October 4th 1947 

EXETER CITY 3  (Hutchings, Thompson, Regan)

SWANSEA TOWN 1 (ODriscoll)

Half-time City 1 Swansea 1
League 3rd Division South, at St James's Park. Attendance 12,000.

City: Singleton; Thompson, Johnstone; Bartholomew, Gibson, Walker;Hutchings, Mackay, Ebdon, Wright, Regan.
Referee:- Mr J.M.Wiltshire, Sherborne.
Swansea:- Parry; Feeney, Fisher;
Paul, Weston, Burns; O'Driscoll, McCrory, James, Eastham, Lockhart.

In the best match seen at Exeter this season the City deserved to win by virtue of their grand second half performance, but it was no easily obtained victory. Swansea Town, playing stylish and effective football, were as good a team as any seen at St James's Park since the war, but they failed because they lacked a sharpshooter. The City were not so tricky as Swansea but they had assets which the Welshmen did not possess. Exeter were determined, direct, and solid. They played good footballwithout attempting to be too clever and it paid a handsome dividend.
O'Driscoll opened the scoring for the Swans after twenty one minutes. Thompson did the unexpected when he levelled matters direct from an enormous free kick out on the touch-line nearly fifty yards from the Swansea goal. Hutchings and Mackay were prominent Exeter forwards in the second half, during which the winning goals were scored.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Torquay Reserves 3 (Kelly 2, Caseley) City Reserves 1 (Fallon, from a penalty kick).

Team:- Hoyle; Coles, S.Rowe; Evans, Davey, W.Rowe; Granville, Grant, Smart, Sutherland, W.Fallon. At Plainmoor, attendance 2,000.

• Exeter City have signed Roy Boylin of Dartmouth on professional forms,
• and have also engaged L. Pickard, inside right, of Barnstaple, as an amateur.

Wednesday, October 8th 1947.

Southern League Cup 
EXETER CITY RES. 2 (Sutherland, Pickard)
TORQUAY UNITED RES.  2 (Kernick, Thomas)

Half-time Exeter 1 Torquay 0.
Southern League Cup-tie, at St James's Park.

Attendance 3,500.

City Reserves:- Hoyle; Coles, S.Rowe;
Cutting, Davey, Evans; Boylin, L.Pickard, Sutherland, Vaughan, W. Fallon.

Torquay Reserves:- Barrie; Keeton, Whitfield; McDonough, Cothliff, Kernick; Mercer, Jewell, Caseley, V.Jones, Thomas.

This Southern League cup-tie, the kick off of which was 5.15 p. m., was attended by a crowd of three and a half thousand people. The result was a draw, four goals being shared. Exeter Reserves had a greater share of the game but were countered by a solid defence in which Barrie, Torquay's new Scottish goalkeeper, Keeton, and Whitfield, were always reliable. A goal by Sutherland rewarded the City's persistence in the opening quarter of an hour and the lead was maintained until the interval. Torquay rearranged their attack in the second half, with Kernick changing places with Caseley, and the policy paid, for the visiting forwards frequently harassed the City defenders. Goals by Kernick and Thomas placed the Magpies in front, but Exeter rallied and drew level through Len Pickard, the Barnstaple amateur inside right. Pick of the Exeter team were Cutting and Evans. For Torquay V.Jones was a clever inside man and Thomas a dangerous winger.