03 September 1966
Athletic Club member breaks a 3-mile hill course record
Members of Wallasey Athletic Club went to Denbighshire last Sunday to compete over the 3-mile hill course at Foel Glap. Brian Woolford broke the course record in a time of 14:58, and Dave Lockley completed the course in a personal-best time of 15 mins. 19 secs.
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10 September 1966
A Record for Dave?
Wallasey A.C. have two teams in today's two mile team race at Stretford, whilst Dave Lockley goes for his final run of the season "over the sticks" in the youths' 1,000 metres steeplechase.
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17 September 1966
Barlow runs well in two mile race
Ron Barlow, Wallasey Athletic Club's foremost runner did well in the two-mile team race at Stretford, Manchester, on Saturday. He was the first of the club's runners home in 11th position.
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01 October 1966
W.A.C. runners’ placings in road race of 210
Four members of Wallasey Athletic Club ran in the 6th annual Chris Vose 7-rnile road race at Warrington last Saturday. The event has been won every year by Ron Hill, and this year was no exception.
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22 October 1966
18 teams start only 14 finish
Four teams out of the 18 which took part in Sefton Park Road Relay on Saturday, failed to finish. The two teams from Wallasey Athletic Club not only completed the course, but produced some remarkably good times between them.
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29 October 1966
Athletic club 7th in cross country
In last Saturday's league run at Woolton, in which 89 runners started, the senior event was won by Leo Carroll of Wirral A.C. who covered the 61/2 miles cross-country in 36 mins. 7 secs. Wirral .A.C. won the team event with a score of only 87 points, Wigan coming second with 105 points and Liverpool third with 117 points.
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05 November 1966
Levy of 10s. on all athletes - County youth relay declared void
By a majority of 164 to 140, the bankruptcy of athletes was temporarily averted by the decision of the Amateur Athletic Association's general meeting in London last Saturday: a 10s. levy is to be imposed upon all athletes of 17 years and over, who wish to compete in open competition.
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26 November 1966
Wallasey G.S. fifth in Daily Post Road Race
The thirteenth annual Waterloo Schools Road Races sponsored, by the 'Daily Post' were held in perfect, but cold, conditions. Wallasey athletes competed on behalf of Wallasey Grammar School.
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10 December 1966
Cheshire title for Wallasey
Running in her first county cross-country championship, 14-year-old Pat Robertson, a pupil at Oldershaw Grammar School, brought distinction to herself and the Wallasey Athletic Club by leading the field of 26 runners home at Winnington Park, Northwich last Saturday.
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17 December 1966
Wallasey Athletic Club 7th in relay
In the H. S. Finney cross-country relay held at Preston last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club entered two senior teams.
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07 January 1967
Athletes 60th Championship
Last Saturday, Wallasey A.C. held its 60th annual cross-country championships. There were to have been five races but there were insufficient competitors to warrant this, in fact there were only two races.
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14 January 1967
Woolford in county team
Last Saturday the Cheshire County Cross Country championships were held at Arrowe Park under very wet and muddy conditions. The senior race was won by H. Phipps of Sale Harriers, the team trophy going to Wirral A.C. who had a total of 66 points, Altrincham were second with 89 and Sale third with 100.
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21 January 1967
Medals for A.C. members Wallasey
Last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club took part in the Liverpool & District Cross Country Championships at St. Helens. In the youths’ 3-mile race Wallasey took the bronze medals with a total of 116 points.
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28 January 1967
Cheshire County Championship - Cheshire missed Barlow in Inter-Counties race
Despite an exceptionally fast time set by the leading runners in the AII-England Inter-Counties Cross-Country Championships at Leicester on Saturday, Cheshire still came 11th, only two places lower than last year.
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04 February 1967
Local lads win in photo finish - West Lancs. A.A.A. cross country championships
Highlight of the West Lancashire championships, held at Blackburn last Saturday, was the emergence of Wallasey A.C. junior team as a force to be reckoned with in northern cross-country circles.
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04 March 1967
Oldershaw Runner Third in Northern Championships
Cheshire Champion, Pat Robertson, of Wallasey Athletic Club and Oldershaw High School, put up a great performance at Rochdale last Saturday when she finished third in the girls' Northern Cross-country Championships.
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04 March 1967
Wallasey girls brave the storm in National Cross-Country races
There were record fields in all three sections of the National Cross-Country Championships for ladies, which were held at Blackburn last Saturday when Wallasey’s captain, Barbara Banks and young Pat Robertson took part in the senior and intermediate races respectively.
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11 March 1967
Athletic Club team 29th in national championship
Wallasey junior men's team travelled down to Norfolk last weekend to compete in the English Cross-Country Championships.
