W Reid (3)
Galt
Match Information
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Tuesday
Match Trivia
Two early goals for the Rangers, both of which might with a little care have been averted, took some of the interest out of the League game at Ibrox yesterday, and if there was a period of bright and interesting play in the closing stages, it required that to compensate for a somewhat dull patch in the middle of the game. There was no mistaking which was the superior team, however. Rangers, without striking quite their best form, got confidence from the early scoring, while the Partick team was disheartened somewhat by an accident to their goalkeeper which caused him to leave the field for a time, during which McKenzie occupied his place between the posts. Upon the shoulders of Bulloch must the primary blame for the defeat lie, for although he played a little better towards the close, that change came too late to counter-balance the effect of his early mistakes. The entire defence was a t fault when they allowed Galt to score from a free-kick. Campbell’s was not the only accident of the afternoon, and he was so bad that he quite collapsed in the pavilion after the match, and had to be conveyed per motor to his home in Kilmacolm. Brown. The Rangers’ left winger, got such a nasty cut over ne pf his eyes in contact with McKenzie, that the wound had to be stitched, and Wilson, Thomson and Reid were all in the wars. No forward was more in evidence throughout the game than Brown. Early on he carried the ball from midfield into the goal area of his opponents, and he repeated the performance frequently afterwards, usually finishing up with accurate centres. It was from a beautiful cross in the second half that Reid got one of his goals. Early in the game Bennett was not quite so accurate in his passes as he usually is, but in the second half he found his true form, and was generally conspicuous in all the attacking movements. The left wing was better than the right, where Bowie and Hogg, although doing many clever things, were not quite so clever as usual. Reid was always ready to accept possible chances, as his three goals testify, and the Ibrox attack as a whole was more in harmony than were the units of the Firhill forward line. Marshall got out many fine passes to the left wing, but the ball was not returned to him as it ought to have been, and he found Elmore hampering him too often. Neither of the inside men were successful, King showing no penetration power, and his passes were frequently short. When he got an opportunity, Steel did very well. The goal came in the second half as the result of a beautiful centre by Thomson, to which Marshall go his head and neatly turned the ball out of Lock’s reach. In the intermediate divisions the Rangers had also the pull, for although Wilson and Hamilton worked very hard they were frequently beaten by the opposing wings. They had little time to act in an aggressive sense, for they were chiefly concerned in checking the opposition. Gordon and Hendry were very clever, and of the two centre half-backs Galt on the day was slight ahead, because he found an opportunity to assist his forwards which was denied Raisbeck, who had too much to do in defence. The Rangers stalwart took the field not fully recovered from the injury to his thigh, which kept him out of the Parkhead game on New Year’s Day. Campbell was easily the best back of the four, but McKenzie, if he was a little robust towards the finish, did splendidly. Bulloch had an off-day, and Ormonde, if not quite of first-class, gave a promising display. Campbell did well under a big handicap, and showed great spirit in returning after being so badly hurt. Lock was never seriously troubled
