WORLD CYCLING TITLES
ROME. August 26. An Italian. Enzo Sacchi. won the 800 metres amateur sprint final at the world cycling championships in Milan to-night. He beat the Australian. Russell Mockridge, by two lengths with the Italian, Marino Morettini. third. The time for the last 200 metres was 11 3-sseo.
Reg, Harris, of Britain, won the professional 800 metres final by half a length from the Frenchman. Jacques Beuenger, with the Australian, Syd Patterson, third. His time for the last 200 metres was 11 2-ssec. It was the third successive time that Harris has won the title.
The New Zealander. Clarence Simpson, finished second in the second heat of the amateur sprint event, but was outclassed in the final.
Four Killed in Crash.— Four persons were killed and two seriously injured in a crash of an Alaska Airlines plane yesterday. It was the seventh fatal aviation accident in Alaska during the last month, in which more than 70 persons are dead tor missing.—Juneau, August 27.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26512, 29 August 1951, Page 7
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