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- Celtic & World War One
- Page 8 of Monday's Glasgow Herald reports that on Saturday four men were charged with sedition at the High Court in Edinburgh. Former teacher John MacLean from Govan, socialist newspaper editor Walter Bell from Partick, chairman of the Clyde Workers' Committee, William Gallagher from Paisley and editor of "The Worker", John W. Muir from Maryhill were all granted bail. LINK
- Page 7 of the same newspaper trumpets: "Scotch coast raided", detailing Zeppelin bombing raids on Scotland and England.
- Page 8 of Saturday's Glasgow Herald reports "Sinn Fein trouble in Dublin" and details how a meeting of that group had broken up and the attendees had went on a rampage with one man, John Murphy being charged with breaking the lamp on a motor car. LINK
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McGregor, Dodds, Young,Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
MORTON:
Bradford, Morrison, Ormond, McIntyre, Wright, McLean, Grant, Gourlay, Buchanan, Stevenson, Seymour
Referee:
Attendance: 20,000
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald Monday, 3rd April
THE LEADERS CHECKED
It was not a matter of surprise that only four home teams should finish on the winning side, yet it bordered on the sensational to find Celtic checked at home for the first time since January 1, when Rangers shared the honour, and like Morton, were indebted as much to the misfortune of their opponents as to their own abilities. A fatal blunder by McNair denied his side a merited victory against the Govan club, and the absence of the veteran had a most unsettling influence on the other Parkhead defenders in the return fixture with Morton. An accident to McColl after 10 minutes uneventful play had a similar effect on the remaining forwards, and the outcome was a display which one rarely witnesses from the present leaders, and a few repetitions of which would make the Championship a very open question. While the Celts were battling against adversity Rangers were experimenting and winning, the win a sequel to experiment, the only goal going to the credit of the latest Ibrox recruit, and a half-back at that. The forward play of both city teams was below par, beneath notice in fact; as very poor as not to be explained away by the absence of Reid and Paterson nor the accident which befell McColl. The change from leaden skies and sodden grounds proved too much for players whose experience ought to have rendered them superior to altered conditions. If, as seems probable, the Celts have to finish their programme without McColl, or at any rate meet their immediate engagements with Falkirk and Heart of Midlothian without him, the League tournament may again deserve recognition as official and competitive, and cease to be regarded as a walk-over for the present and prospective champions.
AN UNSATISFACTORY GAME
At present the Morton forwards are credited with 81 goals in the League competition, and the defence is debited with 37, figures which rate the Greenock attack as second only to Celtic and the defence a little removed from Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, and Partick Thistle. But it is sometimes said that figures can be made to prove anything, and certainly there was little pleasing in the form of the two forward lines which stand best in the “goals for” column. There was an excuse for Celtic, bereft of McColl; none for Morton at full strength from start to finish. There was a complete lack of understanding on each side, a proneness to pass erratically and shoot wildly that was astounding, even after allowance be made for half-backs who devoted themselves to spoiling opponents, and seldom, if ever attended to their own forwards. The game degenerated into a series of rushes on goal, of desperate melees, and strenuous individual encounters. Each side seemed pleased to hold the opposition at bay; neither made the slightest attempt to play the passing game or lay siege to the other goal. Defence prevailed all through, as it was bound to do, and none did better than Dodds and Young, on one side, Ormonde, McIntyre, and McLean on the other.