1965-1966

Date	Headline	Ref
04 September 1965	Loose Track Foils Relay Bid by 8 Seconds An attempt by Wallasey Athletic Club to establish a 4 x 1 mile relay time of 19 mins. 40 secs. for the youths' race, came within 8 seconds of fruition when the 'A' team returned 19 minutes 48 seconds at Lingham Park track last Saturday. Read more...	1361
11 September 1965 (New)	Cross country season opens Some 25 athletes turned out for the opening run of the cross-country season from club headquarters in Leasowe Road last Saturday. Read more...	2299
25 September 1965	Runners fast times over Welsh coast Of the twelve runners who took part in the weekend camp at Foel Glap Farm (Denbigh), six returned personal best times for the 3 mile hill course, three who were running this route for the first time recorded good times, whilst the remaining three were within 15 seconds of their best. Read more...	1412
02 October 1965	Lockley Wins Inter-Club Race Running in the first inter-club cross-country race of the season, Dave Lockley had no trouble in winning over, a three-mile course in which a field of 29 runners faced conditions as hard as can be expected for the rest of the winter. Read more...	1424
09 October 1965 (New)	Athletic Club A.G.M. The annual general meeting of Wallasey Athletic Club was held at club headquarters on Friday, September 24. The meeting was well attended and each member present now looks forward to a new year of successful competition. Read more...	2300
16 October 1965	Ron Barlow Does Fastest Time Ron Barlow who ran the second leg for Wallasey Athletic' Club in the Sefton Park road relays held last Saturday, was only five seconds slower than the course record, the distance being over 3¼ miles. This performance by Barlow assisted the team attaining fifth position in the championships. Read more...	1414
23 October 1965	Ron Barlow beats race field of 86 Ron Barlow for the second week in succession, beat the best on Merseyside from a field of 86 ,to win the .first. Liverpool & District League Race at Woolton over a five mile course last Saturday. His time of 29 mins. 1 sec. over this course shows that Barlow is heading for National honours again Read more...	1406
30 October 1965	Johnny Jones wins Wirral schools race Johnny Jones won the individual event in the William Weston Memorial Trophy race in last Saturday's Wirral Schools Championships, whilst competing for Wallasey Grammar School, his time being 13 mins. 12 secs. Read more...	1416
06 November 1965 (New)	Sealed handicap won by Chalton Strong winds on Bidston Marshes did not prevent an extremely enjoyable afternoon down at Wallasey Athletic Club headquarters last Saturday. Read more...	2301
13 November 1965	Woman runner's fine performance The boys', youths', junior, senior and women's Club Championships were competed for last Saturday over Bidston Marshes. Read more...	1400
20 November 1965 (New)	1½ mile race won by a second A biting wind blowing across Bidston Marshes made conditions very difficult for the young athletes in the Wallasey Schools Cross-Country Championships last Saturday. Read more...	2302
27 November 1965	Barlow goes faster than international star On Wednesday, November 17,Wallasey Athletic Club took part in the Waterloo Road Relay Festival, during which Ron Barlow ran incredibly well to do a faster time for the two mile leg than the Bolton Harriers and English international runner, Ron Hill. Barlow's time of 9 mins. Read more...	1417
04 December 1965	Cross-country win for Wallasey team Wallasey Athletic Club competed in an invitation cross-country match at Warrington last Saturday. The senior team, comprising Brian Woolford, Barrie Smith, John Wright and Ken Roscoe won by 28 pts. from Pembroke Harriers and Warrington Athletic Club. Read more...	1413
11 December 1965	Wallasey Athletic Club in H. S. Finney Trophy Race Wallasey Athletic Club's first team beat 23 teams representing clubs from as far afield at Blackpool, in last Saturday's H. S. Finney Trophy event. Read more...	1418
25 December 1965	Melvin Schless wins Athletic Club's Christmas handicap Running in his first Christmas handicap race, young Melvin Schless off a 4 mins. 55 secs. handicap, ran a well-judged race to win Wallasey Athletic Club's annual event in 19 mins. 31 secs. Read more...	1419
01 January 1966	Barlow heads local athletes in County Championship Wallasey Athletic Club's activities over the Christmas holiday period were confined to a club run on Boxing Day, when a group of runners of various abilities set out from club H.Q. on a 9-mile course, taking in Bidston Marshes, Noctorum and Bidston Hill on the return journey. Read more...	1420
