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

34 l\IEN OF MUSCLE. feated him and generally all other opponents during the whole of the season '67. At the Highland gathering at l\faryhill, then a large meeting but now long defunct, Fleming was first with the heavy and the light stone, and one of the hammers, and came second with the other hammer. At few games are there two hammers and two stones now. In the same year, at Perth, Fleming putted a genuine 2 2lb. ball 38ft. At Dundee, he has a putt of 4Ift. with 22lb., but that is ad– mitted to be downhill. At Blair-Athol, Fleming has the best distance ever made there; the stone is said to weigh 23!lb. and the put was 39ft. Until Fleming made this throw William Stewart held the record at the Duke's games with 34ft. odd. This competition was confined to the district. The following year, 1868, Fleming still maintained excellent form, but Dinnie came out in the pink of condition, and carried all before him ; Fleming, however, was always a good second. In the putting particularly was this the case. In 1870 Dinnie went to America, and during that season Fleming virtually took Donald's place and annexed pretty nearly all the first prizes in the heavy events at every meeting he visited. The following year (1871) Fleming left the Duke's service and sailed to America, and competed with the greatest success at the Caledonian games in the States and Canada. During this season across the pond Fleming defeated the famous Brothers M'Lennan, John Anderson, an Edinburgh man, a mason to trade, then resident in America, and many others whose names are unknown here. Fleming returned to his native country in the fall of the year. Next spring he again voyaged to the land of the almighty dollar, this time accompanied by Dinnie. These two famous athletes had became fast friends, and friends they remained until the day of Fleming's death. They made a