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

ALEX, A. .UIERON OF LOCH TREIG, 89 Captain Cameron had the ground specially levelled, and the balls and hammer made the exact weight. On this occasion Dennis put the 16lb. ball 45ft. roin.; but he would not try the heavy ball. The weather, it is true, was not tempting, the rain came steadily pouring down, but we confess we would have gladly seen him putt against Cameron with this genuine 22lb. ball on level ground. Dennis defeated M'Lean, our best man with the light ball, by 14in., but we have our doubts about him def ating Cameron with the heavy ball under the conditions which prevailed at Partick. At the great Aboyne Highland gathering Cameron made a new record with the 22lb. stone. In 1879 Donald Dinnie put this same stone 37 ft. and two years later (1881) George Davidson made 37ft. 1}in.-just an inch and a balf farther than Dinnie; and up till this summer that throw has never been equalled. Then Cameron made the exceptional putt of 38ft. 9in., which distance will probably stand longer than even Davidson's distance has stood. At the Dundee Police Sports Cameron put a 161b. ball 45ft. 11in. on perfectly level ground, but came only sc< ond with the hammer; while at Fort-William he made 38ft. 4i 1. with the heavy stone, and ca.me s cond with the light stone. The Highland games at Dunoon had been in abeyance for some years, but this summer (1901) a new and energetic com– mittee reviYed the sports, and a splendid gathering was the result. The heavy ball, however, could not be found, and a cann, ., shot of 33lb. was st1bstituted. Morri on and Cameron cied with this monster of a thing at 29ft. gin., while M'Lean was 3in. behind. In an extra putt Cameron made 3oft. 4in., while Morrison also improved an inch or two. Thirty feet four inches with a 33lb. ba)] is mo t exceptional putting, and is probably the very best which Cameron has cYcr done; but the newspapers gave him