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18 March 1967
Wilson Wallasey’s best in athletes’ busy weekend
Wallasey’s athletic forces were split three ways last weekend when groups from the club attended meetings at Derby, Stretford and Warrington.
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01 April 1967
Athletic Club field five cross-country relay teams today
Wallasey Athletic Club break all past numerical records today at Warrington, where no fewer than five of the club's youths' and boys' teams contest the annual cross-country 4 x 1-mile relays.
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08 April 1967
Athletic Club youths’ team fifth in relay
In Warrington Athletic Club’s 5th annual cross-country relays held last Saturday, Johnny Jones ran the first leg for Wallasey Athletic Club youths’ ‘A’ team and shortly after the start was in 4th place, but he dropped back to 6th position and finished with a time of 4 mins. 41 secs.
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15 April 1967
First track fixture for athletes today
Wallasey Athletic Club travel to Wigan today for the first track fixture of the 1967 season and with 48 track events and 35 field events on the programme there would appear to be something for everyone to have a crack at.
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29 April 1967
Lockley beats the British record holder
Running in his 1500 metres steeplechase at Warrington last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club’s Dave Lockley pulled of a great win over Rochdale’s British record holder, Colin Adshead, when he turned in a 4 mins. 31.6 secs. with Adshead 7 seconds behind in 4:38.5 and Snow (Liverpool) 3rd in 4:48.3.
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13 May 1967
Tea-han time at Lingham for athletic club runners
With the Cheshire County Championships only three weeks away members of Wallasey Athletic Club have been spending the past two weeks in a series of time trials at the Lingham Park running track.
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20 May 1967
Mud mars Preston athletics meeting - Wallasey A.C. team keep on trying
In conditions more suited to cross country rather than track running, Wallasey Athletic Club’s team in the 4 x 440 yds. senior event put up a great performance at Preston last Saturday.
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27 May 1967
Woolford Cheshire 20-mile road champion
Wallasey Athletic Club secretary Brian Woolford took another step towards regaining his international ranking when he won the Cheshire 20-mile road championship at Huyton last Saturday.
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03 June 1967
Wallasey ‘at home’ to Cheshire for athletic championships today
Cheshire County A.A.A. hold their track and field championships at Lingham Park running track, Moreton, today at 2 p.m., and, weather permitting, the expected large crowd should see some exciting running, jumping and throwing events.
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03 June 1967
County AAA championships at Moreton
Classic event of the day in Cheshire County A.A.A. Championships at Lingham Park, Moreton this afternoon should be the senior three miles. There should be a real fight between the three main contenders in this event.
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10 June 1967
Fighting finish to win county junior mile
Wallasey’s Johnny Jones, pulled out all the stops in the junior final of the Cheshire mile at the County athletic championships held at Lingham Track last Saturday, when before a good crowd, he put in a fighting finish to snatch the gold medal in a personal-best performance of 4 mins. 34 secs.
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10 June 1967
King’s Parade Road races today
Wallasey A.C. promote their first road and relay races today as part of the Wallasey Festival of Sport.
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1443
08 July 1967
Wilson 2nd in Northern Championships
Wallasey Athletic Club's Youth Champion, Ian Wilson returned a great 52.5 seconds when taking second place in the Northern Counties track and field championships at Grimsby last Saturday.
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15 July 1967
Athletic Club members help Oldershaw win in school championships
Wallasey Athletic Club members contributed a large proportion of the points towards Oldershaw Grammar School’s victory in the senior boys section of the Wallasey Schools Championships held at Oldershaw last Saturday.
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22 July 1967
Barbara Banks in fast half-mile
Although many Wallasey A.C. members returned some fine performances over last weekend, pride of place must go to ladies’ captain Barbara Banks.
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29 July 1967
Schless wins Widnes mile
As on a number of occasions this summer, Wallasey Athletic Club’s Melvin Schless again demonstrated that he will be a useful addition to the youths' cross-country team next winter when last Saturday he won the mile event at Widnes Police Sports.
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05 August 1967
Runners in some close decisions
A small group of runners from Wallasey Athletic Club travelled to Warrington last Saturday for one of the periodic standard meetings held there and despite some stiff competition, acquitted themselves with distinction.
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12 August 1967
Personal records for Kin and Wilson in AAA’s championships
Despite being drawn in the outside lane and having to clear hurdles that were three inches higher than he had been practicing over (due to a last minute change in the championship rules, which brought them to the international height of three feet) Wallasey’s Alan Kin still managed to qualify for the final of the 440 yards hurdles in the A.A.A.’s junior and youth championships at Kirkby last weekend.
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19 August 1967
Runners in area match on waterlogged track
The inter-area match at St. Helens last Saturday between Liverpool District, Manchester district and Durham and District resulted in a clear victory for Liverpool by 179 points from Manchester (166 pts.) with Durham third (152 pts.).
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