McKay 7
T Craig
Match Information
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Joe P. Rowe (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Surely Rangers are happy in their reserve strength. Their handful of youngsters did not provide a single failure against Morton, who were thoroughly well beaten by a bright and promising start. From the way the Greenock forwards went through the Ibrox defences in the first eight minutes, it looked as if Robb was in for a stormy time. It was a very nicely combined movement that let McKay in to open the scoring at the end of the period mentioned, and hard on top of this the Cappielow vanguard came again as merrily as you like, Gourlay setting a good lead. But then a change came over the spirit of the play. The Rangers’ wings began to show their places. Kilpatrick and McGregor could take the ball ahead quickly and drop it over with rare accuracy. The equaliser was always coming, and come it did after 20 minutes, when Craig intercepted a beautiful centre from McGregor and rammed the ball past Edwards. The leading goal came along after some, more clever Rangers’ forward play. Cairns, who was shooting for all he was worth, beating Edwards with a shot that had great force behind it. Somehow Morton never were the same team afterwards. They could give Robb very little trouble, although McKay should have done better from a glorious chance in the second half. Edwards did some very fine saving after the interval. It was a good win. Morton were quite sound in defence, but their forwards faded out of the picture.
