Murphy 4
John White 12, 55
Match Information
Attendance: 32,000
Referee: J Martin (Glencraig)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Perhaps the return of John White acted as a tonic to the Hearts. Perhaps the goal that came along before it was quite justified on play helped to buck them up. Anyhow the Tynecastle lot played their best game of the season and well deserved their win. Even that early goal – four minutes from the start was a well-taken point. Smith took the ball nicely across and Murphy met it with his head almost under the bar. How the crowd of 30,000 cheered. Then the Ibrox men struggled and strained. Archibald had a great shot against the cross-bar. Willie White palmed out one from Morton. Then Rangers began to get anxious. Their anxiety was increased at the end of twelve minutes. Dixon missed the ball and in ran John White to get in a low shot. Robb went down in the mud and got his fingers on the ball but was unable to stop it. To make matters worse, from the Ibrox point of view, Morton went lame before half an hour had gone. Cunningham kept on taking a pop at goal when ever he saw a chance, and at one time it was only sound anticipation and the safe hands of Willie White that prevented him from counting. Ten minutes after the interval we had another illustration of the readiness of the Hearts’ forwards to snap up their chances. Pressed by Smith, Hamilton tried to pass back to Robb. The ball failed to travel, in nipped John White and Rangers were three down. They never looked like wiping off the deficit. McKay, Craig and Cunningham got in shots, but none of them seriously troubled White. On the other hand, Murphy had Robb beaten again, following a corner, but Manderson cleared on the goal line. Every man on the Hearts’ side played as if inspired. Willie White got fully more to do then Robb, but he never wavered. The backs and half-backs were grand spoilers, while Miller and Harley bot did good building-up work when opportunity offered. The forward line was stronger on the right than on the left and strongest of all at centre. John White was tip-top leader
