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...acre estate of Charles Arthur Moore at Round Hill, Conn.. 8,000 U. S. Scots last week assembled for the largest festival of its kind outside Scot-land-the annual Cowal Games of the United States. A day-long orgy of mutton-pie eating, sword-dancing, and caber-tossing, the Cowal Games ended with a parade of 100 bagpipers and drummers who marched over the rolling hills tooting the air of The Seventy-Ninth Farewell to Gibraltar. Prize for piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered...
Patterned after the Cowal Games held annually at Dunoon, Scotland, for half a century to decide championships in Highland games, the Cowal Games of the U. S. started eleven years ago when Mr. Moore invited 30 Scottish friends to a free picnic. Three hundred appeared. The next year, Mr. Moore combined his picnic with an effort to raise funds for new uniforms for a bagpipe band, charged 50? admission. He had more guests than ever. The following year the Round Hill Scottish Games Association was formed to run the festival on Mr. Moore's estate. On Mr. Moore...