W Reid
Cassidy 24
W Reid (2)
Gray
A Bennett
Match Information
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: G.W. Hamilton (Motherwell)
Matchday: Wednesday
Match Trivia
I am certain that nobody required a telescope to see the bite and the bone that was in the League game at Ibrox Park last evening. If anything there was a little too much of the ‘bite’. Otherwise the game all through was well contested. The first half was far and away the better, for then both teams played a settled, methodical game and showed many delightful rounds of combination. Ayr United were not three goals inferiors. The chief difference although I am bound to say that Ayr’s two goals were the prettiest in the match. But their forwards chiefly Richardson, had other splendid chances, and either delayed the shot too long, or got the ball away ‘anywhere’. Still, Ayr made many friends both by their pluck and their cleverness. Their pluck was specially conspicuous when, after Reid, in the first minute, had rolled the ball into the net past Lyall from a pass by Bennett, they went out for the equaliser, and got it at the end of twenty-two minutes’ play. Cassidy was the scorer, with a low, straight drive, and he got his chance following a free kick. For only three minutes was equality maintained. Smith ran down was a pass from Bennett and , flashing the ball away towards the other wing, Duncan ran in and scored with a fast low shot, Until the interval, Ayr cut a fine figure, and the equaliser again would have been in keeping with the run of the play. Rangers crossed leading by 2 goals to 1, but the second half had been only three minutes in progress when Bennett gave to Smith, and getting a return pass, ran down the wing and centred for Reid to head a third and bonnie goal. Within other three minutes Hendry did what Bennett had done, only this time the ball came low to Reid, and he swept it into the net without interrupting its progress. Again the pluck of the Ayr team was in evidence. They were frequently foiled, but at last Gray caught Galt and Gordon in two minds, and racing in, shot a beautiful second goal for the United. Then Richardson hit the post with a ball that had Lock beaten, and next tried to beat too many opponents when he should have shot again. Goals came easy to Rangers, and they got their fifth from a header by Bennett, who nearly judged a free kick from Scott Duncan. Even after that Ayr had chances, but they were their own worst enemies in respect to shooting badly. There were too good left wings on the field, and I would not say that Cassidy and Gray were any inferior to Bennett and Smith. Middleton and Robertson were another clever wing, but the former was often amiss with his centres, which made a poor finish to many dainty passing runs. Though Richardson failed to score, he did several clever things, but he could do with copying Reid’s style of letting go at goal quicker. Reid had three goals, and was shaping for more, a fact of which the SFA selectors present would probably take note. Rangers were superior at half, but they could give nothing away at back, well as Gordon played. Bell and McStay were a steady, resourceful pair of backs. Fulton was kicking well until he accidentally injured Middeleton, and then he went off a bit, but came again late in the game. Lyall had one or two brilliant saves, and had no chance with the balls that beat him, and the same applies to Lock
