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Trivia
- This was to be the last peace-time league match played at Celtic Park, though there were no signs of the looming war with Germany, which would take the lives of many, including the scorer of Rovers’ goal, George McLay who, tragically, was to end his life “hanging on the old barbed wire” at Poelcapelle when taking part in the push for Passchendale.
- George McLay was from the small Fife mining village of Glencraig where no doubt his path would have crossed that of fellow Fifer, Peter Johnstone who had once worked in Glencraig as a miner before marrying a local publican’s daughter and turning professional footballer with Celtic who signed him from Glencraig Celtic Juniors, a team that the young George McLay had also played for. In the small village of Glencraig where Peter and George lived they would have known each other and when they faced each other in opposition on the park in this game they may have tackled one another. But they both tackled a bigger battle later when they joined the army to fight in World War One. The coincidences in their lives continued along a tragic path when both, aged 28, died in action in 1917. Neither body was recovered for individual burial and the Celt is honoured on the Arras memorial while the Rover is remembered on the Tyne Cot memorial.
- The Royal Navy’s 4th Torpedo Flotilla consisting of a depot ship and 11 destroyers has arrived in Irish waters from Lamlash to patrol the Irish coast following the recent gun-running incident when a large quantity of rifles and ammunition was smuggled in and distributed to the Ulster Volunteer Force.
- Martial law has been declared in Boulder County, Colorado following the dispatch of Federal Cavalry from Fort Russell and the arrest of strike leaders in the mining dispute which culminated in the Ludlow Massacre when a tent city of strikers was set on fire by Colorado state troopers and security guards of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co . One prominent leader, Mr Upton Sinclair was brought before Governor Ammons and released after promising no further resistance to state troops. Sporadic exchanges of firing between strikers and state troopers continues.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Goals: Gallacher (2).
RAITH ROVERS:
Wallace, Winning, Morrison, Logan, McLay, Porter, Scott, Waugh, Rattray, Anderson, Gibson
Scorer: McLay
Referee: M. Humphrey, (Glasgow).
Attendance: 4,000
Articles
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Articles
Glasgow Herald, Thursday, 30th April, 1914.
Celtic, although playing against a strong wind, were prominent during the early stages of the first half. For five minutes the Rovers had to act almost entirely on the defensive. Against the run and a shot by Rattray, the Celtic had quite half a dozen taken. McColl and Young shot past, while McAtee forced a corner which resulted in McMaster also sending narrowly over the crossbar.
The Rovers gradually assumed a grip of the game and Shaw had to save from Anderson and Scott. Following a fine effort by McAtee, Rattray ran through between the home backs and tested Shaw with a long drive.
The Rovers continued to have the better of the exchanges and after Gibson had missed a good opening Scott forced Dodds to concede a corner. The Rovers outside right placed the ball finely in front of goal for McLay to beat Shaw with an unstoppable shot.
Celtic then attacked but their forwards finished weakly. Three successive corner kicks brought no advantage, the visitors’ backs clearing two of them, while McColl failed to score with the third. Raith Rovers’ forwards opened up the game and for a time they looked like adding to their score.
Ten minutes from the interval, Gallagher accepted a pass from Browning, and from close range easily beat Wallace. Afterwards Shaw cleared from a corner kick, while McAtee struck Wallace with a fast drive. Half time, Celtic, 1; Raith Rovers, 1.
The visitors resumed strongly, Anderson heading in for Shaw to tip the ball over the crossbar. The corner kick brought no advantage. After Waugh had shot over the Celts took the game in hand and for 15 minutes attacked persistently. Browning from a pass by Young missed an open goal, but Gallagher made amends by placing, rather than shooting, the ball past Wallace after cleverly tricking McLay and Morrison.
The subsequent play favoured the home team, although Rattray missed the best scoring chance of the game to equalise.
Celtic on the run of the play, won deservedly. The Rovers were most effective in the first half but after the interval were seldom dangerous.
Goal-scorers, Celtic, Gallagher; (2), Raith Rovers, McLay.