06 September 1962 (New)
Brian. Woolford, of Wallasey Athletic Club, the Cheshire runner whose fine performances in road racing have been a pleasing feature of the present season, will make a raid on a Lancashire preserve on
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08 September 1962 (New)
Brian Woolford, of Wallasey Athletic Club, failed by only four seconds to beat the internationally famous Gerry North and win the Lancashire Red Rose "20" at Morecambe on Saturday.
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15 September 1962 (New)
Brian Woolford, of Wallasey A.C., by his performance in the Red Rose "20" at Morecambe last week, has firmly laid claim to the respect all road runners, whether at home or abroad.
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30 September 1962 (New)
Bolton United harrier, Ron Hill, maintained an unbeaten record in road races in Britain stretching back 14 months when he won the Warrington seven-mile event by 200 yards yesterday from cross-country
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06 October 1962
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
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13 October 1962
Saturday saw the opening of the Liverpool & District Cross-Country season with the annual "Monstre Meet", held this year at the Old Roan, Aintree.
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15 October 1962 (New)
Wallasey (44 points) proved too strong for their Cheshire rivals Sale (72 points) at Victoria Park, Warrington in a 5½-mile cross-country match when Ron Barlow (Wallasey) beat his team-mate Bri
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22 October 1962 (New)
Wallasey placed the first two men in the Liverpool League when John Wright and Brian Woolford outstripped the field over a hilly 5½-mile course.
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26 October 1962 (New)
Peter Hall (Barrow A.C.), now in his first senior year, rocketed to the forefront at Blackburn on Saturday by defeating a select field of topgrade cross-country runners representing Lancashire, Northu
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26 October 1962
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 champ
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27 October 1962
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 Saturd
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29 October 1962 (New)
Cheshire, among one of the also rans in cross-country sounded a warning to Lancashire, the holders of the Daily Telegraph Inter-Counties title, at Keswick on Saturday when they dominated both the indi
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03 November 1962 (New)
Support for the long-established Waterloo Road Race has gathered such impetus in recent years that with an entry of 360 runners for next Saturday's race it has become one of the biggest events of its
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03 November 1962
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 runnin
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10 November 1962
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,
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17 November 1962
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
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24 November 1962
Wallasey A.C. were hosts last Saturday for the second Liverpool & District League match, held in the worst possible conditions at club headquarters, Leasowe.
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01 December 1962
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
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03 December 1962 (New)
Taking the lead after two miles Brian Woolford (Wallasey A.C.) kept ahead of a large field to finish first in the H.S. Finney five-mile cross country race at Sherdley Park, St. Helens on Saturday.
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08 December 1962
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.
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05 January 1963
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 Dece
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07 January 1963 (New)
Although he was out of the first nine in the Cheshire championships at Stockport, the 1962 champion, Martin Cranny, found himself included in the county team. He lost the soles of his shoes at half-wa
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12 January 1963
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 h
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19 January 1963
Today the Inter-County Championships will be held at Reading. for which five members of Wallasey Athletic Club have been chosen.
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19 January 1963 (New)
The Liverpool and District senior cross-country championship, which is to be held on the county course at Sherdley Park, St. Helens, next week. will see an attempt by Wirral A.C., to regain the suprem
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26 January 1963
Never have conditions been as severe as they were at last Saturday's Inter-Counties championships, held at Caversham Park, Reading.
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02 February 1963
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.
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09 February 1963
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.
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11 February 1963 (New)
Blackpool and Fylde's hopes of successfully defending their Northern crossc-ountry title next Saturday took a severe blow when they tumbled to third place in the St. Asaph to Rhyl road race on Saturda
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14 February 1963
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 n
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16 February 1963
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.
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16 February 1963
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.
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23 February 1963
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.
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02 March 1963
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.
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05 March 1963
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)
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16 March 1963
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 r
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23 March 1963
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
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23 March 1963
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 to
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30 March 1963
The Sutton seven miles open road race was won by Ron Barlow whose team, Wallasey A.C., a won the team race.
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30 March 1963
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.
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30 March 1963 (New)
Wallasey athletes last Saturday competed in the St. Helens 7-mile road race and, as expected, won comfortably with a team score of 16 points against the 59 points of Clayton-le-Moors.
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01 April 1963 (New)
Wallasey A.C. confirmed their season's superiority in road racing by winning the Neville White Cup for the Sefton Park Road Relay race on Saturday by a margin of forty-two seconds, despite the absence
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06 April 1963
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 o
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13 April 1963 (New)
Three members of Britain's European Championships team in Belgrade last September fought out the finish of Salford Harriers' 7½-mile road race, yesterday, with Polytechnic marathan champion, R
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13 April 1963
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 Leve
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20 April 1963
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 Ath
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27 April 1963
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, Math
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27 April 1963
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 i
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04 May 1963
AND BARLOW'S WINNING TIME LOPS 51 SECS. OFF COURSE RECORD
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11 May 1963
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 Ba
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11 May 1963
Wallasey's sports personality for 1962, and winner of the trophy donated by Mr Ernest Marples, is Kevin Mather, of the Wallasey Athletic Club.
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25 May 1963
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.
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26 May 1963 (New)
Bolton marathon international Ron Hill won his second title in 16 hours when, holding off the strong challenge of Brian Woolford, Wallasey, by 30 seconds in the Northern 20-mile road race championship
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01 June 1963
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
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01 June 1963 (New)
Councillor G. W. Sealey (Chairman of Huyton U.D.C.) congratulates Ron Hill of Bolton United Harriers, after winning the Pembroke 20 miles road race for the second successive year last week-end.
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08 June 1963
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
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15 June 1963
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
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17 June 1963
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 af
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22 June 1963
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 even
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06 July 1963
Wallasey A.C. members were engaged both at home and at Liverpool's Wavertree tracks on Tuesday evening with mixed fortunes.
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20 July 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 conjunctio
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27 July 1963
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 w
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27 July 1963
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.
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03 August 1963
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.
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10 August 1963 (New)
On the same day Brian Woolford, our Northern Counties marathon champion competed in a 10-mile road race at Roundhay, Leeds.
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10 August 1963
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,
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10 August 1963
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.
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12 August 1963 (New)
Northern Counties A.A.A. marathon champion Brian Woolford, of Wallasey A.C. receives the "Manchester Evening News" Cup and congratulatory kisses from Middleton's Mayor and Mayoress.
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12 August 1963 (New)
Northern Counties marathon champion Brian Woolford (Wallasey) had little difficulty in winning the 15¾-mile Middleton road race.
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19 August 1963 (New)
In winning the A.A.A. Marathon at Coventry for the fourth successive year on Saturday, Brian Kilby, the European and Empire champion, covered the 26 miles 385 yards at an average speed of more than 11
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24 August 1963 (New)
The Northern marathon champton. Brian Woolford (Wallasey A.C.), showed remarkable consistency by finishing third in the A.A.A. marathon championship last week at Coventry in 2 hrs 23 mins. 44 secs. fo
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24 August 1963
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 achi
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