The West Lancashire (5 Miles) Novice Championship held at Makerfield last Saturday over a two lap course was won by Liverpool Scottish A.C. (43 points) with Pilkington H. 2nd (50 points), and Lancashire Primrose H. 3rd (80 points).
Nearly 130 runners, representing eighteen clubs, contested the championship; the first four counting from teams of seven, and Wallasey A.C. finished 6th in the team placings.
The club seem doomed to failure in this event, as year after year some unforeseen incident has dashed the individual title or the team championship.
This year the club felt confident of breaking the spell as the team was admittedly the best they have ever entered. After the first two miles they undoubtedly had the race well in hand; five men in the first twenty, with three of these, T. B. Calveley, W. R. Richardson and B. Morgan, bunched up with the leaders in the first dozen. Then within a minute of each other an unprecedented number of accidents lost the team three of its best runners, and with them went all hope of winning the race.
F. G. Ambrose found the heavy going too much for his injured hip and dropped back from 16th place to somewhere in the seventies. W. R. Richardson slipped, wrenched the sprained ankle which has kept him out of competitive running this season and finished the course at a greatly reduced pace, while T. B. Calveley and B. Morgan collided in jumping a ditch and the latter was badly spiked in the leg.
T. B. Calveley, after losing several valuable places in attending to B. Morgan, carried on and finished 9th, a very creditable performance, while L. Bell, who was well in the rear on the first lap, went through the field at a tremendous pace on the second and eventually finished 29th.
W. R. Richardson 45th and K. Baird 47th completed Wallasey's first four. In view of the injuries sustained, the fact that the team still finished 6th out of 18 was a commendable performance.
To-day the club entertain Wirral A.C., holders of the West Lancashire Senior Championship, and Boundary H., in a triangular match from the Festival Pavilion headquarters, Leasowe-road.
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Source - Wallasey News - Saturday, 15/12/1934
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