W Paterson
Cooke
Match Information
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: T Robertson (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
I cannot remember Third Lanark and Rangers playing so trilling a game as we witnessed at Cathkin Park. From the first to last there was not a moment’s relaxation in the whirling excitement. Of good football there was much, and if we saw also some of an indifferent kind, criticism of it might easily be spared in appreciation of the rousing contest which the teams equally contributed. Rangers were the better all-round side, and showed it in the matter of pressure, yet they had to fight desperately to draw the game. The credit for this I gave first to Driver Robert Orr. With thickened thighs, and looking the picture of gritty strength, he grappled magnificently with the Rangers’ right wing, which threatened at the start to make short work of the Cathkin team. From him McCormack seemed to gather inspiration. Between them they knocked the edge off the persistent Rangers’ attack. It was the long-sustained battle between the Rangers’ forwards and the third Lanark defence that made the game so interesting, for, after playing a capital first half, the Third Lanark forwards went pretty much out of the game. All the same, in these Cathkin forwards lay the source of all the excitement, for when Cooke diverted a centre from Sutherland past Lock fifteen minutes after that Start Rangers were faced with a problem. Before the equalising goal arrived – which was half an hour after the restart – the ‘Light Blues’ had experienced some bad luck, and had made two penalty claims, the first of which I thought justified. But at last, from a free kick, and while McLaughlin, the best Cathkin half-back, was at the touchline having an injury attended to, Paterson bustled through and scored. The Rangers’ backs were overshadowed by the rival pair, for Manderson was by no means at his best. Brownlie brought off several splendid saves, but he was lucky once to Orr save his goal for him. There was nothing really distinctive in the half-back play, but Riddell and McLaughlin were the most effective of their respective lines. Scott Duncan might have done anything for Rangers but for a very uneven service from Archibald. The Rangers forwards stuck too closely to the same old style of wing play, instead of swinging the ball about a bit. The best of the home lot was Sutherland, a clever little chap when it came to dribbling the ball past an opponent
