Crystal Palace 2-1 ECFC
Scorers: Mackay
Attendance: 15404

DAVEY WAS CITY'S POWER IN DEFENCE.
BUT THE ATTACK WAS UNBALANCED.

Sturdy in defence but unbalanced in attack is the correct summing up of an Exeter City team which, although scoring first, were beaten by the odd goal of three by Crystal Palace. On the spacious well kept Selhurst Park ground the City full backs performed valiantly throughout, despite being given plenty to do. Davey was the best wing intermediate on view. He was good in every facet of half-back play, and from him came the best constructive efforts.

CRYSTAL PALACE 2 EXETER CITY 1.

Saturday, August 18th,
at Selhurst Park, London.
Attendance 15,000.

Palace: Bumstead; Edwards, McDonald; Price, Briggs, McGeachie; Devonshire, Evans, Marsden, Broughton, Hanlon.

DAVEY WAS CITY'S POWER IN DEFENCE. BUT THE ATTACK WAS UNBALANCED.

Sturdy in defence but unbalanced in attack is the correct summing up of an Exeter City team which, although scoring first, were beaten by the odd goal of three by Crystal Palace. On the spacious well kept Selhurst Park ground the City full backs performed valiantly throughout, despite being given plenty to do. Davey was the best wing intermediate on view. He was good in every facet of half-back play, and from him came the best constructive efforts.

CRYSTAL PALACE 2 EXETER CITY 1.

Saturday, August 18th, at Selhurst Park, London. Attendance 15,000.

Palace: Bumstead; Edwards, McDonald; Price, Briggs, McGeachie; Devonshire, Evans, Marsden, Broughton, Hanlon.

City: Singleton; Warren, Clark; Davey, Goddard, Coley; McClelland, Smart, Smith, Mackay, Regan.

The wiles of Mackay, the earnestness of Smith, and the sporadic touch line bursts of Regan were insufficient to give to the City front line that degree of combined effectiveness which is essential if goals are to come in a regular flow.

After a quiet opening the tempo quickened, and end-to-end attacks thrilled the crowd. Mackay was the scorer of the opening goal in the twenty-second minute, Marsden equalising ten minutes later with a fierce shot from fully 30 yards out. Twelve minutes from time Hanlon beat Warren in a race for the ball, which rolled into the net as Singleton came out and collided with the Palace wingman.

Southern League 

EXETER CITY RESERVES 2 GRAVESEND UNITED 1.

At home the great kick-off was bowed in by the City Reserves with a well merited win over Gravesend in a Southern League match. Hancock and McGrath scored for Exeter and Clarke for the visitors.

City Reserves:- Lear; Reid, Charlton; Hutchings, Doyle, McGrath, Seager, Hancock, Digby, Howells. Fallon;



Beaten at Llanelly in Southern League Match.
LLANELLY 2 EXETER CITY RESERVES O.

Monday, August 20th,
at Stebonheath, Llanelly.
Attendance 5,000.

With Southern League victories over Dartford and Exeter City Reserves in their first two games of the season Llanelly have not made a bad start. Exeter Reserves, although comfortable winners of their opening match on Saturday, were, apart from a few isolated breakaways, hardly ever dangerous at Llanelly, where the crowd witnessed an easy win for the Welshmen.

Llanelly's victory by two goals to nil did scant justice to the great superiority they showed over the City Reserves. The home defence was really solid, and it will need a cleverer and a more forceful attack than Exeter's to score goals against it.

Llanelly: Annetts; Roberts, Jackson; Emmanuel, Stein, Mason; Morris, Wallace, Ainge, Davies, Haines.

City Reserves:- Salter; Reid, Rowe; Doyle, Carter, Fallon; McGrath, Seager, Mitchell, Hutchings, Howells.

Annetts did his job coolly and confidently, while Roberts and Jackson gave nothing away. Mitchell, the City's new centre-forward from Third Lanark, was to all intents and purposes blotted out of the game by Stein, while the keen tackling of Emmanuel and Mason was the main reason for the absolute
ineffectiveness of Exeter's inside forwards. Llanelly took the game in hand right from the start, and in seventeen minutes went ahead through Morris, who scored a brilliant goal follow ing a corner by Haines and a header by Emmanuel.

Twenty minutes from the close of play Davies made the game certain for Llanelly when he drew Salter out of goal and slipped the ball past him into the net.