06 September 1952
This Saturday sees the final meeting of the 1952 track season take place at Salford, the only Wallasey entrant being Len Platt who hopes to be selected to take part in the invitation short limit 100 y
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13 September 1952
The track season, certainly as far as Wallasey is concerned, ended last week-end when Len Platt rounded off his best-ever season with a win in the 100 yards handicap sprint at Salford.
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20 September 1952
Wallasey Athletic Club competed last Saturday on the road relay race at Birkenhead Park and finished in fifth position.
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27 September 1952
The first local event of any note in the new cross-country season takes place next Saturday, when the ever popular monstre meet will be run in Liverpool at a venue yet to be decided.
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18 October 1952
Wallasey Athletic Club country runners continued their early season training with an easy run over the country, but the attendance was again disappointing.
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25 October 1952
When the Duke of Edinburgh presided at the annual meeting of the Central Council Of Physical Recreation in London last week, he put his finger exactly on the crux of Britain's athletic future when he
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01 November 1952
Wallasey Schools Championships (cross-country) will be run this Saturday from the club's Leasowe Road headquarters, when the schoolboys race will be the main event.
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08 November 1952
Wallasey Athletic Club last Saturday staged the Wallasey schools' championships from their Leasowe Road headquarters, when the main event was the schoolboys' race over a 2½ mile course of marsh
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29 November 1952
Wallasey A.C. novice championship was held last Saturday over a 3¼ mile course of marsh and grassland when Dave Standfast won very convincingly in the fast time for conditions of 19 minutes 31
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06 December 1952
The first of this season's area championships will be decided this Saturday at Warrington when the usual large field of West Lancashire novices will race over a three-mile course.
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13 December 1952
Wallasey A.C. last Saturday were one of ten teams contesting the annual novice championship for the West Lancashire area, which this year was, held at Warrington.
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20 December 1952
All our local athletic clubs will this Saturday will be staging their Christmas handicap which is always the most enjoyable afternoon of the cross-country season.
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27 December 1952
Wallasey Athletic Club last Saturday ran their Christmas Handicap from Leasowe Road Playing Fields, when twenty eight runners set off at intervals up Leasowe Road turning across Leasowe Common and ret
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03 January 1953
Despite the blanket of fog covering Merseyside last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club successfully ran off their club championships with the exception of the Junior (18-21), which was declared no race
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03 January 1953
Despite the blanket of fog covering Merseyside on Saturday, Wallasey A.C. successfully ran off their club championships with the exception of the junior (18-21), which was declared 'no race' after the
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10 January 1953
Five titles out of a possible six were won by Wallasey athletes in the Cheshire County Cross-Country Championships at Runcorn last Saturday, Bob Johnston winning the senior event with a fine performan
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10 January 1953
Cheshire County cross-country championship was held at Runcorn this afternoon. Apart from the seven miles senior championship and three miles championship for youths, there was also for the first time
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17 January 1953
Don Anderson, Cheshire County youth champion was Wallasey A.C.'s best performer on Saturday when the club were engaged in a three cornered inter-club fixture against Sefton Harriers and Waterloo Harri
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24 January 1953
Wallasey A.C. visited Wirral A.C. at Prenton for an inter-club fixture on Saturday, in which Wallasey were defeated in the senior event by 12 points to 45 points but won the youth race by 15 points to
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31 January 1953
Wallasey Athletic Club were engaged last Saturday in the Liverpool & District cross-country championships held over Liverpool Pembroke's course at Broadgreen, when the club experienced one of thos
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31 January 1953
Wallasey A.C. were engaged in the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Championships held over Liverpool Pembroke's course, at Broadgreen, on Saturday when the club experienced one of those days whe
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07 February 1953
Wallasey A.C.'s junior cross-country championship, postponed some weeks ago owing to fog, was decided over a six mile course from the club's H.Q. on Saturday, when Ken Ledward was the winner in 36 min
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14 February 1953
The annual West Lancashire cross-country championships were held at the R.A.F. camp, West Kirby, this afternoon.
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14 February 1953
Wallasey A.C. had quite a successful afternoon at the R.A.F. camp, West Kirby, on Saturday, when they were one of twelve clubs contesting the West Lancs. Cross-Country Championships.
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14 February 1953
Wallasey Athletic Club had quite a successful afternoon at the R.A.F. Camp, West Kirby, last Saturday, when they were one of twelve clubs contesting the West Lancs. cross-country championships.
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21 February 1953
Wallasey A.C. spent last Saturday afternoon enjoying a relatively easy run from their Leasowe Road H.Q. in preparation for this Saturday's Northern Cross-Country Championships at Sheffield.
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28 February 1953
Last Saturday, Wallasey A.C. travelled by coach to Graves Park, Sheffield, to take part in the Northern Cross-Country Championships, when club teams competed in the boys, youths, and junior races whic
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07 March 1953
Local runners in national championships
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14 March 1953
Last Saturday saw the last big event of the cross-country season when the National championships were held at Caversham Park, Reading.
