JUNIOR TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 7

JUNIOR TENNIS

HARD COURT TOURNEY

(By Telegraph.—Press-Association.) AUCKLAND, May 12. . The national junior hard court tennis championships were, continued today, ;de-; cision being reached in four events. The outstanding competition, the combined doubles, will be decided tomorrow. 'Re-, suits are as follows:— Boys' Singles.—Stevens (Auckland) beat Gunn (Auckland), 3-6,. 6-1, 7-5. Girls' Singles.—Beverley (Waikato) beat N. Sullivan (South Canterbury), 6-5, 6-5. Boys' Doubles.—Stevens and Gunn (Auckland) beat Corich and Penfold (Canterbury), 6-4, 6-2. Girls' Doubles.—Dickey and '■ Senior (Canterbury) beat Wright and Smith (Canterbury). 6-1, 1-6, 9-7.

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Two athletes, Brown and Jones, engaged in two competitive, events, the first a two-mile race won by Jones, the other a walking contest over a longer distance, and on the details of these two incidents two useful arithmetical puzzles are presented for the benefit of the reader who enjoys the solving of these simple puzzles. Had Brown in "the 'first''contest run one-third faster thaii he did, ho would have won the race by twenty-two yards instead of losing it. What were tho respective1 speeds of the two athletes? The other event took tho form of a tramper's' hike, but though both "men took the same route Brown started somo time before his, adversary, and jogged r.long at the easy gait of one hundred chains per hour until Jones caught him up. The latter started from the same point as Brown but some time afterwards, and travelling at the rate of one and a half miles per hour he overtook the latter walker | at the end of six hours and forty minutes calculated from the time that the faster man started. The pace of, both men was what is known as "go-' as-you-please," and though at some parts of the journey each man travelled at five miles per hour, both rested by the way, making their average rates of travelling as stated. In asking the reader how much start Brown had from Jones, he will of course not require cither .pen or pencil to find it. SEVEN SUBSCRIBERS. Here is a little puzzle which demands the simplest of calculations, and as the figures used ,in . the statement of it have been chosen in order to avoid difficulty, the question may well be treated as purely one for the armchair. Six gentlemen agreed with a seventh to provide a certain sum of money to a deserving cause under the following terms arranged mutually. That the first six should each subscribe one hundred pounds to the fund provided that the other donor gave twenty pounds more than the average subscribed by the whole seven benefactors. This was consented to by the seventh, and the question is, how much would the organisation receive as a joint subscription under these conditions, and how much more than each of the subscribers of one hundred pounds did the seventh gentleman givef It will be observed of course that the twenty pounds mentioned in excess of the average of the seven subscribers must be included in the gross sum when the average is bcing'^calculated. This'question, it is suggested, ■ should also be made one of the "slippered-ease'' varieiy. ' TWO ARITHMETICAL PUZZLES. Both for. the armchair. Two clocks pointed to two o'clock at the same instant on the afternoon of last New Year's Day. One of these time-pieces loses seven seconds consistently every twenty-four hours, and the other clock gains eight seconds regularly in the same period. At these respective rates can the reader say at what time of the day and on what day after New Year's Day when the1 clocks started ■to lose and gain in the manner stated, will the hands of one clock show the time exactly one half-hour ahead of the other, and what times respectively will the" clocks show then! , ■

A man bought an article and sold It at a profit of three thillings. Upon calculating this profit he found that if the percentage of profit be estimated upon cost price as is the correct method, the • percentage would'be onequarter as much again as it would be if the profit of three shillings referred to were reckoned as a percentage on the selling price as is. the practice in some commercial .houses. Can the1 reader say how much the article cost?, WITHOUT FEN OB PENCIL. In response to many • requests from readers, the percentage of puzzles for the armchair has been increased in recent days, and as one does not tare to move from the fireside at this' time of year, would-be solvers will be accommodated in this way and will find ample material for the exercise of their mental faculties without,bothering with pen or pencil. Of course, this column caters for i large circle who enjoy j problems requiring more serious, thought, but the armchair variety of puzzle will always be found in a generous proportion every week. . The age of a husband to that of his wife is as four to three, and twenty-four years ago the ratio was four to two. What are their respective ages! . The sum of twenty shillings was divided between ten boys, eight girls, and eleven smaller children. Each boy received twice as much as a girl, and every four girls as much ; as seven of the tiny tots. What share of the pound did each child in the three groups receive! A grocer' bought eggs at a certain price per score and sold them at threefifths of that price per dozen. If he bought two pounds worth at the price stated and sold them all at the selling rate mentioned how much profit did he make in the transaction t A PUZZLING CODE. Here is a passage in code that may, i and probably will, provide the would:, be solver with half an hour of serious, thinking and possibly test, his ingenuity to the full. It is based upon a plan which seemß to be little known,

and therefore of course of more value, and no example of the kind has so far appeared in this column. Though the key to it is obscure, it is possible that the reader may hit upon it at once, for he will find tho method employed'in constructing it is uniform throughout. The passage contains twenty-nine words and in the original text forms one sentence of good l<ng'l?TKlQ REXHPJKIXO JSI XNIK , JJOKS TKNEQS XYSKAQB KEGJASEQTJLXC NOXSRKEQP BEXBMXBKOQF YRKXANQIDKRXOJ XELBKISQSJOPKMXIJ XECKNEJDQURKP KTSOJMKLAX XTIK KEQB KDLQUOXW. LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS. Lost Their Road.— The distance from •starting point "X" direct to "V" is Posers.— (l) 220 yards, the size of the inner plot being immaterial. (2) 122 degrees Fahrenheit, and 40 degrees Reaumur. Two Circular Hoops.—The larger of the two hoops has a diameter of twenty-five inches (25), and the smaller one twenty' and a half'(2o}). Two Garden Paths.— The paths were ten feet wide. Tho formula is, deduct half the length of the rectangular-plot-diagonal (25) from one-fourth the perimeter (35). . "A Poser. "—The thirty-two letters if placed in the following positions will show the maximum number that may be placed under the conditions: — APO 8 E E •SEA R P O RO' S A PBO E | OAEPBB ERS OA P • i