W Reid (3)
S Duncan (2)
Match Information
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: B, H or A Kirkland (Cathcart)
Matchday: Monday
Match Trivia
After making quite a good start at Ibrox Queen’s Park tapered off badly and suffered a heavy defeat. Nor were Rangers particularly gluttonous for goals. Some of the six they garnered were made easy for them by a palpable lack of strength and decision in defence at critical moments. We got rather a surprise on seeing Gunner William Reid at centre for Rangers. After having his expected leave cancelled on Saturday, he was sent north to convey back to camp a member of the company. I don’t know whether he got his man, but he got three goals and a rousing reception. For almost twenty minutes there was nothing between the teams in a not very thrilling game. What particularly was lacking in the play of Queen’s Park forwards was the ability to follow up and keep in touch with one another. If one player looked like getting through he generally found himself without support. Once, for instance, Boyce bustled in so well that the Rangers backs were in extremities, but Boyce had run away from the wings – the wings were to blame for that – and so force of numbers told. Rangers were always the more dangerous in attack, but for a long time the Queen’s Park defence held them well. Fully thirty minutes had elapsed before a triangular movement by Gordon, Bennett and Duncan brought out the first goal. Duncan centred high. The ball sailed away across the face of the goal, over the reach of Richardson, and into the net at the far corner. To this the amateurs responded with some dash that kept Manderson and Muir busy, but Hempsey was seldom in action. The Queen’s Park forwards could make ground in the open in excellent style, but they never could keep control of the ball for shooting purpose. It was quite a different stray when Rangers made a brisk descent on the visitors’ defence. A corner was forced, and following this Duncan got a pass, and going round Neilson shot a fine second goal. The third goal was scored by Gunner Reid after Gordon had taken a pass from Bennett and had dribbled close up to goal with an opponent harassing him. Leading by 3-0 at the interval, Rangers were a fourth goal to the good five minutes after the restart. Branscombe made a strong run in, and though severely hampered he lofted the ball over the heads of Thorpe and Richardson, and Reid, who had followed up, made an easy thing of netting. A spurt by the amateurs saw a nice centre by Morton missed by his right-wingers, and after some midfield play Duncan put over one to Richardson who grabbed the ball, but being bustled by Reid let it go, and the Gunner chalked up his third goal in succession and the team’s fifth. In an attempt to get some bite into the forward play of the amateurs, Morton went into centre and Boyce and Cresswell formed the left wing. The Rangers half-backs, however, held them tightly, and there never seemed much prospect of a score. Near the end a corner placed by Duncan enabled Branscombe to score Rangers’ sixth goal. The best of the winners’ play was on the right wing, where Gordon, Bennett and Duncan combined in taking style. Bennett’s run with the ball close at foot, his dodging and his passing were something like our old A B Duncan too full advantage. Branscombe showed fine touches. He gives the impression of complete control over the ball and has many ways of beating a man. Pursell played an improved game, and Logan was rather too tall and too strong for first Boyle and then Morton. I cannot say the backs were very impressive. Hempsey was having rather a cold day. It seemed to me that Queen’s Park suffered greatly by the absence of RM Morton. Strength in the inside-forward positions was badly wanted. The halfs did really well up to a point, and Thorpe also, but the occasion seemed a little too big for Neilson. The whole team would have done, better if they had forgotten that they were playing the Rangers
