The Athletes and Athletic Sports of Scotland

MANAGEMENT OF SCOTTISH GAMES. 127 leap; interval,half an hour; 3.5 to 3.25, 56 lb. weight-throwing;" 3.25 to 3.40, walking; 3.40 to 4.5, vaulting; 4.5 to 4.35, wrest­ ling; 4.35 to 4.50, steeplechase jump; 4.50 to 5, long race. The music and dancing should go on concurrently with the athletic events, pipe-playing commencing at noon, the first dancing competition at 12.30, and so on alternately as far as possible. Sometimes an athlete is also a dancer or piper, in which case arrangements must be made to give him a fair chance, ifan athletic competition and a dancing competition, for both of which he is entered, come on together. Every pro­ gramme shouldhave the time for the commencement of each competition marked. Where a clock is not on the ground, a clock face, as used a railway stations, with signal arms,with each competition in clear characters printed on them, ought to be in proximity to the ground set apart for throwing and leaping, starting points in racing, andplatforms formusic and dancing. As soon as one competition is commenced, the our andminute hands areset indicating the time for the nextcompetition, while the signal arm shows what it is to be. In this way no time is lost calling out competitions and gathering competitors; any competitor not ready immediately his name is called loses his turn in competing. At Inverness competitors must enter some time before the first day of the meeting, and the name and address of each competitor is printed in the programme, a system that oughtto be followed at all the leading gatherings. Each competitor's disc on his breast ought tohave printed on it the number opposite his name in the programme, so that the spectators may know who each competitor is as his turn comes to compete, and the winners can be shown after each competition by their numbers on the telegraph board. It has already been mentioned that although the groundmay not be quite level, at established meetings like Inverness, Aboyne, and Luss, yet if the hammer and stone were always of the same weight, material, and shape, andalways thrown from the same stance in the same direction; the poles marking off the race