Norwich City v Exeter City 
Henderson Deputised at Left-back Throughout Second Half

PLUCKY FIGHT BY TEN MEN OF EXETER

Saturday, October 5th 1929.

NORWICH CITY 3  (Hunt Anderson Thompson)
EXETER CITY 1  (Hannah own goal)

Half-time 1-1.

Norwich City: Jarvie; Hannah and Richmond; Lamb, Greenwell, and Lochhead; Porter, Anderson, Hunt, Thompson, and Slicer.
Exeter City: Alderson; Howson and Miller; Sheffield, McDevitt, and McMullan; Purcell, Henderson, Guyan, Hemingway, and Doncaster.
Referee:- Capt. A. J. Prince-Cox, of London.

It was hard luck on Exeter to lose a player just half-way through the match, especially when that player was Miller, whose right knee was injured shortly before the interval. With ten men the team was disjointed and dispirited. They more than held their own in the first half and deserved to be leading, but in the second period were "all at sea," and although Henderson played a very fine game as a deputy left back the depleted forward line failed to get the better of the Canaries' defence. Alderson played a wonderful game in the second half, and he saved the City from a crushing defeat. Henderson was responsible for Exeter taking the lead in the fourth minute, his shot being deflected into the Norwich goal by Hannah. Hunt equalised near the interval against the run of the play, and in the second half Anderson and Thompson secured the winning goals.

WESTERN LEAGUE
EXETER CITY RESERVES 5
TAUNTON TOWN O.

Today, for the first time this season, rain took a hand in the proceedings at St James's Park on the occasion of the above Western League match. The playing field was saturated, and spectators on the popular side sheltered in a bunch underneath the iron "umbrella," the monument to the memory of the now defunct Exeter City Supporters' Club. There was a strong wind also, and the "gate" was the smallest for a Saturday this season.

City Reserves:- Holland; Noble, Shanks; Baugh, Gurkin, Dennington; Armfield, Ditchburn, Clarke, Houghton, and Corrigan.
Taunton:- Bristowe; Day, McLean; Walker, Wilcox, Clemett; Smith, Williams, Bryant, Frankland, and Ingram.

Ditchburn won the toss, and Taunton had to face the wind and rain. The City pressed persistently in the opening stages, Clarke putting Houghton through with a clever pass, but Day came across and cleared. Ditchburn shot wide from another opening provided by Clarke. Taunton were dangerous in a sudden quick breakaway but Shanks made a successful interception. Bristowe had to save from McLean, who sliced his clearance so that the ball curled back into the goalmouth, and just afterwards a shot by Gurkin from a long range was saved by Bristowe. Corrigan scored twice for the City in the space of three minutes, his second goal being a splendid header from Armfield's centre.
Half-time:
City Reserves 2 Taunton Town 0.

The teams, soaked to the skin, changed over without an interval, and Exeter, maintaining their ascendancy scored for the third time, Ditchburn dribbling through to shoot a very pretty goal. Immediately after Holland had fielded an effort by Bryant the City took play to the other end. Bristowe was lured out, and Armfield shot the ball into an empty goal. Clarke's strong play in his unaccustomed role of centre-forward was a feature of the game, and from one of his passes Armfield booted the ball first-time into the net for Exeter's fifth goal.

• CLIFFORD BASTIN IN THE ARSENAL FIRST TEAM.
  Exeter's "boy wonder," Clifford Bastin, has not had to wait long for his first chance with the Arsenal in a First Division football match. He was selected to play this afternoon against Everton, at Goodison Park, at inside-right, as the partner to Joe Hulme and with David Jack at centre-forward. This was the sequel to the recent charity match between the Arsenal and Notts Forest, when Bastin's fine football greatly impressed the critics. Here is the view of a well known London critic on the promotion to first-team rank of the former "Ladybird" Schoolboy International, who is still only 17. "This new partner to Hulme is quite likely to do a great deal towards making the Arsenal attack what the club's supporters would like to see it. He can hold the ball when necessary, and has the judgment to part with it when it is the game to do so. Jack stars as centre-forward, and if Bastin is nursed and coached in the way he should be, he will prove himself well worthy of his choice." "Corinthian" in the Daily Chronicle.

TWO NEW DIRECTORS FOR EXETER CITY.

Exeter City Directors have co-opted two new members on the Board. They are Mr John Lake and Captain F.J.C.Hunter, both well known local sportsmen, keenly interested in the Soccer game and in the doings of the City club, and both are prominently identified with vigorous business concerns in the city.