QUICKER TORQUAY MERITED THEIR WIN. 

CONTRASTING STYLES OF FOOTBALL IN DEVON DERBY.

Saturday, December 28th 1946.
TORQUAY UNITED 2 (Phillips, Conley)
EXETER CITY 1 (Head own goal)
Half-time Torquay 1 City 1.

Torquay:- Matier; Keeton, Calland; Towers, Head, Coley; Phillips, Harrower, Conley, Cothliff, Mercer. 
Referee:- Mr J.M.Wiltshire, of Sherborne.

Exeter City: Singleton; Thompson, Blood; Cutting, Hanford, Walker; Granville, Fellowes, Owen, Wright, Regan.

Attendance 11,000.

Apart from a dull phase midway through the first half, and another drab spell when both teams tired towards the end, this Devon Derby was an entertaining struggle between teams which exploited contrasting styles of football. The City were deliberate and clever when they had the time and space. Torquay were not so polished, but they made better use of the first time pass, and so were quicker on the ball and more direct in their methods. Phillips gave the Magpies the lead from a low centre swept across the face of the Exeter goal by Mercer. Head deflected a cross from Regan into his own net to level the score. A quarter of an hour from the end Conley headed a magnificent goal, the centre again being supplied by Mercer.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE MATCH AT ST JAMES'S PARK.
28th December 1946
City Reserves 1 (Smart) 1;
Merthyr Tydfil 7 (Hullett 4, Powell, Thomas, Howarth)

Thursday, January 2nd 1947.
Barry 3 Exeter City Reserves 3.
Southern League Cup-tie.

Barry:- Harris; D.Smith, Lewis;
Mason, Turner, Ovenstone; Wardhaugh, Simmonds, Clayton, Graham, J.Brown.

City Reserves:- B.J.Chappell; T.B.Pearce, Long; Murray, Coles, Holcroft; Holman, Granville, Smart, Vaughan, C.Jones.

Exeter's goals were scored by Vaughan (2) and Holman. Barry's were all scored by Simmonds.