1934-04-28: St Mirren 1-2 Celtic, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • Fifers, Frank O'Donnell and Chic Geatons put Celtic 2-0 up in the first-half and Jimmy McGregor gets a consolation goal for St. Mirren in 70 minutes.
  • On Saturday the concluding football games took place in Scotland. Despite their victory over Partick Thistle, Third Lanark found themselves as Cowdenbeath's comrades in misfortune, and will appear in the Second Division next season. Airdrie saved themselves by a draw with Ayr United. The championship of the Second Division was won by Albion Rovers, and they have earned promotion along with Dunfermline Athletic.
  • In England Arsenal are again champions and Manchester City came from being a goal down to beat Portsmouth in the 1934 F.A. Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. 93,258 people watched the game and receipts were £24,950.
  • The Manchester City and Portsmouth teams that contested the F.A. Cup had Scots on show, Bellshill-born Matt Busby and Bowhill-born Fifer Alex Herd for City, while Portsmouth had Townhill-born Jock Gilfillan in goal, Jimmy Nichol, and Brechin-born Jimmy Easson.
  • For taking part in a mob attack on the police on a Saturday night disturbance at Glasgow Cross, James Barton, (21) was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and Elizabeth Black, (23) was sent to prison for 50 days at Glasgow Central Police Court on Saturday. It was stated that the police were subjected to the wildest opposition when they arrested a man, and had to draw their, batons against the ferocity of Barton, who, while in custody deliberately put his foot through a shop-window. The female accused was also outrageous, and belaboured an officer with a shoe. The conduct of the accused and the rest of the crowd had resulted in damage to property approaching £100.
  • A letter to the editor of the Glasgow Herald regarding the North Kelvin Municipal elections, lauds Glasgow Councillor Alexander Ratcliffe of the Scottish Protestant League and his colleagues, who were, the writer says, returned to the Town Council because "they declaimed against the privileges given to the Roman Catholics at the expense of the Protestant ratepayers, and pledged themselves to work towards easing the injustice done towards the latter".
  • world cup starting next month and belived that the first celticnplayrr tonplay innthe world cupis playing , Julius Hjulian for usa.he was on celtics books burt didnt play for the first team.

Review

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Teams

SAINT MIRREN:
McCloy, Baird, Miller, Gebbie, Wilson, Muir, Knox, McAulay, McGregor, McCabe, Phillips.
Scorers:
McGregor.

CELTIC:
Wallace, Hogg, McGonagle, Morrison, McStay, Geatons, Crum, Divers, F. O’Donnell, MacDonald, H. O’Donnell.
Scorers:
F. O’Donnell, Geatons.

Referee: P. Craigmyle (Aberdeen).
Attendance: 6,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

Articles

The Scotsman – Monday, 30th April 1934, page 8

CELTIC'S NARROW WIN

At Paisley the Parkhead men won by 2-1.

All the finer touches of the game came from the Celtic, and they were unfortunate not to crown their efforts oftener than they did. There were other occasions however, when the forwards were at fault in their finishing, and F. O'Donnell in centre missed quite a few chances. He, however, got the Celtic opening goal. The other Celtic counter came from Divers.

St Mirren's goal was registered by McGregor in the second half, after McCabe had carried the ball along. St Mirren gave an improved show in this half, and did not allow Celtic so much of the ball. Still, when Celtic did get on the run they were always dangerous, and McCloy in goal, who turned out though injured, did well to save one or two fine tries, for he was evidently suffering pain when he moved.

The attendance was just about 6,000.

St Mirren v Celtic Apr 1934