March 26th 1932. SWINDON TOWN 2 EXETER CITY 1.

Rain set in at Swindon at noon today and fell heavily from lunch time onwards, and as a consequence the attendance at the Wiltshire County Ground was smaller than hoped for, only 4,000 being present when play commenced. Whitlow, feeling that he was suffering from a lack of confidence, asked that he be rested, and Varco was sent for from Exeter to take over the leadership of the City attack. Swindon also made one change, Low replacing Braithwaite, who was on the injured list.

Swindon Town: Giles; Dransfield and Girvan; Godfrey, Lambie, and Low; Lawley, Starsmore, Morris, Keeling, and Kirby.

Exeter City: Davies; Gray and Miller;
Clarke, Childs, and Barber; Armfield, Roberts, Varco, Houghton, and Doncaster.

To avoid a colour clash Exeter City played in white jerseys. Morris beat Miller in the toss, and the start was dramatic, Keeling scoring for Swindon in their first attack.
Half-time Swindon 1 Exeter 0.

Morris increased Swindon Town's lead fifteen minutes after the change of ends, and Varco, who had come close to scoring several times, at last obtained a goal for the Grecians with a long dropping shot from Doncaster's centre.

Southern League
EXETER CITY RESERVES 13
SWINDON TOWN RESERVES 0.

Sensational play marked the opening of this Southern League match at St. James's Park, two goals falling to the Grecians in that number of minutes. There was a large crowd present, and the ground was in ideal condition.

City Reserves:- Jones; Ditchburn and Baugh; Purcell, Angus, and Robinson; J.Gumm, Graham, S.Hurst, Halliday, and Courtney.

Swindon Reserves:- Neal; Brinkworth and Thorne; Low, Greenwell, and Sullivan;Nicholls, Purnell, Hayes, Timbrell, and Hammond.

The Railwaymen made a last-minute change at right-half, Low being required for first-team duty. Exeter Reserves surprised the onlookers by the high quality of their play in the opening minutes, during which the ball travelled from man to man with unerring accuracy. The amateur, Hurst, was the spearhead of the attack, and he scored two very fine goals in the opening minutes. 

By half time the City had built up a lead of seven clear goals, three of them having been obtained by Halliday and two more by Hurst. This amazing game continued on much the same lines after the interval, and from Courtney's well placed centre Hurst headed Exeter's eighth goal and his fifth. Hurst completed his "double hat-trick" by tricking the goalkeeper and running the ball into the net in the Houghton style. Graham, Robinson, Courtney and Hurst completed the rout of Swindon, who once beat Exeter Reserves by 12 to 5.