01 January 1966	Wirral Favourites for Liverpool & District title One of the oldest established cross-country championships, the Liverpool & District will be competed for next Saturday on the home course of the Wallasey Athletic Club in Leasowe Road. Read more...	1409
08 January 1966	Ron Barlow retains county cross-country title Running with comparative ease over the 7-mile cross-country course which Cheshire County laid out at Woodbank Park, Stockport last Saturday, Wallasey's Ron Barlow ran away from the rest of the 76 starters and left his immediate challenger, M. Cranny (Wirral A.C.) over 200 yards in his wake. Read more...	1421
15 January 1966	Ron Barlow falls to Turner in district championship run Showing no ill effects from his stay in Mexico City, Liverpool Harrier's Mike Turner, who was one of six British middle-distance runners who underwent a series of endurance tests at high altitude whilst there, inflicted a rare defeat on Wallasey's Ron Barlow in the Liverpool & District Champions Read more...	1422
17 January 1966	Barlow Is Wallasey's Sportsman Of 1965 Ron Barlow, a 26-years-old member of Wallasey Athletic Club has been chosen as Wallasey's Sports Personality of the year for 1965 and will be presented with the Marples Trophy by its donor Mr. Ernest Marples, M.P. for Wallasey on Thursday. Read more...	1410
21 January 1966	Ron Barlow Wallasey's Sports Personality of the Year 1966 Ron Barlow, the well-known athlete, named as Wallasey Sportsman of the Year, receives the Challenge Trophy from Mr. Ernest Marples, who donated it, at Churchill House, Wallasey, last night. Read more...	1408
22 January 1966	Barlow, Woolford run for Cheshire in cross-country meeting Ron Barlow and Brian Woolford of Wallasey Athletic Club, represented Cheshire in the Inter-Counties Cross-Country meeting last Saturday, in one of the strongest teams Cheshire has fielded for many years. Read more...	1423
29 January 1966	Wallasey A.C. field three teams in big cross-country Wallasey Athletic Club are today competing in the West Lancashire cross-country championships and will enter three teams - boys, youths and seniors. Read more...	1415
05 February 1966	French honour for Barlow in nine-mile cross-country run In recognition of the high standard of running that Ron Barlow has attained 'over the country' this winter, he bas bee rewarded with a trip to Chartre (near Paris) this week-end, when in company with E. Storey (Bristol), T. Brialt (London), and M. Batty (Thurrock), he competes tomorrow in an interna Read more...	1398
12 February 1966 (New)	Wallasey's Barlow ran for Britain Last Sunday, February 6, Ron Barlow represented Great Britain in an international cross-country race at Chartres in France. Barlow ran brilliantly to finish in nineteenth position. The individual winner of the race was Michel Jazy, the French world record holder, who won by a considerable distance f Read more...	2303
19 February 1966	Lockley 18th in run for Northern boys' title Dave Lockley of Wallasey Athletic Club finished 18th in the individual race for the Boys' Northern Counties Championship last Saturday. Although it was expected that Lockley would finish higher in the final placings, this was an excellent performance, as there was six inches of snow and slush on thi Read more...	1391
26 February 1966	Steve Walker to run for Cheshire schools A number of the younger members of Wallasey Athletic Club were competing last Saturday in the Cheshire Schools Cross-Country Championships. Read more...	1390
12 March 1966	Local runner In Stretford race Today Wallasey Athletic Club are entering three teams in the Stretford Cross-Country Relays to be held near Manchester. Read more...	1389
19 March 1966 (New)	Today's big road races The Sutton, St. Helens, road races have attracted a big entry today and with more than a dozen inter-nationals in the senior race over a 7-mile course, the programme reads like a "who's who" of athletes. Read more...	2304
26 March 1966	Wallasey 2nd on a day of records Wallasey A.C. visited St. Helens last Saturday for Sutton A.C.'s fourth annual road race. Read more...	1388
02 April 1966	Wallasey's 3 teams in Warrington relays today Wallasey Athletic Club send three teams to Warrington today for the annual relays held in Victoria Park. In a four-man team each runner completes a 1-mile lap of grassland before handing over, and the club have one team entered in the, youths' race and two teams in the boys' event. Read more...	1392
16 April 1966 (New)	Great last leg by Dave Lockley in Sale Relay Despite a hard football game the previous day (which had an effect on all but one of his Wallasey team-mates) Dave Lockley put in a great last leg of a three-man relay at Sale last Saturday. Read more...	2305
