpson; Parry and Hunt; Wilson, Hughes, and Proverbs. Bacon, Shepherd, Terry, Pulley, and Brown.

Exeter City: Lobbett; Foley and MacDonald; Wilson, Harvey, and Thompson; Welsh, Rees, Wilkinson, Carter, and Dale.

Referee:- Mr R. Reddaway of Kettering.

Exeter City's trip to Gillingham ended with another defeat, their twelfth of the season, and with nearly half their matches played the club is on the very bottom rung of the League ladder, and with some lee-way to make up on the teams immediately above them. Exeter today were unable to build up any sustained pressure on the Gillingham goal, and their shortcomings in both defence and attack cost them the points.

Harvey did well to hold Gillingham's lively leader, Pat Terry, but the wing halves did not command the same control over Shepherd and Pulley.

Although Lobbett pulled off several brilliant saves, especially in the second half, he was directly responsible for the third goal against him, when he palmed a corner kick from Bacon into his own net.

• Exeter City Reserves, whose team included four amateurs, drew their match with Weston at St James's Park, three goals all.