With captain Campbell missing through suspension and Wright and Jolly absent. Henderson and Bowron formed the central defence with Alexander and young Iain MacLeod as full backs.
Athletic kicked off into a strong breeze and both sides had early cha
nces to open the scoring. After 15 minutes, the home side took the lead when their centre half broke through and beat Anderson with a low shot from 15 yards.
Athletic fought back and COHEN headed the equaliser from six yards after good work by Steart and Reid.
BSFC again took the game to Athletic and regained the lead with a shot which left Anderson helpless.
This spurred the visiotrs into action and after a good 10 minute spell, MACLEAN kept his good scoring run going with an excellent finish.
The second period started failry evenly with both sides having chances to go ahead, but it bwas SMITH, having just replaced Horner, who broke the deadlock with a superb shot from 20 yards.
It was now all Athletic and Reid should have made the game safe, but he lobbed over the bar.
Athletic finally secured their place in the next round when first BOWRON and then MACLEAN aded to the total.
Team: Anderson, Alexander, MacLeod, Bowron, Henderson, Toner, Stewart, MacLean, Horner, Reid, Cohen. subs - Smith, Mitchell, Cameron, McLellan, Wark.
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