The Archive · 1938

Goalkeeper Saves Wrong Ball

London, Mar. 1.

During the Plymouth and Di: trict Junior Cup-tie match between Torpedo Depot and Tor-point St. James recently, time was nearly up and the score stood at 1-1. A Torpoint player managed to dribble through to the penalty area and shot rather weakly for the goal The goalkeeper came out to gather the ball. Suddenly another ball from an adjoining pitch came into collision with the match ball.

Both balls fell towards the goalkeeper and he clutched t one of them. The other rolled into the net, There followed a close scrutiny of the balls which dis~ closed that the wrong ball had been saved, Torpoint won the game 2-1.—Reuter,

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