06 September 1952
Athletic club champions
This Saturday sees the final meeting of the 1952 track season take place at Salford, the only Wallasey entrant being Len Platt who hopes to be selected to take part in the invitation short limit 100 yards handicap, in which many well known sprinters will take part. Platt will give the best to run on his present form.
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1041
20 September 1952
Athletic club annual meeting
Wallasey Athletic Club competed last Saturday on the road relay race at Birkenhead Park and finished in fifth position.
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1042
08 November 1952
Wallasey G.S. win schoolboys' race
Wallasey Athletic Club last Saturday staged the Wallasey schools' championships from their Leasowe Road headquarters, when the main event was the schoolboys' race over a 21/2 mile course of marsh and grassland.
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1065
13 December 1952
Wallasey Athletic Club notes
Wallasey A.C. last Saturday were one of ten teams contesting the annual novice championship for the West Lancashire area, which this year was, held at Warrington.
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1043
20 December 1952
Local athletic clubs' Christmas run
All our local athletic clubs will this Saturday will be staging their Christmas handicap which is always the most enjoyable afternoon of the cross-country season.
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1044
27 December 1952
Athletic Club’s Christmas race
Wallasey Athletic Club last Saturday ran their Christmas Handicap from Leasowe Road Playing Fields, when twenty eight runners set off at intervals up Leasowe Road turning across Leasowe Common and returning by way of the embankment and shore.
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1045
03 January 1953
Junior runners lost their way
Despite the blanket of fog covering Merseyside on Saturday, Wallasey A.C. successfully ran off their club championships with the exception of the junior (18-21), which was declared “no race” after the field had lost direction at about half distance.
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1046
03 January 1953
Winners of athletic club championships
Despite the blanket of fog covering Merseyside last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club successfully ran off their club championships with the exception of the Junior (18-21), which was declared no race after the field had lost direction at about half distance.
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1047
10 January 1953
Cheshire champions
Cheshire County cross-country championship was held at Runcorn this afternoon. Apart from the seven miles senior championship and three miles championship for youths, there was also for the first time a schoolboy championship in which 14 teams and individuals entered.
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1053
10 January 1953
Won five out of six athletic titles - Bob Johnston’s fine performance
Five titles out of a possible six were won by Wallasey athletes in the Cheshire County Cross-Country Championships at Runcorn last Saturday, Bob Johnston winning the senior event with a fine performance and Don Anderson retaining his, individual championship in the youth race, the team event being won by Wallasey.
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1059
17 January 1953
Bob Johnston to lead the county team today
Don Anderson, Cheshire County youth champion was Wallasey A.C.’s best performer on Saturday when the club were engaged in a three cornered inter-club fixture against Sefton Harriers and Waterloo Harriers at Sefton.
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1048
24 January 1953
Johnston defends senior running title today
Wallasey A.C. visited Wirral A.C. at Prenton for an inter-club fixture on Saturday, in which Wallasey were defeated in the senior event by 12 points to 45 points but won the youth race by 15 points to 25.
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1049
31 January 1953
Local runners unfortunate - Anderson's ill-luck in individual race
Wallasey Athletic Club were engaged last Saturday in the Liverpool & District cross-country championships held over Liverpool Pembroke's course at Broadgreen, when the club experienced one of those days when things just would not go right.
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1066
31 January 1953
W.A.C. runner took wrong turning
Wallasey A.C. were engaged in the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Championships held over Liverpool Pembroke’s course, at Broadgreen, on Saturday when the club experienced one of those days when things just would not go right.
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1050
07 February 1953
Ledward gains junior cross-country title
Wallasey A.C.’s junior cross-country championship, postponed some weeks ago owing to fog, was decided over a six mile course from the club’s H.Q. on Saturday, when Ken Ledward was the winner in 36 mins. 39 secs. Eric Maddock was second in 37 mins. 17 secs. and Dave Standfast third in 37 mins. 50 secs.
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1051
14 February 1953
West Lancashire cross-country championship
The annual West Lancashire cross-country championships were held at the R.A.F. camp, West Kirby, this afternoon.
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1067
14 February 1953
Wallasey boy runners took all the honours
Wallasey A.C. had quite a successful afternoon at the R.A.F. camp, West Kirby, on Saturday, when they were one of twelve clubs contesting the West Lancs. Cross-Country Championships.
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1052
14 February 1953
Local boys win W. Lancs. Titles
Wallasey Athletic Club had quite a successful afternoon at the R.A.F. Camp, West Kirby, last Saturday, when they were one of twelve clubs contesting the West Lancs. cross-country championships.
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1036
28 February 1953
How local runners fared in Northern championships
Last Saturday, Wallasey A.C. travelled by coach to Graves Park, Sheffield, to take part in the Northern Cross Country Championships, when club teams competed in the boys, youths, and junior races which were held over a lap course of fast grassland.
