LUTON TOWN  1 (O'Rourke)
EXETER CITY 2 (Carter, Curtis)

Saturday September 12th at Luton.


If Exeter City give any more of their Jekyll and Hyde performances that led up to their win at Luton, they will continue to confound supporters and critics alike. In the first half City were losing and playing so badly that it would not have been an injustice if they had been trailing by five goals, The second half was a revelation, the City won and won wellLuton were made to look a struggling side,

Almost everything went wrong in the first half but after the interval everything changed, City attacked and kept attacking, minute by minute their confidence and competence grew, the defence suddenly became a single unit, Cool and constructive the forward line had been so feeble yet suddenly they became a quick striking force moving into the right spaces and hitting the ball into the right places,

Luton threw up their arms in horror and despair as Carter got a 54th minute goal and then Curtis grabbed the winner, certainly good enough for the City side is goalkeeper Shearing. A debut game is always a tough one and this was tougher than most, but he looked a competent player.

Luton Town:- Baynham; McBain, Bramwell; Pacey, Fincham, Lownds; Pleat, McKechnie, O'Rourke, Reid, Whitaker.

Exeter City: Shearing; Fulton, MacDonald; Mitchell, Harvey, Anderson; Welsh, Curtis, Carter, Hancock, Rees.

Attendance 10,461,

Referee:- Mr N. Burtenshaw of Yarmouth.
Linesmen:- Messrs A.G.Seeley and B.Wickham.

Western League 
EXETER CITY RESERVES 8
Riding 3 Grace Redwood 2 Stuckey Hurst
TAUNTON TOWN 2
Grace own goal, Nutt

At St James's Park.

City Res:- Barnett; Patrick, Arbury; Grace, Higgins, Rutley; Stuckey, Redwood, Riding, Hurst, Ley.

Taunton:- Stone; Harrison, Whitnall; Battishill, Parsons, Sage; Long, Payne, Nutt, Murray, Hall.

In the first half at Luton they City could have deservedly been five goals down instead of one. After the interval there was a fantastic transformation when the City men found that they could do some damage and were capable of winning, they became more confident. And Luton, without a leader of the calibre of Mitchell let the game be dragged away from them. Martin Hurst, who scored one of the Reserves' eight goals, is the Son of the pre-war City forward, Stan Hurst.