Monday, December 28th. 

EXETER'S WOEFUL DISPLAY EASY FOR RANGERS: GRECIANS YARDS TOO SLOW

Exeter City 0 Queen's Park Rangers 3.

In contrast to Boxing Day there was only a small crowd at the Park this afternoon to see Exeter City's match with the Rangers. Notable changes in the City's team were the return of Chesters to keep goal, and the inclusion of Pollard at right half instead of Clarke, who is injured. Scott was at inside right in the place of Bussey, and Williams reverted to his correct position, at centre forward, with Johnson at inside left.

CITY
Chesters
Brown Boyle
Pollard Hobbs Young
Keane Scott Williams Johnson Owen
Referee:- Mr J.M.Wiltshire, of Sherborne.
McMahon Fitzgerald Cheetham W.G.Charlton Bott
March Farmer Lowe
Rowe Jefferson
Mason
RANGERS

The visitors were quick to attack, and after McMahon centred from the touch-line Charlton, the amateur, brought Chesters to his knees with a stinging shot. Chesters fielded the ball cleanly. Mason saved with difficulty when Keane headed a bouncing ball over the heads of several players. The shot took Mason by surprise, and he had to scramble across his goal-line to make a last-ditch save. Williams, put through by Owen, scored for Exeter, but the goal was disallowed for offside. Then the Rangers, who were faster on the ball than Exeter, opened the scoring through Charlton with a beautiful low drive to the far corner of the net. The Rangers were so superior that there was only one team in it, and with Exeter's defence spreadeagled and Chesters sprawling in the mud in the goalmouth Cheetham intercepted a back pass from Brown and ran the ball into the empty net. Yards too slow, the City were being overplayed in every phase of the game, and only a sensational save by Chesters, who caught a point-blank drive by Fitzgerald, prevented a third goal. The City, with the advantage of the wind in the second half, were a different proposition, and for some minutes the Rangers' goal was in jeopardy. Close range shots by Johnson and Owen were stopped by Mason. At the other end Cheetham broke away, and swerving past Hobbs, he fired fiercely just wide of the upright. After defending stubbornly the Rangers broke away again, Cheetham racing forward with the ball at his feet. Chesters came out of his goal and smothered the ball, but it rolled to Bott, who tapped it into the empty net. Exeter, who have now conceded ten goals in three matches, gave a very poor display, and were weak and slow in every department. Young and Boyle were the only players on the Exeter side to display anything approaching normal form.