Date	Saturday, 01 November 1930
Competition	Highland League
Fixture/Score	Elgin City 2:2 Ross County
Venue	Borough Briggs
Referee
Ross County
Manager	Johnny Hart
Starting 11	1: Peter Brett, 2: Roddie Munro, 3: Sonny MacKenzie, 4: ? Newman, 5: Johnny Hart 1, 6: Ackie Urquhart, 7: J Morrison, 8: A Kerr, 9: Ian Aird, 10: Paulo Grant, 11: D Sutherland
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Elgin City 2 Ross County 2 Ross County's draw at Elgin today was a really wonderful performance. Last year Elgin gained full points at Dingwall and this year the County were reversing the position. The game at Dingwall was won by them, while on Saturday it was a draw. With five minutes left, Bigie managed to snatch the equalising goal. Elgin will certainly be credited with having the greater part of the game, but the County twice held the lead. Grant had the first goal, a beauty, shot from about 30 yards out, the ball striking Anderson, the Elgin back, on its way into the net. Elgin equalised after half an hour's play, in which excitement was intense and some fine football was displayed by both County backs and goalkeeper. Rothnie, Elgin's star winger, was the marksman, Brett getting at the ball but it was too hot to hold. Aird sprung a tendon in his right leg early on and after attention bravely carried on at outside right, where he was by no means a passenger. Although greatly lamed, one of his runs was particularly prominent, and on more than one occasion it was his lameness only that kept him from getting right through, he often having the defence at his mercy. Crossing over with a draw of one goal each, Elgin clearly showed that they had no intention of sharing the points and their forwards kept up a pressure attack with an occasional break through by the visitors, who when near shooting range were always deadly. Morrison, who had gone inside, was a particularly live wire in these breakaways, while Kerr's over-keenness brought him frequently under caution from the referee and the Elgin crowd have not forgotten that it was due to Kerr's bustling tactics that they were early left without a goalkeeper in the North of Scotland Cup tie last year! So keen were Elgin to gain the lead that frequent lapses appeared in their defence, and, taking advantage of one of these, Johnny Hart snatched a really magnificent goal. It was a winner all the way and gave Parke no chance to stop it. Elgin were properly taken aback and had Aird been fit, his opportunism would certainly have brought his side further goals. Given time to recover from the shock, Elgin became even more aggressive, and Brett was kept hard at work, saving shots from each and all angles with fine anticipation and perfect confidence. The harder Munro and Mackenzie had to work, the better did they perform, covering up each other in fine style, while both of them excelled in kicking. Mackenzie, in clearing a hard ball with his head, went down. He was soon recovered to resume the fight. After many brilliant clearances and a few lucky ones, Brett was beaten with but five minutes of the ninety to run. Gordon was the marksman and again Brett was given not the least chance with the shot. Close to the final whistle, Paterson drove hard at Brett, the ball striking the post and rebounding into play. However, Munro got his foot to it and effected a timely clearance. When the final whistle went, it came as a relief to County players and supporters alike. Hart was the man who tied up the Elgin forwards and made them so ineffective. The renowned Kelman, at centre forward, got no rope from him; Hart made him look very mediocre, and Hart's play was polished and outstanding whether in attack or defence. In fact, he combined the two departments so well that he had Maclachlan guessing all the time, the latter not being allowed to get into his usual brilliantly forcing game. Pitted against Kerr, Grant and Morrison, with Hart intervening on occasion, the old Aberdeen player got little or no time to pay attention to his wing forwards and open out the play. As already stated, Aird’s incapacity was a terrible handicap to the County, especially with the opposing defence playing so openly. Aird would have been through on more than one occasion had he been fit. As it was, some of his work on the wing was very creditable, and if playing in that position as a fit man, would certainly be an asset. Morrison has a latent sparkle and dash in his play which came out when he went inside, while Kerr was always amongst the backs and on top of the goalkeeper at every available opportunity. Kerr played a hard, tireless game throughout. Sutherland, outside left, played a quiet steady game and could have done with more of the ball, but the half backs were too over-worked to provide for this. Taking the County side all over, every player more than justified his selection. Grant, who by the way suffered from a severe cold, was more than welcome back to the inside left berth. He is a class by himself, the football sense simply oozing out of his every movement, while Urquhart's game was a great improvement on the one he played against Elgin at Dingwall. He cut out the fancy stuff, and as a defensive half back he has not his peer on the field.