Championship
Audenshaw Dynamo 3 Locomotive Crewe Alexandra 2
Excelsior Marlow 3 Stalybridge Celtic 2
Gainsborough Trinity 2 Liverpool St Helens 3
Hartlepool Petrochemical 1 Blyth Spartans 0
Manchester Central 1 Dynamo Burnley 1
Marine 1 Northwich Victoria 1
Red Star Mossley 3 Spartak-Slavia 2
Wrexham 3 Hungaria 1
Second Division
Atletico Espanol 1 Bohemians 3
Caledonia Thistle 3 Newcastle-Gateshead Dynamo 2
Hendon Hotspur 2 Excelsior Benelux 1
Inter-Italiano 2 Bradford Park Avenue 1
Marxist Polytechnic 2 South Liverpool Red Star 0
Merthyr Tydfil 3 Crystal Palace 2
Newcastle Blue Star 2 Sheffield Wednesday 2
Torpedo Tranmere 1 Manchester Newton Heath 2
A weekend characterized and defined by a spate of 3 - 2 results in the Championship, the most impressive and significant being Liverpool St Helens’ win at Gainsborough Trinity, enabling the leaders to extend their advantage at the summit to a healthy three points as previously joint-top Stalybridge Celtic, fresh from thrashing Mossley last Saturday, fell back down to earth with a surprising crash at Marlow, Excelsior recovering remarkably from their preceding pasting at St Helens and also gaining a measure of revenge for another six-goal concession in the earlier reverse fixture at Stalybridge. Elsewhere, Red Star Mossley attempted to at least begin putting the derby mauling behind them with a defeat of Spartak-Slavia that keeps the losers back in fourth, unable to make advance on the top of the table. Marine’s 1 - 1 draw at home to Northwich Victoria was another result to benefit St Helens and means Crosby’s finest, after that scintillating 10-match unbeaten burst that took them to pole position, have now only won one in their last five and not yet since the season’s resumption.
The fourth 3 - 2 win of the day saw Audenshaw Dynamo vanquish Locomotive Crewe Alexandra and thus leapfrog them in the bottom five, with Dynamo Burnley doing likewise to Blyth Spartans courtesy of the point they gained at Manchester Central, Blyth dropping into the second of the relegation places after being the hapless victims of only rock-bottom Hartlepool Petrochemical’s second victory of the season, a situation of growing concern to a team who finished last term in fourth - albeit distantly - and were defeated Cup finalists, seemingly on the up.
In the Second Division, Marxist Polytechnic crept a point closer behind Sheffield Wednesday with a routine win over Red Star as the leaders drew at Blue Star, whilst third-placed Torpedo Tranmere made no ground on the top two as they slipped to a surprise home defeat to Manchester Newton Heath, a timely fillip for the victors before their Cup First Round 3rd replay this Wednesday.
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