A Morton
Dr Marshall (2)
Dr Marshall (3)
Fleming
Cairns
Match Information
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: WG Holborn (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Rangers visit to Cappielow was an overwhelmingly triumphant affair. Defeat for Morton was not altogether unexpected, but the lowering of the home team’s colours to such an extent was totally beyond anticipation. The fact remains, however, that the score was a very fair indication of the Rangers’ superiority. It could scarcely have been said that the early part of the game gave any definite suggestion of the disaster to came, and this much, and this much only, may be said in commiseration with Morton, that during that stage of the game they put up a plucky, if losing, fight. So far as the rest of the encounter was concerned, the Greenock team was hopelessly outclassed. Rangers’ attack was for the most part at the top of its form and carried all before it under the leadership of Marshall, who netted no fewer than five goals. The first half-hour saw four goals scored, two of them Morton’s. It was Rangers who opened the scoring, Alan Morton doing so with a shot which beat Fotheringham all the way. Only a few minutes had elapsed when Fleming scored a second goal, which was quickly followed by a score for the Greenock team, Graham bursting through the Rangers’ defence to beat Hamilton. The Greenock team found themselves further down when Marshall netted, though the leeway was reduced just on half-time when French scored for Morton. It only took one minute’s play in the second half for Rangers to go further ahead, Marshall scoring the first of the four goals which he got in this stage of the game. He was in rampant mood, and this goal was the reward of one of the cleverest pieced of work of the day. He worked up-field on his own, beating the whole defence, and sent in a ball, from a difficult angle, which Fotheringham made a lunge at, with the result that it was defected into the net. Twice more Marshall beat Fotheringham before Cairns picked up a ball from Cunningham and scored from close in. The closing minute saw Marshall romp through the home defence to put on an eighth goal, and thus bring to a close an unhappy episode in Greenock Morton’s history. Kelso, the Morton back, received head injuries during the second half, and was unable to resume
