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| 04 September 1948 (New) | Winnington Park Win At Northwich last Saturday the match between Winnington Park R.C., Sale Harriers and Wallasey Athletic Club resulted in a win for the home team. Read more... |
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| 11 September 1948 (New) | Week-end Coaching School, May, 1949 As a step towards remedying the need for the training of athletic coaches, the Manchester District Committee of the Northern Counties Athletic Association has arranged a coaching school at Squires Gate Holiday Camp, Blackpool, on the week-end, May 6th-8th, 1949. when it is hoped that Geoff Dyson - Read more... |
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| 18 September 1948 (New) | AGM Wallasey Athletic Club's annual meeting will take place at the Punch & Judy Café, Seaview Road, on Thursday, September 23rd. at 7-30 p.m. Read more... |
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| 25 September 1948 (New) | Schools Cross-Country Championships On November 13th at 3-15 p.m. Wallasey Athletic Club will hold the second annual championships from their headquarters in Leasowe Road. The winning school will hold the silver challenge cup, presented by W.A.C. President, A. G. Nicholson, for one year. In addition to the race for schoolboys, who mus Read more... |
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| 02 October 1948 | Wallasey Athletic Club's annual meeting Last week Mr. A. G. Nicholson was re-elected President for the 43rd successive year. Read more... |
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| 07 October 1948 (New) | Cross-Country Season Cross-country clubs are convinced that the coming season, which opens on Saturday, will be a record one. Read more... |
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| 09 October 1948 (New) | Athletic Club's new vice president At the recent annual general meeting of Wallasey Athletic Club, two new vice-presidents were elected in recognition of their services to athletics generally and to the club in particular. They are John Edwards, Liverpool & District Senior Cross-Country Champion, 1946, and club captain since 1940 Read more... |
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| 16 October 1948 | Cross-Country season opens in Broadgreen In bright sunshine last Saturday more than a hundred Merseyside runners took part in the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Union's meet at Court Hey, Broadgreen, to inaugurate the 1948-49 season. Read more... |
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| 23 October 1948 (New) | Extensive Training Programme An extensive training programme is now in operation for cross-country runners of Wallasey Athletic Club, who can obtain further details from the notice board at their club headquarters. Weekday evening runs, commencing promptly at 8 p.m., play a vital part in building up speed for the championship s Read more... |
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| 30 October 1948 (New) | Schoolboys' Cross-Country Championship The Wallasey Schools' Cross-country Championships will be run from the Leasowe Road headquarters of Wallasey Athletic Club on Saturday, November 13th, and the school teams have been training hard for some time for this big day in their winter athletic programme. Read more... |
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| 06 November 1948 (New) | Athletics This Saturday, the cross-country team of Wallasey Athletic Club weakened by the temporary absence of Denis Dickinson who sprained his ankle on rough country last week, and veteran John Edwards, who has quickly tuned up to his fine speed and stamina by his usual thorough training, will travel to Wool Read more... |
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| 13 November 1948 (New) | Big Entry For Boys' Race For this Saturday afternoon's Wallasey Schools' Cross-Country Championship over two miles at Leasowe, more than 80 entries, including a strong team from Moreton Secondary Modern School, present holders of the A.G. Nicholson challenge trophy, have been received. Read more... |
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| 20 November 1948 (New) | Club Novice Championship This Saturday afternoon, over 5 mile course which includes Bidston Hill, Wallasey Athletic Club are holding their Club Novice Championship for those runners who have not previously been placed in a race at a mile or over since the age of 16. Any club member under that age is eligible to compete. Bob Read more... |
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| 27 November 1948 | Novice cross-country championship Last Saturday afternoon the Novice Championship of Wallasey Athletic Club, run over a 5 mile course, was won by Bill Wright in 32 minutes 34 seconds, with John Hawkesley second and Brian Smith third. Read more... |
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| 04 December 1948 | West Lancashire Novice Championships At Runcorn this Saturday afternoon 13 teams from 11 clubs will compete in these cross-country running championships over a 4½ mile 'spike' course Wallasey Athletic Club's two teams will travel to the venue by coach which leaves Seacombe Ferry (Floating Roadway) at 1-15 p.m. prompt. Read more... |
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| 04 December 1948 (New) | Cheshire Sets The Pace Cross-Country Title Draws Big Names Read more... |
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| 11 December 1948 | Cross-country championship - Wallasey club placed sixth At Castner Kelner, Runcorn, last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club's 'A' team was placed sixth in the West Lancashire Cross-Country Association's Novice Championship after a fast race over a 2 lap course of four and three-quarter miles. Read more... |
