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Route "In Order" for
Midlands Tour
The Midlands Tour professional cycling
race today will run over the route as
planned Trees blocking the road at
Greendale have been removed, leaving
clear passage tor vehicles.
The eaithern load through
the Blackwodd Ranges has
haidened slightly but there is
a badly pot holed section four
miles this side of Trentham. .
Mr M Meehan of Black
wood. who has donated a sprint
prize for the town, said last
night the course .would .be in
better condition than for the
recent Bendlgo to Melbourne
race. . ' ' , v
He reported that at Wright's
cutting, on the -Melbourne, side
of Blackwood, there was a hole
five feet In diameter In the
load. , :
However. , without further
ram. the. route should show
further Improvement.
Won Last Year
Still favorite for the 116-mile
£115 tour is Footscray ace Alby
Saunders, winner of the event
last year.
Saunders Is recovering from
influenza anil may ..not be .
quite at peak form.: If this
is so. former world champion.
Jaek' Hoobln. and . Eddie
Smith, winner in 1949. will-
be big dangers..'
Both , are aggressive riders,
with a telling sprint.. The like
lihood of heavy, going - in the
hills should be to their advant
age.
Also well in the running- are
Keith and - Max Rowley. Jack
and "Clinker" Beasley. and
l-'ern Tree Gully "find-." Dudley
Kelly. '
If he could find form, so far
elusive - this -season. . Footscray
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ing miles up to upset calcula
tions...
The tour starts at the Keilor
shire ' hall at 9 a:m.. with the
massed departure of. the:, 20
aces: and' the 154 B. C and D
graders. .... .. , .
There '-will be 10 sprints
carrying, prize . money, during
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Melton. .' Ballan. Blackwood.
Kyneton and Gisborne.
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