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

MEN OF MUSCLE. and for height, over a bar 13ft. 6in. At Boston Iri. h games on 25th July, 1889, Ross won six first prizes, throwing 56lb. 27ft. 8in., for height 13ft. 8in.; throwing 16lb. hammer from circle, I 18ft. roin.; putting 56lb. with follow, 22ft 9~in.; and putting r6lb. ball without follow 43ft. 8in. There was a competition in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, in which Ross also proved the winner. In 1890, Ross returned to England and wrestled all over the country with the "Terrible" Greek. Later on he com– peted at the Highland gatherings in Scotland, where his most notable performances are :-29ft. 1in. with a 56lb. weight and 27ft. 2in. with the same weight without moving the foot next the mark ; both these throws stand as world's records. G. H. Johnston has since equalled the former throw, but the handle, we understand, had been lengthened. At Pitlochry Ross putt 45ft. fin., but on weighing the ball it was found to be 2oz. short of 16lb. At Blairgowrie he putt a ball, 22lb. 5oz., 38ft., while at Lanark, Forfar, Edzell, :Birnam, Oban, Fort-William, Inverness, etc., he has carried off premier honours at putting. At Nethy Bridge, in par– ticular, Ross made an exceptional putt of 4oft. 7in. with 21lb. stone. Kenneth M'Rae was second with 36ft. 7in., and Johnstone third. At Inverness Ross putt a 21lb. stone 39ft. 9in. George Gardner, the well-known pole– vaulter, was going to the field as the others were leaving it, and, meeting Owen Duffy, inquired if he had won the putting. "Troth no," said Duffy; ' ' the Yankee (meaning Ross) won, and he putt farther than ever was putt on that grass." Ross has wrestled in many cities on the Continent and America. He has been, as we have shown, draper, police– man, warder, then bar-tender in America, th n a publican for himself in the States, and, lastly, in the employ of the British Government in South Africa during the war. Ross's bst trip to Africa was in the "Ottoman," in which vessel