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Trivia
- The Glasgow Herald Home News is dominated with Irish affairs including a report of ambushes by Loyalist mobs on the three trains taking released internees from Ballykinlar Camp to Dublin. LINK
- Elsewhere in the Herald a report of a peace treaty between Great Britain and Afghanistan.
- The Herald also carries an article by H. G. Wells entitled Coloured People and Washington. The Problem of Africa in which he says the importation of African negroes into Europe to fight wars is as bad as the slave trade to America for econmic purposes.
Review
A lacklustre Celtic, missing centre forward Tommy McInally, are lucky to escape with a point away to Ayr.
Teams
AYR UNITED: George Nisbet, Smith, Philip McCloy, James Hogg, McLeod, William M. Gibson, Kilpatrick, Low, Harry Cunningham, Donald Slade, McLean
CELTIC: Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Gilchrist, Cringan, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, Craig, Cassidy ,McLean.
Referee: J. A. Martin (Clydebank)
Attendance: 9000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
Match report from The Scotsman, 12th December 1921
[…] Celtic narrowly escaped defeat at Ayr where a somewhat experimental Ayr United team divided the poits. Kilpatrick, Dundee, and McLean, a Troon junior, occupied the extreme positions in the Ayr frontline, which had to be rearranged because of the illness of two players. Celtic missed McInally at centre forward, Craig making but a poor substitute for him. Twice in the course of the game shots from Cunningham and Low rattled the crossbar. Chances were missed on both sides, and the fact that a goalless draw was the result is due in large measures to the sterling play of the backs on the respective sides. McNair was as cool and cute as ever, and in the closing stages he it was that staved off defeat. Smith and Hogg rose to the occasion in the Ayr defence. Kilpatrick acquitted himself creditably in the attack, which, contrary to expectation, often harassed the Celts. Several players were injured during the game, and McLeod the home centre-half, was assisted to the pavilion ten minutes from the close.
The Glasgow Herald – Dec 12, 1921
Ayr United were not so well situated as they would have liked to be for the meeting with Celtic, who were defeated on the occasion of their last visit to Ayr. Injuries to players placed the local team at a disadvantage, and when they were compelled to introduce two new forwards against opponents so formidable it looked like courting defeat. The two recruits, Kilpatrick (Dundee) and McLean (an Ayrshire junior) carried themselves with credit and shared with their new colleagues in the meritorious division of the points which Ayr United forced upon their visitors. Celtic restored Dodds at back, but were without McInally, and the disorganisation of the attack caused by the centre forward’s absence was so manifest that further rumours of his transference to an English club will find credence. McNair and Shaw were as usual conspicuous in defence for Celtic, who were a shade fortunate on the general run of play to escaped defeat.