G Henderson (2)
Muirhead
Match Information
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: J Binnie (Falkirk)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
This was a real bad day for Partick Thistle. The only luck they had was to win the toss and take the breeze with them, and even that was a wretched delusion. But I will say this for them. Noting they did came off. With the Rangers it was exactly the opposite. They were confident, sprightly and deadly as marksmen. Things ran ever so sweetly for them. They got their goals at the right time, and well they won handsomely. Yet in the first five minutes the home goal had a couple of very narrow escapes, and it seemed as if the Thistle were about to turn the breeze to advantage when the hurricane struck the Firhill defence. Archibald galloped past Bullock, and shoved the ball to Henderson, who whipped it into the net. Four minutes later Morton raced past O’Hara and lofted the ball into goal. It seemed to have beaten Wilkinson, when Muirhead stepped in and made certain. A short Thistle rally, and Morton was off again. He fell, along with O’Hara, who held his legs, and from the free kick he pushed the ball to Cunningham who promptly drove home the third goal. Following this, the Thistle forwards put up a fight, and Robb saved grandly from Ballantyne and McFarlane, and later from Lambie. Then came a marvellous goal by Henderson, who, in a duel with O’Hara and Bulloch, seemed beaten when he got his shot away. From this point until the interval, and for long period of the second half, Rangers travelled on the lower gear, yet Wilkinson had to save some dangerous shots, which he did in fine style. The Thistle never stopped trying, and in the last minute a long high ball from Blair found its way into the net. Thistle’s backs and half-backs came badly out of the match. Gibson never seemed quite himself, and Wilson found Cunningham again at the top of his game. Lambie tried hard to steady the defence, but he got little support for neither O’Hara nor Bulloch in the first half-hour, was tackling effectively. Of Course, the Thistle forwards, under the circumstances, got little chance to rally. They frequently tested Robb, but they could seldom drive in on him as the Rangers line did at the other end. It was a fine Rangers team - and a merciful one. Reid, the young right back, played like a veteran. These was no cooler man on the field
