Saturday, March 21st 1936.
EXETER CITY 2
CLAPTON ORIENT 3 

Inability to last the pace and a second half display bordering on the hopeless brought about another Exeter City home failure this afternoon. Following today's defeat the chances of escaping either of the two bottom League positions are negligible. The blunt truth is that the team is not good enough for the Third Division.

GIFT GOALS WERE AN EPIDEMIC

For the second time in successive home matches Exeter City have fallen by the odd goal, and upon both occasions a City player has scored for the visitors. Against Reading it was Crompton, and today it was Robinson who was the unwilling scorer. But despite their gift goal Clapton Orient won on their merits.

EXETER CITY
Beby
Gray Miller
Clarke Robinson Angus
J.Scott Ebdon McCambridge T.Scott McArdle.
Referee:- Mr E. C. Mills, of Warminster.

McAleer Farrell Crawford H. Taylor Miles Ware J.Taylor Heinemann
Herod Searle
Hillam
CLAPTON ORIENT

Smarter in attack and a better combination than Exeter, Clapton Orient nevertheless lacked thrust in the centre, and Crawford was generally well held by Robinson. Exeter showed a greater degree of dash in the first half, and towards the interval it was Hillam alone who kept the visitors from going into arrears, and half an hour from the start Exeter took a deserved lead. Tom Scott made the chance possible by passing shrewdly to the centre. Receiving the ball while the Orient backs were out of position McCambridge beat Hillam with a fast and well directed ground shot. Just before the interval Jack Scott lobbed in an inviting high centre, and McCambridge, with a flick of his head, sent the ball rocketing into the back of the net. The City, leading by two goals to nil, were attacking strongly when the whistle blew for half-time. Twelve minutes after the restart Robinson headed the ball into his own net, then, following a long Exeter attack, the Orient broke away and scored two quick goals through H. Taylor and McAleer. Furious but ragged attacks by Exeter failed to retrieve this latest disaster. Entitled to honourable mention in the Exeter City side today are Beby, Angus, and McCambridge.

• SUDDEN DEATH OF ARTHUR CHADWICK.

CITY'S FIRST MANAGER COLLAPSES IN GRAND-STAND.

Mr Arthur Chadwick, Exeter City's first manager, English an International centre half in his playing days, and one of the best known personalities in football, collapsed in the grand stand and died suddenly, at St James's Park this afternoon. He had visited the ground as a spectator, and arrived shortly before the start of the City's match with Clapton Orient. Taking a seat in the stand, he complained that he was not quite "up to the mark," but no-one expected the end to be so near. Suddenly he collapsed, and though assistance was rendered right away, he died within a few minutes, presumably from heart a attack.

ARTHUR CHADWICK, FINE PLAYER AND FINE MANAGER.
Chadwick died as he had lived, in football. The game is poorer by his passing. There were few better judges of a footballer in the making than Mr Chadwick. He discovered good players by the score, particularly in his native Lancashire, and the transfer fees he earned for Exeter City must have run into thousands of pounds. As a player he made his name with Southampton, and an eminent half-back in his generation he was often capped for England at the beginning of the present century. He left Southampton to continue his playing career with Portsmouth and Northampton, and joined Exeter City in 1908, the year in which the Grecians obtained entry into the original Southern League. Straightaway he signed on a collection of players which formed what was probably the best team in the City's history. Bob Watson, Andy McGuigan, Levi Copestake, Parnell, Crelley, and "Daisy" Bell were the "stars" of that first season in the Southern League. Since the war several other players of great ability came to Exeter in the Arthur Chadwick era. The names of Billy Goodwin, Jimmy Makin, Jack Feebery, and John Dockray spring readily to mind.

From 1908 until some time in the early twenties Mr Chadwick managed the City. He then joined Reading, and after a spell with them, Southampton, that being his last club. The late Mr Herbert Chapman was one of Arthur Chadwick's host of admirers, and the old Arsenal manager often sought him out for advice on football matters.

BARRY v EXETER CITY RESERVES.
Southern League fixture at Barry. Fred Whitlow, holder of the League goalscoring record for Exeter City, led Barry's attack, and the teams were:

Barry. Thomas; J.Jones and Lewis; Bayliss, W.Jones, and Pulling; Evans, Carless, Whitlow, Paget, and Sullivan.

City Reserves. Kirk; Risdon and Crompton; McArthur, Bamsey, and S. Barnes; H.Jarrett, S. Pope, L. Tett, McLean, and Fantham.

Carless opened the scoring for Barry ten minutes after the game had started and Exeter were kept mainly on the defensive. A quarter of an hour before the interval Crompton, harassed by Whitlow, put the ball into his own net in attempting to clear. This was the extent of the scoring, Barry winning by two goals to nil.