Queen's Park Rangers v Exeter City 

CONDITIONS BEAT THE PLAYERS AT SHEPHERD'S BUSH: Hard Bumpy Ground: Gale of Wind and Light Ball:

Saturday, September 21st 1929.

QUEEN'S PARK RANGERS 2 (Young Rounce)
EXETER CITY 0

Half-time 2-0.

Queen's Park Rangers: Cunningham; Pollard and Pierce; McNab, Cockburn, and Neil; Moffat, Rounce, Goddard, Whatmore, and Young.

Exeter City: Alderson; Howson and Shanks; Sheffield, Gurkin, and McMullan; Purcell, McDevitt, Henderson, Hemingway, and Doncaster.

Referee:- Mr A.S.King, of Swindon.

A point of interest in today's game was the appearance of Bob Pollard, the old Exeter City favourite, at right back in the Rangers' team. Miller and Death still being unfit, the City made two changes from Wednesday's eleven, McDevitt and Gurkin replacing Houghton and Mason. Following a cool morning the weather turned out warm, so that the players had to contend with four things, a strong sunshine, a half-gale of wind, a light ball, and a hard and bumpy ground. Queen's Park Rangers nevertheless were a decidedly superior combination to Exeter City, and were well worth their victory by two clear goals. They won because they showed better ball control than the Grecians when they had an


extraordinarily strong wind in their favour. The two shots which Alderson was beaten by were both positively unstoppable, and in fact if it had not been for a superb display by the Exeter goalkeeper the victory of Queen's Park Rangers would have been much more pronounced. shot from a

Young opened the scoring after ten minutes with a great cross thoughtful pass by Whatmore, and in 28 minutes Rounce completed it following a well placed corner kick by Moffat. Exeter had sufficient of the game during the second half to have saved one point at least, but the ball control of their forwards was poor. Henderson was a failure at centre-forward, and McDevitt was generally too far back to be of much service to the other forwards, although most of Exeter's danger came from his skill at making openings.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE
EXETER CITY RESERVES 4
TORQUAY UNITED RESERVES 1.

The weather was fine but very windy on the occasion of the return Southern League match between Exeter and Torquay Reserves at St James's Park. Every now and again swirling dust storms swept along the flower-pot terracing, to the acute discomfort of the spectators there. The strong wind, coupled with the cast-iron ground, made the match conditions doubly difficult.

City Reserves: Holland; Baugh and Miller; R.Hill, Ditchburn, and Dennington; Armfield, Thomas, Guyan, Houghton, and Corrigan.
Torquay Reserves: Millsom; J.Wright and H.J.Biddick; Freer, H.Scanes, and White; Burn, Kelly, Rice, Keeling, and Waller.

Referee:- Mr F.Yandle.

Hill surprised Scanes by relieving him of the ball, and the amateur half back went on to shoot well, Millsom saving by the post. The Torquay forwards were a not quick enough to make any impression, and when Exeter applied further bout of pressure Houghton headed to Corrigan, whose attempt to steer the ball into the net was frustrated in the nick of time by Millsom. After 17 minutes Houghton scored with a splendid shot from outside the penalty area. Thomas won applause with a fine shot which hit the crossbar, and Hill was very prominent in various Exeter attacking moves. Five minutes before the interval Millsom brought Thomas down in the penalty area as he was dribbling through, and Houghton netted from the "spot."
Half-time:
City Reserves 2 Torquay Reserves 0.
Second Half.
Burn, attempting to run through, was tackled by Miller, and to the amazement of the crowd the referee awarded Torquay a penalty, from which Keeling found the net. From Hill's well taken free kick Corrigan headed Exeter's third goal, and a similar kick by Baugh gave Houghton the opportunity to head the ball home, thus completing his "hat-trick."


City Reserves v Yeovil
BRILLIANT WESTERN LEAGUE GAME AT ST. JAMES'S PARK

Young Amateur Winger Scores Two Goals

Wednesday, September 25th 1929.

EXETER CITY RESERVES 1 (Henderson)
YEOVIL AND PETTERS UNITED 2 (Masters 2)

Half-time 0-0.

City Reserves:- Holland; Baugh and Shanks; Clarke, Ditchburn, and Dennington; Armfield, Henderson, Doncaster, Houghton, and Hemingway.

Yeovil: Rogers; Day and Cheetham;
Logan, Pratt, and Parkin; Tulley, McDade, Whitehead, McNeil, and Masters.

The Western League match at St James's Park on Wednesday evening between the City Reserves and Yeovil was a particularly interesting and enjoyable affair, and the standard of play was quite as high as that seen in several Football League encounters this season. The result was surprising to those who watched the game, because the Exeter half-backs and backs did their work so soundly that for an hour all the play ran strongly in the City's favour. Yeovil were weakened by the absence of Johnson, their regular goalkeeper, and Bloxham and Barclay, their wingers.

HENDERSON GAVE EXETER THE LEAD.

It speaks volumes for the skill of Pratt, Day and Cheetham in covering their goal that the Exeter forwards, although doing threequarters of the attacking in the opening half, had very few scoring openings. Houghton was the one man in the City team who could beat Pratt with the ball, and he worked cleverly and tirelessly to break down the stubborn Yeovil rear guard, without effect. Henderson eventually gave Exeter the lead five minutes after the change over with a splendidly timed low shot from eighteen yards. Exeter applied severe pressure after this, and the visiting goal had a series of narrow escapes, especially from Armfield's dangerous centres. The Exeter inside-forwards played into their opponents' hands, however, by keeping the ball too close.
A DRAMATIC FINISH.
Fifteen minutes before the end the game underwent a remarkable change, when Masters, an amateur of sixteen years of age playing in his first senior match, beat Baugh and went on to shoot a fine goal. The move was repeated right on time. Masters shot for goal, and the ball curled into the net out of the reach of Holland. It turned out to be the last kick of the game.