23 September 1965
Runners fast times over Welsh coast
Of the twelve runners who took part in the weekend camp at Foel Glap Farm (Denbigh), six returned personal best times for the 3 mile hill course, three who were running this route for the first time recorded good times, whilst the remaining three were within 15 seconds of their best.
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02 October 1965
Lockley Wins Inter-Club Race
Running in the first inter-club cross-country race of the season, Dave Lockley had no trouble in winning over, a three-mile course in which a field of 29 runners faced conditions as hard as can be expected for the rest of the winter.
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16 October 1965
Ron Barlow Does Fastest Time
Ron Barlow who ran the second leg for Wallasey Athletic' Club in the Sefton Park road relays held last Saturday, was only five seconds slower than the course record, the distance being over 31/4 miles. This performance by Barlow assisted the team attaining fifth position in the championships.
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23 October 1965
Ron Barlow beats race field of 86
Ron Barlow for the second week in succession, beat the best on Merseyside from a field of 86 ,to win the .first. Liverpool and District League Race at Woolton over a five mile course last Saturday. His time of 29 mins. 1 sec. over this course shows that Barlow is heading for National honours again this year.
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30 October 1965
Johnny Jones wins Wirral schools race
Johnny Jones won the individual event in the William Weston Memorial Trophy race in last Saturday's Wirral Schools Championships, whilst competing for Wallasey Grammar School, his time being 13 mins. 12 secs.
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13 November 1965
Woman runner’s fine performance
The boys’, youths', junior, senior and women’s Club Championships were competed for last Saturday over Bidston Marshes.
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27 November 1965
Barlow goes faster than international star
On Wednesday, November 17,Wallasey Athletic Club took part in the Waterloo Road Relay Festival, during which Ron Barlow ran incredibly well to do a faster time for the two mile leg than the Bolton Harriers and English international runner, Ron Hill. Barlow’s time of 9 mins.
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04 December 1965
Cross-country win for Wallasey team
Wallasey Athletic Club competed in an invitation cross-country match at Warrington last Saturday. The senior team, comprising Brian Woolford, Barrie Smith, John Wright and Ken Roscoe won by 28 pts. from Pembroke Harriers and Warrington Athletic Club.
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11 December 1965
Wallasey Athletic Club
Wallasey Athletic Club’s first team beat 23 teams representing clubs from as far afield at Blackpool, in last Saturday’s H. S. Finney Trophy event.
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25 December 1965
Melvin Schless wins Athletic Club’s Christmas handicap
Running in his first Christmas handicap race, young Melvin Schless off a 4 mins. 55 secs. handicap, ran a well-judged race to win Wallasey Athletic Club's annual event in 19 mins. 31 secs.
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01 January 1966
Wirral Favourites for Liverpool & District title
One of the oldest established cross-country championships, the Liverpool and District will be competed for next Saturday on the home course of the Wallasey Athletic Club in Leasowe Road.
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01 January 1966
Barlow heads local athletes in County Championship
Wallasey Athletic Club’s activities over the Christmas holiday period were confined to a club run on Boxing Day, when a group of runners of various abilities set out from club H.Q. on a 9-mile course, taking in Bidston Marshes, Noctorum and Bidston Hill on the return journey.
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08 January 1966
Ron Barlow retains county cross-country title - Wallasey A.C. team second over 7-mile course
Running with comparative ease over the 7-mile cross-country course which Cheshire County laid out at Woodbank Park, Stockport last Saturday, Wallasey's Ron Barlow ran away from the rest of the 76 starters and left his immediate challenger, M. Cranny (Wirral A.C.) over 200 yards in his wake.
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15 January 1966
Ron Barlow falls to Turner in district championship run
Showing no ill effects from his stay in Mexico City, Liverpool Harrier’s Mike Turner, who was one of six British middle-distance runners who underwent a series of endurance tests at high altitude whilst there, inflicted a rare defeat on Wallasey’s Ron Barlow in the Liverpool & District Championships held at Leasowe last Saturday.
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17 January 1966
Barlow Is Wallasey's Sportsman Of 1965
Ron Barlow, a 26-years-old member of Wallasey Athletic Club has been chosen as Wallasey’s Sports Personality of the year for 1965 and will be presented with the Marples Trophy by its donor Mr. Ernest Marples, M.P. for Wallasey on Thursday.
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21 January 1966
Ron Barlow Wallasey's Sports Personality of the Year 1966
Ron Barlow, the well-known athlete, named as Wallasey Sportsman of the Year, receives the Challenge Trophy from Mr. Ernest Marples, who donated it, at Churchill House, Wallasey, last night.
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22 January 1966
Barlow, Woolford run for Cheshire in cross-country meeting of 39 counties
Ron Barlow and Brian Woolford of Wallasey Athletic Club, represented Cheshire in the Inter-Counties Cross-Country meeting last Saturday, in one of the strongest teams Cheshire has fielded for many years.
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29 January 1966
Wallasey A.C. field three teams in big cross-country
Wallasey Athletic Club are today competing in the West Lancashire cross-country championships and will enter three teams – boys, youths and seniors.
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05 February 1966
French honour for Barlow in nine-mile cross-country run
In recognition of the high standard of running that Ron Barlow has attained "over the country" this winter, he bas bee rewarded with a trip to Chartre (near Paris) this week-end, when in company with E. Storey (Bristol), T. Brialt (London), and M. Batty (Thurrock), he competes tomorrow in an international race of approximately six miles.
