Dr Marshall 30
Nicholson >45
Match Information
Attendance: 8,627
Referee: M.C. Hutton (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Rangers are into another little final. They did not cut a dash in the Glasgow Charity Cup semi-final at Ibrox, but they were the better team and deserved to win. Over the piece, the real sinners were the Partick forwards. They could set up quite an attractive show, but their finishing well my word Dawson must have wondered at times, what was the use of him troubling to get into football rig. I have never never seen those Thistle forwards make such a poor job of shooting. It was not ordinary but extraordinary. The one was as bad as the other. Even Torbet, who got the ball to his left foot in exactly the way he usually likes it, couldnt do his stuff. For a long time, the Rangers forwards were not much better. Their direction was no doubt superior, but Jacksons job was mostly easy the shots and headers came to him without punch behind them. Later, he got a chance to show his talent, and more than once he was cheered all round the ground. He was a personality in the game. So was McPhail. Big Bob may lie low for a spell, but when he comes bang into action, people have got to sit up and take notice. Without personalities, the game would starve, so heres luck to such as Jackson and McPhail. Rangers had a couple of safe, sound backs. Both Gray and Russell had their work cut out, especially in the first half, when the Partick forwards were lively, kept the ball going and often promised to see the thing through. But they were bad at fulfilling promises. Simpson only once let Wylie slip him. That was in the first half when the Rangers pivot found the ball beating him and, in an effort, to recover helped Wylie on his way. The Partick centre galloped clear and his shot on the run just topped the bar the best scoring effort of any Thistle forward in the game. That said, I must criticise Wylie for an earlier failure when, from a few yards, he shot straight at Dawson when a glancing shot would have done the trick. Rangers had no real advantage at half-back, for Donnelly played the same role as Simpson and Miller and McLeod gave the forwards just as good assistance as did McDonald and Brown. Miller in fact, was as much a forward as a half-back, and clever at that, though his advances often left Calderwood awkwardly placed. But Calderwood gave noting away on that account. He and Cumming did all that could be expected. The fault for the defeat did not rest on their shoulders. Often patchy, Rangers front line had always the appearance of getting there sooner or later. We missed the swinging pass from man to man, and the ability to draw the defence, although the cross-field pass worked by McPhail and Brown, at times created favourable position for Archibald and Nicholson. The latte played a good second half, when Marshall was also more like himself. There might have been a bunch of goals scored before the first one arrived after half-an-hour. Rangers were boring in when Archibald headed the ball down to Marshall, who smashed it into the net. Jackson had no chance with that one. Another goal by McPhail was deleted for offside, though why I could not understand, as the ball come to him off a Thistle defender when Jackson was in the country. McPhail in the second half had another goal cancelled for offside, rightly this time, I thought. Rangers became stronger as the Thistle tapered off a shade, and 25 minutes after the restart, Nicholson found the ball come to him while he was standing free and drown it at tremendous ace into the net. Jackson made a brave attempt to get in, but he had no discredit in failing. He made a glorious save from Marshall and some others.
