Four matches opened the season of the League on Saturday, all of them reaching a definite result. In Division I, Castlethorpe had a 5-1 win at Silverstone, who have always been difficult to beat on their own ground. Buckingham Town “A”, whose first team are to play in the new Hellenic League, lost by six clear goals to Bletchley.

Silverstone 1, Castlethorpe 5

All is well at Castlethorpe. The Friesians are well satisfied with the result of their first game of the season.
On Saturday Silverstone won the toss and set Castlethorpe to face the wind. From the kick-off Garratt hit the crossbar. Two minutes later the Silverstone centre forward found the visitors’ net with a good shot. This seemed to take the Castlethorpe defence by surprise but after a spell of mid-field play they began to settle down and were at times playing good football.
It was a surprise when Hill made the score 1-1. He collected a good pass from Garratt and went on to score 2-1 after good work on the right-wing by Old.
Just before half-time Silverstone began to slow down, and Kelly went through to score a good goal.
After the interval Castlethorpe were well on to and Kelly went on t score his second goal to make the score 4-1. Now it was the home side’s turn to do the attacking, but the Castlethorpe defence, with Virco, Wilson and Macpherson all in grand form, held the home forwards at bay.
Virco pushed two shots over the bar and saved a point blank shot from Silverstone’s centre-forward. With ten minutes to go Old was injured and had to leave the field for a time. Garratt moved to wing-half, and Kelly scored his hat-trick with the best goal of the match.
Castlethorpe showed the same spirit in this match as that which took them to second place in the table last season.
The game was well controlled by Referee Atkins (Wolverton) Thanks to Silverstone for a good sporting game.