McGurk 36
Dr Marshall pen 62
Match Information
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: T Small (Dundee)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
There were some good bits in this match at Shawfield, but we had to wait for them. The conditions of the ground had a lot to do with jerky character of the play, for the ball took peculiar jumps. It was a law unto itself. With the breeze behind them, Clyde played a good first half, and quite deserved to lead at the interval by the goal scored by McGurk after 36 minutes. McPhail placed a free-kick, and a Rangers defender failing to clear, McGurk, who had gone well in, shot into the net from close range. Rangers took a long time to waken to realities. It was Brown and Fleming and Archibald who pulled them out at last. The nearest ting to a goal for them was when Fleming shot and Summers miskicking, almost netted. With the wind behind them in the second half, the Ibrox team got better down to their work, and after 15 minutes Marshall converted a penalty-kick awarded for the bringing down of English when he was racing through in an attempt to connect with the ball. Play after that went mostly in favour of Rangers, with the Clyde forwards making recurring raids. More than once, Stevensons goal had a narrow escape. In the last ten minutes the three Rangers half-backs forced the game for all they were worth, Simpson even going down to let fly at Stevenson, who saved three of his shots a new sort of Simpson. But Clydes study defence held and earned the team a worthy draw. Clyde were a team of determined workers. Rangers for a long time were just like a team that had been through, say a little event like a Cup final. The reaction was obvious, and you cant wonder at that, can you? But I blame the greasy pitch and the sodden ball more than anything. They beat even the men with the best football sense, at times. Still, there was good goalkeeping and there was sound back play. Stevenson and Hamilton were safe all the time the Clyde custodian even made a brave attempt to save the penalty-kick. Both keepers had something to do despite the fitfulness of the shooting. Gray and McAulay were on their game, and both kicked with sureness. They never were so hard pressed as were Russell and Culbert in the last fifteen minutes, for their resolute defence then the Clyde pair deserve a hearty pat on the back. Brown, although troubled like the rest by the conditions, came nearest to mastering them among the half-backs, and he sent along many low passes. Meiklejohn and Simpson came out as aggressive half-backs in the second half, when the captain shared in some good movements with Archibald and Marshall. All the Clydes half-backs put in a dogged afternoons work. Summers was very strong, and often his recovery came to the rescue McPhail was not placing the ball as I have seen him, but he evidently though the forceful method the best game for the day, as in many ways it was. Mayes kept his end up, although worried in the second half by Archibald and Marshall, who hit something of a game then. Clydes inside forward shaped well in the first half, but afterwards they were not getting so much of the ball. I was disappointed with McGurk, whose command of the ball has often been better. King was clever at times. Rangers attack came to itself too late. The most consistent were Archibald and Fleming, though in the last stages Marshall and Murray got a real bit of pep into it, and English then got a chance. It was the nearest thing possible to him snatching a winning goal
