Lowly teams made desperate attempts on Saturday to lift them selves from their respective sloughs despond in the League soccer. tables, Aston Villa, for example, sent Chelsea away with only a point. York City entertaining Mansfeld Town were not perturbed at finding the visitors in shooting form for, to the five goals from Mansfield, York replied with seven—a_ prolific encounter. That Third Division match provided the highest aggregate of the day. Norwich City went to Barnsley in winning vein and gained two valuable points. "Leadership was affected only in the Second Division where by better goal average Tottenham Hotspur, scoring four of the seven goals at White Hart Lane against Bury, go up over Leicester City who in another part of London dropped two points to Fulham. In the First and in the Southern Section of the Thicd Division the leaders drew away from their immediate rivals, Sunderland winning at Brentford and Reading taking full points from Bristol City at Elm Park, In the Scottish League Aberdeen, ning.way. Visiting successes wore fewest in the Northern Section of the Third Division of the English being confined to the games at New Brighton and Rochdale where Wrexham and Hartlepools unkindly impressed on the home teams the ignominy of being at the bottom of the table,
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