Cummings 24
B McPhail 44
Match Information
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: J Thomson (Hamilton)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Dear, dear, things will happen. But please dont imagine it was a miracle nothing of that sort. Queen of the south got their point because they played for it. Rangers played badly enough to deserve to lose. I dont think they will disagree with that remark. They could not play worse, at any rate the forwards, all except Kinnear, couldnt. If anyone could have won the match for Rangers it was Kinnear, but after the plucky and clever exhibition of the Dumfries team I should have been sorry to see them lose. No doubt the conditions were as bad as they could possibly be but is it not strange that the South should come much nearer to surmounting them than their opponents did. The Dumfries forwards were a line. They could find one another, and they could open up the Rangers defence as the home five could not do. Cumming set a pretty lead, and in the first half he did much to put confidence into his mates. When the game took a turn against them in the second half the defence was not found wanting. Half-back and backs were seldom out of position, and in goal Smith gave nothing way. He is no giant but trust him to jump to it. Gordon blanketed Rangers Smith, who had not a shot. John Anderson and Thomson would allow McPhail and Venters no scope at all, and you can take it that both Rangers men had a real bad day. So had Souter. Sounds doleful, but it is plain fact. Fortunately for Rangers Dawson was himself. He had a few saves that meant everything between a draw and a reverse. Gray kept his end up and Simpson in the second half did a mans work, including a shot that hit the bar when it looked a scorer. Kennedy and Brown had to struggle most of the time and could scarcely feel they had had a good match. With the wind in the first half the Dumfries forwards made things lively for the Rangers defence, and it was no surprise when Cumming rounded off a puzzling movement on the left by hitting the roof of the net. Dawson had no chance. This was after 21 minutes. Eighteen minutes later Smith, in making a brilliant save from a great shot by Kinnear, conceded a corner. Souter placed it nicely and McPhail headed the equaliser. Rangers did the bulk of the pressing in the second half, but there was not much drive in their attack, although Smith was several times tested, by Venters once and Kinnear mire than once. The Dumfries forwards were always fit for a swoop on the home defence, and so the issue was in doubt until the end, when Smith, the wee custodian, shoed his glee at the draw by hugging a colleague
