Main 27
B McPhail 40
Match Information
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: J Leggat (Coatbridge)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Any comparison favourable to Partick thistle stops short at the forwards. Rangers had it there easily, and on the chances that had might have finished with a bigger margin in their favour. Yet the Partick defence fought nobly, and my sympathy goes out to them. I was particularly sorry for Johnstone, whose injury in the first half deprived him of the free use of his left hand. He was a bundle of pluck to carry on as he did. As a team, Rangers played much better together. If everything did not go right for them, their craft in defence could always be depended upon. Nothing but a surprise reliance on one another could have permitted the close rearward pass among the half-backs and backs when the Partick forwards were making a shape at getting through. Tactics played a big part in this match, and behind the tactics was ripe experience which the Thistle, because of the youthful nature of so many in the team, have yet to acquire. The one player in the Thistle front line who showed the necessary determination and cleverness was Hastie. No forward on the field made more gallant attempts to break down the opposition. He was the one big worry to the Rangers defence, and his due reward would have been to score. The other Thistle forwards had not a good day. Miller, clever as usual, did not draw the defence, and so McLennan was continually finding Simpson in the way. Regan put across some nice centre, but it was Simpson who collared most of them. Bain perhaps suffered by the preference of Hastie for going through by himself, but as the game went, I do not blame Hastie for that. There was altogether more cohesion in the Rangers front line. Every one of the five was a marksman and four of them scored. Macaulay, in the first half, was not getting his passes to go right, but afterwards he hit his game, and they we saw the right wing going some. Smith found Donnelly difficult to beat, but more than once he was unlucky with his scoring efforts. McPhail went through the game more like himself. Choke full of confidence, Kinnear pleased the Ibrox crowd with his sprightly action. He will learn how not to be caught offside. But he was not always offside when ruled so. Meiklejohn and brown were the real purveyors, but they had not so difficult a job as Elliott and Baigrie, who were kept more on the stretch, and did well under the circumstances. In the rear, both teams were strong. Cumming was a splendid back in the first half but was worried by Main afterwards. The first goal was Mains scored after 27 minutes, but Macaulay had a big share in it with his cute pass through the centre where Main had run into position. I thought McPhail was offside when he scored the second goal five minutes from the interval and Patrick thought so, too. Macaulay registered number three when the second half was 14 minutes old and after Johnstone had performed wonders, he was beaten again in the last minute. Meiklejohn, went lame and playing at outside-right, received a long pass from McPhail, centred a peach, and Smith headed home
