S Duncan
Match Information
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: P Grant (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Beside a complaint that the game at Ibrox was played four minutes short, Clyde had another and more potent one. It was against their own forwards. They never shot well enough to score, and even had the match gone on a bit longer than the ‘lost’ minutes I doubt whether they could have equalised. This poor marksmanship was common to both teams, else Rangers should have had their lead before the interval instead of five minutes after the restart, when a perfect centre by Lawson was met by Duncan and driven home at lightning speed. This was the brightest incident of the kind in a drab game. There was precious little between two moderate teams, and no one would have quarrelled with a draw. The Clyde forwards’ well-sustained effort in the later period of the second half was quite as good as anything the Rangers’ lot had shown us in the first half. Shingleton and Hempsey had no brilliant saves to make. The Clyde man could not look at Duncan’s shot. Blair was the most finished back of the four, although Cowan made friends by his resource, and particularly by his certainty of direction in kicking. Although there was destructive power in the Rangers’ half-back line, the Shawfield middlemen were the more constructive. Walker was the cleverest in this respect, while in their own way McKenna and McGhie did well. Neither side was strong at centre. Cairns is not suited to the position, and McGowan was shooting at his very worst. The Clyde wings were a shade clever, but this was counterbalanced by the weight opposed to them. Lawson was unhappy on the Rangers’ left, and Bell was not holding the ball to advantage. His quickness in sending away the pass to Duncan or Cairns often gave these gentlemen impossible things to do. In the second half bell was hurt, and he finished the game at outside-right.
