16 October 1948
Cross-Country season opens
In bright sunshine last Saturday more than a hundred Merseyside runners took part in the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Union’s meet at Court Hey, Broadgreen, to inaugurate the 1948-49 season.
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27 November 1948
Novice cross-country championship
Last Saturday afternoon the Novice Championship of Wallasey Athletic Club, run over a 5 mile course, was won by Bill Wright in 32 minutes 34 seconds, with John Hawkesley second and Brian Smith third.
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04 December 1948
West Lancashire Novice Championships
At Runcorn this Saturday afternoon 13 teams from 11 clubs will compete in these cross-country running championships over a 41/2 mile ‘spike’ course Wallasey Athletic Club's two teams will travel to the venue by coach which leaves Seacombe Ferry (Floating Roadway) at 1-15 p.m. prompt.
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11 December 1948
Cross-country championship - Wallasey club placed sixth
At Castner Kelner, Runcorn, last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club’s ‘A’ team was placed sixth in the West Lancashire Cross-Country Association's Novice Championship after a fast race over a 2 lap course of four and three-quarter miles.
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18 December 1948
Athletic club in fine form
The first annual cross-country championships of the Cheshire County Athletic Association were held at Winnington Park Recreation Club, Northwich, last Saturday.
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25 December 1948
Christmas Handicap race results
Once again skilful, handicapping was rewarded when 23 runners in Wallasey Athletic Club's traditional Christmas
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08 January 1949
Cross-country matches
Two interesting cross-country matches, will be run at Leasowe this Saturday afternoon. The senior and junior teams of Wallasey Athletic Club will entertain the R.A.F. West Kirby, who gave the club a good run last season.
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15 January 1949
Wallasey too strong for R.A.F.
Over a seven mile course at Leasowe last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club defeated R.A.F. West Kirby by 30 points to 52.
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29 January 1949
Cross-country and weight-lifting feats
Last week Wallasey Athletic Club held its annual winter championships at its Leasowe Road headquarters.
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05 February 1949
Medal for Wallasey athlete
At West Derby last Saturday afternoon Denis Kelly, of Wallasey Athletic Club, ran a brilliant race to win the Liverpool & District Junior Cross Country Championship by 100 yards in 37 mins. 35 secs. after hard running over six miles of mixed park, land and plough.
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12 February 1949
Inter-club match at Wallasey
Two races, seven miles for the seniors and juniord, and four miles for the youths, were run last Saturday afternoon, when Sefton, Boundary and Pembroke Harriers were the guests of Wallasey Athletic Club at their Leasowe Road headquarters.
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19 February 1949
Junior athletes gain 2nd place
Fulfilling the excellent promise they showed when they finished second in the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Championship three weeks ago.
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05 March 1949
Wallasey in Northern championships
Last Saturday afternoon at Rowntree’s, York, a record field of 1,000 entries contested the Northern Cross-Country Championships.
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12 March 1949
Wallasey Athletic Club members successes
In the recent Merseyside Olympic Weight-lifting Championships, held in Liverpool, Norman Sadler, of Wallasey Athletic Club, won the light heavy weight class with his best total of 682 lbs. Club weight-lifting captain, Jack McCulloch, gained 2nd place in the heavily contested light-weight class with a total of 532 lbs.
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19 March 1949
Northern successes in English Championships
In the English cross-country championships at Bromford Bridge, Birmingham, last Saturday the individual winners of each of the three races were well-known Northern runners. (Youths - J. Price, East Cheshire; Junior Lieut. G. B. Saunders, Bolton; and Senior - Dr. Aaron (Leeds), and the Junior team winners (Sheffield United) and the senior team winners (Sutton Harriers) are both famous Northern clubs.
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16 April 1949
Sefton Park Road Relay Race
In perfect conditions last Saturday afternoon, Wirral A.C. again won the Sefton Park Road Relay Race and retained the Neville White Trophy for a second year.
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23 April 1949
Athletic club wants women to join
Wallasey Athletic Club extend a cordial invitation to women interested in athletics to join the club. Particulars can be obtained from the hon. sec. Mr. R. F. Hubbard, 39 Beech Road, Birkenhead, or Mr. D. W. Dickinson, 26 Penkett Road, Wallasey.
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27 April 1949
Formation of Ladies Section
At an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 27 April 1949 it was agreed to start a Ladies Section for track work only.
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30 April 1949
Track season opens
Wallasey Athletic Club's plans for the track season, which opens next week, include training on the 440 yards track at the Corporation playing fields between Twenty Row and the brickworks in Leasowe Road on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evening.
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07 May 1949
Coaching by experts
At their Leasowe Road track during the next fortnight Wallasey Athletic Club have secured the services of several prominent local athletes who will attend on training evenings to coach club members in particular for track and field events.
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14 May 1949
First track match at Leasowe Road
Wallasey Athletic Club’s first match of the new track season versus Winnington Park Club from Northwich, Cheshire, will take place at Leasowe Road playing fields this Saturday afternoon, commencing 3 p.m.
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21 May 1949
Track and field victory for Wallasey Club
In their first match of the new track season at Leasowe Road playing fields last Saturday afternoon, Wallasey Athletic Club scored a victory over the Winnington Park Recreation Club by 70 points to 68 due to their superiority in the team and junior (under 19) events.
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28 May 1949
T.A. Athletics at Port Sunlight
At the Oval, Port Sunlight last Saturday the first local meeting of the track season, the T.A. and R.Aux.A.F., Sports Festival, was held in warm sunlight.
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11 June 1949
Kivlin does it again
Those who travelled to Port Sunlight Oval on Whit Saturday, and to Upton Cricket Ground on Whit Monday were rewarded with displays of athletic talent which have not been equalled in the Wirral since before the war.
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18 June 1949
Local athletes at White City
When the inter-counties meeting is held at White City, London, on Saturday July 2nd, Cheshire’s colours will be worn by Wallasey Athletic Club members Barry Kivlin (120 yards hurdles and 440 yards hurdles) and Matt Smith (hop, step and jump).
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25 June 1949
Dickinson brothers still fighting it out
Last Saturday during Liverpool Police 56th annual sports at Fairfield, Tony Dickinson gained third place in the open mile handicap to Mark Maleedy of Sutton Harriers, who also beat him on the previous Saturday at Speke, and the winner W. Berry of Norwich.
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06 August 1949
Wallasey athlete in decathlon contest
At the Northern Counties Decathlon Championships contested at Port Sunlight on Saturday and Sunday, Wallasey Athletic Club was ably represented by Ted Bollard who, at his first attempt in this branch of athletics, was successful in gaining fourth place in the competition.
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13 August 1949
Wallasey A.C. beat Dunlop
Wallasey Athletic Club defeated Dunlop H. & A.C. last Thursday evening at Speke by 57 points to 36, thus avenging their narrow defeat at Leasowe in June.
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20 August 1949
Brother athletes ran well for Wallasey
At Earlstown Viaduct sports meeting last Saturday Tony and Denis Dickinson of Wallasey Athletic Club, again kept the familiar red vest well to the fore. Back marker off 130 yds. in the mile, Denis started too strongly and had caught the field by the end of the second lap, when Tony was also among the leaders.
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27 August 1949
Club track and field championships
At the Tower Ballroom last Friday night, more than 1,000 dancers enjoyed Wallasey Athletic Club’s successful end of the track season dance, which was organised by the club's social sub-committee ably directed by chairman Denis Dickinson.
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