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25.01.1913 at 15:00 Callow Land, St Albans Road, Watford.

Attendance :

Watford Orient

0 - 4

St Albans City

Referee :

Spartan League

Goalscorers

None	Archie Michell Dickie Hammond George Edmonds Ernest Grimsdell (pen.)

Opening squads

P.Shrimpton
W.Langston
C.G.Linnell
J.Carr
S.R.Judge
S.T.Field;
A.Hedderwick
A.Smith
W.Cox
P.Cavanna
J.E.Carr

Tom Hearn
George Meagher
Archie Michell
George Edmonds
Dickie Hammond
Billy Clark
Ernest Grimsdell
Jimmy Brandham
Herbert Smith
Leslie Hosier
Arthur Wiggs

Substitutes

Substitutions

None

None.

Yellow cards

None

None.

Red cards

None

None.

Match report

St Albans City continued to show splendid form on Saturday. Fresh from their Cup-Ties victories over Shepherd’s Bush and Tufnell Park, they went to Watford with light hearts and, giving a sparkling display, they overcame the Orient team on their own ground at Callow Land with great ease.
The peculiar nature of the playing pitch, which takes a big dip at one corner, failed to put the Saints off their game and. as the Orient were unable to reproduce the form they showed at Clarence Park earlier in the season, there was “only one team in it”. But for much wild shooting, particularly by Michell, the City could have put up a very big score.
This local “Derby”, looked upon by the home club as their match of the season, drew a good crowd of spectators, about 200 of whom came from St Albans and whose vocal achievements were no small feature of the match.
From the kick-off the visitors were clearly masters of the situation and every member of the City eleven can fell satisfied that he did splendidly on a ground which was not ideal.

Reprinted from “The Herts Advertiser and St Albans Times” 1st February 1913.