A Morton 3
Fleming
Fleming
B McPhail
G McMillan
Pigg 89
Match Information
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: C Ritchie (Edinburgh)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Well, what can we say about this, except that the Rovers were not a match for the other side? Raith were brave enough to start with, and their play in the first half was really good in parts, but the finish was not there. Still, one could bee that, with a bracing up here and there, considerable improvement could be effected. Driving power is needed in attack, and the defence requires a bit of metal put into it. Clever as were the Rangers forwards, they got goals far too easily, but early reverses seemed to take some of the fighting spirit out of the Raith defence. One man who did not give up was Hoggan. He showed splendid courage in the second half. If only all the others had battled as he did Raith would have come better out of it. It was a serious set-back for the Rovers to lose a goal in three minutes. Morton was the scorer. Afterwards, however, the Fifers encouraged hopes of a game being made of it. McAllister and Turner were conspicuous with some clever work – the half-back tackling and forcing well, while the little left-winger pranced along nicely and got the ball well across. But there was lacking ability to bite, and when Rangers’ forwards swung into the attack, we saw the difference. Fleming shot a second goal after taking a nice pass from McMillan, and five minutes later McPhail got a third following a Morton corner-kick. Just on the interval Fleming ran through to score the fourth. This was bad enough for Raith, but worse was to follow, for within six minutes of the restart they lost other three goals, to Fleming, McPhail and McMillan. Rangers were not too serious afterwards, the main idea being to give Archibald an opening to score. Just on time, Rayne put over a centre, and when Hamilton punched out Pigg got the ball on his head and netted. That’s all
