Kingstonians' Unfortunate Visit to the Old Kent Road.
Three Goals in Ten Minutes.
The gentleman who drew up the programme in connection with the match between Metrogas and the Kingstonians on Saturday is by way of being an unconscious humorist, for at the top of the sheet, in bold type, the address of the ground is given as Devonshire-Grove, Old Kent Road. Perfectly correct but any impression of a sweetly sylvan spot, tucked away in the heart at London, which one might have formed on reading the programme, was rudely dissipated on glancing around at the surrounding gasometers, great heaps of coal, and the backyards of quite a number of extremely unprepossessing dwellings which surround the pitch.

At the same time it must be said that the ground for playing purposes is a good one. Out of kindness to the Kingstonians it is just as well to commence the report on Saturday's match, which was played for Athenian League points, with a description on the ground, for, from the visitors' point of view, the less said about the match the better. The men from Kingston had some trouble in finding the ground - this causing a late start to the game - but this was as nothing to the trouble they found on the ground. They lost by four goals to one.

Very soon after the start of the match Metrogas scored, and then, at four-minute intervals, put on two more points- good goals every one, Buckley, Bryson and Calvert, all scoring with shots which left Warner, in the Kingstonians' goal, quite helpless. The visitors started off in a fashion which promised a keenly-fought game, but, on Metrogas getting through for the first time, the defence temporarily went to pieces. With the home forwards playing brilliantly, this, of course, was fatal, and in ten minutes the Kingstonians were saddled with a three-goal deficit.

Subsequently, Warner saved quite a number of other good shots, but as the game wore on play became more equal, each side scoring one more goal, the Kingstonians though Mumford, and Metrogas through Calvert. Metrogas thus won by four goals to one, as they deserved to do.

Teams :-
Kingstonians: C. Warner; B. Rollo and J. Wood; G. Stentiford, P. Jones and A. Yates; W. Wright, A. Henson, L. Mumford, H. Millis and H. Crick.
Metrogas: H. Steward; A. Twilley and W. Lawford; W. Keen, R. Pestall and J. Whitmarsh; A. Knapp. J. Bryson, F. Calvert, E. Keen and J. Buckley.
Referee: Mr. B. H. Goulding.


Report from Surrey Comet dated 5 Nov 1919- see report in original format.

Additional report from Surrey Advertiser dated 8 Nov 1919.