CITY TURN THE TABLES ON BRIGHTON.

VICTORY BY THE ODD GOAL AT ST. JAMES'S PARK.

Saturday, December 22nd 1945.

EXETER CITY 3 (Challis 2, Ebdon)
BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION 2 (Moore, Wilson)
Half-time score:- City 2 Brighton 2.
Attendance 4,578.
Referee:- Mr G.J.Reader, of London.

Owing to the late arrival of the Brighton team the half time interval was dispensed with and play was curtailed to 40 minutes each way. The game was started at 2.59 o'clock according to the referee's timing and ended at 4.19. In view of the delayed kick off and the rain which prevailed all the afternoon it would have been impossible to have finished the match in daylight had it gone the scheduled distance. An earlier railway smash near Reading caused the train in which the Brighton players travelled to be delayed.

EVENLY MATCHED.

Starting off as if they meant to "win the sweep" the Exeter forwards were two goals in front after twenty minutes. Challis scored the first and Ebdon the second, and at this stage the mud-larking Grecians threatened to overwhelm the opposition. Then came a transformation. Moore and Wilson, the last named with a penalty kick, obtained goals which levelled the scores before the interval. Exeter City on a waterlogged pitch were pegged back and made to struggle hard. It was not until the last minute that Challis won the game with an opportunist goal. These rivals must be evenly matched, for Exeter turned the tables on Brighton, who three days ago had themselves triumphed by a three-two margin, again from the last kick of the match.

City team:- Thomson; Murray, Roughton; Jordan, Walker, Haddock; Tickell, Wardle, Ebdon, Bowden, Langford.