G Henderson (4)
Paton
Match Information
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: J.B. Stevenson (Motherwell)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
On the may back from Clydebank I met a man – a good judge of a player who was full of George Henderson. “The Rangers have unearthed another Bob Hamilton,” was how he put it. They may have, but I think his description is premature, to say the least of it. The new Ibrox shootist, who has perhaps created a record by scoring wight goal in two successive matches, may in time wear the mantle of the big Elgin schoolmaster, but he still has a lot to learn. All his four goals at Yoker were cleverly enough taken, and mind you, he enjoyed no luck. Twice the timber got praiseworthy efforts of his, but things ran fairly nicely for him, and the ball came very sweetly across from Alan Morton. As yet Henderson doesn’t gather the ball so smartly, or forge ahead so speedily as his (in his day) truly great Ibrox predecessor. But given the ball in front of him, he can make good use of it. There are immense possibilities in Henderson, who was ‘chaired’ at the finish. Of course, you want to know about McCandless. He certainly resembles Alex McNair in appearance and style, but he does not possess the power of the brainy Celtic back. He played a clever game, which contained two blemishes only. Early on he lost himself for a few minutes, during which Clydebank might have opened the scoring, and towards the close his failure to get the ball away first time was directly responsible for Clydebank’s first goal. Rangers worthily earned their victory. They were the better team fore and aft. Clydebank, after a lovely centre from Alan Morton had just missed being placed where it should, and the Ibrox opening attack had been stalled off, gave quite as much as they got. The Yoker boys were never so clever as the ‘Light Blues’ but they had almost as many chances. Goldie should have counted once at least, but nothing tangible was done until after half an hour. Then Henderson got his head to one of many Alan Morton crosses, and the others Morton was whacked. Clydebank started the second half pluckily, but the Rangers were now their superiors, and this superiority became more pronounced after Henderson had suck an exceptionally wily Alan Morton pass. Later the Ibrox centre was given the opportunity to improve on a penalty awarded for slightly unfair treatment to Andrew Cunningham, and he made the most of it. We had only fifteen minutes to go now, but still a lot remained to be done. Henderson let go one from well out, which got home off Morton’s left-hand upright; the next minute Paton clicked from McCandless’s lapse I have mentioned, and a minute from the close it was Clydebank’s turn for a penalty. Goldie had been elbowed; Cameron scored. Robb, Manderson, and all the Ibrox halfs were a cut above the men in the corresponding positions on the other side, if I except Morton and Willie Walker, Shoogly was it. Marchbanks did splendidly in the first half but tapered off. Forward, Cunningham was the star artiste, with Alan Morton a good second. In the Clydeholm attack Paton was first. After him I would place McLaughlin. The ex-Aberdeen inside right did all right
