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Trivia
- In this Wednesday-evening match a Charlie Napier goal in ten minutes, and Peter Scarff's five-star display more than compensated for the absence of the injured McGrory.
- There was an incident at Ayr where the visitors Motherwell won. It resulted in Andy McCall, Ayr's left-half being ordered off for an incident with John McMenemy, and there then followed a demonstration against the referee, who appealed to the Ayr directors, two of whom remonstrated with a section of the crowd.
- Preliminary to the meeting of the Council of the Scottish Football Association in Glasgow yesterday afternoon, the formal ceremony of opening the Association's reconstructed premise at Carlton Place was performed by the president Mr Robert Campbell, Perth. Mr Campbell opened the door to the remodelled Council Chamber with a gold key presented to him, on behalf of the contractors, by Mr James Fleming, Paisley, vice-president of the Association. The key was suitably inscribed on one side, while on the other it bore the word, "Progress," and the souvenir was afterwards presented by Mr Campbell to be preserved in the Association's rooms.
- The Union Jack has been struck for the last time on two ships of the British Navy which, though they are not mighty cruisers, and had no great guns mounted on their decks, are nevertheless famous fighters, says Reuter's Shanghai correspondent. The ships are the river gunboats Widgeon and Teal, which for 30 years have been up and down the 1,000 navigable miles of the Yangtze River protecting British steamers, British lives, and British commerce. The Widgeon and Teal are now at Shanghai offered for sale.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
J. Thomson, Cook, McGonagle, Wilson, McStay, Geatons, R. Thomson, A. Thomson, Scarff, Napier, Whitney.
Scorers:
Napier, Scarff, (2).
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN:
Harkness, Anderson, O’Neill, Massie, J. Johnston, Bennie, R. Johnstone, J. White, Battles, Smith, Murray.
Scorers:
Referee: J. Hudson (Glasgow).
Attendance: 20,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
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Articles
The Scotsman – Thursday, 20th August 1931, page 12
CELTIC EASY WINNERS
HEARTS OUTPLAYED
The Heart of Midlothian had their first real test against the Celtic at Parkhead, Glasgow, and they came out of it badly. They lost by three goal to nothing, and the margin was not too wide a one on the run of the game.
The Edinburgh team disappointed. Man for man the Celtic were superior, and their team play was very much better.
Despite bad weather, there was an attendance of over 20,000. The ground was very soft, and, if the rain held off for most of the first, half, it was very wet in the second, and particularly just before the end.
The Celtic suited themselves well to the conditions, and though they had to take the field without McGrory, their centre-forward, he was never missed, so well did Scarff perform as his substitute. Geatons, who came in at left-half, also did well.
From the start the Celtic were masters of the match, and the Hearts' goal had some narrow escapes before Napier opened the scoring ten minutes from the kick-off. It was Scarff who made the goal possible, and he got the second after half an hour's play, receiving the ball from R. Thomson.
On both occasions the Hearts' defenders were out of position, and the scorer was unattended. Harkness had no chance to save either shot.
Scarff narrowly failed again when he had no one to beat but Harkness and struck a post with his effort. From the time the Celtic started their scoring there was little hope for the Hearts.
BATTLES'S EFFORT
Almost the only time they looked like getting a goal was when Battles took up a ball from Murray and drove it into goal. Thomson was fortunate to be on the spot, and saved well when lying on the ground. That was the Hearts' one real chance of the first half.
They had more in the second. Murray was almost through once then, and Battles had a good try. The best chance of all fell to White, who shot wildly over when well placed to beat Thomson.
Napier had two fine drives for goal which Harkness saved in great style. It was not until the closing minutes that the Celtic got their third goal. Scarff meandered his way through the defence and shot the ball home well out of the reach of Harkness.
The Hearts were poorly served at inside forward. Battles hardly got an opportunity to shoot, and the wing men, notably R. Johnstone, were little in the game.
The half-backs had too much work to be able to help their forwards. J. A. Johnston did a lot of hard defending, and Bennie struggled hard and well against the best wing on the field, the two Thomsons, until he was hurt just before the interval. Massie was the one who did most for the men in front of him, but there was little or no response.
The backs were often out of position, and they and the halves found the Celtic men too clever for them. Seldom did a Celtic pass go wrong, and that could not be said of the Hearts' men. More often than not they sent the ball to opponents.
The Hearts were really outclassed by a cleverer side, and that both in attack and defence.
The feature of the Celtic game was the way each man kept his place and played to his colleagues. Their combined work was most effective, and there were times, and especially in the second half, when they were “playing with” their opponents.
