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

ALEXANDER ~IU.TRO OF HEL~ISDALE. 95 an occas:oneu victory in the putting, he has ne\·er reached the front rank at hammer-throwing. This is accounted for by an accident which almost disabled him when an apprentice with his father. Like almost every lad, to be the possessor of a gun was was Munro's boyish ambition, and the realisation of this wish came near closing his career ere it had well begun. It was an old fowling-piece, he tells us, and while firing it off at the back of the smithy, one day, the weapon burst and almost blew his thumb to atoms. The w<,und ha left a terrible scar, and the thumb is so weak that he cannot hold the hammer handle properly, and thus i unable to finish as strong as he should. Recently when Tom Cannon and Hali Adali challenged anyone to wrestle, ivlunro accepted, and wrestled, first with Cannon, and then, later on in the week, with the Turk. Munro was thrown in both cases, but he made a good attempt, and Cannon himself admitted that Munro had all the makings of a wrestler in him, and that with a little more experience he would g~vl! the best a good tu sle. Later on at Greenock Cannon failed to throw him in a fifteen minute~ handicap. Munro was born 1'fay, 1876, stands 6ft., and weighs 14st. 7lb., while hi chest measures 44in. He is fair haired, modest and retiring in disposition, and rustic in appearance, although not in character. He still wears a country look ; but if anyone buys him for a '' hayseed " to use an Americanism, they will make a bad bargain.