Fleming (3)
McBain
Match Information
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: W.G. Holburn (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
For fifteen minutes or so St Johnstone were a fighting force. Then Rangers clearly became the dominating side. They won with ease. Some of the Perth defenders, such as Steel, Swallow, McMillan and Forrest, fought with ability and courage to keep down the score, but the forwards were not able to afford them much relief, and the stain became too great. I must say the St Johnstone front line disappointed me. Except Webb, and occasionally Stevenson, they were too slow in their movements, they often allowed themselves to be dispossesses, and they quite failed to open out the Rangers’ defence except on rare occasions. Rangers played some tip-top football without going all out. It was plain during the earlier period of the second half that they were not thirsting for goals. Marshall headed the first goal in eight minutes, and four minutes later, we got a welcome diversion when McBain went through and equalised. But from that point it was pretty nearly all Rangers. Fleming converted a Morton centre, and then Marshall took a bonnie pass from Morton to race through and score Rangers’ third. That was how it stood at half-time. For 30 minutes of the second half, Rangers kept hovering around Smith and looking like scoring all the time. When the goal came it was from a penalty, converted by Morton, the award being given for Archibald being brought down when he was clear in with a pass from Brown. Brown gave Fleming the passes to go in and score a fifth and again a sixth. St Johnstone can improve on this display if they go the right way about it. But so far as I could see there were no directors present to take notes. Rangers were a confident, capable team, playing well together and often with restraint. It is unnecessary to particularise
