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1908-1909

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10 October 1908   Wallasey Athletic Club
The above club, which is an amalgamation of Homecroft Athletic and Wallasey Harriers, promises to be a very strong organisation.
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31 October 1908 (New)   Remarkable Success of Wallasey Athletic Club - Meet of Y.M.C.A. Harriers
For the fourth annual meet of Y.M.C.A. Harriers in the Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire divisions, 83 men turned out, seven clubs competing, made up as follows:- Manchester Y.M.C.A., 43; Liverpool Gym Y.M.C.A., 7; Warrington Wesleyans, 6; Hyde Y.M.C.A., 4; and Wallasey A.C., 2.
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07 November 1908   Cross-Country Running
Sefton Harriers were visited by Wallasey A.C.; a six mile run was wound up with a mile break :-
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14 November 1908   Athletics
At a special general meeting of the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Association held on Monday last, at the Star & Garter Hotel.
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19 December 1908 (New)   Cross-Country Running
As one who has taken a keen interest in cross country and track racing for the past fifteen years, I should like to advise some of your more athletically inclined readers, who do not at present take part in any games, but who merely act as lookers on, to try one or two cross country runs with the Wa
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09 January 1909 (New)   Harriers - Wallasey Athletic Club
The important fixture between Boundary, Ravenhead, and Wallasey was carried out last Saturday, trail being laid over a course of eight miles.
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30 January 1909 (New)   Harriers - Cross-Country Championship
Wallasey Athletic Club held their first club championship on Saturday, trail being laid over 8¼ miles of rough country.
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10 February 1909   Cross Country Championship
One of the most important fixtures of the year in connection with local harriers is the Liverpool cross-country championships, and this was run under particularly fortunate circumstances on the Wirral Show Ground at Bebington on Saturday.
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10 February 1909 (New)   Liverpool Cross-Country Championship - Narrow Defeat of Wallasey
The annual championships of the Liverpool Cross-Country Association were decided at the Wirral Showground at Bebington on Saturday, and were well patronised both as regarded competitors and spectators.
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13 March 1909 (New)   National Cross-Country Championship - Race in a Snowstorm
The thirty-third National Cross-Country Championship, which was decided on Saturday at Haydock Park Racecourse, was run under the most trying of atmospherical conditions.
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19 July 1909   Other Events
At the Salford Harriers' sports on Saturday, at Manchester, H. J. Pankhurst won the 100 yards invitation scratch race in 10 3-5s., and A. G. Nicholson, of the Wallasey A.C., with 20 yards start, beat the half-mile ex-champion, A. Astley (scratch) by two yards in a 600 yards limited handicap; time, 1
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