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Mathieson 45
Graham 75
A Morton pen 80
Fleming 87
Match Information
Attendance: 9000
Referee: W Wilson
Matchday: Wednesday
Match Trivia
North American Tour - Congratulations are due this morning to a soccer player born in Canada. He is Bob Kirk, the tall goal guardian of the Ulster club. It was due to him last night that the ‘Red Handers’ were able to hold Glasgow Rangers termed the wonder team of the year, to 4 goals to 3 at Ulster stadium last night before a crowd of nearly 9,000 wildly cheering fans. Kirk was wonderful and I doubt if I have ever seen any better display of goalkeeping than he put up. The four goals that did slip by him would have slipped by any goalie in the world. The game was all the more interesting because at one stage the ‘Red Handers’ were ahead and it looked as if they might be able to hold it, due to their wonderful defence. At the halfway mark the score was one goal each. Rangers got the first one when Brown got the ball from a free kick taken by Morton. The free kick was awarded against Kirk who handled the ball outside the goal area. Just a minute later Graham got through, passed to Mathieson who beat Hamilton to level up the score. The third goal came eight minutes after the start of the second period and was scored from a penalty kick taken by Alan Morton. The Scottish wing player sent in a hard shot and Kirk made a brilliant attempt to save. He stopped the ball on the line, but there was so much force behind it that it trickled over. The penalty was given against Eadie. Almost on the next play Graham brough the crowd to its feet by taking the ball round the Rangers defence and beating Hamilton with a close-in shot. This again tied up the score. The crowd nearly went wild when ‘Red’ Moir, who was playing his first game of the season, took a pass from Galloway and put the ‘Red Handers’ one up. Rangers tied the game up on a rather peculiar goal. Morton took a corner kick and dropped the ball right into the goal mouth. Wilson in trying to clear headed the ball into his own net. A few minutes later Fleming scored the last goal of the game with a good hard shot from close in. Though beaten the ‘Red Handers’ were not disgraced. They put up by far the beat exhibition that has ever been seen in Toronto. They made the Rangers go all out to win. It would not be fair not to mention the splendid work of Eadie. He stopped many a dangerous rush and would not let the Rangers forwards get set for a good shot at goal. Moir, Graham and Galloway were the best of the attack. Tommy Muirhead worked hard for the rangers. This veteran was in the tick of every play. Whitey McDonald, the ex-Ulster player, was highly honoured when he was made captain of the Rangers for the evening. He has certainly developed into a wonderful player. Alan Morton is just as tricky as ever. He has lots of tricks in his pack and works the ball around just as a conjurer would. The tricky and accurate passing the Rangers was there but the Ulster players bustled them about as if they had no reputation. At half time the daughter of Archie Murray of the Old Timers club presented a cup to the Rangers team while at the close of the game the 36th Ulster Division Post of the Canadian Legion presented ‘Whitey’ McDonald with a gold signet ring.
Our match with Ulster United here turned out to be just as keen as Scoto-Canadians promised us it would be. The first hour was a ding-dong tussle, the United forwards kept the game open, and put the ball about fast and cleverly. This lively pace, however, told on the United, and Rangers came sailing into it in the last fifteen minutes, to win by the odd goal in seven. The goals kept the crowd on edge, and everybody voted the game one of the best seen in Toronto. I expect this will be as close a match as Rangers will experience, unless when they go into the United States on Sunday. I cabled you yesterday about our sumptuous reception at the banquet. We got the surprise of our lives when Dr Givens rose and presented Mr Struth with a beautiful loving cup, the gift of Archie Walker’s Old Boys Club. It will look well on the Ibrox sideboard, and I have asked Mr Struth to try to arrange for supporters of the club to see it at Ibrox. In the game against Ulster United McDonald and Simpson were brought into the half-back line, and Tom Muirhead played alongside Alan Morton on the left wing. Alan was in fine form and got two of Rangers’ goals. Jamie Fleming scored the other two. Ulster United’s scorers were Moir, Graham and Mathieson
