Gray
Whittle
Match Information
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Partick Thistle deserves their victory over the Rangers at Parkhead, where 15,000 people watched the game. The ‘Jags’ played in a convincing manner, and their success was the result of superior play. There was no fluke about it. Rangers were very disappointing. They never settled to the game for which they are famous. Lock was, perhaps, the steadiest man of the eleven. Je made several splendid ‘saves’ and the shots which beat him were unsaveable. Thistle had out a strong side, which included Seymour, of Greenock Morton. Rangers were unable to field the sergeants (Gordon and Brown), but Cadet Andrew Cunningham came down from the South of England to help. The long journey, however, told its tale, and while the Kilmarnock lad played a good enough game, and was about the best of the Rangers’ forwards, yet he was a bit below his best. At Centre-forward the Light Blues were particularly weak. Hart never hit it. He was up against men who were too strong for him, and the Ibrox attack suffered accordingly. Once only in the first half did Hart catch the eye. It was when he almost back-heeled a pass from the right into the Thistle net. The touch was singularly clever. Thus with the middle joint forward in effective, the whole line was weakened, and with the defence of the ‘Jags’ showing topping form the Rangers’ van was a failure more or less. The Thistle defenders were coolly confident, and gave as good an exhibition as in any other match of the season. The keeper had a little to do, but the Rangers’ shooting was poor. Bulloch was the best back on the field. He was clean, sure and strong, and with Adams made a capital pair. McMullan was the gem of the ‘Jags’ halves. He kept a firm hold of Cunningham and Archibald. Hamilton pivoted strongly, reducing Hart almost to impotence, and Black was quite worthy of his place. Then the Thistle forwards moved smartly and were a piece ahead of the Rangers’ five. Marshall led with dash and pluck, and was a continual source of danger. He had several fine drives for goal, which brought out Lock’s excellent saving qualities. The men supporting him – Gray and Harris – were equally good. Gray, at inside left, scored in twenty-two minutes. He got possession well out, dodged ahead past Bowie, evaded Manderson’s challenge, and closing in, rasped a fast low shot into the corner of the net well out of Lock’s reach. Seymour played an effective game at outside left, and it was his corner in the second half which enabled Whittle to nod the ball home for goal number two. The outside right man was perhaps the least strong of a sound attack. Rangers’ middle line was moderate, Bowie wrought very hard, but was considerably below pair. Dixon’s feeding was slack, and he got quite as much as he wanted from Marshall. Martin was clever at times. Manderson was easily superior to Blair, who was indirectly responsible for the Thistle’s second goal. He clean missed what should have been a sure and easy return, and from the corner Whittle did the trick. Blair did not impress. He was all right when not pressed, but otherwise was poor. The gate amounted to £650
