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| 13 September 1968 | Athletic Club's bright prospects for cross-country season Wallasey Athletic Club faces the 1968-9 cross-country season in a stronger position than has been enjoyed since the war, despite the loss of their two strongest runners, Barlow and Woolford, both now members of Sutton Harriers. Read more... |
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| 20 September 1968 | Athlete Dave Lockley chosen for area team As a just reward for a season of quality hurdling, Wallasey's Dave Lockley has been selected to represent the West of the Pennines athletics team versus the Midlands, at Kirkby Stadium next Sunday, September 22nd. Read more... |
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| 27 September 1968 (New) | Lockley 3rd in hurdle clash with Midlands The Northern Counties (West of the Pennines) athletics team met, and defeated by 96 pts. to 86, a Midlands Counties team in bright sunshine at Kirkby Stadium, Liverpool, on Sunday. Read more... |
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| 11 October 1968 | Wallasey runners 5th in 19 team relay Wallasey Athletic Club, took part in the Sefton Road Relays at Sefton Park, Aigburth, last Saturday. Dave Lockley ran the first leg of the 6x3 miles relay in a fast time of 16 mins. 9 secs: and returned in 2nd place, 4 secs. behind the leader. Read more... |
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| 25 October 1968 | Gary Fair's fine run in Northern Schools championships Four of the younger members of Wallasey Athletic Club competed for Wallasey Technical Grammar School last Saturday in the Northern Schools' Cross-Country Championships over a hilly 3¾ miles course, at Lyme Park, Disley, Manchester. Read more... |
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| 01 November 1968 | Wallasey A.C.'s 1st, 2nd, 3rd in cross-country Wallasey Athletic' Club's boys' section completely crushed all opposition at Sherdley Park, St. Helens, last Saturday with Read more... |
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| 06 December 1968 | Runners' Fair day in 3rd league race In last Saturday's third and final league race, held at Sherdley Park, Sutton, St. Helens, Wallasey Athletic Club's runners were once again led home in the senior race by Dave Lockley, who finished well in 8th place in 36 mins. 45 secs. Read more... |
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| 13 December 1968 | Girl's fine run to win Cheshire championship Three of Wallasey Athletic Club's' junior girl athletes raced at Woodbank Park, Stockport, last Saturday in the Cheshire women's cross-country championships. Read more... |
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| 20 December 1968 | Wallasey Athletic Club Boys in Birmngham Four of the boys' Section of the club competed at Small Heath, Birmingham, on Saturday last in a 4 x 2.2 miles Cross-Country Relay, The boys, Gary Fair, Bob Warburton, Phil Keating and Bob Brimage finished in fourth place, Read more... |
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| 10 January 1969 | Fair's 2nd in county cross-country, medal for Lockley In the annual Cheshire cross-country championships held at the Port Sunlight Oval on Saturday over a fairly flat, but muddy course, Wallasey Athletic Club was represented in all four age groups and finished a team in two of them. Read more... |
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| 17 January 1969 | Athletic Club Senior Team Revival? Wallasey's athletes last week competed in the Liverpool & District cross-country championships at Arrowe Park, where the senior team finished fourth, behind Sutton, Wirral and Pembroke, but beating such teams as Liverpool, Waterloo, Sefton and Warrington. Read more... |
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| 24 January 1969 | Boys Athletic team wins inter-club race It was the turn of Wallasey Athletic Club's Boys' team to grab the honours in an inter-club race over two miles last Saturday at Warrington. Read more... |
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| 31 January 1969 | Dave is champ by 100 yards Wallasey Athletic Club's visit to Blackpool for the West Lancashire Cross-Country Championship last Saturday resulted in a great victory for Dave Lockley in the junior 6 miles race. Read more... |
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| 21 February 1969 | A.A. club's races for the girls Wallasey Athletic Club promote cross-country races for girls this Saturday at 2:30 when ten schools and an entry of 232 contest three races over the sandhills course recently used for the Wallasey schoolboys events. Read more... |
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| 28 February 1969 | Double for Wallasey girl stars Some great running was seen at Leasowe last Saturday, when despite atrocious conditions, nearly 200 runners from Wallasey, Wirral, Chester and Liverpool braved the rain and windswept course that served for the inaugural cross-country races for schoolgirls sponsored by Wallasey Athletic Club. Read more... |
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| 11 March 1969 (New) | Fine effort by Lockley Last Saturday Wallasey's athletes visited St. Helens for the Sutton 7-mile road race. Read more... |
