Harrison 34
Jones 37
Match Information
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: W McCulloch (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
So, its happened again. A hotly disputed penalty. The kick converted. And two more points in the Rangers bag. Youll hear a lot more moans about Ibrox luck over the head of this. Eleven minutes from time it happened. The score level. Harrison clean through when down he came. Immediately a bunch of protesting players, Third and Rangers mixed. Mostly Rangers. Referee McCulloch walked over to a kinsman, came back with a hand pointed to the spot. Immediately there was an uproar. From the crowd and from Third Lanark. Harrison took the kick himself, converted beautifully. That really finished the game though Third did put in a rally of sorts. And Mt McCulloch left the field at the finish to a storm of boos. Personally, I thought the penalty obvious. That was the matchs drama moment. But the days chief hero didnt figure in it. Prenting Jerry Dawson, king of all the keepers. One glorious full-length save from a sizzling Dewar drive was the best thing of the game. And it came twenty minutes from time with the issue in the balance. Almost as good were two wonder efforts of the first half. A king indeed. But while Dawson was terrific, Third were terrible when it came to finishing. In the first half they monopolised play, should have built up a winning lead. But Jones apart, they hadnt a marksman of any sort. And so, they rightly paid the penalty. From goal to half-back Third were grand. But Jones is the only forward to whom I can award any kind of merit mark. And even he faded in the second half. Let rather talk of young McCulloch, who filled the Carabine shoes. Im no prophet, but Im saying here and now Third have found Jimmys ready-made successor. The boy was brilliant. He shut Turnbull out of the game. He and McLean made mincemeat of most of the dainty Ibrox moves. Mark Black down as good and McLellan as possibly a better wing half than Blair on the days showing. Of Rangers much the same tale Gray, Shaw a dour Simpson, a not so good McKillop, Symon the better wing despite a much-replastered forehead. The forwards terrible as a line. But Harrison in the best form Ive hes show since joining up at Ibrox, was clever, an opportunist. Much more likely lad we used to know with Accies, Ill guess hes played himself into Rangers team in the absence of McPhail. The punch of Venters was sadly missing, Lyness was ready enough, but not enough. Fiddes lost and often, Thornton a capable trier without success. Yes, Rangers missed those regulars. The Ibrox men led against the run of play. A lovely Thornton slip, a solo by Harrison and they were one up after thirty-six minutes. The equaliser three minutes later. A raging Jones shot from 20 yards after a defensive muddle. For the rest, take two amazing misses by Sowerby, an equally astonishing one by Thornton as the leading features, them all at vital moments, and if not above all else, those saves of Dawson. Jerry it was who jinxed Third.
