Saturday, March 26th.
EXETER CITY V LUTON TOWN.
Southern League Football
at St. James's Park

AN UNEXPECTED REVERSE 
In the presence of seven thousand spectators, Exeter City were unexpectedly beaten by the odd goal in three. The game was not very interesting, exciting incidents being few and far between. Luton were faster than Exeter, and smarter when in possession of the ball, and on the general poor standard of their play the City deserved to be beaten. Luton opened strongly, and in the first 20 minutes their half-backs and forwards dominated the play. Almost everyone in the Exeter team was off form together, and the defence offered little resistance
to the two goals scored by Luton in that opening period. Luton won the toss, and Green kicked off facing strong sunshine towards the St. James's Road end. For the first minute or so Exeter swarmed into the attack, and Green shot a yard wide. Following this isolated attempt, however, a great
transformation was seen, Quinn scoring a brilliant goal for Luton from 20 yards' range.
The "Strawplaiters" kept up a continual pressure on the home goal, and in one exciting incident Crossthwaite made a wonderful save from Smith, the custodian snapping up the ball as the leader of the Luton attack headed in from Brown's centre. Then Craig made a bad blunder which resulted in Moody centreing the ball to Quinn, and the latter, standing unmarked, beat Crossthwaite for the second time.
GREEN SCORES FOR EXETER
The Luton forwards and half backs were playing a magnificent game at this stage, and came within an ace of increasing their lead on several occasions. Another dangerous rush by the visitors was halted by Ambler, who transferred play to the other end with a lusty kick, and Green, taking a smart pass from Copestake on the run, beat Jarvis all ends up with a brilliant drive. This completed the scoring in the first half, Luton Town 2 Exeter City 1.
SECOND HALF
Little can be said of the display in the second half. The visitors appeared quite content with their lead and the ball was frequently going out to touch. Exeter could do nothing right, and from the home supporters' viewpoint it was a relief when the end came.
WEAK FORWARDS
The City gave a very ragged and disappointing display, and in fact the forwards have seldom played worse. Green was a wanderer in the centre, and did little of any consequence, whilst Bell spent too much time holding on to the ball with his colleagues waiting for passes. Luton were a good all-round team with smart and speedy forwards, whilst Jones, their centre-half, played a magnificent game, and he certainly did not deserve the barracking he received from a section of the crowd. Probably he was too good to suit that portion of the spectators.
EXETER CITY:
Crossthwaite; Craig and Jones; Atkinson, Ambler, and Hartley; Copestake, Watson, Green, Bell, and Garside.
LUTON TOWN:- Jarvis; Chapman and Potts; F.Hawkes, Jones, and Johnson; Brown, Quinn, Smith, Moody, and Stansfield.

Referee:- Mr W.E.Russell, of Swindon.