Dr Marshall 5
Main 27
Match Information
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: J Baillie (Motherwell)
Matchday: Tuesday
Match Trivia
And what do you think of that, now? Lombard Street, where all the money is, to a China orange on Rangers winning. Thar was starting price. The odds held good for half-an-hour, when the Ibrox team were two goals up. But Partick were game as full of beans as a policemans boots of feet. Two minutes from the interval they knocked one off the deficit, equalised ten minutes after the restart, and then fireworks. It was a great last half-hour, with the Rangers half-backs and forwards going all out to force a winner, the Partick defence standing up with splendid courage, and their forwards every now and then dashing away to create the possibility of springing a real sensation. Without a doubt, the heroes od the piece were Partick, and if the performance does them good, their Ibrox friends will not, I am sure, grudge them the point. Apart from that, the Rangers have no particular reason to be pleases with themselves. Thie tactics were all wrong in the first half, when the ball was continually played through the centre, to the neglect of Main and Nicholson. Meiklejohn and Brown contributed to this, but they saw the error of their ways, and both wings were brought into action in the second half. It was then the Partick defence came out in all their glory. I have no praise to great for Calderwood and Cumming and for the Firhill half-backs. Elliot and McLeod were heroes. They were quick into the tackle; they brought the ball on; and they sent along the pass as forwards would like to have it. These Thistle forwards may hot have been a great combination, but they pulled their weight and a bit more. They were stickers, everyone. I liked bot Hastie, at inside left. In his teens, he has a future before him. The game had gone five minutes only when a pretty movement on the Rangers left led to the opening goal. Brown and McPhail worked through, Nicholson got the pass, centred a low, fast ball, and Marshall hit into the net with the speed of bullet. Rangers were the more aggressive afterwards, but Thistle defence was wary for their through-the-centre attacks. Nor were the Firhill forwards idle. They gave the gave the Ibrox defence something to think about, and it was touch-and-go for the equaliser before Rangers got their second. This was after 27 minutes. Nicholson dribbled into the centre, drew the defence, and passes out to Main, who shot with his right foot. Johnstone was late in going for the ball and was beaten. There were lots of exciting incidents at both goals before Pritchard, with his left foot, shot a picture goal two minutes from the interval. Partick restarted full of spirit, and ten minutes of the second half had gone when McLeod ran close to the line and centred for Prior to head the equaliser. The rest was a rousing, thrilling tussle, with Rangers opening out, sweeping in on the Thistle defence, often looking like scoring, and never succeeding, while the thistle forwards recurrently broke away and threatened to pull a winner. McLeod was off injured for some time, but the others put in a bit extra, and all the high-power efforts of the home forwards, with the half-backs coming up to help, were of no avail against a steady, confident defence. Thistle earned their draw and went off the field happy.
