A POLICE PAIR.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4494, 20 November 1922, Page 1

A POLICE PAIR.

ONE AT NETHERTON, THE OTHER AT TE TEKO. (By P. T. Mackay, of the Glasgow Police, the famous authority on Scottish Sport, in the People’s Journal, July 15, 1922.) I have told you a great deal about nortlpcountry champions', and now I wish to say something about an athlete from the south of Scotland. Robert Wilson, who was born near Cree, in thie Newton-Stewart district, in 1880, was undoubtedly a champion both in physique and ability. He stood 6ft. 3in., and weighed 15% stone. While with the Patrick Police, he put up some wonderful performances. Some ofl his best are :— Ft In Glasgow Police Sports (16%1b hammer) — — — 105 10 Glasgow Police S'ports (161 b ball) - - - - - 41 Kilmalcolm (161 b ball) 42 2 Aberfoyle (161 b ball.) — — 45 0 Wilson has frequently touched 31 feet with a 561 b weight, whne using the half-turn. After a few years of police service and success at the Scottish athletic meetings Wilson migrated to New Zealand, and engaged in farming, where he was soon joined by his police companion and rival heavyweight competitor, Richard Adam'.

Adam was bom near Cruden Bay, in Aberdeenshire, and the curious thing is that of all the men who have given performances of firstclass’ excellence at the Scottish games least is known about. Adam. Indeed;, by many moderately conversant with athletics he is not known. ,at ajlt This was entirely due to Adam’s modesty. A more unobstrusive competitor than the Cruden Bay man never stripped.. Yet when we come to deeds few heavy-weights can lay claim to better performances. Here are some of the good things Adam did : Ft in Airdrie (161 b ball) — 45 0 Bridge of Allan (16%1b ball) 44 9 Glasgow (161 b ball) —.— 43 3 Muirkirk (161 b hammer) 112 0 Glasgow Police (161 b hammer) 111 0 Tnyerary (161 b hammer) — 115 0 Bridge of Allan (171 b hammer 114 7 Inverness (21%1b hammer) 95 0 The Bridge of Allan throw with the 171 b hammer was Adam’s best performance, apd one of the finest ever done in competition in the kingdom. If the average man were to be told that Adam should probably be ranked in front of; Finnie and Matthew Marr as a hammer-thrower he would laugh. Yet no one will claim that either of them could do Adam’s Bridge of Allan performance. Adam stood six feet, and turned the scales at 15st 41b.

Mn Robert Wilson is now farming at Te TekO and Mr Richard Adam is farming at Netherton.