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Trivia
- Martin opened the scoring for Queen's Park in 12 minutes, but a minute later Jimmy McGrory equalises, then in 24 minutes William Martin (Holds the record for goals scored in a season for Queen's Park) makes it two, only for MacDonald to level the scores. In the second half Crum puts the Celtic in front then an own-goal by R. G. D. Gordon made the score 4-1. Kyle reduced the defecit for Queen's on 75 minutes.
- In this game James Edward McGrory scored his last goal for Celtic. Coincidentaly Jimmy also scored his first goal in a 4-3 scoreline and he also opened the scoring that day, on the 3rd of February, 1923. But it was in an away defeat at Kilmarnock that the great man began his record goalscoring run.
- With this win – gained without the services of Delaney and Lyon – Celtic moved up to fourth place in the table.
- In England McCulloch scored four goals for Brentford in their 5-2 win over Charlton and other Scots dominated the Fist Division with Chelsea’s young winger Peter Buchanan starring in a 2-0 victory at Blackpool.
- At Bolton Frank O’Donnell scored two and fellow Scots Mutch and Maxwell added the other goals in Preston’s 1-4 away victory. Another Scot, Beattie was Preston’s star man.
- A man accused of spreading Communist propaganda in the town of Empoli in Italy was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. The man Osvaldo Negarville was described as an anti-Fascist by the Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State.
- London Midland & Scottish Railways advertise special excursion return fares for the Blackpool Illuminations of 11/6d (57P).
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, Morrison, Geatons, Millar, Paterson, Crum, MacDonald, McGrory, Buchan, Murphy.
Scorers:
McGrory, MacDonald, Crum, O.G.
QUEEN’S PARK:
Desmond White, Campbell, Gordon, Buchanan, Cross, Rae, Duncan, Kyle, Martin, Christie, Kinghorn.
Scorers:
Martin, (2); Kyle.
Referee: M. C. Hutton (Glasgow).
Attendance: 12,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
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Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 18th October 1937, page 5
AMATEURS FIGHT AN ODD GOAL DEFEAT AT PARKHEAD
MARTIN SCORES TWICE
Celtic won their match with Queen’s Park only by a narrow margin after a dour struggle.
Celts should have had Queen's down and out long before the final whistle, but they frittered away scoring opportunities, and, in the end, were a shade fortunate not to lose a point. The amateurs started off in hurricane fashion, and after twelve minutes play Martin smashed the ball past Kennaway to put the visitors on the lead. One minute afterwards McGrory snapped up a pass from Buchan and beat White to level the scores.
Queen's faded a bit and Celts dictated matters for a spell, but when the next goal came, it was the amateurs who scored. Some loose play out on the right gave Buchanan possession, and, chased by McGrory, he veered well out before crossing high into goal. Martin rose to it and from a seemingly impossible angle screwed the ball into the corner of the net.
Staggered by this reverse, Celts hammered away at Queen's goal and McDonald equalised with a smart shot. Midway through the second half Crum dashed in to put Celts ahead for the first time in the game. This goal followed a terrific spell of pressure by Celts. Two minutes later Gordon was unfortunate to put the ball into his own goal in a desperate endeavour to clear a Murphy shot.
With fifteen minutes to go, however, the amateurs rallied and from a corner kick Kyle reduced the leeway.
White excelled for Queen's, with good support from Campbell and Cross. Martin shaped well at centre, with Christie good, but too impetuous. Celtic's best were Hogg, Patterson, and McGrory. Crum was a capable deputy at outside right.
The attendance was 12,000.
"McGrory appeared to concentrate too much on making openings for McDonald and Buchan, and although his scheming was always full of subtlety his methods were inclined to hold up the attack.
White fumbled a ball from Crum to allow McGrory to head through Celtic's first score" [And McGrory's last in a long line that started in Feb 1923 when he scored his first goal for Celtic].