Show THROWING THE CABER The Highland Cans Rae Sport With n Telegraph Pole Shinty London Telegraph The clans mustered mus-tered in force on the grounds at Stamford Stam-ford bridge at the fourth annual meeting meet-ing of the London Highland Athletic club Quite a large proportion of both I competitors and spectators were in the I garb Gf Old Gaul and the music of the Phiob completed the north country aspect of the gathering of the hillmen I The sports themselves were most of them somewhat strange to southern eyes but In mercy to our less robust natures the bagpipe playing competition tion took place at 10 oclock in the I morning when only the more enthusiastic enthusi-astic of the Highlanders themselves were on the ground This portion of the days proceedings figured in the programme under the title of Plobair eaohd piper John MacPherson of Drummond castle being the successful competitor The most remarkable contest however how-ever was the tossing of the caber The caber is apparently a fullsized tele grcph pole and a competitor who aims at success must be able to balance it in the hollow of his hand and toss it I hh iff through the air I as if it were a willow I wand A peculiarity of the game is that if the caber happens to be too te big for the competitors they borrow a I handsaw and reduce i to suitable proportions pro-portions A start was made with a 26 foot telegraph pole yesterday but several sev-eral applications of the saw were necessary before R Matheson was declared de-clared the winner bY the uranjrft deI position seemed to be even more dan I gerous man in a game or looioan Slinging the 56pound weight throwing throw-ing the hammer and putting the shot were comparatively familiar but shinty is not a game as yet quite common in the south and some irreverent ir-reverent persons were guilty of the suggestion that a one of the competing com-peting teams came from Ireland the word should have been spelled with a d Shinty it may be explained is a sort of blend of rockey golf and hurley with the scrimmaging portion o football thrown in The competitors were marched onto the ground in state by their own pipers one playing The Wearin o the Green and the other The Camp bels Are Coming Despite their want of bulk and height the Irish team proved themselves the better men and pulled the Scotchmen over the line twice running run-ning in n very few minutes to the frantic delight o f the bhoys from the ould country who were present Among the other items were dancing competitions jumping including the three standing jumps an Irish event and races and to wind up there was an exhibition game of shinty between the London Highland Athletic club and the Beauly Shinty club who are the champions of Scotland The Marquis of Tulllibardlne president of the Highland High-land association acted as referee dur inn the day In the evening the annual dinner of the club was held at the Hotel Met ropole the Marquis of Tullibardine in the chair A large number of guests I were present including some of the Irish visitors The usual loyal and patriotic pa-triotic toasts were honored with great heartiness and a pleasant evening rendered still more enjoyable by choice selections from the charming national music of Scotland was passed by those resent |