Fleming 33
JB McAlpine 44
Match Information
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: A.H. Leishman (Falkirk)
Matchday: Monday
Match Trivia
Queen’s Park missed a great chance of one of their rare victories over Rangers at Ibrox. The cause of their failure was the finishing ineffectiveness of their forwards in the first half. The strong goal-to-goal wind, combined with the light ball and fast pitch, spoiled the football, and both teams played better against it. With aa finishing foot at all, however, Queen’s should have been ahead when they played with the wind first half. Instead, they were a goal down until half-a-minute from the interval – goal gifted through a miskick by Gillespie, who played the ball on to the ready toes of Fleming in front of goal. The ‘footering’ of the amateur forwards inside the penalty area was appalling and considering their pressure the shots that reached Hamilton were a meagre total. McAlpine missed Nicholson, and the line lacked balance. Still, that was no reason for the paucity of scoring efforts. The goal which McAlpine got to equalise the scores should have come along much earlier. He did the proper thing for once in blazing in a quick one. It was not a lucky win for Rangers, as incidents ran. Indeed, the champions could grouse more, for McPhail, in the opening minutes, hit the inside of the post with Peden clean beaten, and the defence was again ‘lost’ when Osborne headed inches over an open goal from Fleming’s cross late in the game. This was a plucky effort, and the newcomer had very hard lines. Rangers had out McDonald, the half-back returned from America and Simpson for Muirhead and craig in the middle line, and with Osborne and Marshall forming the right wing they were much very strength, particularly on that flank. The substitutes did not badly, but of course, the regulars were missed, and when Queen’s struck their best form in the second half Rangers were hard pressed. A goal by Fleming, a beautifully hooked ball to the roof of the net then minutes after the resumption, put the Amateurs behind again, and the signs were that they would fall further. But they; playing up the middle and down the right, they made a grand rally, and time and again the equaliser was quite a possibility. The policy of playing Crawford with the ball very nearly succeeded. The closing phase of the play was by far the best. Until then the game was anything, but the battle royal expected. Queen’s Park’s efforts excited the crowd, and the thrills were then crowded on the another. McPhail and Chambers were the outstanding forwards. Both nursed the ball an sent out fine opening passes. The champions, like Queen’s did their best work against the wind. The ball beat them too often in the second half. Meiklejohn was easily Rangers’ outstanding defender in a half-back line below Ibrox standard. Grant played well for Queen’s, and McDonald worried Morton. Wiseman was about the best of the backs; his kicking being improved. Peden had a splendid game, sure and clean in his anticipation and handling. None of the three goals was saveable, and Peden is to be sympathised with in the loss of the first. Before the game began, the players on both sides stood to attention while the band played ‘Lead, Kindly Light’ as a tribute to Mr George Easton of Partick Thistle, whose sudden death came as such a shock to the football world
