September 17th 1947.

IPSWICH TOWN 3 (Jennings, T. Parker). 
EXETER CITY 0

Half-time Ipswich 2 City 0.
League 3rd Division South, at Portman-road.
Attendance 12,500.

Ipswich:- Burns; Bell, Rumbold;Perrett, Green, Baird; Day, S.Parker, Jennings, T. Parker, Pole.
City: Singleton; Johnstone, S.Rowe; Bartholomew, Gibson, Walker; Granville, Evans, Ebdon, Wright, Regan.

Four fatal minutes brought about Exeter City's 2-0 defeat on the Ipswich ground. The defence held out grandly until Gibson lost his balance and possession of the ball in a shoulder charge with Jennings, who burst through and beat Singleton with a good shot taken in his full stride. Within another three minutes the City had another stroke of bad luck. Pole moved in and had a shot blocked at close range but the tall left winger stretched out his left leg and pushed the ball past Gibson. Before Gibson had a chance to recover T. Parker nipped in to shoot the second goal. Apart from this disastrous spell the City defence was in good fettle and presented a solid wall to the home attackers. Johnstone was brilliant and Stanley Rowe, the Buddle Estate former amateur, can look back with satisfaction on his debut.

• Following the match at Portman Road, Angus Mackay, the reserve inside right of Ipswich Town and previously of Hamilton Academicals, signed for Exeter City. A substantial transfer fee was paid by Exeter City.
• An old Exeter City favourite in Stan Barnes has returned to the fold from Gravesend. Barnes played in many games for the City Reserves in the years immediately preceding the war and was transferred in 1939 to Clapton Orient.
• Exeter have also signed R. Boylin, an outside right from Dartmouth, on amateur forms.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
City Reserves 1 (W. Fallon)
Cheltenham Town 3.
Played at St James's Park, Exeter.
Team:- Hoyle; Coles, D.Warren; Angus, Davey, W.Rowe; R.Boylin, Sutherland, Smart, Vaughan, W. Fallon.