Fiddes (2)
Meiklejohn pen
Match Information
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Dont ask me to become enthusiastic. Being of a George Washington turn, I must be truthful. This was not a game to remember. Why, it is difficult to understand. The conditions were not too bad but, somehow, a good many of the players just couldnt do the right thing even when there was nobody to impede them. Rangers took two points out of it, but I could not imagine them feeling that they had had a good day. In fact, gestures by some of them showed they were annoyed with themselves. I know they can do a lot better, and so they might have done here had Third Lanarks forwards gone to their work from the start as they did in the closing minutes. There was too much dilly-dallying, and Gallacher, a bit of a juggler as you know, was the chief sinner. What is the use of cruising about the field when the goal is directly ahead? I ask you. Even if Rangers had the greater scoring chances in the first half, I thought them a bit lucky to be a goal ahead at the interval. It was scored by Fiddes, who just managed to forestall Muir when the ball came across from the right not a spectacular goal. The second Rangers goal, 18 minutes after the restart, was better. Fiddes running close up to Muir with a pass from Smith, and beating the custodian who could only touch the ball as it went in. Two minutes later, Smith, who was playing outside left owing to an injury, was brought down on the point of shooting. Meiklejohn converted the penalty kick. It was pretty much all Rangers hereabout so far as the likelihood of goals was concerned, and ten minutes from the end McPhail scored a fourth. Then the Third Lanark forwards woke up. Smith had gone off. Cathkins forces seemed to realise they had a chance of doing something. With six minutes to go, Hay scored a bonnie goal, and four minutes later Kinnaird whipped on a second. So that was not so bad for old Third. On the winning side I give chief credit to Dawson, Gray, Meikljohn, Brown and the right wing pair, Fiddes and Venters. Carabine was a splendid back behind good half-backs, but the Cathkin forwards were too late in getting a move on
