05 September 1959
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
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12 September 1959
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, e
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19 September 1959
Today Wallasey Athletic Club stages the first run of the cross-country season.
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26 September 1959
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.
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03 October 1959
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-el
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10 October 1959
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 headquart
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17 October 1959
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.
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24 October 1959
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
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31 October 1959
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 '
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14 November 1959
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
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21 November 1959
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.
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28 November 1959
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, t
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05 December 1959
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 t
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12 December 1959
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 su
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02 January 1960
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, retu
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09 January 1960
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
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16 January 1960
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 Ath
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13 February 1960
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 te
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05 March 1960
Pte. R. Barlow, 41 Pasture Road. Moreton, was third in the Army Cross-Country Championships, at Crookham, Aldershot, last Friday.
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12 March 1960
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
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19 March 1960
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
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26 March 1960
With the championship season over, members of Wallasey Athletic Club are looking forward to the track season.
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02 April 1960
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.
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30 April 1960
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
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04 June 1960
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 Coun
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16 July 1960
Now that the track season is well under way, Wallasey athletes can be seen at Leasowe almost any evening, practising their various events.
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06 August 1960
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 Re
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