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14 March 1953
In the National Cross-Country Championship at Caversham Park, Reading last Saturday, Wallasey A.C. were represented in both youth and junior events, and an outstanding performance was put up by Roy Pa
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21 March 1953
Wallasey A.C. entertained Wirral A.C. and Liverpool Harriers at their Leasowe Road H.Q., on Saturday, when the three clubs raced over Wallasey's Christmas handicap coarse.
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28 March 1953
Last Saturday Wallasey A.C. competed against Wallasey Grammar School in an under 18 cross-country fixture over a 3¼ mile course from their Leasowe Road H.Q.
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04 April 1953
During the next few weeks Wallasey A.C. runners main activity will be centred on preparations for the coming track season.
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18 April 1953
Wallasey's A.C. international long jumper, Len Platt, has been awarded the Blair Trophy for the most outstanding performance during 1952 by an athlete from the No. 5 District of the Northern Counties
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25 April 1953
Attendances for track training at Wallasey A.C's Leasowe Road H.Q., this week have shown a marked improvement, due no doubt to the fine weather and lighter nights.
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02 May 1953
Wallasey A.C. and England long jumper Len Platt has been selected to represent Cheshire in the Inter-Counties championships to be held at the White City Stadium, London on Whit Saturday and Monday.
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09 May 1953
It is always interesting to review team and individual performance after the completion of a season, as they can then be judged in their proper perspective over the season as a whole rather than again
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09 May 1953
It is always interesting to review team and individual performance after the completion of a season, as they can then be judged in their proper perspective over the season as a whole rather than again
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16 May 1953
Wallasey Athletic Club's international long jumper Len Platt will be presented with the Blair Trophy at Leasowe Road H.Q. next Wednesday at 8 p.m.
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21 May 1953
Len Platt, of Wallasey Athetic Club, who defends his Cheshire County titles in four events at Port Sunlight Oval on Saturday.
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23 May 1953
Len Platt, Wallasey Athletic Club's star athlete, receives the Blair Trophy from Mr. S. Lubbock chairman of the Liverpool & District Committee of the Northern Counties A.A., at the club's headquar
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23 May 1953
The big athletics event this weekend takes place at London's White City Stadium today and on Whit Monday when the inter-counties championships will be incorporated with the British Games meeting.
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30 May 1953
At White City, London, on Saturday, Wallasey A.C.'s international long jumper Len Platt had to be content with second place the Inter-Counties long jump, thus losing the title he won in these champion
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06 June 1953
Wallasey Athletic Club's Len Platt had a great day at the Stockport Coronation meeting last Saturday when he won the long jump with a leap of 22ft. 9in., the short limit invitation 100, and the open h
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13 June 1953
Wallasey A.C. had a most successful afternoon at the B.I. Cables athletic track at Helsby, last Saturday, gaining nine Cheshire titles.
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27 June 1953
Len Platt achieved another notable success in the Northern championships at Hull last Saturday when he successfully defended both the long jump and hop, step, and jump titles he won last year.
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04 July 1953
Last Saturday Len Platt of Wallasey A.C. was in the Northern Counties team opposing Eire at Chesterfield, and duly won his long jump event.
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11 July 1953
At London's White City Stadium this Saturday, Wallasey A.C. jumper Len Platt will take on the best in the country in the long jump and the hop, step and jump events in the A.A.A. Championships.
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18 July 1953
Wallasey A.C's international long jumper, Len Platt, travelled to London last Saturday for the A.A.A. championships at White City Stadium, but did not show anything like his normal form and was unplac
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25 July 1953
Members of Wallasey A.C. were engaged last Saturday in athletic meetings all over the country when several successes were achieved.
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01 August 1953
Wallasey Athletic Club athletes had a quiet time last weekend but will be going into action again today at Port Sunlight, when several trophies will be competed for by all the Merseyside athletic club
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07 August 1953
L. H. Platt, of Wallasey, who has been included in the British team in the forthcoming international athletic matches against Germany and Sweden in Berlin and Stockholm.
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08 August 1953
Len H. Platt, of Wallasey Athletic Club, is among the thirty-eight athletes chosen to represent Britain in the inter'national matches against Germany, in Berlin, on August 29 and 30, and Sweden, in St
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08 August 1953
Wallasey athlete Len Platt is one of four new internationals in Great Britain's' team' for athletics matches against Germany, in Berlin, on August 29 and 30, and in Sweden on September 2 and 3.
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08 August 1953
Wallasey A.C. athletes on Saturday had a fairly thin afternoon, largely due to the absence of so many numbers through holidays.
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15 August 1953
Len Platt of Wallasey A.C. rose to the occasion in fine style last Saturday, when representing Great Britain in the British Games at London's White City Stadium, winning the long jump event with a lea
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22 August 1953
Five Wallasey A.C. runners last Saturday took part in the annual Liverpool Marathon, when four were successful in finishing the full course of 26 miles 385 yards.
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28 August 1953
Mr L. H. Platt, of 9 The Grange, Wallasey, Northern and Cheshire counties hop, step and jump champion, waves farewell to his father at Lime Street yesterday at the start of his journey to Sweden and G
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