Dr Marshall 1, 3
A Cunningham 6
Match Information
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: AB Williamson (Glasgow)
Matchday: Tuesday
Match Trivia
Ah, well, we could hardly expect anything else. With a side that included only four of their regular men – injuries and the call of business caused the many changes – Queen’s Park were outplayed yesterday at Ibrox Park in the postponed League match. While the result was a foregone conclusion, few of us looked for such a one-sided tussle. It is a simple matter eulogising a side that is confronted by vastly inferior opposition, but at the same time, it would be grossly unfair to Rangers to refrain from according them the praise due their superlative display. With the confidence and understanding begotten of constant acquaintanceship, they treated the fourteen thousand spectators to an exhibition of artistry, team work and craft, the like of which we seldom see these days. The best that can be said for our amateurs is that, even when disaster was inevitable, they fought with pluck and perseverance. Harkness enhanced his reputation – he made an arduous task appear easy. Although at time almost overwhelmed, W Walker and H McLead never gave up. WS King alone of the middle trio seemed to know what was so urgently required to thwart the precise and swift movements of the Ibrox attack. In vain he tried to swing the game round. The encounter was over in the first three minutes, so to speak. In that time Rangers had scored twice. Gathering the ball in his stride, McPhail swept it towards Harkness. Walker intervened, the ball striking him and landing at the feet of the watchful Marshall, who, dashing in, flicked it past the helpless keeper. After a fleeting raid by the Hampden forwards, the QP half-backs fell back before a relentless onslaught by the entire Rangers front rank, and the upshot of it was that Marshall sent Harkness to the back of the net for the ball again, after Archibald had played the way. Three minutes later and Cunningham had put on another. He tricked McLeod, and with a low diagonal left foot drive, smashed the ball behind Harkness, who had not the remotest chance of averting the score. McPhail had a big share in leading up to two of the goals. Then, as if to show that they were not to be so easily vanquished, Cordiner led his colleagues in a raid on Hamilton, the manoeuvre ending in him back-heeling the ball narrowly over. Shortly afterwards the Ibrox keeper confidently clutched a fierce oblique drive by Eddie Scott. Encouraged by these efforts, the amateur forwards swarmed round Hamilton, and a hard drive by Crawford struck a post. That was the last we saw of the Hampden quintette as an active force, and with half-an-hour gone Morton, with a right foot drive, beat Harkness again. There were times in the second half when with a little repose and judgement, the amateurs might-easily have reduced the lee way.
