06 October 1962
Athletic club's year of many achievements
At the annual meeting of the Wallasey Athletic Club at their headquarters in Leasowe Road, on September 28 the general secretary Mr. J. N. Wright reported a year of many achievements from the various sections of the club, with individual successes in events of national standards.
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26 October 1962
Mather wins interclub 880 yards
K. J. Mather (Wallasey A.C.) leads the field in the senior 880 yards and goes on to win with P. Howard (Manchester And District Lads Club) second in the Port Sunlight Athletics Club, Inter-Clubs championships held at the Oval, Bebington.
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27 October 1962
Wallasey fifth in first league match
In spite of excellent running by John Wright and Brian Woolford, it was a disappointing result for Wallasey's cross-country team in their first Mob run of the season, held at Woolton Woods last Saturday.
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03 November 1962
Great victory for Wallasey in 10-mile road race
Wallasey’s three leading road runners, Ron Barlow, Brian Woolford and John Wright, visited Lakeland last Saturday for the annual 10-mile road race, and gained one of the best victories of their running careers.
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10 November 1962
Wallasey runners to the fore
Last Saturday, Wallasey A.C. were entertained to a friendly cross-country match, over a six miles course, by Chester Training College. However, a supposedly easy victory was turned into narrow defeat, due to one or two of the Wallasey’s runners not turning up.
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17 November 1962
Wallasey team just win trophy in big Waterloo Road Race
Fresh from their success in the Derwentwater 10-mile Road Race, and with their best available team running, Wallasey Athletic Club went to Saturday’s Waterloo Road Race with their heads and hopes high.
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24 November 1962
Wallasey have first two in but team 2nd
Wallasey A.C. were hosts last Saturday for the second Liverpool and District League match, held in the worst possible conditions at club headquarters, Leasowe.
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01 December 1962
Cross country runners in county team
Three of Wallasey Athletic Club’s runners, Ron Barlow, Brian Woolford and Kevin Mather, represented Cheshire last Saturday in a triangular cross-country match against Lancashire and Northumberland and Durham.
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08 December 1962
Woolford wins H.S. Finney race
After finishing 3rd in this race for the last 2 seasons, Brian Woolford made no mistake this time, taking the lead at the end of the first mile, he stormed away from the opposition for a fine victory.
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12 January 1963
County Cross-Country title regained - Wallasey Athletic Club’s overwhelming victory
Last Saturday in snowy conditions at Woodbank Park, Stockport, Wallasey A.C. regained the title Cheshire Cross-Country Champions, with a display of powerful team running that crushed arch-rivals and holders Wirral A.C.
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19 January 1963
Five Wallasey runners in to-day's big race
Today the Inter-County Championships will be held at Reading. for which five members of Wallasey Athletic Club have been chosen.
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26 January 1963
Inter-County championships
Never have conditions been as severe as they were at last Saturday's Inter-Counties championships, held at Caversham Park, Reading.
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02 February 1963
Wallasey A.C. Runners-up in Liverpool & District championships
As was expected last Saturday at Sherdley Park, St. Helens, Wallasey A.C. were narrowly defeated by neighbours Wirral A.C. in the Liverpool & District championships.
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14 February 1963
St. Asaph Action
Brian Craig and Ron Barlow jostle for first position soon after the start of the St. Asaph to Rhyl road race organized annually by the Rhyl Athletic Club. Craig number 1 is from Blackpool and Barlow number 184 is from Wallasey A.C.
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16 February 1963
Special games film show
A special film with of the world’s top athletes training in the camps at the European and the Commonwealth Games of 1962 will be shown by Denis Watts, Chief Coach to the British teams, at the Y.M.C.A., Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, on Friday next at 7.45 p.m.
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16 February 1963
They beat Birchfield Harriers - Wallasey Athletic Club’s feat
Wallasey Athletic Club beat the famous midland club Birchfield Harriers last Saturday in the most important road race held in the North in the last few months, Blackpool were placed third.
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23 February 1963
Aggressive run by Turner
Rarely has Mike Turner been so positively aggressive in his running as when winning the Northern championship las week on the treacherous, ice - bound course at Blackburn.
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05 March 1963
National Cross Country Championship Action
Number 1542 John Wright (Wallasey A.C.) competing in the National Cross Country Championships held at Cambridge on Saturday, March 2nd. Also in the picture are number 61, A. Black (Belgrave Harriers) and number 1198, M. Jackson (Rotherham Harriers and A.C.)
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16 March 1963
Wallasey athletes take to the road
With the completion of the cross-country season excepting today’s international event at San Sebastion. Wallasey A.C. runners todaytravel to the lake district to compete in the Windermere to Kendal road race.
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23 March 1963
England's Packing Not To Standard
England’s failure to hold the International Cross-Country Championship at San Sebastian last weekend was only by a margin of three points, yet at no time in the race did the team succeed in packing together in the well-tested manner that draws from each runner his best.
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23 March 1963
Brilliant Road Race Win - Wallasey Club’s fourth successive victory
Wallasey Athletic Club's road racing team last Saturday chalked up their fourth successive win when they journeyed to the Lake, District to score a brilliant victory in the annual Windermere to Kendal race.
