A Cunningham 8
J
Cunningham
Muirhead
Cunningham
Cairns 89
Red Cards
Smith sent off 59
Match Information
Attendance: 14000
Referee: Willie Bell (Hamilton)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Benefit Match - With gross drawings of £862 at Ibrox, the match between the Rangers and Kilmarnock for the benefit of the Scotland War Memorial Fund, may be written down a success. It was a very excellent match up to fourteen minutes after the second half had commenced. Then an incident occurred which married the proceedings. Manderson was rather unmannerly in dealing with JR Smith, who was running in, and the Kilmarnock centre retaliated. Referee Bell, I think saw only the later part of the affair, or he might have cautioned both players, and left it at that. Anyhow, he ordered Smith off. Up till then the only scored in a keen, clever contest was one by Archibald eight minutes after the start. He took a centre from Cairns after Muirhead had missed it, and a low, fast drive had Blair beaten. Kilmarnock responded with nice, forward passing, and a cut-in and shot by McPhail gave Robb some trouble. But though the Rigby Park team could make ground smartly and keep the whole of the Rangers defence busy, they did not finish nearly so well as did the Rangers forwards. When the teams resumed some feeling crept into the play, but nobody looked for it going to extremes, and the dismissal of Smith was deplored by everyone. But with reduced forces, Kilmarnock made a great fight. They were, in fact, making all the running, and causing Robb to make some desperate saves, when Cairns broke away. When well down the field he passed to Paterson got a return pass, and then slipped the ball to Cunningham, who shot a second goal. Again, Kilmarnock responded with grit and cleverness, but the backs were trying an offside game and were caught napping when Muirhead started a run from the centre line and, going right in on Blair, scored a third goal. Muirhead nearly repeated the feat a minute or two later, and to show his disapproval of the referee allowing him to go on, Blair walked away from his goal, leaving it empty for Muirhead to do as he liked. Muirheads shot, however, struck a post and did not score. But Cunningham soon afterwards slipped on a fourth goal, and Cairns had a fifth all his own. The score does Kilmarnock scant justice. They were a good team, although not quite so good as Rangers, who were always the more likely scorers. They would have been a better had they not been do keen. None played better for the winners than Robb, Smith, Dixon, Paterson and Cairns, while for Kilmarnock Hamilton, Bagan, Shortt, M Smith and Culley were outstanding.
