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Trivia
- Jack Harkness made a series of brave saves at the feet of Jimmy McGrory to deny Celtic a victory.
- Edinburgh's First Division football clubs did well on Saturday with a victory and a draw. The Hearts were unable to lay the Parkhead "bogey" and defeat the Celtic there, but did well enough to hold the Glasgow men to a goalless draw. The success of the Hibernians against Kilmarnock, recent conquerors of Celtic, was quite creditable, and their 4-1 win was thoroughly deserved. The meeting of champions and ex-champions at Fir Park saw Motherwell enjoy a narrow victory by the odd goal in three. It was Rangers' first defeat of the season, and also the first occasion on which the Motherwell men have lost a goal. Motherwell, with Queen's Park, are still the proud possessors of a 100 per cent, record.
- Leicester City, Tottenham Hotspur, and Portsmouth still head affairs in England. Wolverhampton Wanderers proved no match for Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, where Hughie Gallacher was in his most elusive mood for a Chelsea that did practically all the attacking. Other Scots featured prominently with Leicester’s goalkeeper Sandy McLaren starring by keeping a clean sheet and Danny Liddle (ex-East Fife) playing well against Manchester City. Aston Villa’s two Scottish backs, Joe Nibloe and Danny Blair gave away penalties and then Blair gave away the late winner to Spurs when he miskicked, in a 3-2 defeat. Benny Yorston, Sunderland’s Scottish centre scored a hat-trick in a 4-1 win over Stoke, while Liverpool’s centre Sam English scored against Sheffield United in a 3-2 win.
- Mr. B. E. J. Burge, District Magistrate at Midnapore, Bengal was assassinated when leaving his car to take part in a football match on Saturday. Mr Burge is the third British magistrate at Midnapore to be assassinated.
- Hitler reviewed a march-past of 100,000 Brown Shirt Storm Troopers in the morning before giving an address to a mass rally in Nuremberg in the evening.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, McGonagle, Wilson, McStay, Hughes, Crum, Buchan, McGrory, Napier, Connor.
Scorers:
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN:
Harkness, Anderson, McClure, Massie, J. Johnston, Herd, R. Johnstone, Walker, White, Smith, Murray.
Scorers:
Referee: M. Watson (Glasgow).
Attendance: 20,000
Articles
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Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 4th September 1933, page 4
HEARTS DRAW WITH CELTIC
A goalless draw was a good result to the exceptionally hard game provided by Celtic and the Heart of Midlothian at Parkhead, Glasgow, where the forwards on both sides missed many chances.
In the case of the Celtic, the makeshift wing men were at fault in the closing minutes, while Harkness in the Tynceastle goal, gave a brilliant display at a testing time. It was otherwise with the Hearts, for the defence stood up wonderfully to the Celtic onslaught, and had the Tynecastle forwards shown any enterprise the game would have been won for them; though possibly against the run of play.
As it was, the Ednburgh side, with such a weakness in front, were possibly quite pleased to wrest a point from an improved Celtic side, and there were other features which must have pleased both clubs. Young players were given a chance, and in practically every case came through with flying colours McClure, the Hearts' full back from Parkhead Juniors, was outstanding, and showed resource and coolness in some very hot exchanges, while Walker was again the liveliest forward.
Celtic had an improved display from Hogg at right back, and Buchan continued to show great promise at inside-right. The game itself, if necessarily of a scrappy nature, was full of excitement. The Edinburgh men made the better start, but though McGrory was somewhat neglected for a time and very well watched by J. A. Johnston, some foraging on his own led to strong Celtic pressure, during which Harkness made half a dozen brilliant saves by diving at the centre's feet, and in particular, turning away a tremendous free-kick taken by Napier.
At the interval the Tynecastle men were undoubtedly somewhat fortunate to be on level terms, but they improved in the second period as a result of promptings from the wing half-backs, Massie and Herd. The forwards however, were slow and unsettled, and fell easy victims to a solid defence, and it was again Harkness who had most work to do. The goalkeeper should have been, beaten when McGrory enticed him from his charge and then sent past, while Crum and Connor both skied the ball from short range in the closing minutes, which were even more hotly contested, and provided thrills to the last minute for a crowd of some 17,000.
Apart from, the promising younger men on view, Celtic were best served by McGonagle, McStay, and McGrory, and Hearts by Harkness, of course, J. A. Johnston, and Massie.
