B McPhail 1
Gillespie pen 14
Dr Marshall
Match Information
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: H.C. McArthur (Airdrie)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Before it started things promised nit al all bad for Queens Park. At half-time things were looking up for them. Then the change took place. The Amateurs faded out and Rangers romped in. The result was a debacle. Six goals may seem a lot, but the total might have been doubled but for little oddments of chance with went against the winners. The second half was quite as one-sided as that. And yet, up till the interval Queens Park had given a Roland for an Oliver. They had the wind with them then, and I should say that the after proceedings proved it to be a bigger factor than most of us had imagined. At any rate, Rangers were not a good team playing against it. They had all the advantage of a great send-off, for McPhail scored after half-a-minute. But from that point they could claim no definite advantage anywhere and were as like losing a goal as getting another. In point of fact, they lost one after eleven minutes from a penalty kick. The Queens Park inside forwards were going through fast, but Hamilton was getting the ball safely when Simpson impeded Dodds, and Gillespie took the kick and scored, but just as he had approached the ball the referees whistle went for Patterson having gone over the line. Gillespie had to take the kick again and he scored again in exactly the same manner at Hamiltons left hand, fast and not too high. It was a straining tug-of-wat right to the interval, with some narrow escapes at either end, the nearest thing to a goal being a clear run through by English, but from a position that nearly always produces a goal for him, he failed through fluffing the ball. Hamilton had to get at some difficult swinging shots, for the Amateurs half-backs and forwards were making the best use of the breeze. So, at the interval we felt we could look for a right good second half, and the issue, so far, in the clouds. But - nothing like it. When English raced in with a pass from Marshall and beat Smith, who had come out, Rangers took complete control. They did pretty much as they liked man-to-man, quick and accurate passing with shooting that left poor Smith nothing to do but bend and look pleasant. Three minutes after his first goal English scored another a beauty. Brown took the ball on, opened up the defence, and then laid it at Englishs feet. He steadied, took aim and shot unerringly. The nest goal was headed by English following a Meiklejohn free kick 22 minutes. Eight minutes later he scored his fourth successive goal, getting a deflection off a defender from a shot by Meiklejohn. Four minutes later English and Marshall went through together, and Marshall finished it with a sixth goal. But almost the best goa of the match was knocked off for off-side, which I thought a bad decision. Archibald sent the ball across and Morton, taking it on the drop, drove it into the nett off Smiths right shoulder. Nobody appealed for offside, because no Rangers player even if out of play interfered with the play, and therefore could not be offside. I think the referee gave his ruling against English, but he was only a spectator and neither Smith nor the QP backs was paying any attention to him. But one goal or more didnt matter. Rangers, on their second half display, were of the championship order from goal out. You may take them as a bunch. They were all in it. Queens Parks half-backs, who had done magnificently up to the interval, were overrun in the second half, and so neither the backs nor Smith had a chance to stem the torrent. The forwards also did grandly at the first, and then disappeared from the scene or very nearly so.
