WEAK ATTACK FAILS TO SCORE AT SWINDON

Alderson Saved Another Penalty Kick

Saturday, March 8th 1930.
SWINDON TOWN 1 (Denyer)
EXETER CITY 0
Half-time 0-0.

Swindon Town:- Nash; Penn and Girvan; Low, Bew, and Braithwaite;
Denyer, Dowdall, Morris, Eddleston, and McCartney.

Exeter City:- Alderson; Gray and Shanks; Clarke, Mason, and Dennington; Purcell, McDevitt, Guyan, Houghton, and Hemingway.

Referee:- Mr A.Button, of Wednesbury.

Exeter City's weakness in attack was the deciding factor in the return match with Swindon at the Wiltshire County Ground this afternoon. So much work was thrown on the defence that it was really astonishing that Swindon Town only scored the one goal, by Denyer, ten minutes after the change of ends. The score in no way represented the superiority of the Railwaymen, who gave a fine exhibition all round. Twice the framework of the Exeter goal was hit by headers from Denyer and McCartney which Alderson could not possibly have reached, and in the eighteenth minute the City goalkeeper saved a penalty, taken by Girvan. It was given against Clarke for "hands."

ALDERSON'S SPECIALITY.

What other goalkeeper in the country can point to a record such as Alderson has in the matter of penalties this season? He has had to face five of them and he has saved them all. No doubt because they knew all about Alderson all the Swindon forwards were reluctant to take the kick, and Bew, the captain, did not fancy taking it himself. Girvan was called up, and he shot hard and high but too straight. Without moving his feet Alderson reached up and caught the ball as it was flying over his head, as cleanly as a cricketer would take a catch in the slips.

Southern League
EXETER CITY RESERVES 4 SWINDON TOWN RESERVES 1.

The victory of the City Reserves in the Southern League match at St James's Park was very gratifying, and showed that the drawn game at Bath was no mere flash in the pan. Doncaster, who played centre-forward, scored two of the goals, Gumm and Ditchburn one each.