JR Smith
Harris
Match Information
Attendance: 10000
Referee:
Matchday: Wednesday
Match Trivia
A crowd of about 10,000 spectators out occasion of the visit of Glasgow Rangers to St James’s Park, Newcastle last night, were rewarded by seeing a match a long way above the average friendly. It was a pity that the famous Glasgow team was not at full strength, but after making every allowance for the comparative weakness, they were as decisively beaten as the score of four to one suggests. That the score was not heavier was undoubtedly due to the brilliance of Robb, in goal. He saved some wonderful drives in an equally wonderful manner. United played one of the games of their lives, and fore and aft were in rare form. If any exception has to be made it must apply to Seymore, who apparently has not completely shaken off the effect of his later mishap at Birmingham. The opening half was fairly evenly contested, even if Robb had more to do than Bradley. Where the Rangers suffered was a t half-back, none of their middle men being able to check the clever Newcastle forwards. Added to the latter’s pronounced superiority in the open their shooting has seldom been better, and as an indication of the form it need only be stated that Harris for the first time as a Tynesider scored three goals. ‘Jimmy’ Low was unbeatable, and he led his opponents a much merrier dance than Archibald gave Hudspeth. Archibald was easily the pick of the Rangers forwards, and it was from his run and centre – often he covered three-quarters of the field only to see his efforts wasted – that Smith scored the first goal of the game after Bradley had punched out a drive by Rollo. Newcastle’s goals were good. The first in the opening half, was from a header by Harris, who rushed in for ‘Jimmy’ Low’s centre and scored before Robb had realised what had happened. The second half was all in Newcastle’s favour, save for occasional bursts by Archibald. Harris was going through when he was fouled by Jamieson, and from the penalty McDonald scored against old colleagues with ease. In the last quarter of an hour Harris twice raced between the backs and beat Robb with terrific drives. Robb saved innumerable shots and proved himself to be a keeper of rare ability
