Twelve runners faced the starter on Saturday last to compete in the Club Championship. The weather was ideal for racing and beautifully warm.
For the first two miles the pack kept pretty well together. Crossing Bidston Station bridge Macmaster was leading with Etheridge in close attendance both running apparently well within themselves, and followed by the rest of the "field" within hailing distance. Over the heavy country fringing the copses outside Moreton, Etheridge took the lead, and hereabouts the pack became distinctly more strung out, "bellows to mend" being the chief complaint. Young, Simmonds, Pennington and Macve were keeping well together, and the order was maintained with minor fluctuations of position, through the outskirts of Moreton, Leasowe and across the marshes to Wallasey, and the finish. by Newlands-drive. Etheridge won the championship in 43min. 58secs. 59secs. ahead of Macmaster, whose time was 44min. 57secs. R. Young, an ex-champion, being third in 45min. 50secs. The winner holds for twelve months a silver cup presented by Mr. Kenneth E. Peers, receiving also along with the second and third, Club Championship medals.
A sealed handicap run in conjunction with the race was won by P. Pennington. The times (actual and handicap) of the first six are appended
Actual time. H'cap allow. H/cap time.
T. N. Etheridge . 43.58 scratch 43.58
A. Macmaster 44.57 30secs. 44.27
R. Young 45.50 1 min. 41.50
F. W. Simmonds 46.12 3½min. 42.42
P. Pennington 46.45 4½min. 42.15
W. E. C. Maeve 47.52 4 min. 43.52
Ends
Source - Wallasey News - Saturday, 06/03/1920
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