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Trivia
- 'Sniper' Jim McColl was the statistical difference between the teams at Celtic Park, but the gulf was bigger than the score suggests and only fine goalkeeping by Tom Allan and poor finishing by the Celtic forwards kept the score down, according to The Scotsman.
- The Glasgow Herald however (not unusually in those days) gives Celtic little credit, and even ex-Celt George Whitehead is criticised.
- It is reported from Antwerp that a British Cavalry Brigade engaged a German Cavalry Brigade. The Germans are advancing on the town of Namur.
- Yesterday the Emperor of Japan declared war on Germany.
- A soldier guarding the Yarrow shipbuilding yards at Scotstoun fired a warning shot at two men he saw acting suspiciously trying to enter the shipyard through the night. The men turned on the guard with sticks, but he managed to beat then off and injured one seriously with his fixed bayonet. The other swam off to the other side of the river. Neither men could speak English readily and were thought to be spies.
- The Scottish Propriety Co. of 170 Hope St. Glasgow is advertising The Hagey Cure for alcoholism and nervous disorders in the Herald. This method developed by the US Hagey Institute, and has world wide agents, involves injecting, or giving the patient medicine which contained gold.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorer: McColl
MOTHERWELL:
Allan, Robert Penman; (Ashfield), P Kelly, Frank McStay, Duncan Finlayson, McGlade; (Earnock Rangers), Hillhouse, John T. Waugh, Whitehead, John Gray, Fairgray
Referee: J. Winter (Dundee).
Attendance: 18,000 (Celtic F.C. records)
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
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Articles
The Scotsman, Monday 24th August, 1914.
The Celtic and Motherwell met at Parkhead, Glasgow, when the home team secured their first brace of points.
The visitors were outplayed all through, and only the brilliant goalkeeping of Allan and the weak shooting of the home forwards saved Motherwell from a heavy defeat.
McColl, from a cute pass from McMenemy, scored the only goal of the game in the first half.
The Celts were the better balanced team, the visitors’ forwards being very poor and lacking a leader.
The attendance was 8000.
The Glasgow Herald, Monday Aug 24, 1914
The Celtic forwards must show a great improvement if the Parkhead team is to repeat last season's feat, displace the Ibrox club, and win the championship.
There was much to admire in their outfield play against Motherwell and much to deplore in their attempt to get goals. Allan was the same stumbling block as when he did so much as a Tynecastle player to oust them from the Scottish Cup on the same ground, yet he was often fortunate to see several accurate centres from McAtee thrown away by the inside forwards.
Whitehead had a splendid opportunity of scoring from the only shot sent into Shaw in the first half, and had Motherwell thus gained a point, as they did in both matches against Celtic last season, the champions would merely have been punished for their own remissness at goal.
The honours of the match went to the losers compelled as they were to take the field minus several of their usual eleven, and the winners had little save the points to proffer their following.