SATURDAY 12th DECEMBER 1970.

EARLY GOALS SEND SOUTHPORT REELING. 2:30 kick off.

EXETER CITY 2,
Wilson; Crawford, Blain; Parker, Sharples, Balson; Rowan, Binney, Wingate, Banks, Corr..

SOUTHPORT 1.
Armstrong; Turner, Clarke; Russell, Harrison, Dunleavy; Lee, Aindow, Cocks, Withe (Kelley), Field,

Scorers
Exeter Binney, Wingate,
Southport Aindow.

Attendance 3,437.

Early starters Exeter City who began as if they were out to smash the club goalscoring record with two goals in the opening five minutes, finally produced their first double of the season when they beat promotion hopefuls, Southport, before the lowest crowd of the season at St James' Park, City went ahead in the first minute when John Corr crossed low to the unmarked Fred Binney, who swept the ball into the net. Three minutes later John Wingate headed in a Barry Rowan cross to put City two in front with Southport reeling. City missed a chance of going further ahead in the 30th minute when Armstrong saved Rowan's penalty kick after Alan Banks had been brought down, A minute later Southport were back in the game as Aindow took his chance to score with a header, City pressed again and a treandous Wingate drive was brilliantly saved by Armstrong, Graham Parker hammered a shot over the bar in the 72nd minute when he should have scored from a Banks pass, At the other end Bob Wilson had to tip over a rising shot from Cocks, and then had to dive full length to stop a shot from Russell. The game petered out as a spectacle, disappointing after that sensational start.

MONEY TALKS SO RESERVES HAVE TO WAIT.

The chances of Exeter City re-introducing a reserve side at the moment seems remote, The hardy annual question was asked by shareholder Percy Hilton, Mayor of Exeter, at the annual meeting. In reply he was given the hardy annual answer, in one word by acting chairman Fred Dart Finance," Exeter are now in their fourth season without a reserve side and during this period obviously quite an amount of money has been saved. In 1966-67 the last season of reserve football at St James' Park Exeter's average attendance for Western League games was 307, which meant average gate reciepts of £30, one players wages. Of course at that time Exeter had more than 20 professionals on their books before the axe fell in a massive clear out.

HARVEY A LOYAL SERVANT.

The Keith Harvey story is one of loyal and long service to Exeter Cityand also to the game of football, Keith says that sometimes he thinks that had he pressed harder, he may have gone on from St James Park to join one of the more famous clubs. Instead he elected to stay near his Crediton home, where he was born and bred, and learned his football. He still has a couple of years left in the game and never gets bored with it, The standard of soccer has improved in his 14 years with Exeter City, he says. For a time Keith was City's trainer, but the urge to get back on the field became so irresistable that he decided to leave the trainers bench for a comeback at the age of 32. A broken collar bone, a broken leg, and a major ear operation, has brought further frustration, but now Harvey is fighting fit and inspiring his side.