1905-03-11: Kilmarnock 1-1 Celtic, Benefit Match

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Bernard ‘Barney’ Battles
Benefit match for ‘Barney’ Battles’ family.
£40 raised for Mrs Battles. MacLeod, Young, Bennett and Quinn playing for Scottish League in 2-2 draw v English League at Hampden.
Saturday March 18 1905 MacLeod, Hay, McMenemy, Quinn and Somers all playing for Scotland in 4-0 defeat of Ireland at Celtic Park

Review

Benefit held for the great ex-Celt Barney Battles who sadly passed away prematurely.

Barney Battles had gone down with influenza after playing in a League match at Ibrox on 21 January 1905. He felt well enough to watch a Scottish Cup tie against Beith the next week, but the flu developed into pneumonia and he died suddenly at home in Glasgow’s Gallowgate on 9 February 1905, at the young age of thirty.

A cortège of 2000 with another reported 40,000 people lined the route to Dalbeth cemetery to pay tribute to this hugely popular player. He is buried in lair 412, Section 31.

Barney Battles had a wife and young daughters and was probably unaware that his wife was pregnant again. This child, a boy named after Barney Battles, would emulate the father he never knew by growing up to play for Hearts and Scotland.

In 1966, Barney Junior presented his father’s 1895/96 Championship gold medal to Celtic manager Jock Stein.

Barney Battles junior was born posthumously and himself fathered a son on Feb. 28th 1940.

Teams

Kilmarnock:
Gordon, Main and Fairfoull; Banks, Crichton and McDonald; Maxwell, Hendron, Graham, Blair and Morton
Scorers: Graham

Celtic:
Adams, Watson and Orr; F McLean, Loney and A McNair; D McLean, McMenemy, Somers, McIlvenny, W McNair
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Referee:
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1905-03-11: Kilmarnock 1-1 Celtic, Benefit Match