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

l\lE.' OF ~lUSCLE. Brie~y Ewen has had the priYilege of meeting nearly all the latter day champion. , and as the following will show has . cored victories over them all. In his twentieth year he defeated M'Rae with hammer and stone at Dunecht. In his twenty-second year he de– feated Adam Bower at hop, step and leap at Elion. Since then he has generally defeated Johnston with balls and 28lb. weight, 7ft. 6in. run. Defeated J. Anderson with hammer and ball at Kittybrewster in 1898. Defeated :M'Culloch with the hammer at Airdrie in 1899, and every time he has met him, with one exception, with ball and caber. Same year at Airdrie defeated M'Nair, and also at Aboyne the year before. Defeated Chas. :M'Lean with heavy ball at Dunecht, both heavy and light at Drumblair, and light ball at Alva, all in 1899. Ewen has also the credit of a victory oyer Jame. Morrison at Kittybrewster in 1898 with the light hammer, the distances were-Ewen, 107ft. nin., Morrison, 107 ft. 10in. A very close thing, but a win all the same. As the foregoing shows, Ewen is a man of most excep– tional abilities, and if jumping and leaping really belonged to heavy weight athleti s, the best all-round heaYy weight athlete at the nd of the c ntury would be the name which adorns this skel h. But we are inclined to the opinion that heavy weight athletes should be confined to the heavy events the hammer, balls, caber, 56, 28, and wrestlin 6 , while the lighter events should belong to the lighter men. Of course it is all the more credit to a man like Ewen thal he is able to win first prizes in each, but we would certainly put a man who could excel at the five heavy en.nts, hammer, . tone, caber, 56lb. weight and wrestling, before man who was moderately good at even every one of the e vents at a Highland gathering. In appearance, manner and education, Ewen is a gentle– man, modest of disposition and highly respected. He is