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19 February 1966
Lockley 18th in run for Northern boys' title
Dave Lockley of Wallasey Athletic Club finished 18th in the individual race for the Boys' Northern Counties Championship last Saturday. Although it was expected that Lockley would finish higher in the final placings, this was an excellent performance, as there was six inches of snow and slush on this testing hilly course.
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26 February 1966
Steve Walker to run for Cheshire schools
A number of the younger members of Wallasey Athletic Club were competing last Saturday in the Cheshire Schools Cross-Country Championships.
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1390
12 March 1966
Local runner In Stretford race
Today Wallasey Athletic Club are entering three teams in the Stretford Cross-Country Relays to be held near Manchester.
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1389
26 March 1966
Wallasey 2nd on a day of records
Wallasey A.C. visited St. Helens last Saturday for Sutton A.C.'s fourth annual road race.
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1388
02 April 1966
Wallasey's 3 teams in Warrington relays today
Wallasey Athletic Club send three teams to Warrington today for the annual relays held in Victoria Park. In a four-man team each runner completes a 1-mile lap of grassland before handing over, and the club have one team entered in the, youths' race and two teams in the boys' event.
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23 April 1966
Some precision pace-making by Dave Lockley
Two time trials were held by Wallasey Athletic Club at Lingham Park last Saturday over the one-mile and two-mile distances. In the two-mile race Dave Lockley ran with clockwork regularity and paced the leading group through five quarter-mile laps, each in exactly 75 seconds.
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1387
30 April 1966
Weekend Athletes
Most of the Wallasey Athletic Club members had a strenuous two days last week-end, with a series of track time trials on Saturday and a handicap race on Sunday over the grueling course in Denbigh.
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14 May 1966
Doug Hanna fastest in relays at Lingham
Wallasey Athletic Club members brought their pre track season progress a stage further last Saturday with a 3 x 880 yards relay race at the Lingham Park track, Moreton.
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1393
21 May 1966
Athletic Club team lower relay record
Wallasey Athletic Club's youths' relay team set a new record for the 4 x 1-mile event when they recorded 19 mins. 41 secs, (7 secs. off last year's time) at Lingham track last Saturday.
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1394
28 May 1966
Athletes' successes in Cheshire Championships
Wallasey Athletic Club members were well to the fore in the Cheshire Championships held at Sale last Saturday. And while the club had a large number of male competitors, the women's
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1395
07 June 1966
Gerrard back to form
Alan Gerrard, of Liverpool Harriers, who ran below form at Saturday’s county championship meeting after receiving a smallpox injection during the week, gained some consolation by scoring one of the easiest victories during last night’s Liverpool parks athletic meeting at Wavertree.
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11 June 1966
Phyllis Edwards 5th in Northern long jump championship
Despite losing a toe spike from her left shoe and having to wait for over 11/2 hours, the time it took for three qualifying jumps, Phyllis Edwards, of Wallasey Athletic Club, still finished in 5th position in the Northern Counties long jump championships at Victoria Park, Warrington, last Saturday.
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1396
18 June 1966
Barrie Smith runs best mile of his career
Wallasey Athletic Club competed in an inter-club invitation meeting at Blackburn last Saturday, but as they could only take a limited number of competitors they only managed to finish in fifth place out of the six teams.
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1397
25 June 1966
Athlete’s Brilliant Wavertree Run
On Tuesday a number of Wallasey athletes compete in the Liverpool Parks and Gardens Championships at Wavertree. Ron Barlow ran brilliantly to win the two miles in a time of 9
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1405
02 July 1966
Mike Teahan clears 2,000 points in club championships
Despite the appalling weather conditions many of the Wallasey athletes produced exceptional performances in the annual Track and Field Championships.
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1399
09 July 1966
Wallasey top town in North-West Junior athletes
Wallasey’s boy athletes returned from the 20th Inter Town Athletics Festival still with the J.R. Jones Championship Cup which they won last year. They beat their nearest rivals, Blackburn, by 14 pts. and won many of the events outright.
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1401
09 July 1966
1,2,3 For Carl Gee - Liverpool Parks championships
From the finals of the Liverpool Parks and Gardens Championships, Wallasey Athletic Club coach Carl Gee brought home three trophies to add to his already massive collection. He was placed 1st in the discus with 109 ft. 10 ins.; second in the
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1402
03 August 1966
Young athletes gain National Standards
The National Standards meetings held at Kirkby Stadium each Tuesday evening provide local athletes with much needed competition at this time of the track season, and Wallasey's runners have never been slow in taking advantage of the excellent facilities provided.
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1411
20 August 1966
Dave Lockley is no. 8 in Britain
Wallasey Athletic Club's Dave Lockley turned in a fine performance in last Tuesday evening's 1,000 meters steeplechase for youths at Kirkby Stadium.
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1404
27 August 1966
Steeplechase puts Lockley in first rank
In perfect running conditions, Wallasey Athletic Club competed at Warrington in an inter-club fixture. The best performance of the meeting was that of Dave Lockley who won the youths' 1,000 metres Steeplechase in a personal best time of 2 mins. 49.2 secs.
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