Murray was never a great athlete: his ambition did not lead him to
desire a place in the Scottish Fifteen at Football. Probably he was
more likely to be found matched against `The Man from Inversnaid.'


IMITATED FROM WORDSWORTH

He brought a team from Inversnaid
To play our Third Fifteen,
A man whom none of us had played
And very few had seen.

He weighed not less than eighteen stone,
And to a practised eye
He seemed as little fit to run
As he was fit to fly.

He looked so clumsy and so slow,
And made so little fuss;
But he got in behind--and oh,
The difference to us!


He was never a golfer; one of his best light pieces, published later
in the Saturday Review, dealt in kindly ridicule of The City of
Golf.


`Would you like to see a city given over,
Soul and body, to a tyrannising game?