Prince Helps Out Our Sid: "I don't think they will sleep for a week at my home in Melbourne," said Sid Patters on after he won the world amateur cycling sprint champion ship here yesterday. The Australian beat Frenchman Jacques Bellenger in two series in the final. Patterson was awarded a laurel wreath and the champion's jersey. The jersey was too small for the burly six-footer, and Prince Axel, of Denmark, had to help Patterson into it. August 29, 1949.