Salisbury 47
Blair 48
Match Information
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: William Bell (Hamilton)
Matchday: Tuesday
Match Trivia
Let’s forget all about that drab first half at Ibrox. Even with a strong breeze behind them. Partick never looked like scoring. Kinloch and McMenemy made repeated efforts to link up but got no response from the extreme men. In one of the occasional Rangers raids Cunningham did get the ball past Campbell, but Kenny did not worry, Andrew had previously brought the ball down with a hand. Then what a transformation in the second half. Thrill followed thrill. In the first minute Cunningham mulled almost under the bar. Then another Archibald cross was missed in succession by Cunningham, Henderson and Morton, a laugh being raised as the ball ran between Alan’s legs. Then a sensation. Salisbury slipped the ball round Jamieson, went after it at full speed, and ‘let go’ on the run. Robb put out a foot to save; he touched the ball, but it found the net. Next minute the Firhill crowd simply yelled. The ball went out to Blair, who without hesitation, fired from 25 yards range, and Robb was helpless. Rangers got busy. Within a minute they were swarming around Campbell, but over anxiety marked every effort to score, and one after another of the forwards foozled his kick. Dixon made a better attempt from 40 yards out, Campbell clearing the drooping ball in anything but convincing style, and Henderson rushed in with his cranium, but only to find the leather dropping on the top of the net. It was left to Cairns – the most enterprising ‘Light Blue’ – to reduce the lead. Running in as a well-placed Archibald ‘corner’ was dropping, Tommy banged past Campbell. Time – 15 minutes. Oliver Teist-like, the Ibrox fellows went after more, and Campbell was the busy man. Struthers was now outmaneuvered by Morton. Alan was dainty in all he did, but his crosses were by no means taken up as they should. At last, the equaliser came, Meiklejohn doing the trick with a snap shot that smoothed Cunningham’s hair in its progress past Campbell. I thought Kenny might have saved; he allowed the ball to squeeze between his upstretched arms. Without going into details about the players, I would mark out among the Rangers’ forwards Cairns, Archibald and Morton – Alan’s sparkle in the last half hour was a treat. Dixon was again a great destroyer, and Jamieson once more proved a good partner for McCandless. Campbell and Bulloch were the big men for Partick, and Lambie the best half-back. Kinloch and McMenemy shared the honours in a front rank that was straggly and unenterprising
