Saturday, March 12th 1910.
Southern League Football
at Exeter.
CITY V QUEEN'S PARK RANGERS

A Match Without Goals
For a club holding such a commanding position in the League, the display of Queen's Park Rangers at St. James's Park was far from satisfactory, and the City deserved to win by at least three goals. For quite three parts of the game Exeter did all the attacking, and the Rangers, apart from the moderate standard of their play, were unscrupulous in their methods, conceding numerous free kicks. Exeter City were by far the superior team, but the phenomenal luck which has accompanied the Rangers in most of their matches, coupled with an amount of erratic shooting on the part of the City forwards, enabled them to carry away an undeserved point.

CITY
Crossthwaite
Crelley Jones
Atkinson Ambler Hartley
Copestake Watson Green Bell Garside

Referee:- Mr G. Bennett, of Bristol.

Barnes Whyman Steer Travers Wyatt
Wake Hartwell Morris
Fidler Macdonald
Shaw
RANGERS

The weather was fine and dry, with a slight breeze blowing from goal to goal, and a crowd of 5,000 attended. There is not much to say about the game, for as an exhibition of football it decidedly was poor. The Rangers forwards were easily robbed of the ball, whilst the Exeter line rarely gave a glimpse of their real form; in fact, only one occasion can be recalled when anything approaching combination was seen, and this effort resulted in Shaw effecting a great save from Bell, the custodian diving across his goal and getting the ball away when it looked to be on its way to the back of the net. Outside this incident there was little life in the game, the play being for the most part desultory and typical of that to be seen at the end of the season. In fairness to the Grecians, it should be said that most of their players were victims of fouls, Garside especially being picked on with over vigorous tackles.
A NEAR THING FOR EXETER
Just before the finish it looked as if the Rangers would snatch a victory, for Steer, who has won many games for his side in the last minute, got within shooting range of the Exeter goal, but just as he was steadying the ball Crelley dashed in and kicked to touch. It was a near thing for the City, who had controlled so much of the game, a "last minute" escape. 

CITY HALF-BACKS PLAYED WELL
Following up their improvement last week, the City's half backs - again played well. Ambler, despite a bad wrench to his side early in the game was often conspicuous for good tackling and heading. Hartley and Atkinson also played well, but it would perhaps be more profitable if the latter did not play so much to the gallery. Returning to St. James's Park as the Rangers' left-half, Bill Wake, who was the City's vice-captain last season, will be the first to admit that he played many better games in Exeter's colours than he did for his new club on this occasion. Today's result leaves the Rangers third in the League and Exeter fifteenth, but this wide disparity was not apparent in the slightest.