Hogg
W Reid <45
W Reid
Match Information
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: G.W. Hamilton (Motherwell)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Fie, Falkirk! For a team that had the thrust to get through the Third Lanark defence seven times, the Bairns were woefully disappointing at Ibrox. How frail were they may be gathered from the fact that while Rangers were a long way from their best, the result never seemed in doubt. Nothing was wrong with the Falkirk defence until Agnew got hurt shortly before the interval, but the half-backs were too reckless. Consequently, the forwards had to fetch and carry for themselves, and they were not equal to it. They had some scoring chances, but there was scarcely an ounce of powder and shot in the whole line. In the second half Agnew changed placed with McMillan and Terris with Logan, but it was simply a case of out of the frying pan into the fire. Stewart had no chance with any of the four goals, because the backs were all definitely beaten when Reid and Hogg each made their two scores. McNaught, who is just a slip of a lad, gave glimpses of real skill at outside right, but he got no support, and could never hope to beat the best pair of defenders on the field – Hendry and Ormonde. Ormonde’s right-foot kicking was again a feature. When he had to clear with his left he sometimes miskicked, but he is a right back, and allowance has to be made for that. Hogg was far and away the most mettled of the Rangers forwards. Going for goal, he was like a whirlwind compared with some of his heavy-footed colleagues. The first goal was his, taken after seven minutes’ play for a picturesque centre by Brown. He also made the opening for Reid to score the second near the interval, at which point Rangers led by 2-0. Agnew was absent when this second goal went on. Rangers made nearly all the play for twenty minutes of the second half, and then it was Hoff again who scored, although Reid squared his little bill by dribbling slantwise across goal and then tapping the ball back to the wing man, for whom the goal was then a gift. The prettiest goal of the lot was the fourth and last – a regular ‘Reider’. Taking a sleek pass from Galt, Reid raced straight as an arrow, and although hard pressed shot a ball that was seen by Stewart all the way but never felt until he went to the back of the net for it. But for all that they won so well, Rangers did not give a satisfying display. Bennett had the wanderlust, and that was not exactly fair to Brown, who never knew how he would get his passes and was thus always guessing. No player does well in these circumstances, and Brown, frankly was not very successful. Lock has almost nothing to do. He must have laughed in his ‘beard’ at the attempts of the Falkirk forwards to put the ball anywhere near the goal.
