1962-1963

Date	Headline	Ref
06 October 1962	Athletic club's year of many achievements At the annual meeting of the Wallasey Athletic Club at their headquarters in Leasowe Road, on September 28 the general secretary Mr. J. N. Wright reported a year of many achievements from the various sections of the club, with individual successes in events of national standards. Read more...	1303
13 October 1962 (New)	Local runners well placed at 'Monstre Meet' Saturday saw the opening of the Liverpool & District Cross-Country season with the annual "Monstre Meet", held this year at the Old Roan, Aintree. Read more...	2255
26 October 1962	Mather wins interclub 880 yards K. J. Mather (Wallasey A.C.) leads the field in the senior 880 yards and goes on to win with P. Howard (Manchester And District Lads Club) second in the Port Sunlight Athletics Club, Inter-Clubs championships held at the Oval, Bebington. Read more...	1306
27 October 1962	Wallasey fifth in first league match In spite of excellent running by John Wright and Brian Woolford, it was a disappointing result for Wallasey's cross-country team in their first Mob run of the season, held at Woolton Woods last Saturday. Read more...	1308
03 November 1962	Great victory for Wallasey in 10-mile road race Wallasey's three leading road runners, Ron Barlow, Brian Woolford and John Wright, visited Lakeland last Saturday for the annual 10-mile road race, and gained one of the best victories of their running careers. Read more...	1305
10 November 1962	Wallasey runners to the fore Last Saturday, Wallasey A.C. were entertained to a friendly cross-country match, over a six miles course, by Chester Training College. However, a supposedly easy victory was turned into narrow defeat, due to one or two of the Wallasey's runners not turning up. Read more...	1309
17 November 1962	Wallasey team just win trophy in big Waterloo Road Race Fresh from their success in the Derwentwater 10-mile Road Race, and with their best available team running, Wallasey Athletic Club went to Saturday's Waterloo Road Race with their heads and hopes high. Read more...	1301
24 November 1962	Wallasey have first two in but team 2nd Wallasey A.C. were hosts last Saturday for the second Liverpool & District League match, held in the worst possible conditions at club headquarters, Leasowe. Read more...	1310
01 December 1962	Cross country runners in county team Three of Wallasey Athletic Club's runners, Ron Barlow, Brian Woolford and Kevin Mather, represented Cheshire last Saturday in a triangular cross-country match against Lancashire and Northumberland and Durham. Read more...	1307
08 December 1962	Woolford wins H.S. Finney race After finishing 3rd in this race for the last 2 seasons, Brian Woolford made no mistake this time, taking the lead at the end of the first mile, he stormed away from the opposition for a fine victory. Read more...	1314
05 January 1963	Athletic Club members in light-hearted handicap run Wallasey Athletic Club Christmas Handicap, which had been postponed for a week due to several of the club members having other commitments, was held on a fine but cold day at club headquarters on December 22. Read more...	2130
12 January 1963	County Cross-Country title regained Last Saturday in snowy conditions at Woodbank Park, Stockport, Wallasey A.C. regained the title Cheshire Cross-Country Champions, with a display of powerful team running that crushed arch-rivals and holders Wirral A.C. Read more...	1283
19 January 1963	Five Wallasey runners in to-day's big race Today the Inter-County Championships will be held at Reading. for which five members of Wallasey Athletic Club have been chosen. Read more...	1286
26 January 1963	Inter-County championships Never have conditions been as severe as they were at last Saturday's Inter-Counties championships, held at Caversham Park, Reading. Read more...	1285
02 February 1963	Wallasey A.C. Runners-up in Liverpool & District championships As was expected last Saturday at Sherdley Park, St. Helens, Wallasey A.C. were narrowly defeated by neighbours Wirral A.C. in the Liverpool & District championships. Read more...	1284
09 February 1963 (New)	Success in W. Lancashire championships Wallasey Athletic Club had two fine individual successes when the West Lancashire Cross-Country championships were contested last Saturday over a snow-covered course at Leyland. Read more...	2256
14 February 1963	St. Asaph Action Brian Craig and Ron Barlow jostle for first position soon after the start of the St. Asaph to Rhyl road race organized annually by the Rhyl Athletic Club. Craig number 1 is from Blackpool and Barlow number 184 is from Wallasey A.C. Read more...	1313
