Match ended 0-0
Match Information
Manager: No Permanent Manager
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
The undecided game in the second round of the Scottish Challenge Cup competition between these clubs took place at Kinning Park in prescient of fully five thousand spectators, who were rewarded by one of the hardest, but at the same time roughest game ever played on that well known football ground. It will be remembered that the previous Saturday at the volunteers field, the clubs tied with two goals each after the 3rd L.R.V. had decidedly the best of the game, but on this occasion the opposite was the case, and we are convinced that the majority of the spectators will be one with us in thinking that the Rangers had hard lines indeed in not being allowed a goal which certainly looked like being scored in the first half. At the same time we are equally satisfied that the gentleman who acted as what was adulated by the purest motives, and gave his verdict in the way he honestly considered his best judgment without fear or favour. The disputed point consisted in the goalkeeper of the 3rd L.R.V. stopping the ball from a shot by one of the Rangers left wing players after it was alleged to have been clean through. Be this as it may, the game was one more declared drawn, after hard work on both sides to the last. The Rangers had the wind in their favour during the first round and after being pressed at the back for a few minutes retaliated and not only compelled their opponents to fall back on their goal, but had three corner flag kicks in rapid succession and a shot from Pringle just grazed the left post. Give-and-take play then followed in which the 3rd L.R.V. forwards wrought better together then their opponents, but the back play of the Rangers was grand and rendered McIntyre’s clever effort to score unveiled. Not long before half time the Rangers made a gallant attack on the 3rd L.R.V. goal and the dispute we have referred to above occurred. In the second half with the wind at their backs, the Volunteers made it lively for their opponents, and not only had several close shies at the Rangers goal, but a couple of well-placed corner flag kicks caused Chalmers to confirm the spectators opinion that he is a magnificent goalkeeper. In a little browner the ‘warriors’ lines were attacked with much vigour by the home players, and for a long time the ball was dangerously near their upright posts, but a few minutes from call of time the strangers not only beat off their formidable opponents, but laid siege to the Rangers goal and as a appeal was being made for a corner flag kick the whistle sounded, leaving the game drawn for the second time. The two clubs will therefore in accordance with the challenge cup rules be put into the ordinary ballot for the third ties, and no doubt will both be heard of again in prominent matches far on in the competition. The Volunteers played the same eleven before, but there were two changes in the Rangers eleven from last week – R Reid taking the place of A Vallance and A Steel filling the vacancy among the forwards by the absence of Thomson. During the game the 3rd L.R.V. forwards acted much better together than their opponents in the same position, McIntyre in particularly showing himself the best player on the field, but he was not well enough backed up. The back play of the Rangers however, was splendid and undoubtedly the feature of the match. Under SFA rules both teams went into the draw for the next round if no decision after two matches
