01 October 1960
Monstre Meet to-day at Wallasey
Wallasey Athletic Club today start the running for the 1960-61 cross-country season by acting as hosts for the traditional opening run in which all Merseyside clubs participate.
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08 October 1960
Local runners in form at open meet
Wallasey athletes dominated the Monstre Meet held last Saturday from their own club headquarters, on Leasowe Road, when a field of more than 80 runners: raced over a course of, shore, embankment and road.
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15 October 1960
To-day's mob run at Liverpool
Wallasey Athletic Club today travel to Woolton to compete in the first of this seasons three Mob Runs which will be run over a two-lap course of 51/4-miles.
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12 November 1960
Big race today at Waterloo
Today at Waterloo a field of over 300 runners will contest the near classic Waterloo road race over a 71/2 mile course.
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19 November 1960
Athletic club successes in Waterloo race
With 230 runners finishing the course in last Saturday's 71/2-mile Waterloo Road race, and the field including such well-known athletes from far afield, it was a great performance by Wallasey Athletic Club to finish third in the team event with Ron Barlow and John Wright running magnificently into third and fourth individual positions.
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26 November 1960
Final mob run at Wallasey today
Today Wallasey A. C. entertain other Liverpool and District clubs when the third and final mob run will be held from club H.Q. at Leasowe Road.
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03 December 1960
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Mob run winners - Wallasey’s Wright and Barlow joint first
Wallasey athletes John Wright and Ron Barlow dominated the final Liverpool and District Mob Run held from Wallasey headquarters at Leasowe Road last Saturday.
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07 January 1961
Today’s County cross country championships Wallasey's bid at Port Sunlight
At Port Sunlight Oval today, Wallasey A.C. will make their first bid of the season for championship honours when the Cheshire County Cross-Country Championships will be contested over a 7-mile course.
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14 January 1961
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County Champions
Wallasey Athletic Club had a great day at Port Sunlight Oval last Saturday when they succeeded in winning the Cheshire County senior cross country championship, placed three men in the county team to compete at Bingley next Saturday in the inter-counties championships and also carried off the boys championship for the second year in succession.
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21 January 1961
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Wallasey second in District Championships
At Kirkby last Saturday, Wallasey A. C. showed disappointing form in Liverpool and District cross country championships when their senior team finished runners-up to Pembroke A.C. with 81 points against Pembroke's 44.
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04 February 1961
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Wallasey runners great fight with champions
Wallasey Athletic Club's senior cross-country team last Saturday gave Liverpool Pembroke the hardest fight they have had in an area championship for many years.
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11 February 1961
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Fine run by Wright at St. Asaph
From St. Asaph last Saturday afternoon a field, of over 200 runners started on the seven and a half mile annual St. Asaph to Rhyl Road Race, which continues to attract a fine entry. The field included several International runners including Gerry North of Blackpool A.C., regarded by many as Britain's finest cross country athlete.
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04 March 1961
Wright eighth in National field of 300 runners Northern Cross-country championships
Wallasey A.C. last Saturday travelled by coach to Blackpool, where the Northern Championships were contested over a flat course of grassland adjacent to Stanley Park.
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09 March 1961
English Cross-Country Championships
English Cross-Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields, Hampstead on Saturday is likley to develop into a strong bid by Northern runners to wrest the individual and team titles from the Midlands.
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11 March 1961
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Local runners in national race
Only two senior members of the Wallasey Athletic Club and one junior member, were able to make the journey to the season's national championships last Saturday at Parliament Fields, London.
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01 April 1961
Road Relay triumph by Wallasey runners
For the first time in the club’s history Wallasey A.C. won the annual Sefton Park Road Relay last Saturday, when 19 teams competed over 6 laps of 41/2 miles.
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22 April 1961
Road race runners take first 3 places- Another team success for Wallasey A.C.
Following their recent victory at the Sefton Park road relay, Wallasey A.C. last Saturday chalked up another win in the annual Port Sunlight Athletic Club road race held over a course of almost six miles round Leverhulme housing estate.
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01 May 1961
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Wallasey A.C. win Cheshire Road Relay championship
Wallasey A.C., as expected, last Saturday added the Cheshire County Road Relay
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08 May 1961
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Wallasey's hopes beaten in County championships
Wallasey A.C. athletes had rather a disappointing day at the Cheshire County championships held at Port Sunlight Oval on June 3, both their main hopes for county titles having to be content with the runner up positions.
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24 June 1961
Wallasey win 6 club meet on last race
A Wallasey Athletic Club team travelled to Victoria Park, Warrington, last Saturday for an inter-club track and field meet in which six clubs took part.
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01 July 1961
Wallasey Athletic Club notes
English weather is noted for its variety and in contrast to the rainstorm of a previous week last Saturday proved to be one of the sunniest days yet much to the dismay of five club members who had entered for the A.T.E. open 10 mile race at Huyton.
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22 July 1961
Athletic Club's four winners
Wallasey staged an inter club match with Sefton and Waterloo on Thursday of last week, fortunately because of the poor weather, the number of events had to be cut from 15 to 7, with Wallasey providing four individual winners.
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05 August 1961
Athletic club members 'best yet' efforts
Members of Wallasey A.C. competed in the annual Lever Trophy meeting at Port Sunlight last Saturday. Although Wallasey failed to win the trophy, nearly all our members achieved their best, efforts.
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12 August 1961
Wallasey athletes have fair success in week-end events
Only a small number of local athletes were active over the Bank Holiday weekend, but they achieved a fair amount of success.
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19 August 1961
Wallasey athletes up in front
Last Saturday, Ron Barlow took his first Cheshire track 'title when he won the six mile championship at Port Sunlight Oval.
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23 September 1961
Wallasey runners getting into form
August and September are months of pleasant inactivity for most local athletes as the track season is now finished and the cross country season does not start properly until November.
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