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1058
14 March 1953
Roy Parry's fine run at Caversham Park
Last Saturday saw the last big event of the cross country season when the National championships were held at Caversham Park, Reading.
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1057
14 March 1953
Fine run by Roy Parry at National championship
In the National Cross-Country Championship at Caversham Park, Reading last Saturday, Wallasey A.C. were represented in both youth and junior events, and an outstanding performance was put up by Roy Parry who came in 32nd in the three mile youth event.
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1062
21 March 1953
Fast race over Wallasey A.C. course
Wallasey A.C. entertained Wirral A.C. and Liverpool Harriers at their Leasowe Road H.Q., on Saturday, when the three clubs raced over Wallasey's Christmas handicap coarse.
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1054
04 April 1953
A.C. prepare for track season
During the next few weeks Wallasey A.C. runners main activity will be centred on preparations for the coming track season.
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1040
18 April 1953
Platt gets outstanding athlete award
Wallasey's A.C. international long jumper, Len Platt, has been awarded the Blair Trophy for the most outstanding performance during 1952 by an athlete from the No. 5 District of the Northern Counties A.A. which includes West Lancashire, Liverpool & District, Cheshire and North Wales.
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1070
02 May 1953
Platt chosen for inter-counties championships
Wallasey A.C. and England long jumper Len Platt has been selected to represent Cheshire in the Inter-Counties championships to be held at the White City Stadium, London on Whit Saturday and Monday.
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1069
09 May 1953
Local club's best performers
It is always interesting to review team and individual performance after the completion of a season, as they can then be judged in their proper perspective over the season as a whole rather than against one or two performances.
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1056
09 May 1953
Athletic Club looks back on a successful cross-country season
It is always interesting to review team and individual performance after the completion of a season, as they can then be judged in their proper perspective over the season as a whole rather than against one or two performances.
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1068
16 May 1953
Blair Trophy presentation to Len Platt
Wallasey Athletic Club's international long jumper Len Platt will be presented with the Blair Trophy at Leasowe Road H.Q. next Wednesday at 8 p.m.
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1039
21 May 1953
Len Platt to defend Cheshire County titles
Len Platt, of Wallasey Athetic Club, who defends his Cheshire County titles in four events at Port Sunlight Oval on Saturday.
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1034
23 May 1953
Platt at White City today
The big athletics event this weekend takes place at London's White City Stadium today and on Whit Monday when the inter-counties championships will be incorporated with the British Games meeting.
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1032
23 May 1953
Champion athlete takes Blair Trophy
Len Platt, Wallasey Athletic Club's star athlete, receives the Blair Trophy from Mr. S. Lubbock chairman of the Liverpool & District Committee of the Northern Counties A.A., at the club's headquarters on Wednesday.
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1033
30 May 1953
Platt gets a "second" at White City
At White City, London, on Saturday, Wallasey A.C.’s international long jumper Len Platt had to be content with second place the Inter-Counties long jump, thus losing the title he won in these championships last year.
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1031
13 June 1953
Wallasey athletes win nine Cheshire titles
Wallasey A.C. had a most successful afternoon at the B.I. Cables athletic track at Helsby, last Saturday, gaining nine Cheshire titles.
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1030
27 June 1953
Another success for Len Platt
Len Platt achieved another notable success in the Northern championships at Hull last Saturday when he successfully defended both the long jump and hop, step, and jump titles he won last year.
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1029
11 July 1953
Len Platt in A.A.A. championships
At London's White City Stadium this Saturday, Wallasey A.C. jumper Len Platt will take on the best in the country in the long jump and the hop, step and jump events in the A.A.A. Championships.
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1028
01 August 1953
Athletes in action again today
Wallasey Athletic Club athletes had a quiet time last weekend but will be going into action again today at Port Sunlight, when several trophies will be competed for by all the Merseyside athletic clubs.
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1027
07 August 1953
Len Platt in for Great Britain against Sweden and Germany
L. H. Platt, of Wallasey, who has been included in the British team in the forthcoming international athletic matches against Germany and Sweden in Berlin and Stockholm.
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1035
08 August 1953
Two athletes - five prizes
Wallasey A.C. athletes on Saturday had a fairly thin afternoon, largely due to the absence of so many numbers through holidays.
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1037
08 August 1953
International honour for Len Platt
Wallasey athlete Len Platt is one of four new internationals in Great Britain’s' team' for athletics matches against Germany, in Berlin, on August 29 and 30, and in Sweden on September 2 and 3.
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1026
22 August 1953
Wallasey A.C. runners in Liverpool marathon
Five Wallasey A.C. runners last Saturday took part in the annual Liverpool Marathon, when four were successful in finishing the full course of 26 miles 385 yards.
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1064
28 August 1953
Great Britain International Len Platt's farewell at Lime Street
Mr L. H. Platt, of 9 The Grange, Wallasey, Northern and Cheshire counties hop, step and jump champion, waves farewell to his father at Lime Street yesterday at the start of his journey to Sweden and Germany to represent Great Britain.
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