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Trivia
- Celtic played this, their last game of the 1930-31 season in front of a small crowd at Celtic Park. Jimmy McGrory scored for Celtic in 13 minutes and James B. McAlpine equalised for Queen’s Park in 83 minutes. Celtic’s next game will be against a Pennsylvania select in Philidelphia, the United States of America.
- St Joseph (Michigan), April 27.—Known in Chicago as “the most dangerous man alive,” Fred Burke, killer, machine-gunner, and bank robber, was to-day sentenced to hard labour for life, the maximum sentence in Michigan, where there is no death penalty. Burke stood silent throughout his trial. The sentence was in connection with the slaying of Patrolman C. S. Kelly at St Joseph in December 1929, to which Burke pleaded guilty. The gangster had been trailed by the police ever since the diabolical massacre in a Chicago garage on February 14 (St Valentine’s Day), 1929. when seven members of “Bugs” Moran’s “North Side” gang were treacherously shot dead at point-blank range with sawed-off shot guns and machine guns operated by gangsters disguised as policemen. Burke was said to have been one of the machine-gunners, and a machine-gun found in his “hide-out” was believed to be one of those used in the massacre, Burke was finally traced by his finger-prints and arrested in bed during a dramatic raid by detectives at daybreak on a farmhouse at Milan, near Jefferson City (Missouri), on March 26 this year.—Reuter.
Review
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Teams
CELTIC:
J. Thomson, Cook, McGonagle, Whitelaw, McStay, Scarff, A. Thomson, Smith, McGrory, Napier, Hughes.
Scorers:
McGrory.
QUEEN’S PARK:
Peden, Campbell, Walker, Hosie, J Gillespie, Grant, Crawford, W. H. Bremner, McLelland, Fitzgerald, McAlpine.
Scorers:
McAlpine.
Referee: W. Bell (Motherwell).
Attendance: 6,000
Articles
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Articles
The Scotsman – Wednesday, 29th April 1931, page 17
FOOTBALL
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
CELTIC,1; QUEEN’S PARK, 1.
At Celtic Park, Glasgow, last evening, there was an attendance of 6,000 people to witness the closing League game of these teams.
Exchanges were fairly even at the start, but latterly Celtic, who were without Wilson, Geatons, and R. Thomson, took command, and McGrory ran through and scored in thirteen minutes.
After this the game became very slow and uninteresting, but improved in the second half. McGrory missed a couple of easy chances. Queen’s Park rallied and McAlpine, after a wonderful dribble beat Thomson, the game ending level.
The Queen’s Park defence was shaky, only Gillespie playing to form, and in front Crawford was badly neglected. McAlpine and Fitzgerald were their best forwards.
The Celtic played good football, but their finishing was poor.
