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James Cleland (1-3, 2nd half); Smith [i] (2-3, 2nd half)		Berry (0-1, 11 mins); Dunsmore (0-2, 30 mins); James Dunlop (0-3, 34 mins)


	Leslie	Anderson
21y, 9m, 20d	Bob Drummond	James Hall
26y, 10m, 28d	Bob Campbell	McFarlane
	Michael King	Gibb
	John A. Harvey	Morgan
	David Bruce	Lang
19y, 4m, 17d	Willie Freebairn	James Dunlop
	Smith [i]	Marshall
28y, 3m, 19d	Willie Paul	Anderson
24y, 7m, 19d	James Cleland	Berry
	Robert Melrose	Dunsmore

24y, 2m, 14d

	Teamlines per GH. James Cleland (Third Lanark) guested for Thistle.
	Played at Cappielow Park.
	1000 (SFHA)

Cappielow. Thistle won the toss and decided to face the wind in the 1st half but they could make no progress and goals 11, 30 and 34 made it 3-0 at h-t. It was better with the wind in the 2nd half and Cleland and Smith scored but that was as close as Thistle got to reaching the final.

Thistle won the toss and elected to play against the strong wind. Eleven minutes from the start Berry scored the first goal. Excellent passing between the Queen’s Park man with Anderson and Dunsmore secured a second goal half an hour from the start. Four minutes later Dunlop put Battlefield three up. Partick Thistle had decided hard luck at goal. At times the wind foiled their best efforts to score. The first half ended- Battlefield, 3 goals; Partick Thistle, 0. The Thistle’s display in the second half showed much better combination, and, after a stubborn defence by the Battlefield, Cleland and Smith were instrumental in putting on a goal each. During the last quarter of an hour the Thistle strove hard to equalise but were unsuccessful. The game ended- Battlefield, 3 goals; Partick Thistle, 2 goals.

Glasgow Herald, Monday, 28th May, 1894

● 21-year-old Bob Drummond registers his only-known appearance for Thistle.

● Smith [i] registers his only-known appearance for Thistle and, theoretically, joins our scoring debutants club.

● James Cleland scores his first-known goal for Thistle.

● Leslie makes his only-known appearance for Thistle.

● Robert Melrose makes his last-known appearance for Thistle.

● Thistle and Battlefield meet for the last time.

ongoing sequences:

● 14 consecutive competitive away games in which Thistle have scored; 29th Apr 1893 to date. (Longest run since the club-record: 28 games; 14th May 1887 to 23rd Apr 1892.)

● 18 games without a clean-sheet in the League; 19th Aug 1893 to date. (An extension of the club-record.)

● 24 competitive games without a clean-sheet; 27th May 1893 to date. (An extension of the club-record.)

● 24 consecutive competitive appearances for Willie Freebairn, 27th May 1893 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: John A. Harvey - 24 games, 20th Aug 1892 to 29th Apr 1893. Club-record: John McCorkindale - 36 games, 29th Aug 1888 to 12th Dec 1891.)

● 60 competitive away games without a clean-sheet; 31st Oct 1885 to date. (An extension of the club-record.)

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