Men of Muscle, and the Highland Games of Scotland, etc.

:\!EN OF 1IU CLE. a conte~t, the odds would all be on the b::rntam. Just as \Vee Holmes holds a position in weight-lifting purely through art in the exercise, combined with a quality known as "grit," assisted by energy and stamina applied at the right fraction of a second, so does l\1'Lean stand out among<:;t the be~t putters of the present time. The majority of athletes can never accomplish as much in contests as they can in practice. With M'Lean quite the Jpposite is the case. ·without wishing to give any offence to those who are unfortunately deficient in the necessary nerve at the right moment, we must say that either the statements of their great throw in practice are false, or else nature never intended them for athletes at all. A man in perfect health who is master of the art of putting, or whatever other branch of athletics, should be able to equal his best performance, or at least come near it, and nothing but want of form or disablement should stand as an excuse -that is, of course, during the sunny time of youth. He will not travel much over 30 before he finds that the hey– day of his vitality is over. In no walk of life is this trutt1 so forcibly brought home to the individual as in the athletic world. Meantime, M'Lean can still equal his best throws, and, although he has opponents here in Scotland who can push him hard, he will yet come out for a season or two, we doubt nut, with a majority of wins.* M'Lean is scarcely 5 feet 9k inches m height, and even now does not much exceed 12 stone. He is a dark-com– plexioned, determined-looking man. He is pleasant and cheerful of manner, and much respected by his fellow– athletes. He can get more pith behind the ball than men almost twice his size. When putting he po es himself gracefully for a moment, and, like a general calling up all his resources, nerves himself to the highe t pitch, and then * iJ'Lean' putting this summer (1901) amply proves this statement.