White (2)
Brand
Lawrie
Unknown
Match Information
Manager: No Permanent Manager
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
The game, which was expected to prove the hardest and most closely contested of the first round for the Challenge Cup took place on the new ground of the Rangers, Ibrox Park, and contrary to general expectations ended in an easy victory for the home team by four goals to one. The afternoon was fine so the very close of the match when a heavy shower of rain fell on the spectators, of whom there were about 2000, were dispersing. The Rangers won the toss for choice of ends, and the younger club kicked off with a slight wind in their faces. Not long after the start the Battlefield made it very hot for their opponents at the top goal, and both McFarlane and Muir had to work in preventing the brothers Sellar from getting past, and a shot from the elder caused Nicol to throw out the ball for safety. The Rangers however, soon gathered themselves together, and after several close scrimmages right in front of the Battlefield goal, the ball was at length forced through by White, who had the ball neatly passed to him by Brand. Some even play followed the next kick-0ff, and the Rangers again invaded Battlefields ground, but the back play of the younger team was splendid, and prevented the Rangers forwards from doing further damage in the meantime at least. A brilliant run was started with great spirit by the whole of the Battlefield forwards. After Webster and Hector had brought the ball down a bit it was transferred to the two Sellars, and after some clever passing J Sellar put it through, and made the match equal. Not long before halftime the Rangers made several hard attacks on the Battlefield lines, and at last scored a second goal from the foot of Lawrie. With the game standing at two goals to one in favour of the Rangers, ends were changed, and for a short time the match was pretty well contested, but at length the Rangers fairly assumed superiority, and despite the brilliant defence of the two backs (Douglas and Anderson), and the very smart goalkeeping of Neil, the Rangers laid such a close siege to the Battlefield lines that before the match ended they scored another two goals by Brand and Lawrie, and won by four goals to one. In the course of the game J Sellar got his knee twisted while kicking at the ball and had to retire so that the Battlefield lost tow of their goals with one man short. The Rangers on the other hand had several new men in their team including a substitute for Chalmers (who it may be mentioned, was among the spectators on the stand), and on the whole the eleven played pretty well together
