04 September 1965
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
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11 September 1965
Some 25 athletes turned out for the opening run of the cross-country season from club headquarters in Leasowe Road last Saturday.
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25 September 1965
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 r
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02 October 1965
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 exp
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09 October 1965
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 suc
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16 October 1965
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
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23 October 1965
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.
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30 October 1965
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.
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06 November 1965
Strong winds on Bidston Marshes did not prevent an extremely enjoyable afternoon down at Wallasey Athletic Club headquarters last Saturday.
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13 November 1965
The boys', youths', junior, senior and women's Club Championships were competed for last Saturday over Bidston Marshes.
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20 November 1965
A biting wind blowing across Bidston Marshes made conditions very difficult for the young athletes in the Wallasey Schools Cross-Country Championships last Saturday.
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27 November 1965
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 Har
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04 December 1965
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. fr
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11 December 1965
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.
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25 December 1965
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.
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01 January 1966
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.
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01 January 1966
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,
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08 January 1966
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 star
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15 January 1966
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 whil
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17 January 1966
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
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21 January 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.
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22 January 1966
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 yea
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29 January 1966
Wallasey Athletic Club are today competing in the West Lancashire cross-country championships and will enter three teams - boys, youths and seniors.
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05 February 1966
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
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12 February 1966
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 winn
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19 February 1966
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
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26 February 1966
A number of the younger members of Wallasey Athletic Club were competing last Saturday in the Cheshire Schools Cross-Country Championships.
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12 March 1966
Today Wallasey Athletic Club are entering three teams in the Stretford Cross-Country Relays to be held near Manchester.
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19 March 1966
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 athlet
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26 March 1966
Wallasey A.C. visited St. Helens last Saturday for Sutton A.C.'s fourth annual road race.
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02 April 1966
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
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16 April 1966
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.
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23 April 1966
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 th
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30 April 1966
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.
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07 May 1966
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.
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14 May 1966
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.
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21 May 1966
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.
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28 May 1966
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
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07 June 1966
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 e
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11 June 1966
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 5t
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18 June 1966
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 o
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25 June 1966
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
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02 July 1966
Despite the appalling weather conditions many of the Wallasey athletes produced exceptional performances in the annual Track and Field Championships.
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09 July 1966
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.
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09 July 1966
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 d
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13 August 1966
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
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20 August 1966
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.
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27 August 1966
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 Ste
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