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09 September 1978 | Joint first in Northern On Saturday, Wallasey finished third in the third Northern League meeting, despite having to use track athletes to compete in the field events between races. Read more... |
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23 September 1978 | Wallasey relays improve Wallasey ran in the annual Sefton Park road relays, which attract very tough local competition. Wallasey improved on last year's performance by finishing 14th in a race which was run in fairly strong winds. Kevin McGee ran the first leg and had a very good run to bring the team home in seventh posit Read more... |
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25 November 1978 | Cosford season begins Last Saturday saw the opening of the Cosford indoor league. Wallasey Athletic Club were well represented and well to the fore. Read more... |
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02 December 1978 | McGhee runs to a new success Winter has certainly arrived and those few members of the Wallasey Athletic Club who ran in the third Liverpool & District League at Arrowe Park last Saturday will bear witness. Read more... |
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09 December 1978 | McGee and Heap set for stardom Tomorrow sees the second of the 'open' indoor meeting being held at R.A.F. Cosford. Read more... |
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16 December 1978 | Personal bests for athletes At the second Cosford door open meeting, it was personal best performances all the way for the Wallasey Athletic Club runners last Saturday. Read more... |
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23 December 1978 | Super athletes honour town Who needs imitations? Wallasey Athletic Club possesses its own wonderwomen and supermen. Read more... |
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27 January 1979 | Weather hits medals The inter-counties cross-country championships were held in Luton, Bedfordshire on Saturday, representing Cheshire in the junior team was Wallasey Athletic Club member Kevin McGee. Read more... |
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10 February 1979 | Wallasey runners on the map Wallasey Athletic Club is making a name for itself on the local cross-country scene. Read more... |
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03 March 1979 | Athletes' National tourneys With the championships almost over, Wallasey athletes couldn't have been in better form to contest in the girls' English schools or the men's national championships, this coming weekend, March 3. Read more... |
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24 March 1979 | Janet proves 'em wrong Janet McGee proved, yet again, the mistake made by Merseyside when not selecting her to represent Merseyside in the English schools. Read more... |
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07 April 1979 | Athletics test winter fitness Reasonable weather last weekend gave some of Wallasey Athletic Club's track and field athletes a chance to test the effectiveness of their winter work. Read more... |
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05 May 1979 | Unsuccessful day for athletes Saturday was not the successful day expected for Wallasey Athletic Club. Read more... |
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12 May 1979 | Good show by Jones The disappointments and doubts raised by poor performances of the previous weekend were brushed aside by the superb track runs of last weekend. Read more... |
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19 May 1979 | Athletes 'go for gold' 'Go for Gold' was a motto adopted a short while ago by the British Olympic Committee. 'To come back with gold' was the small squads' dream, back from the Cheshire championships that is. Read more... |
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02 June 1979 | Athletes battle against elements The men's section of Wallasey A.C. travelled to Hull for the first round of the Division Five Northern Track & Field League. Read more... |
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09 June 1979 | Athletes reap the benefits The Wallasey Athletic Club members, under the careful guidance of coaches Barbara Majumdar and Doug Hanna are beginning to reap the benefits of rigorous training programme throughout the difficult winter months. Recent performances bear witness to these remarks. Read more... |
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16 June 1979 | Good show by athletes Four boys and two girls from Wallasey A.C. are to compete for Merseyside in an inter counties match on Saturday, 16th June. Read more... |
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23 June 1979 | Success for Wallasey's athletes The best of Merseyside athletes travelled to Warley, Birmingham, last Saturday, to compete in an event which was almost a dress rehearsal for the English Schools track and field championships. Wallasey Athletic Club was represented with six of its membere in the large Merseyside contingent. Read more... |
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23 June 1979 | Wallasey winners! The 'Wallasey Relays', sponsored by the Wirral Council and organised by the Wirral Athletic Club, were held on the promenade at Wallasey on Sunday. Read more... |
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30 June 1979 | Personal bests at games The road relays organised by Wallasey Athletic Club, as part of the Wirral Festival of Sport, was witnessed by many who took advantage of the fine weather. Read more... |
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07 July 1979 | Athletes go for title Wallasey Athletic Club runners competed far and wide last weekend, with varying degrees of success. Read more... |
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14 July 1979 | English schools championships At the weekend four members of Wallasey AC competed for Merseyside in the English Schools Championships at Nottingham. On Friday the Merseyside ream suffered numerous setbacks, with only a few of the ones expected to do well actually performing well. This could have been due to many things not least Read more... |
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14 July 1979 | Kevin races in Spain Wallasey Athletic Club runner Kevin McGee, aged 18, had the worst of build ups for his international races in Spain, which took place on Monday and Tuesday. Read more... |
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