The Athletes and Athletic Sports of Scotland

122 ATHLETIC SPORTS OF SCOTLAND. CHAPTER XIV. PROGRAMME AND MANAGEMENT OF SCOTTISH GAMES. T T may be safely said that no two Committees of Management of any representative gathering in Scotland issue identical programmes, although they agree in their main features. Each programme generally consists of five divisions—throwing, racing, leaping, music, anddancing. It is of importance also that each division should consist of an odd number offeats, so that in matches the winner ofmost events, or at games the winnerof most points, may be set down as the best all-roundman in each division. Proceeding on this plan, there oughtto be not less than three or more than five e ents in each division.With three events in each division,a representative programme would consist of fif­ teen competitions; with five, of twenty-five competitions. In the former case the probable throwing competitions would be hammer, stone and caber; the racing, short, hurdle,and long race ; the leaping—high leap, long leap, and vaulting; the music—pibrochs, marches, and strathspeys and reels; the dancing—Highland fling, sword dance, and reel dancing. In a programme of twenty- five events the additionalevents wouldbe in the order named— 56 lb. weight and wrestling; quarter mile raceand walking; hop, step, and leap, and steeplechase leap, that is a combination of high and long leaping, taking off say six feet on one sideof a four feet hurdle, the six feet to represent a ditch, the hurdle a fence, and the most ground cleared beyond the hurdle to deter­ mine thewinner. Music presents a difficulty if confined to pipe playing, but singingand fiddling have both sometimes been in­ cluded in programmes. In dancing, the hornpipe and shan trews make up the five. In aprogramme on these lines acup or medal ought always to be given to the winner ofmost points in each division—three points fora first, two for a second, and one for a third. So far drawing up a programme is simple