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30 March 1963
Wallasey again
The Sutton seven miles open road race was won by Ron Barlow whose team, Wallasey A.C., a won the team race.
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30 March 1963
Another road race win for Wallasey A.C.
Wallasey athletes last Saturday competed in the St. Helens 7 mile road race and as expected won comfortably with a team score of 17 points against the 53 points of Clayton-le-Moors.
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06 April 1963
Wallasey runners win Sefton relay race
Saturday saw Liverpool’s Sefton Park being circled by all Merseyside Athletic Clubs when the annual Sefton Park Road Relay championship was contested with six runners from each team covering the lap of 31/4 miles.
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13 April 1963
Athlete’s 7th Road Race win on the run
Wallasey Athletic Club runners gained their seventh victory last Saturday when they placed five in the first seven positions in the annual Port Sunlight open road race contested over six miles of Lever estate at Port Sunlight.
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20 April 1963
Wallasey A.C. in big road relay race today
Today at Blackpool teams from far afield in the North and Midlands will race round Stanley Park for the Blackpool and Fylde Memorial Trophy, which is valued at £800 and at which the Wallasey Athletic Club road racing team are directing covetous eyes.
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27 April 1963
Carl Gee Qualifies as A.A.A. Coach
Wallasey Athletic Club track and field champion Carl Gee recently passed is final A.A.A. examinations for the discus and shot events and is now the first fully qualified A.A.A. honorary senior coach in the Merseyside area. He has also been appointed a staff coach at the A.A.A. Summer School at Loughborough College next August.
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27 April 1963
Running by Wallasey Athletes – Barlow’s Fine Effort in Blackpool Relay
Although Wallasey Athletic Club failed in their bid to win the Blackpool road relay race last Saturday, theirs was indeed a glorious failure as their splendid quintet of Barlow, Wright, Woolford, Mather and Chalton battled their way through the field from 22nd position after the first leg to take third place in a field of 50 teams which included many famous club from the North and Midlands.
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11 May 1963
Fine running by town's athletes
Last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club sent a strong team to compete in the Salford Road Relay, which although without John Wright, was expected to be well to the fore with runners of the calibre of Barlow, Woolford, Mather and Chalton.
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11 May 1963
Mather is Wallasey sports personality for 1962
Wallasey’s sports personality for 1962, and winner of the trophy donated by Mr Ernest Marples, is Kevin Mather, of the Wallasey Athletic Club.
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25 May 1963
Athletics: track season opens
Once again the track season is upon us and for the next four months the arduous running that is cross country gives way to the cut and thrust of track and field athletics.
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01 June 1963
Great day for Wallasey athletes – Three Cheshire County Titles and two new records
Last Saturday saw Kevin Mather, Ron Barlow and Brian Woolford all capture county titles in their respective events at the Cheshire County Championships, Mather won the mile, Barlow the three mile and Woolford the 20 miles.
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08 June 1963
Barlow’s fine run in inter-counties championships - Cheshire win minor counties title
While most people were relaxing in the Whit weekend sunshine, Wallasey A.C. runners Ron Barlow, Brian Woolford and Kevin Mather travelled to London to represent Cheshire in an Inter-Counties Athletic Championships in which the Cheshire team succeeded in winning the Minor Counties Championship.
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15 June 1963
Kevin Mather wins Wallasey Sports Personality 1962
Wallasey Sports Personality of the year, 25 year old Kevin Mather of Wallasey A.C., pictured here with the Marples Trophy, presented to him by Mr E. Marples (Minister of Transport) at the Leasowe Road playing fields.
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17 June 1963
Kevin Mather Wallasey's Sports Personality of the Year 1962
Mr Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport and M.P. for Wallasey is left holding baby (two year old Geoffrey Mather) as twenty-five-year-old Kevin Mather of Wallasey congratulatory from his wife Anne after winning the Marples Trophy for being Wallasey’s Sports Personality of the Year on Saturday.
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22 June 1963
Good running by Wallasey athletes
At the Witton Park track at Blackburn last week Wallasey miler Kevin Mather ran in the invitation mile while clubmate Ron Barlow, took time off from his marathon training to compete in the 3-mile event.
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03 August 1963
K. Mather wins senior club championship
Wallasey Athletic Club held their track and field championships on Saturday at their headquarters in Leasowe Road - on what proved to be one of the warmest days of the year.
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10 August 1963
Ron Barlow wins 2-mile team race
Running in the 2-mile team race at the Lever trophy meeting on Monday, Ron Barlow led Wallasey Athletic Club to a great win in 8 mins. 8.2 secs,
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24 August 1963
Woolford’s Great Run in A.A.A. Marathon – Third place behind 2 internationals
Wallasey Athletic Club’s Brian Woolford lined up with the best of Britains marathon runners last Saturday to compete in the A.A.A. championship over the classic distance of 26 miles 385 yards and achieved the distinction of finishing in third place behind the great internationals Brian Kilby and Basil Heatley.
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