ROLLER SKATING
NoVel. competitions, consisting of miusual feats or "stunts,." arc generally to bo found on roller skating programmes, and one of this character was listed at-a recent carnival. • Tho man-agement-had placed a number of threepenirppieees" in" different positions on the floor-track, the" total sum being two pounds-ten shillings, and competitors wero-required, whilst rolling along, to pick these up, all coins to be the property of the persons thus securing them.1 Some of the performers skated ' in "pairs" "Gady and gentleman), the 1 others' jbf both' sexes, competing singly, and %heii. all coins had been gathered in the'prescribed manner it was found that the "couples" were the most suc-ce'ssfulj-oii' account, no doubt, of one having support of the other when picking up the .; coins. Supposing, then, -.- tfiat/.''CTUpies" averaged twenty-one (joins;"'each lady three, and gentlemen atone live, can the reader find how many ;of each there were in the total of '. twenty-five -person's who took part in f the competition ?
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 14
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159ROLLER SKATING Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 14
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