16 February 1963	Special games film show A special film with of the world's top athletes training in the camps at the European and the Commonwealth Games of 1962 will be shown by Denis Watts, Chief Coach to the British teams, at the Y.M.C.A., Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, on Friday next at 7.45 p.m. Read more...	1291
16 February 1963	They beat Birchfield Harriers - Wallasey Athletic Club's feat Wallasey Athletic Club beat the famous midland club Birchfield Harriers last Saturday in the most important road race held in the North in the last few months, Blackpool were placed third. Read more...	1287
23 February 1963	Aggressive run by Turner Rarely has Mike Turner been so positively aggressive in his running as when winning the Northern championship las week on the treacherous, ice - bound course at Blackburn. Read more...	1295
02 March 1963 (New)	Barlow's best for 7th place in Northern championships Cheshire champion, Ron Barlow, of Wallasey A.C., turned in his best senior cross-country performance yet in the Northern championships two weeks ago at Witton Park, Blackburn. Read more...	2257
05 March 1963	National Cross Country Championship Action Number 1542 John Wright (Wallasey A.C.) competing in the National Cross-Country Championships held at Cambridge on Saturday, March 2nd. Also in the picture are number 61, A. Black (Belgrave Harriers) and number 1198, M. Jackson (Rotherham Harriers and A.C.) Read more...	1302
16 March 1963	Wallasey athletes take to the road With the completion of the cross-country season excepting today's international event at San Sebastion. Wallasey A.C. runners today travel to the lake district to compete in the Windermere to Kendal road race. Read more...	1281
23 March 1963	Brilliant Road Race Win Wallasey Athletic Club's road racing team last Saturday chalked up their fourth successive win when they journeyed to the Lake, District to score a brilliant victory in the annual Windermere to Kendal race. Read more...	1279
23 March 1963	England's Packing Not To Standard England's failure to hold the International Cross-Country Championship at San Sebastian last weekend was only by a margin of three points, yet at no time in the race did the team succeed in packing together in the well-tested manner that draws from each runner his best. Read more...	1298
30 March 1963	Wallasey again The Sutton seven miles open road race was won by Ron Barlow whose team, Wallasey A.C., a won the team race. Read more...	1296
30 March 1963	Another road race win for Wallasey A.C. Wallasey athletes last Saturday competed in the St. Helens 7 mile road race and as expected won comfortably with a team score of 17 points against the 53 points of Clayton-le-Moors. Read more...	1278
06 April 1963	Wallasey runners win Sefton relay race Saturday saw Liverpool's Sefton Park being circled by all Merseyside Athletic Clubs when the annual Sefton Park Road Relay championship was contested with six runners from each team covering the lap of 3¼ miles. Read more...	1280
13 April 1963	Athlete's 7th Road Race win on the run Wallasey Athletic Club runners gained their seventh victory last Saturday when they placed five in the first seven positions in the annual Port Sunlight open road race contested over six miles of Lever estate at Port Sunlight. Read more...	1299
20 April 1963	Wallasey A.C. in big road relay race today Today at Blackpool teams from far afield in the North and Midlands will race round Stanley Park for the Blackpool and Fylde Memorial Trophy, which is valued at £800 and at which the Wallasey Athletic Club road racing team are directing covetous eyes. Read more...	1290
27 April 1963	Barlow's Fine Effort in Blackpool Relay Although Wallasey Athletic Club failed in their bid to win the Blackpool road relay race last Saturday, theirs was indeed a glorious failure as their splendid quintet of Barlow, Wright, Woolford, Mather and Chalton battled their way through the field from 22nd position after the first leg to take th Read more...	1311
27 April 1963	Carl Gee Qualifies as A.A.A. Coach Wallasey Athletic Club track and field champion Carl Gee recently passed is final A.A.A. examinations for the discus and shot events and is now the first fully qualified A.A.A. honorary senior coach in the Merseyside area. He has also been appointed a staff coach at the A.A.A. Summer School at Lough Read more...	1300
04 May 1963 (New)	Still another road race victory for Wallasey athletes AND BARLOW'S WINNING TIME LOPS 51 SECS. OFF COURSE RECORD Read more...	2258
11 May 1963	Mather is Wallasey sports personality for 1962 Wallasey's sports personality for 1962, and winner of the trophy donated by Mr Ernest Marples, is Kevin Mather, of the Wallasey Athletic Club. Read more...	1312
