Wallasey Athletic Club stage their consolation handicap over a 3¾ miles road course at Leasowe to-day, when the current season's winners receive their full penalty and losers gain the greatest allowance handicappers can allow them.
Back-markers will be senior champion of Edwards and runner-up, W. R. Bee, who is unbeaten on road courses. The course to be used runs via Leasowe Road, Greenleas Road, Green Lane, Asbury Road, Bayswater Road, Harrison Drive, Embankment and Telegraph Lane to the finish in Leasowe Road, and the start will be at 3-30 p.m.
Next Saturday the Merseyside Marathon Relay will be held at Sefton Park when all the Liverpool & District clubs will be competing. Each club is represented by eight men, running in relays of three miles - 488 yards each, to make up the Marathon distance of 26 miles 385 yards. Wallasey Athletic Club will be all out to improve on their performance eight years ago when this race was last held and the club finished third. That occasion was marked by J. Edwards, for Wallasey setting up a new record for the fastest relay ever run after the first relay and local sportsmen who put up trophies and prizes for record relays would do well to bear in mind the advantages first relay runners have in racing against each other, whereas subsequent relay runners have only the watch to compete against.
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Source - Wallasey News - Saturday, 12/04/1947
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