Young
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Match Information
Attendance: 23000
Referee:
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Army & Navy War Fund, What might be termed a sensational win by Morton was well-merited. From stem to stern they were the better side. The forwards were neat, nippy and well-balanced, the halves were steady and judicious, and the defence superb. Bradford never saved better. Many of his clearances seemed simple. It was his good judgment that made them so. Rangers never settled. They never got a chance to do so. In the very first minute Lock got a fright. Blair feigned to tackle, and Herbert only saved by throwing himself full length. That incident seemed to unnerve Rangers – the defence anyway – and within fifteen minutes Rangers were three goals down. Robertson, who came in for Lister, off with a damaged shoulder, was early prominent with a couple of good, but non-counting shots. Then Blair and Dixon got ‘fankled’ about a clearance, and while they were making up their minds Grant got in and scored a lovely goal, Lock not having an earthly. Rangers had still to appear in the picture to advantage, but before they did so Seymour had put on another goal. Lock failing to judge the flight of a deceptive, high ball. But that was not all. McNab counted for a third with a neat header. Still Morton’s forwards continued to prance along beautifully as a line, and with the Rangers forwards well subdued the halves got it heavy and the defence was stretched to the utmost. The first half ended with no more scoring, although on one occasion from a corner the ball bobbed about a lot in front of Bradford, who saved cleverly from Bowie, Cairns and Hart, although neither shot had much sting. Ie was though Rangers would buckle to the second half. Again they didn’t get the chance. They were up against too smart a side. Eager they were. Combine they couldn’t and Morton looked as if they had more goals in their locker. The champions became desperate, but their attack was smashed on every occasion long before getting to close range with Bradford. About fifteen minutes from time Young snapped at an wasy chance and scored Rangers’ only goal. Rangers’ forwards were completely subdued. They shot fairly often, but never hard. The halves were overburdened, and the defence had a gruelling time of it in the blazing sun. Morton played beautiful football, the forwards all moving very sweetly. Lawrence was the better of a great half-back line, Morrison the better back, and Bradford as safe as could be. Lock might have saved the second goal; otherwise he did well. Manderson was the better back. Morton’s forwards made the halves look quite second-rate. Archibald was the pick of a poor line. Hart played his worst game for Rangers; Young hid best
