Cycling S. Patterson Wins Austral
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Feb. 12. The former world sprint champion. S. Patterson, ended a 40-year “jinx” when he won the Australian professional cycling track classic, the mile and a half Austral Wheel race, at Melbourne’s Olympic Velodrome on Saturday night. Patterson, aged 34, was the first scratch rider to win the Austral since J. Fitzgerald succeeded in 1922.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29747, 14 February 1962, Page 5
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