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Trivia
- Celtic's opening goal was scored in 4 minutes by Willie Lyon then two goals each from Delaney and Divers put the game beyond Queen's who scored through Smith with two minutes remaining. Celtic were reduced to ten men for much of the game through injury to Murphy.
- Celtic had four players on International duty at Belfast on Saturday 8th March, and go top after this, re-scheduled, Wednesday match.
- Paterson, Delaney (Scorer, 34 min), Crum and Divers had played in the 0-2 victory over Ireland on the Saturday at Windsor Park, but Jimmy Delaney had saved a few goals for this league game.
- In Belfast the Irish hero was Manchester United goalkeeper Tommy Breen and Jimmy McAlinden of Belfast Celtic was the only non-Anglo in the Ireland side.
- Japanese invade China.
- Findlater's Fino Sherry–pale sherry perfection–advertised at 5/3 a bottle, 63/- (£3.15) a dozen bottles.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, Morrison, Geatons, Lyon, Paterson, Delaney, MacDonald, Crum, Divers, Murphy.
Scorers:
Lyon, Delaney, (2); Divers, (2).
QUEEN OF THE SOUTH:
Mathieson, Savage, Anderson, Fitzsimmons, Bruce, McPherson, Dawson, Smith, Hay, Law, Lang.
Scorers:
Smith.
Referee: J. Henderson (Kirkcaldy).
Attendance: 14,000
Articles
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Articles
The Scotsman – Thursday, 13th October 1938, page 17
CELTIC REGAIN LEAGUE LEADERSHIP
QUEEN OF THE S0UTH WELL BEATEN
DEFENSIVE LAPSES
CELTIC, 5; QUEEN OF THE SOUTH, I.
Celtic; the champions regained the Scottish First Division League leadership with a good win by five goals to one over Queen of the South in their postponed match at Celtic Park, Glasgow, yesterday. The topmost positions now read.—
P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts.
Celtic……………………………11 8 2 1 46 12 17
Rangers………………………. 11 6 1 4 40 23 16
Queen of the South……………11 7 3 1 25 24 15
The Dumfries club have a remarkable record of success, over Celtic but yesterday suffered early blows from which they could not recover.
Within four minutes of the start, a simple infringement gave Celtic a penalty award which Lyon turned to advantage, and a minute later a dashing raid finished with a smart goal by Delaney.
Again, in the second half, Celtic struck quickly, Divers taking advantage of a defensive lapse to score within a minute. Delaney got a fourth goal from another defensive misunderstanding before Smith scored for Queen of the South, and in the last minute Divers scored again.
CELTIC FLATTERED
Celtic were undoubtedly flattered by the score, but against Weir good fortune must be placed the fact that Murphy, their outside left, was injured early on and although resuming found a pulled muscle such a handicap that he had to go off for good early in the second half.
Queen of the South were indeed no match for the champions in defence. Blunders in the rear lines led, first, to the penalty, which had a big influence upon the run of play, and to the second half goals by Divers and Delaney.
Slips were easily made, of course, on a heavy, treacherous surface. The Queen's forwards, however, did well in face of relentless Celtic tackling. Lang, the former Newcastle United player, was in particularly fine form at outside left without, however, impressing as a marksman.
Actually all were a trifle dispirited from the early blows and many clever moves came to nothing because of a lack of punch.
Along with Lang, Smith and Law, the two inside wing forwards, were the best of the losers.
DELANEY IN FORM
Celtic's greatest merit lay in the fact that they were playing a man short for a great part of the time. The full backs, Hogg and Morrison were very safe, however and the inside, forward trio occasionally struck up a profitable, interchanging game. Yet Delaney, at outside right, was the outstanding performer. The internationalist's disconcerting dashes into the centre of the field were almost invariably successful against a defence with positional weaknesses.
It was the absence of Delaney and the three other Celts, capped for the Belfast international, that led to the match being postponed from Saturday. This proved to be a financial blow, because the match was played in a downpour of rain yesterday, and fewer than 10000 spectators attended. They saw a rather drab encounter, for Celtic were by no means at their, best, and the early goals settled the issue-just too soon.
