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Trivia
- The Brooklyn Wanderers have Cowcaddens-born ex-Celt William “Mighty Atom” Crilley at centre-forward to play against his old team-mates including fellow Glasgow-boy, Jimmy McGrory, who broke his jaw in a clash with Johnny Pentland the Wanderer’s goalkeeper, and left the field after 70 minutes. Willie Hughes floored Deszo Grosz the Hungarian full-back, and this threatened to spark trouble but the referee nipped it in the bud.
- Defender Alexander Wood of the Wanderers, is a Lochgelly lad and was a 1930 World Cup winner of third place with the USA team in Uruguay, and his team-mate James Brown (whose brother John was capped for Scotland) scored against Argentina, the beaten finalists in that competition.
- Also facing Celtic this day was Edinburgh-born James “Jimmy” McGuire a Scottish schoolboy international who came to the US aged about 16 and returned to Scotland after the tour and signed with Celtic. Jimmy did not make the break-through into the first team and went to England where he played for Northampton Town before returning to the US where he played for Brooklyn St. Mary’s Celtic. Later Jimmy managed the USA team that was beated 6-0 by Scotland in front of a crowd of 108,000 at Hampden in 1952. This international was promoted by Erno Schwartz who played for Carsteel against Celtic in this tour. Jimmy McGuire got over the heavy defeat at Hampden and went on to become president of the U.S.F.A. and a committee member of F.I.F.A. World Cup committee. [See Match Pictures]
- People in all parts of the British Isles were awakened from sleep in the early hours of Saturday June 7th by earth tremors that were felt in varying degrees all over. Some of the earthquake shocks were of exceptional intensity and shook houses so that pictures fell off the wall and slates fell from roofs. The shocks happened at about 1.25 am and lasted for half an hour. The origin is thought to have been an earthquake deep under the North Sea.
Review
See also Celtic Wiki Biog for James McGuire
Willie Maley wrote in his book “The Story of The Celtic” (1938), “After our reverse at Pawtucket the players seemed to get the hang of things as on the following day they beat Brooklyn by 5-0,”
Teams
BROOKLYN WANDERERS:
Johnny Pentland, Deszo Grosz, Alex Wood, Willie “Red” Ballantyne, Jimmy McGuire, Pepi Schneider, James Brown, Leslie Lyell, Willie Crilley, Jimmy Wardrop, Josef Eisenhoffer.
CELTIC:
J. Thomson, Whitelaw, McGonagle, Wilson, McStay, Scarff, R. Thomson, A. Thomson, McGrory, Napier, Hughes.
Scorers:
Scarff, R. Thomson, A. Thomson, McGrory, (2).
Referee: George Lamble.
Attendance: 10,000
Venue: Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York.
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Brooklyn Celtics, who are making a bid for the New York State Cup and will play the semi-final next Sunday, defeated the New York Edison Company Eleven by 3 to 1 in the preliminary game.
The first half of the main game was bitterly contested, the Celtics getting four corners and the Wanderers three. At half time the Celtics led by 1 – 0, the result of a spectacular goal by James McGrory, their brilliant centre forward. He repeated early in the second half, but was subsequently hurt in a scrimmage and was quit of the game for the remaining twenty minutes.
McGrory Scores Again.
Ten minutes after the second half had started R. Thomson executed a brilliant run down the right wing, passing to McGrory. The latter dodged Wood and reached the inside of the net for the second goal of the game. From then on it was give and take. J. Thomson, the Celtic goalie, took care of everything that came his way in faultless style.
At twenty-five minutes McGrory, in a jam before the Brooklyn goal, received a jolt in the jaw that compelled him to leave the game. From then on the Celtics played with ten men.
Five minutes later, Glasgow gained the first corner of the second half on the left. Hughes floored Grosz and trouble seemed to be threatening, but it was nipped in the bud.
Scarff Makes Third Goal
Play was continued and, after a series of fouls, Scarff shot the third goal from a pass by A. Thomson. R. Thomson with a drive of twenty yards, increased the Celtics’ lead to 4-0. Thomson accounted for the fifth with a similar drive two minutes from full time. New York Times.