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| 16 December 1948 (New) | Cheshire County Cross-Country Championships Cheshire County Cross-Country Championships at Winnington Park were keenly contested. The first race over 2½ miles for the youths was very exciting. Read more... |
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| 18 December 1948 | Athletic club in fine form The first annual cross-country championships of the Cheshire County Athletic Association were held at Winnington Park Recreation Club, Northwich, last Saturday. Read more... |
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| 25 December 1948 | Christmas Handicap race results Once again skilful, handicapping was rewarded when 23 runners in Wallasey Athletic Club's traditional Christmas Read more... |
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| 01 January 1949 (New) | Youth's Race at Childwall On the occasion of the Lancashire County Cross-Country Championships at Childwall this Saturday afternoon, Liverpool Harriers are holding a Youths' Open Race. Wallasey Athletic Club's team will be Hawksley (capt.), Mason, Scammell, B. Smith, Watkins and Lancaster. The team and supporters will meet a Read more... |
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| 08 January 1949 | Cross-country matches Two interesting cross-country matches, will be run at Leasowe this Saturday afternoon. The senior and junior teams of Wallasey Athletic Club will entertain the R.A.F. West Kirby, who gave the club a good run last season. Read more... |
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| 15 January 1949 | Wallasey too strong for R.A.F. Over a seven mile course at Leasowe last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club defeated R.A.F. West Kirby by 30 points to 52. Read more... |
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| 29 January 1949 | Cross-country and weight-lifting feats Last week Wallasey Athletic Club held its annual winter championships at its Leasowe Road headquarters. Read more... |
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| 05 February 1949 | Medal for Wallasey athlete At West Derby last Saturday afternoon Denis Kelly, of Wallasey Athletic Club, ran a brilliant race to win the Liverpool & District Junior Cross-Country Championship by 100 yards in 37 mins. 35 secs. after hard running over six miles of mixed park, land and plough. Read more... |
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| 12 February 1949 | Inter-club match at Wallasey Two races, seven miles for the seniors and juniors, and four miles for the youths, were run last Saturday afternoon, when Sefton, Boundary and Pembroke Harriers were the guests of Wallasey Athletic Club at their Leasowe Road headquarters. Read more... |
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| 19 February 1949 | Junior athletes gain 2nd place Fulfilling the excellent promise they showed when they finished second in the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Championship three weeks ago. Read more... |
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| 26 February 1949 (New) | Wallasey Athletic Club Schoolboys' Race At Birkenhead last Saturday afternoon, Prenton Secondary School cross-country team completed a double by again defeating the under "16" team from Wallasey Athletic Club led by Ken Ledward. Read more... |
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| 05 March 1949 | Wallasey in Northern championships Last Saturday afternoon at Rowntree's, York, a record field of 1,000 entries contested the Northern Cross-Country Championships. Read more... |
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| 12 March 1949 | Wallasey Athletic Club members successes In the recent Merseyside Olympic Weight-lifting Championships, held in Liverpool, Norman Sadler, of Wallasey Athletic Club, won the light heavy weight class with his best total of 682 lbs. Club weight-lifting captain, Jack McCulloch, gained 2nd place in the heavily contested light-weight class with Read more... |
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| 19 March 1949 | Northern successes in English Championships In the English cross-country championships at Bromford Bridge, Birmingham, last Saturday the individual winners of each of the three races were well-known Northern runners. (Youths - J. Price, East Cheshire; Junior Lieut. G. B. Saunders, Bolton; and Senior - Dr. Aaron (Leeds), and the Junior team wi Read more... |
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| 09 April 1949 (New) | Athletic Club's Road Handicap On Leasowe Road last Saturday afternoon, Wallasey Athletic Club held their Consolation Road Handicap over 3½ miles. Awards were won by Ramsey Hewson, first man home, and Tony Dickinson, second, whilst Tony's younger brother, Denis, returned the fastest time for the course - 19 mins. 40 secs. Read more... |
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| 16 April 1949 | Sefton Park Road Relay Race In perfect conditions last Saturday afternoon, Wirral A.C. again won the Sefton Park Road Relay Race and retained the Neville White Trophy for a second year. Read more... |
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| 23 April 1949 | Athletic club wants women to join Wallasey Athletic Club extend a cordial invitation to women interested in athletics to join the club. Particulars can be obtained from the hon. sec. Mr. R. F. Hubbard, 39 Beech Road, Birkenhead, or Mr. D. W. Dickinson, 26 Penkett Road, Wallasey. Read more... |
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| 27 April 1949 | Formation of Ladies Section At an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 27 April 1949 it was agreed to start a Ladies Section for track work only. Read more... |
