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		Jacky Smith; Willie Paul; Hugh Hill
		Roddy McLeod; David Hislop; Sam Clark

A. D. Farnworth (1-1, 1st half); Dan McVay (3-2, 1st half)		Andrew Johnston (1-0, 10 mins); ? (2-1, 1st half); Hugh Hill (3-1, 1st half); ? (4-2, 2nd half); ? (5-2, 2nd half)


	Veitch	John McCorkindale	22y, 4m, 5d
	Thomas Ketchen	Archie Freebairn	20y, 5m, 2d
	Alex Wood	Bob Robertson	24y, 7m, 13d
	Dan McVay	J. Killin
	A. D. Farnworth	Jacky Smith
	James Thompson	George Gorham
	Legget	Andrew Johnston	24y, 2m, 23d
	Charles Christie	John Drummond	20y, 9m, 20d
	M. Campbell	Willie Paul	23y, 10m, 28d
	William Brown	Hugh Hill	26y, 1m, 3d
	Arthur Whitehead	William Proudfoot	23y, 11m, 8d

			23y, 3m, 18d

Teamlines per APJ.
APJ (6th January 1890) lists "Hill" (presumably Hugh Hill) and "C. Proudfoot" (no such person to our knowledge presumably William Proudfoot as per the rest of the New Year tour) at the expense of "David Hislop" and "Walter McLean" as per the OH. Since "Hill" is quoted as a scorer in the detailed match report we've gone with the APJ. The same paper lists the Aberdeen keeper as "Veitch (assumed name)".

“Played at Chanonry Ground, Aberdeen, and ended a victory for the Thistle by 5 goals to 2” (GH). Thistle were 3-2 up at h-t but the 2nd half saw the home team “pumped out” (APJ) as Thistle went on to score twice more.

The Partick Thistle brought their New Year to a close on Saturday by playing the Aberdeen at Chanonry. Owing to rain, the ground was rather soft. The Aberdeen won the toss and, kicking-off, immediately pressed. After ten minutes’ play Johnstone scored a goal for the south team. After the kick-off the locals kept the Glasgow team in their own ground, and if their forwards had taken advantage of the chances offered they would have scored once or twice. In the subsequent play Farnworth sent in a grand shot which McCorkindale failed to stop, thus equalising the game. In turn, the Thistle had a combined run up the field, and Paul narrowly missed scoring. The Chanonry defence then had an anxious time of it, and Veithc had to save shots from Proudfoot and Paul. The Partick men next had a corner which was well placed, and out of a scrimmage a second point was got. The Aberdeen then had a foul near the Thistle goal, but the southerners managed to clear. From a good run up the field by Drummond, Hill added a third goal for the strangers. In less than 5 minutes afterwards McVay scored for the Chanonry men. Soon after half-time was called, the game standing: – Thistle, 3 goals; Aberdeen, 2 goals. The visitors reopened well. For fully a quarter of an hour they kept up an incessant siege of the Aberdeen goal, but Veitch spoiled all their efforts to score. The Chanonry forwards broke away once or twice, but could not get past Robertson and Freebairn. The Partick team had hard lines in not scoring, Veitch saving miraculously, and from a corner Smith headed over the cross bar. From a foul near the Aberdeen goal, the Thistle added a fourth, and a fifth goal soon followed. No further scoring took place, and an interesting game ended – Partick Thistle, 5 goals; Aberdeen, 2 goals. The winners played a good game. For the Aberdeen, Veitch did some splendid work in goal, and was hardly responsible for the points scored against him. The backs and half-backs were seen to great advantage. Farnwath and McVay never played better. The forwards were poor, Leggat and Brown being the best of the lot.

Aberdeen Journal, Monday, 6th January, 1890

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