Dr Marshall (2)
McGowan (2)
Match Information
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: A. H. Leishman (Falkirk)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
East Fife never looked like doing the miraculous at Ibrox. But they put a brave face on it, and I give them credit. For making a fight up to the interval., when they were only a goal in arrears. Rangers never seemed to be disposed to let themselves go full out for long. They were always trying to get goals, but without any strain which would betoken fear of the result. Marshalls first-half goal was a splendid effort. He flashed through with the ball at his feet, and while still on the run, drove it, at an angle, fairly high across goal into the far part of the net. This occurred after 14 minutes, and from that point until the interval Bernard and his backs were stubborn fighters. McGowan scored a nice goal which was rightly deleted for handling. East Fifes forwards brightened up wonderfully in a fitful way. Liddell evidently was relied upon to give the Ibrox defence most trouble. He was well plied with the ball, but Gray marked him well. The most thrustive forward was Weir, who made one or two fast scampers to the right to open up the defence, but neither Wilson nor Brown could profit by the chances, such as they were. Rangers put some bite into their attack in the second half, and with ten minutes gone, Marshall slashed one into the net after Archibald had centred and McGown had stopped the ball in front of goal. A couple of minutes later McGowan shot a third, and two minutes from the ned he registered a fourth a bonnie goal. Brown headed forward, and McGowan took the ball on the drop and shot low and fast below Bernards guard. Rangers defence had a pretty easy afternoon because the half-backs were usually able to disconnect the East Fife attack. Both McDonald and Brown played well to their forwards, and Meiklejohn was always in position. Conlin pleased with his clever oases and his forcing methods, and he was unlucky not to score once when he went through for it. He gave Morton the straight pass through which the winger likes. McGowan found Shaw pretty hard to circumvent for a long time, but he got his goals just the same. Marshall played a grand first half when he was the strongest-going forward of the lot, but in the second half Morton was the man. Archibald got across some of his old-time centres, and it was from one of his whizz-bang shots that McGowan got his chance to score the third goal. Bernard and his backs took the honours on the defeated side, and the half-backs did well in defence up to a point. The forwards were not crafty enough to circumvent the positional tactics of Rangers rear men, but they played fairly well at times and then spoiled it by bad finishing. Had Weir been better supported he might have succeeded in doing something
