Lyness pen
Sowerby 35
Match Information
Attendance: unknown - to be confirmed
Referee: M.C. Hutton (Glasgow)
Matchday: Wednesday
Match Trivia
Arbroath will tell you this defeat should never have happened, I dont agree. Taking the flow of the game and remember that Rangers had Kinnear limping on the wing for three-quarters of the game, I maintain victory went to the side worthy of it. Ill tell you why. In the first place, there was more directness and bit about the strange Ibrox forward formation. In the second, they were always moving with a purpose and poise and in the third, the Gayfield forwards were a footering bunch who promised so much in the outfield and then made us condemn them by their lack of positional strategy. And I sat that in the full knowledge that twice the Ibrox fans caught their breath in the excitement of the incidents around Dawson. The Rangers half-back line never functioned with the grace and shrewdness of Adams, Gavin and Urquhart. Yet in McKillop I saw the finest exposition of pivotal play at Ibrox for some time. I must qualify this by adding that he excelled more in defence then attack, yet he did have his spells of constructive brilliance. But no half-back compared with Gavin in general efficiency. His bours with big Jimmy Smith, who was in his merriest mood, were as engrossing as they were absorbing. Against a less alert and wily rival, Smith would have wrought havoc. Adams and Urquhart, too, delighted me, their foraging and cuteness in the slip forward time and again initiating a potential scoring thrust. Behind them stood resolute, terrier-like backs. Even though the score may suggest otherwise, Dawson was a busier goalkeeper than Robertson. Jerrys genius was emphasised more than once, but Ill bet he will agree that the breaks were with him on the two occasions I have mentioned. A great man to have in your side Dougie Gray. He saved one certainty when he kicked away from the line with Dawson on the ground. Cheyne, on the other hand was ill at ease, his kicking of the ball, which performed some weird evolutions when caught by the wind, being far from impressive. A word about the Sowerby-Lyness wing. I think the latter has it in him to make his mark. The football is there. Sowerby was a mixture, but he did take his goal in masterly fashion. Rangers struck their first blow in the twenty-third minute, Lyness scoring from the spot. This award was granted when Adams upended Kinnear. Twelve minutes later, Sowerby coming up behind the play, met a perfect pass from Smith and thundered the ball home. When McInally reduced the deficit in the third minute of the second half this also from the spot I saw a fight. The hope vanished when the limping Kinnear, putting everything he had into, crashed home a third for the champions in the nineteenth minute.
