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    02 September 1972

    Athletics

    Four athletes represented Wallasey Athletic Club at the Preston Guild Meeting last Saturday. In the Ladies mile Janice Watts finished second behind international Jean Lochhead of Airedale with a fine

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    23 September 1972

    Helen Coasts Home in Pentathlon

    Wallasey Athletic Club held its annual Pentathlon competition at Woodchurch last Sunday. Club captain, Allan Cheers, won the senior men's competition with 2,662 points from five events. Bob Brimage wa

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    14 October 1972

    Good start for lady athletes

    The ladies' section of Wallasey Athletic Club took part in the Bolton road relays in Leverhulme Park on Sunday, opening their cross-country and road running sections.

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    21 October 1972

    Promising start to cross-country season

    The efforts of Wallasey Athletic Club were divided last weekend between Winsford where the boys were taking part in the Cheshire Road Relays, and Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, where the girls were having a

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    11 November 1972

    Poised to take second spot

    Wallasey Athletic Club sent an enthusiastic but depleted team to the second Northern Women's Cross-Country League meeting in Carlisle on Saturday. Only one team in the senior section was from Wallasey

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    18 November 1972

    Athletes put on a great display

    Both sections of Wallasey Athletic Club had one of their most successful weekends ever in meetings at Leeds and Newcastle-under-Lyme. The men's section fielded a strong relay team in the annual Aeron

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    25 November 1972

    Athletes re-live summer

    Wallasey Athletic Club, members took part in some unusual and out-of-season events at R.A.F. Cosford Indoor Athletics Arena, where an open meeting took place on Saturday.

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    02 December 1972

    Fine running in relay

    In Sefton Park on Saturday, Liverpool & District staged their annual six by three miles relay and Wallasey Athletic Club was represented by a strong team.

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    09 December 1972

    Championship within the reach of athletes

    Wallasey Athletic Club's team of senior men athletes finished eighth in the H. S. Finney four times three miles relay race at Blackpool's Victoria Park last Saturday. A total of 25 teams took part in

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    23 December 1972

    Girls run for North

    Only a handful of Wallasey Athletic Club members took part in competitions last Saturday. Margaret Ashcroft, Janice Watts and Barbara Banks had been chosen, on their performances in the Northern Leagu

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    06 January 1973

    Margaret battles through

    Wallasey Athletic Club's Margaret Ashcroft came seventh in an International New Year Race in South Wales on Saturday, despite an injured foot. Only a small team travelled to the Nos Golan races at Mou

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    27 January 1973

    Lockley misses county team by one place

    Four competitors from the Wallasey Athletic Club took part In the boys' two-mile race at Winnington Park, near Northwich, recently. They were Dave Gray, who finished 18th; Lawrence Jones, 39th; Brenda

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    10 February 1973

    Pete Lewis shines at Cosford

    Wallasey Athletic Club's Pete Lewis was one of the three local athletes who took part last weekend in the National Indoor Championships at R.A.F. Cosford. The meeting attracted many of the big names i

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    24 February 1973

    Athletes in big school contests

    Several younger members of Wallasey Athletic Club ladies' section took part last Saturday in the Cheshire schools cross-country championships at Tatton Park. It was also a triangular inter-counties ev

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    03 March 1973

    Barbara joins national squad

    Barbara Banks, of Wallasey Athletic Club, who was placed sixth in the National Cross-Country Championships in Rawtenstall on Saturday, has won a place in the English athletic team which will be taking

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    31 March 1973

    Athletes win at Port Sunlight

    Another early season track meeting at The Oval, Port Sunlight, last week, produced some encouraging results for Wallasey Athletic Club for such an early date.

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    14 April 1973

    Large entry in veterans road race

    Wallasey Athletic Club were hosts to the Northern Veterans Athletic Club on Sunday for the annual six and a half mile road race. This year's entry was the biggest ever with more than 50 contestants. j

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    21 April 1973

    Athletic notes

    Wallasey Athletic Club's only athlete in action last weekend was Pete Lewis, who scored a resounding victory in an 800m race at Stretford. His time of 1m 54.3 secs. was 6 secs. ahead of the runner-up.

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    19 May 1973

    Preston sets club record

    On Saturday Wallasey Athletic Club were hosts to teams from all over the north west in the first Northern League meeting of the season. The meeting took place at Woodchurch track, Wallasey's home grou

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    26 May 1973

    Shock wins give Phil county titles

    Phil Truscott, Wallasey Athletic Club track captain, caused a major upset list Saturday at Hartford when he surprised the opposition and became the new holder of the Cheshire County 200 metres and lon

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Barbara Banks
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    26 May 1973

    Search for town's sports personality

    No. 7 Brian Ellis is a member of Liverpool Mercury Racing Club and formerly of New Brighton Cycling Club. He was Merseyside division schoolboy champion in 1971 and a member of the pre-Olympic squad in

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Looking cheerful: the start of the seven mile road race at Kings Parade, New Brighton, are some of the 55 athletes who took part
Julie Halfpenny pictured after her success in the 400 metres (senior girls) race at the Cheshire Schools Annual Athletic Championships
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    16 June 1973

    Julie Halfpenny

    Pictured after her success in the 400 metres (senior girls) race at the Cheshire Schools Annual Athletic Championships is Julie Halfpenny a pupil at Oldershaw Grammar School.

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Pete Lewis
St. George's teams are pictured with Mr W. J. Aldridge (left), chairman of Wallasey Middle Schools Athletics Association and PE staff Miss M. R. Lienau, Mr. C. A. Sanderson and Mr. C. G. Bruce.
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    14 July 1973

    Keith leaps to championship triumph

    Wallasey Athletic Club's Keith Sorrel pulled out a great performance in the senior boys' long jump to finish second at the English Schools Athletic Championships at the Oval, Bebington, last week.

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Budha Majumdar and Barbara Banks
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    21 July 1973

    Barbara weds

    A leading international athlete, winner of the Wallasey Sports Personality of the Year in 1968, member of Wallasey Athletic Club and former pupil of Maris Stella School, Miss Barbara Banks, second dau

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    21 July 1973

    Barbara weds

    Wallasey's leading international athlete, who in 1968 was the, town's Sports Personality of the Year, Miss Barbara Banks, of Harrison Drive, was married to Mr. Budha Majumdar, of West Bengal, India, a

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