Welsh
Gordon pen
Match Information
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: G.W. Hamilton (Motherwell)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Rangers visit to Kirkcaldy attracted the biggest crowd at Starks Park sine pre-war days, the attendance being somewhere in the vicinity of 15,000. More fortunate than their opponents, the Rovers were able to field the eleven that did so well at Hamilton, whereas the Glasgow club were without Dixon, still unfit and Paterson, who missed the train. Early on the Rangers were the superior company, yet their first goal was a gift. Following, one or two fruitless attacks Muirhead sent across a harmless-looing ball which Robson fisted; Gordon converted the resulting penalty. Raith had a chance of equalising immediately afterwards, but Welsh and Porter got in each others way, and a corner was the result. Before this was cleared the Rovers claimed a penalty against Gordon, but the appeal was unheeded. Andrew Cunningham was a sore thorn in the side of the Fifers. Indeed the big Ayrshire forwards tackling and clearing in the centre of the middle line was the feature of the game. Another thing the Rovers finishing was very tame. Muirhead was too smart for Inglis, and from more than one of the Ibrox left wingers crosses the Starks Park defenders were in difficulties. Then a second Glasgow goal, and it did not come as a surprise. Smart work by Archibald who cleverly slipped round Robson, was capped by a shot which McDonald touched but could not hold. Before the interval the Rovers made another confident appeal for a penalty kick against Ritchie this time, but the referee after consulting his linesman said no. Raiths goal, registered in the second half, was the result of good work by Duncan, and Welsh, made no mistake when the ball came along to him. Lock was helpless to deal with this shot. While the Rangers were much the better side, the game was only a moderate one. The visitors narrow margin might have been widened much had their work in front of goal been on par with their outfield play. Their best men were Archibald, Cunningham, Gordon and Bowie, and Raiths prominents were McDonald, Rattray, Anderson and Duncan