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| 30 April 1949 | Track season opens next week Wallasey Athletic Club's plans for the track season, which opens next week, include training on the 440 yards track at the Corporation playing fields between Twenty Row and the brickworks in Leasowe Road on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evening. Read more... |
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| 07 May 1949 | Coaching by experts At their Leasowe Road track during the next fortnight Wallasey Athletic Club have secured the services of several prominent local athletes who will attend on training evenings to coach club members in particular for track and field events. Read more... |
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| 14 May 1949 | First track match at Leasowe Road Wallasey Athletic Club's first match of the new track season versus Winnington Park Club from Northwich, Cheshire, will take place at Leasowe Road playing fields this Saturday afternoon, commencing 3 p.m. Read more... |
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| 21 May 1949 | Track and field victory for Wallasey Club In their first match of the new track season at Leasowe Road playing fields last Saturday afternoon, Wallasey Athletic Club scored a victory over the Winnington Park Recreation Club by 70 points to 68 due to their superiority in the team and junior (under 19) events. Read more... |
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| 28 May 1949 | T.A. Athletics at Port Sunlight At the Oval, Port Sunlight last Saturday the first local meeting of the track season, the T.A. and R.Aux.A.F., Sports Festival, was held in warm sunlight. Read more... |
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| 11 June 1949 | Kivlin does it again Those who travelled to Port Sunlight Oval on Whit Saturday, and to Upton Cricket Ground on Whit Monday were rewarded with displays of athletic talent which have not been equalled in the Wirral since before the war. Read more... |
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| 18 June 1949 | Local athletes at White City When the inter-counties meeting is held at White City, London, on Saturday July 2nd, Cheshire's colours will be worn by Wallasey Athletic Club members Barry Kivlin (120 yards hurdles and 440 yards hurdles) and Matt Smith (hop, step and jump). Read more... |
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| 25 June 1949 | Dickinson brothers still fighting it out Last Saturday during Liverpool Police 56th annual sports at Fairfield, Tony Dickinson gained third place in the open mile handicap to Mark Maleedy of Sutton Harriers, who also beat him on the previous Saturday at Speke, and the winner W. Berry of Norwich. Read more... |
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| 02 July 1949 (New) | Athletic Club Meet Dunlop Wallasey Athletic Club entertained Dunlop Speke Athletic Club on Thursday of last week in a comprehensive contest covering 18 track and field events for seniors, juniors and women, at Leasowe Road Playing Fields, Wallasey. Read more... |
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| 09 July 1949 (New) | Moreton Boys' Athletic Successes In the Cheshire Schools Championships held at the Oval, Port Sunlight, on Saturday, July 2, William Poyning, Upton Road School entrant, was the only successful Wallasey competitor of the meeting, winning the 440 yards event for boys under fifteen years of age. Read more... |
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| 09 July 1949 (New) | Schools' High Jump Champion John Hawksley, of Wallasey Grammar School and Junior Captain of Wallasey Athletic Club, won the Cheshire Schools (under 17) High jump with a leap of 4ft. 10ins. at Port Sunlight last Saturday. Read more... |
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| 23 July 1949 (New) | G. Price Star of Youth Olympiad - Gorsedale Pupils in Brilliant Form Torches lit by Councillor R. Y. Knagg, Mayor of Wallasey at Seacombe and Moreton were carried into the playing field at Leasowe Road on Saturday afternoon to herald the opening of the Wallasey Youth Olympiad - the largest post-war athletic meet to be held in the borough. Read more... |
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| 06 August 1949 | Wallasey athlete in decathlon contest At the Northern Counties Decathlon Championships contested at Port Sunlight on Saturday and Sunday, Wallasey Athletic Club was ably represented by Ted Bollard who, at his first attempt in this branch of athletics, was successful in gaining fourth place in the competition. Read more... |
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| 13 August 1949 | Wallasey A.C. beat Dunlop Wallasey Athletic Club defeated Dunlop H. & A.C. last Thursday evening at Speke by 57 points to 36, thus avenging their narrow defeat at Leasowe in June. Read more... |
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| 20 August 1949 | Brother athletes ran well for Wallasey At Earlstown Viaduct sports meeting last Saturday Tony and Denis Dickinson of Wallasey Athletic Club, again kept the familiar red vest well to the fore. Back marker off 130 yds. in the mile, Denis started too strongly and had caught the field by the end of the second lap, when Tony was also among th Read more... |
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| 27 August 1949 | Club track and field championships At the Tower Ballroom last Friday night, more than 1,000 dancers enjoyed Wallasey Athletic Club's successful end of the track season dance, which was organised by the club's social sub-committee ably directed by chairman Denis Dickinson. Read more... |
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