Lindley
W Reid <45
Lindley >45
Match Information
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: R.T. Murray (Stenhousemuir)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
I have seen the Scottish Cupholders put up a more attractive exhibition at Ibrox Park than they did on Saturday, and yet returns to Dundee defeated. Memory recalls their memorable and impressive display of attack in a cup tie on the Rangers ground two years ago, when the Ibrox supporters could not refrain cheering the vanquished. If a maiden League triumph at Ibrox was overdue. Its opportuneness for Dundee is most acceptable to their supporters, and while the Rangers officials experienced the bitters of a result that left no unpleasant reflections beyond the actual score, they saw much in the play of their own team to warrant the expectations of a good year. In a flukey, boisterous wind, anything was possible on Saturday, but the lack of the spin of the coin was not responsible for Dundee’s victory, as the winning goal was scored about fifteen minutes from time against the wind, when the pressure of the ground team was most severe and the ‘Light Blues’ were momentarily expected to score. Andrew Richmond was expected to make his debut in this match, but the ex-queen’s Park back viewed the game from the pavilion, where also sat Jack Fraser, Dundee’s famous left winger, who sustained a bruise to the leg recently, and did not wish to risk blood poisoning. One of these days Fraser will get a pleasant surprise from his clubmates. All round there was much that was pleasing in the style the Dundee team went into the fray, and nothing better than the stout-hearted defence nearing the close when the Rangers sent in shot after shot to Crumley in desperate effort to equalise a game they were a shade unlucky to lose. At this critical period Neal and Chalpin’s back play was ideal. The pair met the ball with head and feet in brilliant style, while Crumley brought off save after save. The excitement among the home crowd was intense during this nerve-racking period. Nothing, however, was too hot for the goalkeeper to hold and the desperate Rangers heroically led by Alex Smith, were baffled at every turn. The more aggressive work of the forwards was seen when the Rangers were beating up against the wind. Alex Smith and Bennett originated most of the leading work. Bennett’s backing up of the left-winger was not bettered by any onside left in recent years at Ibrox, and behind the pair Hendry’s completed a triangular combination wonderfully effective in operation. Hogg was the one blot in the forward combination, but he suffered from the monopoly of the ball by the left in the first half, and often by the awkward way it came to him in the second. In the place of Fraser was Lindley, of Lincoln, a light-weight who has skill a lot to learn. He appears to have the aptitude to profit by the coaching of Hamilton and McFarlane. He got Dundee’s first goal from a scramble after about twenty minutes’ play, as well as the other. Lock, on the second occasion, met the ball as it flashed unexpectedly from the left, with both hands, expecting to divert its course past the goal-line, but the ball took the upright and rebounded through. If not so often tested as Crumley was, the Rangers’ custodian got some stiff balls from Hamilton, Dainty and McFarlane. He did his work well and decisively. Hendry, who initiated the movement in midfield when Smith took the ball up the left, and Reid scored so cleverly three minutes after Lindley’s first goal, gave another polished exhibition of half-back play, while Chapman and Galt, if not so much in evidence, were not often beaten for the ball. The Dundee halves shone most in defensive work, largely owing to the run of the game, and in aggressive work Lee, Dainty and Mair were more prominent. The latter proving a stiffer obstacle to Hogg, with all his weight thrown in, than the right winger bargained for. The backs were good on both sides, and they stood well up to their men. For reasons that can be understood RC Campbell was perhaps the happiest man on the field at the finish. In covering up from a free kick or a throw-in he neglected nothing, but did not get enough passes. He was frequently dangerous, and once unlucky not to score. McLachlan, of Elgin, is a persevering forward, and gave his side good help alike in helping the defence and in raiding forward. The chief defect in the forward play, however, was a lack of co-operation with the halves, a circumstance the Rangers were not slow to profit by. If defeated the Rangers were by no means disgraced. Dundee’s all-round boldness and confidence helped towards a victory, for which the defence was largely responsible. Over 20,000 spectators watched the game
