Goodwin <45
Match Information
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: H Humphrey (Maryhill)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
If the Rangers were the superior team at Ibrox and on the run of the play value for a more substantial victory, the Amateurs have nevertheless every reason to congratulate themselves on their plucky stand. And the value of this stand is enhanced when it is recalled that for fully an hour they practically were a player short. Anderson was not off for more than 10 minutes altogether, but the badly damaged thigh from which he suffered made him little more than a passenger after his return to the field. Whatever the reason, whenever Rangers and Queen’s Park meet nowadays, the football displayed is invariably more than a trifle spicy. In the comparatively recent Glasgow Cup-tie at Hampden, we had an exhibition of forcible play that caused the best friends of both clubs to shake their heads, and candidly, Saturday’s League match would have been bettered had it been contested in a spirit just a little more friendly. Rangers never were in serious danger of losing the points, yet as times wore on, and Goodwin’s goal, cleverly snapped up after McKenzie had cleared from Bowie’s eight minutes from that start, was the only tangible result of all their pressing and miserable shooting. They seemed so much put out by their lack of success in a goal-scoring sense that their play suffered to an extent few would have thought possible. They were certainly up against a plucky lucky, and resolute Queen’s Park defence, which sacrificed style for efficiency in every instance yet had they employed a little less f that excess of zeal, which kept the amateurs within their own eighteen yards line for the greater part of the game, they must have met with a bigger share of success. Goodwin played pretty football, even if he did drop into methods adopted by the others for the day, which were far too close to be profitable. Bennett’s long passes forward would have been of inestimable advantage to an attacking line, whose cribbed moving was just to the liking of the Queen’s Park defenders. Alex Smith, who had little difficulty in eluding the slower and inexperienced big Canadian in the outfield was the superior extreme player. Hogg showed many pretty touches of the side-slip and back-heel variety, which invariably did, and sometimes did not make ground, besides getting way on once at least sufficient to have shifted a traction engine almost. Bowie’s clever work, like that of the others, suffered through being too close, while Reid has seldom been seen to less advantage. In the first half he placed a ball beautifully to Porter, for which doing a very ordinary centre-forward would have kicked himself – metaphorically, of course. He made many attempts afterwards to work himself into position, but Hector McKenzie almost invariably chipped in before he could get his second touch at the ball. Both Queen’s Park wings supports Ramsay and Barbour, showed exceptionally clever leading-out play; Drummond did splendidly for a lad of his stature; while Clark, besides exhibiting fair ability, was plucky to a degree in the centre. Gordon was the best half-back afield, even if his very aggressiveness may have contributed to the paucity in goal-scoring. His trio of magnificent second-half shots, which just missed by a yard or so, made Queen’s Park folk hold their breaths. Galt, who struck the bar with a great effort before the interval, did his part nobly in a defensive connection, besides sharing in the attack on occasion; and Hendry, if less brilliant than his confreres, was very effective. Hector McKenzie was grand in a Queen’s Park middle line whose play, like that of the men behind him, was necessarily for the most part of the checkmating order. R McKenzie and Laughland were the grafters throughout, while Craigie, even if he did taper off a bit towards the close, when Hogg found him comparatively common clay, put in a rare afternoon’s work and amply atoned for his colourless exhibition against Aberdeen. Melville, the Dunoon youth from Calgary, set a very stiff task, came through the ordeal with flying colours. He was neither agile enough nor clever enough, for the wing opposed to him, yet the very unorthodox nature of his movements often brought him out triumphant. A big strong chap, who kicks lustily without paying much attention to direction, his work in close proximity to his own uprights was most effective to say the least of it. The Canadian is worth further trial. With so little to do (by comparison) it would be unfair to compare Law and Campbell with the Hampden Backs. The international, if appearing more subdued than formerly, made a very pleasing reappearance, tackling very safely and kicking very nicely without unduly stressing himself. Campbell, probably affected just a little by again having to change his position, has kicked better many a time, yet was quite as safe as usual. Neither Lock nor Porter were unduly burdened with work.
