04 September 1948
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.
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11 September 1948
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 Gat
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18 September 1948
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.
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25 September 1948
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
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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.
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07 October 1948
Cross-Country Season
Cross-country clubs are convinced that the coming season, which opens on Saturday, will be a record one.
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09 October 1948
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 Joh
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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.
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23 October 1948
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 evenin
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30 October 1948
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
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06 November 1948
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 ha
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13 November 1948
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 holder
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20 November 1948
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 ra
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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.
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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
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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 cour
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16 December 1948
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.
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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.
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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
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01 January 1949
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 Haw
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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 g
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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.
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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.
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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 sec
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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 Cl
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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.
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26 February 1949
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.
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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.
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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
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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 Ch
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09 April 1949
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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 R
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 b
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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 hur
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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
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02 July 1949
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 Pla
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09 July 1949
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.
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09 July 1949
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, winn
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23 July 1949
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 O
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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
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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.
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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 sta
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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
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