23 April 1966	Some precision pace-making by Dave Lockley Two time trials were held by Wallasey Athletic Club at Lingham Park last Saturday over the one-mile and two-mile distances. In the two-mile race Dave Lockley ran with clockwork regularity and paced the leading group through five quarter-mile laps, each in exactly 75 seconds. Read more...	1387
30 April 1966	Weekend Athletes Most of the Wallasey Athletic Club members had a strenuous two days last week-end, with a series of track time trials on Saturday and a handicap race on Sunday over the grueling course in Denbigh. Read more...	1386
07 May 1966 (New)	Sunshine time trials at Lingham Park Three half-mile time trials were held under cloudless skies last Saturday at the Lingham Park track. The conditions were ideal with the temperature in the high sixties, and a gentle cooling wind. Read more...	2306
14 May 1966	Doug Hanna fastest in relays at Lingham Wallasey Athletic Club members brought their pre track season progress a stage further last Saturday with a 3 x 880 yards relay race at the Lingham Park track, Moreton. Read more...	1393
21 May 1966	Athletic Club team lower relay record Wallasey Athletic Club's youths' relay team set a new record for the 4 x 1-mile event when they recorded 19 mins. 41 secs, (7 secs. off last year's time) at Lingham track last Saturday. Read more...	1394
28 May 1966	Athletes' successes in Cheshire Championships Wallasey Athletic Club members were well to the fore in the Cheshire Championships held at Sale last Saturday. And while the club had a large number of male competitors, the women's Read more...	1395
07 June 1966	Gerrard back to form Alan Gerrard, of Liverpool Harriers, who ran below form at Saturday's county championship meeting after receiving a smallpox injection during the week, gained some consolation by scoring one of the easiest victories during last night's Liverpool parks athletic meeting at Wavertree. Read more...	1407
11 June 1966	Phyllis Edwards 5th in Northern long jump championship Despite losing a toe spike from her left shoe and having to wait for over 1½ hours, the time it took for three qualifying jumps, Phyllis Edwards, of Wallasey Athletic Club, still finished in 5th position in the Northern Counties long jump championships at Victoria Park, Warrington, last Satur Read more...	1396
18 June 1966	Barrie Smith runs best mile of his career Wallasey Athletic Club competed in an inter-club invitation meeting at Blackburn last Saturday, but as they could only take a limited number of competitors they only managed to finish in fifth place out of the six teams. Read more...	1397
25 June 1966	Athlete's Brilliant Wavertree Run On Tuesday a number of Wallasey athletes compete in the Liverpool Parks and Gardens Championships at Wavertree. Ron Barlow ran brilliantly to win the two miles in a time of 9 Read more...	1405
02 July 1966	Mike Teahan clears 2,000 points in club championships Despite the appalling weather conditions many of the Wallasey athletes produced exceptional performances in the annual Track and Field Championships. Read more...	1399
09 July 1966	Wallasey top town in North-West Junior athletes Wallasey's boy athletes returned from the 20th Inter Town Athletics Festival still with the J.R. Jones Championship Cup which they won last year. They beat their nearest rivals, Blackburn, by 14 pts. and won many of the events outright. Read more...	1401
09 July 1966	1,2,3 For Carl Gee - Liverpool Parks championships From the finals of the Liverpool Parks and Gardens Championships, Wallasey Athletic Club coach Carl Gee brought home three trophies to add to his already massive collection. He was placed 1st in the discus with 109 ft. 10 ins.; second in the Read more...	1402
13 August 1966	Young athletes gain National Standards The National Standards meetings held at Kirkby Stadium each Tuesday evening provide local athletes with much needed competition at this time of the track season, and Wallasey's runners' have not-been slow in taking advantage of the excellent facilities provided. Read more...	2128
20 August 1966	Dave Lockley is no. 8 in Britain Wallasey Athletic Club's Dave Lockley turned in a fine performance in last Tuesday evening's 1,000 meters steeplechase for youths at Kirkby Stadium. Read more...	1404
27 August 1966	Steeplechase puts Lockley in first rank In perfect running conditions, Wallasey Athletic Club competed at Warrington in an inter-club fixture. The best performance of the meeting was that of Dave Lockley who won the youths' 1,000 metres Steeplechase in a personal best time of 2 mins. 49.2 secs. Read more...	1403