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Trivia
- On a slippery pitch Johnny Torbet got Thistle off to a good start with a goal in 9 minutes. The "Golden Crust" of McGory equalised within 9 minutes of the restart and ten minutes from time Bertie Thomson got the controversial winner.
- Robert "Bertie" Thomson's scored Celtic's second, and winning goal with a shot that hit one post then the other and back into play having curved into the goal between the posts.
- In the Scottish Cup the outstanding happening was the defeat of the Cup-holders Rangers by Kilmarnock, the runners-up of last season. That was not generally expected, though it was agreed all round that the Rangers would have a hard task at the Ayrshire town. Kilmarnock got a goal by William Liddell, their outside right, in the first half, and held on to their advantage stubbornly, though often hard pressed.
- Nothing startling happened in the English cup ties. Bolton Wanderers at home and Leeds United and Blackpool away were losers, they fell to Manchester City, Everton, and Sunderland respectively. Middlesbrough drew at home to Birmingham, and have probably lost their chance of going further. In the English League Sunderland played Blackpool in a blinding snowstorm and the only goal was scored by Bob Gurney, heading home a Jimmy Connor corner kick.
- James John “Gentleman Jim” Corbett died aged 66 years in New York City. Corbett graduated from Sacred Heart High in San Franciso and worked as a clerk and on the stage before taking up boxing. He was credited with taking boxing from the prizefighting brawl to an art form, the sport of gentlemen. In 1892, he famously beat the world champion heavyweight John L. Sullivan in the 21st round at New Orleans to take the title.
- Royal Mail Lines Ltd. are advertising Mediterranean cruises on the Atlantis costing between 24 Guineas for 14 days, and 48 Guineas for 27 days. Cruises for the Atlantic Islands are priced at 14 Guineas for 24 days.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Wallace, Hogg, McGonagle, Wilson, McStay, Hughes, R. Thomson, A. Thomson, McGrory, Napier, H. O’Donnell.
Scorers:
McGrory, R. Thomson.
PARTICK THISTLE:
Jackson, Calderwood, Cumming, Elliott, Donnelly, McLeod, Ness, McMillan, Craigie, Ballantyne, Torbet.
Scorers:
Torbet
Referee: T. Dougray (Burnside).
Attendance: 55,595
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 20th February 1933, page 15
CELTIC HAVE LITTLE TO SPARE
At Celtic Park, Glasgow, before an attendance of 55,600, the Celtic gained the narrowest of victories over Partick Thistle.
The ground was greasy on the top and the players found it hard to keep their balance, particularly at the beginning of the game. With a strong wind behind them, the Thistle had the better of the early exchanges and the open game they adopted caused the Celtic defence a considerable amount of worry.
Ballantyne, and McMillan gave their wingers splendid service and but for excellent defence all round, and of McStay and McGonagle in particular several goals would have been obtained. As it was, the Thistle opened the scoring in nine minutes. Ness sent over the ball, which Torbet eventually got to score, and Wallace, the Celtic goalkeeper, was not blameless.
The home attack was not moving with its usual freedom, and that was principally due to the weakness of R. Thomson, whose efforts to beat Cumming were particularly crude. He displayed no variety in his work. Craigie the new Thistle centre-forward from East Stirlingshire played well enough in the open, but was weak at goal. He missed a great chance when Ness presented him with the ball in front of an unoccupied goal. Jackson had a few good saves, but had not much to do.
The Celts were well held in the first half.
Starting the second period a goal behind, the Celtic were soon hammering the visitors' defence, and succeeded in equalising in eight minutes, McGrory heading through from a perfect lob by Wilson. It seemed as if the Celts were to go ahead easily, but somehow they failed to finish off their otherwise good work, although they went very near to getting goals on many occasions.
Ballantyne pulled a muscle, and that handicapped the visitors, who, however, made a plucky fight. Ten minutes from the finish McGrory headed-the ball over to R. Thomson, who shot hard for goal. The ball struck first one post and then the other to curl in and out again and the referee held that the ball had been over the line. It was a curious goal.
There was little between the sides. The Celtic recovered splendidly after being in arrears, and the Thistle are to be sympathised with in having Ballantyne hurt half-way through the second half, when the result was in doubt. The game was conducted in a fine sporting spirit.
