Jones returned to the half-back line against his old club at the expense of J Smith and Green, obviously recovered from the injury received in the trial game after scoring all five goals for the reserves the previous Saturday, took over at centre-forward with Norman Smith moving out wide in place of Jim Wallis. Birkbeck, who was not originally in the selected team, played in place of J Smith who had not recovered from an injury sustained at Champion Hill the previous week. Jimmy Nash was sitting in the stand, having accepted a job in Spalding that would finish his Wimbledon playing career.

It was a good time to play Woking, forced to make three changes to their forward line and with a reserve at back, although the rain that fell during most of the game made the surface treacherous. However, it was the visitors that took the lead after only five minutes when Pink beat Haydock to a poor back-pass from Frank Lemmer and scored easily. Green’s pace and thrust up front were much in evidence, and he forced West into a save that Baldaro had to clear, then notched the equaliser from Birkbeck’s 26th minute corner. Five minutes later and Boxall deflected Len Cannon’s shot into his own net. Woking looked dangerous on the break and Haydock was forced to save from Wryde, but West was the busier of the two custodians and was unable to stop Ron Head increasing the home advantage after controlling a cross from Birkbeck.

Five minutes after the re-start and Harry Stannard opened his account for the season, beating several players before firing home a shot that bounced over West as he dived to save. Pink reduced the arrears a few minutes later when he took advantage of another slip in the Dons’ defence, but when Lawrence was carried off the game as a contest was as good as over, only West keeping the score down, although Birkbeck added another before the final whistle when the keeper could only parry Stannard’s shot straight to him. Green was also unlucky not to add to his goal, hitting the crossbar with a first-time drive and seeing a shot deflected for a corner by Morgan.