Saturday, February 25th 1939

EXETER CITY 3 NEWPORT COUNTY 1. 
at St James's Park. 

CITY'S SHOCK FOR THE LEAGUE LEADERS.

Exeter City's great triumph over Newport County, the Southern Section leaders, was acclaimed by the season's biggest crowd at St James's Park. The Grecians were in no way flattered by their winning margin of three goals to one against opponents who did not look like а promotion side on this showing. Apart from the opening quarter of an hour Newport were very ordinary. The football was lacking in quality, and towards the end they were robust spoilers, that is all. And they failed even to make a good job of that.
Exeter City:
Church
Halliday Clarke
Walker Angus Fellowes
Turnbull Riley Bowl Ebdon Rich
Referee:- Mr E.W. Vokes, of Bath.
Carr Wood Hydes Hickman Derrick
Brinton Low W.M.Owen
Richards Roberts
Ferguson
Newport County: -

Robustness by itself is insufficient to win matches. That is why Newport failed today. Bowl (2, 1 penalty) and Riley were the men who scored for Exeter. Brinton with a penalty for hands against Halliday scored for Newport.

The attendance was 10,000.

Southern League
NEWPORT RESERVES 5
EXETER CITY RESERVES 0.

Play started in heavy rain. The City opened with a smart attack but a clearance by Webb gave Owen a chance to transfer the play to Exeter's quarters.

Newport Reserves:- Turner; Wheeler, Webb; Mogford, Lawrence, Edwards; Newall, Harvey, Williams, Higgins, W.E. Owen.
City Reserves:- Blore; Brown, Mellish; Coles, Bamsey, Barnes; Kemp, Bussey, Pollard, Pengelley, Millar.
Newport led by a goal to nil at the interval, Williams having beaten Blore with a first-time shot from Owen's centre. All the others goals were scored by the ex-Grecians, Higgins and Owen.

Wednesday, March 1st 1939.
Southern League:-
Colchester v Exeter City Reserves

Colchester Leader's Hat-trick

Colchester 6 Exeter City Res. 1 ..

In avenging their defeat at Exeter Colchester, leaders of the Southern League. ran into brilliant scoring form, getting three goals in six minutes of the first halt.

Two of Pritchard's three goals were gems, being the outcome of dash and great finishing. Astill (2) and Murray scored their other goals.

Colchester's half-time lead was 4-0. and Exeter except for Kemp on the right wing. were blotted out of the picture untu Bussey scored late in the game.

Colchester Young: Birch. Worton Morris. Leslie, Wallis: Hodge. Murray Pritchard. Merritt. Astill.

Exeter Blore: Brown. Brown. Mellish: Gater. Ramsey, Barnes: Kemp. Bussey. Pollard Liddle Sutherley.