Written by Peter MacRae, London, September 1999

INVERNESS is famous as the birthplace of noted athletes – Charles McLean, Donald Ross, A. A. Cameron, nd many others were born and brought up in that country; but had no one else besides the stalwart Highlander, whose name heads this page, come from the shire, it would be famous for having produced him alone. “He that drives fat oxen, should himself be fat,” and it seems that he who makes tall throws with the hammer must himself be tall, as all good hammer-throwers have been tall men, and “Kenny” McRae is among the tallest of them all.

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