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1952-1953

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  • Athletic club champions

    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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  • Len Platt's best win

    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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  • Wallasey Athletic Club

    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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  • Wallasey Athletic Club events

    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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  • Britain's athletic future

    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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  • 100 Boys for Leasowe Race

    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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  • Wallasey G.S. win schoolboys' race

    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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  • Local hopes in area championships

    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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  • Wallasey Athletic Club notes

    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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  • Athletic Club's Christmas race

    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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  • Winners of athletic club championships

    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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  • Junior runners lost their way

    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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  • Won five out of six athletic titles

    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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  • Cheshire champions

    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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  • Bob Johnston to lead the county team today

    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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  • Johnston defends senior running title today

    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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  • Local runners unfortunat

    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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  • W.A.C. runner took wrong turning

    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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  • Ledward gains junior cross-country title

    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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  • Local boys win W. Lancs. Titles

    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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Action en masse and always a thrilling spectacle. The youths get away in the Northern Cross Country Championships at Graves Park, Sheffield.
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  • Fast race over Wallasey A.C. course

    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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  • Platt gets outstanding athlete award

    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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  • Track training at Leasowe Road

    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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  • Local club's best performers

    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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Len Platt, of Wallasey Athetic Club,with the Blair Cup, presented to him for the most outstanding performance of the year by any Merseyside athlete.
Len Platt receives Blair Trophy from Mr S. Lubbock chairman of L&D Committee  May1953
  • Champion athlete takes Blair Trophy

    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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  • Platt at White City today

    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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  • Platt gets a 'second' at White City

    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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  • Platt's 3 Wins at Stockport

    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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  • Another success for Len Platt

    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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  • Platt's long jump success

    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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  • Len Platt in A.A.A. championships

    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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  • Athletic Notes

    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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  • Athletes in action again today

    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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  • In Britain's team for Berlin and Stockholm

    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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  • International honour for Len Platt

    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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  • Platt out-jumps all at White City

    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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Mr L. H. Platt,  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 Germany to represent Great Britain.