Exeter City v Gillingham
BRILLIANT WIN FOR EXETER CITY

Gillingham Outplayed at St James's Park: Three Clever Goals

Wednesday, September 4th 1929.

EXETER CITY 3 Bristol  (Purcell Death Guyan)
GILLINGHAM 0

Half-time 2-0.

Exeter City:- Alderson; Howson and Miller; Ditchburn, Mason, and McMullan Purcell, McDevitt, Guyan, Hemingway, and Death.

Gillingham:- Smith; Robertson and Wilson; Ellis, Collins, and Bishop;McCafferty, Cheesemuir, Castle, Bethell, and Gore.

Referee:- Mr C.F.Moon, of Bristol.

Despite the fact that the evening was one of the warmest of the year, with a temperature of close upon eighty degrees in the shade, Exeter City gave an exceedingly fine display of fast and strong football in their match with Gillingham at St James's Park on Wednesday, fully deserving their victory by 3-0. Each department of the Exeter team had a notable share in this success. The eleven played a beautifully balanced, sound, and clever game, and the play of the defence, strong and confident, coupled with that of the attack, so lively and skilful, suggested that in normal circumstances, in other words when the air is little cooler, the Grecians will be a very difficult team to overcome on their own ground. In only one position was there any cause for regret, and that was at outside left. Death spoiled three clever advances by finishing his share of the work with a terrific shot from an angle so acute that a score was impossible, and each time there was a colleague much better placed. In all other respects a wonderfully fine team game was played by all the eleven Grecians.

MILLER INJURED.

Robertson won the toss, and Exeter had to face the broiling sun in the first half. A cunning lobbed shot from McDevitt, and a much harder one from Death, such as has been referred to, were followed soon by a brilliant goal scored by Purcell, who received the ball from McDevitt on the centre line, dribbled past almost the whole Gillingham team to finally leave Smith helpless with a scorching drive from somewhere the penalty spot. Three minutes before half time McDevitt and Ditchburn engineered an opening for Death to wind up with an unstoppable shot into the top of the net. Early in the second half Miller was injured and carried off the field, but returned just in time to witness the spectacle of Guyan shooting the City's third goal.