For the last occasion this winter season, Wallasey Athletic Club met at Leasowe Road on Saturday to hold their Consolation Road Handicap over 4 miles.
From a field of 17 runners the prizewinner was newcomer E. Hughes. Fastest time was returned by senior champion Arnold Dinsdale (19m. 45s.) but youth Eric Maddock, who finished second in the Liverpool & District Sea Cadet championship race last Saturday, returned the excellent third fastest time of 20m. 19s.
For the Sefton Park Road Relay race today the W.A.C. team will be chosen from; Dinsdale; Denis Dickinson; Maddock; Tony Dickinson; J. Weir; Hewson; Johnston; Thompson; Evans; Hughes; J. Whitburn; McCaig; Cockshott; who will meet at Liverpool Landing Stage at 2 p.m. for the Aigburth Vale tram. The track season will open at Leasowe Playing Fields later this month.
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Source - Wallasey News - Saturday, 08/04/1950
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