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Trivia
- Port Glasgow's Hughie Smith makes his debut for the Celtic first-team and impresses observers by scoring the opener in 5 minutes. Bertie Thomson, Peter Scarff, (3); and McGrory were the other scorers in an easy win. John F. Dudgeon was in goals in place of the injured George Blyth and put up a good show in the circumstances.
- Only four teams remain undefeated in the Scottish First Division, Rangers and Hamilton have maximum points from their three games played and are on 6 points followed by Motherwell and Falkirk with 5 then four teams, including Celtic on 4 points. East Fife are bottom without a point.
- The Empire Games concluded in Hamilton Ontario. In the boxing England swept the boards, winning five of the eight gold medals. The others went to Scotland (James Rolland, Lightweight), and South Africa, (2). The next Empire Games will be held in South Africa in 1934.
- There is no sign of a settlement in the Clackmannan mining dispute with the owners having closed the Brucefield Colliery until the workers are prepared to accept a reduction in wages. Wage reductions have been enforced in several mines including the Lassodie Pit, in Fife owned by Thomas Spowart & Sons Ltd.
- 60,000 people attended a ceremony at the Carfin Grotto where a full-sized statue of Saint Patrick was unveiled by Mr Joseph Devlin MP.
- The Provincial Grand Lodge of Ayrshire consecrated a new Masonic Temple erected by Lodge Dailly Fergusson (St James 566).
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
J. Thomson, Cook, McGonagle, Wilson, McStay, Robertson, R. Thomson, Smith, Scarff, Napier, Tierney.
Scorers:
Smith, R. Thomson, Scarf, (3); McStay.
HIBERNIAN:
Dudgeon, Wilkinson, W. Lauder, Gilfeather, Dick, McFarlane, Brown, Clelland, Dobson, T. Lauder, Bradley.
Scorers:
Referee: J. Thomson (Hamilton).
Attendance: 9,000
Articles
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Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 25th August 1930, page 3
CELTIC SC0RE SIX TIMES.
The Hibernians had a bad time at Parkhead where they were beaten by six clear goals. They had to take the field without, Blyth, their regular goalkeeper, who had injured an ankle in a midweek game. His place was taken by Dudgeon who had only been signed during the week from a juvenile club, Tynecastle Rangers.
Though beaten six times, the lad played a good game. The fact was that the Celtic team were far too good for their opponents, especially in front of the goal and also in warding off their opponents attacks. Their positional play in a game that was mostly running in their favour was almost ideal. Tierney and Napier were perhaps a little selfish, but Smith from Port-Glasgow Juniors, who played at inside-right, was very good.
The Hibernian wings, Brown and Clelland and Bradley and T. Lauder did good work in the open and kept the Celtic defenders watching them, but they parted weakly or held on too long, while McStay kept Dobson out of the game.
The ease with which Celtic got their goals tempted them to indulge in close work, and they were inclined to overdo it, but their exhibition, seeing the result was assured, pleased their followers.
Smith opened the scoring in five minutes, R. Thomson got the second 21 minutes later, and in other seven Scarff had raised' the score to 3—0, at which it stood at half-time.
Nine minutes after resuming Scarff got another. It took twenty minutes to bring out the fifth—a long speculator by McStay, who looked surprised to find he had scored; and ten minutes from the close Scarff got his third goal and made the total six.
It was a really enjoyable game for the majority of the 9,000 spectators, who saw Celtic reproduce something like the old-time team play.
