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Hugh Beaton (1st half); John Burleigh (1st half)

22y, 6m, 19d	Andrew Duff	?
	John Hendry	?
	Bobby Brown	?
22y, 2m, 2d	Jack Beattie	?
21y, 4m, 21d	George Leckie	?
23y, 0m, 29d	Hugh Beaton	?
	John Burleigh	?
	John Inglis	?
	J. Shankland	?
	P. Ewing	?
	John Young [i]	?

22y, 3m, 19d

	Thistle per OH, opposition as yet unsourced.
	700 (OH)

Voided. Protest upheld (crowd disorder). “Partick Thistle got the better of Petershill - two goals to none being the score” (GA). “The enclosure was not properly kept and some horses broke in and stopped the game for some time” (ASH).

The tie with Petershill was replayed at Jordanvale in front of 700 spectators, a healthy turn-out for the time, and without a referee. Both clubs wrote to the SFA requesting an official but none was sent. Beaton and John Burleigh combined well to allow Beaton to score the first goal, and just four minutes later his partner Burleigh to net the second. In the second half the game began to get physical, and Shankland and Hendry of Thistle had to leave the field injured. Thistle managed to hold on with reduced numbers until the game ended with a 2-0 victory. The Partick Thistle officials evidently had not learned the lesson of the previous round against Pilgrims, and the SFA committee again found against the club because the “enclosures had not been properly kept”. The game was to be replayed the next Saturday.

ptearlyyears.net

● The first reported attendance for a Thistle home match of 700.

● No ref turned up for this Scottish Cup 3rd Round replay vs. Petershill! The game was played anyway and Jags won 2-0. However, the result was voided - but it was nothing to do with the fact that there was no ref. The SFA decreed that “the enclosures had not been properly kept”. We won the replayed replay 3-2 AET and this time the Jordanvale faithful steered well clear off the pitch and the result stood.

ongoing sequences:

● 6 consecutive quoted competitive appearances (not known to be broken) for John Burleigh, 28th Dec 1878 to date. (A new club-record.)

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