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| 28 March 1969 | Barbara is 1968's Sports Personality Athletic Club star, 21 year-old Barbara Banks, has been chosen as Wallasey's Sports Personality of 1968 for her outstanding performances in cross-country and athletics. Read more... |
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| 04 April 1969 | Creditable effort by athletes Last Saturday in the Northern women's road relays at Derby, Wallasey were represented by junior and senior teams. The junior team sadly arrived at the venue only minutes before the start of the 3 x 1 mile relay and Sylvia Brimage did a grand job finishing to first lap in sixth position only 22 secs. Read more... |
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| 23 May 1969 (New) | Wallasey Produce Champions Last Saturday the annual county championships were held at Hartford, Northwich, where four Wallasey athletes emerged as county champions and many were well-placed. Read more... |
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| 30 May 1969 | Wallasey A.C. give a good account Last Saturday, Wallasey A.C. visited St. Helens for the second of five Merseyside League meetings. A rain-soaked day didn't prevent Wallasey athletes from recording good performances. Read more... |
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| 06 June 1969 | Commendable efforts by Wallasey A.C. A team of eight Wallasey athletes travelled to Hartford last weekend for the Women's Cheshire AAA. Championships. Although the rain held off for most of the afternoon, it was cold and bleak and a strong headwind along the finishing straight certainly didn't improve times. Read more... |
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| 20 June 1969 | Barbara sprints into top ten At this year's Northern Women's Athletic Championships, Barbara Banks, recently voted Wallasey's sports personality 1968-9, finished third in the 1500 metres, in a top class time of 4 mins. 38 secs. Read more... |
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| 27 June 1969 (New) | Bob comes third in 'counties' Last Saturday Cheshire youths 880 champion Bob Warburton was placed a very close third in the annual schools inter-counties championships. Read more... |
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| 04 July 1969 | Success for athletes at four venues The members of Wallasey Athletic Club cast their net further afield than usual on Saturday and were competing at four different venues, Winsford, Stretford, Blackburn and Castleford. Read more... |
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| 11 July 1969 (New) | Pete inches home in 400 metres On Saturday Wallasey's younger athletes travelled to Pilkington's recreation centre for the Northern junior and youth championships, but because of a strong wind performances were generally lower than usual. Read more... |
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| 18 July 1969 | Barbara Banks breaks the U.K. record Barbara Banks, Wallasey's Sports Personality for 1968-69, showed that she is not one for resting on her laurels by making a strong bid for the same title for 1969-70. Read more... |
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| 24 July 1969 | Barbara Banks wins 880 yards at Liverpool Parks Championships Barbara Banks (Wallasey A.C.) Just beats Jill Simmons of Wirral A.C. in the women's 880 yards final of the Liverpool Parks amateur athletic championships held last night at Wavertree Playground. Read more... |
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| 25 July 1969 | Barbara Gains final place On Saturday, Barbara Banks competed in the final of the Women's A.A.A. 1500 metres , and finished seventh in a top class field. Read more... |
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| 08 August 1969 | Athletes in good form in Gately Due to absences caused mainly by holidays, only a small party of athletes from Wallasey competed in the inter-club meeting at Gately on Saturday. Read more... |
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| 15 August 1969 | Athletes in good form at Crystal Palace Saturday saw the finals of the A.A.A. junior and youth championships at Crystal Palace, in which Wallasey had two representatives. Read more... |
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| 22 August 1969 (New) | Wallasey athletes below form Something was missing from Saturday's inter-club meeting at Warrington, where Wallasey A.C. were competing only as guests. Consequently, no points were scored by the club whatever position we finished. It is hoped that the club fare better when they compete in the final Merseyside track and field le Read more... |
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| 29 August 1969 | Athletic Club are ready to go ahead Despite losing ground at the last two meetings, Wallasey Athletic Club's ladies, made sure of victory in their section of the Merseyside Track and field League last Saturday at Warrington by holding the numerically stronger Liverpool and West Lancashire clubs to a narrow read in the final meeting. Read more... |
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