11 May 1963	Fine running by town's athletes Last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club sent a strong team to compete in the Salford Road Relay, which although without John Wright, was expected to be well to the fore with runners of the calibre of Barlow, Woolford, Mather and Chalton. Read more...	1292
25 May 1963	Athletics: track season opens Once again the track season is upon us and for the next four months the arduous running that is cross-country gives way to the cut and thrust of track and field athletics. Read more...	1293
01 June 1963	Great day for Wallasey athletes Last Saturday saw Kevin Mather, Ron Barlow and Brian Woolford all capture county titles in their respective events at the Cheshire County Championships, Mather won the mile, Barlow the three mile and Woolford the 20 miles. Read more...	1288
08 June 1963	Barlow's fine run in inter-counties championships While most people were relaxing in the Whit weekend sunshine, Wallasey A.C. runners Ron Barlow, Brian Woolford and Kevin Mather travelled to London to represent Cheshire in an Inter-Counties Athletic Championships in which the Cheshire team succeeded in winning the Minor Counties Championship. Read more...	1297
15 June 1963	Kevin Mather wins Wallasey Sports Personality 1962 Wallasey Sports Personality of the year, 25 year old Kevin Mather of Wallasey A.C., pictured here with the Marples Trophy, presented to him by Mr E. Marples (Minister of Transport) at the Leasowe Road playing fields. Read more...	1304
17 June 1963	Kevin Mather Wallasey's Sports Personality of the Year 1962 Mr Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport and M.P. for Wallasey is left holding baby (two year old Geoffrey Mather) as twenty-five-year-old Kevin Mather of Wallasey congratulatory from his wife Anne after winning the Marples Trophy for being Wallasey's Sports Personality of the Year on Saturday. Read more...	1316
22 June 1963	Good running by Wallasey athletes At the Witton Park track at Blackburn last week Wallasey miler Kevin Mather ran in the invitation mile while clubmate Ron Barlow, took time off from his marathon training to compete in the 3-mile event. Read more...	1282
06 July 1963 (New)	Club play hosts, and second fiddle, to Grammar School Wallasey A.C. members were engaged both at home and at Liverpool's Wavertree tracks on Tuesday evening with mixed fortunes. Read more...	2259
13 July 1963 (New)	Woolford wins marathon BARLOW LEADS MOST OF WAY - 2nd WITH CRAMP Read more...	2260
20 July 1963	Woolford wins Northern Marathon, July 6th, 1963 The Northern Counties marathon championship was held for the first time in Lancashire, with Pembroke A. & C.C. the organisers. On all previous occasions it has been held in Yorkshire in conjunction with either the Doncaster-Sheffield or Hull marathons. Of the 48 entries 37 came under starter's o Read more...	2172
27 July 1963 (New)	R. Barlow's best-ever 3-mile win At Saturday's national class meeting at the new Kirkby Stadium, Ron Barlow (Wallasey Athletic Club) - in the middle of his training for the A.A.A. marathon - achieved his best-ever track performance when he beat internationals Brian Craig and Gerry North to win the 3-mile event in a personal best ti Read more...	2262
27 July 1963 (New)	Athletics results In the Senior Athletic events in the evening, Wallasey Athletic Club took first place in the two miles team race with 37 pts. Sefton A.C. were second with 23 points and Waterloo third with 22 points. Among the individual results were :- Read more...	2261
03 August 1963	K. Mather wins senior club championship Wallasey Athletic Club held their track and field championships on Saturday at their headquarters in Leasowe Road - on what proved to be one of the warmest days of the year. Read more...	1315
10 August 1963	Ron Barlow wins 2-mile team race Running in the 2-mile team race at the Lever trophy meeting on Monday, Ron Barlow led Wallasey Athletic Club to a great win in 8 mins. 8.2 secs, Read more...	1294
10 August 1963	Lancs. win Inter-County The Inter-County meeting at Kirkby, on July 20th brought some good performances but the presentation of the meeting was poor to say the least. Read more...	2173
24 August 1963	Woolford's Great Run in A.A.A. Marathon Wallasey Athletic Club's Brian Woolford lined up with the best of Britains marathon runners last Saturday to compete in the A.A.A. championship over the classic distance of 26 miles 385 yards and achieved the distinction of finishing in third place behind the great internationals Brian Kilby and Bas Read more...	1289