Martin 18, 80
Calder 72
Match Information
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: R.G. Benzie (Irvine)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
It was a fellow called Martin who first had the idea that this Rangers team was beatable. And it was ten very intelligent and able colleagues who proceeded to agree instantly with him. Soon we had the rather sorry spectacle of fellows with reputation being treated quite contemptuously by a little team with no foolish notions and no pose, but ever so much real ability. It is perfectly true to say that Rangers were soundly thrashed by a team who suggested that they will thrash many others with a like soundness. If Thornton hadnt been there Rangers would have been completely impoverished. While all the others were slipping around and making mistakes and generally falling deafeningly from pedestals. Thornton was trying heroically to find the one spot in the Morton goal un-shadowed by Peter McArthurs big and safe hands. But it was necessarily a triumph for Martin, who was very like the very good type of forward Rangers used to have. He was magnificently supported generously by the wings, ably by Calder and most successfully by the half-backs, who looked strong enough to go ahead and play two other games right away. Whereas this one game was much more then enough for a shadow Rangers who mustnt plead too elegantly that Smiths retrial with an injured knee two minutes or so after the interval rather put them off their game. For the truth is, they never had any game off which they might have been put. I have merely to add that the goals were really good and scored by Martin, first-half, and Calder and Martin second half
