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| 05 September 1959 | Handicap Meeting at U.G.B. Sports St. Helens Last Saturday saw one of the few remaining handicap meetings of the season the U.G.B. sports at St. Helens. Pete White ran into third position and John Wright fourth behind Lancashire's international Gerry North in the open three-mile event. Read more... |
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| 12 September 1959 | 45 teams at Stalybridge Road Relay Wallasey Athletic Club competed last Saturday in the Stalybridge Road relay where 45 teams were entered. Wallasey's team (in running order) was John Wright, Pete White, Ron Barlow and Brian Chalton, each runner completing a stage of 3¼ miles. Read more... |
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| 19 September 1959 (New) | Wallasey A.C.'s opening cross-country run Today Wallasey Athletic Club stages the first run of the cross-country season. Read more... |
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| 26 September 1959 | Wallasey athletes fine running At Southport last Saturday a combined Wallasey Athletic Club team of seniors and juniors were successful in winning the Milk For Stamina Road Relay over six laps of 4 miles 210 yards. Read more... |
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| 03 October 1959 | Cross-country season opens At the annual meeting of Wallasey A.C. on September 24, Matt Smith, well known high jumper and hurdler, took over the reins as general secretary with Vince Bayliss as assistant, Bill Brookes was re-elected president in his Read more... |
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| 10 October 1959 | Wallasey Athletic Club Monstre meet success On Saturday last, over 80 runners entered for a three mile road race as the opening run of the Liverpool & District Cross-Country season. All the Merseyside clubs were represented at the headquarters of Wirral Athletic Club, and a good race was thereby assured. Read more... |
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| 17 October 1959 | Athletic club's hope of championship Members of Wallasey Athletic Club who enjoyed a hard training run last Saturday reconnoitered the course for this aftenoon's Liverpool & District League Championship Mob Run starting at 3:15. Read more... |
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| 24 October 1959 | Cross-Country triumph by Wallasey club Wallasey Athletic Club acted as hosts last Saturday to other member clubs of the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Union on the occasion of the first league fixture of the season. Ten clubs took part over a fast course, although a little difficult in parts owing to the extremely hard ground. Read more... |
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| 31 October 1959 | More athletic club successes Waterloo Harriers entertained Southport Harriers and Wallasey Athletics Club on Saturday at Crosby, and provided a varied laps course of grassland, soft soil, and cinder track which gave Wallasey's 'hot rods' a chance of showing their paces. Read more... |
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| 14 November 1959 | Wallasey's great chance today in Waterloo Race Today sees the famous Waterloo Road Race. The course of approximately 6½ miles, starts at Waterloo Town Hall at 3 p.m. and is held over the roads of Waterloo, taking the runners through several sections congested with heavy traffic. Read more... |
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| 21 November 1959 | Wallasey again lead Merseyside clubs On Saturday last 260 athletes from all over the North and the Midlands congregated at Waterloo for the annual Waterloo Road Race staged Waterloo Harriers over a 6¾ mile course. Read more... |
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| 28 November 1959 | Wallasey Club team win cross-country league championship Wallasey Athletic Club started the day in a strong position last Saturday in the final mob run in the Liverpool & District Cross-Country League and went on to win the event and the championship, thus enhancing their reputation as the leading cross-country club on Merseyside this year. Read more... |
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| 05 December 1959 | Moreton S.M. School win cross-country trophy again In the 11th annual Wallasey Schools Cross-Country Championships promoted by Wallasey Athletic Club from their headquarters at Leasowe Road, Wallasey last Saturday, nineteen teams from ten schools in the borough mustered 124 runners for the start of the race by the Director of Education, Mr. H. R. B. Read more... |
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| 12 December 1959 | Good run by Woolford in trophy race In the Ham Finney Trophy race promoted by Pembroke C. & A.C. at Kirkby last Saturday, Wallasey's leading runners were debarred from competing by virtue of having won the race two years ago, but such is the improvement in the overall standard within the club that we were able to field a team whic Read more... |
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| 02 January 1960 | Strong challenge today by WAC runners in county championships Wallasey Athletic Club's time-honoured Christmas Handicap, for which there was a reasonably good turn-out, was run from club headquarters over the usual stretch of Leasowe Road to Leasowe Common, returning along the shore. Read more... |
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| 09 January 1960 | Wright's win in county championships Wallasey Athletic Club's team came second one point behind - in the Cheshire County Championships held at Lyme Park,. Disley, on Saturday, and John Wright was the individual winner. Wright ran a good race over the seven-mile course, finally beating the reigning champion, John Wilde (Cheshire Harrier Read more... |
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| 16 January 1960 | Wright now wins district title John Wright followed up his individual success in the Cheshire County athletic championships by winning the senior event of the Liverpool & District championships last Saturday; while Wallasey Athletic Club's boys' team similarly went from success to success in their race. Read more... |
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| 13 February 1960 | Wallasey's near miss in West Lancs. Championships West Lancashire Cross-Country Association held their championships last Saturday at Sherdley Park, St. Helens, and for the first time for many, many years Wallasey Athletic Club had a strong senior team knocking on the door for premier honours. Read more... |
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| 05 March 1960 | Wallasey runners in champion army team Pte. R. Barlow, 41 Pasture Road. Moreton, was third in the Army Cross-Country Championships, at Crookham, Aldershot, last Friday. Read more... |
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| 12 March 1960 | Cross-country prospects in today's English championships The English cross-country championships to be held at West Bromwich today are the culmination of a winter's hard training and racing for some 3,000 athletes and runners from all over the country will be converging on the Dartmouth Park for most of the morning and early afternoon. Read more... |
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| 19 March 1960 | Barlow 8th in English Junior Championship Best performance by a member of Wallasey Athletic Club in the English cross-country championships held at West Bromwich last Saturday came from Ron Barlow, who finished 8th in the junior six-mile race. Read more... |
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| 26 March 1960 | Cross country athletes take to the road With the championship season over, members of Wallasey Athletic Club are looking forward to the track season. Read more... |
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| 02 April 1960 | Wallasey runners fourth in Preston relay Wallasey Athletic Club travelled to Preston last Saturday to take part in a cross-country relay organised by Preston Harriers on a very good two-mile, all-country course near their headquarters. Read more... |
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| 30 April 1960 | Athletic club members' county hopes Several members of Wallasey Athletic Club will be at the Manchester University sports ground today to compete for Cheshire against a combined side from Manchester and Liverpool Universities - usually regarded as an eliminating event for the selection of the Cheshire team, to compete in the inter-co Read more... |
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| 04 June 1960 (New) | Disappointments in Cheshire championships The track at Woodbank Park, Stockport, is set in very pleasant surroundings and this allied to the weather which seemed to bless the whole country last Saturday, meant that a trip to the Cheshire County Athletics championships proved a pleasant day out for an who made the trip. Read more... |
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| 16 July 1960 (New) | Wallasey Athletic Club Notes Now that the track season is well under way, Wallasey athletes can be seen at Leasowe almost any evening, practising their various events. Read more... |
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| 06 August 1960 | Athlete in Cyprus Busy on the athletic tracks of Cyprus is Pte. Tony Townsend, aged 20, whose parents live at 17 Penkett Road, Wallasey. He is serving in the Intelligence Corps and is at present attached to 9 Signal Regiment. Read more... |
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