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

MEN OF IUSCLE. off second prize in more than one event against the best professionals in Scotland. Several amateur meetings were now coming on, and Donald began to feel sorry he had competed at Inverness, thus losing his amateur status without gaining much thereby, as he had no intention at that time of following the games in the south. However, acting on advice, he wrote to the Amateur Association, and that body readily reinstated him. Appearing again as an amateur, Ross won the ball-putting at Beauly, Dingwall, and Inverness. At the latter place he made 42ft. 6in. with 16lb. ball. This distance, of course, is only fair putting; but at that time 4oft. was looked upon, and, in fact, still is, as good work among Scottish amateurs. Later on, in the Rangers' football ground, Glasgow, Ross won the amateur championship of Scotland for hammer– throwing, his distance being 104ft. 6in. The previous best distance was 103ft., made by Whitton. The same year Donald competed in the International at Ceitic Park, Glasgow, and won the hammer with 102ft. 6in.; with the ball he came only third. Next year, at Hampden Park, Glasgow, for the Scottish amateur championship, he won the hammer with 103ft., and the ball with 4Ift. 10in. This proved to be Donald's last appearance as an ama · teur, as almost immediately afterwards he competed at Inverness (1896) in professional games, and won the local hammer and ball. Next year he met and defeated G. H. Johnstone at Nairn with both hammer and stone. The distances with the hammer, on this occasion, were-Ro ' S 115ft., Johnstone 114ft. At Strathpeffer he also won the hammer and ball, and the following year (1898) at Pitlochry he won the professional championship of Scotland for heavy ball with a putt of 36ft. Sin., and also the r6lb. ball with a throw of 45ft. In this competition Ross was second with both hammers. At Inverness in the same year he won the confined and