Parker 25, 39
Paterson >45, xx
Match Information
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: J Bell (Dundee)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
I have seen Queen’s Park do vastly better against Rangers when circumstances appeared to favour tem less than they did at Ibrox. The Amateur forwards could make no headway. They lacked weight, and they lacked skill as well, while the Rangers’ forwards, if not carrying heaps of ballast, certainly had all the requisite cleverness. With the Queen’s Park forwards unable to keep the ball when they got it, the half-backs and the backs were constantly employed. Looking to that, the score is not unflattering to them. They were simply overrun when the goals were scored. That’s the simple truth. It is typical of the way the game went that the best bits of forward play by the Amateurs was seen when either Hector McKenzie or Edward Garvie broke loose from the etiquette of half-back play and went for a run on the home defence. Rangers played some delightful football on the left wing. Galt, whose defensive play came unusually easy to him, made a combination unit with Bennett and Smith. The two latter twirled and twisted in amazing style, Bennett, I am pleased to say, being quite the old Bennett once more. Parker gave Hector McKenzie a busy time, and though the young Ibrox centre scored two grand goals in the first half, the Hampden half could congratulate himself on a good day’s play. By Parker’s goals Rangers led at the interval, and in the second half Paterson scored two, the first of which was the only one of the four that I thought Porter should have stopped. These is not much call to say much about the Rangers’ defence, which was seldom tested. There was virility in the whole team, but then everything had to be judged on the basis of the weak Queen’s attack, which rendered the comparison as between the two defences unequal. I could easily suggest how Queen’s Park might have been made stronger, but I expect they know all about that as well as I do
