Match ended 0-0
Match Information
Attendance: 24,000
Referee: J.M. Dickson (Glasgow)
Matchday: Monday
Match Trivia
Until the Cup-ties come along, you needn’t expect to see anything more exciting than yesterday’s League battle at Tynecastle. It was great stuff, strenuous and palpitating, with interest maintained right up to the last kick. Latterly the Hearts had a desperate jib keeping their end up, but they managed it, and no one who was there will grudge them a point. It was a revelation. Starting off with the wind in their favour, the Hearts set a great pace. The half-backs, generally supposed to be the weak division, kept pushing the forwards along. Murphy lobbed many a nice ball across. White should have managed to make good from one of them, but John fell, and the chance went abegging. Hearts were having the better of the argument. Still, every time the Ibrox forwards went off, they asserted themselves as the more dangerous lot. Alan Morton took a lot of stopping – he was fairly in the mood. Every ball he put over caused a thrill; they were all pictures of accuracy. Cunningham, too, was popping in an occasional ‘stinger’. Willie White did a great bit of work one time by making a flying leap and getting his fingers to one of Andy’s shots. Robb had his most anxious moment when he missed a flag-kick sent over by Murphy, and saw the ball just scraped out of the goal line from amongst a crowd. Let me ass that Willie kept a grand goal. He saved nicely a ‘header’ from White and punched out a ball well-directed by Murphy. At haft-time everybody was asking whether the Hearts would keep it up. They did. Still the Rangers were on top now. Twice Morton ‘enjoyed’ no luck with shots that glanced along the front of the cross-bar. Henderson had another of the same after he had got through nicely but was crowded into an awkward position. Then Cunningham was at it again with a ‘speculator’, but Willie White was much too safe to be beaten by anything from long range. Occasionally the Tynecastle forwards gave us a thrill, but the bulk of the work fell on their defenders now. They wrought well. John White could take the ball anyhow; his sound play made up for any deficiencies on the part of young McGill. As for the Hearts’ half-backs, King has never played so well, Dand was of great service both in attack and in defence, and Ramage I would bracket with John Wilson and Willie White for the distinction of being the best man in a surprising side. John White was well watched, but he and his forwards colleagues pulled their weight. In defence the Ibrox fellows made occasional mistakes, but they defied all the Hearts’ efforts to take them by storm. Manderson and McCandless were sound. Meiklejohn was the most consistent half-back, though Dixon played exceedingly well despite a bad knock he got on the head in contact of John White early on. No forward sparkled like Alan Morton. Cunningham was a good second best. Henderson mixed his game a bit.
