16th Jun 1945 Heart of Midlothian 2 Partick Thistle 1 (Summer Cup Quarter Final, 2nd leg)

matches:1944-45: ← 41game 4243 →

	David McLean	Donald Turner	64y, 4m, 16d

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Andy Black (0-1, 16 mins); Jackie Oakes (1-2, pen 75 mins)		Maurice Candlin (1-1, 65 mins)


	Jimmy Brown	Jim Steadward	26y, 5m, 2d
	Duncan McClure	Jimmy McGowan	29y, 0m, 6d
	Malcolm McLure	Peter Curran
	James Lindsay	Bill Shankly	31y, 9m, 14d
	Archie Miller	Bobby Parker	21y, 4m, 0d
	Frank Mitchell	Jackie Husband	27y, 0m, 19d
	Willie McFarlane	Jackie Johnson	23y, 6m, 5d
	Andy Black	Hugh Brown	23y, 6m, 9d
	Archie Kelly	Dougie Stockdale	18y, 9m, 13d
	Alex McCrae	Maurice Candlin	23y, 7m, 5d
	Jackie Oakes	Gavin Lang	19y, 2m, 26d

			24y, 5m, 3d

TTA report

AGG: 4-2. Unchanged Thistle were fortunate Hearts' forwards were so poor. They were the better team but wasted too many chances to pull back the aggregate score. They went ahead (16) when Steadward was nudged and dropped the ball but Candlin headed home (65). A soft pen (75) gave Hearts the win.

Media report

George McLachlan, 17-Jun-1945, Sunday Post

TANTALISING AS EVER, HEARTS. A GENEROUS heart is most commendable, but Tynecastle fans must be feeling that the Hearts they follow were carrying kindness to excess when they presented Partick Thistle with a free pass to the semi-final. If results were based on the number of scoring chances thrown away, the Tynecastle brigade could hold high hopes of landing the Summer Cup! Some of the outfield patterns they wove were of the highest quality but the finishing was just pure shoddy. For 80 per cent of the game they held a convincing territorial superiority. At times they drove the Thistle defence frantic. Then proceeded to thwart their own efforts with their flannel-footed finishing. Before the match, their supporters were overjoyed to hear that Andy Black was included in the team. Long before the end their delight had completely evaporated. The inside-right scored the first goal, but it was the kind that even a Hearts forward couldn’t miss! A high ball from Oakes was caught by Steadward and nudged out of his arms by Kelly. It was left laid on for Black four yards out. A similar chance fell to McCrae shortly after, but at the comparatively long range of eight yards the task was too great.

Five minutes after the interval, an empty goal, bereft even of Steadward, yawned before Black six yards out. Whoever got the ball up in the terracing must have felt like throwing it out of the ground unless he was a Thistle supporter! Just to show how it should be done Bill Shankly 25 yards out cracked a ball in mid-air, and brought Brown to the best save of the day. Now and again Thistle would scamper off on a foray, but their forwards were about as good as the home lot, and Hearts defence mopped up everything that came their way till Brown palmed out a corner kick from Johnson. Thistle’s Hugh Brown returned it high into the goalmouth and Candlin headed home. Having refused both sides quite legitimate claims for a penalty, the referee decided to liven the interest by conceding a spot kick for unintentional handling by Parker. Steadward made a heroic attempt to stop Oakes shot but could only turn it into the side net. With 15 minutes to go, and nothing to lose, Hearts’ obvious course was to throw everything and everybody into attack, but they didn’t. They carried on as before, and so said good-bye to still another trophy. McLure, Lindsay – a coming star this one – and Mitchell stood out as Hearts best. Thistle’s hard-working defence, particularly Curran, Parker and Shankly, took the Firhill honours.

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