1939-04-22: Celtic 1-1 St Johnstone, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • Outside-right Johnny Crum equalises a goal scored by inside-right Howie of St. Johnstone in 2 minutes.
  • 94,000 spectators see Clyde beat Motherwell 4-0 at Hampden to lift the Scottish Cup for the first time. Clyde are managed by ex-Celtic player Paddy Travers.
  • The community singing before the game included that old Scots favourite “The Lambeth Walk”.
  • Cup-Final gate receipts estimated at £10,000.
  • A Jewish strike was called in Haifa in protest at the actions of the authorities in ordering two ships, the Greek steamer Assimi, and the schooner Conestrio back to sea. The ships arrived with 400 illegal Jewish immigrants from Europe. Demonstrators threw stones at British police in Haifa and other protest demonstrations took place in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
  • On 18th Apr 1939, a Celtic XI played v Glasgow Shopkeepers Select for a charity match. Played on 18/04/1939 although billed as Celtic v Glasgow Shopkeepers it was in effect a Celtic XI consisting of some Celtic first teamers and trialists including the fantastically named Kinnaird Oucherlonie (Lochee Harp) who scored in a 4-2 victory to Celtic. A charity match for the Shopkeepers Association.

Review

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Teams

CELTIC :
Kennaway, Hogg, Morrison, MacDonald, Lyon, Paterson, Crum, Anderson, Carruth, Divers, Murphy.
Scorers:
Crum.

ST. JOHNSTONE:
Wylie, Welsh, Hiddleston, Mathers, Moulds, Smellie, Tennant, Howie, Lorimer, Simpson, Cook.
Scorers:
Howie.

Referee: M. C. Hutton (Glasgow).
Attendance: 6,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

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Articles

The Glasgow Herald, April 24, 1939

CELTIC’S EARLY SET-BACK

CRUM’S FIRST GOAL SINCE NOVEMBER

Celtic,1; St. Johnstone, 1.

A goal scored by Howie for St. Johnstone in two minutes almost took the wind out of Celtic’s sails at Parkhead. In the end they saved a point – they would have been unfortunate not to have done so, as Murphy failed to convert a penalty in the first half prior to Crum equalising.

A very spectacular goal Crum’s was. Hogg took a free-kick from outside his own penalty area, Divers connected and headed forward, and as Wylie was about to save, Crum darted in and with his head turned the ball away from the advancing goalkeeper.

An overdue goal it was, too, from the erstwhile Celtic leader, this being his first since November in 12 appearances.

But St. Johnstone suffered a handicap in the second half before Crum scored, Smellie, their left-half, being injured after a prolonged absence returning to play at outside left in an obviously unfit condition.

The Perth club revealed the better combined forward action, and if Tennant and Cook had employed the quick cut-in to the promptings of Mathers and Howie and Smellie and Simpson St. Johnstone might have won.

Celtic had a man of direct action in Divers and a powerful worker in Carruth, but Wylie and Moulds had a counter for both.